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Call for scores 2018

The c3 is teaming up with ~Nois Saxophone Quartet this June, and we are accepting scores for a competition. The winner will be included in the concert.

Please see our Call for Scores for all the details.

CCC and Friends, September 23

Butterfly, painting by Kyong Mee Choi

Butterfly, painting by Kyong Mee Choi

The Chicago Composers’ Consortium offers a fresh selection of compositions performed by members of the consortium and outstanding guests, including Caroline Pittman, Jeff Yang, Daniel Williams, Eleanor Bartsch. Join us September 23 at 3pm for a lovely fall afternoon enjoying the remarkable resonance of beautiful North Shore Baptist Church in Andersonville.

Rippled Pond for violin, cello, piano by Kyong Mee Choi
Summer Triangle for solo flute by Roger Zare
vc pc for cello and piano by Jason Raynovich
Upbeat for solo clarinet by Martha C. Horst
Simic Songs for guitar and voice by Timothy Ernest Johnson
The Violinists in My Life for piano and violin by Laura Schwendinger
Silent Moon Variations for violin, clarinet, piano by Elizabeth Start

Sunday at 3pm, September 23, 2018
North Shore Baptist Church
5244 N. Lakewood Avenue, Chicago
Suggested donation: $15 accepted at the door

Cello-stravaganza featuring Craig Hultgren

with featured guest composers Mischa Zupko, Seung-Wan Oh, and Marc LeMay

The Chicago Composers’ Consortium presents Cello-stravaganza! This year, our annual concert featuring electro-acoustic music has a low-string twist: Guest cellist Craig Hultgren, nationally known for his superb performances of new and experimental music, will play works both with electronics and piano. The concert will also feature the CCC’s own cellist/composer Betsy Start in electric and acoustic cello works.

Our guest composers on this program will include local favorite Mischa Zupko, represented by his powerful rhythmically-charged work Fallen for cello and piano. Also, Philadelphia-based composer Marc LeMay will be represented with his work The Crab for cello, electronics and video. The final guest work on the concert will be the solo cello work Persistent Memory by Korean-born Seung-Won Oh.

Adding to the richness of the program, the CCC composer offerings will be the premiere of In Winter for cello and piano by Lawrence Axelrod, Inner Space for cello and electronics by Kyong Mee Choi, Aurora Inscrutabile for cello and electronics by Tim Johnson and a work for electric cello by Betsy Start.

The concert will be held in the Puth Family Theater, a fun black-box theater environment that is a part of the Music Institute of Chicago in Evanston. An ideal location for this electro-acoustic program.

Please join us for this fun concert featuring great performers that will uncover the many sides of the cello in a congenial setting!


Program
Mischa Zupko    Fallen
Marc LeMay        The Crab
Seung-Won Oh    Persistent Memory
Lawrence Axelrod In Winter (premiere)
Kyong Mee Choi    Inner Space
Timothy Ernest Johnson    Aurora Inscrutabile
Elizabeth Start        ecello work tbd

Sunday, March 18 3 PM
Tickets: $20/$10 students and seniors

Puth Family Theater of the Music Institute of Chicago
1702 Sherman Avenue
Evanston, Illinois

 

A word from Elizabeth Younan

Elizabeth Younan’s piece Shoreditch Grind is winner of the 2016 c3 competition.

…and the winner is… Shoreditch Grind!

On October 30, Quintet Attacca will feature the winning composition Shoreditch Grind by Elizabeth Younan. The piece is the winner of the Chicago Composers’ Constorium’s first composition competition.

This video shows a performance by the Arcadia Quintet on vimeo.

Concert details:

Sunday, October 30, 2016 • 2:00 pm  (time changed due to the World Series)

Quintet Attacca

at Nichols Hall
Music Institute of Chicago
1490 Chicago Ave, Evanston, IL [map]

featuring:

Elizabeth Younan • Shoreditch Grind

and the following premières:

Elizabeth Start • Gibbons: Musings on Orlando, Euell, and the Lesser Apes
Lawrence Axelrod • Fits and Starts
Martha Horst • Flicker
Timothy Dwight Edwards • Quintet Attacca
Kyong Mee Choi • ever-present
Timothy Ernest Johnson • Searching for Sean Ison

$20 general admission / $10 students and seniors

 

Quintet Attacca call for scores

We are excited about our call for scores for the October 30 Quintet Attacca performance. Deadline May 28, 2016.

C3 presents an evening of works for electronics: Live Digital Performances VII: Lands of Ice and Water

The Chicago Composers’ Consortium continues its 2015-16 season with our annual program devoted to works using various electronic media. We are proud to be the only new music group in Chicago that presents such a program every year, exploring the possibilities of acoustic plus electronic media.

Sunday, April 3rd 7:30 PM
Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N. Ravenswood
Tickets, $15 or $5 students and seniors, can be purchased online or at the door

The concert will hold a variety of works for solo instrument or small ensemble and electronics.Alejandro Acierto is our guest clarinettist. He will also present one of his own works.

The program spans many moods and composition techniques and will include Ceaseless Cease by Kyong Mee Choi, Aurora inscrutabile by Timothy Ernest Johnson, Melt by Beth Bradfish, Water Study #2 by Timothy Dwight Edwards, Skallagrimsson by David Heuser and a new work for Theremini by Betsy Start.

Other performers will include Lawrence Axelrod, piano, Craig Hultgren, cello, Timothy Ernest Johnson, guitar and Betsy Start, theremini and cello.

The Experimental Sound Studio provides the perfect environment for this music with quality equipment and comfortable intimate seating. Join us for this unique and challenging program!

Live Digital Performances VII: Lands of Ice and Water

From the epic Icelandic figure of Skallagrímsson to melting landscapes and water, images abound in this year’s c3 electronic music event at the Experimental Sound Studio, Sunday, April 3 at 7:30 pm.

Featured on the program are chamber performances with traditional and modern instruments, sound processing and electronics. Performers include clarinetist Alejandro Acierto, pianist Lawrence Axelrod, cellists Elizabeth Start and Craig Hultgren, guitarist Timothy Johnson, and computer-based performers Beth Bradfish, Kyong Mee Choi, and Tim Edwards.

Ceaseless Cease for clarinet and electronics by Kyong Mee Choi
Skallagrímsson for piano and electronics by David Heuser
all that remains for voice and electronics by Alejandro Acierto
Aurora Inscrutabile for cello and electronics by Timothy Ernest Johnson
Getting By for Moog theremini and live processing by Elizabeth Start
Melt for laptop ensemble, guitar, piano, cello, ebows and smart phones by Beth Bradfish
Water Study #2 for clarinet and processing by

From the epic Icelandic figure of Skallagrímsson to melting landscapes and water, images abound in this year's c3 electronic music event at the Experimental Sound Studio, Sunday, April 3 at 7:30 pm.

Live Digital Performances VII: Lands of Ice and Water

Tickets are $15 for general public / $5 for students and seniors

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Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood
Chicago

c3 presents Fonema Consort with guest composer Orlando Garcia

Chicago Composers’ Consortium 2015-16 Season Opener
Featuring the music of guest composer Orlando Jacinto Garcia and participation by members of the Fonema Consort

Friday, October 9th 7:30 PM
North Shore Baptist Church
5244 N. Lakewood Ave.
Tickets, $15 or $5 for students and seniors, can be purchased online or at the door

Fonema Consort

Fonema Consort

We will feature guest composer Orlando Jacinto Garcia. Orlando is on the faculty of Florida International University and is director of the New Music Miami ISCM Festival. His music – spare, quiet and spicy – has been too little heard in Chicago.

Orlando Garcia

Orlando Garcia

 

The program includes
Core Interludes for piano, cello and percussion by Orlando Garcia
oscurecimiento gradual for solo piano by Orlando Garcia
el silencio despues de la lluvia flute and guitar by Orlando Garcia
entre michigan y jefferson for soprano, flute and percussion by Orlando Garcia
Heterophonies for alto flute, guitar and cello by Lawrence Axelrod
Exchanges for soprano, flute and percussion by Martha Horst
Kay Ryan Songs for cello and piano by Laura Schwendinger
More Talking Object Songs for soprano, flute, cello, percussion and piano by Elizabeth Start

Performed in the beautifully warm acoustics of the North Shore Baptist Church, a real gem in the Andersonville neighborhood. (There’s a very beautiful Loredo Taft altarpiece as well!)

We do hope you can join us for this very special opening of our 2015-16 season. Tickets can be purchased online by following this link, and will also be available at the door.

New Music Chicago 10 Year Birthday Bash

nmc.10Featuring “Fantasy in 3G” for guitar trio by C3 composer Timothy Ernest Johnson.

C3 merchandise will be raffled from Elizabeth Start and Kyong Mee Choi. Also being raffled: a free subscription to C3′s upcoming 2015-2016 season!

New Music Chicago 10 Year Birthday Bash
Friday, September 11, 2015
PianoForte, 1335 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago
Doors open at 7pm, concert at 7:30pm
Tickets : $20 in advance, $25 at the door

Featuring Chicago’s hottest performers and composers:
Seth Boustead • Chicago Composers Consortium • Kyong Mee Choi • Ensemble Dal Niente • Fulcrum Point New Music Project • Gaudete Brass Quintet • Amos Gillespie • Shanna Gutierrez • Tim Johnson • Herine Koschak • WJ Raynovich • Augusta Read Thomas • Andrew Williams • Amy Wurtz