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Nicholas DeMaison, is a highly regarded interpreter of new music and contemporary opera whose performances have been described as “consistently invigorating” (Allan Kozinn, The New York Times). A composer and conductor, he is Director of Ensemble Sospeso, Music Director of Florilegium Chamber Coir, and serves as Music Supervisor for the critically acclaimed production company Giants Are Small, which received national attention for their stagings of Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre and Janácek’s The Cunning Little Vixen with the New York Philharmonic. For the latter, the Philharmonic commissioned DeMaison to contribute an original electronic soundscape for Avery Fisher Hall. He has conducted premieres and led recording projects of new pieces by over forty living composers, and was founding Music Director of Chicago’s Opera Cabal, called “Chicago’s most daring opera company” (Chicago Magazine). DeMaison’s own music has been described as “emotionally provocative” (Time Out NY) and “faster and blippier…both ominous and playful at the same time” (Lucid Culture).