Second Nature with the Pacific Symphony Youth Wind Ensemble. With Uday Singh, alto saxophone.
Tickets are free!
Guest artist recital and masterclass. With Uday Singh, alto saxophone.
Q & A with artists after.
Guest Artist Recital. With Joseph Connor, alto saxophone.
~Nois' DISCOVERY is a recap of the awesome music and people we’ve discovered this past season. This year's DISCOVERY will feature some of our favorite repertoire from this year including works by Viet Cuong and Arturo Márquez alongside a world premiere arrangement of "entr’acte" by Caroline Shaw, arranged by our very own Julian Velasco.
DISCOVERY will also feature the winners of our 2025 Young Creators Fellowship. ~Nois’s Young Creators Fellowship is an opportunity for talented and creative high-school aged students to create a new collaborative work with ~Nois. This year, we are THRILLED to be premiering new works by Malik Muhammad and John Mangum.
Tickets available now! https://musicbooking.depaul.edu/EventAvailability?WebEventId=20250422nois
Forbidden Oracles with Sō Percussion. With Joseph Connor, alto saxophone.
Second Nature with the Las Vegas Academy of the Arts Wind Ensemble. With Philip Kleutgens, alto saxophone.
Second Nature with the Las Vegas Academy of the Arts Wind Ensemble. With Philip Kleutgens, alto saxophone.
Workshop/Performance of Second Nature at CSU Long Beach, Bob Cole Conservatory
4:00pm
This concert features a triple World Premiere! Belize-born and UK prize-winning composer Errollyn Wallen shares her gifts in the Nova Linea Musica Commission and World Premiere of a string trio written for the Black Oak Ensemble.
Chicago’s talented and beloved composer Stacy Garrop has arranged Jarba, Mare Jarba for String Trio and Saxophone Quartet, also a World Premiere.
And Conrad Tao’s A Series of Interdependencies for violin, viola, and cello commissioned by the Black Oak Ensemble will have its long-awaited World Premiere.
Additionally, Nois will present an array of works from Vietnam, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Missouri—a myriad of letters from home!
The Shockingly Modern Saxophone Festival celebrates new and experimental music for saxophone. It explores the nearly unlimited sonic potential of the saxophone through new composition, improvisation, extended performance techniques, microtonality, electronic music, multimedia, and other experimental elements. The festival features performances by the Augustana saxophone students and faculty, as well as an annual guest artist. These performances often challenge and expand our ideas about music as they push the saxophone to its technical and expressive limits.
All events are free and open to the public.
The final event at 7:30 p.m. will feature a performance from the ~Nois saxophone quartet (hey that’s US!)
Masterclass at 3pm
Recital at 4:30pm
Varo String Quartet and ~Nois play Poetics of Space Translation Symmetry by Noah Jenkins
Chicago contemporary music powerhouses ~Nois and Varo String Quartet come together for the first time for the world premiere of Poetics of Space Translation Symmetry by Chicago composer Noah Jenkins. The 45-minute octet features a spatial arrangement with the strings centered in the performance space and the saxophones posted around the perimeter. Tones, players, and quartets sound individually and fuse together into composites, melodic shapes blur into vertical harmony, and just-intonation harmonies are animated as their constituent tones take shape in spatiotemporal patterns.
This Valentine’s Eve, step into a world of sonic enchantment at the Athenaeum for Imaginary Lovers, a special concert event presented as part of Eighth Blackbird’s Artist-in-Residence.
In this groundbreaking collaboration, Shara Nova, the visionary founder of My Brightest Diamond and Broadway star (notably in “Illinoise”), joins forces with the Grammy Award-winning ensemble Eighth Blackbird to premiere a new work that blends Nova’s signature pop-chamber style with the group’s genre-bending, virtuosic musicianship.
This one-of-a-kind performance is a not-to-be-missed opportunity to witness a truly unique musical collaboration between two of today’s most innovative forces in contemporary music. Plus, an exciting opener from Chicago’s own saxophone quartet, ~Nois! (That’s US!!)
Featuring Taimur Sullivan on alto saxophone guest artist.
High Tide by Christian Quiñones
Running in a Field of Flowers by Travis Laplante
Free and open to the public.
The evening concert cancelled due to inclement weather & President Jimmy Carter’s Funeral. The rest of the Symposium and ~Nois recital will still take place as scheduled.
Student Composition Reading. With Philip Kleutgens, alto saxophone.
Second Nature with the UVA Wind Ensemble. With Philip Kleutgens, alto saxophone.
Guest Artist Recital. With Philip Kleutgens, alto saxophone.
Second Nature with the CU Boulder Wind Ensemble. With Brandon Quarles, alto saxophone.
This event will be livestreamed by CU Boulder: https://cupresents.org/cu-boulder-college-of-music-Livestream/
Guest Artist Recital. With Brandon Quarles, alto saxophone.
CU Boulder Soundworks. With Brandon Quarles, alto saxophone.
This event will be livestreamed by CU Boulder: https://cupresents.org/cu-boulder-college-of-music-Livestream/
Premieres of CU Boulder faculty. With Brandon Quarles, alto saxophone.
This event will be livestreamed by CU Boulder: https://cupresents.org/cu-boulder-college-of-music-Livestream/
Join ~Nois for the seventh installment of their “CURIOSITY Series” at Constellation Chicago. Every fall, ~Nois kicks off their season with a program exclusively featuring the works of composers with strong ties to Chicago. This year, CURIOSITY VII will feature world premieres by Darlene Castro and Hans Thomalla, and music by Bernard Rands and Ania Vu.
Second Nature with the UGA Wind Ensemble. With Brandon Quarles, alto saxophone.
LIVESTREAM AVAILABLE - Tune in online!
Works by Elijah Daniel Smith, Annika Socolofsky, Augusta Read Thomas, Darian Donovan Thomas, Kari Watson, and Shelley Washington
DISCOVERY will feature the full world-premiere of Augusta Read Thomas' "Shakespeare's Jesters" as well as the premiere of a brand new video for Darian Donovan Thomas' Sun Thrower (done by our new friends at Four|Ten Media).
DISCOVERY will also feature the winners of our 2024 Young Creators Fellowship. We'll also be featuring our super-star intern, Natalia Warthen in her duo SiP. They'll be performing two pieces from their repertoire by Daijana Wallace and Minoo Dixon.
Get tickets HERE: https://www.ticketweb.com/event/nois-kinds-of-nois-album-space-tickets/13399253
All tickets purchasers will receive a copy of Kinds of ~Nois shipped directly to their home!
Join ~Nois as they celebrate the release of their sophomore album, Kinds of ~Nois. The group presents a post-minimalist and experimental collection of new works by the international composer collective Kinds of Kings. Kinds of ~Nois celebrates six years of collaboration with Shelley Washington, Gemma Peacocke, and Maria Kaoutzani in world premiere recordings of works written specifically for the ensemble.
From inspiring melodies, driving grooves, and haunting textures, the musical voices of the Kinds of Kings collective brilliantly highlight some of the best of what this ensemble can do.
Renowned composer Bernard Rands will celebrate his 90th birthday with a two-day residency at Guarneri Hall. The event will feature works that deeply influenced Rands, compositions from his own seven-decade career, and pieces written by composers on whom Rands has had a profound influence.
In addition to the music, Rands will talk about his life and his earliest influences, illuminate elements in his work, and talk about the music of the composers that have followed him. The two-day event will conclude with a party in honor of Mr. Rands.
Artists include the Terra String Quartet; NOIS Saxophone Quartet; Kristina Bachrach, soprano; and Alexander Hersh, cello.
For more information and tickets: https://guarnerihall.org/event/rands-at-90-part-1/
Radio broadcast of the Kinds of ~Nois album!
Chicago area tune in on the radio 98.7 FM. Tune in via streaming on wfmt.com and the WFMT app.
3:00 pm: ~Nois recital
Saxophone Day is designed to provide an exciting musical experience for high school saxophone students, alumni, university saxophonists, and amateur and professional artists.
More ~details coming soon!
https://epiphanychi.com/events/fulcrum-point-new-music-project/
Doors: 6:30PM
Showtime: 7:30PM
Tickets: $20 - General Admission
‘Service charges apply to ALL ticket purchases (online and box office)’ - Credit card only at door
Dot : Line : Sigh, the debut recording by Chicago-based composer/performer Osnat Netzer, will be released Friday, February 10 on New Focus Recordings. The album features an exceptional roster including Ensemble Dal Niente, Mivos Quartet, ~Nois saxophone quartet, flutist Eric Lamb, soprano Amanda DeBoer Bartlett, saxophonist Geoffrey Landman, and others, plus the composer herself on piano. The seven-track album will be available both digitally and on CD.
To mark the release, Netzer will perform music from Dot : Line : Sigh with Geoffrey Landman and violist Michael Hall at Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago on Saturday, February 10 (7pm). In addition, ~Nois will perform their track on the album, I AM FUCKING ZEN. The celebration will feature themed cocktails, refreshments, and an exhibition by artist Ayala Netzer, the composer’s sister, who designed the album’s cover.
~Nois saxophone quartet presents a Guest Recital—Free Admission!
Presented by Stetson University School of Music at Stetson University Lee Chapel
~Nois plays at the University of Florida Student Premiers concert.
Details coming soon!
Playing “Eternal Present” by Shelley Washington, “To Speak As One” by Bobby Ge, and “Shakespeare’s Jesters” by Augusta Read Thomas.
Harris Theatre
