Hub New Music

Founded in 2013, Hub New Music has grown into a formidable touring ensemble driven by  an unwavering dedication to building community through new art. Across its career, Hub has  commissioned dozens of new works and continues to usher in a fresh and culturally relevant  body of work for its distinct combination of flute, clarinet, violin, and cello. Hub is proud to  collaborate with today’s most celebrated emerging and established composers, and is equally  proud to count many of them as friends. 

Highlights in 2022-23 include concerts throughout the U.S. with presenters such as Boston’s  Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Arizona Friends of Chamber Music, Black Mountain  College Museum and Arts Center, Soka Performing Art Center, Celebrity Series of Boston,  and Brigham Young University. The group also has upcoming residencies at the University of  Michigan, University of Southern California, and Brown University. 

Beginning in spring 2023, Hub celebrates its tenth anniversary with its largest commission  project to date featuring new works from Andrew Norman, Tyshawn Sorey, Angélica Negrón,  Marcos Balter, Donnacha Dennehy, Nico Muhly, and Jessica Meyer. As part of the project,  the ensemble launches a fellowship in collaboration with the Luna Lab, awarded to recent  alumna Sage Shurman.  

Hub New Music is a group of passionate educators whose approach to teaching melds the  artistic and entrepreneurial facets of modern musicianship. The ensemble was recently  in residence with the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Nancy and Barry Sanders Composer  Fellowship program, working with 10 outstanding high school aged composers. Other  residency activities include those at New England Conservatory, Princeton, Harvard,  University of Michigan, University of Texas-Austin, UC Irvine, and University of  Nebraska-Lincoln. 

Hub New Music is Michael Avitabile (flutes), Gleb Kanasevich (clarinets), Meg Rohrer (violin/viola), and Jesse Christeson (cello). The ensemble’s name is inspired by its founding city of Boston’s reputation as a hub of  innovation. Hub New Music  is exclusively represented by Unfinished Side.