Ear Taxi Festival – Past Concerts
The Contemporary Music Ensemble & Bienen Contemporary / Early Vocal Ensemble (BCE) of Northwestern University
Bienen Contemporary/Early Vocal Ensemble,
Ear Taxi Festival, and
Northwestern University Contemporary Music Ensemble
Monday, October 4, 2021 @ 8:30pm – 9:15pm (EDT)
Online and in-person
Marcos Balter – Meltdown Upshot
Ayanna Woods – SHIFT
David Lang – stateless
Ayanna Woods – SHIFT
David Lang – stateless
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Unsupervised with Chicago Composer's Consortium
Monday, October 4, 2021 @ 2:45pm – 3:30pm (EDT)
Online and in-person
Laura Schwendinger – Celestial Bodies (world premiere)
Kyong Mee Choi – MOMENT
Lawrence Axelrod – Of Wind and Sky
Elizabeth Start – O, Aedicatio; O, Vita (world premiere)
Martha Horst – Quiltage (world premiere)
Kyong Mee Choi – MOMENT
Lawrence Axelrod – Of Wind and Sky
Elizabeth Start – O, Aedicatio; O, Vita (world premiere)
Martha Horst – Quiltage (world premiere)
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Crossing Borders Music
Monday, October 4, 2021 @ 2:00pm – 2:45pm (EDT)
Online and in-person
Sabrina CD Jean Louis – La Cité
Jean R. "Rudy" Perrault – Brother Malcolm for cello & piano
Gifrants – Fraternitas! Fraternitas! Dei Patris Nomine for piano quintet
Jean Paul Coffy – New work TBA
Jean R. "Rudy" Perrault – Brother Malcolm for cello & piano
Gifrants – Fraternitas! Fraternitas! Dei Patris Nomine for piano quintet
Jean Paul Coffy – New work TBA
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Peter Ferry, percussion
Monday, October 4, 2021 @ 12:45pm – 1:30pm (EDT)
Online and in-person
Marc Mellits – Zodiac for solo marimba
Marc Mellits – Parkland for solo vibraphone
Marc Mellits – Stick for solo snare drum
Marc Mellits – Parkland for solo vibraphone
Marc Mellits – Stick for solo snare drum
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Elenna Sindler & Hasco Duo
Monday, October 4, 2021 @ 12:00pm – 12:45pm (EDT)
Online and in-person
Hasco Duo joins vocalist/composer/songwriter Elenna Sindler for a presentation of Elenna's songs – immersing Elenna's sophisticated pop sensibility & narrative vision in Hasco's psychedelic & dreamy soundworld.
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: feed – Ted Moore & Ben Roidl-Ward
Monday, October 4, 2021 @ 12:00am – 12:45am (EDT)
Online and in-person
Works composed & performed by Ted Moore (cymbal & electronics) & Ben Roidl-Ward (bassoon & feedback).
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Wurtz-Berger Duo
Sunday, October 3, 2021 @ 10:45pm – 11:30pm (EDT)
Online and in-person
Lawrence Axelrod – In Winter
Mischa Zupko – Love Obsession
Seth Boustead – New work TBA
Amy Wurtz – New work TBA
Mischa Zupko – Love Obsession
Seth Boustead – New work TBA
Amy Wurtz – New work TBA
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: ~Nois with Annika Socolofsky
Sunday, October 3, 2021 @ 9:30pm – 10:15pm (EDT)
Online and in-person
Mathew Arrellin – Metasomatic V
Annika Socolofsky – New work TBA (world premiere)
Annika Socolofsky – New work TBA (world premiere)
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Janice Misurell-Mitchell – Resistant Noise
Sunday, October 3, 2021 @ 8:30pm – 9:00pm (EDT)
Online and in-person
World premiere of Janice Misurell-Mitchell's Resistant Noise for vocal & instrumental ensemble & electronics, based on text by Jacques Attali.
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: D-Composed
Sunday, October 3, 2021 @ 6:00pm – 7:00pm (EDT)
Online and in-person
Performance by D-Composed, a Chicago-based chamber ensemble that honors Black creativity & culture through the music of Black composers. Program TBA.
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: CHAI Collaborative Ensemble
Sunday, October 3, 2021 @ 4:45pm – 5:30pm (EDT)
Online and in-person
Eric Malmquist – Sonata for Cello & Piano
Stacy Garrop – My Dearest Ruth
George Flynn – Selected songs from Chicago Poets Sing!
Shulamit Ran – Birkat Haderekh – Blessing for the Road
Stacy Garrop – My Dearest Ruth
George Flynn – Selected songs from Chicago Poets Sing!
Shulamit Ran – Birkat Haderekh – Blessing for the Road
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Fire Thief
Sunday, October 3, 2021 @ 4:00pm – 4:45pm (EDT)
Online and in-person
Genre-bending band/chamber ensemble Fire Thief performs songs by Devin Clara Fanslow, with Fanslow on mandolin/trumpet/vocals.
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: The Dream Songs Project & Ted Moore
Sunday, October 3, 2021 @ 2:45pm – 3:30pm (EDT)
Online and in-person
The Dream Songs Project (Alyssa Anderson, mezzo-soprano, & Joseph Spoelstra, guitars) perform Ted Moore's 2015 composition FEATHERMUCKER, with Moore on electronics.
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: a•pe•ri•od•ic
Sunday, October 3, 2021 @ 2:00pm – 2:45pm (EDT)
Online and in-person
Carol Genetti – Trace3
Benjamin Patterson – Pond
Emmanuelle Waeckerlé – O(hhh)
Nomi Epstein – communications (3): language
Benjamin Patterson – Pond
Emmanuelle Waeckerlé – O(hhh)
Nomi Epstein – communications (3): language
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Daniel Quinn & Janna Williamson // Daniel Pesca & Hanna Hurwitz
Sunday, October 3, 2021 @ 12:45pm – 1:30pm (EDT)
Online and in-person
Shawn Okpebholo – Excursions for trombone & piano
Daniel Pesca – Taking a Line for a Walk for violin & piano (world premiere)
Daniel Pesca – Taking a Line for a Walk for violin & piano (world premiere)
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: City Beautiful, featuring Marianne Parker, Michael Hall, & Megan Ihnen
Sunday, October 3, 2021 @ 12:00pm – 12:45pm (EDT)
Online and in-person
Pierce Gradone – Power Ballade
Steven Snowden – Twenty-Five Million Candles
Dennis Tobenski – Good Bones
Francine Trester – The Daniel Burnham Suite (world premiere)
Regina Harris Baiocchi – Landscapes
Steven Snowden – Twenty-Five Million Candles
Dennis Tobenski – Good Bones
Francine Trester – The Daniel Burnham Suite (world premiere)
Regina Harris Baiocchi – Landscapes
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Zachary Good & Tonia Ko
Saturday, October 2, 2021 @ 7:00pm – 7:45pm (EDT)
Online and in-person
Tonia Ko (bubble wrap) & Zachary Good (clarinets & recorders) present the world premiere of their composition Up High, an Ear Taxi Festival Commission.
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Avondale Trio
Saturday, October 2, 2021 @ 5:15pm – 6:00pm (EDT)
Online and in-person
Ralph Shapey – Piano Trio No. 1
Timothy Edwards – The Conjecture
Ilya Levinson – "II. Brunches" from The Polyphony of Trees
Timothy Edwards – The Conjecture
Ilya Levinson – "II. Brunches" from The Polyphony of Trees
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Gaudete Brass
Saturday, October 2, 2021 @ 5:00pm – 5:45pm (EDT)
Online and in-person
Who are the composers in your neighborhood? Gaudete Brass takes a trip around Chicago as they perform 7 world premieres by 7 Chicago composers.
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Tri-Again
Saturday, October 2, 2021 @ 4:00pm – 4:45pm (EDT)
Online and in-person
The musicians of Tri-Again – Laura Adkins (oboe, etc.), Jonathan Hannau (piano, etc.), & Riley Leitch (trombone, etc.) – present their collaborative composition Combinatorial Optimization.
Free (Free)
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