Fonema Consort is thrilled to perform once again at the historic Chopin Theatre in Chicago, where a program of works uniting acoustic instruments and electronics will be presented. New works by Chicago’s Chris Jones, Jonathon Kirk, and Shawn Lucas will be complemented by a performance of Luigi Nono’s rarely played masterwork …sofferte onde serene… for solo piano and tape.

Free admission - Donations will be accepted

Quattro Voci by Stefano Gervasoni
Devil Madrigals by Christopher Jones WORLD PREMIERE
Spirits and Elements by Jonathon Kirk
Rhinoceros by Shawn Lucas
... sofferte onde serene... by Luigi Nono

This program, in collaboration with the Mikros Festival and featuring guest violinist Miranda Cuckson marks Fonema's debut at Spectrum, where the ensemble will take advantage of the progressive technology available through a program involving amplification, diffused audio and video, and featuring new works by some of Chicago's brightest emerging composers. This program will be followed an improvisational set led by bassist Kathryn Schulmeister and Anthony Coleman. Entrance is free, and donations will be gratefully accepted.

7 Studies on Chapter 34, Pablo Chin
Tristesse,Daniel Dehaan
Spirits and Elements, Jonathon Kirk U.S. PREMIERE
[IVsax(op_VIvln/c)], Joan Arnau Pàmies
to what depths of dark pigment, Mauricio Pauly
Visible, Charles Wuorinen

Fonema Consort, featuring saxophonist Will Fergason, will make a guest appearance at the Mikros Festival concert at 109, NYC. Their performance of Pablo Chin’s trio Solo es real la niebla will be among several works by emerging composers, including Timothy McCormack, and Chicago's Chris Fisher-Lochhead and Joan Arnau Pàmies.

Solo es real la niebla, Pablo Chin
New Work, Chris Fisher-Lochhead
HEAVY MATTER Timothy McCormack
[14(a/c)_∞p], Joan Arnau Pàmies

Fonema Consort's Boston premiere concert will feature the works of Fonema composers Pablo Chin and Joan Arnau Pàmies, following a day of lectures and demonstrations of their music at New England Conservatory. Joined by members of the collective Miiryn, a joint interpretation of Christian Wolff's Pairs, followed by an improvisatory set by Miiryn musicians.

7 Studies on Chapter 34, Pablo Chin
De mi canto fluyen soledades ajenas..., Pablo Chin
[5(bt)_6(db)], Joan Arnau Pàmies
Pairs, Christian Wolff
Improvisatory set led by Felix Del Tredici (trombone)Kathryn Schulmeister (bass), and Fausto Sierakowski

The intercultural ensemble Duo X (Naomi Sato, Japanese sho, and Laura Carmichael, clarinet) visits from the Netherlands. The first half of the concert is the culmination of a workshop with composers at the University of Chicago where the possibilities of intercultural music are explored. The second half features pieces written for Duo X by Ken Ueno and Oguz Büyükberber. Guest musicians include Chicago's own Fonema Consort and the University of Chicago Computer Music Studio. View FB invite.

Music by: Andres Carrizo, Francisco Castillo Trigueros, Yuan-Chen Li, Phil Taylor, Ken Ueno, and Oguz Büyükberber

Performed by: Duo X (Naomi Sato, Japanese Sho + Laura Carmichael, Clarinets) with Guest Artists: Fonema Consort, and the University of Chicago Computer Music Studio

Fonema Consort is pleased to be invited back to Saint Xavier University for a second residency. The program will include:

-an interactive lecture on Berio's Sequenza III for solo voice
-workshop and performance of student works
-concert at 1:00pm in McGuire Hall

Sequenza III, Luciano Berio
Superscriptio, Bian Ferneyhough
Pleasures in Momentum selections, Edward Hamel
Mirrors, Kaija Saariaho
Sept Papillons selections, Kaija Saariaho
Drei Stücke, Anton Webern
Pairs, Christian Wolff

Fonema Consort's two-part concert series in March, "Mirrors", revolves around the vocal duo From the Grammar of Dreams by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho. This evocative piece serves as a focal point from which both programs draw aesthetic symmetries and contrasts.Mirrors II is produced in collaboration with THE PROJECT ROOM Gallery. The lush music of Saariaho and Dusapin will be performed surrounded by the photographic series "Luminous Garden" by Paul Den Hollander, "whose work has consistently focused on the relationship between man and the natural world, and on his garden".
Shin'gyô, Pascal Dusapin
Two Walking selections, Pascal Dusapin
Two Voices and Cello, Morton Feldman
From the Grammar of Dreams, Kaija Saariaho
Mirrors, Kaija Saariaho
Drifting the upper layers, Scott Scharf

Fonema Consort's two-part concert series in March, "Mirrors", revolves around the vocal duo From the Grammar of Dreams by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho. This evocative piece serves as a focal point from which both programs draw aesthetic symmetries and contrasts.

Fonema Consort is thrilled to collaborate with guest violinist/violist Miranda Cuckson in Mirrors I. She will perform Oscar Bianchi’s ironically complex Semplice, among other chamber and solo works.

Semplice, Oscar Bianchi
Voice, Violin and Piano, Morton Feldman
Rhinoceros, Shawn Lucas WORLD PREMIERE
From the Grammar of Dreams, Kaija Saariaho
Nocturne, Kaija Saariaho
Visible, Charles Wuorinen

Arie pays tribute to the tradition of Italian song through a selection of intimate works for soprano and instruments by some of the most important Italian composers of the past 60 years, including Salvatore Sciarrino, Franco Donatoni, Giacinto Scelsi and Stefano Gervasoni. This concert highlights the first collaboration of EVL with virtuoso pianist David Kalhous, who opens the concert with Sciarrino’s fiercely demanding Sonata No. 4, and is further marked by the US premier of Gervasoni’s Quattro Voci.

Piano Sonata No. IV, Salvatore Sciarrino
Sauh I, Giacinto Scelsi
Algo mvt 1, Franco Donatoni
Due melodie, Salvatore Sciarrino
Quattro Voci, Stefano Gervasoni

The Peak, The Valley makes allusion to both the contrast between the registers and temperaments of the soprano voice and the double bass, and the imagery of the southern Appalachian Mountains from where traditional chants served as inspiration for Shawn Jaeger‘s piece In Old Virginny. Further commentary on this allegory is provided by a “classic” solo work of the last 60 years for piccolo (Ferneyhough’s Superscriptio). This concert also features a new chamber work commissioned from Chicago composer Morgan Krauss.

Superscriptio for solo piccolo, Brian Ferneyhough
Invocation VI for soprano and bass flute, Beat Furrer
Lotófagos for soprano and string bass, Beat Furrer
In Old Virginny for soprano and string bass, Shawn Jaeger
Gravity of Shadows for 2 voices+piccolo+string bass, Morgan Krauss

This concert features works by young and established Latin American composers, whose musical search has taken them into journeys throughout the Americas; from Argentina to Canada; from East to West coast. This program is designed to offer Chicago audiences a glimpse at the new generation of Latin America’s compositional voices.

Desde un sueño espeso, suspiro inmóvil, mar infinito, by Francisco Castillo Trigueros
7 Studies on Chapter 34 (world premiere), by Pablo Chin
Ears, Skin, and Bone Riddles, by Marcos Balter
Synchronisms No 9, by Mario Davidovsky
Otra música, (world premiere) by Guillermo Gregorio
Promenade sur une Lumière Bruyante, by Marisol Jiménez
to what depths of dark pigment, by Mauricio Pauly and Sam Salem
No había sino detalles, casi inmediatos, by Julio Zúñiga