Em Spel + Her Only Light (Record Release Celebration)
Epiphany Center for the Arts / 7:00pm
Em Spel opens for Her Only Light, celebrating the release of their new album, Songs of Connie Converse, out on Sonoluminus.
Dal Niente Presents: Greg Beyer & Emma Hospelhorn
Dal Niente percussionist Gregory Beyer and flutist Emma Hospelhorn pair up to offer an exciting program of solos and duos, featuring the world premiere of “Dream Machines” by David Clay Mettens and a performance of “Witness Tree,” a new marimba solo by Pulitzer-Prize winning composer Melinda Wagner. The program will also include music by David Lang, Sungji Hong, and Füsun Köksal.
Album Listening Party: Portrait RE by Ensemble Dal Niente
find out more at www.dalniente.com
listen to the album at dalniente.bandcamp.com
Minor Moon Presents: Gillian & Dave Night III
Proceeds from this event go directly to Gaza Families.
Ear Taxi Festival: Holocene + Emma Hospelhorn at PianoForte
As part of Chicago’s Ear Taxi Festival, Holocene (Phoebe Wu, Piano; Isidora Nojkovic, Cello; Dalia Chin, Flute) will give the world premiere of a new work by Emma Hospelhorn.
The Universal Energy is About to Intervene in Your Life is a setting of a poem by Jenny Zhang, arranged for flute, cello, piano, and voice.
Emma Hospelhorn is the recipient of an Ear Taxi Micro-Grant for composers, and will perform with the trio for the premiere of this piece.