Ensemble Noamnesia

[b]Ensemble Noamnesia[/b] is an American contemporary music group from Chicago, Illinois, formed in 1987 by [a=Gene Coleman]. With a flexible and constantly changing lineup of up to 20 musicians picked by Coleman on a project-by-project basis, Noamnesia premiered and commissioned hundreds of new compositions. The group's repertoire primarily focuses on European composers that are still relatively underrepresented in the USA, such as [a=Luc Ferrari], [a=Luciano Berio], [a=Gerhard Stäbler], [a=Mathias Spahlinger], [a=Salvatore Sciarrino], [a=Karlheinz Essl], [a=Helmut Lachenmann], [a=Vinko Globokar], and [a=Bernhard Gál]. They also performed works by [a=George Crumb], [a=Tung Chao-Ming], [a=Yuji Takahashi], [a=Otomo Yoshihide], [a=Malcolm Goldstein], [a=Burkhard Stangl], [a=Alvin Curran], [a=Guillermo Gregorio] [a=Kunsu Shim] and other prominent composers and musicians. Between 1995 and 2008, Ensemble Noamnesia had been regularly performing at the University of Chicago's [url=https://discogs.com/label/1611440]Renaissance Society[/url]. [b][u]Ensemble Noamnesia[/u] members[/b] [a=Gene Coleman] — artistic director, bass clarinet [a=Rei Hotoda] — guest conductor [a=Katt Hernandez], [a=Nell Flanders] — violin [a=Marina Peterson], [a=Jason Calloway], [a=Kevin McFarland] — cello [a=Michael Hall (30)] — viola [a=Michael Cameron (3)] — double bass [a=Steve Butters], [a=Michael Zerang] — percussion [a=Kyle Bruckmann] — oboe [a=Lisa Goethe] — flute [a=Dan Blacksberg] — trombone [url=https://discogs.com/artist/3415682]Amy Williams[/url], [a=Paulo Alvarez] — piano [a=Evan Lipson] — bass guitar [a=Julia Bentley] — mezzo-soprano