Cellist extraordinaire Maya Beiser and the Provenance Project Band (Bassam Saba, oud; Shane Shanahan, percussion; and Matt Kilmer, percussion) will perform Tamar Muskal's Mar de Leche (Sea of Milk) from Beiser's best-selling album Provenance. Mar de Leche draws on an ancient love song in Ladino, the mixture of Hebrew and Spanish spoken by medieval Sephardic Jews.

Celebrated Tibetan singer Yungchen Lhamo and Russian pianist Anton Batagov will perform selections from their upcoming post-minimalist improvisatory album Tayatha, due out on Cantaloupe Music on June 25. A native of Lhasa, Lhamo is known for her hypnotic a cappella performances and a commitment to Tibetan history and culture. She has released three critically acclaimed albums with Peter Gabriel's Real World label and has collaborated with a diverse range of artists including Natalie Merchant, Philip Glass, Annie Lennox, Michael Stipe, and Billy Corgan. Batagov, a graduate of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, has been described by the Los Angeles Times as "a Russian Terry Riley." Since the late '90s, he has drawn from Buddhist philosophy and practice, having composed major works based on key texts chanted by Tibetan lamas, as well as several large-scale instrumental compositions inspired by the tradition's teachings.

Steel pan drummer and composer Kendall Williams will see the world premiere of hisConception, performed by the unique forces of the NYU Steel Pan & Contemporary Music Ensembles. Born into Trinidadian culture, Williams has adopted the country's national instrument, the steel pan, and has performed with numerous large, world-renowned steel bands in Trinidad and Tobago, as well as in the New York area, where he is quickly emerging as a leading young voice on the scene.

Other highlights of the 2013 Bang on a Can Marathon include ground-breaking new music band Alarm Will Sound in a super-eclectic set by Jeffrey Brooks, Charlie Piper, and Cantaloupe Music recording artists Derek Bermel and Caleb Burhans, including Bermel'sCanzonas Americanas (named to numerous best-of lists of 2012) and Burhans' Oh Ye of Little Faith, commissioned by Lincoln Center for the re-opening of Alice Tully Hall. The phenomenal Brooklyn Youth Chorus makes its Bang on a Can Marathon debut performing Nico Muhly's Short Prayers in Respect of a Storm alongside Shara Worden's shimmering Before the Words, and teams up with TILT Brass for John King's surround-sound sonic exploration Astral Epitaphs. Drum set duo David Cossin and Ben Reimerwill give the world premiere of Lukas Ligeti's Iakoni in kazonnde, New York's Hotel Elefant will perform Angélica Negrón's surreal and atmospheric Drawings for Meyoko,and trumpet genius Peter Evans brings his original compositions and improvisations to the Marathon stage.

In addition, Bang on a Can's social engagement wing Found Sound Nation will host its unique Street Studio. A mobile recording studio equipped for passersby and Marathon musicians alike to spontaneously create and record original music, the Street Studio will be stationed at the SchimMel Center for much of this year's Marathon.

2013 Bang on a Can Marathon Schedule: Please note that times are approximate and subject to change. For updates visitwww.bangonacan.org or follow @bangonacan on Twitter.

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Caleb Burhans: oh ye of little faith... (do you know where your children are?) Alarm Will Sound Derek Bermel: Canzonas Americanas, Mvt 1: "El Dude" Alarm Will Sound Peter Evans: solo Peter Evans, trumpet Charlie Piper: zoetrope Alarm Will Sound Jeffrey Brooks: After the Treewatcher Alarm Will Sound Lukas Ligeti: lakoni in kazonnde* David Cossin & Ben Reimer, drums Cabaret Contemporain [to be announced from stage] 3pm

Shara Worden: Before the Words Brooklyn Youth Chorus Nico Muhly: Short Prayers in Respect of a Storm Brooklyn Youth Chorus with Aleeza Meir piano and string quartet Kendall Williams: Conception* NYU Contemporary Music Ensemble / NYUSTEEL, Jonathan Haas, Director/Conductor Yungchen Llamo & Anton Batagov: Medicine Buddha, White Palace Yungchen Llamo, voice & Anton Batagov, piano John King: Astral Epitaphs Brooklyn Youth Chorus, TILT, & John King, live electronics Talk Normal: XO, Shot This Time, Dedicate This Song Talk Normal Tom Zé (arr. Stephanie Richards) M? Asphalt Orchestra 5pm

Asphalt Orchestra [to be announced from stage] Julia Wolfe With a blue dress on** Monica Germino, violin Hans Abrahamsen: Schnee (Ten canons for nine instruments) Talea Ensemble Angélica Negrón: Drawings for Meyoko Hotel Elefant 7pm

Cabaret Contemporain [to be announced from stage] David Lang: death speaks Bang on a Can All-Stars & Shara Worden, voice Tamar Muskal: Mar de Leche Maya Beiser, cello with the Provenance Project Band Annea Lockwood: Vortex Bang on a Can All-Stars 9pm

Michael Gordon: Yo Shakespeare Bang on a Can All-Stars Tatsuya Yoshida: Zwimbarrac Khafzavrapp Asphalt Orchestra * World Premiere ** US Premiere

About Bang on a Can: Bang on a Can is dedicated to making music new. Since its first Marathon concert in 1987, Bang on a Can has been creating an international community dedicated to innovative music, wherever it is found. With adventurous programs, it commissions new composers, performs, presents, and records new work, develops new audiences, and educates the musicians of the future. Bang on a Can is building a world in which powerful new musical ideas flow freely across all genres and borders. Bang on a Can plays "a central role in fostering a new kind of audience that doesn't concern itself with boundaries. If music is made with originality and integrity, these listeners will come." (The New York Times)

Bang on a Can celebrated 25 years during the 2011-2012 season, having grown from a one-day New York-based Marathon concert (on Mother's Day in 1987 in a SoHo art gallery) to a multi-faceted performing arts organization with a broad range of year-round international activities. "When we started Bang on a Can in 1987, in an art gallery in SoHo, we never imagined that our one-day, 12-hour marathon festival of mostly unknown music would morph into a giant international organization dedicated to the support of experimental music, wherever we would find it," write Bang on a Can Co-Founders Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe. "But it has, and we are so gratified to be still hard at work, all these years later. The reason is really clear to us - we started this organization because we believed that making new music is a utopian act-that people needed to hear this music and they needed to hear it presented in the most persuasive way, with the best players, with the best programs, for the best listeners, in the best context. Our commitment to changing the environment for this music has kept us busy and growing for the last 25 years, and we are not done yet."

Current projects include the annual Bang on a Can Marathon; The People's Commissioning Fund, a membership program to commission emerging composers; theBang on a Can All-Stars, who tour to major festivals and concert venues around the world every year; recording projects; the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival - a professional development program for young composers and performers led by today's pioneers of experimental music; Asphalt Orchestra, Bang on a Can's extreme street band that offers mobile performances re-contextualizing unusual music; Found Sound Nation, a new technology-based musical outreach program now partnering with the State Department of the United States of America to create OneBeat, a revolutionary, post-political residency program that uses music to bridge the gulf between young American musicians and young musicians from developing countries; cross-disciplinary collaborations and projects with DJs, visual artists, choreographers, filmmakers and more. Each new program has evolved to answer specific challenges faced by today's musicians, composers and audiences, in order to make innovative music widely accessible and wildly received. Bang on a Can's inventive and aggressive approach to programming and presentation has created a large and vibrant international audience made up of people of all ages who are rediscovering the value of contemporary music.

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