Anchor Performances
These large-scale performances bring together partner organizations from across Chicagoland.
These large-scale performances bring together partner organizations from across Chicagoland.
Bella Voce opens the 2025 Ear Taxi Festival with Lost Objects, a genre-defying oratorio by Bang on a Can founders Gordon, Wolfe, and Lang. Combining choir, period-instrument orchestra, soloists, electronics, and modern themes, this performance launches the festival’s theme—The Composer’s Voice—by exploring what “new music” truly means today.
A stunning choral-orchestral elegy by Christopher Tin, The Lost Birds honors extinct species and the fragile beauty of nature. Featuring William Ferris Chorale and DePaul’s Ensemble 20+, this concert blends musical storytelling with environmental reflection—perfect for educators, composers, and all who believe in music's power to move and inspire.
Chicago Fringe Opera presents powerful works by Kate Soper, Regina Harris Baiocchi, and Jasmine Barnes. Myth, memory, and community come alive in this genre-defying evening of short operas that amplify the voices of women composers and celebrates storytelling through bold, inclusive, and emotionally rich new music.
This culminating concert of the 2025 Ear Taxi Festival features the world premiere of Stacy Garrop’s Invictus and Midwestern premiere of Damien Geter’s powerful An African American Requiem. These works reflect the festival’s theme The Composer’s Voice, showcasing bold, contemporary perspectives through piano, chorus, and orchestra for a moving, modern musical experience.
