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january 2023
sun29jan6:00 pmImmersive Chamber Music Series: Constellation Men's Ensemble
Time
(Sunday) 6:00 pm
Location
Epiphany Center For The Arts: The Catacombs
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Event Details
Immersive Chamber Music Series presents: Constellation Men's Ensemble Date: Sunday, January 29, 2023 Doors: 5PM Showtime: 6PM Tickets: $20 - General Admission ‘Service charges apply to ALL ticket purchases (online and
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Immersive Chamber Music Series presents: Constellation Men's Ensemble
Date: Sunday, January 29, 2023
Doors: 5PM
Showtime: 6PM
Tickets: $20 - General Admission
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About:
Constellation Men’s Ensemble (CME) is a Chicago-based vocal group dedicated to creating distinct performances in unique spaces, empowering the next generation of singers through educational engagement, and expanding the repertoire for men’s vocal music by commissioning new works from both emerging and established composers.
In 2016, CME founded their new music series NOVA, “new, original, vocal, art.” NOVA seeks to capitalize on their mission of commissioning new works. Last year, the fifth annual NOVA concerts were centered around the theme of “humanhood,” and featured the largest commissioned work to date by New Jersey-based composer Robert Maggio entitled Man Up/Man Down. That work will be featured on Constellation’s first album being released in early 2023 with Sono Luminus Records.
Constellation has had the opportunity to partner with Music of the Baroque to bring their music and passion to students within Chicago Public Schools. Workshop performances focused on careers in music, the joy of community through singing, and the multitude of ways that music can remain a part of your life post high school. Pre-COVID, they toured to New England and Maine, working with over 2,000 middle and high school students through their passion of connecting with the next generation of singers.
CME is the 2019 winner of the American Prize in Choral Performance, professional division. www.constellationensemble.org
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february 2023
sun26feb2:00 pmImmersive Chamber Music Series: Marianne Parker & Gregory Oakes
Time
(Sunday) 2:00 pm
Location
Epiphany Center For The Arts: The Sanctuary
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Event Details
Immersive Chamber Music Series presents: Marianne Parker & Gregory Oakes Date: Sunday, February 26, 2023 Doors: 1PM Showtime: 2PM Tickets: $20 - General Admission ‘Service charges apply to ALL ticket purchases
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Immersive Chamber Music Series presents: Marianne Parker & Gregory Oakes
Date: Sunday, February 26, 2023
Doors: 1PM
Showtime: 2PM
Tickets: $20 - General Admission
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About Sgraffito: Sgraffito draws inspiration from the decorative technique of decoration produced by applying plaster in layers tinted in contrasting colors and then revealing the underlying layer through delicate scratching. In this case, a delicate surface texture is scraped to reveal a substrate of explosive speed and complex interactions between instruments.
Pianist Marianne Parker’s playing has been described as “a cut above...her sympathetic fingers offering well-sculpted phrases and impassioned pealing” (Chicago Classical Review). Her debut album, Pages intimes, released in early 2019, features recently re-discovered works by Haitian composers. Marianne has curated an anthology of 21st century works for solo piano through NewMusicShelf. An active chamber musician, Marianne co-founded the marimba and piano new music ensemble L+M Duo in 2016 with marimbist Laurel Black. The duo is committed to commissioning new work for their instrumentation by today’s composers. They were featured in Chamber Music Magazine; performed at the Nief-Norf New Music Festival in Knoxville, TN; and produced a public concert in Chicago to celebrate the centennial of the iconic Wrigley Building. A fierce advocate of New Music, Parker is in demand as a collaborator for instrumentalists and vocalists alike. She serves as Vice President of the membership group New Music Chicago and coproduces the monthly series New Music Chicago Presents... at the Chicago Cultural Center. Marianne performs with many prominent chamber ensembles across the Midwest, including Milwaukee’s Present Music, and Chicago’s Access Contemporary Music, Fourth Coast Ensemble, Crossing Borders Music, and more. Marianne served as the principal pianist for the Chicago Civic Orchestra, and has performed under the batons of Riccardo Muti, Jaap Van Zweden, Michael Tilson Thomas, Ludovic Morlot, Carlos Miguel Prieto, and Michael Christy. Marianne’s work is driven by her passion to communicate the vibrancy and variety of classical music, especially to those who have yet to discover it.
Gregory Oakes is an exciting and energetic clarinetist performer and a passionate champion of the music of our time. From his Carnegie Hall debut with members of Ensemble Intercontemporain and Pierre Boulez to his performances as a member of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, he has been praised by critics for his “outstanding performance” (New York Times) and “jazzy flourishes” (Denver Post). He has appeared as a concerto soloist with such esteemed ensembles as the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and the Denver Brass, played at Amsterdam’s new music hall, Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, and been a featured soloist at the prestigious MaerzMusik festival in Berlin. He has been a featured artist at multiple International Clarinet Association ClarinetFests, the New Music Gathering, the International Computer Music Conference, the Karnatic Lab concert series (Amsterdam), the Crested Butte Chamber Music Festival, and Boulder’s Modern Music Festival. Greg has also toured Brazil, Thailand, and the Netherlands and been in residence at Princeton University, Harvard University, Dartmouth College, and the Aspen Music Festival. In the summer, he is on the faculty of The Cortona Sessions festival for new music in Tuscany, Italy. Greg’s recordings have been released on Bridge, Centaur, CRI, Gothic, Karnatic Lab Records, and Naxos and broadcast on National Public Radio. His CD Aesthetic Apparatus: Clarinet Chamber Music of Helmut Lachenmann appears on New Focus Recordings. Greg is on the faculty of Iowa State University and is principal clarinet of the Des Moines Symphony Orchestra. He is a Buffet Group USA and Vandoren Performing Artist.
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Golden Hour at Epiphany:
Stop by Epiphany for our live music series concerts, and be sure to hit Golden Hour before-hand for drinks and lite-bites! Doors open at 5pm Wednesday - Saturday for Golden Hour with 1/2 priced bottles of wine and other specials!
Come early to EXPLORE and DISCOVER your own EPIPHANY… our art galleries are open and there is free entertainment before the show!
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april 2023
Time
(Sunday) 8:00 pm
Location
Epiphany Center For The Arts: The Sanctuary
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Event Details
Mi Alma Latina Date: Sunday, April 2, 2023 Doors: 7PM Showtime: 8PM Tickets: $20 - General Admission ‘Service charges apply to ALL ticket purchases (online and box office)’ -
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Mi Alma Latina
Date: Sunday, April 2, 2023
Doors: 7PM
Showtime: 8PM
Tickets: $20 - General Admission
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Born in 1973 in Santurce, Puerto Rico to Cuban parents, composer Armando Bayolo began musical studies at the age of twelve. At sixteen he went on to study at the prestigious Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan, where he first began the serious study of composition. He holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music (B.M. 1995), where his teachers were Samuel Adler, Joseph Schwantner and Christopher Rouse; Yale University (M.M. 1997), where he studied with Roberto Sierra, Jacob Druckman, Ingram Marshall and Martin Bresnick; and the University of Michigan (D.M.A. 2001) where he studied with Michael Daugherty, Bright Sheng and Evan Chambers.
Mr. Bayolo has been hailed for his "suggestive aural imagination" (El Nuevo Día) in works that are "full of lush ideas and a kind of fierce grandeur, (unfolding) with subtle, driving power" (The Washington Post). His "music combines the audacity of popular music, the verve-filled rhythmic language of Latin America, and the pugnacity of postmodern classicism into a heady, formidable concoction" (Sequenza21), and "deserves to be heard many more times, and in many more places. It is new, it is fresh, and it gets its message across" (The Charlotte Observer) "with quite a high degree of poetic expressiveness" (Music-Web International).
Mr. Bayolo's music has been commissioned and performed throughout the world by some of today's most important musicians and ensembles. He is the recipient of important commissions and awards from the Aspen Music Festival, Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University, the Music Department of the National Gallery of Art, the Arts Councils of the states of Iowa and North Carolina, the Cintas Foundation, the Minnesota Orchestra and American Composers Forum, the Consortium for a Strong Minority Presence, the all-Virginia Intercollegiate Band, and the Festival Interamericano de las Artes.
Besides being active as a composer, Mr. Bayolo is an "adventurous, imaginative and fiercely committed (The Washington Post) advocate for contemporary music in American culture through his activities as Artistic Director and conductor of Great Noise Ensemble (since 2005), curator of the New Music at the Atlas series for the Atlas Performing Arts Center in Washington (from 2011-14), and as a writer for such publications as Sequenza21 and NewMusicBox. His cello concerto, Orfei Mors and the cantata, Kaddish:Passio:Rothko, were each nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in music. Recordings of his music can be heard on the Sono Luminus, Inova, New Focus and Great Noise labels and is published by his own imprint, Olibel Music and available through his web site, www.armandobayolo.com.
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may 2023
sun07may2:00 pmCollaborative Arts Institute Spring Lieder Lounge
Time
(Sunday) 2:00 pm
Location
Epiphany Center For The Arts: Epiphany Hall
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Event Details
Collaborative Arts Institute Spring Lieder Lounge Date: Sunday, May 7, 2023 Doors: 1PM Showtime: 2PM Tickets: $49 - General Admission | $43 - Seniors | $16 - Students ‘Service charges apply
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Collaborative Arts Institute Spring Lieder Lounge
Date: Sunday, May 7, 2023
Doors: 1PM
Showtime: 2PM
Tickets: $49 - General Admission | $43 - Seniors | $16 - Students
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Laura Strickling, Soprano:
GRAMMY®-nominated soprano Laura Strickling has been recognized by The New York Times for her “flexible voice, crystalline diction, and warm presence.” Celebrated for her work performing and promoting art song, with an emphasis on new additions to the canon, she curated The New Music Shelf Anthology of contemporary art songs for soprano and has collaborated with numerous composers including Tom Cipullo, Daniel Felsenfeld, Juliana Hall, Libby Larsen, James Matheson, John Musto, and Glen Roven. She is on the roster of the Brooklyn Art Song Society, and has appeared with Cincinnati Song Initiative, Mexicoliederfest, Calliope’s Call, Liederfest in Suzhou (China), the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, Lyric Fest, Joy in Singing, Trinity Concerts at One, the American Liszt Society, Baltimore Lieder Weekend, the Half Moon Music Festival, Concerts on the Slope, National Sawdust, Art Song at the Old Stone House, the Brooklyn New Music Collective, SongFusion, was a featured performer at the 2016 New Music Gathering, and presented a radio broadcast recital of American songs on “Live from WFMT” in Chicago with pianist Daniel Schlosberg. Laura and pianist Liza Stepanova were Artists in Residence at the Yellow Barn Music Festival, where they presented a program of Granados and modern songs in Spanish, including the world-premiere of Ciudades del Porvenir by Reinaldo Moya. She has presented guest artist recitals and lectures at the University of Georgia, Mercer University, College of William and Mary, Mercer University, University of Notre Dame, New World School of the Arts, Notre Dame University of Maryland, Pittsburg State University, McDaniel College, St. Mary’s College, and University of Richmond. She is on the New Music Advisory Board of the Brooklyn Art Song Society, and the Advisory Board of Cincinnati Song Initiative.
Equally acclaimed for her work on the concert stage, she has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, National Sawdust, Trinity Church on Wall Street, Washington National Cathedral, and the Opera America Center. Her “powerful and expressive voice across a large range, her variety of timbre and character,” (Classical Scene), make her a welcome guest soloist for a range of oratorio and concert works, from Handel to Britten. These include Messiah with the Indianapolis Symphony and the Richmond Symphony, Gloria (Poulenc) with the Asheville Symphony, Mass in c minor (Mozart) with the Richmond Symphony, Cathedral Choral Society, and Berkshire Choral International, Stabat Mater (Dvorak) and Elijah (Mendelssohn) with Berkshire Choral International, Ein Deutsches Requiem (Brahms) with the Bel Canto Chorus of Milwaukee and Chorosynthesis, Luonnotar (Sibelius) and Les Illuminations (Britten) with the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (Barber) and Les Illuminations (Britten) with Mexicoliederfest, Ninth Symphony (Beethoven) and Carmina Burana (Orff) with Choralis, as well as Requiem (Mozart), Credo Mass (Mozart), Dixit Dominus (Handel), Gloria (Vivaldi), Lord Nelson Mass (Haydn), and Mass in C (Beethoven). Her performance of Mozart’s Mass in C minor and Exsultate jubilate with the Cathedral Choral Society was broadcast by WETA, and her performance of Poulenc’s Gloria with the Asheville Symphony was broadcast by Blue Ridge Public Radio.
On the opera stage, Ms. Strickling created the role of Fanni Radnòti in the world premiere of Tom Cipullo’s opera The Parting with Music of Remembrance in Seattle and San Francisco (released on Naxos Opera Classics in 2020). An alumna of the Berkshire Opera Company resident artist program, her performance of the Dew Fairy in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel was praised by Opera News: "Laura Strickling offered the creamy, clear, younger-sister-of-Eva-Pogner instrument ideal for singing the role over full orchestration." She appeared as Pamina in the Metropolitan Opera Guild's touring outreach production of The Magic Flute. Ms. Strickling’s operatic roles also include Countess Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Cleopatra (Julius Caesar), Mimi (La boheme), Dinorah (Dinorah), Elvira (L’Italiana in Algeri), Josephine (H.M.S. Pinafore), Gretel (Hansel and Gretel), and Micaëla (Carmen). She created the role of Muriel in the world premiere of Thomas Benjamin's The Alien Corn with the Peabody Opera Theater.
Ms. Strickling received critical acclaim in the Naxos Opera Classics recording of The Parting by Tom Cipullo (co-starring baritone Michael Mayes and mezzo-soprano Catherine Cook) for her “…deeply expressive, secure voice. Her exposed highs are managed wonderfully, with notable beauty.” James Matheson’s Times Alone on Yarlung Records was hailed by MusicWeb International for “shapely, nuanced voicings and emotional urgency...a striking directness.” Glen Roven’s The Vineyard Songs with pianist Michael Brofman is on New Voices, the Billboard Classical Top-Ten-selling CD. She can also be heard on “New American Song@SongFest,”, performing Jake Heggie’s Edna St. Vincent Millay with pianist Dimitri Dover, and on The Garden: Songs and Vocal Chamber Music of Tom Cipullo, performing the landmark song cycle Of a Certain Age with pianist Liza Stepanova. Her first solo recording project of American art song, Confessions with pianist Joy Schreier, was nominated for a 2020 GRAMMY® Award.
A Chicago native, Ms. Strickling is an avid traveler, having lived in Morocco, where she studied classical Arabic at the Arabic Language Institute of Fez, and Kabul, Afghanistan, where her husband was the founding chair of the Department of Law at the American University of Afghanistan. She currently makes her home in St. Thomas, U. S. Virgin Islands.
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Shannon McGinnis, pianist
Pianist and CAIC Director of Education Shannon McGinnis has been recognized for her partnerships with some of the brightest stars in the classical vocal music world. Her playing has been described as “excellent” (Opera News), “strong and supportive” (Chicago Tribune), and “boldly projected, characterful, and delicately nuanced” (Chicago Classical Review). Recent season highlights include a recital with soprano Nicole Heaston and members of the Elgin Symphony Orchestra, broadcast on WFMT; a recital with mezzo-soprano Amanda Lynn Bottoms, as part of the 2020 Collaborative Works Festival; and recitals with baritone Michael Kelly and soprano Melody Moore. 2019-2020 brought a series of concerts, including three world premieres, with the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society’s “Emerging Voices” series, featuring sopranos Joélle Harvey and Sarah Shafer, mezzo-sopranos Jennifer Johnson-Cano and Corinne Winters, tenor Nicholas Phan, and baritones Douglas Williams and Roderick Williams. In 2022 McGinnis makes her debut with San Francisco Performances, in a salon concert curated by tenor Nicholas Phan.
A passionate advocate for art song, McGinnis is a founder of Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago, where, as Director of Education, she oversees a series of master classes and workshops for singers and pianists, as well as the organization’s Vocal Chamber Music Fellowship. Also at home in the world of opera, McGinnis has held internships and appointments with the Opera Company of Philadelphia, DePaul University Opera Theater, DuPage Opera, and Kentucky Opera. In 2015 she served as vocal coach and ensemble pianist for the world-premiere performances of Matthew AuCoin’s Second Nature, presented by Lyric Opera of Chicago and “Lyric Unlimited”, and has served recently as an official pianist for the Joyce DiDonato Master Classes at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute.
In 2015 McGinnis joined the faculty of the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University, where she serves as Assistant Teaching Professor of Diction and Vocal Coaching. In addition to her regular teaching responsibilities at CCPA, she has taught a popular graduate seminar on the topic of modern and contemporary American art song; in fall 2020 she will inaugurate a seminar exploring folk song and identity. McGinnis serves as head vocal coach for “Prague Summer Nights”, a four-week opera and orchestra festival based in the Czech Republic and comprised of young artists from across the globe, culminating in performances at the historic Estates Theatre. In addition, McGinnis is a co-creator of RISE (Resound: Immersive Song Experience), a tuition-free program for emerging artist-entrepreneurs hosted by the Crested Butte Music Festival; RISE enjoyed its inaugural season, remotely, in summer 2020.
Prior to moving to Chicago in 2006, McGinnis held the position of Assistant Professor of Piano and Coordinator of Accompanying at Truman State University. She was awarded the Doctor of Musical Arts in Accompanying and Chamber Music from the University of Michigan, as a student of Martin Katz, and is a recipient of the 2017 Emerging Artist Award in Music, given by the School of Music Theatre and Dance Alumni Society Board of Governors.
Ariana Strahl, soprano
Soprano Ariana Strahl’s commanding vocal power is equally comfortable in the realms of symphonic works, art song, and opera. A truly international artist, Ms. Strahl is equally at home in the United States and in Germany, having been an artist in residence at the Komische Oper Berlin, where she brought over twenty roles to the stage. Of their portrayal of Tennessee Williams’ Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, critics praised her as highly gifted and smart, attractive and empathetic - every move she made was motivated by the drama. She is an ardent new music advocate, having co-commissioned a song cycle for soprano and large ensemble by composer Eric Malmquist, called Let Me Sing - three poems of American activist women.
Ms. Strahl is an active opera, lieder, and oratorio artist. She was most recently seen in costume as Blanche Dubois in Andre Previn's Streetcar named Desire with Opera San Jose. As a Young Artist at the Komische Oper Berlin, they brought over twenty roles to the stage, including Ännchen in Calixto Bieto’s Der Freischütz, Micaela and Frasquita in Carmen, and the roles of Fortuna, Damigella, and Drusilla in Monteverdi's Poppea, part of Barrie Kosky’s stunning Monteverdi Trilogy.
Beyond the opera stage, Ms. Strahl is also an active art song singer. Recently Ariana has performed Strauss’ Four Last Songs (with pianist and conductor Kathleen Kelly), Manuel de Falla’s Siete Canciones Populares Espanolas with the DuPage Symphony, and the works of Fanny Mendelssohn and Clara Schumann with pianist and musicologist Nicholas Mathew (in conjunction with The Mendelssohn Project at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life). Last season Ariana joined Kathleen Kelly and Michael Kelly for new works from the soprano and baritone volumes of the NewMusicShelf Vocal Anthology Series. This performance was hailed as an opportunity for Ms. Strahl to “to show off her flawless legato, jaw-dropping breath control, and searing tones above the staff.” She and pianist Miles Graber also collaborate frequently, having performed Schumann's Frauenliebe und Leben, Barber's Hermit Songs, Manuel de Falla's Siete Canciones Populares Espanolas, and Canteloube's Songs of the Auvergne. When in Chicago, she is active in the Liederstube - an oasis for art song in the Fine Arts Building.
Ms. Strahl is equally active on the symphonic stage, most recently in the Verdi Requiem with the La Jolla Symphony. She is a frequent soloist with the Berkeley Community Chorus and Orchestra, and with this group has both performed and recorded Mozart’s Requiem and Dvorak’s Stabat Mater. In the 2019-2020 season, Ms. Strahl was scheduled to rejoin the La Jolla Symphony for both Britten’s War Requiem and Mahler’s Symphony #2 - The Resurrection, both now rescheduled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Both the La Jolla Symphony and the Berkeley Community Chorus and Orchestra maintain a focus on ensuring classical music’s availability and accessibility at the local level, something Ms. Strahl has also championed.
When they aren’t singing, Ms. Strahl is an impassioned arts advocate and endeavors to develop and cultivate community around musical experiences. Her work with arts organizations in both Chicago and San Francisco speaks toward the community that is possible when centered around creativity. Her Chicago Back Porch Concert Series brought together some of Chicago’s finest musicians and neighbors during the summer of 2020, with a simple goal - making music apart, together.
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sun07may2:00 pmImmersive Chamber Music Series: Chicago Flute Club
Time
(Sunday) 2:00 pm
Location
Epiphany Center For The Arts: The Sanctuary
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Event Details
Immersive Chamber Music Series presents: Chicago Flute Club Date: Sunday, May 7, 2023 Doors: 1PM Showtime: 2PM Tickets: $15 - General Admission Chicago Flute Club Members reserve your complimentary tickets here! About: Chicago Flute Club presents
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Immersive Chamber Music Series presents: Chicago Flute Club
Date: Sunday, May 7, 2023
Doors: 1PM
Showtime: 2PM
Tickets: $15 - General Admission
Chicago Flute Club Members reserve your complimentary tickets here!
About:
Chicago Flute Club presents flutist, Jennie Oh Brown in “Art and Resonance” Founded in 1988, The Chicago Flute Club seeks to foster the highest artistic potential of all its members through teaching, listening, and performing. The CFC provides activities of interest to flutists of all ages and abilities which include recitals, masterclasses, workshops, and forums in addition to competitions and a biennial Flute Festival. In response to the global pandemic in the Spring of 2020, the CFC began its innovative and highly acclaimed Fluting with the Stars Series featuring monthly live virtual masterclasses, workshops, performances, and conversations via Zoom. The 2022-2023 season has brought back the opportunity for in-person events. The CFC is thrilled to be featuring Jennie Oh Brown in a chamber music recital with cellist, Leonardo Altino, oud player, Ronnie Malley, and pianist, Dan Horn. Following the recital will be a lively chamber music masterclass with specially selected ensembles and an inspiring discussion on carving out a career as a musician. For more information, visit www.chicagofluteclub.org.
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sun21may2:00 pmImmersive Chamber Music Series: Nois presents: Discovery
Time
(Sunday) 2:00 pm
Location
Epiphany Center For The Arts: The Catacombs
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Event Details
Immersive Chamber Music Series presents: Nois presents: Discovery Date: Sunday, May 21, 2023 Doors: 1PM Showtime: 2PM Tickets: $20 - General Admission ‘Service charges apply to ALL ticket purchases (online and
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Immersive Chamber Music Series presents: Nois presents: Discovery
Date: Sunday, May 21, 2023
Doors: 1PM
Showtime: 2PM
Tickets: $20 - General Admission
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About:
Founded in 2016, ~Nois (pronounced “noise”) has become one of the premier ensembles in the United States by combining contemporary chamber music and improvisation to connect with audiences in unique concert experiences. Known for their “truly innovative musicianship” and “raw creativity” (Cacophony Magazine), ~Nois has been awarded top prizes at prestigious chamber music competitions including the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and the M-Prize International Arts Competition.
In 2020, ~Nois released their debut album, Is This ~Nois. Hailed as “fresh and intense” (The WholeNote), the album was named among the “Best of Bandcamp Contemporary Classical: June 2020” by critic Peter Margasak.
Since its founding, ~Nois has presented over 90 performances in 20 states from coast to coast. In addition to its regular concert season in Chicago, ~Nois has performed at festivals such as Big Ears and the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival and has appeared at over 30 academic institutions. For the 2020/2021 academic year, ~Nois was appointed as the Don Michael Randel Ensemble in Residence at the University of Chicago.
Dedicated to expanding and redefining the saxophone quartet repertoire, ~Nois has premiered over 40 works ~Nois recently partnered with the Kinds of Kings composer collective on the Afterimage series, a collection of concerts in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles and has performed with the Bang On A Can All-Stars, Claire Chase, Eighth Blackbird, and My Brightest Diamond.
~Nois is Hunter Bockes, János Csontos, Jordan Lulloff, and Julian Velasco. For more information, please visit www.noissaxophone.com.
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sun28may2:00 pmImmersive Chamber Music Series: Picosa
Time
(Sunday) 2:00 pm
Location
Epiphany Center For The Arts: The Sanctuary
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Event Details
Immersive Chamber Music Series presents: Picosa Date: Sunday, May 28, 2023 Doors: 1PM Showtime: 2PM Tickets: $20 - General Admission | $10 - Student ( Must show student ID at door)
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Immersive Chamber Music Series presents: Picosa
Date: Sunday, May 28, 2023
Doors: 1PM
Showtime: 2PM
Tickets: $20 - General Admission | $10 - Student ( Must show student ID at door)
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About Picosa:
Picosa reflects an expansive and inclusive view of music in its artistry, programming, and concert experience. A Chicago-based ensemble comprised of flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and composer-in-residence, Picosa champions the works of Chicago composers onstage each season. The ensemble also showcases music from diverse historical and cultural contexts and hosts its multiple ongoing concert series at DePaul University’s Holtschneider Performance Center, Epiphany Center for the Arts, and The Driehaus Museum. Every concert experience is a community building event, and the musicians welcome conversations with the audience in post-concert receptions and in social media.
Founded in 2014, Picosa’s recent performances include Live from WFMT with Kerry Frumkin, Rush Hour Concert Series, Chicago’s Cultural Center, Fourth Presbyterian Church, Ear Taxi Festival, and Frequency Series at Constellation Chicago. The ensemble has also held guest residencies at Elmhurst University, North Central College, and Roosevelt University.
Picosa is a 501(c)3 organization that relies on the support of music lovers to bring great performances to the stage. Please visit www.PicosaMusic.com for additional information.
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november 2023
fri03nov7:30 pmImmersive Chamber Music: Pilgrim Chamber Players
Time
(Friday) 7:30 pm
Location
Epiphany Center For The Arts: The Sanctuary
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Event Details
Immersive Chamber Music: Pilgrim Chamber Players Date: Friday, November 3, 2023 Doors: 5PM for Golden Hour Showtime: 7:30PM Tickets: $30 - General Admission ‘Service charges apply to ALL ticket purchases
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Immersive Chamber Music: Pilgrim Chamber Players
Date: Friday, November 3, 2023
Doors: 5PM for Golden Hour
Showtime: 7:30PM
Tickets: $30 - General Admission
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About:
Join us November 3rd for a unique and thrilling night from a supergroup of musicians from all over corners of the country performing works from the worlds of folk, classical, and cinematic music. The program will include Ravel, string quartet selections arranged by the Danish String Quartet, Traditional Irish music, and our string quartet featuring the pipes. Our concert is by musicians from “The Pilgrim Chamber Players” based in Highland Park, IL, directed by cellist Steven Honigberg.
THE PERFORMERS:
Special guest from Los Angeles, film soundtrack veteran bagpipe and whistle player ERIC RIGLER will be featured playing selections from “Titanic” and “Braveheart”, two films he recorded on the original soundtrack for. His legendary 50-year career on the bagpipes & whistles is world-famous. From performing "Amazing Grace" at President Reagan’s funeral to hundreds of appearances in film soundtracks, Eric has been called "the most recorded piper in history".
Chicago based KATIE GRENNAN’S traditional fiddle playing carries the articulation of a gifted classical musician tempered by the soul of a champion Irish dancer. Her wide ranging experience as an international touring performer in both live stage productions and television have given her a unique platform as an ambassador for the music of her heart. Katie was the fiddler in the popular celtic-fusion band Gaelic Storm for over five years, has recorded a number of solo albums, and is involved in a number of cutting edge musical projects, including The Winifred Horan Quartet, The Bow Tides & Chicago-based STEAM Quartet.
Chicago based JOHN WILLIAMS is internationally regarded as one of the foremost players of Irish music today. With five All-Ireland titles to his credit, John is the only American-born competitor ever to win first place in the Senior Concertina category. His additional talents on flute, button accordion, bodhran, and piano distinguish him as a much sought after multi-instrumentalist in the acoustic scene around the world.
Los Angeles based fiddler and violinist LILY HONIGBERG performs all kinds of genres of music, from Irish fiddle music to pop music to classical music and on. She graduated from New England Conservatory as a Classical violinist in 2018, and completed her studies there in 2020 with a Master’s Degree in Contemporary Improvisation. Lily released her debut album of original fiddle music, Sunrise Summit, in the summer of 2021 with incredible musicians John Doyle on guitar and James Heazlewood-Dale on bass.
JINTY MCTAVISH is a classically-trained violinist known for her passionate performances, fiery improvisations, and Paul Buckmaster-inspired string arrangements. When she’s not performing with ATLYS, you can find her shredding in the clubs across Chicago with a DJ as @jintshred or snuggling with her beloved puppy Appa.
Chicago based violist WILFRED FARQUHARSON enjoys a multi-faceted performance career as studio, orchestral, and chamber musician. Wilfred currently serves as faculty at the Merit School of Music, and he is the violist of D-Composed Chicago and Crossing Borders Music. He also has served as principal violist of the Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra as well as substitute musician of the Lyric Opera of Chicago. In the summer of 2022, Wilfred performed with the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra as one of their fellows He was a Los Angeles Orchestra Fellow which meant he served as a mentor to the students of the Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles and performed with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra while he was a graduate student at USC. Prior to becoming an LA Orchestra Fellow, Wilfred attended the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University as a Premier Young Artist
Cellist and Artistic Director STEVEN HONIGBERG (a Highland Park native) comes to lead Pilgrim after having directed several prominent chamber music series in his career: 8 years at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC where he premiered a number of new works. Honigberg was hired by Mstislav Rostropovich to join the National Symphony Orchestra in 1984. Honigberg has been featured numerous times as a soloist with the NSO. He won rave reviews for the 1988 world premiere of David Ott’s Concerto for Two Cellos performed with the National Symphony and conducted by Msistlav Rostropovich, with repeat performances on the NSO’s 1989 and 1994 United States tours.
Pilgrim Chamber Players offers music-lovers in the North Shore and Chicago area the opportunity to enjoy high-caliber Classical chamber music concerts in an intimate and convivial setting. Artists presented at these concerts are at the top of their fields - performers who are at home on the stages of the great halls of North America, Europe and beyond. My programs are extremely varied and the atmosphere welcoming that makes people want to return again and again.
Golden Hour at Epiphany:
Stop by Epiphany for our live music series concerts, and be sure to hit Golden Hour before-hand for drinks and lite-bites! Doors open at 5pm Wednesday - Saturday for Golden Hour with 1/2 priced bottles of wine and other specials!
Come early to EXPLORE and DISCOVER your own EPIPHANY… our art galleries are open and there is free entertainment before the show!
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