SPECTRI SONORI a concert series and a chamber music ensemble specializing in performance of contemporary music, has been in residence at the Newcomb Music Department, Tulane University, since 1987. The series has presented the most recent compositions along with the established masterpieces of the recent past. The aim of SPECTRI SONORI is to introduce the New Orleans audience to the best works in the contemporary music literature and to encourage composers to create new works by offering an international composition competition and various special events in conjunction with the annual concert series. Among the grants the series has been awarded are grants from the French Government, Louisiana State Arts Council, Newcomb Foundation, Leonie D. Rothschild, Presser Foundation of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and a grant and a "Certificate of Excellence for Contribution to the Arts in the Greater New Orleans Community" from the David M. Metzner M.D. Foundation for the Arts.   

May 2, 2005

Trio Chausson
Works by Ravel, Dusapin, Huber

April 26, 2005

John Dobry

Graduate Composition Recital

March 29, 2004

The New Hudson Saxophone Quartet
Works by Cohen, Jazwinski, Noon, Sampson, Tanenbaum, Trapanese

February 1, 2004

Esther Lamneck (clarinet and tarogato)

Robert Rowe (computer)

Works for Electronic Media and Acoustic Instruments

May 2, 2003

Melissa Pausina

Graduate Composition Recital

April 28, 2003

Jennifer Gosnell

Senior Composition Recital

April 22, 2002

The New Hudson Saxophone Quartet
Works by Hampton, Jazwinski, Kershner, Noon, Tanenbaum, Wilder

May 1, 2001
Billy Reisinger

Senior Composition Recital

April 9, 2001

Andrew Guthrie

Graduate Composition Recital

May 1, 2000
Andrew Guthrie, Jennifer Gosnell, Billy Reisinger

Student Composition Recital

March 27, 2000

Janet Packer, violin and Orin Grossman, piano

Works by Debussy, Ravel, Brian, Imbrie and London

March 13, 2000

The Louisiana Sinfonietta

Works by Constantinides, Carastathis, Jazwinski, Johnson, LeDee, Zervas and Pitombeira

February 28, 2000

New York University New Music Trio

Works by Constantinides, Jazwinski, Ghezzo, Schontal, Mazurek, Pitombeira and Cooper

October 25, 1999

Quatuor Francis Poulenc, France

Works by Chabrier, Poulenc, Linde, Ibert and Jazwinski