New York City (April 2 2010) - Ensemble Sospeso, the contemporary music group founded by Joshua Cody and Kirk Noreen, has chosen a new Executive Director, Nicholas DeMaison to lead the award-winning new music group known for its innovative programming in the 1990's and early 2000's.

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Founded in Seattle in 1995 by Joshua Cody and Kirk Noreen, Ensemble Sospeso moved to New York in 1999. With a core of 21 players culled from New York's finest musicians, the group is one of the few ensembles in the United States to regularly perform large chamber music compositions by today's most celebrated composers. The group's many achievements have included first New York performances of composers such as Helmut Lachenmann, Brian Ferneyhough and others, as well as tributes to Pierre Boulez, Gyorgy Kurtag and Esa-Pekka Salonen.