"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
Tune in to Chicago's WBEZ to hear members of Crossing Borders Music discuss their upcoming performance at the Broadview ICE detention center!91.5 FM in Chicago and online at wbez.org
Members of the Crossing Borders Music String Quartet will share some of their favorite musical selections of music by composers from suppressed backgrounds around the world at the Broadview ICE detention center. Since CBM is not allowed to enter the facility, the musicians will perform just north of the facility on Beach Street, south of ... Read more
In response to Haiti's humanitarian crisis, Crossing Borders Music shares string quartets by Haitian composers in this moving program of dignity, resilience, resistance, and hope. The program includes Incertitudes! by Haitian composer Dickens Princivil, commissioned by Crossing Borders Music after Dickens was kidnapped and released. The program also includes Tale from Rudy Perrault’s Exodus string ... Read more
Liminal Encounters: Counternarratives of Rohingya Refugees, the 3rd Annual Borderlands of Sonic Encounter SymposiumAn International Balzan Prize Project (2023–28) led by Professor Philip V. Bohlman This interdisciplinary symposium brings together scholars, artists, and practitioners to explore questions of diaspora, statelessness, and borders/borderlands through creative practices and multimedia work centered on Rohingya experiences. Friday, January 23 ... Read more
As part of the second day of the "Liminal Encounters: Counternarratives of Rohingya Refugees" symposium (Jan 23-24) Crossing Borders Music string quartet will perform along with musician Hamid Ullah during the day event of panel discussions and a workshop, also led by Hamid. Please note: this performance is in addition to the evening performance on ... Read more
This concert forms part of a 2-day symposium (Jan 23-24) entitled "Liminal Encounters: Counternarratives of Rohingya Refugees." It is primarily organized by students and faculty at the University of Chicago in collaboration with the Rohingya Cultural Center of Chicago. It is cosponsored by the UChicago Committee on Southern Asian Studies, Crossing Borders Music, Franke Institute ... Read more
Crossing Borders Music celebrates Black trailblazers through this richly interactive, one-of-a-kind music program. Through interactive dialogue and guided listening, students will hear the stories of Jean-Baptiste Pointe DuSable, Florence Price, Rosa Parks, and more come to life through music for string quartet by African-American composers. This educational livestream is geared towards students in grades 4-8 ... Read more
At a time when an unprecedented 100+ million people have been forced from their homes worldwide, the Ashland Chamber Music Society presents From Exile: Stories and Music of Hope, a string quartet program of musical stories of hope from immigrant and refugee communities. Fleeing oppression and violence, newcomers are too often scapegoated by the local ... Read more