The Empyrean Ensemble performs "Scritch" by Melinda Wagner with Tom Nugent on oboe, Anna Pressler and Hrabba Atladottir on violin, Phyllis Kamrin on viola, and Leighton Fong on cello.

The Empyrean Ensemble performs "Nok-du-klot" by Eun Young Le. Performed by Ellen Ruth Rose, solo viola, Tod Brody, flute, Peter Josheff, clarinet, Hrabba Atladottir, violin, Thalia Moore, cello, Michael Seth Orland, piano, and Loren Mach, percussion.

The Empyrean Ensemble performs "Ciao, Manhattan" by Lee Hyla, Tod Brody on flute, Ellen Ruth Rose on viola, Thalia Moore on cello, and Michael Seth Orland on piano.

The Empyrean Ensemble performs "The Island" by Moon Young Ha with Peter Josheff on clarinet, Hrabba Atladottir on violin, and Thalia Moore on cello.

The Empyrean Ensemble performs "Märchenerzählungen op. 132: I Lebhaft, nicht zu schnell" by Robert Schumann. Peter Josheff performs on clarinet, with Ellen Ruth Rose on viola and Michael Seth Orland on piano.

The Empyrean Ensemble performs "Märchenerzählungen op. 132: II Lebhaft und sehr markirt" by Robert Schumann. Performed by Peter Josheff on clarinet, Ellen Ruth Rose on viola, and Michael Seth Orland on piano.

The Empyrean Ensemble performs "Märchenerzählungen op. 132: III Ruhiges Tempo, mit zartem Ausdruck" by Robert Schumann. Performed by Peter Josheff, clarinet, Ellen Ruth Rose, viola, and Michael Seth Orland, piano.

The Empyrean Ensemble performs "Märchenerzählungen op. 132: IV Lebhaft, sehr markirt" by Robert Schumann. Performed by Peter Josheff, clarinet, Ellen Ruth Rose, viola, and Michael Seth Orland, piano.

Written by Ben Irwin, this piece, Synecdoche, is played by Peter Josheff, clarinet, Hrabba Atladottir, violin, Leighton Fong, cello, and Michael Orland, piano.

Almetus' Transitoire expresses the gradual transition from time into eternity that people, buried under the rubble in locations inaccessible to rescuers, experienced after the devastating earthquake leveled the city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Although the piece is not descriptive of the concepts of time and eternity, the perceptual effect of a sustained sonority and the seemingly unrelated gestures allude to a non-temporal and temporal dichotomy in the piece.

This is a 10-minute excerpt from a psychedelic rock opera called "Über Wildemann and the Dandy" by Liam Wade. The instrumentation is piccolo/flute, viola (played with chopsticks) and percussion (mostly mallet percussion and beer bottles also played with chopsticks).

Written by graduate student composer Garrett Shatzer, the following perform his The Shift & The Break: Peter Josheff, clarinet, Hrabba Atladottir, violin, Leighton Fong, cello, and Michael Orland, piano.

Wang's Beyond the Sound, There is... was inspired by classical Chinese landscape painting. In the classical Chinese art world, everything is related to two essential ideas: Xu and Shi. Xu translates literally as void and represents such qualities as softness and lightness; Shi represents fullness and solidness.

The piece by Scott Perry, Psycho-crypto-ornithology, is a sonic portrait of a peppy but reclusive bird that looks and sounds something like a pigeon-tucan-turkey-hawk. The landscape in which this bird dwells is mostly depicted by the viola and piccolo. However, it isn’t totally clear where the bird’s body-call-song begins and the synaesthetic description of its environment ends.

Michelle Maruyama, violin, and Chris Froh, percussion, perform Jesper Nordin's In the Midst of Trespassing.

Eric Mo's Jozaphine Freedom is performed by Haleh Abghari, soprano, Peter Josheff, clarinet, Eric More, paino/keyboard, Chris Froh, percussion, with Denise Duhamel, text, and Suzie Silver, video.

Philippe Bodin's La Femme Adultere is performed in string quartet and percussion by Hrabba Atladottir, Michelle Maruyama, violin, Ellen Ruth Rose, viola, Thalia Moore, cello, and Chris Froh, percussion.

Pablo Ortiz's The Viola in the Motorcycle Boy's Life is performed with viola and marimba.

Wayne Peterson's Pas de Deux is performed with flute and marimba.

John MacCallum's El Arbol de la Noche Triste (The Tree of the Sad Night) is performed with viola and electronics.

Laurie San Martin's Dawn Song is performed with flute and marimba.

John Cage's Music for Three is performed with flute, viola, and percussion.

Franz Schubert's (arr. Ellen Ruth Rose) Tod und das Madchen, op. 7, no. 3 is performed.

Kurt Rhodes's Good Stuff is performed, B-52s arr.

Mika Pelo's Lygnir is performed by Hrabba Atladotti, violin, Tod Brody, flute, Leighton Fon, cello, Peter Josheff, clarinet, Ellen Ruth Rose, viola, Karen Rosenak, piano, Loren Mach, percussion and David Milnes, conductor.