Narloch Piano Studio

Carolyn Enger - Resonating Earth
2023-11-04 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Carolyn Enger returns to Narloch Piano studio for a multi-media video/audio/acoustic performance of piano pieces by a variety of both traditional and modern composers alike.
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Holiday Recital
2023-12-17 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | Luther Memorial Church, 2500 W Wilson Ave, Chicago, 60625, United States
Students from Narloch Piano Studio perform.

Feldman's Late Piano Works
2024-04-19 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Ravenswood Fellowship United Methodist Church, 4511 N. Hermitage Ave., Chicago, IL, 60640, United States
Jonathan Hannau and Christopher Narloch perform Morton Feldman’s late piano works.
Triadic Memories – Jonathan Hannau
For Bunita Marcus – Christopher Narloch
Four Hands – Jonathan Hannau and Christopher Narloch

OLEA Ensemble
2024-06-02 15:00 - 16:30 (America/Chicago) | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Chamber ensemble OLEA presents a program celebrating the rich history of American folk music featuring compositions by Florence Price, Brian Raphael Nabors, and Libby Larsen. From the Grand Canyon to the streets of New York City, music on this program takes inspiration from jazz, Appalachian fiddle, ragtime, and more! Audiences will have the opportunity to get up, dance, and stomp along to music from across the United States.
The program will last approximately 90 minutes. There is a $15 suggested donation. Masks are required at the venue.
Space is limited so please use the following google form to reserve your ticket: https://forms.gle/TCiD3ZmTRCL7PfAHA

Narloch plays Prokofiev and Bartók
2024-07-19 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Enjoy a toasty mid-summer solo piano recital featuring the spicy music of Sergei Prokofiev and Béla Bartók performed by yours truly, Christopher Narloch.
Program:Sergei Prokofiev – Visions Fugitives, Op. 22 (complete)(cooling break)Béla Bartók – 14 Bagatelles, Op. 6, Sz. 38, BB 50
Masking required.
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Dammann / Baker / Davis Jazz Night
2024-08-23 20:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Friday, August 23, 8pm
$15 suggested donation
Masking required.
Please join Dammann / Baker / Davis for a night of tunes and improvised music.
JIM BAKER
Jim Baker has been playing piano and synthesizer in and around Chicago and the world for a few decades, mostly in improvisational contexts. His work has been documented on more than eighty commercially released recordings, including recent and/or forthcoming work with Extraordinary Popular Delusions (usually comprised of some combination of Baker, Mars Williams, Edward Wilkerson Jr., Brian Sandstrom, and/or Steve Hunt); Rempis/Abrams/Ra+Baker; Urs Leimgruber and Jason Roebke; Charles Rumback; Brandon Lopez and Bill Harris; WiHuBa (with Edward Wilkerson Jr. and Steve Hunt); Mars Williams; Keefe Jackson/Baker/Julian Kirshner; Luke Stewart (with Wilkerson, Vandermark, and Ra); Bernard Santacruz and Samuel Silvant; Christoph Erb (with Frank Rosaly, Michael Zerang, or Steve Hunt); Junius Paul; Benjamin Vergara/Keefe Jackson/Phil Sudderberg; Dan Phillips; Forget to Find (with Jean-Luc Guionnet, Pierre-Antoine Badaroux, and Jason Roebke); and Madness of Crowds (with Brian Sandstrom, Matt Lux, Nate Lepine, and Joe Adamik).
For a number of years in the 90s, Baker was the house pianist for the weekly Sunday evening jam sessions at the Velvet Lounge. For most of the last fifteen years, he has been playing most Mondays at Beat Kitchen with free-improvisation group Extraordinary Popular Delusions.
JAMES DAVIS
James Davis, a Chicago trumpeter and music maker, is comfortable in and always enjoys exploring a wide array of musical environments. As a composer and improviser, Davis is involved in a diverse blend of musical communities in Chicago. His diverse background and ranging interests can be heard in his own Chamber-Jazz group Beveled, the improvising effects-laden LORIS, and various Jazz projects.
In addition to leading different formations of his own groups, Davis has also recently collaborated and/or recorded with Matt Ulery’s Pollinator, Chris Dammann’s Restroy, Lucas Gillan’s Many Blessings, The Heritage Jazz Orchestra, and The New Standard Jazz Orchestra. James has earned recognition as a finalist both in the 2004 International Trumpet Guild Jazz Improvisation Competition and the 2007 Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Competition and has completed degrees at the University of Texas at Arlington, and at the University of North Texas. At UNT, James had the opportunity to tour and record with the Grammy nominated One O’clock Lab Band and the UNT Wind Symphony.
James’ playing and compositions are featured on his newest album Disappearing Roads, his 2014 release Beveled, the James Davis Quintet album Angles of Refraction, the avant-rock/jazz/improv band Zing!’s, Magnetic Flux, and multiple albums with Albertan drummer Karl Schwonik. He is currently on faculty at Triton College, Wheaton College, and Harold Washington College.
Christopher Dammann
Christopher is a composer/bassist who lives in Chicago. He is lucky enough to have improvised with many of his favorite musicians, worked in a variety of bands, performed music for national television shows and ad campaigns. He writes music for games, television and film.
Recent work includes the score for Kera MacKenzie & Andrew Mausert-Mooney’s award winning non-fiction montage feature, Make A Distinction, the Restroy release, sketches, for ears&eyes records and IKZ (Toby Summerfield, Kevin Davis, and John Niekrasz) release I saw the Cryptic Problem of my Generation Destroyed on Chicago label, Amalgam music.
Chris is currently working on material for a newly formed sextet (Scott Clark, Jon Irabagon, Edward Wilkerson, Mabel Kwan, James Davis) with plans to record summer 2024.
Chris is also proud to be a teaching artist with the People’s Music School of Chicago, Chicago’s largest tuition free music school.

Frequency Series: Morton Feldman's "Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello"
2024-12-01 20:30 - 22:00 (America/Chicago) | Constellation, 3111 N Western Ave., Chicago, IL, United States
Christopher Narloch, Dan Galat, Nicholas Jeffery, and Kelly Quesada team up to perform Morton Feldman’s “Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello”, written in 1987.

Improv Night
2024-12-13 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Pianist Erez Dessel and bassist Tyler Wagner present an evening of solo improvisations on their respective instruments.
Masking required.
Erez Dessel (USA 1998) is an improvising pianist and composer. After graduating from the New England Conservatory in Boston in 2020, Dessel moved to Savannah, GA, where he served as music director at the Savannah Music Festival Jazz Academy, Savannah’s first free after-school youth jazz program. He also kept up an active performing career in the southeast, including presenting an hour-long improvised work for piano, pastel, and paper at the Savannah Cultural Arts Center. He moved to Chicago in 2022, and has worked continuously both as a performer and organizer, recording in an array of contexts with many internationally renowned musicians (including Ken Vandermark, Tim Daisy, Dustin Laurenzi, Maria Elena Silva, and Seajun Kwon).
https://erezdessel.com/
Tyler Wagner is a musician from Eden Prairie, Minnesota currently living in Chicago, Illinois. He is an improviser, producer, songwriter, mix engineer, and teacher. He plays the upright bass and bass guitar, acoustic and electric guitars, electronics, and he sings. some people who he’s studied under directly and who shaped him irreversibly: Chris Bates, Adam Linz, Erik Fratzke, Bob Gullotti, John Lockwood, Ran Blake, Cecil McBee, Billy Hart, Ethan Iverson, Jason Moran, Carla Kihlstedt, Nedelka Prescod, Ted Reichman, and Anthony Coleman.
https://t-wagner.earth/

Abraham Martinez, saxophone
2025-04-18 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Abraham Martinez performs music for saxophone.
Program:
Caprice en Forme de Valse – Paul Bonneau
Fuzzy Bird Sonata – Takashi Yoshimatsu
Fantasia – Claude T. Smith
Grab It! – Jacob TV
Masking required.

Spring Recital
2025-04-27 14:00 - 16:00 UTC | Ravenswood Fellowship United Methodist Church, 4511 N. Hermitage Ave., Chicago, IL, 60640, United States
Students of Narloch Piano Studio perform

Summer Recital
2025-07-13 14:00 - 15:30 UTC | Ravenswood Manor Park, Chicago, IL, United States

Banana Acid / Wild Indigo
2025-08-23 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Banana Acid is an improvising unit made up of Aaron Kaufman-Levine, Caroline Jesalva, Erez Dessel, Garrett Frees, and Tyler Wagner. Their dedication to spontaneous composition draws on their deep individual studies of various improvised music traditions. For Banana Acid, love is the message, and the message marches forward. A creative and adventurous force in the world of the avant-garde, their sound is uncompromising, and their musical approach pushes at the boundaries of free jazz.

Wild Indigo is a classical trio with Zaira Castillo on piano, Meghan Lyda on cello, and Julia Ansolabehere on clarinet.

The Galina Ustvolskaya Duos
2026-01-25 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | The CheckOut, 4116 N Clark St, Chicago, 60613, United States
Dan Galat and Kelly Quesada of Missing Piece team up with pianist Christopher Narloch to perform the duos of Galina Ustvolskaya.
Program:
Sonata for violin and piano (1952)
Grand Duet for cello and piano (1959)
Duet for violin and piano (1964)

Laura Farré Rozada, piano
2026-03-20 20:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Laura Farré Rozada performs music from her third album, “Araspel”, dedicated to Armenian piano music.

Spring Recital
2026-04-26 14:00 - 15:30 (America/Chicago) | Ravenswood Fellowship United Methodist Church, 4511 N. Hermitage Ave., Chicago, IL, 60640, United States

15-Year Anniversary
2026-06-07 13:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Narloch Piano Studio is celebrating 15 years of business! Come hang out for conversation, refreshments, and live piano music.
