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Big thanks to @icareifyoulisten and @drmckaypiano for such a lovely artist feature in honor of our 20th anniversary! It was a joy reflecting on where we started, how we’ve grown, and what’s next, plus some amazing quotes from legends Annea Lockwood and George Lewis!

“I’ve known Yarn/Wire for over a decade, and I am, like Venus Williams at age 17 at the US Open, super-stoked about my work with this new music superquartet on my April 2026 New York Philharmonic concerto grosso. Their unmatched, insightful virtuosity and post-genre, creolized perspicacity continues to inspire as we try to present new experiences and ways of being and doing.” George Lewis

Full profile at #linkinbio

#20years #music #chambermusic #icareifyoulisten #piano #percussion #anniversary #primoartists

tomorrow, 5.28, percussion and piano quartet @yarnwire — @rhgreenberg, @dustinwdonahue, Laura Barger, and @julia_den_boer — continue their commissioning series, Currents. the evening features composer and Rome Prize laureate Jonah Haven’s i tell you i want to be one sticking out of the ground like a tongue and Icelandic composer Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir’s Supraseether — a piece that explores the quartet as an organism. get tickets in bio!

clip of Yarn/Wire for Currents 2025 from the Roulette Archive.

Being at the @moersfestival felt like stepping into an amazingly joyful world built entirely around curiosity, openness, and musical experiments✨

We began on the main stage with @pleasureofthetext ‘s After Nan Shepherd: stark, dark, spacious music that felt really thrilling to share in that setting. It was also wonderful to collaborate with the luminous@taraling for the first time on this project!

Then came Currents 12, featuring pieces by Jonah Haven and @bergrun_______ . The resonance in the church was extraordinary, and this program is both beautiful and weird in the best of ways… catch it at @roulette_intermedium in NYC THIS THURSDAY.

There was also the Pianomobil (a Moers institution) @julia_den_boer got to perform for residents at a retirement home, rolling through the park, and bring music into unexpected corners of the city.

We’re very grateful to everyone who listened, organized, helped, and shared these days with us.

1. PC: Dennis Hoeren @d_n__s
2. PC: Nils Brinkmeier @nilsbrinkmeier
3. The pianomobile 🎹🚗
4. PC: Dennis Hoeren @d_n__s

Being at the @moersfestival felt like stepping into an amazingly joyful world built entirely around curiosity, openness, and musical experiments✨

We began on the main stage with @pleasureofthetext ‘s After Nan Shepherd: stark, dark, spacious music that felt really thrilling to share in that setting. It was also wonderful to collaborate with the luminous@taraling for the first time on this project!

Then came Currents 12, featuring pieces by Jonah Haven and @bergrun_______ . The resonance in the church was extraordinary, and this program is both beautiful and weird in the best of ways… catch it at @roulette_intermedium in NYC THIS THURSDAY.

There was also the Pianomobil (a Moers institution) @julia_den_boer got to perform for residents at a retirement home, rolling through the park, and bring music into unexpected corners of the city.

We’re very grateful to everyone who listened, organized, helped, and shared these days with us.

1. PC: Dennis Hoeren @d_n__s
2. PC: Nils Brinkmeier @nilsbrinkmeier
3. The pianomobile 🎹🚗
4. PC: Dennis Hoeren @d_n__s

Being at the @moersfestival felt like stepping into an amazingly joyful world built entirely around curiosity, openness, and musical experiments✨

We began on the main stage with @pleasureofthetext ‘s After Nan Shepherd: stark, dark, spacious music that felt really thrilling to share in that setting. It was also wonderful to collaborate with the luminous@taraling for the first time on this project!

Then came Currents 12, featuring pieces by Jonah Haven and @bergrun_______ . The resonance in the church was extraordinary, and this program is both beautiful and weird in the best of ways… catch it at @roulette_intermedium in NYC THIS THURSDAY.

There was also the Pianomobil (a Moers institution) @julia_den_boer got to perform for residents at a retirement home, rolling through the park, and bring music into unexpected corners of the city.

We’re very grateful to everyone who listened, organized, helped, and shared these days with us.

1. PC: Dennis Hoeren @d_n__s
2. PC: Nils Brinkmeier @nilsbrinkmeier
3. The pianomobile 🎹🚗
4. PC: Dennis Hoeren @d_n__s

Being at the @moersfestival felt like stepping into an amazingly joyful world built entirely around curiosity, openness, and musical experiments✨

We began on the main stage with @pleasureofthetext ‘s After Nan Shepherd: stark, dark, spacious music that felt really thrilling to share in that setting. It was also wonderful to collaborate with the luminous@taraling for the first time on this project!

Then came Currents 12, featuring pieces by Jonah Haven and @bergrun_______ . The resonance in the church was extraordinary, and this program is both beautiful and weird in the best of ways… catch it at @roulette_intermedium in NYC THIS THURSDAY.

There was also the Pianomobil (a Moers institution) @julia_den_boer got to perform for residents at a retirement home, rolling through the park, and bring music into unexpected corners of the city.

We’re very grateful to everyone who listened, organized, helped, and shared these days with us.

1. PC: Dennis Hoeren @d_n__s
2. PC: Nils Brinkmeier @nilsbrinkmeier
3. The pianomobile 🎹🚗
4. PC: Dennis Hoeren @d_n__s

Since 2016, the Yarn/Wire Institute has brought together adventurous musicians composers and collaborators from around the world.
This year, we’ll welcome 12 musicians and 5 chamber groups for a week in partnership with the Manhattan School of Music.
As funding sources shrink and production costs rise, we’re raising support to help keep the institute accessible for artists, and 𝘄𝗲’𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗴𝗼𝗮𝗹 thanks to early supporters!
If you believe in bold, curious and collaborative music making, please consider supporting the future of the institute! Donation link in story + bio 🤍
#fundraising #artsfunding #supportthearts

Next week we unleash @bergrun_______ ‘s SUPRASEETHER at the @moersfestival, then we bring it to @roulette_intermedium on May 28th as part of Currents 12!

Get your tickets at the link in bio 🎟️

Program notes below, 🔊ON for slide 2!

SUPRASEETHER explores the interplay between performers and their environment as they are dissolved into a shared, teeming field of awareness. Feelers extended, wanting to be limbs unfurled - the quartet as organism, sensing at the edges of its conditions. The sound becomes a field of perception, a body that listens as it negotiates with itself to breach their boundaries, shaped through contact, pressure and proximity. The material slipping away as it emerges, heeding a call towards impending fission.

#yarnwirecurrents #worldpremiere #newmusic

Next week we unleash @bergrun_______ ‘s SUPRASEETHER at the @moersfestival, then we bring it to @roulette_intermedium on May 28th as part of Currents 12!

Get your tickets at the link in bio 🎟️

Program notes below, 🔊ON for slide 2!

SUPRASEETHER explores the interplay between performers and their environment as they are dissolved into a shared, teeming field of awareness. Feelers extended, wanting to be limbs unfurled - the quartet as organism, sensing at the edges of its conditions. The sound becomes a field of perception, a body that listens as it negotiates with itself to breach their boundaries, shaped through contact, pressure and proximity. The material slipping away as it emerges, heeding a call towards impending fission.

#yarnwirecurrents #worldpremiere #newmusic

Next week we unleash @bergrun_______ ‘s SUPRASEETHER at the @moersfestival, then we bring it to @roulette_intermedium on May 28th as part of Currents 12!

Get your tickets at the link in bio 🎟️

Program notes below, 🔊ON for slide 2!

SUPRASEETHER explores the interplay between performers and their environment as they are dissolved into a shared, teeming field of awareness. Feelers extended, wanting to be limbs unfurled - the quartet as organism, sensing at the edges of its conditions. The sound becomes a field of perception, a body that listens as it negotiates with itself to breach their boundaries, shaped through contact, pressure and proximity. The material slipping away as it emerges, heeding a call towards impending fission.

#yarnwirecurrents #worldpremiere #newmusic

CURRENTS 12 coming up this Spring!

This edition features new pieces by Jonah Nuajo Luo Haven and Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir, co-commissioned with the legendary @moersfestival

We are so excited to bring this program to Germany and NYC in the same week!

✺ May 23, 7:15PM @moersfestival
✺ May 28, 8PM @roulette_intermedium

Tickets at link in bio 🎟️

Since 2013, Currents has been one of our favorite opportunities to explore new collaborative relationships and support adventurous new work, we hope to see you there!

#yarnwirecurrents #newmusic #piano #percussion #newwork

Announcing the 2026 Yarn/Wire Institute participants!
This year brings together 12 musicians and 5 ensembles, and we are looking forward to a week of collaboration and exploration next month at @msm.nyc !
Join us for the final concert on June 5th at 7PM

-𝗔𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗹𝗲 ( @ashianensemble )
Runchen Li @runchenlicomposer
Bo Zhang @bozhang676

- 𝗙𝗼𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁
Nicholas Tran ( @ntrancomposer )
Athos Maelstrom (@mael.not.male )

- 𝗧𝗮𝗰𝟮𝘂𝘀
Ethan Burke (@3than_burke )
Sarah Pedlar (@sarah.pedlar )
Michael Babus (@mihai.bab )
Yuval Medina (@yuvalcomposer )

- 𝗖𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝗱𝗼𝗿
Andres Bonilla Garcia (@andresbonillagarcia821 )
Austin Wegner (@austinwegenermusic )

- 𝗠𝗮𝗴𝗽𝗶𝗲 𝗗𝘂𝗼 (@magpie.duo )
Matthew Shultheis (@matt.schultheis )
Lauren Conroy (@laurenjconroy )

The Yarn/Wire Institute is made possible by generous support from the Augustine Foundation and the Manhattan School of Music.

#yarnwireinstitute #newmusic

Still reflecting on two emotional performances of Be Holding as part of the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh last week.

It was an honor to share this project, one we’ve lived with for so many years, at such a legendary festival at the @carnegiemuseumofart with Brooke O’Hara directing and music direction by @dr.tyshawnsorey_official

This iteration featured Ross Gay reading his own work alongside with amazing @davegpoetry . We’ve heard this text a hundred times, and it still feels moving, new, and deep each time…

Many thanks to @kes.oli for lending his talent to this project and joining us as a guest percussionist, and much gratitude to the entire staff at the Lovette YMCA, along with the fantastic group of teenagers who brought so much joyful energy to this experience!

Also to @hungrymonsters for making it all sound so good (no small feat in a gym!), to @iamitohane for shaping such a dramatic visual world, and @mdeins for the amazing video design.

We’re also immensely grateful to @solichpiano and @yasinewyork for providing two grand pianos for these performances.

Until next time! 🏀❤️🎹🥁

PC: Zachary Riggleman

#carnegieinternational #rossgay #beholding #newmusic

Still reflecting on two emotional performances of Be Holding as part of the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh last week.

It was an honor to share this project, one we’ve lived with for so many years, at such a legendary festival at the @carnegiemuseumofart with Brooke O’Hara directing and music direction by @dr.tyshawnsorey_official

This iteration featured Ross Gay reading his own work alongside with amazing @davegpoetry . We’ve heard this text a hundred times, and it still feels moving, new, and deep each time…

Many thanks to @kes.oli for lending his talent to this project and joining us as a guest percussionist, and much gratitude to the entire staff at the Lovette YMCA, along with the fantastic group of teenagers who brought so much joyful energy to this experience!

Also to @hungrymonsters for making it all sound so good (no small feat in a gym!), to @iamitohane for shaping such a dramatic visual world, and @mdeins for the amazing video design.

We’re also immensely grateful to @solichpiano and @yasinewyork for providing two grand pianos for these performances.

Until next time! 🏀❤️🎹🥁

PC: Zachary Riggleman

#carnegieinternational #rossgay #beholding #newmusic

Still reflecting on two emotional performances of Be Holding as part of the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh last week.

It was an honor to share this project, one we’ve lived with for so many years, at such a legendary festival at the @carnegiemuseumofart with Brooke O’Hara directing and music direction by @dr.tyshawnsorey_official

This iteration featured Ross Gay reading his own work alongside with amazing @davegpoetry . We’ve heard this text a hundred times, and it still feels moving, new, and deep each time…

Many thanks to @kes.oli for lending his talent to this project and joining us as a guest percussionist, and much gratitude to the entire staff at the Lovette YMCA, along with the fantastic group of teenagers who brought so much joyful energy to this experience!

Also to @hungrymonsters for making it all sound so good (no small feat in a gym!), to @iamitohane for shaping such a dramatic visual world, and @mdeins for the amazing video design.

We’re also immensely grateful to @solichpiano and @yasinewyork for providing two grand pianos for these performances.

Until next time! 🏀❤️🎹🥁

PC: Zachary Riggleman

#carnegieinternational #rossgay #beholding #newmusic

Still reflecting on two emotional performances of Be Holding as part of the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh last week.

It was an honor to share this project, one we’ve lived with for so many years, at such a legendary festival at the @carnegiemuseumofart with Brooke O’Hara directing and music direction by @dr.tyshawnsorey_official

This iteration featured Ross Gay reading his own work alongside with amazing @davegpoetry . We’ve heard this text a hundred times, and it still feels moving, new, and deep each time…

Many thanks to @kes.oli for lending his talent to this project and joining us as a guest percussionist, and much gratitude to the entire staff at the Lovette YMCA, along with the fantastic group of teenagers who brought so much joyful energy to this experience!

Also to @hungrymonsters for making it all sound so good (no small feat in a gym!), to @iamitohane for shaping such a dramatic visual world, and @mdeins for the amazing video design.

We’re also immensely grateful to @solichpiano and @yasinewyork for providing two grand pianos for these performances.

Until next time! 🏀❤️🎹🥁

PC: Zachary Riggleman

#carnegieinternational #rossgay #beholding #newmusic

Still reflecting on two emotional performances of Be Holding as part of the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh last week.

It was an honor to share this project, one we’ve lived with for so many years, at such a legendary festival at the @carnegiemuseumofart with Brooke O’Hara directing and music direction by @dr.tyshawnsorey_official

This iteration featured Ross Gay reading his own work alongside with amazing @davegpoetry . We’ve heard this text a hundred times, and it still feels moving, new, and deep each time…

Many thanks to @kes.oli for lending his talent to this project and joining us as a guest percussionist, and much gratitude to the entire staff at the Lovette YMCA, along with the fantastic group of teenagers who brought so much joyful energy to this experience!

Also to @hungrymonsters for making it all sound so good (no small feat in a gym!), to @iamitohane for shaping such a dramatic visual world, and @mdeins for the amazing video design.

We’re also immensely grateful to @solichpiano and @yasinewyork for providing two grand pianos for these performances.

Until next time! 🏀❤️🎹🥁

PC: Zachary Riggleman

#carnegieinternational #rossgay #beholding #newmusic

We spent a fantastic week in Aarhus for the @sporfestival ! What a privilege to bring back @simon_steenandersen ‘s epic Grosso and perform it with the @aarhussymfoni under the direction of @josephbastian81 !

The following day we performed a brand new piece by Mads Emil Dreyer as well as one of our longtime favorites, Orchestra for Black Butterflies by @lisastreichmusic

There was a theme through the week: each piece came with its own slightly unreliable extra band member: a Leslie speaker for Grosso, a music box for @madsemildreyer ‘s new work and motors for Lisa’s piece… all adding their unpredictable charm to the performances.

Massive thanks to the incredible production teams at the @musikhuset and the @sporfestival for making everything run smoothly, no small feat given the sheer amount of gear involved in these performances!

And finally, our sincere apologies to the @radissonbluaarhus for the heroic quantities of smoked salmon consumed at their breakfast buffet.

#newmusic #extrabandmember

We spent a fantastic week in Aarhus for the @sporfestival ! What a privilege to bring back @simon_steenandersen ‘s epic Grosso and perform it with the @aarhussymfoni under the direction of @josephbastian81 !

The following day we performed a brand new piece by Mads Emil Dreyer as well as one of our longtime favorites, Orchestra for Black Butterflies by @lisastreichmusic

There was a theme through the week: each piece came with its own slightly unreliable extra band member: a Leslie speaker for Grosso, a music box for @madsemildreyer ‘s new work and motors for Lisa’s piece… all adding their unpredictable charm to the performances.

Massive thanks to the incredible production teams at the @musikhuset and the @sporfestival for making everything run smoothly, no small feat given the sheer amount of gear involved in these performances!

And finally, our sincere apologies to the @radissonbluaarhus for the heroic quantities of smoked salmon consumed at their breakfast buffet.

#newmusic #extrabandmember

We spent a fantastic week in Aarhus for the @sporfestival ! What a privilege to bring back @simon_steenandersen ‘s epic Grosso and perform it with the @aarhussymfoni under the direction of @josephbastian81 !

The following day we performed a brand new piece by Mads Emil Dreyer as well as one of our longtime favorites, Orchestra for Black Butterflies by @lisastreichmusic

There was a theme through the week: each piece came with its own slightly unreliable extra band member: a Leslie speaker for Grosso, a music box for @madsemildreyer ‘s new work and motors for Lisa’s piece… all adding their unpredictable charm to the performances.

Massive thanks to the incredible production teams at the @musikhuset and the @sporfestival for making everything run smoothly, no small feat given the sheer amount of gear involved in these performances!

And finally, our sincere apologies to the @radissonbluaarhus for the heroic quantities of smoked salmon consumed at their breakfast buffet.

#newmusic #extrabandmember

We spent a fantastic week in Aarhus for the @sporfestival ! What a privilege to bring back @simon_steenandersen ‘s epic Grosso and perform it with the @aarhussymfoni under the direction of @josephbastian81 !

The following day we performed a brand new piece by Mads Emil Dreyer as well as one of our longtime favorites, Orchestra for Black Butterflies by @lisastreichmusic

There was a theme through the week: each piece came with its own slightly unreliable extra band member: a Leslie speaker for Grosso, a music box for @madsemildreyer ‘s new work and motors for Lisa’s piece… all adding their unpredictable charm to the performances.

Massive thanks to the incredible production teams at the @musikhuset and the @sporfestival for making everything run smoothly, no small feat given the sheer amount of gear involved in these performances!

And finally, our sincere apologies to the @radissonbluaarhus for the heroic quantities of smoked salmon consumed at their breakfast buffet.

#newmusic #extrabandmember

We spent a fantastic week in Aarhus for the @sporfestival ! What a privilege to bring back @simon_steenandersen ‘s epic Grosso and perform it with the @aarhussymfoni under the direction of @josephbastian81 !

The following day we performed a brand new piece by Mads Emil Dreyer as well as one of our longtime favorites, Orchestra for Black Butterflies by @lisastreichmusic

There was a theme through the week: each piece came with its own slightly unreliable extra band member: a Leslie speaker for Grosso, a music box for @madsemildreyer ‘s new work and motors for Lisa’s piece… all adding their unpredictable charm to the performances.

Massive thanks to the incredible production teams at the @musikhuset and the @sporfestival for making everything run smoothly, no small feat given the sheer amount of gear involved in these performances!

And finally, our sincere apologies to the @radissonbluaarhus for the heroic quantities of smoked salmon consumed at their breakfast buffet.

#newmusic #extrabandmember

We are so happy to bring back Be Holding for two performances at the 59th Carnegie International in Pittsburgh next week ✨

A collaboration between director Brooke O’Harra (@brookeoharra ), composer Tyshawn Sorey (@dr.tyshawnsorey_official ), poet Ross Gay, and Yarn/Wire, Be Holding draws on Gay’s poem: a love song to legendary basketball player Julius Erving, also known as “Dr. J.” The work connects Dr. J’s famously impossible move in the 1980 NBA Finals to Black flight and joy.

Premiered in Philadelphia in 2023, Be Holding continues to evolve. This iteration features Ross Gay alongside David Gaines (@davegpoetry )as narrators, and includes a group of Pittsburgh teenagers who have been working closely with Brooke and Ross over the past months.

The work will be staged on the basketball court at the @thelmalovetteypgh

This project is very close to our hearts, we hope to see you there!

Performances:
Saturday, May 2 & Sunday, May 3
7:30 PM

Tickets available at the link in bio.

#beholding #poetry #carnegieinternational #newmusic #juliuserving

We are so happy to bring back Be Holding for two performances at the 59th Carnegie International in Pittsburgh next week ✨

A collaboration between director Brooke O’Harra (@brookeoharra ), composer Tyshawn Sorey (@dr.tyshawnsorey_official ), poet Ross Gay, and Yarn/Wire, Be Holding draws on Gay’s poem: a love song to legendary basketball player Julius Erving, also known as “Dr. J.” The work connects Dr. J’s famously impossible move in the 1980 NBA Finals to Black flight and joy.

Premiered in Philadelphia in 2023, Be Holding continues to evolve. This iteration features Ross Gay alongside David Gaines (@davegpoetry )as narrators, and includes a group of Pittsburgh teenagers who have been working closely with Brooke and Ross over the past months.

The work will be staged on the basketball court at the @thelmalovetteypgh

This project is very close to our hearts, we hope to see you there!

Performances:
Saturday, May 2 & Sunday, May 3
7:30 PM

Tickets available at the link in bio.

#beholding #poetry #carnegieinternational #newmusic #juliuserving

We are so happy to bring back Be Holding for two performances at the 59th Carnegie International in Pittsburgh next week ✨

A collaboration between director Brooke O’Harra (@brookeoharra ), composer Tyshawn Sorey (@dr.tyshawnsorey_official ), poet Ross Gay, and Yarn/Wire, Be Holding draws on Gay’s poem: a love song to legendary basketball player Julius Erving, also known as “Dr. J.” The work connects Dr. J’s famously impossible move in the 1980 NBA Finals to Black flight and joy.

Premiered in Philadelphia in 2023, Be Holding continues to evolve. This iteration features Ross Gay alongside David Gaines (@davegpoetry )as narrators, and includes a group of Pittsburgh teenagers who have been working closely with Brooke and Ross over the past months.

The work will be staged on the basketball court at the @thelmalovetteypgh

This project is very close to our hearts, we hope to see you there!

Performances:
Saturday, May 2 & Sunday, May 3
7:30 PM

Tickets available at the link in bio.

#beholding #poetry #carnegieinternational #newmusic #juliuserving

New TIME:SPANS video release!
Check out our collaboration with Endlings (@strawberrymacaroni + @ravenchcn ) for the @timespansfestival at the @thedimennacenter last summer.
It was such a joy to share the stage with Raven and John, we hope you take a listen at the link in bio!

📽️ @zenviolence
🎤 Nathaniel Butler
Mixing: @caleymw_

Golda Schultz sings Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and an aria by Stravinsky. Alongside these, Kwamé Ryan conducts Charles Ives’s The Unanswered Question and a new concerto by George Lewis, ft. the piano-and-percussion quartet Yarn/Wire 🎹🥁

📷: @londonisburning

Golda Schultz sings Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and an aria by Stravinsky. Alongside these, Kwamé Ryan conducts Charles Ives’s The Unanswered Question and a new concerto by George Lewis, ft. the piano-and-percussion quartet Yarn/Wire 🎹🥁

📷: @londonisburning

Golda Schultz sings Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and an aria by Stravinsky. Alongside these, Kwamé Ryan conducts Charles Ives’s The Unanswered Question and a new concerto by George Lewis, ft. the piano-and-percussion quartet Yarn/Wire 🎹🥁

📷: @londonisburning

Golda Schultz sings Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and an aria by Stravinsky. Alongside these, Kwamé Ryan conducts Charles Ives’s The Unanswered Question and a new concerto by George Lewis, ft. the piano-and-percussion quartet Yarn/Wire 🎹🥁

📷: @londonisburning