St. Cloud State University’s Department of Music is hosting the MN Made New Music Festival on Jan. 25-26 in the Performing Arts Center on campus. The two-day festival is free and open to the public.

This year’s ensemble-in-residence is 113, a collection of composers and performers of new music based in the Twin Cities that curates concerts, seminars, workshops and more throughout the United States.

Through ambitious programming, community building and educational outreach, 113 provides a platform for musicians pursuing bold, personalized artistic visions and helps them to transmit those visions as directly and honestly as possible.

Since its inception in 2012, 113 has presented over one hundred world premieres and worked with composers and performers such as Richard Barrett, Anthony Cheung, Chaya Czernowin, James Dillon, Julio Estrada, Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Pisaro, Collect/Project, Duo Gelland, Ensemble Dal Niente, Fonema Consort, The Gregorian Singers, Marcelo Rilla, Bill Solomon, Strains New Music Ensemble, Milana Zaric and dozens of local musicians of the highest caliber.

Goals of 113 are to inspire and engage communities through the presentation of high-quality workshops and concerts featuring local and internationally-recognized living composers and musicians; the promotion of underrepresented music by living composers through exceptional-quality performances; to proliferate and disseminate new concert music through live and online performances, recordings and score publishing; and to increase concert music access for underserved populations.

113’s residency is funded through the gracious support of the Steve Fuller Music Performance Residency Fund. For more information on the MN Made New Music Festival, contact Scott Miller.

MN Made New Music Festival Schedule

January 25

INSTALLATIONS – PAC 158, 1-5 p.m.

Works by­ Alvin LucierandBenjamin J Mansavage Klein.

CONCERT – Ruth Gant Recital Hall, 7 p.m.

Resonant Spaces: Music of Alvin Lucier

Featuring performances by SCSU Chamber Singers, Melissa Krause and 113.

January 26

INSTALLATIONS – PAC 158, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Walkthrough of the installations and Q & A with Benjamin JM Klein begins at 2 p.m.

CONVOCATION – Ruth Gant Recital Hall, 12 p.m.

It Will Take Two Ladders

Kyle Hutchins

CONCERT – Ruth Gant Recital Hall, 7 p.m.

Music of, by and for 113

Featuring works by Joshua Musikantow, Tiffany M. Skidmore, Kyle Hutchins, Schuyler Tsuda, Michael Duffy, and Joey Crane.