Acoustic

Acoustic Music Series presents: HUZAM with Karim Nagi 

Date: Sunday, August 14, 2022

Doors: 6PM 

Showtime: 7:00PM 

Tickets: $20 - General Admission

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After a joyous full house for their May 29th debut, HUZAM returns to Epiphany for a second show Sunday August 14th at 7pm. This ensemble of native Arab musicians brings a dynamism and virtuosic delivery to their tradition. The group will perform original compositions in classic Arab music genres, plus orchestrated rewordings from Karim Nagi’s ‘Detour Guide” musical play. The concert also features selections from the cannon of the great 20th century Egyptian singer Oum Kalsoum. 

Acoustic Music Series presents: HUZAM with Karim Nagi Livestream

Dates Available: August 14 - August 16, 2022

Live Showtime: 7:00PM on August 14

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After a joyous full house for their May 29th debut, HUZAM returns to Epiphany for a second show Sunday August 14th at 7pm. This ensemble of native Arab musicians brings a dynamism and virtuosic delivery to their tradition. The group will perform original compositions in classic Arab music genres, plus orchestrated rewordings from Karim Nagi’s ‘Detour Guide” musical play. The concert also features selections from the cannon of the great 20th century Egyptian singer Oum Kalsoum. 

Date: September 10, 2022

Doors: 5:00PM for Golden Hour 

Showtime: 7:30PM 

Tickets: $20 - Student/Senior (ID REQUIRED) | $28 - General Admission | $40 - seated at a table | $75 per person - VIP seating (minimum 2 tickets, maximum 4 tickets) 

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Benefiting Humanitarian Relief in Ukraine

Internationally acclaimed cellist, composer and multilingual vocalist IAN MAKSIN returns to Chicago's Epiphany Center for the Arts, 207 S. Ashland Avenue as part of his North American “Cello for Peace” tour to support peace in Ukraine. Saturday, September 10, 7:30PM.  The tour is underwritten in part by Lifeway Foods and Acutia

Joined by international musicians of the Zaria Band,  Maksin will play music from his two most recent releases “The Alchemist” (2021) and “Sempre” (2019) as well as some new original music that has not been recorded yet. He will also sing from his collection of songs in at least 30 languages including Ukrainian, Polish, French, Spanish, Italian, Yiddish, Hebrew, Arabic, Armenian, Farsi and many others. And lastly he will share his latest single “Rain Again” ("Знов Дощi”) which he dedicated to the people of  Ukraine and proceeds from its sales benefiting humanitarian relief in Ukraine. 

 “This war has deeply affected me” Maksin said. It is my mission, as a human being and as an artist, to do everything possible on my part to support the people of Ukraine by raising humanitarian funds and sharing my music with those who need it the most during these dire times. I believe that music will help bring peace, first into our souls and then in the world around us.”

Maksin is donating a portion of the proceeds from the ticket and merch sales to “For Wellbeing”, a Chicago-based nonprofit whose mission is to create mobile medical units in parts of Ukraine where hospitals and clinics have been destroyed by war.

Ian Maksin has created his own unique style by blending elements of different genres and traditional music from around the globe in a new way, using his cello as the primary unifying force.  Born in Leningrad, he began playing guitar and piano at age 3 and cello at age 6 at the School for Gifted Children in Leningrad, then came to the U.S. at 16 to continue studies at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City. After working for many years in the classical genre, including a three-year tenure with the New World Symphony in Miami, he decided to look for his own musical path. His diverse musical experience, including playing rock and blues guitar, and passion for jazz and world music has allowed him to take the cello to a new dimension and develop his own distinct style as a musician and composer. 

A portion of the proceeds benefits humanitarian relief in Ukraine.

Date: Sunday, September 11, 2022

Doors: 1PM 

Showtime: 2PM 

Tickets: $35 - General Admission | $16 - Student (Must show student ID at door)

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Collaborative Works Festival Concert III: The American Songbag

Description

Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago (CAIC) is pleased to present their final concert on their 11th annual Collaborative Works Festival at Epiphany Center for the Arts. This year’s festival, titled The Song of Chicago focuses on the rich tradition of song that has emerged from Chicago – and features music and poetry written, and performed, by Chicagoans.

The closing concert will examine Chicago poet, journalist, and urban folk singer Carl Sandburg’s seminal anthology of American Folk songs, The American Songbag. Published in 1927, while Sandburg was living in Chicago, the anthology was an instantly popular collection of folk songs that proved to be foundational for the American folk resurgence, inspiring singers like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. A powerful statement of a diverse vision of American identity, Sandburg described the collection as a "ragbag of stripes and streaks of color from nearly all ends of the earth ... rich with the diversity of the United States."

The concert will feature arrangements of many of the songs contained in Sandburg's collection alongside various art song settings of his poetry.

About CAIC: Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago works to make Chicago a world home for the study and performance of art song and vocal chamber music. CAIC presents performance and educational events, including the Collaborative Works Festival, the Lieder Lounge recital series, master classes, and educational workshops. Since its founding in 2010 by pianists Shannon McGinnis and Nicholas Hutchinson and tenor Nicholas Phan, CAIC has presented many of the world’s leading proponents for the art song and vocal chamber music repertoire.

Performers: 

Yasuko Oura - pianist

Pianist Yasuko Oura has been praised for her sensibility and passion for collaborating with others. She has maintained a busy schedule of performing concerts and working for various opera companies while keeping an active teaching schedule. She is currently a lecturer of collaborative piano at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music where she enjoys working with talented pianists as well as coaching chamber music. Additionally, she has recently joined the faculty at DePaul University to start a new collaborative piano program. Also in demand as a vocal coach, she regularly works for Lyric Opera of Chicago and Chicago Opera Theater. She is also on the music staff for Des Moines Metro Opera where she has spent over twelve seasons. She has played under many prominent conductors such as Sir Andrew Davis, Gary Wedow, and Jane Glover. Additionally, she was the principal production pianist and coach for Florentine Opera for seven years. Her other past affiliations include companies such as Fort Worth Opera, Kentucky Opera, Madison Opera, Toledo Opera, and AIMS in Graz, Austria.

This past summer, she worked closely with the creative team on the world premiere of A Thousand Acres by Kristin Kuster and Mark Campbell at Des Moines Metro Opera. Other recent operatic highlights include L’elisir d’amore, Florencia en el Amazonas, and Fire Shut Up in My Bones for Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Becoming Santa Claus at Chicago Opera Theater. This upcoming season, she will be working on King Roger by Szymanowski as well Brittne’s Albert Herring for COT. On a recital front, she has enjoyed performing recitals with David Portillo, tenor, as well as returning to the Twickenham Festival, where she has performed recitals with Susanna Phillips. She has also been seen in performances with Anthony McGill and was featured on a fortepiano in the production of the Chevalier centered around the music of Joseph Bologne for the Music of the Baroque.

An avid chamber musician, Ms. Oura has performed in such venues as Carnegie Hall’s Weil Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and Merkin Hall. She is also the co-artistic director of Chamber Music at Bethany concert series where members of Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra, four-time Grammy award winning group Eighth Blackbird, and other prominent musicians come together to perform chamber music. She has also been seen in performances for the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series, the Bel Canto Foundation, WFMT, and WTTW’s Chicago Tonight. She also works with Grant Park Orchestra Chorus, Music of the Baroque, and Chicago Sinfonietta. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College and master’s and doctoral degrees from the Juilliard School, where she was a C.V. Starr Doctoral Fellow.

Nicholas Phan - tenor & CAIC artistic director:

Described by the Boston Globe as “one of the world’s most remarkable singers,” American tenor Nicholas Phan is increasingly recognized as an artist of distinction. Praised for his keen intelligence, captivating stage presence and natural musicianship, he performs regularly with the world’s leading orchestras and opera companies. Also an avid recitalist, in 2010 he co-founded the Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago (CAIC) to promote art song and vocal chamber music, where he serves as artistic director.

A celebrated recording artist, Phan’s most recent album, Clairières, a recording of songs by Lili and Nadia Boulanger, was nominated for the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album. His album, Gods and Monsters, was nominated for the same award in 2017. He is the first singer of Asian descent to be nominated in the history of the category, which has been awarded by the Recording Academy since 1959. His other previous solo albums Illuminations, A Painted Tale, Still Fall the Rain and Winter Words, made many “best of” lists, including those of the New York Times, New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, WQXR, and Boston Globe. Phan’s growing discography also includes a Grammy-nominated recording of Stravinsky’s Pulcinella with Pierre Boulez and the Chicago Symphony, Berlioz’ Roméo et Juliettewith Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony, Scarlatti’s La gloria di primavera and Handel’s Joseph and his Brethren with Philharmonia Baroque, an album of Bach’s secular cantatas with Masaaki Suzuki and Bach Collegium Japan, Bach’s St. John Passion (in which he sings both the Evangelist and the tenor arias) with Apollo’s Fire, and the world premiere recordings of two orchestral song cycles: The Old Burying Ground by Evan Chambers and Elliott Carter’s A Sunbeam’s Architecture.

Phan has appeared with many of the leading orchestras in the North America and Europe, including the Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Philharmonia Baroque, Boston Baroque, Les Violons du Roy, BBC Symphony, English Chamber Orchestra, Strasbourg Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Symphony, Philharmonia Orchestra of London, and the Lucerne Symphony. He has toured extensively throughout the major concert halls of Europe and has appeared with the Oregon Bach, Ravinia, Marlboro, Edinburgh, Rheingau, Saint-Denis, and Tanglewood festivals, as well as the BBC Proms. Among the conductors he has worked with are Marin Alsop, Harry Bicket, Herbert Blomstedt, Pierre Boulez, Karina Canellakis, James Conlon, Alan Curtis, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Charles Dutoit, James Gaffigan, Alan Gilbert, Jane Glover, Matthew Halls, Manfred Honeck, Bernard Labadie, Louis Langrée, Cristian Măcelaru, Nicholas McGegan, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, John Nelson, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Helmuth Rilling, David Robertson, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Masaaki Suzuki, Michael Tilson Thomas, Bramwell Tovey and Franz Welser-Möst.

Pauline Tan - mezzo-soprano

Pauline Tan is a Filipino-Chinese mezzo-soprano whose deep love for poetry and song has taken her across the globe to pursue a career in music. She strives not only to communicate honestly with her audiences but also to help bridge connections to little-known musical worlds. A recent graduate of the Bard Vocal Arts Program, Pauline hopes to keep working with artists and organizations that share her vision of bringing more diversity and compassion in the arts. She is currently with Chicago Opera Theater as a Resident Young Artist, following her artistic compass and taking part in non-standard adaptations of familiar operas as well as premieres of new works by living BIPOC composers.

Anthony Reed - bass

Bass Anthony Reed recently graduated from Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Ryan Opera Center Program. Highlights from his time there include mainstage appearances in Tosca / Sciarrone, Die Zauberflöte / Second Armored Guard, and Madama Butterfly / Comissioner among others. This Fall he will perform with the Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago (CAIC) in recital, as well as in a coproduction of The Rape of Lucretia / Collatinus between Britten Pears Arts and the Royal Opera. During 2020/21 virtual programming he appeared with CAIC and with Lyric in Master Classes with Sir Andrew Davis, Sole e Amore, Magical Music Around the World, and Rising Stars in Concert. His operatic repertory contains such roles as Sarastro / Die Zauberflöte, Don Basilio / Il barbiere di Siviglia, and Frère Laurent / Roméo et Juliette. In concert he has performed Haydn’s Creation, Mozart’s Requiem, and covered the notoriously challenging bass part in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. In addition he has been heard in multiple unique recitals on Chicago’s WFMT NPR station. A recipient of awards from the American Opera Society, National Society of Arts and Letters, and Shoshana Foundation, and with recognition from Opera News as “uncommonly articulate” with “…a great deal of tonal nuance” Reed is being recognized as a rising basso cantante. With degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music and the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire as well as affiliations with San Francisco Opera’s Adler Fellowship, Merola Opera Program, Wolf Trap Opera, Britten Pears Arts, and the George Solti Academy he has had the opportunity to work with world-class conductors, directors, stage managers, costume and makeup designers, teachers, coaches, and GRAMMY awarded symphonies and pianists.

Lunga Eric Hallam - tenor

A third-year tenor with Lyric Opera’s Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, Lunga Eric Hallam is from Khayelitsha, South Africa. There, he founded a nonprofit organization called Phenomenal Opera Voices the same year he enrolled at the University of Cape Town College of Music, where he received his diploma and postgraduate (with honors) degrees in music training. Recent engagements as a Young Artist at Cape Town Opera include Tebaldo/I capuleti e i montecchi, Edgardo/Lucia di Lammermoor, and Roberto/Maria Stuarda, as well as Ramiro/La Cenerentola at Cape Town Conservatory. He was featured as part of the 2017 Harare International Festival of the Arts in Zimbabwe. Hallam competed as a semifinalist in the 2019 Neue Stimmen International Singing Competition and the 2019 Voice of South Africa International Singing Competition. Chicago appearances include the Harris Theater’s Beyond the Aria series alongside Joyce DiDonato. In Lyric’s 2021/22 season, he performed in Sunday in the Park with Lyric’s Rising Stars and as Adult Nathan/Fire Shut Up in My Bones. For Lyric’s 2022/23 season, Hallam appears in Le Comte Ory (Lyric premiere) and in Proximity, the triple bill of new American operas (world premiere).

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Acoustic Music Series presents: Dan Moroz & Tim Seisser

Date: September 18, 2022

Doors: 5PM 

Showtime: 6PM 

Tickets: $ 20 - General Admission

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Dan Moroz & Tim Seisser

Acoustic Music Series presents: Jordan Lulloff and Nick Zoulek

Date: Sunday, October 9, 2022

Doors: 1PM 

Showtime: 2PM

About Jordan Lulloff:

Jordan Lulloff is a Chicago-based saxophonist that specializes in the performance of music by living composers. In addition to his solo engagements, Jordan is a founding member of ~Nois, a Chicago-based saxophone quartet that defies categorization by working between the boundary of contemporary classical music and experimental improvisation. Jordan has been the featured soloist with the United States Air Force Band, University of Memphis Wind Ensemble, and the Lansing and Ann Arbor Community Concert Bands. As the Tenor Saxophonist of ~Nois, Jordan is in demand as a guest artist and lecturer at universities across the nation. Additionally, the group has been featured on festivals such as Big Ears, the Continuum Music Festival, the Re:Sound Festival, the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, and Omaha Under the Radar. He currently serves as Applied Instructor of Classical Saxophone at The University of Illinois Chicago. 

About Nick Zoulek: 

Praised as “stunningly virtuosic, whatever the genre.” (Wall Street Journal), Dr. Nick Zoulek is a Chicago-based saxophonist and composer of “pure mindfulness and talent.” (PopMatters). Nick explores new possibilities in saxophone, drawing upon indie-rock and EDM influences, weaving tapestries of visceral sound through meditative circular breathing and overtones. At Re:SOUND, Zoulek will perform works from his upcoming project, Enter Branch.

Acoustic Music Series presents: Jordan Lulloff and Nick Zoulek Livestream

Dates Available: October 9 - October 11, 2022

Live Showtime: 2PM on October 9

About Jordan Lulloff:

Jordan Lulloff is a Chicago-based saxophonist that specializes in the performance of music by living composers. In addition to his solo engagements, Jordan is a founding member of ~Nois, a Chicago-based saxophone quartet that defies categorization by working between the boundary of contemporary classical music and experimental improvisation. Jordan has been the featured soloist with the United States Air Force Band, University of Memphis Wind Ensemble, and the Lansing and Ann Arbor Community Concert Bands. As the Tenor Saxophonist of ~Nois, Jordan is in demand as a guest artist and lecturer at universities across the nation. Additionally, the group has been featured on festivals such as Big Ears, the Continuum Music Festival, the Re:Sound Festival, the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, and Omaha Under the Radar. He currently serves as Applied Instructor of Classical Saxophone at The University of Illinois Chicago. 

About Nick Zoulek: 

Praised as “stunningly virtuosic, whatever the genre.” (Wall Street Journal), Dr. Nick Zoulek is a Chicago-based saxophonist and composer of “pure mindfulness and talent.” (PopMatters). Nick explores new possibilities in saxophone, drawing upon indie-rock and EDM influences, weaving tapestries of visceral sound through meditative circular breathing and overtones. At Re:SOUND, Zoulek will perform works from his upcoming project, Enter Branch.

Acoustic Music Series presents: Philip Daniel 

Date: Sunday, October 30, 2022

Doors: 1PM

Showtime: 2PM 

Tickets: $20 - General Admission

About Philip Daniel: 

Acoustic Music Series presents: Philip Daniel Livestream

Dates Available: October 30 - November 1, 2022

Live Showtime: 2PM on October 30

About Philip Daniel: 

Acoustic Music Series presents: Philip Daniel Livestream

Dates Available: October 30 - November 1, 2022

Live Showtime: 2PM on October 30

About Philip Daniel: 

Date: Sunday, November 20, 2022

Doors: 5PM 

Showtime: 6PM 

Tickets: $20 - General Admission 

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Ensemble Dal Niente performs new and experimental chamber music with dedication, virtuosity, and an exploratory spirit. Flexible and adaptable, Dal Niente’s roster of 26 musicians presents an uncommonly broad range of contemporary music, guiding listeners towards music that transforms existing ideas and subverts convention. Audiences coming to Dal Niente shows can expect distinctive productions—from fully staged operas to multimedia spectacles to intimate solo performances—that are curated to pique curiosity and connect art, culture, and people.

Now in its second decade, Ensemble Dal Niente has performed concerts across Europe and the Americas, including  appearances at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC; The Foro Internacional de Música Nueva in Mexico City; Radialsystem Berlin, MusicArte Festival in Panama City; The Library of Congress and the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.; the Art Institute of Chicago and the Hyde Park Jazz Festival; Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles; The Americas Society; and the Darmstadt Summer Courses in Germany. Dal Niente is the recipient of the 2019 Fromm Music Foundation prize, and was the first-ever ensemble to win the Kranichstein prize for interpretation in 2012. The group has recordings available on the New World, New Amsterdam, New Focus, Navona, Parlour Tapes+, and Carrier labels; has held residencies at The University of Chicago, Harvard University, Stanford University, Brown University, Brandeis University, and Northwestern University, among others; and collaborated with a wide range of composers, from Gérard Grisey to George Lewis to Hilda Paredes to Roscoe Mitchell.

The ensemble's name, Dal Niente ("from nothing" in Italian), is a tribute to Helmut Lachenmann's Dal niente (Interieur III), a work that upended traditional conceptions of instrumental technique; and also a reference to the group’s humble beginnings.

Acoustic Music Series presents: Silver Rose Duo

Date: Sunday, March 12, 2023

Doors: 1PM 

Showtime: 2PM 

Tickets: $20 - General Admission 

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About Silver Rose Duo: 

Award winning Concert Flutist Kim Fleuchaus and international performing guitarist Julie Goldberg, blend their lyrical playing, fiery technique, and lively interpretations into the Silver-Rose Duo. Kim and Julie began their duo in 2001 while studying at Northwestern University. Each have gone on to earn critical acclaim as soloists, chamber musicians, musical scholars, and sought after instructors. Ms. Fleuchaus and Dr. Goldberg share the desire to communicate, connect, and educate through music. They have presented concerts and workshops throughout the U.S.

Kim Fleuchaus has been heard on commercials, radio, stage, film, and CD recordings. As a symphony musician, she has performed with many orchestras, including the Milwaukee, Charlotte, Elgin, Rockford and South Bend Symphony Orchestras, the South Carolina and Illinois Philharmonic Orchestras, and the Cube Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, and has appeared as soloist with numerous ensembles and orchestras. She holds music degrees from Northwestern and Bethel Universities, and has performed at both the Kennedy Center and the White House. She is a founding member of the Sapphire Winds Woodwind Quintet and performs in numerous other chamber ensembles. An active freelance musician, she performs throughout the U.S. and Canada on the flute and the Egyptian nay. In addition to teaching at Trinity Christian College, she is the Flute Choir Director for School District 219 and maintains private teaching studios in Niles and Lincolnshire.

Named Guitarist of the year by Classical Guitar Alive, internationally-broadcast radio program, Julie Goldberg is the first guitarist to receive a Doctorate in Music Performance from Northwestern University, and holds degrees from the Chicago Musical College, and College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. Julie has performed solo recitals in New York, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Michigan and Washington, D.C. and has been featured on the internationally known Dame Myra Hess Concert Series. Dr. Goldberg is on the faculty of North Park University and VanderCook College of Music. She is a guest artist at the Interlochen Music Academy, CCM Summer Guitar Workshop, Wisconsin Center for Music Education, Illinois Music Education Association, Mid-America Guitar Ensemble Festival and Michigan Music Conference. Over seas she has taught master-classes at the Vietnam National Academy of Music, Hanoi and the Ho Chi Minh City Conservatory of Music. She recently co-authored the book 100 Classical Guitar Lessons, which is published by Hal Leonard. Her guitar ensemble compositions are published by Guitar Chamber Music Press.

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