COLLABORATIVE
ENSEMBLE
2017-2018 SEASON
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2017 | DRING, VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS, MALMQUIST, & LOEFFLER
3:00 PM | Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
1218 W. Addison Street, Chicago
CCE opens its third season with Madeleine Dring's Trio for flute, oboe, & piano; selections from Ralph Vaughan-Williams' Blake Songs; Charles Loeffler's sumptuous Two Rhapsodies for oboe, viola, and piano; and, anchoring the program is a World Premiere of Chicago composer Eric Malmquist's Madrigals for soprano, flute, viola, and piano.
Bridget Andes, viola
James Brinkmann, flute
Katy Compton, soprano
Talar Khosdeghian, piano
Laura Perkett, oboe
NOVEMBER 17-19, 2017 | IN COLLABORATION WITH LATITUDE 49
CHAI Collaborative Ensemble and Latitude 49 join forces to present Hope for Refuge, a series of collaborative concerts bringing awareness to homelessness, wandering, the lack of choice, susceptibility to violence, and the dehumanization it brings. With a shared dedication to exploring a variety of sounds, advocating for new works, and engaging diverse audiences in the communities where they perform, both ensembles are passionate about combining music performance and social consciousness in their programming.
Benefiting the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless (CCH), please join us as we explore this issue that affects Chicago and so many other communities.
The Artists:
Latitude 49
Max Geissler, cello
Andy Hall, saxophone
Andy Hudson, guest clarinet
Jani Parsons, piano
Chris Sies, percussion
Timothy Steeves, violin
From CHAI Collaborative Ensemble
Andrew Hesse, cello
Laura Perkett, soprano
Natalie Sherer, piano
The Repertoire:
Roshanne Etezady: Glint
Sarah Kirkland Snider: You Are Free
Mark Kilstofte: Ballistic Etude 3.1
Brian Petuch: Sunrise Sunset
Andre Previn: “Mercy” and “Shelter” from Four Songs for Soprano, Cello & Piano
Chris Sies: These (were) Used to Harm
Gomidas Vardabed: “Anduni”; “Krunk”
Hugo Wolf: Das Verlassene Mägdlein
November 17, at University of Illinois Chicago | 2:30pm
November 18, at St. Hilary Church | 7:30pm
November 19, at Ravenswood Fellowship United Methodist Church | 2pm
Admission is free, with suggested donation to CCH
SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 2018 | DE FALLA, TAILLEFERRE, GODARD, & MARTINŮ
7:30 PM | Salon des Artistes, Fine Arts Building
410 S. Michigan Avenue, Studio #535
Featuring music from across Europe, CCE continues its chamber music explorations with Germaine Tailleferre's delightful Piano Trio; Benjamin Godard's pastoral Aubade; songs by de Falla; and, Bohuslav Martinů's Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano.
The Artists:
Talar Khosdeghian, piano
Sara Litchfield, mezzo-soprano
Kelly Quesada, cello
Danielle Simandl, violin
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2018
3:00 PM | Evanston, IL: Exact address sent upon ticket purchase
Join CHAI Collaborative Ensemble (CCE) for their Mid-Season Benefit and first-ever House Concert at a private home in Evanston, IL (exact address sent upon ticket purchase). Admission includes a performance by the musicians of CCE, hors d'oeuvres and light refreshments, an artist reception after the performance, and a tax-deductible donation to CHAI Collaborative Ensemble.
The Program:
de Falla: selections from Siete canciones populares españolas
Mozart: "Non temer, amato bene", KV 490
Rossini: selected duets
Whitacre: Five Hebrew Love Songs
The Artists:
Talar Khosdeghian, piano
Sara Litchfield, mezzo-soprano
Laura Perkett, soprano
Caroline Rothstein, violin
SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 2018 | WOLF, BRITTEN, LEMAY, & MESSIAEN
7:30 PM | Atlas Arts Media
4809 N. Ravenswood Avenue
CCE weaves together the topics of love and war, and features a selection of songs by Hugo Wolf and Benjamin Britten, the World Premiere of What I did for Love – a work by American composer Marc LeMay based on texts by Panamá-born, NYC-based poet Darrel Alejandro Holnes, and Olivier Messiaen’s harrowing Quartet for the End of Time, one of his most significant works. Love is a frequent subject in Wolf’s Lieder, and is illustrated in Holnes’ poetry set by LeMay. Britten was openly against war during a time when such beliefs were contrary to popular opinion. The songs of Britten’s to be performed, selections from his settings of nine of The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, were written after he visited and performed at the liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and witnessed the aftermath of the horrors there. Messiaen wrote and premiered his Quartet for the end of time for himself and three fellow musicians while in a prison camp during World War II.
Uniting these works is a shared sense of resilience and a continued will to create art, even amid uncertain times. Join us for this special and provocative program.
The Program:
Wolf: Selections from Eichendorff-Lieder
Britten: Selections from The Holy Sonnets of John Donne
LeMay: What I did for Love
Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time
The Artists:
Alex Ellsworth, cello
Pascal Innocenti, violin
Maria Schwartz, flute
Charles Srstka, piano
Ryan Townsend Strand, tenor
Daniel Williams, clarinet
FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2018 | WHITACRE, TRUMBORE, BONIS, & RIPPER
7:30 PM | Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave #2, Chicago
CCE concludes their 2017-18 Season with a lively program including Eric Whitacre's Five Hebrew Love songs; The Gleam, a World Premiere by LA-based composer Dale Trumbore; Mel Bonis' Sonate pour flûte; and, João Guilherme Ripper's Cenas Infantis for oboe, cello, and piano.
The Artists:
Michael Hoover, flute
Gillian Hollis, soprano
Laura Perkett, oboe
Kelly Quesada, cello
Caroline Rothstein, violin
Stephen Paul Uhl, piano