2008 season

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

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

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

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