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Fonema Consort is thrilled to collaborate with the Columbia Composers on the premieres of four new works by Jessie Cox, Fjola Evans, Louis Goldford and Laure Hiendl.

Fonema Consort’s third album, Vistas furtivas, is a portrait album of their long-time collaborate, Ecuadorian composer Juan Campoverde. Campoverde’s music is full of deep, secretive, and lush magic. Spiritually, it is birdlike: lyrical, rapidly changing between textures, constantly on the wing. Released with New Focus Recordings, and supported generously by a City of Chicago DCASE grant.

Composer Peter Ablinger and Chicago-based new music group Fonema Consort will delve together into an array of meanings of the human voice that preoccupy both parties – a clash of artistic worlds having in common the challenge of performative and perceptual notions in music. The sexagenarian composer – one whose creative output intersects the modernist and conceptual, performative and technological – will create a new piece for the ensemble, drawing from previous reflections on the meaning of song.

The soundscape of cities are songs in his Cityopera; recordings of speeches by iconic 20th century personalities are songs in his "song cycle of sorts" “Voices and Piano”; and in his “Weiss/Weisslich 17” (2015) for soprano and noise, the singer takes on an instrumental role, only uttering sustained notes of various durations against morphing backgrounds of white noise. The “Weiss/Weisslich” series explores noise as a source of massive information upon which the listener can extract or carve their own "song."

The project is made possible with the generous support of the Goethe Institut, the Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, and the Amphion Foundation.

Program
Doo-doo-dooh – Peter Ablinger, world premiere
Weiss/Weisslich 17 (selections) – Peter Ablinger
The flaw that bears the building – Fernanda Aoki Navarro
Partial Response – Chiyoko Slavnics

Fonema is proud to present the world premiere of Yuunohui'sa the final piece in Mexican composer Julio Estrada’s monumental work, the Yuunohui cycle. Yuunohui’sa was commissioned with the friendly support of the Ernst von Siemens Foundation. The program also features an exceprt from Estrada’s opera Murmullos de Páramo, “Mictlan”, as well as a rarely heard work by Argentinian composer Graciela Paraskevaídis (Sin ir más lejos). We are grateful for the support of the Mexican Cultural Institute of Washington D.C. for presenting and supporting this performance; and for the generous support of the Ernst von Siemens Foundation which funded the commission of “Yuunohui’sa”.

Program
Ensemble Yuunohui: Yuunohui’sa’ehecatl’nahui’tlapoa – Julio Estrada
Mictlan – Julio Estrada
Sin ir más lejos – Graciela Paraskevaidís

In their 7th annual residency at Saint Xavier University, Fonema Consort’s Nina Dante and Dalia Chin present a range of modern works for voice and flute.