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2021-22 SEASON: WE FORGE AHEAD
EAR TAXI FESTIVAL
OCTOBER 3, 2021 | 3:45pm
Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S. Ashland Ave., Chicago, IL
We opened our 2021-22 Season as part of Chicago's Ear Taxi Festival, an expansive celebration of Chicago's varied and vibrant music scene. On this program, we featured music by four living composers based in the Chicago area: George Flynn, Stacy Garrop, Eric Malmquist, and Shulamit Ran.
Rebekah Dotzel, cello
Talar Khosdeghian, piano
Laura Perkett, soprano
Caroline Rothstein, violin
Daniel Williams, clarinet
PAIRED: THE ART SONG
VIRTUAL RELEASE: March 26, 2022 | 7:30pm
We continue to explore duo repertoire, or music written for two musicians. In this year's rendition of our ongoing "Paired" series, our Co-Directors have co-curated a program of song cycles that feature poetry by Gustav Pfleger-Morávsky, Wendell Berry, and Mary Oliver.
Antonín Dvořák | Písně milostné, Op. 83
Scott Gendel | The Space Between
Lori Laitman | Early Snow
Laura Perkett, soprano
Talar Khosdeghian, piano
IN SLEEP THE WORLD IS YOURS
April 22, 2022 | 12:15pm
Fourth Presbyterian Church
126 E. Chestnut St., Chicago
CCE returns to Fourth Presbyterian Church's Friday Noonday Concert Series for a program that explores and honors the contributions of Jewish composers and poets to the chamber music repertoire. Eric Whitacre's Five Hebrew Love Songs set poetry by soprano Hila Plitmann, who also premiered the work. Lori Laitman's song cycle In Sleep the World is Yours features three poems by Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger, a Romanian-born German-language poet who died at the age of 18 in a labor camp in Ukraine. And, closing our program is Erwin Schulhoff's Violin Sonata No. 2, WV 91.
Alicia Berneche, soprano
Talar Khosdeghian, piano
Laura Perkett, oboe
Caroline Rothstein, violin
This concert is free and open to the public.
Photo Credit: Susan Candey
FACSIMILE
May 14, 2022 | 7:30pm
May 21, 2022 | 3:00pm
VIRTUAL REPLAY: June 2022
Co-commissioned with Citywater and New Music Detroit, this is the Chicago premiere of Griffin Candey's Facsimile: A Chamber Cello Concerto. In the composer's words, the piece "delves into memory — how memory can be something... personal or collective, quiet or weaponized." Rounding out the program are Aaron Jay Kernis' Air and Marc Mellits' Tight Sweater.
Bridget Andes, viola
Talar Khosdeghian, piano
Justin Peters, percussion
Kelly Quesada, cello
Caroline Rothstein, violin
Daniel Williams, clarinet
Both live performances on May 14 and 21 will take place at Immanuel Lutheran Church (1500 W. Elmdale Ave., Chicago).