Upcoming
5/2/24 7:30pm Candlelight Voyage @ Colvin House, Chicago
The first of four night musical journey through the major stylistic periods of European and American instrumental music, with insights and performances by Missing Piece in collaboration with Shi-An Costello, piano. Music by Leoninus, Bach, Boccherini, Vivaldi, Haydn, and Beethoven. Free tickets here
5/9/24 7:30pm Candlelight Voyage @ Colvin House, Chicago
The second of four night musical journey through the major stylistic periods of European and American instrumental music, with insights and performances by Missing Piece in collaboration with Shi-An Costello, piano. Music by Mozart, Chopin, Beethoven, Price, Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson Free tickets here
5/16/24 7:30pm Candlelight Voyage @ Colvin House, Chicago
The third of four night musical journey through the major stylistic periods of European and American instrumental music, with insights and performances by Missing Piece in collaboration with Shi-An Costello, piano. Music by Bach, Ysaye, Britten, Debussy, Rachmaninov, Debussy, Rebecca Clarke, Kodaly, Shostakovich Free tickets here
5/23/24 7:30pm Candlelight Voyage @ Colvin House, Chicago
The final of a four night musical journey through the major stylistic periods of European and American instrumental music, with insights and performances by Missing Piece in collaboration with Shi-An Costello, piano. Music includes a premiere by Shi-An Costello, additional music by Jessie Montgomory, Arvo Part, Iannis Xenakis, Phillip Glass, Kaija Saariaho, Nicole Mitchell, Danny Clay, Alfred Schnittke, Nina Simone, Alfred Schnittke, Oliver Messiaen. Free tickets here
6/23/24 Music of Lera Auerbach @ Constellation, Chicago
With Cacie Miller, piano.
Past Performances
9/24/23 8:30 pm Composing the Climate @ Constellation, Chicago
Premiering works for piano and strings on the theme of climate change by composers Shi-An Costello and Samuel Sharp in collaboration with pianist Cacie Miller.
6/10/22 Tonewood @ Mu Gallery, Chicago
Premiered see-saw by Danny Clay, Unseen Wildfire by Myra Hinrichs, diminishing fifths by Shi-An Costello, Infrared Minatures Sixto Franco
7/16/22 The Sun @ House Concert, Anchorage
Premiered The Sun by River Ramuglia
3/14/23 Infrared Miniatures @ Studio St. Philip, New Orleans
Premiered the complete version of Infrared Miniatures by Sixto Franco
6/24/23 Off Book @ Beautiful Things for Sale, Chicago
Premiered where each branch contains what is granted to kingdoms by Ben Zucker
11/5/23 8:00 pm Earth/Land @ Elastic Arts, Chicago
Premiering works for violin, cello, and flower pots by Luis Fernando Amaya, Ben Zucker, Myra Hinrichs/Nate Friedman, and Shi-An Costello
11/11/23 8:00 pm Third Stream @ First Presbyterian Church, Chicago
String quartet performance with Myra Hinrichs (violin) and Seth Pae (viola). Quartets by Leroy Jenkins and Gunther Schuller with an interpretation of graphic score by Nicole Mitchell
11/12/23 7:30 pm Third Stream @ International Museum of Surgical Sciences, Chicago
String quartet performance with Myra Hinrichs (violin) and Seth Pae (viola). Quartets by Leroy Jenkins and Gunther Schuller with an interpretation of graphic score by Nicole Mitchell
3/19/24 8:00 pm diminishing 5ths @ Experimental Sound Studios, Chicago
New Music Chicago Presents: Premiering and filming the complete version of Shi-An Costello’s diminishing 5ths. Watch Recording Here.
11/3/23 7:30pm Earth/Land @ Chicago Ceramics Center, Chicago
Tickets by donation and available at the door.
4/15/24 7:30pm 3rd Stream @ New Marigny Theatre, New Orleans
Performing with Myra Hinrichs (violin) and Sixto Franco (viola) Premiering Tiralineas by Sixto Franco, as well as New Orleans premieres of Leroy Jenkins Themes and Improvisations on the Blues and Gunther Schuller’s 4th String Quartet. Concert supported by Brian Sands and the John Burton Harter Foundation.
4/16/24 7:30pm 3rd Stream @ Studio St. Philip, New Orleans
Performing with Myra Hinrichs (violin) and Sixto Franco (viola) Premiering Tiralineas by Sixto Franco, as well as New Orleans premieres of Leroy Jenkins Themes and Improvisations on the Blues and Gunther Schuller’s 4th String Quartet. Concert supported by Brian Sands and the John Burton Harter Foundation.
4/19/24 7:30pm 3rd Stream @ Marigny Opera House, New Orleans
Performing with Myra Hinrichs (violin), Sixto Franco (viola), Juan Horie (cello), Tim Robertson (guitar). Premiering propaganda umbrella 1 by Jonathan Freilich, as well as New Orleans premieres of Leroy Jenkins Themes and Improvisations on the Blues and Gunther Schuller’s 4th String Quartet. Concert supported by Brian Sands and the John Burton Harter Foundation.