Narloch Piano Studio

Robin Meiksins
2017-09-30 20:30 - 21:30 UTC | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Robin Meiksins, flute, performs a solo program of new commissions.
Detailed program TBA.

Cllouds
2017-08-29 21:00 | Cafe Mustache, 2313 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL, 60647, United States
Todd Leibov, guitar;
Jon Jackson, drums;
Christopher Narloch, keyboard

NMSG: What Makes a Recording Good?
2017-07-13 20:30 - 22:00 | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Grayson Elliott Taylor will dive deep into the recording realm, discussing the process of recording, including recording techniques, philosophies, set-ups, electronics, and more. Audience participation is included with a Q+A to follow! Feel free to bring a snack to share. This will be a great session for musicians of any style.

Summer Recital
2017-07-09 15:00 - 16:00 | Ravenswood Manor Park, Chicago, IL, United States
Students of Narloch Piano Studio perform outside in the park for the annual summer concert series.

Ursa Ensemble
2017-07-07 19:00 - 21:00 | Ravenswood Manor Park, Chicago, IL, United States
Temporal Brass Quintet and Ursa Ensemble perform for the Ravenswood Manor Park Summer Concert Series.

Narloch plays Glass
2017-05-19 20:00 - 21:00 | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Christopher Narloch performs Philip Glass Études for solo piano, Book 1 (#1-10)

Matthew McCright and Mabel Kwan
2017-05-12 20:30 - 21:30 | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Pianists Mabel Kwan and Matthew McCright perform solo and 4-hand works.

Program: Connecting Flights

Gerard Pesson, Ambre nous resterons
Francois Couperin, Les Ombres Errantes
Elisabeth Lutyens, 5 Bagatelles
Anthony Donofrio, Preludes III and VIII
Alex Temple, Inland

John Adams (70th B-day), China Gates
Amy Williams, Falling
Andrea Mazzariello, Flight School
Stephen Andrew Taylor, The Dove is Sad
Linda Buckley, Siar (Gaelic “West”)

Gyorgy Ligeti, Five Pieces for Piano Four-Hands

Mabel Kwan Bio:
Chicago-based, Austin-born pianist Mabel Kwan performs a diverse range of repertoire for keyboard instruments. She is a member of Ensemble Dal Niente and the trio Pesedjet, and has performed nationally and internationally, including concerts at Ravinia, Millennium Park, Library of Congress, Harvard University, and the Darmstadt Summer Courses. Her recent solo albums, one poetic switch and Inventions, feature new works written for her on clavichord and piano. Upcoming releases include the world premiere recording of Trois Hommages by Georg Friedrich Haas, and chamber music of George Lewis with Ensemble Dal Niente.

Matthew McCright Bio:

American pianist Matthew McCright has performed extensively throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and the South Pacific as piano soloist and chamber musician. He has thrilled audiences and critics alike with imaginative programming that places the greatest piano repertoire alongside the music of today’s most innovative composers. A native of Pennsylvania, McCright now resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota and is a member of the piano faculty of Carleton College. An accomplished recording artist, McCright has released five solo recordings: three albums on innova Records (Second Childhood, A Waltz through the Vapor, andBlender), a 2011 release of the piano works of Gene Gutchë on Centaur Records and a 2015 release on Albany Records of the piano music of Olivier Messiaen. His solo touring shows include Evening Preludes, The People’s Music, Contemplations: the Music of Messiaen, Connecting Flights, and Endurance.
The recipient of numerous awards, grants, and prizes, he has performed at festivals such as Bang on a Can at MassMOCA, Printing House Festival of New Music (Dublin), Late Music Festival (UK), Hampden-Sydney Chamber Music Festival, Engelbach-Hart, Kodály Institute, Perilous Night, Fringe, Bridge, Spark Festival of Electronic Music, Seward Arts, Zeitgeist Early Music, Music 2000, CCM Village Opening, and Minnesota Composers Alliance. McCright completed his Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Piano Performance from the University of Minnesota, Master of Music Degree in Piano from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati and earned his Bachelor of Music Degree in Piano Performance, Magna Cum Laude, from Westminster College. His past teachers include Lydia Artymiw, Nancy Zipay DeSalvo, Lisa Moore, and Richard Morris. He is represented by Proper Canary Artist Services. For more information please visit: www.matthewmccright.org

Dylan McKinstry
2017-05-04 20:30 - 21:30 | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Dylan McKinstry, a Minnesota raised multi-instrumentalist, composer, improviser and song-writer, is, both literally and figuratively, dextrous. He’s a veritable Swiss Army knife of styles and skills, performing in an eclectic range of musical settings that has continued to span many genres. As a soloist, ensemble player, composer, and arranger, he has worked on film scores, collaborations with theater and dance companies in Minneapolis, New York, and Boston, and performed his original music across the country. When Dylan plays, his music, both curious and deeply thoughtful, has been hailed by The Boston Globe as “effecting a sublime transformation”. He has worked and shared a stage with incredible musicians like Pierre Bensusan, Don Ross, Joe Morris, John Zorn, Meredith Monk, and Ran Blake, as well as performing as an esteemed soloist with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and the Sonoma Country philharmonic, where he was awarded the young Artist Award. He attended New England Conservatory on full scholarship, where he received many accolades including the Spark Award. His recently released an album of original songs and compositions entitled The Righting Moment and produced by composer and improvisor Carla Kihlstedt, is a debut collection that effectively and beautifully reflects his endless self-discovery. He currently lives Brooklyn, New York.
website: www.dylanmckinstry.com
Program: original songs and composition for solo guitar, announced from the stage.

Student Recital
2017-04-30 15:00 - 16:00 | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Brittany Nelson’s violin students and Christopher Narloch’s piano students perform.

Toy Piano Concert
2017-04-29 20:30 - 21:30 | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Kelley Sheehan and Jonathan Hannau perform a program of works for toy piano.

The Mischlinge Exposé
2017-04-28 20:00 - 21:00 | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
The Mischlinge Exposé focuses on the complexities of being neither Jewish nor Aryan in Nazi Germany and before, using beautiful music and original video to illustrate the struggle between assimilation and cultural identity.
After the Nuremberg laws imposed labels on so many human beings, were they still able to choose their paths? Carolyn’s Mischlinge Exposé weaves a multimedia tapestry around a little-known aspect of the Holocaust: the Mischlinge (a derogatory Nazi term for those neither fully Jewish nor fully Aryan). Interweaving video and audio testimony from Carolyn’s godmother and her father, (both labeled Mischling, Grade A by the Nazis), with the music of German-Jewish-born composers from the salon period just before the war, the program vividly illustrates what it was like to be between worlds in Germany in the first half of the 20th century.
Program:
Felix Mendelssohn
Three Songs without Words
Op. 19, No. 6 “Venetianisches Gondellied” 1809-1847
Op. 30, No. 6 “Venetianisches Gondellied”
Op. 19, No. 1
Alexander Zemlinsky
Albumblatt “Erinnerungen aus Wien”
Hanns Eisler
Sonatine, Op. 44 “Gradus ad Parnassum”
I. Andante 1898-1962
II. Allegretto scherzando
III. Larghetto
IV. Allegro comodo
Paul Ben-Haim
Five Pieces for Piano, Op. 34
Canzonetta
Sechs Kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19 Arnold Schoenberg
I. Leicht, zart
II. Langsam
III. Sehr langsam
IV. Rasch, aber leicht
V. Etwas rasch
VI. Sehr langsam
Biography
Pianist Carolyn Engerhas gained critical acclaim for her lyrical and dynamic playing, her deeply felt interpretations of works from Beethoven and Schubert to contemporary music, and her warm personal approach. In addition to an active performance schedule, Ms. Enger has enjoyed remarkable success as a recording artist, particularly with her 2013 release of piano music by Ned Rorem on Naxos Records. Renowned critic Laurence Vittes wrote in his review for Gramophone ​ (2/2014): “Enger raises the miniatures to a higher level by taking the time and care to capture the emotional impact each must have had when their dedicatees read their inscription and title, and then heard the music for the first time.” The album was selected as one of the “Best in Classical Recordings” by The New York Times:
Among the 90th-birthday tributes this year to the essential American composer Ned Rorem, this recording especially stands out. The fine pianist Carolyn Enger plays Mr. Rorem’s complete Piano Album I, published in 2003, a collection of tender yet pungent miniatures written for friends, intimates and personal occasions from 1978 to 2001. ​ -Anthony Tommasini, 12/2013
Ms. Enger’s latest creation, The Mischlinge Exposé, ​ pays tribute to her father, Horst Joachim Enger, who survived forced labor and the Holocaust as a Mischling in Germany. It takes the form of a multimedia concert program set in the World War II period, combining music, literature and images that focus on the haunting memories of the lives of Mischlinge– half-Jews – and converts, in Germany before, during, and after the Holocaust, an experience reflected in Ms. Enger’s own family history. The Mischlinge project will be enriched by a new commission by the acclaimed composer Bruce Adolphe, which will premiere in 2017. Find out more about the project at www.mischlingexpose.com.
Highlights of Ms. Enger’s 2016/17 season include a performance at Michaelis Kirche in Erfurt, Germany; a Chicago residency with recitals at several Steinway Galleries and the Chicago Public Library; a performance at the Chelmsford Center for the Arts in Massachusetts; and a variety of recitals in the Tri-State area. Ms. Enger will present her ambitious multimedia concert experience, The Mischlinge Exposé, ​ at community centers throughout New York and New Jersey, and will premiere a new work written by the acclaimed composer Bruce Adolphe especially for this project at the Center for Jewish History in Spring 2017.

Second City Winds
2017-04-24 20:30 - 21:30 | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Program:
Scherzo, Op. 48 – Eugene Bozza (1905-1991)
Gavotte et Six Doubles – Jean-Phillipe Rameau (1683-1764)
trans. Ryohei Nakagawa
Le Grand Tango – Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) arr. Jack Sharretts
– A Brief Pause –
Quintet for Winds No. 3 – David Maslanka (1943- )
I. Slow, moderate
II. Moderate
III. Very fast
Azusa Inaba, Flute
Becca Dora, Oboe
Steven Gooden, Clarinet
Julia Bair, Bassoon
Dana Sherman, Horn
Second City Winds is a young, up and coming woodwind quintet in the Chicago area. The group is composed of five professional wind players: Azusa Inaba (flute), Steven Gooden (clarinet), Becca Dora (oboe), Julia Bair (bassoon), and Dana Sherman (horn). Presenting classical recitals across the city, Second City Winds incorporates music composed in a wide range of time periods and styles. The group aims to engage the audience through its rousing repertoire and engaging performances. All recitals feature a question and answer session to build a relationship between performers and audience members.
Members of the Second City Winds have performed previously with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Lyric Opera, Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Chicago Sinfonietta, Chicago Philharmonic, Chicago Composers Orchestra, Chicago Symphonic Winds, Elgin Symphony, Northbrook Symphony, Omaha Symphony, New Mexico Philharmonic, Phoenix Symphony, Tucson Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic, Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, Sheboygan Symphony, Dubuque Symphony, and Beloit-Janesville Symphony. They each also are active teachers throughout the Chicagoland area.

Cory Hills
2017-04-07 19:00 - 20:00 | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Cory Hills performs a solo percussion program through Eighth Blackbird’s Chicago Artists Workshop.
Works by:
Charles Amirkhanian, Mark Applebaum, John Cage, Cory Hills, and Graeme Leak
Program:
Drum Factory by Cory Hills
Child of Tree by John Cage
Churchcar by Charles Amirkhanian
Aphasia by Mark Applebaum
…and now for the news by Graeme Leak
Abiyoyo by Pete Seeger/arr. by Cory Hills
Cory Hills Biography:
Multi-percussionist, composer, and improviser Cory Hills thrives on breaking down musical barriers through creative, interdisciplinary projects. He has received degrees from Northwestern University, Queensland Conservatorium, and the University of Kansas, and was awarded a research fellowship to Institute Fabrica. Currently, Hills is an active performer, composer, and recording artist in Los Angeles, as well as a member of the Grammy-nominated Los Angeles Percussion Quartet.
An advocate of new music, Hills has individually commissioned and premiered over 85 new works for percussion. He has given solo and chamber recitals across Europe, Australia, The United States, Mexico, and China. These include a featured performance for the International Society of Improvised Music, the Days of New Music Festival in Chisinau, Moldova, the Queensland Music Festival, the Ravello Concert Festival, the Venice Art Biennale, four PASIC conventions, the Morelia Percussion Festival, and Festival Mozaic. An advocate for percussion as an artistic discipline, Hills has been the artist-in-residence at Rocky Mountain National Park, Conservatorio de Las Rosas, and a fellow at the OMI international artist’s colony.
Percussive Storytelling, a program that brings classical music and storytelling to kids in fun and accessible ways, was launched by Hills while a fellow at Institute Fabrica. The program recently marked its 430th performance, and has reached more than 80,000 children in eight countries. For this work, Hills has been the recipient of numerous arts grants, and was named the 2009 Emerging Artist through the Kansas Arts Commission. The Lost Bicycle, Hills’ debut solo CD of percussive stories, has received four national parenting and creative arts awards (NAPPA Parent’s Awards Gold, Parent’s Choice Silver, World Storytelling Honors Award, and a Creative Child preferred choice). In June 2015, The Lost Bicycle was released as a fully illustrated children’s book published by AcutebyDesign. Drum Factory, Hills’ second CD released on Sono Luminus Records, received a Parent’s Choice Silver award, three nominations for the Independent Music Awards, and was named CD of the Year by Creative Child.
Hills is an artist for Innovative Percussion, Remo, Sabian, and Black Swamp Percussion.
For more information please visit www.splatboombang.com.

Movie Night: Note by Note
2017-03-24 18:30 - 19:30 | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Note by Note is a film that shows how a Steinway piano is built. A description and preview can be seen here:
http://www.pbs.org/program/note-by-note/
This will be shown for FREE for all ages!

Spring Recital
2017-03-19 14:00 - 15:30 | Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St., Chicago, 60602, United States
Students of Narloch Piano Studio perform at the Chicago Cultural Center.

Indulgence: Chocolate and Chamber Music in Concert
2017-03-18 19:30 - 20:30 | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Pianist Marianne Parker and flutist Emma Koi team up with Katherine Anne Confections in a collaboration of luscious chocolate and dreamy chamber music.
Chicago Chocolatier Katherine Duncan, owner of Katherine Anne Confections, has created a specific truffle to pair with each flute and piano piece to satisfy your tastes while you enjoy live chamber music, including a piece by Chicago’s own Marc Mellits.
Suggested donation:
$20
Program:
Mason Bates, “White Lies for Lomax” for piano and recorded tape
Robert Schumann, “Drie Romanzen” for flute and piano
Ian Clarke, “Hypnosis” for flute and piano
Marc Mellits, “11 Pieces for flute and piano” (selections)
Jacob TV, “The Body of Your Dreams” for piano and recorded tape

Noise Bias
2017-03-11 20:30 - 21:30 | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Noise Bias performs works by Alex Temple, Kyong Mee Choi, Kate Soper, and Kelley Sheehan.

YAK // Jani Parsons & Chris Sies
2017-03-09 20:30 - 21:30 | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
$10 Suggested Donation
YAK visits Chicago in their 2017 midwest tour.
Jani Parsons, piano, and Chris Sies, percussion, perform as a duo.
Program TBA
YAK is an ambient/industrial duo of amplified, bowed friction on strings and metal. Their 2017 Midwest Tour is an audio-visual journey into the existential mind-state of the Tibetan beast, the Yak. These sounds are tailor-made for the shaggy beast of burden of the Himalayan Plateau, evoking their life and spirit in a mesmerising structured improvisation cycle.
Yuri Popowycz is a Detroit-based violinist, electronic music producer/performer, and illustrator. He performs with the Michigan Opera Theatre and is assistant concertmaster with the Michigan Philharmonic. He also plays out frequently in the city and is active with Detroit Bureau of Sound. Yuri is a graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy ‘11, and the Oberlin Conservatory ‘15, and has toured in Japan as concertmaster of the PMF orchestra as well as performed in Europe alongside the Jack quartet with the Lucerne Festival Academy. Currently he runs the ambient music label Music To Stretch To and enjoys working with all the wonderful artists living nearby.
Zac Brunell is a performer and concert producer in the Motor City. As director of the Detroit Bureau of Sound, his work engulfs a range of avant garde music through his productions, which have been described as “sounding as raw as mating bull elephants” (Lansing City Pulse on “X is for Xenakis”). A classically trained percussionist and pianist, Zac is a graduate of the Michigan State University College of Music and is currently Production Manager with the award-winning ensemble New Music Detroit.
facebook.com/yakdetroit
detroitbureauofsound.com/yak
soundcloud.com/detroitbureauofsound
Yakdetroit.bandcamp.com
http://www.chrissiesmusic.com/

Concerto for Frenemies
2017-02-25 19:30 - 20:30 | PianoForte, 1335 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, 60619, United States
Concerto for Frenemies returns for a second live performance.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/concerto-for-frenemies-tickets-30925516051?aff=erelexpmlt

Artemis
2017-02-18 19:00 - 20:00 | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Artemis performs new works for voices.
Led by Bethany Battafarano, Artemis is a chamber women’s ensemble based in Minneapolis. Touring Chicago, they will be featuring a new work by Tara Loeper.

Michael Finlay, piano
2017-02-17 19:30 - 20:30 | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Suggested Donation: $10
Program:
Debussy Estampes
Mozart Sonata K. 333 in B-flat Major
Chopin Ballade No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 52
Prokofiev Sonata No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 29
Bio:
Michael Finlay’s captivating performances have thrilled audiences all over North America. Michael Finlay’s recent concert appearances include a North American tour with concerts in New York, Chicago, Austin, San Antonio, Toronto, and Montreal. He is especially invested in outreach, a passion that regularly brings him back to his native Texas to teach and to concertize.
Dr. Finlay holds a Bachelor’s degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music where he worked with Paul Schenly and Kathryn Brown, a Master’s from the Peabody Conservatory where he studied with Yong Hi Moon, and a Doctorate from the University of Montreal, where he studied with Marc Durand.

Morton Feldman Chamber Players
2017-02-16 20:30 - 21:30 | Constellation, 3111 N Western Ave., Chicago, IL, United States
Christopher Narloch performs with Morton Feldman Chamber Players (MFCP) at Constellation.
http://www.constellation-chicago.com/event/1378912-morton-feldman-chamber-players-chicago/

Alyssa Conde, piano
2017-02-10 20:00 - 21:00 | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
$15 Suggested Donation
Program:
J. S. Bach – Italian Concerto BWV 971
Ludwig van Beethoven – “Pathetique” Sonata No. 8, Op. 13
Robert Muczynski – Dream Cycle Op. 44 (1983)
I. Allegro Moderato
II. Allegro risoluto
Robert Schumann – Novelette Op. 21, No. 8
Bio:
Alyssa Conde holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Piano Performance from Florida Atlantic University where she studied with Dr. Irena Kofman. She recently completed her Master’s Degree in Piano Performance from Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts where she studied under Dr Ludmila Lazar. She has performed within the United States as well as Europe. Some festivals she as taken part in include, The University of Florida’s Summer Academy, Brevard Music Festival where she worked privately with concert pianist Sandra Shen, The Chamber Music Institute in Lincoln Nebraska and the International Academy of Music in Cremona, Italy. In 2012 she was selected to perform at the Palm Beach International Piano Festival representing the USA. As a vocal collaborative artist she attended the 2014 University of Miami’s Frost School of Music Summer Program in Salzburg, Austria where she and duo partner Kacey Kurpinsky received honorable mention in the Schloss Mirabell competition. Ms. Conde has performed in Master Classes by Nelson Delle – Vigne Fabbri, James Giles, Enrico Elisi, Mutsumi Moteki, Francois Germain, the Escher String Quartet, and more. Currently a sought after collaborative pianist, and in pursuit of furthering her performing career, she also teaches privately and strives to develop genuine love for music in the younger generation. Ms. Conde currently resides in Chicago, Illinois.

Concerto for Frenemies
2017-01-27 19:00 - 20:00 | Merit School of Music, Gottlieb Hall, 38 S. Peoria St., IL, 60607, United States
Get tickets here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/concerto-for-frenemies-tickets-9389529335

Zafa Collective
2017-01-21 20:30 - 22:00 | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
The Zafa Salon Series presents a benefit concert for the Chicago Women’s Health Center at Narloch Piano Studio!
Please join us for an evening of community in support of this local organization whose mission is to facilitate the empowerment of women and trans people by providing access to health care and health education in a respectful environment where people pay what they can afford.
In lieu of admission, we ask that you make a donation to CWHC. This can be done with cash or Venmo in person at the concert, or online at http://www.chicagowomenshealthcenter.org/donate. Our suggested amount is $10 per person, but please feel free to give more or less as able.
The program will include:
Ellen Ruth Harrison, Invisible Topography (2010)
Hannah Christiansen, violin, Danielle Taylor, viola, Maurice Cohn, cello,Casey Karr
Caroline Shaw, Gustave le Gray (2012)
Daniel Brottman, piano
Joan Tower, Wings (1981)
Andy Hudson, (bass) clarinet
George Walker, Lyric for Strings (1946)
Emelinda Ann Escobar and Hannah Christiansen, violins, Danielle Taylor, viola, Audrey Q Snyder, cello
Elisabeth Lutyens, Trio Op. 135 (1979)
Andy Hudson, clarinet, Audrey Q Snyder, cello, Daniel Brottman, piano

NMSG: Amanda DeBoer Bartlett
2017-01-19 20:30 - 22:00 | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
New Music Study Group (NMSG) – Amanda DeBoer Bartlett presents “chaos and improvisation”. She will talk about the different improvisation methods that she has used with Jesse Langen and show the books and tools used to create their pieces in Hasco Duo.

Noise Bias
2017-01-14 20:30 - 21:30 | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Suggested donation: $10
Join Noise Bias for an evening of buzzing bees, a cathartic sound matrix, extreme slow walking, a toyland piano, the sound of silence, meandering pentatonic music, a lamenting violin, and more! Works by Adina Izarra, Paulina Oliveros, Kasia Szczech, Nicole DeMaio, and Samara Rice.
Noise Bias is a new music ensemble consisting exclusively of female-identified musicians and artists who collaborate to perform works by female-identified composers.
Existing as a collective of over 30 musicians, composers, poets, and artists, the women of Noise Bias share a common goal of creating and sustaining an environment where women are in positions of creative power and musical decision-making.
Our goal is to curate new music performances that directly confront and challenge the gender disparity within the Chicago new music scene.

Tim Parkinson
2017-01-12 20:30 - 21:30 | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Suggested donation: $10

Tim Parkinson performs a solo piano concert of recently written British experimental pieces. Co-produced by a.pe.ri.od.ic and Narloch Piano Studio.

Program:

“Len Valley Us” (2014) by Laurence Crane

“untitled (behaviour)” (2012) by Tim Parkinson

“Traces” (2014) by Jane Dickson

—(small break)—

Piano Sonata No.143 (2004) by John White

“2016 No.4 and No.5” by Tim Parkinson

“Artificial Environment No.8” (2012) by Joanna Bailie

Biography:
Tim Parkinson has consistently pursued an independent path, seeking to engage with whatever it means today to be a functioning composer in the world. His music is mostly performed by a dedicated community of friends and musicians (amongst others Philip Thomas, Anton Lukoszevieze, Julia Eckhardt, James Saunders), but he has also written for the London Sinfonietta, the Basle Sinfonietta, Plus Minus and others. He has organised many public concerts to promote the presence, wealth and variety of present day music exploration, one thread of which is the concert series, Music We’d Like to Hear, co-curated with John Lely and Markus Trunk annually in London since 2005. As a soloist he has performed with Object Collection, Skögen, Apartment House, Set Ensemble, Incidental Music, Q-02, J.G. Thirlwell, Phill Niblock, Matteo Fargion, Lee Patterson, Angharad Davies, Rhodri Davies, Jürg Frey, Michael Pisaro, Michael Parsons, Gavin Bryars, Joshua Rifkin, Tom Johnson, and Christian Wolff, amongst others.
His music has been labelled as experimental, “reconstructing music from the ground up”, and “sounding like nothing else”, the work invariably returning to fundamental questions around the meaning of sound. He has been associated with other British independent voices of the same generation, such as Bailie, Crane, Harrison, Newland, Saunders, Whitty.
In 2011 he was visiting Professor of Composition at Brno Academy, and he has also lectured at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Oxford Brookes, Ostrava New Music Days, Huddersfield University.
www.untitledwebsite.com

Holiday Recital
2016-12-18 15:00 - 17:00 | PianoForte, 1335 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, 60619, United States
Students of Narloch Piano Studio perform in the annual Holiday Recital. This year it is located at PianoForte’s concert hall!

NMSG on Trump
2016-12-15 20:30 - 22:00 | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
New Music Study Group (NMSG) will have an open discussion on what we can do as a music community in light of our devastating political situation.
