UPCOMING:
Friday, July 14, 2023
Ensemble Dal Niente
recording session of Osnat Netzer’s They Bury Their Dead with Great Ululations (2018)
Gannon Concert Hall, Holtschneider Performance Center at the DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL
PAST EVENTS:
Saturday, June 17, 2023
Ensemble Dal Niente: Season Closing Concert
Tomás Gueglio, Canciones que el río murmura (2023)
Paulo Henrique Raposo, Sextet (2017/22)
Graciela Paraskevaídis, Libres en el sonido presos en el sonido (1997)
Hilda Paredes, Reencuentro (2013)
Marcos Balter, Ear, Skin and Bone Riddles (2010)
Melissa Vargas, Como una primera meditación for solo voice, 2023
Nicols Concert Hall, Evanston, IL
Thursday, June 15, 2023, 7:00 PM
Americas Society Presents: Ensemble Dal Niente
Tomás Gueglio, Canciones que el río murmura* (2023) (world premiere)
Paulo Henrique Raposo, Sextet (2017/22) (North American premiere)
Graciela Paraskevaídis, Libres en el sonido presos en el sonido (1997)
Hilda Paredes, Reencuentro (2013)
Marcos Balter, Ear, Skin and Bone Riddles (2010)
Melissa Vargas, Como una primera meditación for solo voice, 2023 (world premiere)
Council of the Americas, NY, NY
May 26, 2023, 8:00 PM (along with Dr. Erica Neidlinger, Wind Symphony conductor)
DePaul Concert Orchestra, DePaul Wind Symphony
Ludwig van Beethoven: Coriolan Overture
Bela Bartók (1881-1945) Romanian Folk Dances
Thurman Barker: Mr. Speed-Str (2022); Thurman Barker, drumkit (Midwest premiere)
Gannon Concert Hall, Holtschneider Performance Center at the DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL
May 20, 2023, 6:00 PM (along with Prof. Scott Burns, Interim Director of Jazz)
DePaul University School of Music Annual Spring Gala
DePaul Symphony Orchestra, DePaul Jazz Workshop
Joan Tower: For the Uncommon Woman, for orchestra
Charles Gounod: “Ô ma lyre eternelle” from Sapho (Sadie Cheslak, mezzo-soprano)
Maurice Ravel: Rapsodie espangole
Gannon Concert Hall, Holtschneider Performance Center at the DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL
May 13, 2023, 8:00 PM (along with Dr. Eric Esparza, Director of Choral Activities)
DePaul Concert Orchestra, DePaul Choirs
Fray Ponce de León: Venid, venid deidades
Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia: Missa dos Defuntos (Requiem Mass) in D minor
Gannon Concert Hall, Holtschneider Performance Center at the DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL
Apr 21-22, 2023
Dal Niente in Residence at Miami University of Ohio
Friday, April 14, 2023, 8:30 PM
Dal Niente at University of Washington
Works by Joel Durand, Huck Hodge, Andile Khumalo, and Miya Masaoka
Meany Hall, Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater, Seatttle, WA
Friday, April 7, 2023, 8:00 PM
Dal Niente performs works by Stanford University Composers
Clara Allison and Julie Zhu, Lighthouse for large ensemble
Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi, In-Betweenness for large ensemble
Tatiana Catanzaro, Traces fouillis gris pâle presque blanc sur blanc (2007) for violin, viola, and cello
Seán Ó Dálaigh, La luz de la mañana for large ensemble
Utku Asuroglu, Untitled for large ensemble
Nichols Concert Hall, Evanston, IL
Saturday, March 11, 2023, 7:30 PM
Dal Niente in residence at Brandeis University.
Slosberg Music Center, Waltham, MA
March 7-9, 2023
Dal Niente in residence at Brown University.
Granoff Center for the Performing Arts, Providence, RI
March 3, 2023, 8:00 PM (along with Dr. Erica Neidlinger, Wind Symphony conductor)
DePaul Concert Orchestra, DePaul Wind Symphony
Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture
Henryk Górecki: Three Dances for Orchestra, Op. 34
Gannon Concert Hall, Holtschneider Performance Center at the DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL
February 9-11, 2023
Ensemble Dal Niente in Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh and Andy Warhol Museum)
Works by Igor Santos, George Lewis, Nicole Mitchell, and others.
February 3, 2023, 8:00 PM
DePaul Concert Orchestra
Lili Boulanger - D’un matin du printemps
Lili Boulanger - Un Soire Triste
Florence Price - Symphony No. 3 in C minor
Gannon Concert Hall, Holtschneider Performance Center at the DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL
January 27, 2023, 8:00 PM (re-run July 21, 2023, 8:00 PM)
WFMT Radio Network: Sounds Classical
The rivalry between Salieri and Mozart is one cemented in the history books of classical music. Join LaRob and Kristina on a lighthearted but cutthroat musical showdown between the two composers to determine who really reigns supreme and why. They are joined by conductor Michael Lewanski, who offers more context on each composer and this age-old debate.
January 27, 2023
Ensemble Dal Niente
Recording session for Joël Durand: Mundus Imaginalis
Nichols Concert Hall, Evanston, IL
January 20-21, 2023
Ensemble Dal Niente
Recording session for Roscoe Mitchell: Last Trane to Clover Five and Nicole Mitchell: The Cult of Electromagnetic Connectivity
Electric Audio, Chicago, IL
December 5, 2022, 8:00 PM
Guest conductor: Picosa
Libby Larsen: Corker
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Trio in G major, Op. 1 No. 2
Chris Rogerson: In passing
Joan Tower: Tres Lent
Osnat Netzer: Concerto Grosso “Moledet”
Brennan Recital Hall, Holtschneider Performance Center at the DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL
November 9, 2023, 3:30 PM
Toledo Symphony Orchestra
Workshop of Recent Orchestra Compositions
Kobacker Hall, Bowling Green, OH
November 5, 2022, 8:00 PM
DePaul Concert Orchestra
Louise Farrenc: Première Ouverture à grand orchestre
Dmitri Shostakovich: Hamlet, op. 32a - Suite from the Theatre Music
Alberto Ginastera: Four Dances from Estancia
Gannon Concert Hall, Holtschneider Performance Center at the DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL
Oct 25-27, 2022
Dal Niente at Peabody Conservatory
Dal Niente performs works by graduate and undergraduate composers as part of a residency at Peabody Conservatory.
Baltimore, MD
October 14, 2022, 8:00 PM (along with Dr. Erica Neidlinger, Wind Symphony conductor)
DePaul Concert Orchestra, DePaul Wind Symphony
Manuel de Falla - Ritual Fire Dance from El Amor Brujo
William Grant Still - Darker America
Franz Schubert - Symphony No. 6 in C Major
Gannon Concert Hall, Holtschneider Performance Center at the DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL
Oct 6-9, 2022
Dal Niente on Tour: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Festival Nueva Opera Buenos Aires and Center for Experimentation Teatro Colón (CETC) present Ensemble Dal Niente, who perform works by Katherine Young, Tomás Gueglio, George Lewis, Roscoe Mitchell, Carola Bauckholt and CETC composers Sebastián Verea, Agustina Crespo, Santiago Villalba as part of a three-concert residency.
Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires
September 30, 2022, 8:00 PM
DePaul Symphony Orchestra
Julia Perry: Short Piece for Orchestra
Maurice Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales
Franz Schubert: excerpts from Rosamunde: Overture, Ballet Music No. 2, Entr’acte No. 1
Gannon Concert Hall, Holtschneider Performance Center at the DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL
September 24, 2022, 8:00 PM
Ensemble Dal Niente; Proximity: Carola Bauckholt
Carola Bauckholt | Pacific Time (2022)* for 13 players
Carola Bauckholt | Vakuum Lieder for soprano with vacuum cleaner
Carola Bauckholt | Oh I See for clarinet, cello, piano, and two large balloons with eyeball projections
George Lewis | Flux for 16 players
Gannon Concert Hall, Holtschneider Performance Center at the DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL
August 8-13, 2022
Ensemble Dal Niente at São Paolo Contemporary Composer's Conference
São Paolo, Brazil
July 11-16, 2022
Ensemble Dal Niente/DePaul University School of Music
Summer Residency for New Music
Holtschneider Performance Center at the DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL
Friday, June 24, 2022 8:00 PM
Guest Conductor: Seattle Modern Orchestra: The shape of the wind, the shadow of time
HUCK HODGE The shape of the wind, the shadow of time for percussion soloist and ensemble (2019) – World Premiere
KATE SOPER Now is Forever for soprano and chamber orchestra (2015)
TANIA LEÓN Indígena (1991)
Town Hall - Great Hall, 1119 8th Ave, Seattle WA 98101
Thursday, April 28, 2022 8:00PM
DePaul Concert Orchestra and DePaul Symphonic Choir
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Masonic Funeral Music, K. 477
Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia: Sinfonia Fúnebre
Mozart/Süßmayr | Requiem Mass in D minor, K. 626
Gannon Concert Hall, Holtschneider Performance Center at the DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL
Saturday, March 26 through Sunday, March 27, 2022
Ensemble Dal Niente + Ken Vandermark at Big Ears Festival: Knoxville Museum of Art Residency
Music by Luis Fernando Amaya, Fred Anderson, Anthony Braxton, Eliza Brown, Katinka Kleijn, George Lewis, Alvin Lucier, Jeff Parker, James Tenney, and others
Friday, March 25, 2022, 8:15
Ensemble Dal Niente + Ken Vandermark at Big Ears Festival
Music by Wang Lu, George Lewis, Roscoe Mitchell, and Hunter Brown
First Baptist Church, 510 Main Street West, Knoxville, TN
Sunday, February 27, 2022 8:00 PM
Ensemble Dal Niente plays Frequency Festival
Murat Çolak, Nefes.Pas.Cira.Isi (2015) for piccolo and percussion
Liza Lim, Garden of Earthly Desire (1989) for 11 musicians (flute, oboe, clarinet, percussion, mandolin, electric guitar, harp, violin, viola, cello, contrabass)
Linda Catlin Smith, New Vine (2021) for flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, viola, cello, and contrabass
Constellation Chicago
March 12, 2022, 8:00PM: American symphonism?
DePaul Combined Orchestras
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, “From the New World”
Florence Price: Symphony No. 1 in E minor
Gannon Concert Hall, Holtschneider Performance Center at the DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL
February 4, 2022, 8:00 PM: Orchestral Music of the African Diaspora
DePaul Concert Orchestra
Roque Cordero (Panama/US): Ocho Miniaturas
Fela Sowande (Nigeria): excerpts from African Suite
Hannah Kendall (UK): Tuxedo: Vasco 'de' Gama
George Lewis (US): Arcades
Gannon Concert Hall, Holtschneider Performance Center at the DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL
Nov. 19, 2021, 8 PM
Qubit presents: Ensemble Dal Niente
Alec Hall: Spin (2020)
David Bird: Thresholds (2017)
Nicole Mitchell: Cult of Electromagnetic Connectivity (2021)
Jennifer Walshe: The Dowager Marchylove's The Wasistas of Thereswhere (2008)
Cary Hall, DiMenna Center, New York
Nov. 1, 2021, 7 PM
Guest conductor: CSO MusicNOW: Homecoming
Elijah Daniel Smith: Scions of an Atlas [CSO MusicNOW Commission, World Premiere]
Jessie Montgomery: Loisaida, My Love
Montgomery: Lunar Songs
Natalie Joachim: Seen
Ted Hearne: Authority
Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago
September 15-October 4, 2021
Ear Taxi Festival (Curatorial Director)
various venues (please visit website), Chicago, IL
September 25, 2021, 7:15 PM
Ensemble Dal Niente with Ken Vandermark
Roscoe Mitchell: Last Trane to Clover 5 (world premiere)
Nicole Mitchell: The Cult of Electromagnetic Connectivity
George Lewis: Merce and Baby
Fred Anderson: selected works
Hyde Park Jazz Festival
Logan Center for the Arts, 915 E. 60th St, Chicago, IL
August 3-7, 2021
Guest Conductor: Conference Ensemble
Composers Conference
José Manuel Serrano: Ruiseñor en el reflejo (world premiere)
Josiah Tayag Catalan: Dark Flight (world premiere)
Linda Catlin Smith: New Vine (world premiere)
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
July 25-31, 2021
Ensemble Dal Niente/DePaul University School of Music
Summer Residency for New Music
Holtschneider Performance Center at the DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL
July, 2021
Ensemble Dal Niente: Remote Residency with University of Washington
June 26, 2021, 7:00 PM
Ensemble Dal Niente: Party 2021: Once More, With Streaming
Jeffrey Mumford: Becoming . . . (2015) for solo piano and ensemble; Winston Choi, Piano
Osnat Netzer: I Won’t Be Outrun by a Cavalry of Snails (2021) for two sopranos and ensemble; Amanda DeBoer Bartlett and Carrie Henneman Shaw, Sopranos (WORLD PREMIERE)
Dai Fujikura: Horn Concerto No. 2 (2018) for solo horn and ensemble; Matt Oliphant, Horn
Miya Masaoka, The Dust and the Noise (2013) for piano, percussion, cello, and violin
Online
Music Institute of Chicago, Evanston, IL
Summer 2021
Ensemble Dal Niente/Qbit
new work by Alec Hall (Fromm Music Foundation commission)
works of David Bird and Aaron Einbond
Holtschneider Performance Center at the DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL
June 5, 2021, 7:00 PM
Ensemble Dal Niente: Proximity Portrait: Andile Khumalo
Shades of Words (2011): narrator, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, viola, cello
Cry Out (2009): viola with oboe, piano, percussion
ISO[R] (2004): flute, cello, piano
Beyond Her Mask (2021) WORLD PREMIERE Co-commissioned by Ensemble Dal Niente and the Edwin H. Case Chair, Columbia University: voice, flute, clarinet, oboe, horn, piano, percussion, violin, viola, cello
Video recording link
Holtschneider Performance Center at the DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL
May 3, 2021, 7:00 PM
Ensemble Dal Niente: Latin American Music Concert presented by Americas Society
Julián Carrillo: Preludio a Colón (1922) for soprano, flute, guitar, violin, violin, viola, cello, and harp
Hilda Paredes: Siphonophore (2016) for flute, clarinet, piano, violin, viola, cello
Tomás Gueglio: New Piece (2021)* for soprano, flute, horn, violin, guitar and harp
Tania León: Homenatge (2014) for solo piano
Melissa Vargas: Es casi como el inicio… (2010) for soprano, guitar, Bb clarinet, percussion
Video recording link
Music Institute of Chicago, Evanston, IL
November 13, 2020, 7:00 PM
Ensemble Dal Niente presented by the Library of Congress
Nur Slim Humming Between Branches (large ensemble, soprano solo)
Hilda Paredes Demente Cuerda (large ensemble, harp solo)
Tomas Gueglio Lamarque Songs (soprano, guitar, flute, percussion, viola)
Igor Santos Confined Speak (violin, piano) World Premiere. McKim Fund Commission
Luis Amaya Tinta Roja, Tinta Negra (open instrumentation and amplified jarana)
Tania León De Memorias (wind quintet)
Video recording link
Friday, October 16, 2020
Ensemble Dal Niente season opener: Whirlpools of Time
Anthony Green - P is for … (2016) for four performers
Gerard Grisey - Vortex Temporum for ensemble (1996)
Melissa Vargas Franco - Paráfrasis for trio (2013)
Rebecca Saunders - O Yes and I for Soprano and Bass Flute (2017)
Video recording link
Holtschneider Performance Center at the DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL
July 6-12, 2020
The Dal Niente and DePaul Summer Residency for New Music
Works by participant composers
Video recording link
Gannon Concert Hall, Holtschneider Performance Center at the DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL
CANCELED DUE TO COVID-19
Thursday, May 28, 2020, 8:00 PM
DePaul Concert Orchestra in collaboration with Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, Orbert Davis, conductor
Orbert Davis: A Lost Panorama
Davis: Brewing the Toxic Stew
Davis: Hymn of Darkness and Light (from Mississippi River Suite)
Davis: Tributary (from Mississippi River Suite)
Davis: One Thousand Questions / 1 Answer (From Collective Creativity Suite)
arr. Davis: I Hear Music / Blue Skies
Schuller: Concertino for Jazz Quartet and Orchestra
Gannon Concert Hall, Holtschneider Performance Center at the DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL
CANCELED DUE TO COVID-19
Tuesday, May 19, 2020, 8:00 PM
DePaul Ensemble 20+
works by George Lewis, Nicole Mitchell, Tomeka Reid, Muhal Richard Abrams
Gannon Concert Hall, Holtschneider Performance Center at the DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL
CANCELED DUE TO COVID-19
Monday, May 18, 2020 7:00 PM
guest conductor: Chicago Symphony Orchestra MusicNOW Series
Tomeka Reid Prospective Dwellers
Wadada Leo Smith Delta Blues [World Premiere]
Nicole Mitchell Cult of Electromagnetic Connectivity [World Premiere, MusicNOW Commission]
George Lewis Tales of the Traveler
Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Chicago, IL
POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Distractfold, Ensemble Dal Niente, Ensemble 20+
Holtschneider Performance Center, Gannon Concert Hall, DePaul University School of Music
CANCELED DUE TO COVID-19
Saturday, March 28, 2020, 9:30 PM
The Music of Roscoe Mitchell: Dal Niente with Ken Vandermark at Big Ears
Dal Niente, in large ensemble form, teams up with legendary saxophonist Ken Vandermark to perform brand-new music by Roscoe Mitchell, a fearless musical pioneer whose music has, over the last half-century, changed the very definition of what is possible. Dal Niente is co-presenting this work with the Birdhouse, an organization dedicated to honoring the legacy of Fred Andersen, whose Velvet Lounge was an anchor for new forms of music in Chicago for decades.
George Lewis, Hexis
Wang Lu, Urban Inventory
Rebecca Saunders, O Yes and I
Andile Khumalo, Shades of Words
Roscoe Mitchell, Last Trane to Clover 5
Church Street UMC, Knoxville, TN
POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19
March 24, 2020, 8:00 PM
Ensemble Dal Niente, with guest soloist Ken Vandermark, reeds
Roscoe Mitchell: New Work (world premiere)
Katinka Kleijn: Echo Forward
George Lewis: Assemblage
Thalia Hall, Chicago, IL
CANCELED DUE TO COVID-19
March 14, 2020, 8:00 PM
DePaul Concert Orchestra
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasy on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Jessie Montgomery: Source Code
William Grant Still: Danzas de Panama
John Adams: Shaker Loops
Gannon Concert Hall, Holtschneider Performance Center at the DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL
March 12, 2020, 8:00 PM
DePaul Ensemble 20+
Aditya Sharma: New Work (world premiere)
Eric Huels: New Work (world premiere)
National Call for Scores work
New Work by student from CIEM (Mexico City)
Gannon Concert Hall, Holtschneider Performance Center at the DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL
Wednesday, March 11, 2020, 7:30 PM
Ensemble Dal Niente at Northwestern University
Dal Niente performs world premieres of music for violin, clarinet, flute, cello, and harp by Northwestern University composers, including Lisa Atkinson, George Papajohn, Zoe Morfas, Ruud Roelofsen, Liza Sobel, and Ben Zucker.
Galvin Recital Hall, Bienen School of Music
Sunday, March 1, 2020, 4:00 PM
Leading International Composers: George Lewis, featuring Ensemble Dal Niente
Dal Niente performs the music of George Lewis, which the ensemble recorded to wide acclaim in 2017. The program will include Assemblage, which was written for the ensemble in 2013.
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
February 7, 2020, 8:00 PM
DePaul Concert Orchestra
Emilie Mayer: Faust-Overture
LJ White: Community Acoustics
RobertLt Schumann: Symphony No. 4 in D minor
Gannon Concert Hall, Holtschneider Performance Center at the DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL
January 30, 2020, 8:00 PM
DePaul Ensemble 20+: Collaboration with DePaul Art Museum on music, art, and architecture; featuring artist Julia Fish and composer Anne Leileihua Lanzilotti
Dufay, arr. Norman: Nuper Rosarum
Andrew Norman: Farnsworth: Four Portraits of a House
Norman: Frank's House
Anne Lanzilotti: to you (the architects are most courageous)
Lanzilotti: beyond the accident of time
Earle Brown: December 1952
Gannon Concert Hall, Holtschneider Performance Center at the DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL
December 6, 2019, 7:00 PM
guest conductor: Grossman Ensemble at Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition (University of Chicago)
New works by Anthony Cheung, Tania Leon, Will Myers, Alison Yun-Fei Jiang
University of Chicago, Logan Center for the Arts
November 11, 2019, 8:00 PM
DePaul Ensemble 20+
Liz Lim: The Heart’s Ear
Iris ter Schiphorst: Zerstören
Betty Olivero: KAVE’I-AVI’R (a volo d'uccello)
Oznat Netzer: Schertch
Netzer: They Bury Their Dead with Great Ululations
Gannon Concert Hall, Holtschneider Performance Center at the DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL
November 8, 2019, 8:00 PM
DePaul Concert Orchestra
Fanny Mendelssohn: Overture in C major
Haydn: Horn Concerto in D major (horn and strings, Neil Kimel, horn)
Haydn: Symphony No. 101 in D major, “The Clock”
Gannon Concert Hall, Holtschneider Performance Center at the DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL
November 5, 2019, 3:30 PM
Toledo Symphony Orchestra
Workshop of Recent Orchestra Compositions
Kobacker Hall, Bowling Green, OH
October 14, 2019, 8:00 PM
DePaul Ensemble 20+
Louis Andriessen: Volkslied
Missy Mazzoli: Still Life with Avalanche
Cassie Wieland: Halo
Fjóla Evans: HOLLYWOOD
Gannon Concert Hall, Holtschneider Performance Center at the DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL
October 12, 2019, 8:00 PM
DePaul Concert Orchestra, Symphonic Choir, Windy City Performing Arts
Inti Figgis-Vizueta: Symphony for the Body
Ethel Smyth: Two Interlinked French Folk Melodies
Charles T. Griffes: The White Peacock
Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
Gannon Concert Hall, Holtschneider Performance Center at the DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL
October 7, 2019, 7:00 PM
guest conductor: Chicago Symphony Orchestra MusicNOW Series
Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Chicago, IL
Wang Code Switch [World Premiere, MusicNOW Commission]
Verunelli Magic Mauve
Brown Figure to Ground
Merivale The Language of Mountains is Rain
White Community Acoustics [World Premiere of new arrangement, MusicNOW commissioned arrangement made possible through the generous support of Helen Zell]
September 28, 2019, 8 PM
Ensemble Dal Niente season opener
Holtschneider Performance Center at the DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL
July 28-August 2, 2019
Ensemble Dal Niente and DePaul University School of Music New Music Residency
featuring composer guest composer Carola Bauckholt
Holtschneider Performance Center at the DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL
July 7-20, 2019
resident conductor: soundSCAPE Festival, featuring distinguished guest composer George Lewis
Performances of compositions by participants and faculty.
Conservatorio di Musica “Bruno Maderna,” Cesena, Italy
June 4-9, 2019
Ensemble Dal Niente residency at June in Buffalo
Performances of compositions by participants and faculty
University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Saturday, June 1, 2019, 9:30 PM
Ensemble Dal Niente performance on L.A. Philharmonic’s Noon to Midnight
Erin Gee: Segment of the 4th letter
Mario Davidovsky: Festino
Anthony Cheung: New work (World Premiere)
Igor Santos: two, two.
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA
Thursday, May 30, 2018, 8:00 PM
DePaul Concert Orchestra and Ensemble 20+ joint concert: Musical Spaces
Hannah Barnes: New Work (world premiere)
Charles Ives: The Unanswered Question
Drew Baker: Nox
Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 45, “Farewell”
Alex Temple: Thick Line
Hanna Eimermacher: Hommage en die Klimperkasten
Courtney Bryan: Sanctum
Gannon Concert Hall, Holtschneider Performance Center at the DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL
Friday, May 3, 2019, 8:00 PM
DePaul Concert Orchestra
Jessie Montgomery: Starburst
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major (George Vatchnadze, piano)
Schubert: Symphony No. 3 in D major
Gannon Concert Hall, Holtschneider Performance Center at the DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL
Thursday, May 2, 2019, 7:00 PM
DePaul Ensemble 20+
Jeremy Zimmer: Suite for Ensemble (world premiere)
Erin Gee: Mouthpiece XXVIII
Andrea Chamizo Alberro: Paradoxa
Gannon Concert Hall, Holtschneider Performance Center at the DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL
April 8-14, 2019
Residency with Ensemble Dal Niente at Stanford University
Nick Virzi: Chilnualna
Andrew Watts: Adhocracies
Hassan Estakhrian: The World Is On C2
Davor Vincze: Inflected Points
Julie Herndon: wanted to
Charlie Sdraulig: Crying Wolf
Utku Asuroglu: Untitled
Braun Music Center, 541 Lasuen Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
Saturday, March 16, 2019, 8:00 PM
DePaul Concert Orchestra
Ellen Taffe Zwilich: Celebration for Orchestra
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8 in C minor
Gannon Concert Hall, Holtschneider Performance Center at the DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL
Thursday, March 13, 2019, 7:00 PM: Winter music
DePaul Ensemble 20+
Casey Dahl: new work (world premiere)
Hans Abrahamsen: Winternacht (1987 version)
Chaya Czernowin: Winter Songs
Christopher Dietz: Winter Sunset
Gannon Concert Hall, Holtschneider Performance Center at the DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL
Sunday, February 24, 2019, 8:30 PM
Ensemble Dal Niente
Frequency Festival Closing Concert
Featuring new works by Ted Hearne and Viola Yip
Constellation Chicago, 3111 Western Ave, Chicago
Tuesday, February 12, 2018, 7:00 PM: Impressionism in France
DePaul Concert Orchestra
Claude Debussy: Prelude à l’Apres-Midi d’un Faun
Henri Dutilleux, orch. Kenneth Hesketh: Au gré des ondes (Six Petites Pièces pour Piano)
Maurice Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
Lili Boulanger: D’un Soir Triste
Gannon Concert Hall, Holtschneider Performance Center at the DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL
Monday, February 11, 2019, 7:00 PM: Impressionism and its legacy
DePaul Ensemble 20+
Claude Debussy: Prelude à l’Apres-Midi d’un Faun (arranged for small ensemble by Schoenberg’s Circle)
Germaine Tailleferre: Hommage à Rameau
Jonathan Harvey: The Valley of Aosta
Toru Takemitsu: Archipeligo S. (for spatialized ensemble)
Gannon Concert Hall, Holtschneider Performance Center at the DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL
Saturday, February 9, 2019, 6:30 PM
Ensemble Dal Niente
Eliza Brown: Body of the State (featuring Amanda DeBoer Bartlett, soprano; directed by Emmi Hilger)
KANEKO, Omaha, NE
January 23-26, 2019
Residency with Ensemble Dal Niente at New Music New College
Works of Anthony Braxton, Anthony Cheung, George Lewis, Katherine Young
Mildred Sainer Music and Arts Pavilion, Sarasota, Florida
December 16-23, 2018
Residency with State Symphony Orchestra of Turkmenistan, State Music High School of Turkmenistan
Celebration of 100th Anniversary of Leonard Bernstein’s birthday, sponsored by US Embassy in Turkmenistan via American Voices
Works of US and Turkmen composers including William Grant Still, Leroy Anderson, John Philip Sousa, Nury Halmammedov, Rejep Rejepow, Aidan Gold, George Gershwin
Magtymguly Theater, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
State Music High School, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
Thursday, November 8, 2018, 7:00 PM: DePaul Ensemble 20+ and Ensemble Dal Niente side-by-side
Part of Unveiled: A Celebration of Music at DePaul
Silvestre Revueltas: Ocho por radio
Julian Carrillo: Preludio a Colon (Amanda DeBoer Bartlett, soprano)
Christopher Jones: A Crowd of Twisted Things
Julio Estrada: Canto Naciente
Intermission
Kurt Westerberg: Fanfares (for uncommon people) (world premiere performance)
Rebecca Saunders: Stirrings Still 2
Julio Estrada: ensamble’yuunohui
Gannon Concert Hall, Holtschneider Performance Center at the DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL
November 6, 2018, 3:30 PM
Toledo Symphony Orchestra
Workshop of Recent Orchestra Compositions
Kobacker Hall, Bowling Green, OH
November 1, 2018, 7 PM
DePaul Concert Orchestra, Symphonic Choir, DePaul Community Chorus
Opening Concert of Unveiled: A Celebration of Music at DePaul
Carl Orff: Carmina Burana
Gannon Concert Hall, Holtschneider Performance Center at the DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL
October 5-10, 2018
Ensemble Dal Niente: concerts on Foro Internacional de Musica Nueva
Palacio de Belles Artes and Teatro de la Danza, Mexico City, México
September 30, 2018, 8:30 PM
Ensemble Dal Niente: season opener
works of Eivind Buene and Erin Gee (world premiere)
Constellation Chicago, 3111 Western Ave, Chicago
September 7, 2018, 5:00 PM
Sweet Potato Kicks the Sun, an opera with music by composer Augusta Read Thomas, libretto by Leslie Dunton-Downer, beatboxing/acting by Nicole Paris, featuring soprano Jessica Aszodi
preview performance
University of Chicago, Logan Center for the Arts
July 29-August 1 and September 4-6, 2018
Sweet Potato Kicks the Sun, an opera with music by composer Augusta Read Thomas, libretto by Leslie Dunton-Downer, beatboxing/acting by Nicole Paris, featuring soprano Jessica Aszodi
workshops for preview performance
University of Chicago, Fulton Recital Hall
July 28, 2018, 1 PM
George Lewis: Artificial Life 2007
Omaha Under the Radar
KANEKO, Omaha, NE
June 2, 2018, 7:30 PM
Ensemble Dal Niente: PARTY 2018
works of Sky Macklay, Chris Fisher-Lochhead, Arnold Schoenberg
Constellation Chicago, 3111 Western Ave, Chicago
May 11, 2018, 5 PM
guest conductor: Ensamble CEPROMUSIC (Centro de Experimentación y Producción de Música Contemporánea)
Erin Gee: Mouthpiece Segment of the Fourth Letter
Anthony Cheung: Time's Vestiges
Alex Mincek: Subito No. 2
Anthony Braxton: Composition No. 46
Wang Lu: Cross-Around
Sala Ponce, Palacio de Belles Artes, Mexico City, México
May 4, 2018, 8 PM
Ensemble Dal Niente plays Contempo at University of Chicago: Tomorrow's Music Today
new works by Joungbum Lee, Alican Çamci, and Igor Santos
University of Chicago, Logan Center for the Arts
April 27, 2018, 8 PM
Ensemble Dal Niente plays Contempo at University of Chicago: Tomorrow's Music Today
new works by Jack Hughes, Pierce Gradone, Tim Page, and Aaron Helgeson
University of Chicago, Logan Center for the Arts
March 10, 2018, 8 PM
DePaul Concert Orchestra and Symphony Orchestra: Air
Anna Thorvaldsdottir: AERIALITY (2011)
György Ligeti: Atmosphères (1961)
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 (1915)
DePaul University School of Music Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL
Feburary 25, 2018
Ensemble Dal Niente: New York City album release event for Assemblage: music of George Lewis
George Lewis: Hexis
Lewis: Mnemosis
Lewis: The Mangle of Practice
Lewis: Assemblage
Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
February 9, 2018, 7:30 PM
Contempo-Jazz Double Bill: Ensemble Dal Niente, Imani Winds, Guests
Augusta Read Thomas: Bassoon Concertino
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago
Febraury 1, 2018, 8:00 PM
DePaul Ensemble 20+
Phillip Rapa: Historia (world premiere performance)
Anton Webern: Symphony, Op. 21
Lu Wang: Siren Song
Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon: Suite from Comala
DePaul University School of Music Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL
January 18 and 20, 2018 7:00 PM
Ensemble Dal Niente: STAGED, part III
Michael Hersch: On the Threshold of Winter, opera in 2 acts
Ah Young Hong, guest soprano
Victory Gardens Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
November 14, 2017, 8:00 PM
DePaul Concert Orchestra
Weber: Overture to Der Freischutz
Haydn: Symphony No. 95 in C minor
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor (George Vatchnadze, piano)
DePaul University School of Music Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL
November 10, 2017, 8:00 PM
DePaul Ensemble 20+
James Behlmann: Wedge (WORLD PREMIERE)
Jonathan Harvey: Climbing Frame
Seung-Won Oh: Aphonic Dialogue (Jessica Aszodi, soprano; Alex Ellsworth, cello)
DePaul University School of Music Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL
November 7, 2017, 3:30 PM
Toledo Symphony Orchestra
Workshop of Recent Orchestra Compositions
Kobacker Hall, Bowling Green, OH
November 3, 2017, 8:00 PM
New Music DePaul, with DePaul Ensemble 20+
program of works of Seung-Won Oh, featuring Aphonic Dialogue (Jessica Aszodi, soprano; Alex Ellsworth, cello)
DePaul University School of Music Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL
October 19, 20, 21, 22
Ensemble Dal Niente: Piece Her Together; two new operas featuring Amanda DeBoer Bartlett, soprano, and directed by Emmi Hilger
Eliza Brown: Body of the State
Katherine Young: When Stranger Things Happen
The Edge Theater; 5451 North Broadway, Chicago, IL
October 13, 2017, 8:00 PM
DePaul Concert Orchestra
Dvorak: Slavonic Dances, Op. 46
Mahler: Blumine from Symphony No. 1
Schubert: Symphony No. 6 in C major
DePaul University School of Music Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL
October 10, 2017, 8:00 PM
DePaul Ensemble 20+
Ustvolskaya: Composition No. 3, "Benedictus"; Symphony No. 4, "Prayer"
Gubaidulin: Quattro
Saariaho: Io
DePaul University School of Music Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL
October 5, 2017, 7:00 PM
DePaul Ensemble 20+
Appearance on "Power in Sound: the Music of Galina Ustvolskaya"
University of Chicago, Logan Center for the Arts
September 21-24, 2017
Ensemble Dal Niente: album release event for Assemblage: music of George Lewis
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
June 25 - July 8, 2017
resident conductor: soundSCAPE Festival
Performances of compositions by participants, faculty, and others with the Eastman Broadband and participant musicians.
Maccagno, Italy
June 5, 2017 - Jun 10, 2017
Ensemble Dal Niente residency at June in Buffalo
Performances of compositions by participants and faculty
University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
June 3, 2017, 7:30 PM
Ensemble Dal Niente: PARTY 2017
works of Abrahamsen, Czernowin, LJ White, Bedrossian; world premiere of a major work by Joshua Fineberg
Ruth Page Center for the Arts; 1016 N Dearborn St, Chicago, IL
May 28, 2017, 7:00 PM
guest conductor: Civic Orchestra of Chicago Composers Project, final concert
Christine Burke: from the signal (world premiere)
Baldwin Giang: reeling (world premiere)
Haerim Seok: Restoring (world premiere)
Melody Eotvos: King in Yellow
Jonathan Hannau: Who Are These, That Come Like Clouds? (world premiere)
Ofir Klemperer: A Lovesong
Chicago Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL
May 27, 2017, 8 PM
DePaul Concert Orchestra and DePaul Symphonic Choir
Rossini: Stabat Mater
DePaul University School of Music Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL
April 28, 2017, 8 PM
DePaul Concert Orchestra and Ensemble 20+ in a joint concert: Noise
Jean-Féry Rebel: “Le Cahos” from Les Elemens (1737)
John Cage: Atlas Eclipticalis (1962)
Peter Ablinger: Drei Minuten (2003)
Intermission
Ablinger: Drei Minuten (2003)
Charles Ives: Scherzo: Over the Pavements (1910)
Joseph Haydn: Introduction to The Creation (1798)
DePaul University School of Music Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL
April 9, 2017, 3:00 PM
Ensemble Dal Niente plays Contempo at University of Chicago
Isabel Mundry: Sandschleifen (2003/06)
Kaija Saariaho: Aer (1991)
Sofia Gubaidulina: Songs of the Gallows (1996)
University of Chicago, Logan Center for the Arts
March 18, 2017: 7:00 PM
guest conductor: National Symphony Orchestra of Turkmenistan
a concert of American music for International Women's Month in partnership with American Voices, the US Embassy, and soloists John Ferguson (piano) and Bonnie Whiting (percussion)
Magtymguly Theater, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
March 11, 2017, 8 PM
DePaul Concert Orchestra and Symphony Orchestra: "a new way of hearing what already exists"
Salvatore Sciarrino: Shadow of Sound (2004)
Alexander Mosolov: The Iron Foundry (1926)
Claude Debussy: Jeux (1913)
DePaul University School of Music Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL
February 19, 2017, 7:30 PM
Ensemble Dal Niente
Frequency Festival Closing Concert: Hard Music, Hard Liquor
Murat Çolak: New work (2017) for ensemble and multimedia (New Music USA commission)
Huck Hodge: Apophenia (2014) for ensemble
Ray Evanoff: New work (2017) for solo piano
Iannis Xenakis: Psappha (1975)
Mark Andre: un-fini I (1996)
Michael Baldwin: Various Terrains ( ≡ degrees of similarity) (2011)
Joan LaBarbara: Circular Song (1975)
Constellation Chicago, 3111 Western Ave, Chicago, IL
February 8, 2017, 8 PM
DePaul Ensemble 20+
Kelly Sheehan: (3) Movements (world premiere)
Earle Brown: Windsor Jambs
George Flynn: Memories, Mediations (world premiere) (Ann Yi, piano)
DePaul University School of Music Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL
February 3, 2017, 8 PM
DePaul Concert Orchestra
Béla Bartók: Dance Suite, Sz. 77
Miklós Rózsa: Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Cello, and Orchestra, Op. 29 (Olga Kaler, violin; Steve Balderston, cello)
DePaul University School of Music Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL
November 15, 2016, 8 PM
DePaul Ensemble 20+
Hans Abrahamsen: Wald
John Luther Adams: The Light Within
DePaul University School of Music Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL
November 11, 2016, 8 PM
DePaul Concert Orchestra
Sibelius: The Oceanides
Brahms: Serenade No. 1 in D major, Op. 11
DePaul University School of Music Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL
November 8, 2016, 3:30 PM
Toledo Symphony Orchestra
Workshop of Recent Orchestra Compositions
Kobacker Hall, Bowling Green, OH
October 27, 2016, 8 PM
Ensemble Dal Niente in Los Angeles
Raphaël Cendo - Graphein (2014)
Natacha Diels - Elpis (2016)
Greg Saunier - Deerhoof Chamber Variations (2013)
Stefan Prins - Piano Hero #1 (2012)
Camilleri Hall at The Brain & Creativity Institute of USC, 3620 A Mclintock Avenue, Los Angeles
October 15, 2016, 8 PM
guest conductor: Chamber Cartel
Anne Cleare: Unable to Create an Offscreen World
Eliza Brown: Fray
Erin Gee: Mouthpiece: Segment of the 4th Letter
Anthony Cheung: Centripedalocity
M Rich Center for Creative Arts, Atlanta, GA 30303
October 7, 2016, 7:30 PM
Ensemble Dal Niente on the Ear Taxi Festival
Pierce Gradone: To Paint Their Madness (2016)
Christopher Fisher-Lochhead - stutter-step the concept (2016)
Jeff Parker : Water on Glass (2016)
Harris Theater, 205 East Randolph Street, Chicago, IL
June 3, 2016, 8 PM
DePaul Concert Orchestra and Ensemble 20+ joint concert: SPECTRA
Mozart: Horn Concerto, K. 412
G. F. Haas: … e finisci gia? (work based on Mozart Horn Concerto, K. 412)
Per Norgard: Voyage Into the Golden Screen
Intermission
Tristan Murail: Seven Lakes Drive
Mahler: Adagio from Symphony No. 10
DePaul University School of Music Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL
May 24, 2016, 8 PM
DePaul Concert Orchestra and Ensemble 20+ joint concert: MELODIES
Bach: Art of Fugue excerpts
Bach/Webern: Fuga (Ricercata) from “A Musical Offering”
Ligeti: Melodien
Intermission
Shawn Jaeger: Poor and Wretched
Mozart: Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter”
DePaul University School of Music Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL
February 28, 2016, 7:30 PM
Ensemble Dal Niente
Frequency Festival Closing Concert: Hard Music, Hard Liquor
Music of George Lewis, Richard Barrett, Sivan Cohen-Elias, Beat Furrer
Constellation Chicago, 3111 Western Ave, Chicago
February 26, 2016, 7:30 PM
guest conductor: Detroit Symphony Civic Youth Orchestra
Strauss: Don Juan
Bernard Rands: Tre Canzoni Senza Parole
Tchaikovksy: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture
Orchestra Hall, 3663 Woodward Ave, Detroit
February 6, 2016, 8 PM
DePaul Concert Orchestra and DePaul Symphonic Choir
Rossini/Respighi: La Boutique Fantasque
Verdi: Quattro Pezzi Sacri
DePaul University School of Music Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL
February 3, 2016, 8 PM
DePaul Ensemble 20+
Franco Donatoni: For Grilly
Paula Mathusen: in absentia
Pascal Dusapin: Fist
Augusta Read Thomas: OF BEING IS A BIRD: Emily Dickinson Settings (US PREMIERE); Carrie Henneman Shaw, soprano
DePaul University School of Music Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL
Janurary 7, 2016, 10 AM
New Music Gathering
Panel discussion: commissioning new music
Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore, MD
December 11, 2015
guest conductor: members of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago
Anthony Cheung: Twin Spaces, Intertwined (World Premiere), in celebration of the University of Chicago's 125th Anniversary
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
December 6-10, 2015
Neue Musik Tour: Chicago, Boston, New York
Ensemble Dal Niente
Enno Poppe: Salz (2005)
Mark Andre: ...zu staub... (2005)
Helmut Lachenmann: Guero (1969)
Carola Bauckholt: Zopf (1992/94) (Boston and New York City Premiere)
Johannes Kreidler: Stil 1i (2015) (World Premiere)
Mathias Spahlinger: adieu m'amour (Hommage A Guillaume Dufay) (1983)
Constellation Chicago, Chicago, IL
Boston University, Tsai Center, Boston, MA
DiMenna Center, New York, NY
November 17, 2015, 8 PM
DePaul Concert Orchestra
Dvorak: The Water Goblin
Sibelius: Symphony No. 4 in A minor
DePaul University School of Music Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL
November 17, 2015, 2 PM
guest conductor: Third Coast Percussion
Lei Liang: Inkscape (Chicago Premiere)
Fullerton Hall, Art Institute of Chicago
November 14, 2015, 8 PM
Ensemble 20+
Reich: Dance Patterns (Collaboration with dance students from DePaul Theater School)
Ben Davis: New Work (world premiere)
Rudolfo Acosta: Verdaderos Negativos
Jurg Frey: More or Less Normal
Rzewski: Les Moutons de Panurge
DePaul University School of Music Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL
November 10, 2015
Toledo Symphony Orchestra
Workshop of Recent Orchestra Compositions
Kobacker Hall, Bowling Green, OH
November 7-8, 2015
Northwestern University New Music Conference
Ensemble Dal Niente
works TBA
Northwestern University, Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, IL
October 26-30, 2015
Residency at University of Washington
Ensemble Dal Niente
works TBA
October 16, 2015, 8 PM
Chicago Youth-In-New-Music Festival
Ensemble 20+, Studio MusikFabrik
Marathon Concert of works TBA
DePaul University School of Music Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL
October 13, 2015, 8 PM
DePaul Concert Orchestra
Mozart: Symphony No. 31 in D major ("Paris")
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 in D minor ("Reformation")
DePaul University School of Music Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL
September 20, 2015
Ensemble Dal Niente season-opening concert
Federico Garcia-De Castro (Colombia): Memoria (2015) (U.S. Premiere)
Andres Carrizo (Panama): Trance Formations I. Gristly Rave (2015) (U.S. Premiere)
Rodolfo Acosta (Colombia): verdaderos negativos (2009) for indeterminate ensemble (U.S. Premiere)
Francisco Castillo Trigueros (Mexico): Geografías (2015) (U.S. Premiere)
Jimmy Lopez (Peru): Incubus III (2009) (U.S. Premiere)
Marcelo Toledo (Argentina):¿Qué se llama cuanto heriza nos? (2001) (Chicago Premiere)
Pritzker Auditorium at Harold Washington Library Center, 400 S. State St., Chicago, IL
July 19, 2015
Austin Wulliman (violin) and Spektral Quartet
Jonathon Kirk: Lost Bird Environment
Constellation -- 3111 Western Ave, Chicago
July 18, 2015
Lecture-Presentation: "Beethoven and the Creation of Modernity"
Logan Center for the Arts, The University of Chicago, 915 E 60th St, Chicago
July 8-11, 2015
Omaha Under the Radar Festival Ensemble
Luciano Berio: Folk Songs
John Zorn: Cobra
Frederic Rzewski: Coming Together
Kaneko, Omaha, NE
June 4 - Jun 19, 2015
Ensemble Dal Niente
Latin American tour, sponsored by MacArthur Foundation (stops in Mexico, Panama, Colombia)
June 2, 2015, 8 PM
DePaul Chamber Orchestra
Beethoven: Coriolan Overture
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor (George Vatchnadze, piano)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor
DePaul University School of Music Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL
May 11-16, 2015
Ensemble Dal Niente
Harvard University Residency (performance on May 16, 8 PM)
works by Harvard student composers
John Knowles Paine Hall, Cambridge, MA
May 1, 2015, 7:30 PM
Detroit Symphony Civic Youth Orchestra
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major
Orchestra Hall -- 3663 Woodward Ave, Detroit
April 28, 2015, 8 PM
DePaul Chamber Orchestra
Mozart: Three Marches
Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn
DePaul University School of Music Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL
April 23, 2015, 8:30 PM
Ensemble Dal Niente
Proximity: Music of Rebecca Saunders
Fury II (2009) for solo double bass and ensemble
Into the Blue (1996) for clarinet, bassoon, percussion, piano, cello, and double bass
Molly's Song 3, Shades of Crimson (1996) for alto flute, viola and steel-stringed guitar with 4 radios and music box
Stirrings Still II (2008) for alto flute, oboe, clarinet, crotales, piano, and double bass
Shadows (2013) for solo piano
Constellation -- 3111 Western Ave, Chicago, IL
March 14, 2015, 8 PM
Ensemble Dal Niente
Concert as part of "There is no repetition: a festival of the music of Mathias Spahlinger"
Spahlinger: Verlorener Weg, versions 1 and 2
Spahlinger: Adieu m'amour
Dufay: Adieu m'amour
Spahlinger: Musica Impura
March 12, 2015, 8 PM
DePaul Combined Orchestras
Concert as part of "There is no repetition: a festival of the music of Mathias Spahlinger"
Sibelius: Tapiola
Mathias Spahlinger: Passage/Paysage (US PREMIERE)
DePaul University School of Music Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL
March 6, 2015, 8 PM
DePaul Ensemble 20+
Owen Davis: New Work (WORLD PREMIERE)
Erin Gee: Mouthpiece X
Mathias Spahlinger: Furioso
DePaul University School of Music Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL
March 4 & 5, 7:30 PM
Lyric Opera of Chicago, Lyric Unlimited
Wlad Marhulets: The Property
North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, 9501 Skokie Blvd, Skokie, IL
February 25 & 26, 7:30 PM; February 27, 1 PM
Lyric Opera of Chicago, Lyric Unlimited
Wlad Marhulets: The Property (WORLD PREMIERE)
Logan Center for the Arts, The University of Chicago, 915 E 60th St, Chicago
February 5, 2015, 8 PM
Ensemble 20+
Zach Moore: New Work (WORLD PREMIERE)
Giacinto Scelsi: Anahit (Janet Sung, violin)
Tim Munro: New Arrangements (WORLD PREMIERE)
DePaul University School of Music Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL
January 30, 2015
Ensemble Dal Niente
Recording session for Mikel Kuehn's Undercurrents
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
January 31, 2015, 8 PM
DePaul Symphony Orchestra
Mahler: Totenfeier
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, "Eroica"
DePaul University School of Music Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL
December 14, 2014, 8:30 PM
Ensemble Dal Niente presents Austin Wulliman
Katherine Young: Diligence is to Magic and Progress is to Flight
Constellation, Chicago, IL
November 22, 2014, 6 PM
ILMEA District 2/8 Festival Orchestra
DeKalb High School, DeKalb, IL
November 19, 2014
Bowling Green State University Composition Workshop
Toledo Symphony Orchestra
Kobacker Hall, Bowling Green, OH
November 15, 2014
Ensemble Dal Niente
Party 2014: Eat. Drink Listen
Jackson Jung Gallery, Chicago
October 30, 2014
Ensemble Dal Niente
George Lewis: The Mangle of Practice
George Lewis: Assemblage
Georg Frederic Haas: In Vain
Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
October 18-19, 2014
Ensemble Dal Niente
Williams College Residency
Williamstown, MA
October 15, 2014
DePaul Ensemble 20+
Jonathan Hannau: Petit Counterpoint
Lucier: Serenade
Globokar: Eisenberg
DePaul University School of Music Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL
October 14, 2014
DePaul Symphony Orchestra
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4
DePaul University School of Music Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL
October 11, 2014
DePaul Chamber Orchestra
Shostakovch: Incidental Music to "The Bedbug"
Haydn: Symphony No. 104 ("London")
DePaul University School of Music Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL
September 24, 2014, 8 PM
DePaul Symphony Orchestra
Shostakovich: 5 Fragments
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1
DePaul University School of Music Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL
September 4, 2014, 8 PM
Ensemble Dal Niente
Season Opener: Coming Together
George Lewis: Assemblage
Patricia Alessandrini: Nachtgewachse
Lee Hyla: The Dream of Pope Innocent III
Frederic Rwezki: Coming Together
Mayne Stage, Chicago
August 17, 2014, 3:00 PM
Ensemble Dal Niente
Concert of American Music
Saarbruecken, Germany
August 16, 2014, 7:30 PM
Ensemble Dal Niente
Closing concert at Darmstadt Freikurse fur Neue Musik
Centralstation, Darmstadt, Germany
June 25, 2014
Katherine Young: Diligence is to Magic as Progress is to Flight
Recording session for J. Austin Wulliman's solo album, to be released by Parlour Tapes+
July 24-27, 2014
Recording session for J. Austin Wulliman's solo album, to be released by Parlour Tapes+ (session producing)
June 3, 2014, 8 PM
DePaul Ensemble 20+
Maura Lanza: Number Nine
Raphael Cendo: Tract
Raphael Cendo: Action Painting
DePaul University School of Music Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL
May 31, 8 PM
DePaul Chamber Orchestra, 8 PM
Respighi: Suite No. 2 of Ancient Airs and Dances
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
DePaul University School of Music Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL
May 25, 2014, 8:30 PM
Ensemble Dal Niente
Proximity: Raphaël Cendo
Program includes Graphein (WORLD PREMIERE), Rokh, other works
Constellation -- 3111 Western Ave, Chicago
May 2, 2014, 8 PM
Ensemble 20+
Gerard Grisey: Periodes
Christopher Jones: New Work (WORLD PREMIERE)
Hans Thomalla: Ausruff
DePaul University School of Music Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL
April 30, 8 PM
DePaul Chamber Orchestra
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Kyomi Sugimura, piano)
Mozart: Symphony No. 35, "Haffner"
DePaul University School of Music Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL
April 25, 2014, 8 PM
Ensemble 20+
collaboration concert with Heo-Ik-Su, geomungo
DePaul University School of Music Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL
March 31, 2014, 8 PM
Red Note Music Festival Concert
Ensemble Dal Niente
Lee Hyla: Amnesia Redux
Lee Hyla: We Speak Etruscan
Lee Hyla: Pre-Amnesia
Raphaël Cendo: Rokh I
Kaija Saariaho: Cendres
Gérard Grisey: Talea
Illinois State University, Normal, IL
March 13, 2014, 8 PM: Post-war orchestral music
DePaul Combined Orchestras
Xenakis: Tracees
Ligeti: Lontano
Pesson: Aggravations et Final
Berio: Sinfonia
DePaul University School of Music Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL
March 9, 2014, 3 PM
Ensemble Dal Niente
Hans Abrahamsen: Schnee
Chicago Cultural Center
March 7, 2014, 8 PM
DePaul Ensemble 20+
Sophia Gubaidulina: Concordanza
Pierre Boulez: Derive I
Toru Takemitsu: Waves
Bernard Rands: Now Again
DePaul University School of Music Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL
March 1, 2014: Fromm Concert Series: The Natural/the Artificial Concert #2, 8 PM
Ensemble Dal Niente
Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri: Operator (2010) for nine instrumentalists with acoustic instruments and motor-driven sound devices
Aaron Einbond (b.1978): Without Words (2012) for soprano, 11 instruments, and live electronics
Hans Tutschku (b.1966): Still Air (2014, WORLD PREMIERE) for bass clarinet, oboe, and electronics
Ming Tsao (b.1966):The Book of Virtual Transcriptions (US PREMIERE) for oboe, trumpet, horn, trombone, violin, viola, cello
W. A. Mozart (1756-1791): Adagio from the Oboe Quartet in F, K.370/368b
Enno Poppe (b.1969): Salz (2005) for flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, percussion, keyboard, violin, viola, and cello
John Knowles Paine Hall -- Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
February 28, 2014: Fromm Concert Series: The Natural/the Artificial Concert #1, 8 PM
Ensemble Dal Niente
Carola Bauckholt: Vollmond, unter null (2004)
Evan Johnson: die bewegung der augen (2012)
Erin Gee: Mouthpiece: Segment of the 4th Letter (2007)
Rick Burkhardt: Alban (2012)
Wolf Edwards: New Work for ensemble (2014, WORLD PREMIERE)
John Knowles Paine Hall -- Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
February 8, 2014, 8 PM
DePaul Chamber Orchestra and Combined Choirs
Haydn: Symphony No. 30 "Alleluja"
Mozart: Requiem Mass, K. 626
DePaul University School of Music Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL
February 5, 2014, 8 PM
DePaul Ensemble 20+
Steve Reich: Vermont Counterpoint
Feldman: Between Categories
Arvo Part: Fratres
Hans Abrahamsen: 2 pieces in slow time
Philip Glass: Music in Similar Motion
DePaul University School of Music Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago, IL