New music is an extension of the classical music tradition, and it represents the cutting and creative edge of classical music. In addition, new music can incorporate elements of many different musical genres, including classical, jazz, rock, world music and others. In the end, new music is simply that: newly created music written by living composers. Zeitgeist is one of the country’s most successful and established new music groups with a unique instrumentation of two percussion, piano and woodwinds. For Zeitgeist, new music means working with variety of new composers of all ages, many from the local community. New music also means exploration: Zeitgeist plays music that pushes boundaries into new sound worlds, new influences, new techniques, new structural forms, new media, new ways of expressing and understanding the world we live in today..