24 NOV 2018 SAT 19:30

Shadow Play

Collect / Project meets the art of poetry slam: The compositions pick up texts by writers and dress them in fine and transparent sounds. As a contrast to the abstract music we invite two protagonists of the local poetry slam scene to perform with us and create a musical dialogue between words and sounds

Kraftwerk Bille – Hamburg, Germany

*Support from Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg and Hamburgische Kulturstiftung

30 OCT - 3 NOV 2018

Dartmouth College Residency

Guest residency with Sonic Arts students

"Strategies for integrating performer choice and interactive electronics in recent works”

15 OCT 2018 MON 7:30PM

STELE

Kevin Harrison, Tuba with guest, Matt Oliphant, horn

Program includes music by Hindemith, Kraft & Gifford

Armerding Center for Music and the Arts 132 Recital Hall, Wheaton College Conservatory of Music

7 OCT 2018 SUN 8:30PM

STELE (world-premiere)

Matt Oliphant and Kevin Harrison perform new music for Horn & Tuba

Constellation  3111 North Western Avenue   Chicago, IL

6 OCT 2018 SAT 7:30 PM

Alas, but notwithstanding

The Athens Saxophone Quartet featuring works by Constantinides, Demos, and Gifford. With guest artists Mia Hynes, Michael Bersin, John Rutland, Carrie Turner, and Duncan Winslow

Wittmore Recital Hall, University of Missouri

4 OCT 2018 THURS 7 PM

Alas, but notwithstanding (world-premiere)

The Athens Saxophone Quartet featuring works by Constantinides, Demos, and Gifford.

With guest artists Mia Hynes, Michael Bersin, John Rutland, Carrie Turner, and Duncan Winslow.

Hart Recital Hall, Warrensburg, MO

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4 MAY 2018 FRI 8PM

Grrrr for Bass Trombone and Percussion

North American Premiere:

Wm. Riley Leitch, trombone

Ethan Martin, percussion

DePaul Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago

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11 MAR 2018 SUN 4PM

Hanging Gardens Project

Kayleigh Butcher, mezzo soprano, and Christopher Narloch, pianist, present Schönberg's masterpiece, Das Buch der hängenden Gärten, a 15-movement song cycle (Running Time - roughly 25-30 minutes) depicting a failed love affair between two teenagers in an idyllic garden. Eventually the woman leaves and the garden perishes. Using texts by Schönberg’s friend and poet, Stefan George, this work marked Schönberg's first shift from traditional musical order to 'pantonality'.To accompany this iconic work, Chris and Kayleigh have commissioned 15 one-minute pieces from American composers all over the country who were inspired by specific movements of Schönberg's masterpiece. The composers included are: Bethany Younge, Evan Williams, Steven Rice, Jessie Marino, David Grant, Jenna Lyle, Brian Penkrot, Alex Temple, Jonathan Sokol, Cara Haxo, Jonathan Hannau, Adrian Montúfar, Elliot Cless, Fredrick Gifford, and Pamela Stein Lynde.

10 MAR 2018 SAT 7:30PM

2018 UNK New Music Festival

Closing concert will include Amanda DeBoer Bartlett performing 100 Not-Songs for John Cage

23 FEB 2018 FRI 8PM

Hasco Duo

Program includes: One, Everyone (2013) for voice and electric guitar and the World-premiere of 127

for voice and guitar

800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago IL

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26-27 JAN 2018

Splice Festival

SPLICE Festival is a two-day festival that blends engaging live performances with new technologies. Composers, performers, and composer/performers gather for a weekend of concerts and presentations covering topics such as aesthetics, technology, and issues of performance practice, with the goal of inspiring, educating, and sharing information amongst the attendees and the students at the host institution. SPLICE Festival is designed to foster community and to create bonds between performers and composers dedicated to music that involves dynamic, live performance with technology. The inaugural SPLICE Festival will take place at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI on January 26th and 27th of 2018.

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07 JAN 2018 8:30PM

Holes and Tunnels

Ensemble Dal Niente Presents: Holes and Tunnels

New music by Sivan Cohen-Elias, Michelle Lou and Fredrick Gifford

Constellation 3111 North Western AvenueChicago, IL, 60618United States