Wild Shore New Music brings its Alaska-born collaboration with Eve Beglarian to Brooklyn. Beglarian’s work moves fluidly between experimental, folk, and classical idioms, circling themes of place and belonging. Anchoring the program is The Light is Always Changing, developed during Beglarian’s spring 2025 residency in Homer, Alaska and her trip through the state. Also featured is Wolf Chaser, which incorporates a traditional Iñupiaq whale baleen tool gifted to the composer.

This is the final performance of Wild Shore’s season — closing out a fall 2025 Alaska tour through Homer, Anchorage, and Fairbanks — and a rare chance to hear these works in dialogue with New York’s contemporary music community.

Katie Cox flute
Andie Tanning violin
Miriam English Ward viola
Mariel Roberts cello
James Moore guitar
Eve Beglarian voice/composer

A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing.

Eve Beglarian is a New York-based composer whose work ranges freely across experimental, folk, classical, and electronic idioms. She is known for long-form, place-driven projects — including an epic journey down the Mississippi River — that weave together original music, found sound, and deep listening.

Founded in 2013 by Alaskan/New York musicians Conrad Winslow, Andie Tanning, and Katie Cox, Wild Shore New Music was created to support and present contemporary chamber music in Alaska. As one of the state’s few organizations dedicated to new music, Wild Shore connects visiting artists with Alaskan performers and audiences through programs shaped by the region’s cultural and natural landscape. The ensemble has partnered with organizations including the National Park Service, Bunnell Street Arts Center, the Anchorage Museum, and the University of Alaska Anchorage and Fairbanks, commissioning and presenting works inspired by Alaska’s people and place.

Early seasons featured artists such as Transit New Music, pianist Vicky Chow and Vicki Ray, and Eighth Blackbird. In 2016, Wild Shore was invited by the National Park Service to curate concerts for its Centennial, with performances in Alaska, New York, and Washington, D.C. Recent projects have included commissions and residencies with composer Anna Pidgorna, a portrait concert of Joseph C. Phillips, Jr., and the Alaskan premiere of Raven Chacon’s For Zitkála-Šá, curated by Inupiaq violinist Dr. Heidi Aklaseaq Senungetuk. Through commissioning, collaboration, and performance, Wild Shore continues to cultivate meaningful connections between contemporary music and Alaska’s communities.