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WHEN:
Spotlight Series Concerts
September 15 – 29, 2021
Mainstage Series Concerts
September 30 – October 4, 2021
WHERE:
Various locations in Chicago
TICKETS:
$15+
For discount options and other ticket information, visit the Ear Taxi Festival website.
New Music Chicago presents Ear Taxi Festival 2021: Hear Chicago, celebrating new, contemporary classical, experimental, creative, electronic and other genres of music and sound-practice, all composed, improvised and performed in Chicago by Chicagoans. Hear Chicago “is a call to engage with the vast multiplicity of styles and traditions that constitutes Chicago’s expansive musical identity, focusing on musicians of color as a significant part of the city’s complex history,” says a New Music Chicago spokesperson.
Ear Taxi Festival 2021 features two series: the Spotlight Series Concerts and the Mainstage Series Concerts. The Spotlight Series Concerts “allows musicians and artists to self-present in ways that exceed the parameters of the Mainstage Series Concerts – whether in terms of time, curatorial scope or technical setup,” says a New Music Chicago spokesperson. “With the Mainstage Series Concerts, Ear Taxi Festival focuses almost entirely on the presentation of Chicago music and of music that has influenced the city’s culture.”
The schedule for Ear Taxi Festival 2021: Hear Chicago is as follows:
SPOTLIGHT SERIES CONCERTS —
Thursday, September 16, 2021:
rhythm is image
8:30 pm
Friday, September 17, 2021:
Matt Ulery’s Mannerist 11
8:30 pm
Saturday, September 18, 2021:
Quijote Duo
7 pm
KOSMOLOGIA
7:30 pm
Tuesday, September 21, 2021:
MAVerick Ensemble
11 am
Thursday, September 23, 2021:
Louise & Oscar’s Fashion Show (featuring Jenna Lyle and Riley Leitch)
8 pm
Sunday, September 19, 2021:
Fifth House Ensemble
2 pm
KOSMOLOGIA
3 pm
Fourth Coast Ensemble
3 pm
Koeun Grace Lee, piano
3 pm
Robin Meiksins, flute
Phil Pierick, saxophones
Alejandro Acierto, bass clarinet
Ammie Brod, viola
Daniel Baer, piano
7:30 pm
Saturday, September 25, 2021:
Patricia Morehead
10 am
The Lucky Trikes: Music Storytime & Little Free Library Ribbon Cutting
11 am
Chicago Composers Orchestra
7:30 pm
Majel Connery + Sky Creature
6 pm
NON:op Open Opera Works
8 pm
Ensemble Dal Niente and Ken Vandermark: Last Trane to Clover Five
Time TBA
Friday, Saturday 24, 2021:
Patricia Morehead
10 am
Visda Goudarzi and Anna Xambó
12 pm
Marie Alatalo, piano
6 pm
Beyond This Point
7 pm
NON:op Open Opera Works
8 pm
Wednesday, September 29, 2021:
Grant Writing and a Dream for Future Philanthropy
11 am
Forging a New Path
12:15 pm
Choreography/Music Collaboration
1:45 pm
Cultivating Creative Communities
3 pm
What are the components of a thrilling ecosystem for new music?
4:30 pm
Lakeshore Rush
6 pm
Sunday, September 26, 2021:
Eternal Units of Beauty for string quintet
3 pm
Liza Sobel, soprano, and Jonathan Hannnau, piano
8:30 pm
Monday, September 27, 2021:
Music by Julia A. Miller, with KAIA String Quartet & Trevor Watkin
7 pm
Tuesday, September 28, 2021:
Singing Bronze (Joey Brink, carillon; Kaitlin Foley, soprano; Joseph Min, carillon)
5 pm
MAINSTAGE SERIES CONCERTS —
Thursday, September 20, 2021:
Picosa
12 pm
Clare Longendyke, piano
12:45 pm
Fonema Consort
1:45 pm
Lisa Goethe-McGinn, flutist and composer
2:30 pm
Quince Ensemble
3:45 pm
Blue Violet Duo
4:15 pm
Chicago Arts and Music Project/DePaul Concert Orchestra
5 pm
Panel Discussion
6 pm
“An invitation to challenge, collaborate and change together as artists and listeners,” says a New Music Chicago spokesperson.
Michael Hall, Michael Delfin and Megan Ihnen Trio
8 pm
KAIA String Quartet
8:45 pm
Friday, October 1, 2021:
Sarah Plum: Parameters of Sound
Osnat Netzer – Olive Cotton
Tonia Ko – Moves and Remains
Sidney Corbett – Absconditus
Kyong Mee Choi – Flowering Dandelion
11:30 am
Ogni Suono
12:15 pm
Jillian DeGroot: Lecture On Silence for Chicago
1:15 pm
5th Wave Collective
1:45 pm
DePaul Wind Ensemble
3 pm
Nick Photinos: Everything in Bloom
3:15 pm
Bach + Beethoven Experience
3:30 pm
Chicago Wind Project
4:15 pm
Fat Pigeon, with Daniel Robles Lizano
4:30 pm
Fulcrum Point New Music Project
5:15 pm
Zafa Collective
5:30 pm
F-PLUS
6:15 pm
Sonata for an Empty Room with Angel Bat and Isaiah Collier
6:30 pm
DePaul Ensemble 20+
7:15 pm
Jennie Oh Brown, flute
7:30 pm
Florian Hollerweger & Christine Scherzer: Stimmen
7:45 pm
Deidre Huckabay and collaborators: Words For Words From
8:15 pm
Ernest Dawkins Black Star Line
9:15 pm
Saturday, October 2, 2021:
Garrett Mendelow
11:30 am
Susan Merdinger, Steinway Artist
12:15 pm
Patricia Morehead
1 pm
Gaudete Brass
2 pm
Tri-Again
3 pm
Avondale Trio
4:15 pm
Zachary Good and Tonia Ko: Up High
6 pm
The Rope Dancer Accompanies Herself With Her Shadows
1:15 pm
Wendy Richman
3:45 pm
Wet Ink Ensemble
7:30 pm
Sunday, October 3, 2021:
City Beautiful: featuring Marianne Parker, Michael Hall, and Megan Ihnen
11 am
Daniel Quinn, trombone and Janna Williamson, piano // Daniel Pesca, pianist/composer and
Hanna Hurwitz, violin
11:45 am
a•pe•ri•od•ic
1 pm
The Dream Songs Project and Ted Moore
1:45 pm
Fire Thief
3 pm
CHAI Collaborative Ensemble
3:45 pm
D-Composed
5 pm
Janice Misurell-Mitchell: Resilience Noise
7:30 pm
~Nois
8:30 pm
Wurtz-Berger Duo
9:45 pm
Ted Moore and Ben Roidl-Ward: feed
11 pm
Monday, October 4, 2021:
Elenna Sindler and Hasco Duo
11 am
Peter Ferry, percussion
11:45 am
Crossing Borders Music
1 pm
Unsupervised with Chicago Composer’s Consortium
1:45 pm
CSO MusicNow featuring Whitney Morrison and Musicians from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
3 pm
Keynote Address by George Lewis: New Music Decolonization in Eight Difficult Steps
4:15 pm
Heisenberg Uncertainty Players
6:00 pm
The Contemporary Music Ensemble and Bienen Contemporary/Early Vocal Ensemble (BCE) of Northwestern University
7:30 pm
Chad McCullough Quintet
8:3o pm
CREATIVE TEAM:
Executive and Artistic Director – Jennie Oh Brown
Curatorial Director – Michael Lewanski
Managing Director – Jessica Wolfe
Director of Community Engagement – LaRob K. Rafael
Production Manager – Justin Peters
For more information, visit the Ear Taxi Festival website.
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