NOTRE DAME, Ind. — The 2015−2016 DeBartolo Performing Arts Center Presenting Series season will present 41 performances in a variety of genres, ranging from rarely performed Renaissance choral music to world premieres of new music by living composers to audience favorites in dance and children’s literature-based musical theater.

The season features a total of six commissions, three of which will have their world premiere at the center, and three reconstructions never before seen as repertory in a single performance.

The six commissions are Seán Curran Company’s evening-length work of dance performed to live music, Dream’d in a Dream, on October 1−3, a unique collaboration with the traditional Kyrgyz music ensemble Ustatshakirt Plus and, featuring a week of community engagement activities led by Artistic Director and dancer Seán Curran.

Next are Ensemble-In-Residence Third Coast Percussion’s a Sound uttered, a Silence crossed (Oct. 30), by award-winning composer and percussionist Nathan Davis with a libretto by Laura Mullen and featuring Notre Dame Collegium Musicum directed by Daniel Stowe, and Surface Tension (January 30) by one of Ireland’s leading composers, Donnacha Dennehy, for an exploration of the sound world of the bodhrán.

Last, Artistic Director Jacques Heim’s dance company, Diavolo/Architecture in Motion, with L’Espace du Temps (April 28−30), which will offer the region’s first and only performances of the trilogy, Foreign Bodies, Fearful Symmetries and Fluid Infinites, in its entirety, an event more than seven years in the making.

Executive director Anna M. Thompson announces the 2015−2016 season. Her curatorial duties for assembling the lineup included programming innovative chamber music with Notre Dame Department of Music faculty and resident artists ensembleND and Gesualdo Quartet, respectively. Thompson’s vocal and instrumental artists selections reveal a focus on award-winning jazz band leaders and Afro-Latin music.

Then, to honor the 100th anniversary of Ireland’s Easter Rising arose as a programmatic priority. Thompson accomplished this with three diverse events in “16 X 16: Centenary Tribute to Ireland,” an acknowledgment of the Irish diaspora’s significant contributions to contemporary music, dance and theater.

With Notre Dame’s growing reputation in vocal and choral performance, a number of events were curated to showcase a range of configurations and concert experiences in both sacred and secular music. There is a debut solo recital by tenor, and Notre Dame alumnus Paul Appleby, who was also a member of the center’s student staff during his studies at the university. This season also marks the Presenting Series debut of the world’s foremost Renaissance sacred choral music ensemble, England’s The Tallis Scholars. And, fresh off last season’s sell-out performance of Mendelssohn’s Elijah, baritone Nathan

Gunn returns, this time accompanied by his wife, pianist Julie Gunn, and Gesualdo Quartet, for a concert of poetic art song all sung in English.

“During last year’s 10th anniversary season, ‘The Year of Wow,’ we were celebrating how the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center has grown in step and in stature with Michiana. This is an incredible time to be part of a creative community that is restoring its heritage and reinventing itself at the same time,” said Thompson. “We’re seeing what happens when people use arts and culture to start physical and social transformations, from the South Bend River Lights and multiple downtown ‘lifestyle’ developments to entrepreneurs collaborating to strengthen their business models or expanding to include art and live performance as integral to their offering. We’re proud to invest in this arts ecosystem,” she added, noting that sentiment is captured in the Presenting Series’ core idea, “The Start of Something Big.”

“As the Presenting Series begins a new decade, we’re launching a new season that should appeal to our long-time audiences and welcome in many new ones,” Thompson said. “We showcase favorite and internationally recognized artists, emerging stars, talented performers from right here in Michiana and popular shows for families with toddlers to early readers.

As a university presenter, it’s our mission and our passion to bring to our community some ambitious artistic ideas, big entertainment, and several weeks of artist residencies to reach K-12 and college students; all to tap into the incredible entrepreneurial spirit reviving our downtowns, neighborhoods, and schools.”

The Presenting Series’ commitment to contemporary performance continues, with ongoing development of new works in music, dance and theater to be presented in future seasons.

The majority of ticket prices will largely remain unchanged with single tickets for 13 artists priced at $20 or less and an average ticket price of $27.

Also, two season ticket options for a minimum or three and a minimum of six events offer 10 percent and 20 percent discounts, respectively, on eligible events. Season ticket sales begin July 27 with single ticket sales beginning Aug. 24.