Jacobsen Series: When the Violin Sings

Friday, September 24, 2032 @ 7:30pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
Reena Esmail – When the Violin
Trevor Weston – Juba for Strings
William Grant Still – Suite for violin & piano
George Enescu – Violin Sonata No. 3, Op. 25

$20 ($15 senior/military/UPS, students free)

loadbang: Plays Well With Others

Saturday, September 25, 2032 @ 9:00am – 10:00am (PDT)
Online and in-person
New music ensemble loadbang celebrates the release of their new album Plays Well With Others with this live concert featuring works by Eve Beglarian, Reiko Füting, Scott Wollschleger, & more.

Free (Free ($10-$20 in person))

Sempre Chamber Music: An Evening of Clarinet Quintets

Sunday, September 26, 2032 @ 6:00pm – 8:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – Clarinet Quintet in F-sharp minor, Op. 10
Johannes Brahms – Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115

Free (Pay what you can ($15-$180 in-person))

Ear Taxi Festival Spotlight Concerts: Liza Sobel & Jonathan Hannau / deaf rabbit

Sunday, September 26, 2032 @ 6:30pm – 8:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Double bill featuring the duo of Liza Sobel, soprano & Jonathan Hannau, piano; & deaf rabbit (Rachel Peters, violin & Autumn Selover, harp). Includes world premieres from Liza Sobel & Oswald Huynh.

Free (Donations appreciated)

Ear Taxi Festival Spotlight Concerts: Julia A. Miller & Elbio Barilari, with KAIA String Quartet & Trevor Watkin

Monday, September 27, 2032 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Music of Julia A. Miller & Elbio Barilari, performed by the KAIA String Quartet & flutist Trevor Patrick Watkin.

Free (Free ($10 in person))

Roulette: Nick Dunston – 'La Operación: Reverberated'

Tuesday, September 28, 2032 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Nick Dunston presents La Operación: Reverberated, an "alternate reality-based inversion" of his 2019 work La Operación. Featuring Stephanie Lamprea (voice), Joy Guidry (bassoon), Anna Webber (tenor saxophone), & more.

Free (Free ($20-$25 in person))

Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Picosa

Thursday, September 30, 2032 @ 10:00am – 10:45am (PDT)
Online and in-person
Raven Chacon – Bilagáana ádin ("Dead White Men")
Xavier Beteta – Fragments of a Distant Dream
Jonathon Kirk – Meteore D’Inverno ("Winter Meteors")
Shulamit Ran – Mirage

Free (Free)

Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Quince Ensemble

Thursday, September 30, 2032 @ 1:45pm – 2:15pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Meara O'Reilly – Hockets I-II from Hockets
David Reminick – Shoshana
LJ White – Space
LJ White – Labor Day
Meara O'Reilly – Hockets III-IV from Hockets
Adrián Montúfar – Touch
Kari Watson – Intonations I (world premiere)
Bethany Younge – Her Disappearance

Free (Free)

Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Blue Violet Duo

Thursday, September 30, 2032 @ 2:15pm – 2:30pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
The Blue Violet Duo (Kate Carter, violin & Louise Chan, piano) performs Amos Gillespie's 2019 composition Spin-off.

Free (Free)

Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Michael Hall, Michael Delfin, & Megan Ihnen Trio

Thursday, September 30, 2032 @ 6:00pm – 6:45pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Stacy Garrop – Krakatoa
Eric Malmquist – Song of the Rattling Pipes
Evan Williams – The Devil in The Belfry
Osnat Netzer – Contrapose

Free (Free)

Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: KAIA String Quartet

Thursday, September 30, 2032 @ 6:45pm – 7:30pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Shulamit Ran – String Quartet No. 3 “Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory”
Gustavo Leone – String Quartet No. 3

Free (Free)

Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Fonema Consort

Thursday, September 30, 2032 @ 10:45pm – 10:45pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Kelley Sheehan – Eyes On
Mathew Arrellin – Umbra II
Luis Fernando Amaya – Studies for Bestiario: seis

Free (Free)

Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Sarah Plum & Nick Photinos

Friday, October 1, 2032 @ 9:30am – 10:15am (PDT)
Online and in-person
Osnat Netzer – Olive Cotton
Tonia Ko – Moves and Remains
Sidney Corbett – Absconditus
Kyong Mee Choi – Flowering Dandelion

Free (Free)

Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: 5th Wave Collective

Friday, October 1, 2032 @ 11:45am – 12:30pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Works for string quartet with & without oboe, by Shulamit Ran, Gabriella Smith, Stacy Garrop, Osnat Netzer, & Clarice Assad.

Free (Free)

Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Bach + Beethoven Experience

Friday, October 1, 2032 @ 1:30pm – 2:45pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Ronnie Kuller – Selections from Stories of the Bloomingdale Trail
Amos Gillespie – Three Songs
Heidi Joosten – Yes.

Free (Free)

Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Chicago Wind Project

Friday, October 1, 2032 @ 2:15pm – 3:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Aaron Holloway-Nahum – Ezra's Nursery
Pierce Gradone – Signs and Wonders
Tania León – De Memorias

Free (Free)

Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Fulcrum Point New Music Project

Friday, October 1, 2032 @ 3:15pm – 4:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Darlene Castro Ortiz – Desmoronamiento for flute & live electronics
Ricardo Lorenz – Jaromiluna for violin & harp
Lupita Diaz-Donato – Nubes for solo B-flat clarinet (world premiere)
Clarice Assad – Book of Spells for mixed ensemble

Free (Free)

Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Zafa Collective

Friday, October 1, 2032 @ 3:30pm – 4:15pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Liza Sobel – Five Scenes for String Quartet
Eliza Brown – Figure to Ground
Maria Kaoutzani – jaune doré
George Lewis – Signifying Riffs: Unison for string quartet & percussion

Free (Free)

Composers Concordance & Austrian Cultural Forum New York: CompCord & Entertaining Science

Friday, October 1, 2032 @ 4:00pm – 6:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Concert combining a short lecture by renowned scientist/facial recognition specialist Christina Pressl, with performances by trumpet soloist Franz Hackl, drummer Jonathan Kane, & the CompCord String Quartet.

Free (Free (RSVP required to attend in person))

Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: F-PLUS

Friday, October 1, 2032 @ 4:15pm – 5:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Jessie Montgomery – Trio for Clarinet, Violin, & Percussion (world premiere)
Liza Sobel – Trio for Clarinet, Violin, & Percussion
James Budinich – Fractured Matter

Free (Free)