Ensemble in Process
Date: Sunday, May 19, 2024
Doors: 6:30PM
Showtime: 7:30PM
Tickets: $20 - Advanced | $25- At door
About:
Ensemble in Process finally makes its Chicago debut with a concert dedicated to works accompanied by visuals on screen, an homage to the art of Hollywood cinema: Ensemble in Visual Motion. Brian Mark (piano) and Allyson Clare (violin/viola) debut their Midwestern collaborative tour with works by Brian Mark, Steve Reich, Ursula Kwong-Brown, Ian Dicke, Jonathan Hannau, with collaborations of Chicago based visual artists Aespyne Alix. Additional works of composers and performers TBA....
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Ensemble in Process
Date: Sunday, May 19, 2024
Doors: 6:30PM
Showtime: 7:30PM
Tickets: $20 - Advanced | $25- At door
About:
Ensemble in Process finally makes its Chicago debut with a concert dedicated to works accompanied by visuals on screen, an homage to the art of Hollywood cinema: Ensemble in Visual Motion. Brian Mark (piano) and Allyson Clare (violin/viola) debut their Midwestern collaborative tour with works by Brian Mark, Steve Reich, Ursula Kwong-Brown, Ian Dicke, Jonathan Hannau, with collaborations of Chicago based visual artists Aespyne Alix. Additional works of composers and performers TBA.
Brian Mark is an award winning composer, pianist and video artist who is based in Brooklyn, NYC, has been hailed as an “attractive and intelligble” artist (Boston Musical Intelligencer). Brian is also the artistic director of “Ensemble in Process,” which has recently been described as “a fluid approach to presenting new music in fresh contexts and juxtapositions” (The New Yorker). Brian has had works performed by ensembles such as the BBC Singers, Chelsea Symphony, members of the London Symphony Orchestra, Atlas Ensemble, Choral Chameleon, Ensemble Signal, the Ligeti quartet, and at festivals including Bang on a Can, London Contemporary Music Festival, June in Buffalo, and Spitalfields. Brian has received grants from New Music USA, New York State Council on the Arts, Grammy Foundation, Jerome Fund for New Music, Mozaik Philanthropy, and ASCAP. He has held residencies with the Chelsea Symphony, i-Park, and the Ucross Foundation. He completed his PhD at the Royal Academy of Music, studying with Gary Carpenter.
Allyson Clare is a versatile violinist/violist, chamber musician and soloist based in New York City. As a chamber musician she performed from 2013-2018 as a member of the composer-performer string quartet, Solar String Quartet which recorded and performed live numerous albums with singer-songwriters and composers including Joanna Walfisch, Mario Castro, and Julian Hucq at venues such as BAM Center and Jazz at Lincoln Center primarily in the Jazz and Latin-Jazz genres. In 2020 she was commissioned to play and compose for a solo/duo recital at Merkin Hall with pianist Cullan Bryant, completing and realizing an unfinished manuscript of the Belgian violist Ysaye for solo violin alongside three other works of Belgian composers of his era. She frequently collaborates with her new music duo partner, pianist/composer Brian Mark. Clare holds a Bachelor of Music from The San Francisco Conservatory of Music, as well as a Masters of Music from The New England Conservatory of Music. Included among her many teachers are Anne Crowden, Camilla Wicks, and Zaven Mellikian.
General Info
???? Time: 7:30pm
???? Venue: Epiphany Center for the Arts
???? Age requirement: 21+ with valid ID
♿ Accessibility: this venue is ADA compliant
???? No outside food or beverages are allowed
‘Service charges apply to ALL ticket purchases (online and box office)’ - Credit card only at door
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