Since its inception in 2015, Nu Deco Ensemble has exploded onto Miami's eclectic musical scene captivating audiences, holistically engaging with its community and fusing innovative, genre-bending orchestral performances and collaborations with the highest levels of musical artistry. Nu Deco is reimagining a fresh vision of what an orchestra can achieve in the 21st century. Created by Jacomo Bairos and Sam Hyken, Nu Deco Ensemble is a flexible and innovative hybrid orchestra that celebrates living composers, reimagines all genres of music, and collaborates with a wide range of diverse musical guests, composers, choreographers, dancers, and mixed media artists.

Recent highlights include exclusive collaborations with Macy Gray, Ben Folds, Jacob Collier, Kimbra, Kishi Bashi, Time for Three, Danay Suarez, Cory Henry, Stephen Marley, Emily King, Bilal, Luke James, Andrew Bird, Tank and the Bangas, Lawrence, Masego, and many more award-winning composers and cross-over artists. The New York Times has hailed Nu Deco Ensemble as a "Chamber orchestra for the 21st century", Billboard has announced them as "Sonically Spellbinding" and Saratoga Living exclaimed them as "fiery, captivating and refreshingly original". In October 2019, Nu Deco Ensemble released their first album to include genre-bending collaborations, reimaginings of artists such as Outkast and Daft Punk, and new music by some of today's most exciting living composers.

Nu Deco Ensemble engages the Miami community in dynamic ways to serve and enrich all walks of our diverse culture and people. The orchestra inspires and engages over 10,000 children annually through their interactive Imagination Series and annually brings hundreds of community members from underserved communities to attend performances. In the Spring of 2020, Nu Deco Ensemble launched its youth ensemble which in addition to instruction in classical and popular musical styles, arranging, composition, and improvisation offers coaching in wellness, health, leadership, collaborative communication, interpersonal skills, and community stewardship.

Nu Deco Ensemble announced their major label debut via Sony Music Masterworks with the July 21, 2024 release of their EP, Duende. It included the EP's lead single, a cinematic and soaring take on ROSALÍA and The Weeknd's hit song "LA FAMA", followed by a breathtaking reimagination of Sam Smith and Kim Petras' hit, "Unholy". The entire EP, consisting of 5 classical reimaginations in addition to 1 original work, is available everywhere now.

In April 2025, Nu Deco Ensemble celebrated its 10th anniversary with a landmark concert at the Adrienne Arsht Center, featuring an original anniversary suite drawing on the orchestra's signature reimaginings of The Police, Daft Punk, Bill Withers, and Outkast. Building on this milestone year, the ensemble partnered with PBS and Bandshell Laboratories to create an immersive experience with Four Seasons for the Five Senses, Hyken's reimagination of Vivaldi's iconic The Four Seasons, paired with stunning projection-mapped visuals across the Miami Beach Bandshell. The collaboration can be viewed on PBS alongside exclusive interviews with Hyken and Bairos, and is featured in the brand-new immersive Igloo at the Cornelia T. Bailey Cultural Arts Center.