Chicago Composers’ Consortium is thrilled to welcome Yarn/Wire, a phenomenal New York quartet of two pianists and two percussionists, in a program of World Premieres written expressly for Yarn/Wire. Music of five Chicago composers – Timothy Dwight Edwards, Elizabeth Start, Timothy Ernest Johnson Amos Gillespie and K.C. Ginther – plus the Chicago premiere of Steve Reich’s iconic ‘Quartet’, which Reich calls “one of the more complex I have composed.” 

Yarn/Wire is a NYC-based piano and percussion quartet dedicated to energetic and insightful performances of today’s most adventurous music, and to the promotion of creative, meaningful live musical experiences in the US and abroad. Yarn/Wire started making music together in 2005, focused from the beginning on creating music in partnership with composers, sound artists, noise musicians and more people around the globe who inspired them. Now, some 18 years later, Yarn/Wire is still guided by the same principles of openness, curiosity, and experimentation. New York Classical Review writes: “Yarn/Wire may well be the most important new music ensemble on the scene today.”

Chicago Composers’ Consortium (C3) is a composer-led collective which promotes the creation, performance and promulgation of new music by Chicago composers. Over its 35-year history, C3 has produced hundreds of concerts and events, presenting the works of emerging and established composers alike, and collaborating with other ensembles in the creation of unique musical events. What sets C3 apart from other contemporary music organizations is a history of innovative composer-generated collaborative projects and a spirit of adventure, with a focus on works by little known and emerging composers who are deserving of a larger audience.