Alarm Will Sound is a GRAMMY-winning 22-member band committed to innovative performances and recordings of today’s music. They have established a reputation for performing demanding music with energetic skill. With classical skill and unlimited curiosity, the ensemble takes on music from a wide variety of styles, ranging from European to American works, from the arch-modernist to the pop-influenced. Many of the members are composer-performers, which allows for an unusual degree of insight into the creation and performance of new work.

Alarm Will Sound is the resident ensemble at the Mizzou International Composers Festival. The group may be heard on twenty recordings, including Land of Winter, for which they won the 2026 GRAMMY for »Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance«.

Recent performances reflect Alarm Will Sound’s boundary-pushing ethos. In 2022, they presented an overnight performance of John Luther Adams’ Ten Thousand Birds at the Paris Philharmonie during Nuit Blanche. In 2024, they premiered David T. Little’s What Belongs to You at the Modlin Center for the Performing Arts. In 2023, Alarm Will Sound performed Mary Kouyoumdjian’s Paper Pianos at EMPAC (Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center), a multimedia exploration of refugee experiences. Additionally, their 2024 Sun Dogs tour, created in collaboration with composers Arooj Aftab, Daniel Wohl, Devonté Hynes, and Rafiq Bhatia, highlighted ground-breaking collaborations blending music and film across four U.S. cities.

Alarm Will Sound has been presented by renowned venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Bang on a Can Marathon, Library of Congress, and the Warhol Museum. International tours include the Holland Festival, Sacrum Profanum, St. Petersburg’s Pro Arte Festival, and the Barbican. The members of the ensemble have also demonstrated their commitment to education through residency performances and activities at the Manhattan School of Music, Princeton University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to name a few.

This engagement is supported in part by Mid Atlantic Arts through USArtists International, a program in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

Alarm Will Sound gratefully acknowledges our individual donors and the following foundations for their support: Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Amphion Foundation, Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, BMI Foundation, Cheswatyr Foundation, Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, New Music USA's 2026-27 Organization Fund, and the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation.