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The pieces, generally upbeat in character, included a wide variety of instrumental combinations.

Lined with smooth Indiana butternut wood and dressed up with warm LED lights along balcony railings, the lower level of the Foellinger Great Hall inside the Krannert Center for Performing Arts was approximately a third of the way full on Nov. 30. The crowd, while not massive, carried a particular buzz. It was the Illinois...

A young string quartet made a splash in Chicago last week. The Poiesis Quartet won the grand prize of the 2023 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, and did this having

EMPAC’s 2023 curatorial program of the research and production center for time-based arts and technology presents new commissions and productions by artists who foreground collaboration and exceed disciplinary frameworks. 

(July 27, 2023) The first time Greta Feeney met Ned Rorem she knew he was the real thing. She was writing her college thesis on his work, centering on a series of arias he had composed from the …

Bassist, composer, bandleader, and Woolgathering Records label founder Matt Ulery is proud to announces Mannerist.