Do not touch me, memory
Mar
8
8:30 PM20:30

Do not touch me, memory

"Do not touch me, memory" is an interdisciplinary, immersive performance created by the Dante+Chin Duo (voice and flute) and visual artist Alexandra Desipris. Using bone flutes, voices, percussive jewelry, and three painted narrative scrolls, the artists will bring to life the story of a Neolithic tomb in which humans and sea-eagles have been bound in death for over 5,000 years.

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THE FREQUENCY SERIES PRESENTS VISTAS FURTIVAS: THE MUSIC OF JUAN CAMPOVERDE ALBUM RELEASE
Feb
16
8:30 PM20:30

THE FREQUENCY SERIES PRESENTS VISTAS FURTIVAS: THE MUSIC OF JUAN CAMPOVERDE ALBUM RELEASE

Fonema Consort’s third album, Vistas furtivas, is a portrait album of their long-time collaborate, Ecuadorian composer Juan Campoverde. Campoverde’s music is full of deep, secretive, and lush magic. Spiritually, it is birdlike: lyrical, rapidly changing between textures, constantly on the wing. Released with New Focus Recordings, and supported generously by a City of Chicago DCASE grant

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NORTH CENTRAL COLLEGE PRESENTS THE DANTE + CHIN DUO
Feb
13
7:30 PM19:30

NORTH CENTRAL COLLEGE PRESENTS THE DANTE + CHIN DUO

The Dante + Chin Duo presents “Stories”, a concert experience merging storytelling and music. Works by Juan Campoverde, Nina Dante, Stratis Minakakis, Angélica Negrón, Bethany Younge, and a world premiere by Iván Sparrow. Stories told in English and Spanish by Madelyn Marcella and Rossy Perrotta.

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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO AND GOETHE INSTITUTE PRESENT FONEMA CONSORT AND THE MUSIC OF PETER ABLINGER
Jan
24
8:00 PM20:00

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO AND GOETHE INSTITUTE PRESENT FONEMA CONSORT AND THE MUSIC OF PETER ABLINGER

Composer Peter Ablinger and Chicago-based new music group Fonema Consort will delve together into an array of meanings of the human voice that preoccupy both parties – a clash of artistic worlds having in common the challenge of performative and perceptual notions in music. The sexagenarian composer – one whose creative output intersects the modernist and conceptual, performative and technological – will create a new piece for the ensemble, drawing from previous reflections on the meaning of song.

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Chicago Composers Orchestra: Song / Sky
Oct
26
7:30 PM19:30

Chicago Composers Orchestra: Song / Sky

  • St James Cathedral Chicago, IL 60611 (map)
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CCO begins its 10th Anniversary season with a world premiere Let Me Sing from Chicago-based composer Eric Malmquist. Guest soprano Ariana Strahl will be featured performing a song cycle inspired by the works of Djuna Barnes, Sara Teasdale and Frances Harper. Other works by Christopher Cerrone, Mara Gibson and Brandon Harrington.

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Composers Series
Oct
24
7:30 PM19:30

Composers Series

  • Jordan Hall Boston, MA, 02115 (map)
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Please join us for an evening of music combining acoustic instruments and voices with amplified objects, electronic sounds, and video. The program features artists who have been connected with NEC in a variety of ways and includes recent work by Andrea Pensado, Judy Dunaway, Tamar Diesendruck, Amber Vistein, Amanda Justice, and Stratis Minakakis.

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Frequency Festival presents Fonema Consort + Ursa Ensemble
May
26
8:30 PM20:30

Frequency Festival presents Fonema Consort + Ursa Ensemble

Sunday, May 26, 2019
8:30pm
Constellation, 3111 N Western, Chicago

The Frequency Series presents Fonema Consort and Ursa Ensemble as they join forces to present Cassandra Miller’s Bel canto, a time-melting sonic portrait of Maria Callas’ voice throughout her career. Fonema Consort will also performed beloved works by Juan Campoverde and Ivan Sparrow, as well as a new work by Nina Dante. Ursa Ensemble will close the evening with Jean Cras’ string trio.

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University of Florida presents Fonema Consort
Mar
29
6:00 PM18:00

University of Florida presents Fonema Consort

Friday March 29, 2019
6:00pm
University of Florida

The University of Florida presents Nina Dante (voice), Dalia Chin (flute), and Kathryn Schulmeister (bass) of Fonema Consort in a concert of works featuring the premiere of sections of visionary Mexican composer Julio Estrada’s newest work, Yuunohui’sa. Additionally featuring the world premieres of works by University of Florida faculty.

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New Music Miami Festival presets Fonema Consort
Mar
27
7:00 PM19:00

New Music Miami Festival presets Fonema Consort

Wednesday March 27, 2019
7:00pm
Florida International University’s Miami Beach Urban Studios, 420 Lincoln Rd, Miami Beach

New Music Miami presents Nina Dante (voice), Dalia Chin (flute), and Kathryn Schulmeister (bass) of Fonema Consort in a program that features the premiere of sections of visionary Mexican composer Julio Estrada’s newest work, Yuunohui’sa. Pre-concert talk at 7:00pm, music at 7:30pm. Works by Katherine Balch, Pablo Chin (premiere), Julio Estrada, Louis Goldford (premiere), Stratis Minakakis, and Irene Quero.

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New England Conservatory Faculty Recital of Stratis Minakakis and Bert van Herck
Feb
21
8:00 PM20:00

New England Conservatory Faculty Recital of Stratis Minakakis and Bert van Herck

Thursday, February 21, 2019
8:00pm
New England Conservatory Plimpton Shattuck Theater, 255 St. Botolph Street, Boston

The voice and flute duo comprised of Nina Dante and Dalia Chin performs solos and duos on the New England Conservatory Faculty Recital of composers Stratis Minakakis and Bert van Herck, ft. the works premiere of Minakakis’ duo Cassandra Fragments.

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Elastic present Fonema Consort
Nov
16
9:00 PM21:00

Elastic present Fonema Consort

Friday, November 16, 2018
9:00pm
Elastic Arts, 3429 W Diversey, Chicago

Elastic Arts presents Fonema Consort’s “The unknown, my flaws, your building…” ft. works inspired by Latin American creators. World premieres by Pablo Chin and Fernanda Aoki Navarro; and ft. Richard Barrett’s Coïgitum and Tiffany Skidmore’s no stars.

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Fulcrum Point presents Dalia Chin
Sep
26
6:00 PM18:00

Fulcrum Point presents Dalia Chin

Wednesday, September 26, 2018
6:00pm
Elastic Arts, 3429 W Diversey, Chicago

Dalia Chin Performs electroacoustic music for flute, including Pablo Chin’s “Inside the Shell” and Fernanda Aiko Navarro’s “About Beauty”. Audience and artists discuss the inspiration, process, and insights in the collaborative process between composer and performer, acoustics and electronics.

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