See New Ensemble at UCSD Wednesday

(UCSD) has a monthly music program that showcases the best of the school’s music students and teachers. This week, you can catch the first show of the season.

is a concert series that “serves succulent slices of new and experimental music,” according to the school’s website. The concerts are monthly, excluding December, and feature ensembles, composers, pianists and more.

This Wednesdays, the public can visit the school’s Conrad Prebys Music Center (CPMC) Concert Hall for a vocal performance by UCSD’s newest music ensemble, Palimpsest. Named for a type of ancient manuscript that could be written on and then scraped clean, the group is directed by pianist and faculty member Aleck Karis and will perform rarely-heard works based around the theme Music from New York.

Wednesday’s concert will include music by Elliott Carter, Mario Davidovsky, Milton Babbitt, Morton Feldman and Stefan Wolpe. Karis, the director, has worked extensively with Davidovsky, Babbitt and Carter. Palimpsest will also premiere the work of a new piece by UCSD graduate composition student Paul Hembree.

Want to see the finished product of the hard work by grad students at UCSD? Visit the school’s CMPC Concert Hall on Wednesday at 7 p.m. Students can see the concert for free by arriving one hour before the show and presenting their student ID. UCSD faculty and staff can watch the ensemble performance for just $10.50 and the general public can enjoy the show for $15.50.

Call the box office at 858-534-3448 for tickets or click here to purchase them online. to see future Wednesdays@7 performances.