This professional ensemble in residence at UC Davis is co-directed by professors (and composers) Mika Pelo and Kurt Rohde. Its performances are dedicated to contemporary chamber music, often incorporating new media elements and experimental performance practices.

Latest episodes of the podcast Empyrean Ensemble

• Bennett: Three Epigrams
• Peterson: Peregrinations (1997)
• Justen: Naive Little Pieces (2007-2008)
• Justen: Soliloquy (2007-2008)
• Justen: Joie for violin (2001-2008)
• Wilson: Trio for violin, cello, and piano (1977)
• Pelo: Lygnir (2009)
• Ovespyan: Deserts (2009)
• Xenakis: Okho (1989)
• Davidovksy: Piano Septet (2007)
• Peterson: Pas de Deux
• MacCallum: El Arbol de la Noche Triste (2009)
• San Martin: Dawn Song (2009)
• Ortiz: The Viola in the Motorcycle Boy's Life (2009)
• Cage: Music for Three
• Schubert: Tod und das Madchen, op. 7, no. 3
• Rhode: Good Stuff (1992/2010)
• Bodin: La Femme Adultere (2010)
• Nordin: In the Midst of Trespassing
• Moe: JOZAPHINE FREEDOM (2009)
• Shatzer: The Shift & The Break
• Irwin: Synecdoche
• Wang: Beyond the Sound, There is...
• Wade: Ballet from Über Wildemann and the Dandy
• Perry: Ouacka
• Almetus: Transitoire
• Young Ha: The Island (2009)
• Wagner: Scritch (2010)
• Schumann: Märchenerzählungen, op. 132: I Lebhaft, nicht zu schnell (1853)
• Schumann: Märchenerzählungen, op. 132: II Lebhaft und sehr markirt (1853)
• Schumann: Märchenerzählungen, op. 132: III Ruhiges Tempo, mit zartem Ausdruck (1853)
• Schumann: Märchenerzählungen, op. 132: IV Lebhaft, sehr markirt (1853)
• Hyla: Ciao, Manhattan (1990)
• Young Le: Nok-du-klot (2010)