Our final concert of the season will be a portrait concert of RENÉE BAKER, the Chicago-based composer/conductor/performer/filmmaker/painter who has stood at the forefront of the avant-garde for several decades. Baker is founding director of the internationally renowned Chicago Modern Orchestra Project and a seasoned conductor and conductionist. Baker will compose a new work for the evening, which will also feature her visual art, and will join us to conduct the concert of her works.

We invite KATIE PORTER, a leading experimental music clarinetist to join the ensemble for a night devoted to ensemble works written for Listen Space, the composer residency she organizes. Porter, will begin the concert performing a solo set of works written for her.

Season Opener: We invite Boston-based composer, musician, sound artist, and visual artist FORBES GRAHAM to Chicago for a portrait concert of his works. We’ll premiere a new work Graham writes for this concert, and he will perform an opening solo set.

Our 50th concert to date features commissioned pieces by two young experimental music composers and works by two well-established composers. Newly commissioned works by Belgian composer MAYA VERLAAK and Iowa-based CHRISTINE BURKE will be premiered alongside pieces by PAMELA Z and the late PAULINE OLIVEROS, a composer who inspired the formation of a•pe•ri•od•ic.

Both Verlaak and Burke will be in residence for the concert and will share insights into their new works.

This project was supported, in part, by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant and a Flanders State of the Art grant.

a•pe•ri•od•ic presents the world premiere of a concert-length commissioned piece by Magnus Granberg at the 2023 Frequency Festival. This will be the Swedish composer’s first visit to our city, and this concert will mark the first presentation of Granberg’s work in Chicago. We will then record the piece at WMFT with support from the Robert D. Bielecki Foundation. Granberg’s residency is sponsored by a grant from the Konstnärsnämnden (The Swedish Art Grants Committee).

a•pe•riod•ic presents a double portrait concert

Opening for the concert will be a solo set by CLARA DE ASÍS

Our first concert of the season, a double portrait concert featuring two composers working at the intersection of composition and improvisation with interest in focused listening practices:

Gabriela Areal, an Argentinian composer, cellist, and curator of the SAGITAL series, and Clara de Asís, a Spanish composer, percussionist, and sound artist based in France. Juxtaposing mini-portraits of these two and exhibiting their scores in concert, will show similarities and differences in notational, aesthetic, and performance approaches.

We are thrilled that CLARA DE ASÍS will be in residence for the concert, and will perform a solo opening set on the concert.

This concert is supported by the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain.