Realizing this Project with Your Support
The Indeterminacy Festival's 2025-26 season will compose and create a bold new opera in collaboration with lifelong artists across the five boroughs of New York City. With your support we are seeking to fundraise $50,000 this season to realize our work. Learn more below about our project costs and support our vision with your contribution.
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The Space at Irondale
Your support will:
- Enable us to extend the reach of this work bringing it to a larger audience
- Invite musicians, vocalists, and dancers from the NYC community to collaborate side by side with professional artists
- Support the creative process from start to finish as we stage our new project
- Bring a fresh perspective to timeless stories that resonate with our current moment
As a donor you become part of the creative process, invited to attend our previews as we develop our new opera over the course of the next ten months. Your support will come to full fruition for our May and June 2026 staging at the Space at Irondale and the Far Rockaway Artists Alliance.
Please donate to support the exciting new work we are creating.
Please donate to support the exciting new work we are creating.
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Stanzi Vaubel
80 Douglass Street
Brooklyn New York 11231
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80 Douglass Street
Brooklyn New York 11231
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The Indeterminacy Festival is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and your donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
The Indeterminacy Festival is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and your donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
About the Artists
Stanzi Vaubel
Stanzi Vaubel, PhD is a Brooklyn-born composer, cellist, and interdisciplinary artist known for creating immersive, site-responsive performances that blend music, environment, and place-based storytelling. As the founder and artistic director of The Indeterminacy Festival, launched in 2016, Vaubel has transformed unconventional spaces - fossil parks, grain silos, repurposed industrial sites-into powerful stages for experimental works, engaging both professional and community artists side by side.
Vaubel's work has been recognized with numerous honors, including a Fulbright Fellowship, a 2025 NYSCA Award, and invitations to perform at renowned venues such as the Watermill Center, Longhouse, Tanglewood Institute, and Carnegie Hall. Her performances have been staged across North America and Europe, with support from state arts councils in New York, Iowa, Nebraska, and Michigan. A graduate of The Juilliard Pre-College and Northwestern University, Vaubel earned her PhD as a fellow at the University of Buffalo, where her interdisciplinary research explored indeterminacy as a collaborative model, harnessing the generative nature of uncertainty and improvisation within the creative process.
As a radio producer, she has created programs for institutions including the Whitney Museum, WNYC, BBC, and Chicago Public Radio. Vaubel is currently on the faculty at the New York Arts Program, where she continues to mentor emerging artists.
Vaubel's work has been recognized with numerous honors, including a Fulbright Fellowship, a 2025 NYSCA Award, and invitations to perform at renowned venues such as the Watermill Center, Longhouse, Tanglewood Institute, and Carnegie Hall. Her performances have been staged across North America and Europe, with support from state arts councils in New York, Iowa, Nebraska, and Michigan. A graduate of The Juilliard Pre-College and Northwestern University, Vaubel earned her PhD as a fellow at the University of Buffalo, where her interdisciplinary research explored indeterminacy as a collaborative model, harnessing the generative nature of uncertainty and improvisation within the creative process.
As a radio producer, she has created programs for institutions including the Whitney Museum, WNYC, BBC, and Chicago Public Radio. Vaubel is currently on the faculty at the New York Arts Program, where she continues to mentor emerging artists.
Philippe Treuille
Philippe Treuille is a French-American composer whose work evokes "...power, the harnessing of music on a massive scale making profound words real and moving" (The Millbrook Independent). Treuille attended The Juilliard School and Northwestern University, where he studied music composition.
He also studied at the Ecoles d'Art Americaines de Fontainebleau and was composer in-residence at the Chateau Mercier Foundation in Sierre, Switzerland. His awards include a National Foundation for the Advancement in the Arts Music Composition Merit Award. His Requiem for choir and orchestra was premiered in New York City by the Symphony Chorus. His Baptism, the second part of a trilogy of masses, was premiered in New York City by the Long Island Choral Society and Orchestra.
Treuille has composed music and had commissions for film, theater, dance, books, meditations and performance art. His music has been performed in Spain, France, Italy, The United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and the United States, at museums, concert halls, churches, schools and universities including the Rubin Museum, MoMA PS1, the French Consulate, Lincoln Center, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Chateau de Fontainebleau, the American Institute of Architects, the DiMenna Center for Classical Music and at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. His composition Tessellations was also featured in the 19th Madagascar Short Film Festival, in Madagascar.
He also studied at the Ecoles d'Art Americaines de Fontainebleau and was composer in-residence at the Chateau Mercier Foundation in Sierre, Switzerland. His awards include a National Foundation for the Advancement in the Arts Music Composition Merit Award. His Requiem for choir and orchestra was premiered in New York City by the Symphony Chorus. His Baptism, the second part of a trilogy of masses, was premiered in New York City by the Long Island Choral Society and Orchestra.
Treuille has composed music and had commissions for film, theater, dance, books, meditations and performance art. His music has been performed in Spain, France, Italy, The United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and the United States, at museums, concert halls, churches, schools and universities including the Rubin Museum, MoMA PS1, the French Consulate, Lincoln Center, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Chateau de Fontainebleau, the American Institute of Architects, the DiMenna Center for Classical Music and at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. His composition Tessellations was also featured in the 19th Madagascar Short Film Festival, in Madagascar.