Polarity Announces its 3rd Annual Call For Scores!

Posted 11/15/2023

As Pathos is planning its biggest projects in 2024, we’re excited to announce our continued Call For Scores in collaboration with New Music USA!!

Similar to our last year’s call, we plan to pick one composer to write a 7 minute piece for two percussionists, piano/keyboard, and electronics for our ensemble for a commission fee of $2,500, plus have their piece recorded and premiered during our 2024-2025 season.

Deadline to apply is by December 31st, 2023 by 11:59pm ET and so if you or any composer or artist is interested in applying you can find out more details on our Call For Scores page on our website (see button below)

We look forward to seeing your submissions!

Pathos Trio is selected as 2023 New Music Inc. Grantee!

Posted 9/28/2023

Super excited to finally share that Pathos Trio is an inaugural awardee of a New Music Inc Grant, New Music USA‘s newest incubator grant program! 🎉 New Music Inc program provides funding, mentorship, and cohort learning opportunities to small-budget, artist-led music organizations in Baltimore, Chicago, and NYC, and so we’re extremely honored to have been one of the 10 NYC based ensembles selected for this program and to work with our Program Coordinator the one and only Amanda Gookin!

To learn more about the rest of the grantees and this program you can click here to read the full press release: bit.ly/NewMusicInc2023

Regional New Music Inc programs are funded and made possible by The New York Community Trust (New York City) and the Walder Foundation (Chicago). The Baltimore program is supported in part by grants from the Robert W. Deutsch and The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation.

Polarity is now available to purchase/download!

Posted 9/15/2023

After a year and a half or constant work on this project, we’re excited to say that Polarity is now officially out on Imaginary Animals’ website and across Apple Music, Bandcamp, and Amazon for purchase!

This is Pathos’ most ambitious album to date, and with so many collaborators involved in this project we’re really excited to share the rest of the music on this album to the world.

Special shoutouts to our longstanding friends Luigi Honorat and Jonah Best for creating the 3D renders for some of our music videos, to Four/Ten Media for shooting all 6 music videos for us, and to Ryan Streber, Mike Tierney, and Alan Silverman for working on the audio for this album making Pathos sound 🔥🔥🔥

We put in a lot of sweat and tears into this project and so we hope you consider purchasing Polarity and taking a listen to the amazing pieces on this album.

Release Date/Teaser Trailer for Polarity out now!

Posted 7/28/2023

After months of keeping this under wraps, we’re finally ready to officially announce the release date of our second studio album Polarity through Imaginary Animals music label on September 15th, 2023!

This album will feature mixed/mastered audio we recorded at Oktaven Audio and music videos we recorded with Four/Ten Media of new commissions for two percussion, piano, and electronics by composers Ian Chang, Phong Tran, Clara Warnaar, Andrew Rodriguez, Vicente Hansen Atria, and Paul Mortilla. We’ve pushed ourselves to go above and beyond with these pieces, and so we think folks are going to really dig these heavy tracks 🔥🔥🔥

This has been a year and a half project in the making and so we hope you’ll pick up a copy or preorder at the link below, but in the meantime we hope you enjoy this short teaser of what’s to come 😉

Announcing our 2023-2024 Season List of Composers!

Posted 3/24/2023

As we’re nearing the end of our 2022-23 Season we’re extremely excited to announce our lineup of composers we plan to commission for our 2023-24 Season - Jlin Patton , Rafiq Bhatia, Will Healy, our 2023-2024 Call for Scores Winner Ivanna Cuesta, and Scott Li!

Just to get a taste of their music and what people can expect from their commissions, we’ve compiled below a short list of video clips folks can watch/listen to 😉

We can’t wait to start working with all of these amazing artists in the coming months, and so in the meantime hope you enjoy these clips of their work!

Please Welcome Will Healy Into Pathos Trio!

Posted 11/23/2022

After having a successful benefit on November 22nd, 2022 we’re extremely excited to officially announce that Will Healy will be joining Pathos Trio as our new pianist!!

As a composer and pianist based in New York, his music can be described as "lushly bluesy" in sound and to have"adroitly blended textures" (New York Times). His list of accolades include receiving the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two ASCAP Morton Gould Awards, a W.K. Rose Fellowship, a JFund commission from the American Composers Forum, prizes in the Juilliard and Kaleidoscope Orchestra Composition Competitions, and being the recipient of the Aaron Copland Prize from the Bogliasco Foundation while studying under composers such as John Corigliano, Steven Stucky, Samuel Adler, Kevin Puts, Harold Meltzer, and Richard Wilson.

Although we’ll miss Alan being a core founding member and our original pianist, this marks a new chapter for the group and with so many projects coming up in 2023 we’re really exciting for Will to be joining us and to see what the future brings!

Announcing our 2022-2023 Season Commissions, supported by NYCSA

Posted 1/8/2022

As we start off 2022, we’re happy to announce that out of thousands of applicants, Pathos Trio has been selected to receive a Round 3 Support for Organizations Grant by the New York State Council of the Arts (NYSCA), to support our Programming and Commissions, which includes funding our next round of composers we plan to commission new works from for our 2022-2023 Season - Phong Tran, Clara Warnaar, Ian Chang, and Andrew Rodriguez!

We’re extremely excited to have the opportunity to receive this grant and make these commissions happen with these amazing composers, and so in the coming months we’ll be sure to share across our social media our progress of each commission through the workshops we plan to do during the Spring and Summer 2022.

To read the full announcement of Round 3 NYSCA Grantees made by Governor Hochul, please check out her full statement down below:

Polarity Is On 1st Ballot Voting For This Year’s 66th GRAMMYs®!

Posted 10/11/2023

As we’re well into our 2023-2024 season we wanted to make an exciting announcement that we’ve submitted Polarity to be up in 1st ballot voting for this year’s GRAMMYs® !!

We currently have Polarity submitted in four different categories, which are for:

- Best Music Video (for our recording of Mega Cicada by Ian Chang)
- Best Engineered Album, Classical
- Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
- Best Contemporary Classical Composition (also for Mega Cicada by Ian Chang)

Voting is currently taking place between Wednesday, October 11th till Friday, October 20th and so for those of you reading this post we hope you’ll take the time to consider Polarity in its entirety during this 1st round of voting and sharing our news about Polarity being on the 1st ballot for this year’s GRAMMY voting across your social media platforms!

Pathos Trio announces its 2023-2024 Season!

Posted 9/19/2023

After months of planning, we’re excited to announce our 2023-2024 season of events! We’ll be traveling for the first time to the West Coast, to the Midwest, and playing around New York City.

This will be our most active season yet, as we celebrate our 5th Year Anniversary on November 12th, 2023. Throughout this season we will be featuring works by composers we’ve commissioned last season (Ian Chang, Phong Tran, Clara Warnaar, Andrew Rodriguez, Vicente Hansen Atria, and Paul Mortilla) who are a part of our newly released album Polarity, and our composers we’ve commissioned for this season (Jlin Patton , Rafiq Bhatia, Will Healy, our 2023-2024 Call for Scores Winner Ivanna Cuesta, and Scott Li).

We hope you’ll join us at some of these events, as we’re really excited to share in-person the music we’ve compiled on Polarity and our newest commissions that we’ve yet to premiere!

New Sounds Radio Soundcheck Live feature!

Posted 8/10/2023

Really excited to share that we just recorded our first ever New Sounds Radio Soundcheck Live Podcast episode with John Schaefer!

During this episode we talk about the group, how we came to be, about our upcoming album Polarity (which releases this Friday, Sept 13th) and our upcoming performances/projects we have in the works for our 2023-2024 season.

To listen to the full interview/podcast you can check it out down below on New Sounds Radio’s website and watch the full video performances we did of Mega Cicada, Split, and Home/Gone on their YouTube channel that will be uploaded on September 11th, 2023.

Just Finished Recording our 2nd Studio Album Polarity!

Posted 4/11/2023

Since January 21st, 2023 we’ve been working extensively on recording audio and music videos for each of our 6 commissions that will be on our sophomore album “Polarity”, and so after multiple 10 hour studio recording sessions at Oktaven Audio LLC and shooting at 3 different locations for all 6 music videos we are so excited to share that we’ve finally finished wrapping recording everything for Polarity!

Huge thank you to Ryan Truesdell for being our Lead Producer on this album , Ryan Streber for being Lead Engineer on this album, Four/Ten Media for shooting all 6 music videos for us, and to New Music USA and Chamber Music America for helping make our second studio album all possible!! Woo!!

We’re really excited to bring these new commissions by Ian Chang, Phong Tran, Clara Warnaar, Andrew M Rodriguez, Vicente Hansen Atria, and Paul Mortilla to life, and so in the coming weeks we will keep all of our followers and supporters up to date with when people can expect to see/hear this music.

Thank you to all of our composers for writing such awesome pieces, and we can’t wait to share these music videos in the coming months!

Announcing Ivanna Cuesta as our 2023-24 Call for Scores Winner!

Posted 1/31/2023

After a long process of reviewing countless great submissions, we’re excited to announce Ivanna Cuesta as our 2023-2024 Call For Scores Winner!! 🏆🥁

Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, she is a drummer and composer who graduated from the Dominican Republic Conservatory and Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA.

As an endorsed Paiste Cymbals jazz artist, she’s won numerous awards including most recently being a New Jazz Legacy apprentice in partnership with New Music USA and National Endowment for the Arts, has performed at PASIC and places such as the Kennedy Center , and currently works full time as an independent composer of jazz, film, commercial, and electronic music.

We’re really excited to get to work with her on her commission, and so congratulations again to Ivanna on being our 2023-2024 Call For Scores Winner!

Our 2nd Call For Scores with New Music USA!

Posted 11/16/2022

Pathos Trio is pleased to announce its 2nd Annual Call for Scores to select a composer for commissioning a new work for our upcoming 2023-2024 season.

For this Call for Scores, Pathos Trio will select one composer to create a work for the following instrumentation:

2 percussionists

1 acoustic piano (Baby Grand)

Synthesizer or MIDI keyboard (or both)

and electronics (live or fixed audio playback), 

The selected composer will receive a commission prize of $2,500 to write a 7-9 minute work and their work will be premiered during our 2023-24 season in New York City, and will include a professional audio recording and live video recording from the premiere.

Pathos invites composers who have backgrounds in classical/contemporary music or composers who write for/have strong interests in mainstream styles of music such as electronic/synthwave music, alternative rock, progressive metal, minimalist music, and more who are 18 and older in age. Individuals who come from various backgrounds (regardless of age, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender) are encouraged to apply.

Our First Call For Scores with American Composer Alliance!

Posted 1/3/2022

As we embark on our next set of ambitious projects, we’re happy to be partnering up with American Composers Alliance to host our very first ever Call For Scores! In this Call we’ll be selecting one lucky composer to commission a brand new work for our group and award that composer $2,500 commission fee to write this piece for our 2022-2023 season, where we’ll premiere it in live performance! (Venue/Date TBA)

We’ve just finished wrapping up our submission process receiving several dozen AMAZING proposals, and so in the coming weeks we’ll be reviewing all submissions and plan to make our announcement on who we’ll select as our awardee sometime during mid-January 2022.

To learn more about our Call For Scores, please be sure to check out our project page on American Composers Alliance’s website, as we plan to continue this partnership to make this an annual call moving forward:

When Dark Sounds Collide: Release Date March 11th, 2022!

Posted 12/3/2021

After working on this project for over two years, we’re excited to finally announce that our album When Dark Sounds Collide is set to release on March 11th, 2022 through New Focus Recordings both digitally and in physical CD formats!

This album features all new works for two percussionists and piano by composers Alyssa Weinberg, Evan Chapman, Alison Yun-Fei Jiang, Alan Hankers, and Finola Merivale, and has been produced and recorded by grammy nominated film company Four/Ten Media.

We can’t wait to share this new music with you all, and so please be sure to in the coming months check out and purchase the album on New Focus Recordings website down below:

Chamber Music America Ensemble Forward 2021 Grantee!

Posted 1/20/2021

As we kick off the New Year, we’re extremely excited to announce that Pathos Trio has been selected to be one of Chamber Music America’s 2021 Ensemble Forward recipients, where we’ll be given the chance to work with Sō Percussion’s very own Eric Cha-Beach as our coach for over the course of 2021!

We’re extremely honored to have been selected for this opportunity, and so in the coming months’ we can’t wait to share with you all the progress of our coaching sessions with Eric!

Pathos Trio, New Music USA, and Roya Marsh Host Fundraiser to raise over $10,000 towards Black Lives Matter Organizations

Posted 7/31/2020

As we're all faced with our given duty to fight against systematic oppression and racial injustice, our group has been trying to navigate through this larger Black Lives Matter movement in figuring out how we can use our platform to help give voice to those who need to be heard right now.

Well after weeks of planning we're happy to announce our collaboration with BLK JOY, spoken word poet Roya Marsh, and New Music USA to put on a virtual fundraiser event to raise $10,000 for Strategy For Black Lives, Warriors In The Garden, Freedom March NYC, and BLM Greater NY!

Each of these activist groups have been on the frontlines here in NYC leading the charge to demand change for black lives since these protests started in late May 2020, and we couldn't be happier to organize this event to help these groups in their work toward building a better, more just world.

This event features an amazing all-star lineup of talent from Black artists all over NYC who will perform and speak, such as award winning artists Flutronix, Jessie Montgomery, Darian Thomas, Kendall Williams, acclaimed spoken word poets Mahogany L. Browne, Roya Marsh, and much more!

In order to watch the full marathon event, please click on the button below:

New Music USA 2020 Winter Project Grantee!

Posted 6/5/2020

After months of applying, we’re excited to announce that Pathos Trio has received it’s first significant project grant through New Music USA’s Winter Project Program that will help pay our expenses going towards our first very first album When Dark Sounds Collide!

We’re really excited to have been chosen for this opportunity and are looking forward to working together with New Music USA to realize this album we’re looking to put out into the world! To read more about the album project, you can read more through our project page down below:

Announcing our first residency at Avaloch Farm Music Institute!

Posted 8/1/2019

With Pathos beginning to work on it’s first set of commissions, we’re excited to announce that we’ve been selected to go to Avaloch Farm Music Institute from July 22nd - 31st, 2019 for an artist residency alongside composers Finola Merivale and Alyssa Weinberg!

It was an amazing experience getting to be in such an amazing place as Avaloch for 10 days and to be working with Finola and Alyssa, and so we can’t wait to share with you all what we have in store with their commissions!

To get a glimpse of what we were up to while at Avaloch, here is a recap video that features Finola Merivale talking about her experience working with Pathos and her ideas of what’s to come in her new work “oblivious/oblivion”