Splinter Reeds on campus as Stucky Residency for New Music ensemble

Splinter Reeds, the West Coast's first reed quintet, will come to campus Sept. 30 - Oct. 4 as the new Stucky Residency for New Music ensemble, hosted by the Department of Music in the College of Arts and Sciences. The group will collaborate with music students and faculty on composition and performance projects.

The ensemble formed in 2013 with the coming together of five colleagues highly active in multiple facets of the new music scene throughout the Bay Area and internationally. The sum of their wide range of experience - in settings including free jazz, improvisation, electronic music, pop, punk and metal as well as classical - has enabled them to rapidly zero in on a distinct aesthetic identity. Distinguishing themselves amongst even the relatively small number of professional reed quintets currently active worldwide, the ensemble is explicitly dedicated to cutting-edge composition and expanding the existing reed quintet repertoire through the collaborative development of new works by emerging and established composers.

Splinter Reeds will present two public performances and a Composers' Forum talk during this visit.

Find the full schedule on the College of Arts and Sciences website.