Orchestras were essentially contemporary-music ensembles.

For two years, as a tireless member of Schoenberg's contemporary-music ensemble, he played almost nothing but new and recent works.

The six musicians who make up the impressively successful contemporary-music ensemble Eighth Blackbird are young, hip, confident and ambitious.

This fine French pianist has broad experience, including extensive involvement with Mr. Boulez's contemporary-music ensemble.

The other has been active in his home city playing in a contemporary-music ensemble and teaching at the neighborhood music school.

Tomorrow at 8 p.m., the contemporary-music ensemble Eighth Blackbird.

They met at the Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio, where they were part of a contemporary-music ensemble, conducted by Tim Weiss.

From 2000 to 2010 he was Board Chair of the international contemporary-music ensemble, Elision.

This problem was apparent recently during an audition for a high-powered manager who knew the group was a contemporary-music ensemble.

"I assume that in the future if there is some contemporary-music ensemble that dictates a change in the stage, we will use it," she said.