CHAI Collaborative Ensemble

Up next: 🎼

We have our 2023-24 Season Closer coming up, on May 4 and 5! Our program showcases music for piano and wind instruments, that offers brief windows into diverse musical perspectives of four distinctive composers of classical music from the 20th and 21st centuries. We are excited to share the music of living composers Jenni Brandon, Valerie Coleman, and Gernot Wolfgang, in addition to a piece that is an old friend of ours, Heitor Villa-Lobos' Trio!

Our performance on May 4 will be a concert in a private home, and our performance on May 5 will be at Epiphany Center for the Arts. Tickets are available here: https://www.chaicollaborative.org/windows

We look forward to performing this vibrant program soon!

And just like that, we’re T minus two days from our first of two performances! 🎶

Chamber music involving piano is a cornerstone of our programming and the overall genre, and we have performed a fair number of works for piano trio over the years. Our featured artists wanted to share a few of our favorite piano trios, in addition to the ones we’re performing this weekend.

Whether you’re well familiar with these works or are hearing of them for the first time, we hope you enjoy listening to these gorgeous classics. 🎹 And, we look forward to having you join us this weekend!

Talar’s Choice: Felix Mendelssohn, Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 49

Caroline’s Choice: Franz Schubert, Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat Major, D. 929 .rothstein

Bekah’s Choice: Maurice Ravel, Piano Trio in A Minor

Laura’s Choice: Johannes Brahms, Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major, Op. 8 .perkett

Yesterday afternoon we came to Ravenswood Fellowship United Methodist Church, we saw to rehearsing our program, and we conquered said rehearsal! 🎶 This program is both delightful and a little provocative as well… We look forward to sharing it live in the West Loop Friday evening and back in Ravenswood Saturday at 7:30!

We’re getting ready for our next concert, which is in partnership with … While we did some work today, we also made sure to get a selfie of our full group for the People of Our Page to see! We look forward to seeing you this coming Tuesday at 7:30pm Central in person at or in the virtual sphere through NMC’s YouTube channel.

It’s the day of the first show, y’all! Come as you are for the music, stay for the fellowship and some tasty post-performance goodies!