Bang on a Can

TACTUS is the Manhattan School of Music Contemporary Ensemble founded on the premise of providing young performers and composers at the School with opportunities to study and perform works composed during our lifetime and to work directly with living composers. Past seasons’ repertoire has included music by Giacinto Scelsi, Michael Gordon, Luciano Berio, George Rochberg, George Perle, Elliot Carter, Giampaolo Bracali, Steve Reich, Edgard Varèse, John Cage, Martin Bresnick, Frederic Rzewski, Nils Vigeland, David Noon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe. TACTUS also performs Manhattan School of Music student compositions and has an annual commissioning award. Patti Monson is the director of TACTUS.