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Formed in 1995 by composers Kirk Noreen and Joshua
Cody, Sospeso has been based in New York since 1999 and has given dozens of performances nationwide, including appearances at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center (with Pierre Boulez, in a critically praised retrospective of his music), Carnegie Hall's Making Music series (under the baton of Esa-Pekka Salonen), the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Lincoln Center Festival, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, and the Miller Theater at Columbia University.
Awarded the pretigious Forderpreis from the Ernst von Siemens Foundation's Musikstiftung for two consecutive years, and a 2002 recipient of one the DNA grant from Arts International, Sospeso performs an unusually diverse repertoire, and it is one of few ensembles in the United States to regularly perform large chamber and orchestral works of our time.
Comprised of a core group of soloists, Sospeso recruits its members competitively and shares its musicians with such groups as the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Past Sospeso performances have varied in size from two players to chamber orchestra.
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