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Decipher Awarded MAP Fund Grant

I Am He Whose Life and Soul Are Torment, 2024 MAP Grantee

Ensemble Decipher has been awarded a $30,000 grant from the MAP Fund to produce a new collaborative work with composer and decipherist Joseph Bohigian. The funded project is an evening-length multimedia work titled I Am He Whose Life and Soul Are Torment about the life of the visionary Georgian-born Soviet-Armenian filmmaker Sergei Parajanov (1924–1990), most well known for his 1969 film The Color of Pomegranates. The premiere of this new project will take place in 2026 at the Other Minds Festival in San Francisco, California.

Decipher will be joined for this project by Lebanese-Armenian vocalist Khatchadour Khatchadourian, a specialist in a variety of traditional Armenian musical genres, who will sing lyrics by the 18th century singer-poet Sayat Nova in three languages.

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Ensemble Decipher @ Roulette Intermedium

Ensemble Decipher will perform at Roulette Intermedium (509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217) on October 23rd, 8:00PM. Doors open at 7:30PM. The program will include works by Bora Yoon, Erin Rogers, and Lyn Goeringer. It will also include a collaboration between choreographer and dancer Hiva Sedaghat and ensemble members Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Robert Cosgrove, and Taylor Long.

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We greatly appreciate the support of the Alice M. Ditson Fund, the Copland Fund for New Music, the Amphion Foundation, the Fromm and Barlow Foundations, the Brooklyn Arts Council, Reed College, and the numerous individuals who have already donated. This project could not have been achieved without you!

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Decipher at the LoKo Festival

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Ensemble Decipher will perform at the LoKo Arts Festival in Potsdam, New York. The concert on Friday, April 28 2023 will include music by Yaz Lancaster, Lyn Goeringer, Oliver Hickman, Joseph Bohigian, and the premiere of Jerod Sommerfeldt’s Plantronica.

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Decipher Awarded Brooklyn Arts Council Grant

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Ensemble Decipher has been awarded a grant from the Brooklyn Arts Council to present world premieres of interdisciplinary works by Bora Yoon and Chelsea Loew, as well as recent works by Erin Rogers, Lyn Goeringer, and Mari Kimura at Brooklyn’s Roulette Intermedium in October 2023. This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Brooklyn Arts Council.

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Performances in DC and Baltimore

Decipher Sideband Warp Duo

Decipher will perform at Rhizome in Washington DC on March 31, 2023 alongside our friends Sideband and Warp Duo. A few days later on April 3, see us in Baltimore at the Peabody Institute, where we’ll perform music by Margaret Schedel, Oliver Hickman, Joseph Bohigian, and premiering newly commissioned works by Erin Rogers and Lyn Goeringer.

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Residency at Michigan State University

Ensemble Decipher, January 27 8:00pm, Murray Hall

We are pleased to announce we will be in residence at Michigan State University in January, holding a workshop with student composers and presenting a concert on Friday, January 27, 2023 at 8:00 pm. We will be performing music by Mari Kimura, Sam Pluta, Oliver Hickman, Rob Cosgrove, and Joseph Bohigian.

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Bora Yoon Awarded Barlow Commission to Compose for Decipher

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Composer Bora Yoon has been awarded a Barlow Endowment General Commission to write a new work for Ensemble Decipher. The piece will be premiered in Fall 2023 in New York.

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Ensemble Decipher Launches New Podcast

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Ensemble Decipher is starting a new podcast about music and technology, Decipher This!. On the podcast, the Decipherists will interview their collaborators on composing and performing music with vintage, contemporary, and emerging technologies.

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Ensemble Decipher Awarded USArtists International Grant

Ensemble Decipher has been awarded a USArtists International grant by the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation to perform at the New Music for Strings Festival in Denmark.

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Ensemble Decipher Awarded SUNY PACC Prize

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Ensemble Decipher has been awarded the SUNY PACC Prize for Performing Arts, Creation, and Curation. The ensemble will commission new works from students and faculty at five SUNY institutions to be performed on a tour of New York state in Fall 2021.