Current Season
2012 Season:
No other music group in Chicago – and very few in the world – so completely reinvents itself for each performance. As John Von Rhein of Chicago Tribune said "Fulcrum Point's only limit is Stephen Burns's unlimited imagination." If you have followed Fulcrum Point over our 14-year history, you know that reinvention and new discovery is at the very heart of our artistic vision. Our artistic vision is based on the firm belief that the best is always yet to come!
2012 will be no exception. Current plans include Cheers for Ears percussive, theatrical program presented by Foundation for Hearing and Speech Rehabilitation on Jan 22nd, a Afro-Beats, a family concert presented by the Harris Theater for Music and Dance on February 25th, followed by Fulcrum Point's new 3 years' series of poetry & music concert, Fulcrum Point goes Ivy League: Harvard starting March 28th, a newly expanded, with 100% students participatory, Sound Tracks Plus curriculum for Chicago Public Schools, the world premiere of JacobTV’s The News at Pittsburgh’s Andy Warhol Museum, followed by the Midwest premiere performances at Park West, Chicago. And much, much more. We hope you will join us at some of these events!
Stephen Burns, Artistic Director
Randy Adamsick, President of the Governing Board
Bronwyn Poole, Vice President of the Governing Board
Upcoming concerts:
- January 22 – Cheers for Ears (past event)
- February 25 – Afro Beats! (Harris Theater Family Series)
- March 20 – Red Note New Music Festival
- March 28 – Fulcrum Point goes Ivy League: Harvard
- March 29 – An Intimate Evening with Nobuo Uematsu, Arnie Roth and The Fulcrum Point String Quartet
- April 10 – The News Sneak Peek
- April 27 – The News World Premiere at the Pittsburgh's Distinctly Dutch Festival
- May 4 – Midwest Premiere of The News by JacobTV, a Reality Opera
- May 24 – Movie Music Concert
- TBA – Book Sounds
- September 11 – 9/11: Annual Concert for Peace
- October 23 – Music and Poetry 2
- TBA – Fulcrum Point Annual Benefit Concert
(Programs are subject to change without notice.)
Cheers for Ears (past event)
Sunday, January 22, 2012, 3 PMLincoln Hall, 2424 N. Lincoln Ave, Chicago
Tickets $25/$10 – Buy tickets here
A percussive, theatrical program to celebrate hearing presented by the Foundation for Hearing and Speech Rehabilitation.
Come support this extraordinary cause and hear Fulcrum Point play percussion music by Steve Reich, John Cage, Robert Damm, Russell Peck, and Susan Powell. Bring your dancing shoes and drumming hands and join Idy Ciss, John Knecht, and Michael Taylor in a West African drumming circle. Kids, adults, neophytes and hipsters! All are invited to participate in support of the Foundation for Hearing and Speech Rehabilitation.
See Press Release for details.
Afro-Beats!
Saturday, February 25, 2012, 2 PMHarris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 East Randolph Drive, Chicago
$10 – Buy tickets here
Bring your whole family to enjoy foot-tapping, hand-clapping music by Afro-Beat legend Fela Kuti, Jazz giant Thelonius Monk and Cuban superstar Pacquito d'Rivera.
Come dance, and drum with West African guest artists Idy Ciss and Morikeba Kouyate, Kora Master and Griot.
Special guests: Jim Gailloreto, sax and the Woodlawn Community School Band.
This performance is presented by the Harris Theater Family Series.
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Fulcrum Point Ensemble as the featured performance at the Red Note New Music Festival
Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 8 PMKemp Recital Hall in the Centennial East Bldg
Illinois State University campus at Normal, IL
FREE CONCERT!
Details to come. Click here for directions.
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Fulcrum Point goes Ivy League: Harvard
Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 7:30 PMHarris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 East Randolph Drive, Chicago
$20/$10 for students, includes post-concert wine & cheese with the artists in the lobby of the theater! – Purchase tickets
Take an adventure of music, essays, and poetry from award winning Harvard composers Moravec, Woolf, Ueno and Lieberson. Neo-romantic, post-minimalist, and post-modernist music inspired by Eliot, Beckett, and David Foster Wallace. Preconcert remix and Post-concert session with DJ Moderne (aka Ken Ueno) from UC Berkley.
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An Intimate Evening with Nobuo Uematsu, Arnie Roth and The Fulcrum Point String Quartet
Thursday, March 29, 2012, 8pm
Columbia College Music Center, Chicago, IL
At this exclusive event – only 150 seats (!), attendees can meet the performers, take photos, bring items to sign and exchange ideas with Nobuo Uematsu and Arnie Roth. Soak in the heady and energized atmosphere of a One Night Only Distant Worlds opportunity.
Every ticket holder receives a copy of the official Distant Worlds Concert Tour Book.
This unique event includes an intimate performance of FINAL FANTASY VI: Dark World, featuring Nobuo Uematsu as keyboard soloist and Arnie Roth as violin soloist with NEW string quartet accompaniment, and a World Premiere performance of the new string quartet arrangement of FINAL FANTASY X: Fight With Seymour performed by the Fulcrum Point String Quartet.
Fulcrum Point Brass
at UIC
Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 1 PMUniversity of Illinois at Chicago
FREE CONCERT!
The News Sneak Peek. Details to come!
Featured Composer: JacobTV
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The News, World Premiere at the Pittsburgh's Distinctly Dutch Festival
Sunday, April 27, 2012Presented by: The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust; Pittsburgh, PA
Byham Theater,
101 6th St., Pittsburgh
World Premiere of The News by JacobTV, a Reality Opera. Performed by Fulcrum Point New Music Project starring Lori Cotler, vocalist/rhythm voice and Josefien Stoppelenburg, Soprano as ancor women. (See Midwest Premiere below for more description.)
For more info of the festival: www.dutchfestival.trustarts.org
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Midwest Premiere of The News by JacobTV, a Reality Opera
Friday, May 4, 2012, 6 PM and 9 PMPark West, 322 W Armitage
$150/$30/$20 – Purchase tickets
The News, a riotous 90-minute video opera of Socio-Political satire, skewering, and sendup of Silvio Berlusconi, Sarah Palin, President Obama, and international news casts. Celebrated as the Jeff Koons of Post-modern music, JacobTV and video artist Jan Boiten remix the evening news and reality TV into an evening of provocative fun, featuring alto, Lori Cotler (vocalist/rhythm voice) and soprano Josefien Stoppelenburg as the anchor women.
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Movie Music Concert
Thursday, May 24, 2012, 6 PM and 9 PMMedia Production Center of Columbia College Chicago, 1600 S. State
FREE CONCERT! – RSVP is required, e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Following a standing-room-only presentation between Columbia College Chicago and Fulcrum Point in May 2011, the pair will reunite to present another free movie music screening event with live orchestra at the sound stage of the College's Media Production Center, 1600 S. State St. More info will come. To view last year's concert, please click here.
RSVP is required, e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it mentioning "FP/CCC Movie Music concert" with your names, email addresses, full contact info and no. of tickets (2) per email.)
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Book Sounds
Date TBACindy Pritzker Auditorium
Harold Washington Library Center, 400 S. State Street, Chicago
FREE CONCERT! RSVP is required.
Co-presented by Fulcrum Point New Music Project & Open Books in partnership with Chicago Tribune Printers Row LIT Fest. Details to come.
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9/11: Annual Concert for Peace
Tuesday, September 11, 2012Chase Auditorium; Chicago
$20/$10 (students, police officers/firemen & their families)
Purchase tickets
Details TBA
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Music & Poetry II (Working title)
Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 East Randolph Drive, ChicagoPurchase tickets
Details TBA
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Fulcrum Point Annual Benefit Concert
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