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FM is the debut full length recording by the New York based new music quartet, Flexible Music. The six year old Flexible Music ensemble is committed to expanding the repertoire for their instrumentation of saxophone, guitar, piano, and percussion. The versatility of this combination has already captured the attention of many composers; Flexible Music premiered works written for them by thirty emerging and established composers. The ensemble recently performed on the Macau International Music Festival in China. Flexible Music has been featured in performance and in masterclasses at various universities including Syracuse University, Bowdoin College in Maine, Bowling Green State University s Mid American Center for New Music Festival, the Peabody Insitute, Manhattan School of Music, Brigham Young University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Utah, the Julliard School, and the Cleveland Institute of Music. The group has also enthusiastically performed on independently run series, such as Chamber Music Now (Philadelphia), Friends and Enemies of New Music (NY), Evolution Music Series (Baltimore), Wet Ink Musics (NY) and at The Stone (NYC), The members of Flexible Music are four of New York s most active young performers; they have all been heard as soloists and chamber musicians nationally and internationally. The ensemble is heard on two recent releases from New Focus Recordings, FM, their debut full length recording, and Sustenance, playing two of the works written for them, as well as on a Capstone Records release of the music of Allen Brings. Several foundations have awarded money to support activities involving Flexible Music, including the American Music Center s Aaron Copland Fund for Performing Ensembles, Meet the Composer s JP Morgan Regrant Program, American Composers Forum Encore Grant, Barlow Foundation (to commission Ethan Wickman), the Mikhashoff Trust for New Music (to fund a recording), and Meet the Composer (to defray travel costs for Adam B. Silverman). Flexible Music is: Haruka Fujii: percussion Dan Lippel: guitars Tim Ruedeman: saxophones Eric Huebner: piano