The ST-X Ensemble is an American ensemble dedicated to performing the music of

Iannis Xenakis Giannis Klearchou Xenakis (also spelled for professional purposes as Yannis or Iannis Xenakis; , ; 29 May 1922 – 4 February 2001) was a Romanian-born Greek-French avant-garde composer, music theorist, architect, performance director and enginee ...

. It was formed in

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in 1994 by the conductor Charles Zachary Bornstein, who had served as an assistant conductor to

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, and was the last private student of the Austrian musical conductor

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. He formed the music to promote performances of Xenakis's music in the United States after learning that most of the performances of that composer's music took place outside the United State

The ensemble has released CDs on the Mode Records, Mode and Asphodel labels. It has collaborated with

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