Home | Cygnus Ensemble Cygnus Ensemble Cygnus Ensemble virtuosos in their own right and together produce chamber music proper. close observance of each other039s actions. a very tight performance. Fanfare MayJune 2000 Since its beginning in 1985 Cygnus has created a large body of chamber music by both established and emerging composers including commissioned work by Charles Wuorinen Scott Johnson Jonathan Dawe Anthony Braxton Milton Babbitt Sebastian Currier George Walker Harold Meltzer Chester Biscardi David Claman Richard Festinger Laura Schwendinger Matthew Greenbaum David Lang and Akemi Naito Cygnus Ensemble World Class Performers Latest Discography 2015 Furious Artisans FACD6812 Matthew Greenbaum039s Nameless From Wolpe Greenbaum inherited the idea of the limited pitch field Wolpes term for a process of attrition where subsets of the chromatic collection gradually add and lose pitches thus the ninenote group in Nameless.