Please view our programs and performers scheduled for June, July, and August below.
The complete biographies of our 2008 artists can be found here.
June 3, 2008
Rush Hour Premiere: Clancy Newman String Quartet (2002)
Chicago String Quartet
Joseph Genualdi, violin
Jasmine Lin, violin
Rami Solomonow, viola
Clancy Newman, cello
June 10, 2008 - France
*Sponsored in part by the Consulate General of France
Adieu ces bons vins: French Composers in Renaissance Italy
The Chamber Singers of the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum
June 17, 2008
A Composer’s Fire Rekindled: Johannes Brahms Clarinet Trio, Op. 114
Fifth House Ensemble
Jennifer Woodrum, clarinet
Herine Coetzee, cello
Adam Marks, piano
June 24, 2008
Latin Flavors: Tango Nuevo
Bernard Zinck, violin
Rene Izquierdo, guitar
July 1, 2008
*Sponsored by the Poetry Foundation
Impromptu Interplay: Improvisations on Poetry
Larry Combs, clarinet
Winners of the Chicago Poetry Out Loud Recitation Competition:
Heidy Alvarado
Iyeokan Ativie
Ariela Rotenberg
Mark Schmidt
Kimmy Steele
July 8, 2008
Father and Son: Music of J.S. and C.P.E. Bach
Sandra Morgan, flute
Robert Morgan, oboe
David Schrader, harpsichord
July 15, 2008
Eighteenth Century Virtuosity:
Music of Wolfgang Mozart and Franz Joseph Haydn
Mathieu Dufour, flute
Karina Canellakis, violin
Yukiko Ogura, viola
Kenneth Olsen, cello
July 22, 2008 - China
*Sponsored in part by the Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China
EAST WEST: A Fusion in Sound
Yang Wei, pipa
Brant Taylor, cello
Deborah Sobol, piano
July 29, 2008
The Percussive Arts: Beauty, Brilliance, and Enchantment
Third Coast Percussion
August 5, 2008
Brass Outings:
Music of Giovanni Gabrieli, Andre Previn, and George Gershwin
CINCO, brass quintet
August 12, 2008
I Remember - Based on the Diary of Anne Frank:
Music by Michael Cohen, Text by Enid Futterman
Emily Lodine, mezzo-soprano
Capriccio, flute & harp duo
Elizabeth Start, cello
August 19, 2008 - Germany
*Sponsored in part by the Consulate General of Germany
Organ 101: Back to Bach
Bruce J. Barber II, organ
August 26, 2008
Summer Winds: Music of Osvaldo Lacerda & Arturo Marquez
Quintet Attacca, woodwind quintet
