New music – Past Concerts
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Unsupervised with Chicago Composer's Consortium
Monday, October 4, 2021 @ 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)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Peter Ferry, percussion
Monday, October 4, 2021 @ 9:45am – 10:30am (PDT)
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 @ 9:00am – 9:45am (PDT)
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: Wurtz-Berger Duo
Sunday, October 3, 2021 @ 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)
The Sound Ensemble: EXTRACTION – Art on the Edge of the Abyss
Sunday, October 3, 2021 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
The Royal Room, Seattle, WA, United States
Žibuoklė Martinaitytė – Solastalgia (US premiere)
Henning Kraggerud – ROMANTARCTICA
Jerry Mader – Pietà: Lament at the Edge of the Abyss (world premiere)
Henning Kraggerud – ROMANTARCTICA
Jerry Mader – Pietà: Lament at the Edge of the Abyss (world premiere)
$15 advance, $20 at the door, $7 student
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: ~Nois with Annika Socolofsky
Sunday, October 3, 2021 @ 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: Janice Misurell-Mitchell – Resistant Noise
Sunday, October 3, 2021 @ 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)
C4: Joy
Sunday, October 3, 2021 @ 11:30am – 12:30pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Works by Julius Eastman, Bernard Rands, Martha Sullivan, & more, plus a world premiere from Leah Ofman, in this performance from Saint John's In the Village in NYC.
Online ticket price TBD | $12 in-person
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: a•pe•ri•od•ic
Sunday, October 3, 2021 @ 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: Daniel Quinn & Janna Williamson // Daniel Pesca & Hanna Hurwitz
Sunday, October 3, 2021 @ 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: City Beautiful, featuring Marianne Parker, Michael Hall, & Megan Ihnen
Sunday, October 3, 2021 @ 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)
The Sound Ensemble: EXTRACTION – Art on the Edge of the Abyss
Saturday, October 2, 2021 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Trinity Church Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States
Žibuoklė Martinaitytė – Solastalgia (US premiere)
Henning Kraggerud – ROMANTARCTICA
Jerry Mader – Pietà: Lament at the Edge of the Abyss (world premiere)
Henning Kraggerud – ROMANTARCTICA
Jerry Mader – Pietà: Lament at the Edge of the Abyss (world premiere)
$20 (students/seniors "pay-what-you-can", ages 12 & under free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Zachary Good & Tonia Ko
Saturday, October 2, 2021 @ 4:00pm – 4:45pm (PDT)
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: Gaudete Brass
Saturday, October 2, 2021 @ 2:00pm – 2:45pm (PDT)
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: Shanna Pranaitis & Jay Alan Yim
Saturday, October 2, 2021 @ 11:15am – 12:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Shanna Pranaitis & Jay Alan Yim present Yim's 2018 work The Rope Dancer Accompanies Herself With Her Shadows for quarter tone bass flute & live electronics.
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Patricia Morehead
Saturday, October 2, 2021 @ 11:00am – 11:15pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Performer/composer Patricia Morehead presents her 2019 composition Sounds and Sighs for John for solo oboe, oboe d'amore, & electronics.
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Susan Merdinger, Steinway Artist
Saturday, October 2, 2021 @ 10:15am – 11:00am (PDT)
Online and in-person
Aaron Alter – Piano Sonata
Elbio Barilari – Saxon Variations
Ilya Levinson – Shtetl Scenes
Elbio Barilari – Saxon Variations
Ilya Levinson – Shtetl Scenes
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Garrett Mendelow, percussion/voice
Saturday, October 2, 2021 @ 9:30am – 10:00am (PDT)
Online and in-person
Garrett Mendelow performs Rodrigo Bussad's 2019 work Atlas Vocalis I for percussion, vocalization, & electronics.
Free (Free)
Wayward Music Series: Puget Sounds Wind Quintet
Friday, October 1, 2021 @ 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
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)