A dialogue between eras — curated concerts uniting musical history with the voices of today.
Our September 2026 concert for string orchestra, conducted by Emily Frederick, brought together Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings and three premieres: Yuval Medina's Meltemi, Joshua DeLozier's Toccata & Fugue, and Marco Catella's To Night.
An excerpt from our inaugural concert at St. Jean Baptiste Church, exploring the human voice as an inspiration for music. Featuring Yuval Medina's brass quintet Prelude and Canzone and Messiaen's organ work Apparition de l'église éternelle.
Ex Corde is a nonprofit, composer-led ensemble dedicated to curating concerts that speak across centuries. From Bach, Britten, and Mahler to emerging composers from New York City and beyond, our programs invite dialogue between the timeless and the newly imagined. Founded by composers Marco Catella, Joshua DeLozier, and Yuval Medina, we bring our own music into conversation with the masterworks that shaped us — crafting narratives where the past doesn’t just echo, it listens and responds.
Marco Catella's music seeks to evoke universal human emotions, and drama in the broadest sense, employing a style that is deeply rooted in our great musical tradition, while having a place in our contemporary world. He hails from Buenos Aires, Argentina…
The music of Joshua C. DeLozier (b. 1998) seeks an integration of form and content to create richly varied interrelationships between ideas at different scales of time. DeLozier’s works have been heard at the Lake George Music Festival, at June in Buffalo, and on WGTE Public Media’s radio program “Morning Classics”…
Yuval Medina is a composer and pianist based in New York City, working at the intersection of music with dance, film, and the concert stage. At the core of his work is a commitment to storytelling, immersive experience, and the inherently human power of music — its ability to bridge the widest divides and remind us we are in this together.…
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