Summer Series

2011 12th Summer Season

Artistic Roster

2011 Season Schedule

Please view our programs and performers scheduled for June, July, and August 2011 below.

All concerts are broadcast and streamed internationally LIVE by 98.7 WFMT.

Complete biographies of our 2011 artists are coming soon.

- June -

June 7, 2011
Johannes Brahms: String Sextet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 36
Akiko Tarumoto, violin
Nathan Cole, violin
Lawrence Neuman, viola
Carol Cook, viola
Brant Taylor, cello
Ken Olsen, cello
Sponsored in part by the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation and the Consulate General of Germany in Chicago

June 14, 2011
Music of Latin America: Astor Piazzolla: L’Histoire du Tango &
Baltasar Martínez y Compañon: Collección Música Virreinal
Caminos del Inka
Jessica Warren-Acosta, flute
Marguerite Lynn Williams, harp

June 21
Make Music Chicago: Music of Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy
MingXuan Xu, violin
Winston Choi, piano
Kuang-Hao Huang, piano
Sponsored in part by the Consulate General of France in Chicago; Radio broadcast sponsored by Lycée Français de Chicago

June 28
American Summer: Music of Joan Tower & Samuel Barber
Quintet Attacca
Jennifer Clippert, flute
Erica Anderson, oboe
Barbara Drapcho, clarinet
Collin Anderson, bassoon
Jeremiah Frederick, horn

- July -

July 5
Contemporary Brass
Tubist Rex Martin with Fulcrum Point New Music Project Brass
Rex Martin, tuba
Stephen Burns, trumpet
Kevin Hartman, trumpet
Eric Ruske, horn
Andy Baker, trombone
with Yoko Yamada-Selvaggio, piano
Sponsored in part by the Consulate General of Switzerland in Chicago

July 12
Tan Dun: Elegy: Snow in June
Third Coast Percussion
with Chris Wild, cello
Sponsored in part by the Chicago Public Library

July 19
Bon Appétit: A Mini-Opera on How to Make Julia Child’s Deliciously Decadent Chocolate Cake
Emily Lodine, mezzo-soprano
Kuang-Hao Huang, piano
Pre-concert reception sponsored by MAB Advertising, Inc.
Click here for Julia Child’s Chocolate Cake Recipe

July 26
Trumpet Old and New: Music of Purcell and Ewazen
Christopher Martin, trumpet
Bruce J. Barber II, organ
Lincoln Quartet
Lei Hou, violin
Qing Hou, violin
Lawrence Neuman, viola
Brant Taylor, cello
Sponsored in part by the British Consulate General in Chicago
98.7 WFMT FM radio broadcast sponsored by Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester

- August -

August 2
Franz Schubert: String Quintet in C Major, D. 956
Euclid Quartet
Jameson Cooper, violin
Jacob Murphy, violin
Luis Vargas, viola
Si-Yan Darren Li, cello
with Brant Taylor, cello
Sponsored in part by the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation and the Consulate General of Austria in Chicago

August 9
Dmitri Shostakovich Piano Preludes and Russian Poetry
Kuang-Hao Huang, piano
Clare Cavanagh, reader
Sponsored in part by the Poetry Foundation

August 16
Early English: Music of Bond, Blow and Purcell
Baroque Band

August 23
Music of Spain: Cassadó, de Falla and Granados
Marina Hoover, cello
Kuang-Hao Huang, piano
Sponsored in part by the Consulate General of Spain in Chicago

August 30
Ludwig van Beethoven: Septet in E-Flat Major, Op. 20
Fifth House Ensemble
Andrew Williams, violin
Clark Carruth, viola
Herine Coetzee Koschak, cello
Jennifer Woodrum, clarinet
Karl Rzasa, bassoon
DeAunn Davis, horn
Eric Snoza, double bass
Sponsored in part by the Consulate General of Germany in Chicago

*programs are subject to change*