Gen. Admission: $30/Student $15

"Espirales" is a dynamic new quintet of Gold Medal Awarded Cuban musicians who perform new art music bridging jazz, classical, and Cuban popular music. Its members (Tania Haase, Olivia Rodríguez, Alejandro Aguiar, Jesús Estrada and Rodrigo García) have extensive national and international experience in multiple genres, giving "Espirales" a unique style in the panorama of current Cuban music. This year they have been featured at the prestigious "Cuban International Jazz Plaza Festival" and the "Havana Clásica Music Festival" among others. Their first tour of the USA will bring them to Boston, New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. 

Don’t miss these exciting emerging artists! 

Come discover the coolest of new art music in our ongoing collaboration between trumpeter Stephen Burns, Fulcrum Point New Music Project and ~Nois Saxophone Quartet. Featuring the World Premiere of Shawn Okpepholo’s “Black Music”, which in the composer’s words… “embraces and captures elements of Black artistry, experience, and joy” this concert invokes the horn lines of Motown and the improvisations of Hard Bop in Scott Johnson’s “Raised By Wolves”.

Raised By Wolves    Scott Johnson 

Black Music  Shawn Okpebholo (World Premiere)

One Tree, Many Branches

Presents

Fulcrum Point New Music Project

Stephen Burns, Artistic Director

Brass Fantasy

Colchester Fantasy                  Eric Ewazen

         The Rose and The Crown

         The Marquis of Granby

         The Dragoon

         The Red Lion

Brass Quintet #1                      Jorge Amado

         Adagio

Moderato Grazioso

Drammatico – Allegro Vivace

Brass Knuckles                                Mischa Zupko

         Sucker Punch

         Shadow Boxing 

Stephen Burns & Rebecca Oliverio, trumpet

Momoko Hasselbring Seko, French horn

Robyn Smith, trombone

Kevin Harrison, tuba

EVENT DETAILS:

Fulcrum Point New Music Project 25th Annual Concert for Peace: Border Crossings

Doors: 5PM for Golden Hour 

Showtime: 7:30PM 

Tickets: $30 - General Admission | $80 - VIP table for 2 | $160 - VIP table for 4 | $15 - Student

‘Service charges apply to ALL ticket purchases (online and box office)’ - Credit card only at door

The purchase of a VIP table for 2 or 4 includes an exclusive invitation to the post-concert meet and greet reception. 



AGE REQUIREMENT:

Must be 21+


ABOUT:

Take our musical journey of new art music from minimalism to Negro Spirituals. Featuring the exquisite soprano Joelle Lamarre with the Fulcrum Point String Orchestra, this concert takes us on a sonic adventure from Sômei Satoh’s Zen-inspired “Toward the Night” through Brit Rocker Steve Martland’s “Crossing the Border” leading us to Tania León’s “Green Pastures” and Jessie Montgomerie’s “5 Freedom Songs”

Stephen Burns, Artistic Director

Joelle Lamarre, soprano

Five Freedom Songs             Jessie Montgomery

Toward the Night                    Sômei Satoh

Green Pastures                       Tania León

Crossing the Border              Steve Martland

Chicago Humanities Festival Presents - Experience the Midwest premiere of “The Melodic Version (1984) of The Second Dream of The High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer from The Four Dreams of China (1962) in Dream Light" by legendary minimalist artists La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela—This transformative work, performed by Fulcrum Point (led by Stephen Burns and Ben Neill), bathes the audience in magenta light while the tones from 8 muted trumpets flood the space.

Join Fulcrum Point and The Chicago Humanities Festival for a wholly unique experience that will transport you into the sonorous and luminous minds of these singular, creative artists.

Performers
Stephen Burns, Ben Neill, Nicolas Bejarano, C.J. Camerieri
Joe Drew, Rob Frear, Jim O’Connor, John Charles Thomas
La Monte Young Artistic Representative
Jung Hee Choi

In a time of division, polarity, and isolation, being connected is essential! Fulcrum Point New Music Project partners with The Bridge in curating a soulful, immersive musical experience in The Sanctuary of Epiphany Arts. Tapping into their intuitive creativity these internationally acclaimed musicians explore blues, jazz, electronics, and free-improv in a communal expression of curiosity, collaboration and joy. This one-time confluence of artists is not to be missed!

Fulcrum Point & The Bridge 

Creative Intuitive Music 

Epiphany Arts: Sanctuary

210 S Ashland Ave, Chicago

November 9, 2023

7:30 p.m.

featuring

Fulcrum Point: 

Co-Curator of AuxIn: Connected Angelo Hart, piano; 

Marion Mallard, bass; Corey Wilkes, trumpet

&

Bridge Artists:

Quentin Biardeau, sax & synths and Étienne Ziemniak, drums 

With special guest

Françoise Dô, poet

Fulcrum Point New Music Project has been invited to participate in this year’s Pegasus Awards. The Pegasus Awards are hosted annually by the Poetry Foundation and are among some of the most prestigious award given in American poetry. Fulcrum Point’s contribution to the celebratory night will include performances by the following:


Dalia Chin-flute & co-curator

Constance Volk - flute

Caitlin Edwards - violin & co-curator

Julimar Gonzalez - violin

Wilfred Farquharson - viola 

Lindsey Sharpe - cello

For more information please contact: info@poetryfoundation.org

Fulcrum Point Presents: Fernanda Navarro- Premiere of Reflex on Wednesday October 18th!

Fernanda Aoki Navarro is a composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music, developing concert music, intermedia works, performance art and installations. She is interested in sound, in the idiosyncratic relationship between the corporeality of the performers and the physicality of their instruments, in the exploration between music and language, the use and misuse of technology, and in the transformational power that experimental music can exert on issues related to feminism and social otherness.

Her music has been performed nationally and internationally by soloists and ensembles such as NY Philharmonic, International Contemporary Ensemble, Talea, Yarn/Wire, Fonema Consort, Gnarwhallaby, Platypus, Nadar, among others. Her works have been featured at festivals such as June in Buffalo, Banff music festival, Domaine Forget, Festival Internacional de Campos do Jordão, New Music Gathering, Visiones Sonoras, MATA, SEAMUS, NYC Electronic Music Festival, Darmstadt Summer Festival and others.

LINEUP:
Stephen Burns, trumpet/flugelhorn; Diana Lopez, trumpet; Julia Bentley, mezzo soprano; Rika Seko, violin; Sara Dailey, mezzo soprano

PROGRAM:

Lejanía: Ricardo Lorenz; Stephen Burns, trumpet/flugelhorn; Diana Lopez, trumpet

Folk Songs:

Luciano Berio; Sara Dailey, mezzo soprano

Déjate Caer:
Carolina Heredia; Rika Seko, violin

Reflex, Fernanda Aoki Navarro (World Premiere):
Julia Bentley, mezzo soprano

Music for Trumpets and Trees by Dick Higgins (1:30pm on North side of The Cloud Gate sculpture)

What would it sound like if you could hear the visual patterns of the world, not the sounds of the wind or waves or a city street – that’s John Cage’s idea for 4’33” of ‘silence’ -- but the lines, colors and shapes, as if they were the notes? Music for Trumpets and Trees ( 1976) by seminal Fluxus Artist/Composer Dick Higgins, uses graphic notation as a guide for a group improvisation. What does the soft edge of a cloud sound like? Does a blue sky sound blue? How about the jagged edge of a leaf? A solid tree trunk? What about playing trees, or playing in trees? How about trumpets in trees?

Josh Berman, cornet

Stephen Burns, trumpet

Ben Lamar Gay, cornet

Chad McCullough, trumpet

Corey Wilkes, trumpet

Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman by Joan Tower (6pm open the concert on Pritzker Stage, Millennium Park)

Joan Tower’s “Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman #5” (1993), features four trumpets in pairs exploring the trumpet's heroic, melodic and virtuosic character. The 4-minute work opens with a lone, laconic trumpet answered by others. The work gains momentum and new rhythmic impetus, only to return temporarily to its former, quieter nature. In the last quarter of the work, the “Fanfare” truly lives up to its name, releasing radiant, joyous, poly-tonal salvos of joy.

Burns, trumpet

William Denton, trumpet

Diana Lopez, trumpet

Rebecca Oliverio, trumpet


To enhance your festival experience, you can purchase a Producer's Pass. Click HERE for more.

Tickets for this event can be purchased at: https://seetickets.us/fulcrumnoisjul16

A collaboration of improvisation provided by musicians and soundscapes. During this program, we will use sound art/soundscapes as a foundation to build impromptu and meaningful compositions. The mixed media aspect will provide a different level of creative intensity. The key will be for all musicians to actively be listening, as if in conversation with one another. This will showcase the organic and living nature of the music. 

Curated by Angelo Hart - piano
Hunter Diamond- saxophones/electronics/percussion
Marion Mallard - Bass

Tickets purchased on the Epiphany Center for the Arts’ website (LINK)

Alonso Quijano, AKA Don Quijote, in Miguel de Cervants’ novel plots against the intruders that are invading La Mancha. His otherworldly impetus and strong will sends him off into a lost cause endangering himself greatly. WINDMILLS is a program that pays tribute to all the real-life "Alonso Quijanos" that choose to dedicate their most valuable efforts to creating new works of music, often fighting all sorts of adversities, from financial hardships to biased public exposure and personal vulnerability. From Quijote Duo, we want to recognize and celebrate the courage and drive composers display in venturing themselves into sharing their gifts with the world so us performers and listeners can keep enjoying the thrill of new music.


Tickets can be purchased on the Epiphany Center for the Arts website: https://epiphanychi.com/events/fulcrum-point-new-music-project/

Save the date!

International Trumpet Virtuoso Håkan Hardenberger joins Fulcrum Point New Music Project Artistic Director Stephen Burns, CSO Principal Trumpeter Esteban Batallán, Lyric Opera’s Rebecca Oliverio with DePaul Faculty member Paul Lowry in a program of dazzling trumpet solos, duos, trios, quartets, and Trumpet Ensembles.

Tickets can be purchased on the DePaul School of Music website

Fulcrum Point New Music Project presents our 24th Annual Concert for Peace with the American Premiere of Dutch avant-pop composer JacobTV's The Freedom Songs.

In autumn 2021, Fulcrum Point's Stephen Burns, Steve Roberts and special guest Cynthia Yeh traveled to the Netherlands to join composer Jacob TV for a European tour of The Freedom Songs.

Now JacobTV travels to Chicago to join us for our Annual Concert for Peace, originally scheduled for 2021 but postponed due to Covid travel restrictions.

The Freedom Songs is JacobTV’s multi-media ode to freedom is inspired by the words of The Buddha, Fannie Lou Hamer, MLK, Malcom X, Hegel and others. Composed 75 years after Europe’s liberation from fascism the oratorio takes FDR’s Four Freedoms speech and expands them in a 75’ electroacoustic tone bath with video.

Stephen Burns, flugelhorn/trumpet; Steve Roberts, electric guitar; Cheryl Wilson, voice; Cynthia Yeh, percussion.

Click this button for the complete program notes, including song titles, lyrics, and artist biographies.

Fulcrum Point New Music Project and The Bridge, a Transatlantic Network for Jazz and Creative Music, present their second collaboration of 2022. Join us as we bring together creative improvisors from France and Chicago for a unique, one-time only concert event.

Eight brilliant improvisors in two sets of spontaneous musical creativity in the awesome acoustic space of the Sanctuary at Epiphany Center for the Arts.

Featuring Christian Dillingham, bass; Gaspar Claus, cello; Carmani Edwards, bass; Angelo Hart, piano; Gerrit Hatcher tenor sax; Erwan Keravec, bagpipes; Chad McCullough, trumpet; with Marvin Tate, voice.

The Bridge is a transatlantic organization that associates nearly 150 French and North American musicians divided into quartets and quintets. This long list respects the sociological diversity of the jazz field: men and women of all generations and backgrounds, who will be brought together, one after another, configuration after configuration. And its aesthetic diversity: music as a means of expression and as a means of experimentation, music as a domain of possibility. All of them show invaluable capacities to share their knowledge and craft, both on- and off-stage.

Composers Emily Doolittle, Derek Bermel, Paul Oehlers, and Judith Shatin address climate change, prairie restoration, and the impending extinction of too many species.  Their intermedia works create a dialogue between whales, birds, amphibians, and the acoustic instruments of Fulcrum Point artists set in the context of vivid video and imagery.

Social sounds from whales at night | Emily Doolittle (World Premiere)
Stephen Burns, trumpet & percussion

Nine Revolutions | Derek Bermel (Midwest Premiere)
Mathias Tacke, violin; Kate Carter, violin; Sarah Plum, viola; Paula Kosower, cello

Phoenix Rising | Paul Oehlers
Commissioned by Brenda Shapiro for The Nature Conservancy

Terra Infirma | Judith Shatin
1. Birds
2. Fall-Winter: Mammals & Fish
3. Spring: Reptile, Amphibians

Fulcrum Point Ensemble:
Stephen Burns, trumpet/conductor 
Jeremy Ruthrauff, soprano/tenor saxophone
Rebecca Oliverio, trumpet
Andy Baker, trombone
Andy Cierny, percussion
Kathleen Carter, violin
Mathias Tacke, violin
Sarah Plum, viola
Paula Kosower, cello
Darlene Castro, intermedia technology

Student special: Use the promo code FPNATURE at checkout to get half-price tickets.

The first multimedia music composition ever commissioned by the Nature Conservancy and premiered by Fulcrum Point New Music Project at the Harris Theater in 2009, Phoenix Rising applies a formalized music system to the subject of controlled prairie burns as a means of halting invasive species. Using video and audio from prairie fires and musical quotes from music relating to fire and prairie fields, as well as original musical elements.

Fulcrum Point New Music Project Presents
AuxIn: Connected!
Angelo Hart: Space and Dissonance

Pianist, composer and improviser Angelo Hart makes his AuxIn: Connected! featured artist debut. Angelo is Fulcrum Point's 2022-23 season co-curator alongside violinist Caitlin Edwards. 

This set features original improvisational ideas by Angelo with a focus on musical components that zero in on the intimacy of creative music: Space and Dissonance. Joining Angelo will be drummer Avreeayl Ra and saxophonist Dave Rempis. 

Angelo Hart has always had a unique and expressive approach to his instrument. Angelo has studied jazz and classical legends such as Thelonius Monk, Art Tatum, Cecil Taylor, Oscar Peterson, Keith Jarrett, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Debussy, Liszt, Chopin, Beethoven, and many more. He approaches the piano with command and finesse, displaying a unique relationship and connection between the two of them. His latest album, My Song For You, was released on May 1, 2022.

Avreeayl Ra is a Chicago legend in the richly progressive avant-garde jazz scene over a career that has spanned more than a half a century. His muscular, soul-seeded beats have been described as stirring tempos that drive animated sonic conversations. His boundless versatility refracts an infinite sonic spectrum in the improvisational soundscape he has co-created in the many cultural communities to which he belongs.

Dave Rempis has been an integral part of the thriving Chicago jazz and improvised music scene since 1997. Rempis’ musical expression draws on a number of touchstones. While heavily improvisational in nature, his Greek ethnicity, studies in jazz and ethnomusicology, an appreciation for the philosophical underpinnings of contemporary composition, and a love for unforgivingly strident yelps, screeches, and squeals all inform his work.

AuxIn: Connected! is a series of pop-up events hosted by Fulcrum Point New Music Project that connect  rising professionals with emerging musicians throughout Chicago. Held in clubs and bars, each mixer features a unique line-up of new art music designed to stimulate curiosity and conversation. Come solo or bring a date, grab a drink, and experience something completely new.

The concert will also be live streamed. If you watch , please support the artists by purchasing a livestream ticket. Find the link at the Buy Tickets button above.

Fulcrum Point New Music Project
AuxIn: Connected!
Curated by Caitlin Edwards

Fulcrum Point New Music Project presents NYC-based bassoonist and composer Joy Guidry.

Radical self-love, compassion, laughter, and the drive to amplify Black artmakers and noisemakers comprise the core of Joy Guidry’s work. Their performances have been hailed by The San Diego Tribune as “lyrical and haunting…hair-raising and unsettling.” A versatile improviser and a composer of experimental, daring new works that embody a deep love of storytelling, Joy’s own music channels their inner child in honor of their ancestors and predecessors.

Radical Acceptance is the title of Joy’s new album, and it tells their story of processing trauma, self-care, self-love, and finding hope for the future. Drawing inspiration from the work of Sonya Renee Taylor, who has defined radical self-love as “its own entity, a lush and verdant island are offering safe harbor for self-esteem and self-confidence.” While Joy’s musical offerings represent a range of musical idioms and methodologies from improvisation and graphic scores to multimedia and gospel, the uniting principle for Guidry is a focus on the importance of affirmation, validation, and self-care.

The concert features Joy Guidry on bassoon, theremin, voice, electronics, and video.

8:30pm | Radical Acceptance
9:30pm | A deep dive into Radical Acceptance with audience Q&A

Proof of COVID vaccination and photo ID required for entry.

Tickets are $15. The show will also be live streamed on the Constellation YouTube Channel. If you watch the livestream, please support the artists by purchasing a livestream ticket.

AuxIn: Connected! is a series of pop-up parties connecting rising professionals with emerging musicians throughout Chicago. Held in clubs and bars, each mixer features a unique line-up of new art music designed to stimulate curiosity and conversation. Come solo or bring a date, grab a drink, and experience something completely new.

Caitlin Edwards is a classically trained violinist, arranger, recording artist, and teacher based in Chicago. She is a 2021 3Arts/Walder Foundation award recipient. Caitlin released her debut album Exhale in August of 2021. She has performed with the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra, Nairobi Philharmonic, Grant Park Festival Orchestra, and Chicago Sinfonietta. She’s played and recorded with artists such as John Legend, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Common, and with PJ Morton’s on his “Gumbo Album”, for which she received a Grammy Certificate. She also recorded for the Disney movie score, The Lion King, with the ReCollective Orchestra at Sony Studios. Caitlin’s current projects include writing and arranging strings for upcoming projects, remote recording for albums, teaching, and working on her EP set to debut summer of 2021.

Holtschneider Performance Center of DePaul University
2330 N. Halsted Street, Chicago 60614

Discoveries: Hear & Be Heard: NextGen
Fulcrum Point New Music Projects presents
The Pyrenean String Quartet plays works by DePaul University Student Composers
Discussion moderated by Fulcrum Point Artistic Director Stephen Burns

Depaul University’s Composition Department and Fulcrum Point New Music Project are co-sponsoring two exciting collaborative events this spring. The Pyrenean String Quartet has been invited to DePaul University for a collaboration with their student composers this spring. New works will be workshopped and performed in two separate events. The workshops were in April and the selected compositions will be performed at this May 23rd concert, which is presented at the Allen Recital Hall of DePaul's Holtschneider Performance Center.

The concert is free and open to the public, but advance registration is required. Register at https://events.depaul.edu/event/composers_forum_fulcrum_point

PROGRAM:

Rhapsody on a Country Tune | Luke Sailstad

Digression | Dominic Reyes

Lesson 4 | Sam Kudra

Vulnerability | Corinne Klein

Golem | Jimmy Levi

Expanding Personalities | Xavier Davenport

Looking In | Justin Torzala

Pyrenean String Quartet
Kate Carter and Rika Seko, violins
Claudia Lasareff-Mironoff, viola
Paula Kosower, violoncello

All patrons must show proof of Covid-19 vaccination and identification at their time of entry. Face masks required. For more information on Holtschneider Performance Centers Covid safety policy visit https://music.depaul.edu/.../Pages/COVID_19-Safety.aspx

The Pyrenean String Quartet was founded in July of 2020 during the pandemic. We found comfort together as a “pod” making music during this challenging time by exploring works in depth while isolated from most of our other musical colleagues, friends and family. Throughout the pandemic we performed, live-streamed, and recorded a number of traditional and contemporary string quartets for Chicago arts organizations including the Fulcrum Point New Music Project and the Chicago Philharmonic. These projects were primarily fund raisers for fellow musicians in need. In 2021 we celebrated Adolphus Hailstork’s 80th birthday by performing his String Quartet #1 for him via Fulcrum Point's live streamed YouTube concert. We were featured at New Music Chicago’s Impromptu Fest performing Eleanor Alberga’s String Quartet No 3 and later that year recorded a new string quartet called Chants and Antiphons by Lawrence Axelrod for his latest CD.

The Quartet's members have participated in workshops and masterclasses with student and professional composers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the University of Chicago, Merit School of Music, Northeastern Illinois University, DePaul University, Bowling Green University, and also under the auspices of Fulcrum Point New Music Project’s Discoveries series and Picosa.

Lutheran Church of the Ascension, 460 Sunset Ridge Road Northfield, IL, 60093.

Neo-romantic works for brass quintet.

Presented by Lutheran Church of the Ascension’s “One Tree, Many Branches” concert series.

Program curation: Stephen Burns & Mischa Zupko

“These composers represent three generations of artists who are inspired by their religion, traditional music from around the world, as well as the subtle sounds and variations in our environment to be appreciated and transmuted through careful observation and imagination.” - Stephen Burns

Introit | Jonathan Bailey Holland
Street Songs Michael Tilson Thomas
AC’s Turning | Trevor Weston
Copperwave | Joan Tower
Take My Hand | Heidi Joosten
Frost Fire | Eric Ewazen

Stephen Burns, trumpet
Rebecca Oliverio, trumpet
Matthew Oliphant, French Horn
Felix Regalado, trombone
Scott Tegge, tuba

All are welcome, admission is free! Face masks are optional.

Experience rebirth at this singular event of Franco-American Collaboration in Improvisation between The Bridge, a transatlantic network for jazz & creative music, and Fulcrum Point New Music Project. Explore The Colabyrinth, a space for creativity shared by musician Kahil El'Zabar and artist/designer Lucy Slivinski.

Kahil El’Zabar, percussion & conduction
Angelo Hart, piano
Katie Ernst, bass
Marvin Tate, voice
Corey Wilkes, trumpet
Emilie Lesbros, voice
Gilles Coronado, electric guitar

Please note: There will be no admission without advance purchase of tickets.
Proof of COVID vaccination is required for entry.

Colabyrinth is located at 2500 S. Sawyer Avenue in Chicago. Limited street parking is available and there are additional metered spaces one block east on Kedzie Avenue.

Electroacoustic music amplifies the depths of emotion, synchronizing the digital world with humanity. Take a journey with poets and the composers Sarah Belle Reid, Ted Hearne, Jorge Sosa, and Judith Shatin as they explore the Icarus Myth, Goya’s Black Paintings, and the Time/Space continuum.

Alveoli | Sarah Belle Reid
Sarah Belle Reid, trumpet, Buchla modular synthesizer, and Max/MSP in quadraphonic sound

Crib Dweller | Ted Hearne
Jim Gailoretto, bass clarinet; Steve Roberts, electric guitar; Stephen Burns, trumpet; Jeremiah Fredrick, French Horn; Andy Baker, trombone

Stray Birds | Jorge Sosa
Jim Gailoretto, bass clarinet; Steve Roberts, electric guitar; Stephen Burns, trumpet; Jeremiah Fredrick, French Horn; Andy Baker, trombone

[poem] A Swearing Out Of the Labyrinth | Eric Elshtain

Grito del Corazon | Judith Shatin
Kathy Aoki, video; Jim Gailoretto, bass clarinet; Steve Roberts, electric guitar; Stephen Burns, trumpet; Jeremiah Fredrick, French Horn; Andy Baker, trombone

About Sarah Belle Reid:
Sarah Belle Reid is a performer-composer who plays trumpet, modular synthesizer, and an ever-growing collection of handcrafted electronic instruments. Her unique musical voice explores the intersections between contemporary classical music, experimental and interactive electronics, visual arts, noise music, and improvisation. Often praised for her ability to transport audience members through vivid sonic adventures, Reid's sonic palette has been described as ranging from "graceful" and "danceable" all the way to "silk-falling-through-space," and "pit-full-of-centipedes" (San Francisco Classical Voice).

$20/$10 students
Purchase tickets here.

Proof of full COVID vaccination required for entry. Elastic Arts is BYOB.

Caitlin Edwards & Angelo Hart Curate AuxIn: Connected!

First Set (8:00): Curated by Caitlin Edwards

Caitlin Edwards, violin
Malik Johnson, cello
John Bitoy, piano

Fireflies, Cotton Candy, Peace, Stillness, Water, and Duality. Fulcrum Point New Music Project 2022 co-curator Caitlin Edwards presents music that delves into the subject of stillness, joy and peace, written by phenomenal black composers.

“I’ve had the pleasure of working in orchestras and chamber settings with each of these composers, and I’m constantly in admiration of their work. Each piece on the program carries its own unique story and inspiration and we hope to share both the composer’s perspective and our own to listeners.” - Caitlin Edwards

A Spark and A Glimmer (piano trio) by Lauren McCall
Cotton Candy (solo violin and electronics) by Joy Guidry
Peace (violin and piano) by Jessie Montgomery
Be Still and Know (piano trio) by Carlos Simon
Watch Over Us (solo violin and electronics) Nathalie Joachim
Piano Trio by Brian Raphael Nabors

Second Set (9:30): Jam Session led by co-curator Angelo Hart: Musicians invited!

Angelo Hart, piano
Caitlin Edwards, violin
Malik Johnson, cello
Tomasso Moretti, drums

Purchase advance tickets at https://www.seetickets.us/event/Fulcrum-PointNewMusicProject/466628

Proof of COVID vaccination required for entry.

Out of the Ashes: Honor Their Memory

“And they shall beat their swords into plowshares.”

Click or tap here to download a PDF of the complete program notes, including lyrics & text, composition information, and artist & composer biographies.    

Our 23rd Annual Concert for Peace makes a case for justice and reconciliation, acknowledging and honoring the past with hope for the future. Works by composers Reena Esmail, Stacy Garrop and Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate join the Midwest premieres of two works commemorating the Tulsa Massacre, Adolphus Hailstork’s Tulsa 1921 and Daniel Bernard Roumain’s They Still Want to Kill Us.

Talowa’ Hiloha (Thunder Song) | Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate
Simón Gómez Gallego, timpani

They Still Want to Kill Us | Daniel Bernard Roumain
Joelle Lamarre, soprano
Kuang-Hao Huang, piano

Lo Yisa Goy | Stacy Garrop

Teen Murti | Reena Esmail

Tulsa 1921: Pity These Ashes. Pity This Dust. | Adolphus Hailstork, text by Dr. Herbert Martin (Midwest Premiere)
Joelle Lamarre, soprano                

Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for seniors and students with ID. Purchase them at the DePaul University Box Office: https://events.depaul.edu/event/fulcrum_point_new_music_project_out_of_the_ashes#.YYROXbpOkaE

If you need ticketing assistance, please contact the Holtschneider Performance Center Box Office, 773.325.5200 or musicboxoffice@depaul.edu open Tue-Sat, 10AM – 3PM.

To download a PDF of the complete program notes, including lyrics & text, composition information, and artist and composer biographies, click here.           

Fulcrum Point New Music Project joins New Music Chicago’s Ear Taxi Festival 2021 with Latinx Musix, a program of new music by Latin American composers on a double bill with experimental composition/improvisation trio Fat Pigeon, who will open the program.

Co-Curated by Dalia Chin for Fulcrum Point’s Discoveries: Hear & Be Heard

In Partnership with The International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago 

Desmoronamiento by Darlene Castro
Dalia Chin, flute | Darlene Castro, Electronics

Jaromiluna by Ricardo Lorenz
Alison Attar, harp | Rika Seko, violin

Nubes by Lupita Diaz-Donato (World Premiere)
Wagner Campos, Solo clarinet

Book of Spells by Clarice Assad
Chapter 1: Love and Relationships: The Siren’s Seduction
Chapter 2: Wealth and Prosperity: Spell to Summon Greed
Chapter 3: Health and Well-Being: A Spell for Global Healing

Dalia Chin, flute | Ricardo Castañeda, oboe | Wagner Campos, clarinets | Lisa Marie Kahn, harp | Arturo Ziraldo, viola 
Stephen Burns, conductor

Register for FREE tickets at https://www.eartaxifestival.com/mainstage/10-01-fulcrum

Proof of vaccination or negative Covid test required for entry. For full Covid-19 policy, visit https://www.eartaxifestival.com/venues/depaul-holtschneider

The performance will also be live-streamed on YouTube at https://youtu.be/WjLTfxZr5cA

The Ear Taxi Festival runs from September 15 - October 4. Full festival info is at www.eartaxifestival.com

Fulcrum Point Sound^Sphere: Creating Community Through Music
Sound^Sphere: LIVE!

A weak signal caused our May 26 program from Connect Gallery in Hyde Park to not stream properly. Now, for those who were not fortunate enough to experience the concert in person, we've rescued and edited the video footage and present it to you in HD quality on Facebook and YouTube.

YouTube LInk: https://youtu.be/BLw_tkHaXUY
Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/FulcrumPoint

Fulcrum Point Aux In and Discoveries: Hear and Be Heard co-curator Angel Bat Dawid honors a groundbreaking, yet largely forgotten, series of albums featuring Black composers produced by the Afro-American Music Opportunities Association by presenting new works from young Chicago composers Anaiet, and Julian Terrell Otis, and Isaiah Collier.

Download a PDF of the complete program notes from the May 26 concert here, including artist bios, notes about the compositions, and more.

New Music Chicago presents the return of its annual Impromptu Fest, June 25-27, 2021.

To close out Impromptu Fest 2021, Fulcrum Point New Music Project presents its program, “Songs and Chamber Music by Black Composers.”

Download a PDF of the complete program notes, including artist and performer bios, here.

Program:

Joelle Lamarre, soprano | Kuang-Hao Huang, piano

Cantata: Prelude & Rondo - John Daniels Carter

Goddess of the Water – Anthony Davis/Thulani Davis

Moments in Sonder – B.E. Boykin/Maya Angelou
Tears
A Conceit
Greyday
Sounds Like Pearles
On Diverse Deviations

Rika Seko and Kate Carter, violins | Claudia Lasareff-Mironoff, viola | Paula Kosower, violoncello

String Quartet #3 – Eleanor Alberga

Moderato
Scherzo
Adagio
Allegro

This year’s fest will feature a limited-seating live audience at the Nevermore Performance Space, 3411 W North Avenue, Chicago and also be live-streamed on the New Music Chicago YouTube Channel. Find a direct link to the Fulcrum Point performance here.

For the complete Impromptu Fest schedule and information on how to obtain in-person tickets, visit newmusicchicago.org/impromptufest

The Afro‐American Music Opportunities Association (AAMOA) was founded with the mission of providing performance opportunities for Black musicians as well as music education and showcasing the works of Black composers.

In the 1970s, the AAMOA and the pioneering conductor Paul Freeman recorded the Black Composers Series, 9 albums released by Columbia Records spotlighting the compositions of Black composers spanning the 18th century to composers living at the time the albums were recorded.

Now, Fulcrum Point AuxIn and Discoveries co-curator Angel Bat Dawid honors this groundbreaking series and the mission of the AAMOA by presenting three new works from young composers Anaiet, Julian Terrell Otis, and Isaiah Collier:

Isaiah Collier
Mineziple
Tariq
Heaven’s Lament

Julian Terrell Otis
A Dirge & A Dream
I. Dirge
II. Dream

Anaiet
Live in Peace
Tied Up
Ocean Wind, Be My Friend
Blueberry Skies

Find a downloadable PDF of the complete program notes at this link.

The concert will come to you live from Hyde Park's Connect Gallery, a community space that inspires social innovation through art and culture.

Watch this free event on the Fulcrum Point YouTube Channel. Link: https://youtu.be/kxX--PO1zOc

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Fulcrum Point Sound^Sphere: Creating Community Through Music

Music and conversation:

Fulcrum Point New Music Project celebrates the legacy of pioneering Black composer Adolphus Hailstork on the occasion of his 80th birthday with a performance of music for string quartet written by BIPOC composers from the Americas.

Gabriela Lena Frank: Kanto Kechua #2
Eleanor Alberga: String Quartet #3 (Movements III & IV)
Aldophus Hailstork: String Quartet #1

performed by

Rika Seko and Kate Carter, violins
Claudia Lasareff-Mironoff, viola
Paula Kosower, violoncello

Download a PDF of the complete program notes, including composer, musician and panelist bios, HERE.

The concert will premiere on the Fulcrum Point YouTube Channel, Fulcrum Point New Music Project Facebook page, and the Fulcrum Point Sound^Sphere Facebook Group page at 7 PM on Wednesday, April 21.

The concert will be followed immediately by a live Zoom conversation with Adolphus Haistork, historian/researcher Bill Doggett, and musician Angel Bat Dawid, moderated by Fulcrum Point Artistic Director Stephen Burns. Join the conversation here beginning at approximately 7:45 PM: https://zoom.us/j/96654090579?pwd=a2FIbXdDUVhKWEtXdlg0Mm1vR25pQT09

This concert is free to view, but donations that support our ability to bring streamed events to you every month are appreciated. Please visit fulcrumpoint.org/support to see how you can help.