Frequency Series Presents: Alissa Voth and Megan DiGeorgio

Name: Frequency Series Presents: Alissa Voth and Megan DiGeorgio
Start: 2024-10-20T20:30:00-05:00
Location: 3111 N Western Ave Chicago IL 60618

Schedule

Sun Oct 20 2024 at 08:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

3111 N Western Ave Chicago IL 60618 | Chicago, IL

8:30pm.
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Something Stretched Between Us: Alissa Voth and Megan DiGeorgio

In Something Stretched Between Us, Alissa Voth and Megan DiGeorgio explore what it means to collaborate as composers, finding intersections in their work, anddiscovering what happens when one composer’s work is re-imagined in the voice of another. They have curated a program of their own works that explores these themes,which includes two premieres, and the centerpiece of the program is collaborative: past works by each of the composers, re-imagined by the other. They are joined by artists Garden Unit duo, Isidora Nojkovic, Zachary Good, and Steph Davis.

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seed/quiescence (2021) - Megan DiGeorgio
performed by Isidora Nojkovic
Inflorescence (2024) - Alissa Voth (premiere)
performed by Garden Unit
a question it has never had to answer (2024) - Megan DiGeorgio (premiere)
performed by Megan DiGeorgio
Skyggen (2020/2024) – Alissa Voth, arr. Megan DiGeorgio
performed by Megan DiGeorgio
the in between spaces/An Endless Night (2019/2024) – Megan DiGeorgio, arr. Alissa Voth
electronic track
If you go there (2023)- Alissa Voth
performed by Steph Davis
Deiopia (2023)- Alissa Voth
performed by Zachary Good
like a whisper, like a rope (2022) – Megan DiGeorgio
performed by Garden Unit

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Websites:
Alissa Voth: https://www.alissavoth.com/
Megan DiGeorgio: https://www.megandigeorgio.com/
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Alissa Voth (she/her) is a composer and artist who uses music and paper art to explore narrative and the unconscious mind, with an artistic focus on the voice and woven imagery. Recent performances include works for the Stare at the Sun choir, the Unheard-of Ensemble, and Masso Quartet; she has upcoming performances by the Lilith Vocal Ensemble, Missing Piece, Flannau duo, and others. She is a PhD candidate at the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University.

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Megan DiGeorgio is a composer, violist, vocalist, educator, and arts administrator based in Chicago. As an artist, Megan believes in collaboration and community over competition, and strives for integration of her various artistic pursuits into one comprehensive creative practice.
Her work has been featured on Duo Entre-Nous’ latest album, Progress. Select commissions include Edgewood High School, Natalie Groom, Bryan Young, Duo Entre-Nous, Concertia, University of Maine Farmington, Joanna McCoskey Wiltshire, and Fear No Music, among others, and recent performances include Chicago songSLAM 2024, Erin Lesser, Julianna Smith, “Flexing the Canon,” by Natalie Groom, Catherine Robinson, and Qun Ren, and Boulanger Initiative’s WoCo Fest. Additional past performances include the International Contemporary Ensemble, TURN UP Multimedia Festival, ClarinetFest, Syracuse University Singers, Artifice, Hypercube, TURNmusic, Fear No Music’s HEARINGS, Invoke, Susquehanna Symphony Orchestra, Pennsbury Community Band, District New Music Coalition’s New Music DC Conference, and Megan’s own composer-performer show, Equilibrium. She has been selected for opportunities such as Quince Ensemble’s Quincetitute, the Out of Our Shells project, facilitated by American University’s Humanities Truck, and Concertia’s Emerging Composer Fellowship 2021-2022. Megan is pursuing a PhD in composition and music technology at Northwestern University.
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Praised for her "great control" (Chicago Classical Review), cellist Isidora Nojkovic is an active soloist, chamber, and orchestral musician. She has a passion for contemporary music and commissioning, having premiered over 50 works, and is one half of the contemporary violin/cello duo Orbit (“the new cross-continental duo to pay attention to.” – Classical Post). A founding member of Varo String Quartet, she also performs regularly with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Vancouver Opera, Vancouver Symphony, Illinois Symphony, Vancouver’s Turning Point Ensemble, and the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra.
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Zachary Good is a multifaceted clarinetist, chamber musician, and composer based in Chicago. Zachary is the clarinetist of the sextet Eighth Blackbird and a member of Ensemble Dal Niente. He has frequently performed with International Contemporary Ensemble, Music of the Baroque Chicago, and the puppet company Manual Cinema. As an improviser, he performs and records with the trio ZRL and the quintet Honestly Same. He is the recipient of the 2021 Luminarts Classical Winds Fellowship. Zachary has participated in fellowships with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and the Aspen Contemporary Music program. Zachary is a D’Addario Woodwinds Artist. zacharygood.com
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Garden Unit is a Chicago-based clarinet/saxophone duo formed by Julia Ansolabehere and Cameron Roberts, who met during undergrad at Northwestern University in 2016 and have been collaborators since. Garden Unit is the latest incarnation of their creative partnership, debuting at Thirsty Ears Festival in 2022 and quickly developing a repertoire through collaborations with some of Chicago's leading young composers. Hailed (mostly by themselves) as the premier experimental clarinet-saxophone duo within a 5 block radius of Winnemac Park, their goal is to challenge traditional paradigms of classical music by presenting programs pulling from a diverse repertory of music—including new works, reimaginings of traditional works, and improvised works—and by performing in non-traditional concert settings.