Brent directs a bill of artists through his orchestrated arrangements of their songs. Guest artists include the Shearwater’s Jonathan Meiburg, Dana Falconberry, Zeale, and The Rocketboys, all backed by the orchestra and chorus of Texas Choral Consort. Original arrangements and orchestrations by Brent Baldwin and Nathan Felix.

The concert features the premiere of Nathan Felix’s Symphony No. 2.

Indie Orchestra Night is a co-creation of Brent Baldwin and Nathan Felix.

Concert preview by Do512

Glowing review by the Austin American Statesman

Concert preview by Austinnot

Photo essay/review by Ovrld

Austin Critics Table Awards nominates ION as one of five contenders for Best Classical Performance of the 2015.

Poster design by Joshua Ropke

Brent conducts the orchestra and chorus of Texas Choral Consort in Joseph Haydn’s masterpiece (night two). A world-premiere performance of Dan Welcher’s Without Form and Void opens the concert.

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Glowing review by the Austin Chronicle

Austin Critics Table Awards places The Creation among its Top 10 Dance/Classical Music Treasures of 2014 (with the Baldwin-directed Mozart Requiem Undead topping the list)

Poster design by Joshua Ropke

Brent conducts the orchestra and chorus of Texas Choral Consort in Joseph Haydn’s masterpiece (night one). A world-premiere performance of Dan Welcher’s Without Form and Void opens the concert.

Glowing review by the Austin Chronicle

Austin Critics Table Awards places The Creation among its Top 10 Dance/Classical Music Treasures of 2014 (with the Baldwin-directed Mozart Requiem Undead topping the list)

Poster design by Joshua Ropke

Brent conducts Convergence with the orchestra & chorus of Texas Choral Consort in the world-premiere production of Mozart Requiem Undead. This open-air performance serves as the opening of the 2014 Fusebox Festival.

Conceived, curated, and developed by Peter Stopschinski, Graham Reynolds and Brent Baldwin, MRU features wildly reimagined completions by ten different composers of Mozart's famously incomplete work.

Featured guest composers:

• Caroline Shaw (2013 Pulitzer Prize-winner in Music)

• Glenn Kotche (Wilco)

• Todd Reynolds (Bang on a Can, Steve Reich)

• Kate Moore

• Adrian Quesada (Grupo Fantasma)

• DJ Spooky

• Justin Sherburn (Okkervil River, Montopolis)

• Petra Haden (Decemberists, Bill Frisell)

• Graham Reynolds (Golden Hornet)

• Peter Stopschinski (Golden Hornet)

MRU is a collaboration between Convergence, Texas Choral Consort and Golden Hornet. Produced by Texas Performing Arts and Fusebox Festival.

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Concert review by New Music Box

Concert review by Austin360

Photo gallery by the Austin Chronicle

Austin Critics Table Awards grants MRU first prize for Best Choral Performance of 2014 via the Austin Chronicle

Austin Critics Table Awards ceremony photo gallery by the Austin Chronicle

MRU nabs the #1 spot in the Austin Chronicle’s Top 10 Dance/Classical Music Treasures

KLRU’s Arts in Context feature documentary on MRU: Classical Undead

Celebrating five years under Brent Baldwin’s baton, the orchestra & chorus of Texas Choral Consort perform Fern Hill by John Corigliano, Down a Country Lane by Aaron Copland, the world-premiere performance of Confutatis by Graham Reynolds, and more.

The Austin Critics Table Awards nominate Once Below a Time as one of the Best Choral performances of 2013 (via the Austin Chronicle)

Brent conducts Hymns and Variations and Four2 in an all-day centenary celebration of John Cage. This performance is a collaboration between New Music Co-op, Austin Chamber Music Center, Line Upon Line, and Texas Choral Consort.

Concert review by New Music USA

Jeanne Claire van Ryzin interviews concert organizers Michelle Schumann, Travis Weller, and Brent Baldwin at Austin360

The Austin Critics Table Awards gives the Mt. Everest Award to ACMC, NMCO, LUL, and TCC for this collaborative concert (via the Austin Chronicle)

Additional info at NMCO