Date & Time

Saturday, October 1, 2022
7:30 PM

Location

Logan Center, Performance Hall

Admission

$20

Description

Piano soloist Gilles Vonsattel and the Grossman Ensemble take the stage under the baton of Stefan Asbury in a riveting performance of works by Oliver Knussen and Sir George Benjamin alongside the CCCC’s first performance and Chicago premiere of a composition by founder and director Augusta Read Thomas. As part of the program, poet and novelist Rachel DeWoskin will read her poems “anthrosphere” and “arrhythmia,” from her collection “absolute animal.”

Program:
Oliver Knussen: Ophelia Dances, Book I
R.E. DeWoskin “anthrosphere”
Augusta Read Thomas: Dance Mobile (in memoriam Oliver Knussen)
George Benjamin: Shadowlines
Oliver Knussen: Songs Without Voices
R.E. DeWoskin “arrhythmia”
George Benjamin: At First LightTickets: $20, students free with IDThis concert is made possible through the generous support of Emmanuel Roman, MBA ’87.Presented as part of the University of Chicago Presents 2022/23 concert season.