Chicago Composers: The Next Generation comes to The Ear Taxi Festival this October! This year’s edition of the festival will highlight over 500 artists in over 50 hours of programming, including large-scale Anchor Performances, Composer Showcases, Taxi Concerts, and Accent Concerts. “Chicago Composers: the Next Generation” celebrates the work of composers in the Crossing Borders ... Read more

"Chicago Composers: the Next Generation" shares the world premiere performances of composers in the Crossing Borders Music Young Composers Project. In the project, youth from music programs in North Lawndale and Garfield Park receive weekly composition lessons and write a piece for the Crossing Borders Music string quartet. Hear their fresh, new approaches to an ... Read more

Join us for an unforgettable journey where strings and bodies, histories and rhythms cross borders and build bridges.This interactive event, presented in partnership with the Center of Peruvian Arts, shares interactive Afro-Peruvian dance and music, including the powerful Afro-Peruvian holiday tradition “Hatajo de Negritos,” as well as a workshop and performance by the dancers of ... Read more

Hear string trios by Haitian composers “rooted” in the beauty of Haitian culture and its unique history, religion, and folk traditions! Music by Werner Jaegerhuber, Rudy Perrault, Sabrina C D Jean Louis, and folk song arrangements by Julio Racine celebrate Haiti’s revolutionary freedom-seeking origins, its folk music, its unique religious traditions – and its connection ... Read more

This journey spans from the story of an enslaved prodigy, Blind Tom Wiggins, to the hopeful vision of today, weaving together music across history, social movements, and artistic triumphs. Audiences will be taken from Blind Tom Wiggins’ remarkable piece “March Timpani,” arranged for strings by BIPOC composer and musicologist AJ Isaacson-Zvidzwa, through the legacy of ... Read more