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: 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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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: 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

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

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

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

Free (Free)

Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Chicago Arts & Music Project/DePaul Concert Orchestra

Thursday, September 30, 2021 @ 3:00pm – 3:30pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Following a weeklong residency with members of the DePaul Concert Orchestra, Chicago Arts & Music Project (CAMP) & DePaul University students present an entirely new composition as part of the 2021 Ear Taxi Festival.

Free (Free)

Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Blue Violet Duo

Thursday, September 30, 2021 @ 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: Quince Ensemble

Thursday, September 30, 2021 @ 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: Lisa Goethe-McGinn, flutes

Thursday, September 30, 2021 @ 12:30pm – 1:15pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Kyong Mee Choi – Slight Uncertainty is Very Attractive
Lisa Goethe-McGinn – To Each Her Own…
Regina Harris Baiocchi – Autumn Night
Janice Misurell-Mitchell – Sometimes the City is Silent
Augusta Read Thomas – Angel Shadows

Free (Free)