Celebrating its 34th season Myra Foundation Presents: Concerts in the Galleries will host the Orchestra of Indigenous Instruments and New Technologies on Sunday, May 3, 2026. This project is an exciting and unusual ensemble of musicians and composers who combine instruments from the past and present as well as ritual theater, masks and dance. Members of the ensemble are former students of the award-winning conductor/composer Alejandro Iglesias Rossi, who founded OIANT in Argentina in 2000 to combine the unique sounds of native instruments of the Americas with European instruments and modern digital technology.
The Museum has excellent acoustics for this kind of intimate performance, and concerts are always followed by a free wine and cheese reception where audience members have a chance to meet the visiting musicians.
All the musicians have built their musical instruments after researching their histories, based, in many cases, on models recovered from archaeological sites. The repertoire includes both traditional folk music and new compositions designed to explore sounds that come from combining technologies of the past and the present.
Hailed by the international press as “a shamanic orchestra for a technological age,” the Argentina-based Orchestra of Indigenous Instruments and New Technologies recovers and gives artistic life to hundreds of forgotten native musical instruments.
Hidden Sounds of the Americas is a journey through the sonic geography from Alaska to Patagonia, blending traditional music and contemporary compositions that unite ancestral sounds to cutting-edge technology alongside indigenous masks and dances. The concert features replicas of unknown pre-Columbian instruments recovered from archaeological museums as well as from indigenous communities in the Amazonas, the Andes, and Mesoamerica.
The season of chamber music by nationally and internally known musicians is the only series of its kind in the Grand Forks area. Chamber music can include both vocal and instrumental music played by a small ensemble with only one player to a part. Although it is often associated with string quartets, nearly any instrument and music from any musical period including modern and contemporary, can be found on a chamber music concert program.
All concerts are held on Sunday afternoons at 2 pm in the Museum galleries. They are open to everyone in the community and throughout the region. Tickets range from $10 to $35. Discounted season tickets are also available. Museum members receive discounted tickets and children 12 and under are free, as are students from 12-18 who play in their school orchestra or band. Seating is limited and guests are encouraged to buy their tickets in advance and come early for the best seats. Reservations may be made through the museum’s website at ndmoa.com or by calling 701-777-4195. Season tickets are also available.
Free parking is available adjacent to the museum; the museum is ADA accessible.
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