Last night, Israel-based Meiter Ensemble made its U.S. performance debut at the 2013 MATA Festival. For our second installment of Better Know An Ensemble, we joined the group—now in its 9th season— to talk about its international touring and extensive works to foster emerging Israeli talent.

Victoria-based Aventa Ensemble's unconventional approach to music-making has placed it on the Canadian new-music map. Read an interview with artistic director Bill Linwood in advance of the group's show tonight at Roulette.

Based in the state of Nordrhein Westfallen and the resident ensemble of West German Radio, Ensemble musikFabrik's Operations Director Steffi Schlupeck takes a moment here to discuss their origins and what makes them unique.

Q2 Music's Better Know an Ensemble introduces new-music in new places, by bringing you multimedia-rich portraits of ensembles from across the globe. In this installment we're plugging you in, quite literally, to the Belgian-Dutch electric guitar quartet Zwerm.

Q2 Music's Better Know an Ensemble introduces new-music in new places, by bringing you multimedia-rich portraits of ensembles from across the globe. This week we make a visit to our northern neighbors to better know the veteran Continuum Contemporary Music (Toronto).

The London based chamber music twelvesome, Ensemble Amorpha, isn't your average English hat and cane. Besides their commitment to an international array of living composers, they also write and perform much of their own work. Under the direction of Artistic Director, Luke Styles, Ensemble Amorpha has performed concerts at Kings Place and the Austrian Cultural Forum.