Yarn/Wire is a chamber quartet specializing in the performance of 21st century music. A unique instrumental combination of two percussionists and two pianists allows Yarn/Wire to interface with both traditional performance practice and emergent stylistic trends with ease. Founded in 2005 at Stony Brook University, the members of Yarn/Wire have extensive performance and pedagogic experience encompassing international and domestic music festivals, college and university residences, and substantive work in the avant-garde theater and DIY/punk worlds. Frequent collaborations with composers on new work form a significant portion of the ensemble's activities. In addition to presenting multiple US premieres, Yarn/Wire has given the world premieres of over a dozen new works written specifically for the ensemble.

Since its inception in 2005, Yarn/Wire has presented concerts throughout the US that have focused on the past and present of this repertoire. Committed to innovative programming which highlights the contributions of new composers, Yarn/Wire is actively participating in the creation of new works, and has premiered a number of works by American composers such as Mei-Fang Lin, David Bithell, John Arrigo-Nelson, Brendan Connolly, Ryan Carter, and Benjamin Carson. In the 2009-10 season, Yarn/Wire will present "Composing New York", a two-part series featuring 9 world premieres written for the quartet by young composers living in New York City such as David Franzson, Aaron Einbond, Alex Mincek, and more.

Additionally, Yarn/Wire has presented a number of US premieres by some of Europe's leading composers such as Stefano Gervasoni, Georg Friedrich Haas, Enno Poppe, and Paul Usher.  Yarn/Wire's interest in avant-garde theatre has led to collaboration in 2009-10 with New York experimental theatre company Theater of a Two-Headed Calf, and together the groups will present performances of Susan Glaspell's 1916 work "Trifles" at the Prelude NYC Festival 2009 as well as in a run at the Ontological-Hysteric Theatre in 2010.

Based in New York City, Yarn/Wire maintains a commitment to performing around the country, often in festivals, chamber music series, universities and colleges. It has appeared at the "April in Santa Cruz" Festival of Contemporary Music (California), The University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Queens College, The University of Notre Dame, Stony Brook University, and Dartmouth College. In 2009-10, the ensemble will be featured on the North River Concert Series (NYC), Southampton Chamber Music Series, Pixelerations Festival 2009 (Providence, RI), The Islip Arts Council Discover Music Series (Long Island, NY), and at Davidson College (North Carolina). 

Members of Yarn/Wire--Laura Barger and Jacob Rhodebeck, pianists; Ian Antonio and Russell Greenberg, percussion--have appeared throughout the United States and internationally at festivals and venues such as The Lucerne Festival (Switzerland), , The Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada), Darmstädter Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik (Germany), Tanglewood (Lenox, MA), The Festival of New American Music (Sacramento, CA), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco, CA), Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival (Putney, VT), The National Gallery of Ireland, and Västerås Konserthus (Sweden).