Narloch Piano Studio

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
Students from Narloch Piano Studio perform.

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.
