By Wynne Delacoma, critic
Shulamit Ran, artistic director of Contempo, certainly got it right in her remarks before the ensemble’s annual double bill of new music and jazz Saturday night at the University of Chicago’s Logan Center. The concert, she told the large, attentive audience, would offer “smart, bold” music by four composers with “strong personal voices.” Works by Franghiz Ali-Zadeh, Elena Firsova and Marta Ptaszynska along with a post-intermission set by jazz pianist Patricia Barber and three colleagues easily fulfilled that promise.