NOVUS NY

Trinity’s new music orchestra, NOVUS NY, is a key collaborator in the contemporary music scene and has forged strong links with many of today’s leading composers and conductors. Its “expert and versatile musicians” (New Yorker) perform music from all corners of the repertoire, meeting “every challenge with an impressive combination of discipline and imagination” (New York Classical Review). In its annual appearances at the Prototype Festival, NOVUS NY has helped pioneer several major new works including the Pulitzer Prize-winning operas Ellen Reid’s p r i s m (2019) and Angel’s Bone by Du Yun (2017) as well as Emma O’Halloran’s Trade and Mary Motorhead and Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s Breaking the Waves, named “Best New Opera for 2016” by the Music Critics Association. NOVUS NY’s recordings include Luna Pearl Woolf’s Grammy-nominated Fire and Flood, Ellen Reid’s p r i s m, Paola Prestini’s The Hubble Cantata, Du Yun’s Angel’s Bone, Trevor Weston’s Choral Works, Philip Glass’s Symphony No. 5, Edward Thomas’s opera Anna Christie and Am I Born by David T. Little.