Formed in 2007 at Mannes College The New School for Music, Lunatics at Large spent the first year of its existence exploring Arnold Schoenberg’s masterpiece Pierrot lunaire, op.
With a first series of thematic concerts, Pierrot lunaire, et al., Lunatics at Large sought to broaden its look at how the previously unprecedented chamber combination of strings, winds and piano has changed the timbral possibilities open to composers throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.
This program, which included premieres of Éric Gaudibert and Peter Kelsh, was performed at Mannes College The New School for Music, the Tenri Cultural Institute and Symphony Space in New York City.
The latter performance was hailed by senior New York Times critic Allan Kozinn as "an assured, rich-hued account ... the players are young, energetic, and highly polished."
In June 2010, Lunatics at Large has performed works of Fred Tillis and Raoul Pleskow at the American Composers Alliance Festival at Symphony Space.