Chamber music – Upcoming Concerts
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: DePaul Ensemble 20+, with members of Ensemble Dal Niente
Friday, October 1, 2032 @ 5:15pm – 6:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
George Lewis – Connectome (US premiere)
Thurman Barker – Pandemic Fever (world premiere)
Renée Baker – WUNDERKAMMER 3097: BLACKed IMAGINATION
Thurman Barker – Pandemic Fever (world premiere)
Renée Baker – WUNDERKAMMER 3097: BLACKed IMAGINATION
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Deidre Huckabay & collaborators – 'Words For Words From'
Friday, October 1, 2032 @ 6:15pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Performer/flutist Deidre Huckabay & a sextet of Chicago musicians, poets, & artists create a real life funeral rite, in which words to those who are no longer living are blared in a chaotic blend of text, drone, & noise.
Free (Free)
Wayward Music Series: Puget Sounds Wind Quintet
Friday, October 1, 2032 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Eric Ewazen – Roaring Fork
Frank Ticheli – In C Dorian
Don Bowyer – 5-4-3 Miniatures
Valerie Coleman – Umoja
David P. Jones – New work TBA (world premiere)
Frank Ticheli – In C Dorian
Don Bowyer – 5-4-3 Miniatures
Valerie Coleman – Umoja
David P. Jones – New work TBA (world premiere)
Free
Clarinettissimo 2021
Saturday, October 2, 2032 @ 1:00pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
SPU Nickerson Studios, Seattle, WA, United States
Seattle's premiere clarinet festival meets for its 21st year for 1 day only. Featuring masterclasses; an ornamentation workshop; clarinet choir; & performers from the Metropolitan Opera, Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra, & beyond.
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Tri-Again
Saturday, October 2, 2032 @ 1:00pm – 1:45pm (PDT)
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)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Avondale Trio
Saturday, October 2, 2032 @ 2:15pm – 3:00pm (PDT)
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: City Beautiful, featuring Marianne Parker, Michael Hall, & Megan Ihnen
Sunday, October 3, 2032 @ 9:00am – 9:45am (PDT)
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: Daniel Quinn & Janna Williamson // Daniel Pesca & Hanna Hurwitz
Sunday, October 3, 2032 @ 9:45am – 10:30am (PDT)
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: a•pe•ri•od•ic
Sunday, October 3, 2032 @ 11:00am – 11:45am (PDT)
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: The Dream Songs Project & Ted Moore
Sunday, October 3, 2032 @ 11:45am – 12:30pm (PDT)
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: CHAI Collaborative Ensemble
Sunday, October 3, 2032 @ 1:45pm – 2:30pm (PDT)
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)
Pacifica Chamber Orchestra: Opening Concert
Sunday, October 3, 2032 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PDT)
Archbishop Murphy High School, Everett, WA, United States
Oreste Ravanello – Due Pezzi per Orchestra d'Archi, Op. 11
Eugene Goossens – Phantasy Sextet, Op. 37
Ernst von Dohnányi – String Sextet in B-flat major (string orchestra version)
Eugene Goossens – Phantasy Sextet, Op. 37
Ernst von Dohnányi – String Sextet in B-flat major (string orchestra version)
$20 ($15 student/ages 65+)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: D-Composed
Sunday, October 3, 2032 @ 3:00pm – 4:00pm (PDT)
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: Janice Misurell-Mitchell – Resistant Noise
Sunday, October 3, 2032 @ 5:30pm – 6:00pm (PDT)
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: ~Nois with Annika Socolofsky
Sunday, October 3, 2032 @ 6:30pm – 7:15pm (PDT)
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: Wurtz-Berger Duo
Sunday, October 3, 2032 @ 7:45pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
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: Crossing Borders Music
Monday, October 4, 2032 @ 11:00am – 11:45am (PDT)
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: Unsupervised with Chicago Composer's Consortium
Monday, October 4, 2032 @ 11:45am – 12:30pm (PDT)
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)
The Contemporary Music Ensemble & Bienen Contemporary / Early Vocal Ensemble (BCE) of Northwestern University
Northwestern University Contemporary Music Ensemble,
Bienen Contemporary/Early Vocal Ensemble, and
Ear Taxi Festival
Monday, October 4, 2032 @ 5:30pm – 6:15pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Marcos Balter – Meltdown Upshot
Ayanna Woods – SHIFT
David Lang – stateless
Ayanna Woods – SHIFT
David Lang – stateless
Free (Free)
Roulette: Robert Dick & Ursel Schlicht – Flute & Piano Redefined—Again!
Wednesday, October 6, 2032 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
The long-standing duo of Robert Dick (Glissando Flute, bass flute, contrabass flute, & piccolo) & Ursel Schlicht (piano – both on the keyboard, & inside the instrument) premieres new music that seeks to expand the sound world of their instrumental configuration.
Free (Free ($20-$25 in person))