Ensemble Dal Niente – Past Concerts

Andile Khumalo — Beyond Her Mask (for soprano, flute, oboe, clarinet, French horn, piano, percussion, violin, viola, & cello)
Andile Khumalo — Shades of Words (for violin, viola, cello, flute, clarinet, piano, marimba, & narrator)
Andile Khumalo — Cry Out (for viola with oboe, marimba, & piano)
Andile Khumalo — Iso(r) (for flute, cello, & piano)

Miya Masaoka — The Dust and the Noise (for violin, cello, percussion, piano)
Joël-François Durand — In the Mirror Land (for flute & clarinet in B-flat)
Joël-François Durand — Geister, schwebende Geister (world premiere; for viola & ensemble)
Andile Khumalo — Shades of Words (for narrator, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, viola, & cello)
Huck Hodge — Time and its Arbitrary Measurements (world premiere; for flute, clarinet, percussion, harp, piano, violin, viola, & cello)

Ensemble Dal Niente presents and performs new and experimental music in ways that redefine the listening experience and advance the art for…

Ensemble Dal Niente performs music by Rebecca Saunders, Aida Shirazi, Alican Çamcı, Kyong Mee Choi, Juan Ortiz de Zarate, Sivan Cohen Elias, & Igor Stravinsky.

Roscoe Mitchell – Last Trane to Clover Five for solo saxophone & ensemble (world premiere) Nicole Mitchell – Cult of Electromagnetic Connectivity for flute, bass clarinet, violin, cello, & percussion
Wang Lu – After some remarks by CW on his work for harp & clarinet
Anthony Braxton – Composition Nos. 193 + 228 for large ensemble

George Lewis – Connectome (US premiere)
Thurman Barker – Pandemic Fever (world premiere)
Renée Baker – WUNDERKAMMER 3097: BLACKed IMAGINATION

Jeffrey Mumford – Becoming... for solo piano & ensemble
Osnat Netzer – New work TBA for two sopranos & ensemble (world premiere)
Dai Fujikura – Horn Concerto No. 2
Miya Masaoka – The Dust and the Noise for piano, percussion, cello, & violin

Ensemble Dal Niente gives the first ever Chicago performance of music by South African composer Andile Khumalo.

Julián Carrillo – Preludio a Colón for soprano, flute, guitar, violin, violin, viola, cello, & harp
Hilda Paredes – Siphonophore for flute, clarinet, piano, violin, viola, cello, & piano
Tomás Gueglio – Lamarque Songs for soprano, flute, guitar, viola, & percussion (world premiere)
Tania León – Homenatge for solo piano
Melissa Vargas – Es casi como el inicio…y comienza for voice, guitar, clarinet, & percussion

Nur Slim – Humming Between Branches
Hilda Paredes – Demente Cuerda
Tomas Gueglio – Lamarque Songs
Igor Santos – Confined Speak (world premiere)
Luis Amaya – Tinta Roja, Tinta Negra
Tania León – De Memorias

Anthony Green – P is for …
Gérard Grisey – Vortex Temporum
Melissa Vargas – Paráfrasis
Rebecca Saunders – O Yes and I

This Chicago-based contemporary music collective presents new music in ways that redefine the listening experience. Program includes interpretations of works by UW faculty composers Huck Hodge and Joël-François Durand, UW doctoral student Marcin Pączkowski, and others.