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Press Release

October 1, 2025

For Immediate Release

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Gail Wein - (646) 484-9691

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Baruch Performing Arts Center 2025-2026 concert season begins October 27

Soundscapes: Music for Film and Beyond explores the intersection between contemporary concert music and cinema

ACME – a group that has specialized in new chamber music for over 20 years – performs music written for film by Philip Glass, Michael Nyman, Ennio Morricone and others

On Monday, October 27 at 7 pm, American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME) opens Baruch Performing Arts Center’s 2025-2026 concert season with Soundscapes: Music for Film and Beyond. The acclaimed chamber group performs works by Philip Glass, Michael Nyman, Ennio Morricone, Nico Muhly, Jóhann Jóhannsson and ACME’s Artistic Director, Clarice Jensen. Baruch PAC is located at 55 Lexington Ave (25th St, between 3rd and Lexington Aves). Tickets are $35, available at bpac.baruch.cuny.edu.

The program explores the intersection between contemporary classical music and cinema, including selections from Morricone's lush score for The Mission and the lyrical second movement of Nyman's String Quartet No. 2. Glass's String Quartet No. 3, Mishima, taken from his score for Paul Schrader’s 1985 film, features driving rhythms and hypnotic patterns. This is a Silberman Recital Series concert.

Baruch PAC’s 2025-26 season continues on December 12 with virtuoso jazz pianist Sullivan Fortner. In February, baritone Joseph Parrish returns to the Baruch PAC stage with a program inspired by the writers of the Harlem Renaissance. An additional spring performance will be announced soon.

Pictured: American Contemporary Music Ensemble (credit: Sachyn Mital)

Calendar Listing

Monday, October 27, 2025 at 7 pm

American Contemporary Music Ensemble

Soundscapes: Music for Film and Beyond

A Silberman Recital Series Concert

Baruch Performing Arts Center

55 Lexington Ave, New York, NY 10010

(enter on 25th Street, between 3rd and Lexington Avenues)

PROGRAM

Philip Glass: String Quartet No. 3, “Mishima”

Michael Nyman: String Quartet No. 2, Mvt. II

Ennio Morricone: Gabriel’s Oboe from The Mission, for string quartet

Nico Muhly: Selections from The Reader

Jóhann Jóhannsson: Film and Chamber Music Selections

Clarice Jensen: Film and Chamber Music Selections

Tickets are $35, available at bpac.baruch.cuny.edu

American Contemporary Music Ensemble is:

Clarice Jensen, cello & artistic director

Ben Russell, violin

Laura Lutzke, violin

Kal Sugatski, viola

Claire Bryant, cello

Grey Mcmurray, guitar

Daniel Neumann, sound engineer

Downloadable images & bios available in the digital press kit

American Contemporary Music Ensemble

Since 2004, led by cellist and artistic director Clarice Jensen, the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME) has risen to the highest ranks of American new music through a mix of meticulous musicianship, artistic vision, engaging collaborations, and unwavering standards in every regard. NPR calls them “contemporary music dynamos.”

The ensemble has performed at leading international venues including Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, Chicago’s Millennium Park, and Sydney Opera House among others, and at festivals from Big Ears in Knoxville, TN to Auckland Arts Festival in New Zealand and many in between.

In 2022, ACME released the world premiere recording of Jóhann Jóhannsson's contemporary oratorio Drone Mass on Deutsche Grammophon, with Theatre of Voices led by Paul Hillier. Their recordings also appear on Sono Luminus, Butterscotch Records, New World Records, and New Amsterdam Records.

Baruch Performing Arts Center

Baruch Performing Arts Center is at 55 Lexington Avenue (enter on 25th Street between Third and Lexington Avenues, on the south side of the street) in the heart of Manhattan. Praised for its superb acoustics, the Rosalyn and Irwin Engelman Recital Hall has been called "a perfect hall for chamber music" by Anthony Tommasini of The New York Times.