MODERN IMMEDIACY / CLASSICAL RIGOR
"...expert, well-trained musicians..." - The Village Voice "...musically eclectic and receptive to fresh currents..." - The Chicago Tribune

THE MINIMUM SECURITY COMPOSERS COLLECTIVE is a group of four composers dedicated to blazing new paths through the contemporary music arena. Since 1998, they have worked together in projects that feed on novel approaches to bringing cutting-edge music to the stage. MSCC’s projects have included collaborations with more than a dozen of America’s finest chamber ensembles in the presentation of more than eighty concerts in forty-six cities worldwide. The Minimum Security Ensemble is MSCC’s resident performing group with an internationally-renowned roster of singers and instrumentalists for the performance of newly-minted and classic works.

Current Minimum Security projects include:

Studies in Wood and Metal > Books, CDs, a concert tour, and clinics of new music for mallet instruments with percussionist Eduardo Leandro.

Past Minimum Security projects include:

[2005] Minimum Security and the Austrian Cultural Forum > A two-concert mini-festival in New York, celebrating American and Austrian music. Featured composers include Olga Neuwirth, HK Gruber, Kurt Schwertsik, Arnold Schoenberg, Charles Ives, Johannes Brahms, and the Minimum Security Composers. Performers include the avant-improvisation trio Onda, the Prism Saxophone Quartet's Timothy McAllister, and virtuoso cellist Amy Sue Barston.

[2005] Maurice Sendak Music > A full concert for octet Relâche based on the works of renowned author and illustrator Maurice Sendak.

[2004] Four saxophone quartets premiered by the Prism Saxophone Quartet in honor of their 20th anniversary.

[2001-2003] Di/verge > An evening-length staged work for sextet eighth blackbird, memorized, fully-staged, and toured by that ensemble for two years in such venues as New York's Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, Washington D.C.'s Kennedy Center and Library of Congress, Philadelphia's Annenberg Center, San Francisco's Herbst Theater, and other major venues across the United States.

[1998-ongoing] Lectures and residencies at Centro Musica Modena (Italy), The Juilliard School, Northwestern University, and the Norfolk Summer Music Festival.

[1998-ongoing] Collaborations with emerging performers Antares (The Elm City Ensemble), The Gemini Duo, Proteus, The Yesaroun' Duo, Kylix New Music Ensemble, Odd Appetite, The Kamellion Duo, Paul Fadoul, Blair McMillen, Jennifer Grim, Duo Chiaroscuro, Skyline Brass. These collaborations often feature the works of guest composers, who have included David Lang, Lee Hyla, Georges Aperghis, Kaija Saariaho, Joseph Schwantner, Stefan Weisman, Lois V Vierk, György Kürtag, and many others.