Festival – Past Concerts
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: Avondale Trio
Saturday, October 2, 2021 @ 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: 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: 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)
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: 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)
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)
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)