YarnWire
New Music for 2 Pianos & 2 Percussion
April 5, 2025, 7:30 pm
PianoForte Chicago
1335 South Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL
Tickets through PianoForte Chicago: $25/$5
Chicago Composers’ Consortium is thrilled to welcome Yarn/Wire, a phenomenal New York quartet of two pianists and two percussionists, in a program of World Premieres written expressly for Yarn/Wire. Music of five Chicago composers plus the Chicago premiere of Steve Reich’s iconic ‘Quartet’, which Reich calls “one of the more complex I have composed.”
Program:
Ascensions – Timothy Dwight Edwards *
‘After Clouds,…’ – Elizabeth Start *
Au revoir a soi – Timothy Ernest Johnson *
Game of Fibs – Amos Gillespie *
Velocities – K.C. Ginther *
Quartet – Steve Reich (Chicago premiere)
* world premiere
“Key figures from the contemporary music scene…they play these subtly restless new works with unmistakable devotion and excitement.”
– THE NEW YORK TIMES
“awe-inspiring…This is an ensemble whose mark on the world of music is exceptional.” – SEEN AND HEARD INTERNATIONAL
“a force in avant-garde music” – ALLMUSIC
“wildly virtuosic, jarring and oddly playful” – THE WIRE
“The superb contemporary music ensemble Yarn/Wire is known as much for its willingness to transgress the limits of musical convention as it is for its performance prowess.”
– AVANT MUSIC NEWS
“fascinating and exciting, with playing that is precise and full of purpose” – BROOKLYN RAIL
“Yarn/Wire Mesmerizes at Lincoln Center Festival” – THE NEW YORK TIMES
“sonic art that is clearly going places” – GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE
“a pungent performance, full of drama and unres.” – THE WIRE
“questioning the boundaries of what music might be” – THE GUARDIAN
“Fearless” “restlessly curious” “spellbinding virtuosity” “spare, strange, and very, very new” – TIME OUT NY
“Standing on narrow Wall Street, with marble temples to finance soaring up overhead, I felt as if I were in a modern-day secular cathedral.”
– NPR
“Tone Builders’ exemplifies the oblique beauty of a cutting-edge acoustic quartet” – PERCUSSIVE NOTES