A NEW EXPERIENCE OF SOUND

EXPERIENTIAL ORCHESTRA

Inviting listeners to experience sound in new ways through immersive, site-specific concerts, and recordings that expand the orchestral repertoire.

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Welcome to EXO

We are thrilled to share that our 2024 recording with Curtis Stewart, American Counterpoints, has been nominated in TWO Grammy® Award categories, for Best Classical Compendium, and for Best Classical Instrumental Solo. We are so honored, and grateful to everyone who helped us make those recordings a reality.

This has been an extraordinary season, as we were invited back to the gorgeous space of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, in an evening of music reflecting on memory, inviting the audience to lie down immersed in the sound of strings, walk in the space as the music reflects off the stones, or sit in seats surrounding the musicians. The concert featured Strauss’s Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings is a kaleidoscopic exploration of harmony and color, deeply infused with memory and loss; and Vaughan Williams's Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis is one of the most celebrated works for strings, imbuing Tallis’s 16th century hymn tune with expansive colors and staging the work across three locations in the Cathedral, reflecting the past, present, and future. Visit this page for more information.

Another highlight of this season was the invitation from the Library of Congress to present a program in December celebrating the 100th Anniversary of that institution. Our performance featured the Washington, D.C. Premiere of American composer Julia Perry’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, performed by four-time Grammy® Nominee Curtis Stewart and played on Fritz Kreisler’s violin; an immersive performance of Arnold Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) with newly-written narration by violinist and author Ling Ling Huang. This experiential concept is based on the woman’s confession in the Dehmel poem that originally inspired Schoenberg, incorporating secrets, some shared by audience members, and was conceived and designed by the EXO Creative Team under the direction of Pauline Kim Harris. Compositions by Alan Hovhaness and Irving Fine rounded out the program, reflect music from the archives of the Library of Congress, in celebration of the centenary of the institution. More information here.

Our next concert will be a family-friendly free performance of Brad Balliet's Feld Guide to Imaginary Birds on May 3 (raindate May 4). Information is here.

Finally, I want to encourage you to join our mailing list, where you will learn more about our concerts and special opportunities for subscribers only.

Thank you all for your support–

James Blachly
Experiential Orchestra Founder and Music Director

2021 Grammy Award winning

Smyth "The Prison"

CELEBRATING THE WORK OF A GIANT

Dawson Celebration

COMPOSED IN 1934, WILLIAM LEVI DAWSON’S NEGRO FOLK SYMPHONY IS A LARGELY UNKNOWN MASTERPIECE. WATCH OUR PERFORMANCE ON DEMAND!

In partnership with young Patrons of Lincoln Center

Immersive Concerts

EXPANDING ON WAYS TO PROVIDE FULL-BODIED, IMMERSIVE CONCERT EXPERIENCES

A NEW EXPERIENCE OF SOUND