Artistic Mission
The artistic vision of the Second Instrumental Unit is steadfast and resolute. We have built and continue to build a strong rapport with many of the great living composers of today and tomorrow: performing some of their most important works while working together with them to create new ones.
 
Our mission is simple: we strive, through the highest artistic standards possible, to foster and present what is new, what is compelling, what is diverse, and what will set the trends for the future musical landscape. We look for music that is pushing the boundaries of the possible, with a particular interest in emerging and underrepresented composers and works. We are unapologetic in our aim to make as much of this new repertoire accessible to the largest possible audience, presenting it not as a concert for a distant audience, but as an experience that elucidates the relevance of both the performance and the art in our lives and times.
“Members of the Second Instrumental Unit were utterly superb,
putting the music across with accuracy and flair."                    
 -New Music Connoisseur
 
2008 Events
 
June 4-7, 2008
American Composers Alliance
Spring Festival
Symphony Space NYC
 
July 9-August 17, 2008
Monadnock Music Festival
New Hampshire
 
News!
SIU will continue to be Ensemble-in-Residence at the Aaron Copland School of Music of Queens College for the 2008-09 concert season.  As part of the residency SIU will present a series of concerts featuring premieres of student works and a concert featuring the works of modern American masters. To date SIU has premiered over 60 works by Queens College composers.
 
SIU’s recording of Jonathan Dawe’s Concerto for the First Sunday of the New Year to be released on Furious Artisans Recordings.  SIU premiered Dawe’s work at Carnegie Hall in 2006.
 
Directors David Fulmer and Eliot Gattegno honored by the city of Porto Alegre for their visit in August of 2007.  While there Fulmer and Gattegno performed recitals, presented lectures and masterclasses, along with appearing as soloists with the Orquestra da Camera Theatro Sao Pedro.
Second Instrumental Unit is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization.