Recording · advocacy · performance
Uncharted Opus develops recording projects designed not only to document exceptional contemporary music, but to help it return to the concert stage.
Current focus
Three recordings of music by Dutch composer Joey Roukens, arriving across 2027 and 2028. Each release is a new point of entry; together, they form a sustained case for this music in performance.
Projects
Joey Roukens · Kinetic Ensemble
Label announcement forthcoming
Album title forthcoming · Proposed companion works by Nicky Sohn and Karim Al-Zand
Recorded and awaiting its release plan, Visions at Sea is currently envisioned alongside Nicky Sohn's 2024 violin concerto and a recent song cycle by Karim Al-Zand.
Recording supported by Ed Schneider, founder of Uncharted Opus.
Joey Roukens · Apollo Chamber Players
Azica Records · Connective Harmony (working title)
Roukens brings seventeenth-century Dutch melodies into a vividly contemporary quartet—a meeting of cultural memory and the present.
Recording supported by Ed Schneider, founder of Uncharted Opus.
Joey Roukens · Performing artists to be announced
Azica Records
Five works · Approximately 55 minutes · Album title forthcoming
A 55-minute portrait of Roukens's chamber music, moving from solo piano through agile mixed ensembles to string quartet—conceived as both a lasting recording and an invitation to future performance.
Executive produced by Uncharted Opus.
For performers & presenters
The central aim of this initiative is renewed performance. As recording details are confirmed, this space will connect interested artists and programmers with recordings and practical information about each work. Most featured scores and performance materials are available from Donemus; publishing information for Pensive Song is being confirmed.
Azica Records · Recording May 2027
Violin, cello, piano & percussion
Violin, piano & percussion
Five works · Approximately 55 minutes
Scores, performance materials & work catalogues
About
Uncharted Opus is an independent recording and repertoire initiative supporting contemporary music through thoughtful production, sustained advocacy and practical pathways to performance.
Before establishing Uncharted Opus, founder Ed Schneider personally supported recordings of Joey Roukens's Visions at Sea with Kinetic Ensemble and Forgotten Dutch Melodies with Apollo Chamber Players. Those projects form the prelude to Uncharted Opus's first executive production: a full album devoted to Roukens's chamber music, to be released by Azica Records.
Uncharted Opus is an independent supporter and producer and does not represent Joey Roukens or the participating ensembles.
Project collaborators
Contact
For performance, press, broadcast and project inquiries.
ed@unchartedopus.com