Versipel New Music

Versipel New Music is dedicated to presenting high-quality, innovative performances of new classical music to the New Orleans area and to educating the public about exciting and stylistically diverse works written by living composers both around the world and at home in Louisiana today. Versipel reflects the idea of the constant morphing of each individual's artistic muse and how style in contemporary music continuously reforms, reshapes and grows anew. As a free-spirited city with its unique convergence of cultures and eclectic traditions in music and in art, New Orleans makes a perfect home for adventurous and innovative new music.

Founded in 2014, Versipel New Music presents contemporary classical music, New Orleans style. Reflecting the breadth and beauty of the classical concert music scene of today, we perform music of the late 20th and 21st centuries, music inspired by our modern, peripatetic, global and technologically driven lives. Frequently collaborating with living composers both in the U.S. and overseas, our programs span a diversity of styles from fresh European modernism, to U.S. postmodernism, with a heavy dose of technology, improvisation and performer creativity thrown in. At a Versipel show, you'll see and hear music that is recent and new, fresh from the composer's pen (or pencil… or computer), pieces that are often being performed for the very first time.

We are growing! Versipel has recently merged with nienteForte, an organization with a fifteen season history of residencies featuring world-renowned new music performers and ensembles from across the globe at venues across the city. And, this September Versipel New Music will be launching Batture Contemporary, our home-grown new music festival that will bring together Louisiana-based composers and performers at venues across New Orleans.

Testimonials

Versipel New Music was recently nominated for a Gambit Tribute to the Classical Arts Award in the category "Best New Classical Music Performance."