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Eighth Blackbird

Amy Beth Kirsten -- Courtesy of Artist

Amy Beth Kirsten’s Multidimensional Storytelling is on Display in “Infernal Angel”

Transdisciplinary artist and director Amy Beth Kirsten is motivated by curiosity. Whether she is com...
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Yaz Lancaster
Molly Joyce -- Design by Zac Bru

Strange Beautiful Music Showcases Trailblazing Artists in the Motor City

Detroit’s annual new music celebration Strange Beautiful Music is back this week for its 16th year o...
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Tristan McKay
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Nick Photinos Debut Album Petits Artéfacts (New Amsterdam Records)

Just looking at the track times for Petits Artéfacts (New Amsterdam Records), it looks more like a p...
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Jarrett Goodchild
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Album Premiere: Nick Photinos Petits Artéfacts (New Amsterdam)

We have an exciting premiere on I CARE IF YOU LISTEN today: a full-length album! Eighth Blackbird fo...
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
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5 Question to Nicholas Photinos (Eighth Blackbird)

On Friday, April 28, 2017, Eighth Blackbird will present a recital in Cornell University’s Bar...
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Thomas Deneuville
Anna Thorvaldsdottir

This week: concerts in New York (January 9, 2017 – January 15, 2017)

Bang on a Can People’s Commissioning Fund Concert | Ecstatic Music Festival This year the Bang on a...
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Sam Reising
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Eighth Blackbird Presents Hand Eye on Cedille Records

Eighth Blackbird is an ensemble of big projects and high concepts and their album Hand Eye on Cedill...
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Jason Charney
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5 Questions to James Ginsburg (Cedille Records)

Did you know that September is Classical Music month? It was introduced by Bill Clinton 22 years ago...
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Thomas Deneuville
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Big Ears Festival: eighth blackbird and Bonnie “Prince” Billy

The composer David Rakowski recently tweeted, “The problem with having genres is that people claim t...
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Zoë Madonna
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eighth blackbird’s Filament Attracts Grammy and MacArthur Awards

On February 12, 2016, preeminent contemporary music pioneers eighth blackbird donned their evening w...
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Christian Kriegeskotte
Ted Hearne--Photo by Nathan Lee Bush

5 Questions to Ted Hearne (composer)

Composer, singer, and bandleader Ted Hearne is one sixth of the composer collective Sleeping Giant a...
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Amanda Cook
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Hand Eye: a Collaboration Between Giants

It’s no secret that world premieres by early-career composers can often be extremely special events.
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Justin Rito
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5 Questions to Nathalie Joachim (eighth blackbird, Flutronix)

Flutist and composer Nathalie Joachim, perhaps best known as half of the funky genre-blurring duo Fl...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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eighth blackbird and the Altius Quartet at the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival

Despite misled efforts by some of the twentieth century’s great thinkers, the expression of emotion...
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Justin Rito
Jenny Q Chai

This week: concerts in New York (January 20 – January 26, 2014)

Jenny Q. Chai Jenny Q Chai Je...
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Sam Reising
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5 questions to Tim Weiss (Conductor, Educator at Oberlin Conservatory)

Conductor and educator Tim Weiss is at the epicenter of a contemporary music hurricane at Oberlin Co...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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eighth blackbird Soars with Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble

Three-time Grammy winners eighth blackbird returned to their nest for a concert with the Oberlin Con...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Composer, soprano, and Parlour Tapes+ co-founder Jenna Lyle (photo credit: parlourtapes.com)

Chicago New Music Label Parlour Tapes+ Makes a Killing

Just like Jay Gatsby (the literary version, not the current Luhrmann fiasco), Chicago's new music sc...
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Sam Zelitch
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5 Questions to Kyle Vegter (composer/sound designer for Manual Cinema)

Kyle Vegter is a composer, sound designer, and producer based in Chicago. He co-founded Manual Cinem...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Inuksuit at Millennium Park - Photo Larry Dunn

A Rain-Soaked Inuksuit in Chicago Millennium Park

In a modern world too often marked by conflicts of humanity versus nature, an exhilarating human com...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
The Box is Empty - Photo by Brad Pierson

The Box is Empty & Nat Evans: An evening of premieres at Seattle’s Century Ballroom

Located at the heart of Seattle's hip Capitol Hill neighborhood, the historic Century Ballroom is th...
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Dana Wen
Ensemble SOLI

Everything is Bigger in Texas: San Antonio’s SOLI Chamber Ensemble Matches High Ambition with Huge Results

There were two wonderful opportunities over the past month for chamber music fans in Texas to experi...
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George Heathco
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SONiC Festival – eighth blackbird at Miller Theatre

What a treat for the second night of SONiC Festival to get to see eighth blackbird at the Miller The...
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Thomas Deneuville
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SONiC – Sounds of a New Century A Festival of 21st Century Music by Composers Age 40 and Under

One of the most anticipated New Music events of this season has started yesterday night (David Pears...
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Thomas Deneuville

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