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, plus folk song arrangements by Julio Racine celebrate Haiti’s revolutionary freedom-seeking origins, its folk music, its unique religious traditions – and its ... Read more

Nisa Pov, roneat aek (and Resident Artist of the National Cambodian Heritage Museum) and Crossing Borders Music string quartet perform live in Rogers Park at the Artists of the Wall Festival. The 600’ Wall features 160 individual “artist spaces” of various sizes and shapes and runs along the lakefront between Farwell and Morse Avenues. Each ... Read more

This livestream includes premiere videos of new music by The Honourable Elizabeth A. Baker, Jordyn Davis, and Jessica T. Carter, commissioned by Crossing Borders Music! The program also marks the online premiere of the 2021 revised version of String Quartet No. 1 by AJ Isaacson-Zvidzwa. The livestream includes also the online premiere of a beautiful ... Read more

Hamid is a Canadian Rohingya refugee musician. Through World Refugee Day, Crossing Borders Music, and the Field Foundation of Illinois, he's traveling all the way to Chicago for this special performance! FREE and open to the public Bio: https://musicinexile.org/hamid/

For this project, HAMOC brings its traveling exhibition, We Walk: A Celebration of Black Community back to Mandrake Park in the Bronzeville area for a second year in order to continue providing Haitian, Black and Diasporic art, culture, history and music to the residents of the area. To expand the exhibition’s impact and reach within ... Read more

The Crossing Borders Music String Quartet joins Nisa Pov, Resident Artist of the National Cambodian Heritage Museum and roneat ak (Cambodian xylophone) performer for an amazing night of new arrangements of Cambodian classics! The performance includes beautiful new arrangements made by Crossing Borders Music violinist Rasa Mahmoudian and overseen by Pov for the Cambodian Day ... Read more

Join Crossing Borders Music for an album release performance with Grammy-nominated sitarist Gaurav Mazumdar, a student of Ravi Shankar, performing the music from our world premiere recording which will have just been released on Ropeadope Records. This event is FREE and open to the public.

DisFest: Celebrate Disability Pride Month July 22 Crossing Borders Music will give "pop-up" performances between 2:00pm and 4:00pm. Live audiences will hear music from BOYH (Bringer of Your Hair, piano quintet by Rylan Gleave), music previously performed in collaboration with MOMENTA Dance Company. Wheelchair access, ASL, Captioning, Audio Description, Quiet Space, and What To Expect ... Read more

Join the Haitian American Museum of Chicago (HAMOC) and Crossing Borders Music for the third-annual, one-day outdoor exhibition "We Walk: A Celebration of Black Community" at Dawes Park in Evanston! "We Walk: A Celebration of Black Community" is a program created in 2020 by the Haitian American Museum of Chicago (HAMOC) who invited Crossing Borders ... Read more

ACM’s Thirsty Ears Festival is Chicago’s only classical music street festival! Crossing Borders Music will perform Saturday Aug 12, 4:00pm-5:00pm. For two days Wilson street between Hermitage and Ravenswood are closed to feature stellar ensembles and soloists performing music from Beethoven to Shostakovich to Reich and everything in between on the main stage. Thirsty Ears ... Read more