Posting baby Amanda performing with @at_deidre at @ensembledalniente PARTY 2016 to remind you to come to the 2026 PARTY TOMORROW!!!
Saturday, May 16, 2026
6:00 PM 10:00 PM
Hairpin Arts Center
2810 North Milwaukee Avenue Chicago, IL
Jesse and I will be live in the studio at Back Porch Radio in Elkhart, Indiana on May 3! We’ll be on around 7pm EST. Listen at 88.1 WVPE or online at /show/back-porch
📷 @alekskarjaka
Inoculate your higher self with the poetry of Langston Hughes, Willa Cather, and some fine Elizabethan’s and Frenchmen this Sunday at 3:00pm. Performance by myself and Cacie Miller. Music by Shawn Okphebolo, Jamie Leigh Sampson, Libby Larsen, Dominick Argento, Claude Debussy, and Gabriel Faure.
This beautiful being and front person for @emspelsongs just released a MASSIVE album today. It’s going to be your favorite album this year, so do something nice for yourself and get it into your ears. Congrats @emmanat0r !!!!
The vinyl sounds SO good…
📷 @karjaka
Chicago, let’s finish this season off right. I have a handful of local shows left before summer and I hope to see you there!
Quince and Varo will perform contemporary chamber music by living composers.
Cacie and I will perform an art song recital with mostly music by living composers, but I threw in some Faure and Debussy :) A good family show!
Dal Niente’s annual PARTY is always an amusement park of sounds and experiences! I’ll be premiering music by Tomas Gueglio
And I’ll close it out with the wonderful Luke Gullickson performing music by Peter Garland.
CHICAGO!!! Come make some noise with us! We’re sharing the bill with phenoms @varostringquartet at @thecheckoutchicago on March 28, and word has it there may be some audience participation…
(Early 3:00pm show!!!)
PROGRAM
VARO String Quartet:
Another Living Soul by @nicolelizee
Three Places for String Quartet by @kari__watson
gardensongs by @plnvk_
Quince Ensemble:
Evening Morning Day by @davidlangmusic
Bone Needles by Gilda Lyons
un(bee)mo by @daviddies_cmpsr
the smallest gap by @shawsoprano
Stinging, Ringing Bells by @juhibansalmusic
Combined Ensembles (optional audience participation):
from nothing by @na_zdr._ravi
Oak Park and Chicago friends, please don’t miss this one! Piano/voice recitals feel like home to me, and I rarely get to perform them, so I was delighted when @cacie.erin invited me to be on her series. She is a top notch curator and wonderfully sensitive pianist. I loved creating this program with her.
FREE and KID FRIENDLY
April 12 3:00pm
United Lutheran Church
Oak Park, IL
Music by
Shawn Okpebholo
Dominick Argento
Jamie Leigh Sampson
Libby Larsen
Gabriel Faure
Claude Debussy
SUCCESS!!! “Ten Medieval Songs” by William Thomas McKinley is IN THE CAN, cake was shoved in our mouths, and no brains were permanently broken in the process. This was definitely some of the most complex music we’ve laid down, and we couldn’t have done it without the rock star cast of singers (listed below!), Erik Rohde’s beautiful musicianship, the engineering of Steve Kaul, and the skillful session producing of Elliot Miles McKinley. All the love to @wild.sound.recording.studio !!!
And thank you to our singer ringers…
Kaitlin Foley
Elena Stabile
Alyssa Anderson
KrisAnne Weiss
And Clara Osowski
DATE CHANGE!!! Can’t wait to perform with Luke Gullickson May 24 at @thecheckoutchicago
Hear a rarely performed piece by the enigmatic composer Peter Garland
