Formed in March of 2013, MOZAWA is a Chicago-based company that builds unique productions that highlight the commonality of what it means to be human. Mozawa uses a collaborative process to generate our art with diverse artists from a variety of artistic disciplines and cultural backgrounds. Mozawa artists hail from across the United States and around the world.
The company was founded by artistic director Matthew Ozawa who directs for both opera and theater companies across the globe. In founding his own company, Matthew aims to create art works which blend the artistic boundaries between theatre, opera, film, visual art, dance, fashion, and design while simultaneously drawing inspiration from the history and texts of the world theatre.
MOZAWA will be workshopping A DREAM PLAY, an interdisciplinary show based on Strindberg’s “A Dream Play.” We will be exploring portions of the show, working on creating small scenes for future use in a full produced version of the show.
Formed in March of 2013, MOZAWA is a Chicago-based company that builds unique productions that highlight the commonality of what it means to be human. Mozawa uses a collaborative process to generate our art with diverse artists from a variety of artistic disciplines and cultural backgrounds. Mozawa artists hail from across the United States and around the world.
The company was founded by artistic director Matthew Ozawa who directs for both opera and theater companies across the globe. In founding his own company, Matthew aims to create art works which blend the artistic boundaries between theatre, opera, film, visual art, dance, fashion, and design while simultaneously drawing inspiration from the history and texts of the world theatre.
Mozawa will be exposing the process for COVERS, our monthly event where we bring artists together to create a new ‘cover’ of an existing song. April’s round of artists include:
– Harpist
– 2 Opera Singers
– 2 Actors
– 1 Scenic Designer (William Boles)
MOCREP
Mocrep is a Chicago-based ensemble dedicated to the performance of radical, 21st century music that engages with contemporary culture – aesthetically, socially, and politically. We specialize in works that not only synthesize music, theater, and performance art, but productively embrace the differences between these mediums. In this way, we hope to expose and explore new possibilities in performance today.
Highlights of Mocrep’s last season include six U.S. premieres, the beginning of a series of collaborations with International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) by performing Rick Burkhardt’s “Simulcast” in an OpenICE with Claire Chase and Joshua Rubin, a concert-collaboration with Berlin-based composer Ludwig Abraham, participation in the ten-day There is No Repetition Festival celebrating the works of Mathias Spahlinger, and collaborations with composers Steven Takasugi, Jennifer Walshe, and Martin Schüttler.
In our third season, Mocrep looks forward to a series of partnerships with the Goethe-Institut Chicago, continued collaboration with ICE, world premieres of works by Mathias Moller, Bethany Younge, Ludwig Abraham, Sam Scranton, Christopher Wood, Zach Moore, and Owen Davis. Mocrep was recently selected as one of three young ensembles (and the only U.S. ensemble) to participate in the Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt Summer Course for New Music 2016.
As part of Eighth Blackbird’s residency at the MCA, they are happy to welcome guest artists to utilize their gallery space for rehearsals, when the ensemble is on tour.
Dal Niente:
Ensemble Dal Niente is a Chicago-based contemporary music collective that presents and performs new music in ways that redefine the listening experience and advance the art form. The programming, brought to life by a flexible repertoire-based instrumentation, seeks to challenge convention and create engaging, inspiring, and immersive experiences which connect audiences with the music of today.
BIOGRAPHY
Described as a group of “super-musicians” and noted for its presentation of “bracing sonic adventures by some of the best new-music virtuosos around” (Chicago Tribune), Ensemble Dal Niente’s projects have exhibited an adventurous approach and an uncommon range that reflects the diversity of music in the world today. The ensemble presents a true multiplicity of experiences: large ensemble, chamber music, and solo repertoire from a range of emerging composers and established living artists to the post-World War II avant-garde generation. Dal Niente curates and presents its concert programs in ways that reflect the repertoire’s engagement with our culture and society. Recent explorations include the ensemble’s collaboration with the indie-rock band Deerhoof and composer Marcos Balter; an extended visit to Latin America; works by noted trombonist/improviser/ composer George Lewis; an East Coast tour of German music; the Hard Music, Hard Liquor concert series and its beloved annual Party. In 2012, Ensemble Dal Niente became the first-ever ensemble recipient of the coveted Kranichstein Music Prize at the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music.
Recordings of Dal Niente’s interpretations of new and recent repertoire have been released on the New Amsterdam, New Focus, Navona, Parlour Tapes+, and Carrier labels. The ensemble also shares performance videos and discussions with their audience through YouTube and other social media.
Dal Niente’s outreach includes educational activities of all kinds, exhibited most commonly in university settings with composition workshops, masterclasses, and performances. The ensemble’s residencies have included work with faculty and students at various universities including Northwestern, Chicago, Harvard, Stanford, Indiana, Illinois, and Western Michigan, among others.
The ensemble’s name, Dal Niente (“from nothing” in Italian), is a tribute to Helmut Lachenmann’sDal niente (Interieur III), the revolutionary style of which serves as an inspiration for its musicians. The name also references its humble beginnings — founded in 2004 by a group of student composers at Northwestern University, the ensemble has risen from obscurity to a position as one of North America’s most prominent new music groups.
MOCREP
Mocrep is a Chicago-based ensemble dedicated to the performance of radical, 21st century music that engages with contemporary culture – aesthetically, socially, and politically. We specialize in works that not only synthesize music, theater, and performance art, but productively embrace the differences between these mediums. In this way, we hope to expose and explore new possibilities in performance today.
Highlights of Mocrep’s last season include six U.S. premieres, the beginning of a series of collaborations with International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) by performing Rick Burkhardt’s “Simulcast” in an OpenICE with Claire Chase and Joshua Rubin, a concert-collaboration with Berlin-based composer Ludwig Abraham, participation in the ten-day There is No Repetition Festival celebrating the works of Mathias Spahlinger, and collaborations with composers Steven Takasugi, Jennifer Walshe, and Martin Schüttler.
In our third season, Mocrep looks forward to a series of partnerships with the Goethe-Institut Chicago, continued collaboration with ICE, world premieres of works by Mathias Moller, Bethany Younge, Ludwig Abraham, Sam Scranton, Christopher Wood, Zach Moore, and Owen Davis. Mocrep was recently selected as one of three young ensembles (and the only U.S. ensemble) to participate in the Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt Summer Course for New Music 2016.
MOCREP
Mocrep is a Chicago-based ensemble dedicated to the performance of radical, 21st century music that engages with contemporary culture – aesthetically, socially, and politically. We specialize in works that not only synthesize music, theater, and performance art, but productively embrace the differences between these mediums. In this way, we hope to expose and explore new possibilities in performance today.
Highlights of Mocrep’s last season include six U.S. premieres, the beginning of a series of collaborations with International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) by performing Rick Burkhardt’s “Simulcast” in an OpenICE with Claire Chase and Joshua Rubin, a concert-collaboration with Berlin-based composer Ludwig Abraham, participation in the ten-day There is No Repetition Festival celebrating the works of Mathias Spahlinger, and collaborations with composers Steven Takasugi, Jennifer Walshe, and Martin Schüttler.
In our third season, Mocrep looks forward to a series of partnerships with the Goethe-Institut Chicago, continued collaboration with ICE, world premieres of works by Mathias Moller, Bethany Younge, Ludwig Abraham, Sam Scranton, Christopher Wood, Zach Moore, and Owen Davis. Mocrep was recently selected as one of three young ensembles (and the only U.S. ensemble) to participate in the Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt Summer Course for New Music 2016.
MOCREP
Mocrep is a Chicago-based ensemble dedicated to the performance of radical, 21st century music that engages with contemporary culture – aesthetically, socially, and politically. We specialize in works that not only synthesize music, theater, and performance art, but productively embrace the differences between these mediums. In this way, we hope to expose and explore new possibilities in performance today.
Highlights of Mocrep’s last season include six U.S. premieres, the beginning of a series of collaborations with International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) by performing Rick Burkhardt’s “Simulcast” in an OpenICE with Claire Chase and Joshua Rubin, a concert-collaboration with Berlin-based composer Ludwig Abraham, participation in the ten-day There is No Repetition Festival celebrating the works of Mathias Spahlinger, and collaborations with composers Steven Takasugi, Jennifer Walshe, and Martin Schüttler.
In our third season, Mocrep looks forward to a series of partnerships with the Goethe-Institut Chicago, continued collaboration with ICE, world premieres of works by Mathias Moller, Bethany Younge, Ludwig Abraham, Sam Scranton, Christopher Wood, Zach Moore, and Owen Davis. Mocrep was recently selected as one of three young ensembles (and the only U.S. ensemble) to participate in the Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt Summer Course for New Music 2016.
Alejandro T. Acierto is an artist and musician working in time-based media. He has exhibited his work at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Issue Project Room, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Salisbury University, SOMArts and presented performance works at the Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival, Center for Performance Research, and Center for New Music and Technology. Acierto has held residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Banff Centre, High Concept Laboratories, and Chicago Artists’ Coalition. He is currently a FT/FN/FG Consortium Fellow, a Center Program Artist at the Hyde Park Art Center, and teaches at UIC and Truman College. Acierto received his undergraduate degree from DePaul University, a MM from Manhattan School of Music, an MFA in New Media Arts from University Illinois at Chicago, is a recipient of the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis at the Darmstadt Festival for New Music, and founding member of contemporary chamber orchestra Ensemble Dal Niente in Chicago.
Alejandro T. Acierto is an artist and musician working in time-based media. He has exhibited his work at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Issue Project Room, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Salisbury University, SOMArts and presented performance works at the Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival, Center for Performance Research, and Center for New Music and Technology. Acierto has held residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Banff Centre, High Concept Laboratories, and Chicago Artists’ Coalition. He is currently a FT/FN/FG Consortium Fellow, a Center Program Artist at the Hyde Park Art Center, and teaches at UIC and Truman College. Acierto received his undergraduate degree from DePaul University, a MM from Manhattan School of Music, an MFA in New Media Arts from University Illinois at Chicago, is a recipient of the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis at the Darmstadt Festival for New Music, and founding member of contemporary chamber orchestra Ensemble Dal Niente in Chicago.
With the precision and flexibility of modern chamber musicians, Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble specializes in experimental repertoire that is changing the paradigm of contemporary vocal music. Described as “a new force of vocal excellence and innovation” by The Brooklyn Rail, Quince continually pushes the boundaries of traditional vocal ensemble literature.
As dedicated advocates of new music, Quince regularly commissions new works, providing a wider exposure for the music of living composers, and supports the efforts of concert series and universities who strive to incorporate contemporary repertoire into their programming. Quince has recently been seen on Vicky Chow’s Contagious Sounds Series, a.per.io.dic’s John Cage Festival in Chicago, on the Philip Glass: Music with Friends benefit concert at the Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, and at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE.
Comprised of vocalists Elizabeth Pearse (soprano), Kayleigh Butcher (mezzo soprano), Amanda DeBoer Bartlett (soprano), and Carrie Henneman Shaw (soprano), Quince thrives on unique musical challenges and genre-bending contemporary repertoire.