Event Description

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Bernard Rands is one of Chicago’s preeminent composers, and we’re honoring him with the world premiere of a new string quartet…as well as nine world premieres by the members of the Chicago Composers’ Consortium – all inspired by his work.

Program – *all world premieres* by:

Bernard Rands
Lawrence Axelrod
Beth Bradfish
Kyong Mee Choi
Timothy Dwight Edwards
Kathleen Cecilia Ginther
Martha C. Horst
Timothy Ernest Johnson
Laura Schwendinger
Elizabeth Start