IU Concert Band & Symphonic Band

Tuesday, October 5, 2021 @ 6:00pm – 8:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Joseph Turrin – Scarecrow Overture
David Biedenbender – Unquiet Hours
Vincent Persichetti – Divertimento, Op. 42
David Gillingham – New Century Dawn
Paul Creston – Celebration Overture, Op. 61
Ricardo Lorenz – Caminantes
Jennifer Higdon – Fanfare Ritmico
Alex Tedrow – Terrain Unknown

Free

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)

Free (Free)

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)

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)

Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Fire Thief

Sunday, October 3, 2021 @ 1:00pm – 1:45pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Genre-bending band/chamber ensemble Fire Thief performs songs by Devin Clara Fanslow, with Fanslow on mandolin/trumpet/vocals.

Free (Free)

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

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)

Clarinettissimo 2021

Saturday, October 2, 2021 @ 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, 2021 @ 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)

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)

Free

Ball State Wind Ensemble & Wind Symphony

Friday, October 1, 2021 @ 4:30pm – 6:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Program of concert band music featuring the Ball State University Wind Ensemble (director Thomas Caneva) & Wind Symphony (director Caroline Hand). Program TBA.

Free (Free ($0-$5 in person))

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: 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: 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: Picosa

Thursday, September 30, 2021 @ 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)

UNT Concert Band/University Band: Wind Studies Graduate Conductors

Wednesday, September 29, 2021 @ 5:30pm – 7:30pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Performance featuring the University of North Texas Concert Band & University Band, led by Wind Studies graduate student conductors. Program TBA.

Free

UNT Wind Orchestra: Andrew Trachsel, conductor

Tuesday, September 28, 2021 @ 5:30pm – 7:30pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Performance by the University of North Texas Wind Orchestra, Andrew Trachsel, conductor. Program TBA.

Free

Roulette: Nick Dunston – 'La Operación: Reverberated'

Tuesday, September 28, 2021 @ 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))