Wild Shore New Music

10/03/2025

We are going LIVE on air on KUAC to perform selections from our program of music by Eve Beglarian TODAY!

Click the link below or tune your dials (lol) to 89.9FM at 2:00AKT/6:00EST and join us as we launch our last weekend of our 2025 Alaska tour!

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09/30/2025

We are featured on the 10 Things to do in Anchorage by the Anchorage Daily News for our concert at the Anchorage Museum tomorrow, Wednesday, October 1, at 7PM! https://www.adn.com/arts/2025/09/25/10-things-to-do-this-weekend-in-anchorage/

09/28/2025

We had a great time chatting with Ammon Swensen at Alaska Public Media last week about our twelfth season and collaborating with Eve Beglarian! Check out our 15-minute interview and performance below, and don't forget to support your local public media!

The modern chamber music group showcases new compositions and contemporary composers.

09/11/2025

Meet our 2025 featured artist, Eve Beglarian!

And don’t forget, links to tix are live!

Bunnell Street Arts Center: bit.ly/4p62tso
Anchorage Museum: bit.ly/4g6CInF

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For its 12th season, Wild Shore New Music honors acclaimed composer Eve Beglarian, whose fearless and genre-defying work explores themes of place, identity, and belonging. Known for her bold, innovative spirit, Beglarian has been praised for her sensuality and experimentation. The Los Angeles Times called her a “humane, idealistic rebel,” while the New York Times lauded her ability to translate landscapes into evocative music. At the center of the 2025 season is a new commission developed during Beglarian’s May residency at Bunnell Street Arts Center in Homer, Alaska, and her travels through the interior up to Fairbanks inspired by the region’s landscape and cultural richness.

The commissioned work will premiere in September/ October 2025, performed by Wild Shore’s founding musicians-- Katie Cox (flute), Andie Tanning (violin), and Conrad Winslow (piano)—joined by Miriam English Ward (viola), James Moore (guitar), Mariel Roberts (cello), and beglarian herself on voice. The program will also feature earlier works by Beglarian, including Peggy in the Twilight and a new interpretation of Wolf Chaser, which incorporates a traditional Inupiaq whale baleen tool gifted to the composer.

This season emphasizes community engagement, with young violinists from across Alaska joining the ensemble to perform Beglarian’s Baby-Angel Barcarolle. In addition, a participatory “Mass Appeal” series invites local musicians of all skill levels to collaborate with Wild Shore artists on inclusive, open-instrumentation works from Beglarian’s catalog.

Together, these performances reaffirm Wild Shore’s commitment to bold artistry, deep listening, and celebrating the profound resonance of music rooted in place.

09/03/2025

Ticket links to our events at the Anchorage Museum and Bunnell Street Arts Center are LIVE!

Anchorage Musem tickets: bit.ly/4p62tso
Bunnell Street tickets: https://bit.ly/4g6CInF

Snag yours now, and we'll see you soon!

08/28/2025

We are SO pleased to share this retrospective video, created by our dear friend and colleague, Pexton, and David Pexton Photography, from last year's 11th season.

Photographer David Pexton captures Wild Shore New Music’s 11th season in Homer, Anchorage, and Fairbanks, Alaska, as founders Andie Tanning, Conrad Winslow, ...

08/27/2025

We are THRILLED to announce our 12TH SEASON of Wild Shore next month, returning to Alaska at the Bunnell Street Arts Center (9/28), Anchorage Museum (10/1), and University of Alaska Fairbanks (10/5) for the Music Series, featuring Eve Beglarian with a new commissioned work! We have an all-star cast of Alaska musicians and returning Wild Shore artists, including Mariel Roberts, James Moore, English Ward, along with our three founders: Andie Tanning, Conrad Winslow, and Katie Cox. Read out recent newsletter here: https://mailchi.mp/cd36f9e21872/wild-shore-season-seven-september-22-29-17232924

10/27/2024

Wild Shore ‘24 is a wrap!

We had a packed season with three Main Stage concerts, three school concerts, one concert at a senior center, two artist talks, a visit with university students, and a reading session, all while traveling over 500 miles across Alaska!

Our program, centered around the music of Raven Chacon, moved audiences and changed all of us. It was a gift to dive so deeply into his music, to complement it with the music of Leilahua Lanzilotti, George Rochberg, and Timo Andres, and to build a program that encouraged us to explore ideas around identity, place, and colonization.

We’d like to extend a huge thank you to our 2024 featured artist, Heidi Senungetuk, for sharing her wisdom and artistry with us and our communities. It was a truly special season.

And huge thank yous to everyone who made this season a success: David Pexton Charly Akert Asia Freeman Bunnell Street Arts Center Anchorage Museum Sean Dowgray Timo Andres Katie Cox Conrad Winslow Andie Tanning

10/19/2024

Wild Shore New Music’s concert is being live streamed TONIGHT! Tune in at 7:30 PM AK/ 8:390 PM Pacific! Huge thank you to all our supporters!

UAF offers a full range of music degree programs that prepare for successful careers performing and teaching music. Our students will be enriched by the diversity of their peers, the artistry and scholarship of the faculty, and the resources of the University at large. The University of Alaska Fairb...