Contemporary – Past Concerts
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Deidre Huckabay & collaborators – 'Words For Words From'
Friday, October 1, 2021 @ 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)
Florian Hollerweger & Christine Scherzer: 'Stimmen' – a 5-channel electroacoustic composition
Friday, October 1, 2021 @ 5:45pm – 6:15pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Florian Hollerweger & Christine Scherzer perform their 2019 composition Stimmen for voice & electronics.
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Jennie Oh Brown, flute
Friday, October 1, 2021 @ 5:30pm – 5:45pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Jennie Oh Brown performs George Lewis 2014 work, Emergent, for flute & electronics.
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: DePaul Ensemble 20+, with members of Ensemble Dal Niente
Friday, October 1, 2021 @ 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: F-PLUS
Friday, October 1, 2021 @ 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
Liza Sobel – Trio for Clarinet, Violin, & Percussion
James Budinich – Fractured Matter
Free (Free)
Composers Concordance & Austrian Cultural Forum New York: CompCord & Entertaining Science
Friday, October 1, 2021 @ 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: Zafa Collective
Friday, October 1, 2021 @ 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
Eliza Brown – Figure to Ground
Maria Kaoutzani – jaune doré
George Lewis – Signifying Riffs: Unison for string quartet & percussion
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Fulcrum Point New Music Project
Friday, October 1, 2021 @ 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
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: Fat Pigeon, with Daniel Robles Lizano
Friday, October 1, 2021 @ 2:30pm – 3:15pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Collective improvisation performance from Fat Pigeon (Emily Beisel, bass clarinet; Luis Fernando Amaya, percussion; Craig Davis Pinson, electric guitar) with visual art from Daniel Robles Lizano.
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Chicago Wind Project
Friday, October 1, 2021 @ 2:15pm – 3:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Aaron Holloway-Nahum – Ezra's Nursery
Pierce Gradone – Signs and Wonders
Tania León – De Memorias
Pierce Gradone – Signs and Wonders
Tania León – De Memorias
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Bach + Beethoven Experience
Friday, October 1, 2021 @ 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.
Amos Gillespie – Three Songs
Heidi Joosten – Yes.
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Nick Photinos, cello
Friday, October 1, 2021 @ 1:15pm – 2:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Nathalie Joachim – Dam Mwen Yo
Kyong Mee Choi – Inner Space
Nick Photinos – Untitled
Ted Hearne – DaVZ23BZMH0
Susanna Hancock – EVERYTHING IN BLOOM
Kyong Mee Choi – Inner Space
Nick Photinos – Untitled
Ted Hearne – DaVZ23BZMH0
Susanna Hancock – EVERYTHING IN BLOOM
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: DePaul Wind Ensemble | Erica Neidlinger, conductor
Friday, October 1, 2021 @ 1:00pm – 1:15pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
The DePaul Wind Ensemble presents the US premiere of George Lewis' Big Shoulders, Sharp Elbows.
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: 5th Wave Collective
Friday, October 1, 2021 @ 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: Jillian DeGroot
Friday, October 1, 2021 @ 11:15am – 11:35am (PDT)
Online and in-person
Composer/performer Jillian DeGroot presents her Lecture On Silence for Chicago, a lecture-performance that serves as an iterative culmination of her several-years-long journey toward & with silence.
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Ogni Suono
Friday, October 1, 2021 @ 10:15am – 11:00am (PDT)
Online and in-person
Ogni Suono (Noa Even & Phil Pierick, saxophones) present works by David Reminick, Chris-Fisher Lochhead, & Emily Koh.
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Sarah Plum & Nick Photinos
Friday, October 1, 2021 @ 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
Tonia Ko – Moves and Remains
Sidney Corbett – Absconditus
Kyong Mee Choi – Flowering Dandelion
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Fonema Consort
Thursday, September 30, 2021 @ 10:45pm – 10:45pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Kelley Sheehan – Eyes On
Mathew Arrellin – Umbra II
Luis Fernando Amaya – Studies for Bestiario: seis
Mathew Arrellin – Umbra II
Luis Fernando Amaya – Studies for Bestiario: seis
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: KAIA String Quartet
Thursday, September 30, 2021 @ 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
Gustavo Leone – String Quartet No. 3
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Michael Hall, Michael Delfin, & Megan Ihnen Trio
Thursday, September 30, 2021 @ 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
Eric Malmquist – Song of the Rattling Pipes
Evan Williams – The Devil in The Belfry
Osnat Netzer – Contrapose
Free (Free)