Members
Alex Sopp, flutes & voice
Mark Dover, clarinets
CJ Camerieri, trumpet & horn
Rob Moose, violin & guitar
Nadia Sirota, viola
Gabriel Cabezas, cello
Ensemble Biography
yMusic is a genre-leading American chamber ensemble. Now in its seventeenth season, the group is renowned for its innovative and collaborative spirit. Since their inception, yMusic has had a unique mission: to work on both sides of the classical/popular music divide, without sacrificing rigor, virtuosity, charisma or style. They were recently praised by NPR Music as “...Deeply, profoundly skilled. They’ve formed a language all their own.”
Named for "Generation Y”, yMusic and their cohort of composer-collaborators, who include Andrew Norman, Missy Mazzoli, Nico Muhly, Marcos Balter and Gabriella Smith, have come to represent the vanguard of American Contemporary Music. Simultaneously, yMusic has been tapped to lend their orchestral sound and instantly-recognizable style to recordings and concert projects by a dizzying array of popular artists from ANOHNI to John Legend to Paul Simon.
yMusic is Alex Sopp, flute; Mark Dover, clarinet; CJ Camerieri, trumpet; Rob Moose, violin; Nadia Sirota, viola; and Gabriel Cabezas, cello. The group was founded Rob and CJ in 2008, who chose its unique instrumentation based on their friendships and the players' adaptability. The yMusic configuration has quickly become a staple orchestration for composers and ensembles inspired by the group’s work.
In 2023, the ensemble released their first album of self-composed work titled, YMUSIC. Written collaboratively by all six musicians, YMUSIC represents a creative breakthrough for the ensemble. “They’ve transcended all the conventions that they were trained in” (NPR Music), presenting "one of the most exciting and confident chamber music releases of the year” (Strings Magazine). yMusic also launched an ongoing collaboration, Stories x yMusic, a series of filmed performances and streaming singles featuring prominent artists performing with the ensemble an intimate acoustic setting such as Bruno Major, Amy Allen and Rufus Wainwright.
For their inaugural commission as a composition collective, yMusic was enlisted by the Park Avenue Armory to compose an original score for renowned choreographer Kyle Abraham’s production Dear Lord, Make Me Beautiful. This momentous collaboration was hailed by the New Yorker as “a deeply personal portrait” that "works organically, seeping into us through skin and eyes and ears. And it is a beauty." The production, in which yMusic performed the score live, featured Abraham alongside a company of seventeen dancers. The world premiere run of ten performances took place in the Armory's expansive Drill Hall in December 2024.
In addition to their most recent album, yMusic has released four full-length albums of commissioned music, 2020’s Ecstatic Science, 2017’s First, 2014’s Balance Problems, and 2011’s Beautiful Mechanical, Time Out New York’s “#1 Classical Record of the Year.” They can be found performing around the world in a variety of contexts and have performed venues such as the Sydney Opera House, Carnegie Hall, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, and Madison Square Garden.
Oct. 2025