Ensemble Signal is a New York-based ensemble dedicated to offering the broadest possible audience access to a diverse range of contemporary works through performance, commissioning, recording, and education. Since its debut in 2008, the ensemble has performed more than 150 concerts; has given the New York, world, or US premieres of over 20 works; and co-produced nine recordings.

Signal was founded by Co-Artistic / Executive Director Lauren Radnofsky and Co-Artistic Director / Conductor Brad Lubman, featuring a super-group of independent artists from the modern music scene. The ensemble's passion for the diverse range of music being written today is a driving force behind its projects. Signal's repertoire ranges from minimalism or pop-influenced to the iconoclastic European avant-garde. Signal is flexible in size and instrumentation--everything from solo to large ensemble and opera, including film or multimedia, in any possible combination--which enables it to meet the ever-changing demands on the 21st century performing ensemble.

Signal has appeared at concert halls and international festivals, including the Lincoln Center Festival, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Big Ears Festival, Carnegie Hall, Cal Performances, Tanglewood's Festival of Contemporary Music, Ojai Music Festival, and Bang on a Can Marathon. The ensemble regularly works directly with nearly all the composers whose works it performs in order to offer the most authentic interpretations, including Steve Reich, Helmut Lachenmann, Michael Gordon, David Lang, Julia Wolfe, Hans Abrahamsen, and Charles Wuorinen.

Last fall, Ensemble Signal gave the world premiere of Reich's Runner. Their recording of his Music for 18 Musicians (harmonia mundi) received a Diapason d'Or and appeared on the Billboard Classical Crossover chart. The ensemble's educational activities include community outreach programs in diverse settings, as well as workshops with the next generation of composers and performers at institutions that include the University at Buffalo's Center for 21st Century Music, where Signal is a resident ensemble.

Conductor and composer Brad Lubman is founding co-artistic and music director of Ensemble Signal. He is one of the foremost conductors of modern music and a leading figure in the field for more than two decades. A frequent guest conductor of the world's most distinguished orchestras and new-music ensembles, he has gained widespread recognition for his versatility, commanding technique, and insightful interpretations. His flexibility in a variety of settings has led him to conduct a broad range of repertoire from classical to contemporary works. He has led major orchestras, including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, NDR Sinfonieorchester, Dresden Philharmonic, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic, and National Symphony Orchestra. In addition, he has worked with some of the most important ensembles for contemporary music, including London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Modern, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Musikfabrik, and Steve Reich and Musicians. His own music has been performed in the United States and Europe, and can be heard on his CD, Insomniac (Tzadik). Brad Lubman is on faculty at the Eastman School of Music and the Bang on a Can Summer Institute.