Tomorrow’s Music Today concerts feature music by some of today’s finest young composers, performed by Contempo’s resident ensemble, eighth blackbird, and guest artists. Programs will include works by University of Chicago doctoral candidates in composition.
Concert Program
Works by Alican Çamci, Igor Santos, Timothy Page, Phil Taylor, Tomás Gueglio Saccone
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Free admission, no reservations required
Tomorrow’s Music Today concerts feature music by some of today’s finest young composers, performed by Contempo’s resident ensemble, eighth blackbird, and guest artists. Programs will include works by University of Chicago doctoral candidates in composition.
Concert Program
Works by Jack Hughes, Joungbum Lee, Pierce Gradone, Katherine Pukinskis
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Free admission, no reservations required
Set I: Mondrian and More
Jaroslaw Kapuscinski: Mondrian Variations; Oli’s Dream; Juicy
Marek Choloniewski: Waves
From leading studios in California and Kraków, Jaroslaw Kapuscinski and Marek Choloniewski present the latest in multimedia content during performance. This up-to-the-minute trend in music intertwines works for piano and interactive audio-visual projection.
Set II: Chopin Can Swing
Grazyna Auguscik, jazz vocalist
Jarek Bester, accordion
Matt Ulery, bass
Maniacal 4 Trombone Quartet
Bringing a stunning voice and “no boundaries” style to the Chicago jazz scene, vocalist Grazyna Auguscik, virtuoso accordionist Jarek Bester, and their talented collaborators will perform an exhilarating set reflecting European roots and universal appeal. Of Auguscik the Chicago Tribune says, “This must-see performer is one of the best voices to be heard today.”
The Contempo-Jazz Double Bill is supported by the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Chicago.
Contempo is grateful to artist Julie Rafalski, who provides the artwork featured on the Contempo brochure and program book covers this season.
More of her artwork may be seen in the current Cafe Logan exhibit, “Dear Mondrian,” on view through April 22. Please click here to learn more.
eighth blackbird; Pacifica Quartet
Agata Zubel, vocalist; Tadeusz Wielecki, double bass
Concert Program
Agata Zubel: Not I
Tadeusz Wielecki: The Thread is Spinning
Christophe Bertrand: Madrigal
Marta Ptaszynska: Mosaics
Helmut Lachenmann: String Quartet No. 3, Grido
Contempo looks across the ocean to today’s leading European composers, creating a compelling program that features award-winning compositions and stunning soprano lines. The electric Agata Zubel, making a return to Contempo, and Tadeusz Wielecki, director of Warsaw Autumn Festival, perform in their own works.
Concert Program
O The Chimneys
Verticals
Lyre of Orpheus
Mirage
Bach Shards
The 51st season opens in celebration of Shulamit Ran, recently retired artistic director of Contempo (serving 2002-2015). Ran received the Pulitzer Prize in 1991 and has been awarded most major honors given to US composers. The program features her memorable and significant chamber works, beginning with O The Chimneys (1969), set on poems about those who perished in the Holocaust. The evening concludes with Bach Shards, commissioned in 2003 as part of the Brentano String Quartet’s invitation to 10 composers to write companion pieces for Bach’s Art of Fugue.
Enjoy music by some of today’s finest young composers, performed by Contempo’s resident ensembles, eighth blackbird and Pacifica Quartet, conducted by Cliff Colnot. Program will include dissertation works by UChicago doctoral candidates in composition.
7:30 Concert Program:
Works by Kate Pukinskis, Philip Taylor, and Iddo Aharony
Free admission / No reservations required
This performance will take place in Roosevelt University’s Ganz Hall, located at 430 S Michigan Ave.
There will be a reception immediately following the performance