April 28th, 2026 — On June 3rd, Talea Ensemble and Conrad Tao will present Mazes and Portals, a portrait concert at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY, spotlighting five works by Brazilian-American composer Felipe Lara (CRF 2014).
The concert, which includes a NY premiere, promises a vivid journey through more than a decade of Felipe’s distinctive musical voice, spanning intimate solo writing to expansive large-ensemble works. The program reveals the composer’s fascination with structures and ideas drawn from musical fractals, mirrors, mosaics, and labyrinths. Influences from electronic music are translated into purely instrumental contexts, creatively expanding the expressive and sonic possibilities of acoustic forces. Together, these works trace Lara’s evolving artistic vision that is at once rigorously constructed and richly immersive.
Learn more and get tickets at nationalsawdust.org.