Acclaimed new music ensemble Decoda will perform a free concert at Bowling Green State University Monday
at 8 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall at the Moore Musical Arts Center as part of the Music at the Forefront
concert series.
Among the pieces will be a piece composed for the ensemble by Christopher Dietz of the BGSU music
faculty.
The group also will perform new works by Brad Balliett, Doug Balliett, Andrew Norman, Nathan Schram and
Isang Yun.
Performing from the group will be: Brad Balliett, bassoon, Moran Katz, clarinet, Laura Weiner, horn,
Nathan Schram, viola, and Claire Bryant, cello.
The concert is part of a three-day residency on campus during which the musicians will lead master
classes, workshops, and collaborate with student composers.
Decoda is a chamber ensemble of virtuoso musicians who are also entrepreneurs and advocates of the arts.
Based in New York City, the group creates innovative performances and engaging projects with partners
around the world, traveling to Abu Dhabi, Iceland, Japan, Mexico, Germany, Hong Kong, Switzerland, the
United Kingdom and Denmark.
The members first collaborated with one another in the renowned Ensemble ACJW fellowship program, created
by Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School and Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute. They now extend that
relationship as an Affiliate Ensemble of Carnegie Hall. Since its inception in 2011, Decoda’s projects
have reached audiences in schools, hospitals and prisons as well as in prominent concert halls and music
festivals across the globe.
Since 2011, Decoda has participated in Carnegie Hall’s Musical Connections Program, undertaking creative
projects at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, Beth Abraham Hospital, Clinton High School in the Bronx,
and Valley Lodge Shelter.
After a successful launch of the inaugural Decoda-Skidmore Chamber Music Institute in July 2014, the
ensemble will return to Skidmore College to lead the two-week program that enables young musicians to
explore leadership and community service through the intensive study of chamber music.
Under the guidance of Decoda artists, students learn how to fully engage their audiences and communities
through scripted, interactive chamber music performances while improving their own performance and
public speaking skills.
