Concerts

The fourth annual "Celebrating Resilience: Music by Iranian Bahá'ís" celebrates the music and resilience of Iranian Bahá'í composers living in the US and Canada. Their music celebrates Persian culture and tells the stories of the composers' resilience in the face of systemic persecution by Iranian authorities: risking raids and imprisonment to study and teach music, ... Read more

Renowned sitarist Gaurav Mazumdar, a student of the legendary Ravi Shankar, joins Crossing Borders Music to present his original compositions for sitar, violin, cello, and tabla. The music depicts a human life journeying through its different stages as understood in the Hindu worldview, from birth to the worldly affairs of adulthood to the renunciation of old ... Read more

Crossing Borders Music joins forces with The Mulati Ensemble to perform seldom-heard compositions, world premiere arrangements, and uplifting Colombian folk songs and dances. Included on the program will be a premiere performance of "Tiger" by Eustasio Rosales. Rosales, known as Chicago's first Hispanic composer, was a Colombian immigrant whose works were celebrated in his life ... Read more

Marianne Parker interprets great Haitian piano repertoire from across the 20th century by Ludovic Lamothe (aka "Black Chopin"), Carmen Brouard, and more. This program will be broadcast live on Chicago's WFMT 98.7FM and streamed worldwide at WFMT.com as a part of the PianoForte Salon Series.   Listen to enjoy: Elegie-Meringue - Edmond Saintonge   Quatre ... Read more

Crossing Borders Music joins Shki Bmaadzi to showcase the musical accomplishments of young American Indian composers, performers, and dancers in the first-ever event of its kind. The concert will include performances of string quartets by Chickasaw composers Cruise Berry and Katie Barrick, as well as music and dancing in the style used in inter-tribal powwows performed by Shki ... Read more

Crossing Borders Music will perform two short pieces for piano, violin, and cello at the 27th Annual Conference of the Association of the Friends of Persian Culture! The pieces are the First Movement ("Dashti") of Nikan Milani's Piano Trio, and "Persian Dreams" by Safa Shahidi. Nikan Milani's piano trio tells through music the powerful, resilient ... Read more

Richès Dayiti will allow Glacier Hills and Ann Arbor residents to discover Haitian piano music, a repertoire unknown to all but a handful of scholars for the last century. The performances' compositions have been preserved by the Society for the Research and Diffusion of Haitian Music in Montreal, archived by the Laboratory of World Music ... Read more

"Richès Dayiti: Treasures of Haitian Piano Music" provides an intimate look at the mostly unknown beauty of Haitian piano music, unknown to all but a handful of scholars for the last century. The performances' compositions have been preserved by the Société de recherche et de diffusion de la musique haïtienne (SRDMH) (Society for the Research and Diffusion ... Read more

Crossing Borders Music performs new Haitian folk song arrangements by composer Julio Racine, exploring the depth of Haitian history, spirituality, and lore through folk song arrangements for violin, cello, and keyboard. The performance will take place in the Haitian art gallery of the Milwaukee Art Museum, and the music will reflect themes found in the ... Read more

In celebration of International Women's Day, Crossing Borders Music presents this Lake Forest Place performance of chamber music by women composers from Taiwan, Venezuela, Haiti, the Chickasaw Nation, Nigeria, and the US! In addition to unforgettable music in many styles, we'll share the composers' perspectives on how being a women has affected - or hasn't ... Read more