UChicago Presents brings world-renowned women artists from jazz and classical pianists to the world's leading virtuoso of the Chinese pipa and more. You can hear them all this season and save 20-25% with a Pick 4 or Pick 6 subscription package.
Wu Man: A Night in the Tang Dynasty Gardens
The world's premiere virtuoso of the ancient Chinese pipa brings together a brilliant ensemble (Yazhi Guo, suona and Chinese percussion; Kaoru Watanabe, taiko and Japanese flute; Tim Munro, Western flute) to explore an evening of music from the Golden Age of China.
Melissa Aldana Quintet: Visions for Frida Kahlo
Winner of the 2013 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, Chilean saxophonist Melissa Aldana is a dazzling composer and improviser praised for "sidestepping cliche at almost every turn" (Chicago Tribune). In her latest project, Aldana pays tribute to transformative artist Frida Kahlo through a six-movement, multimedia Suite for Quintet titled Visions.
Duo Tal & Groethuysen: Two Pianos, Four Hands
Israeli pianist Yaara Tal together with her German partner Andreas Groethuysen make up one of the world's leading piano duos. This January, they bring piano and orchestral masterpieces by Mozart, Schubert, Wagner, Debussy, and Strauss for a rare two piano performance in Mandel Hall.
Kris Davis with Craig Taborn
"No two pianists have played with the kind of freedom and grace, abandon and emotion," writes The Village Voice of this mastermind piano duo, whose technical brilliance and improvisational genius are matched only by their perfect synchronicity. Together, they weave pianistic tapestries that range from vivid and propulsive to staggeringly ethereal.
Rachel Podger: Bach and Biber
Hailed as the "unsurpassed British glory of the Baroque violin" (The Times), Rachel Podger is known for her creative arrangements for violin of some of history's most cherished music for other instruments. At UChicago Presents this season, Podger brings Bach's Cello Suites, performed on Baroque violin, alongside his solo violin partitas as well as Heinrich Biber's deeply expressive "Guardian Angel" sonata.
Musicians from Marlboro
Soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon joins the esteemed musicians from Marlboro to perform Kate Soper's mesmerizing duet for voice and flute and Handel's aria Nel dolce dell'Oblio alongside piano trios by Brahms and Schubert with violinist Robyn Bollinger and others.