Accent Concerts
Highlighting Chicagoland-area performances between October 19 - November 2, local artists bring to life contemporary works.
Highlighting Chicagoland-area performances between October 19 - November 2, local artists bring to life contemporary works.
Trio Accord (oboe, viola, piano) explores repertoire for different combinations of their instruments and are featuring Accord by Chicago-area composer Zae Munn. Also included are works by Tann, Glinka, and Loeffler.
Loyola University Chicago has the pleasure of inviting you to a concert featuring pianist David Kalhous and violinist Benjamin Sung on Friday, October 31, 2025, at 7:00 PM at Skowronski Music Hall, Mundelein Center for Fine and Performing Arts.
The program will include works by JS Bach, Franz Schubert, György Kurtág, alongside the world premiere of The Ci(r)cadian Tree by Dongryul Lee, commissioned by Sung and Kalhous. Inspired by the rare 2024 dual emergence of periodical cicadas in Illinois and the dazzling Northern Lights, Lee’s piece explores cycles of nature, life, and impermanence through vivid musical storytelling, through a Borgesian narrative.
Threads of Time brings together pianists Ayse Celasun, Cacie Miller, and Maya Galperin for an evening that bridges contemporary and Romantic sound worlds. The program features works by Reena Esmail, Lera Auerbach, and Cynthia Papierniak alongside masterpieces by Frédéric Chopin, Leopold Godowsky, Alexander Scriabin, and Sergei Rachmaninov. From lyrical meditations to dazzling virtuosity, the concert highlights connections across centuries, revealing how composers continue to inspire, challenge, and echo one another through the piano.
Trio Accord (oboe, viola, piano) explores repertoire for different combinations of their instruments and are featuring Accord by Chicago-area composer Zae Munn. Also included are works by Tann, Glinka, and Loeffler.
University Chorale presents a program confronting the calculated devastation wrought by war and violence through a collection of powerful choral works by Judith Weir, Toivo Tulev, Ted Hearne, Heinrich Schütz, Caroline Shaw, and Veljo Tormis.
Sunday, November 2, is the second Day of the Dead, Día de los Muertos, celebrated in Mexican culture. The core of the celebration is to honor the dead, a sentiment that transcends cultural boundaries, a two day holiday that reunites the living and dead. Given our current political situation, we have chosen to expand the program in several ways, not only by including memorial pieces, but to acknowledge the conflicts we are experiencing in our social and political lives and finding imaginative expressions of these conflicts both poetically and musically.
Mucca Pazza performs selections from its ever-evolving repertoire in a theatrical performance at Evanston's SPACE. Chicago's most colorful composers collective will present works from Mucca Pazza's stylistically eclectic and extensive 21-year catalog (composed by the band) in perhaps the only Ear Taxi concert featuring cheerleaders.
