Sunday Solos
ESS hosts a bi-weekly series of hour-long afternoon performances in the acoustically pristine studio space. It’s a great opportunity to hear Chicago’s musical luminaries in a relaxed, intimate setting.
Frank Rosaly >
Drummer and composer Frank Rosaly (Francisco Javier Rosaly Amoros b. 5/30/74) has been involved in the Chicago improvised and experimental music community for 10 years and has developed a unique, visceral...
Jeff Kowalkowski >
Jeff Kowalkowski is a composer, musician, and educator in Chicago. He received his doctorate in composition from Northwestern University and currently teaches part-time at DePaul University. His chamber music works have been...
Dan Mohr >
Dan Mohr is an accomplished vocalist, keyboard player, songwriter, composer, improviser and performer. He has contributed his talents to an incredibly diverse array of music, theatre, dance, film and performance projects...
Jeb Bishop >
Trombonist, improviser, and composer Jeb Bishop has been based in Chicago since the early 1990s. He has performed thousands of concerts at clubs and festivals in North America and Europe, with...
Jason Roebke >
Jason Roebke is a native of Kaukauna, Wisconsin, and has been residing in Chicago since 1999. He can be heard in a wide variety of musical situations. He studied composition and,...
Mars Williams >
Mars Williams is an open-minded musician and composer who commutes easily between free jazz, funk, hip-hop and rock, Mars has played and recorded with The Psychedelic Furs, Massacre (the Fred Frith/Bill...
Kent Kessler >
Jazz bassist Kent Kessler is best known for his part in numerous Chicago bands, usually in line- ups with reedsman Ken Vandermark. He first began appearing on recordings in the early...
Julia Miller >
Julia Miller is a composer, guitarist, educator and curator in Chicago. She composes music and sound compositions in various forms and often for unusual combinations of instruments, often including...
Melissa St. Pierre >
Melissa St. Pierre is a pianist and composer based in Pittsburgh specializing in prepared piano repertoire and exploration. She has performed and recorded prepared piano pieces by John Cage and other...
Jeff Abell >
Jeff Abell is a composer, performance artist, writer and photographer. He holds two degrees in music composition from Northern Illinois University, where his teachers included Paul Steg and Chinary Ung. He...
Jason Adasiewicz >
A prolific member of Chicago's jazz and improvised music scene, Jason Adasiewicz is quickly gaining widespread recognition through his extensive work as a sideman. He had a strong showing...
Tim Daisy >
Born in Waukegan, Illinois in 1976, drummer and composer Tim Daisy has become one of the most creative musicians in Chicago’s thriving improvised scene. He has performed, recorded and composed for...
Dave Rempis >
Dave Rempis began his musical studies at the age of 8, inspired by a family friend who played clarinet in local Greek bands, and by Zoot, of the Muppets Band, to...
Nicole Mitchell >
Flutist, bandleader, composer and educator Nicole Mitchell has been noted as “a compelling improviser of wit, determination, positivity, and tremendous talent…on her way to becoming one of the greatest living flutists...
Ken Vandermark >
ESS is pleased to host an hour of music with Chicago jazz legend Ken Vandermark. This is a rare opportunity to hear McArthur Fellow and former Tribune Chicagoan of the Year...
Tim Kinsella >
Tim Kinsella is a musician, writer, student, teacher, ex-film-maker, ex-husband, bartender, uncle, older brother, and aspiring non-denominational monk from Chicago. His only response to the charge of dilettantism such lack of...
Fred Lonberg-Holm >
Chicago anti-cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm is known for working with a wide variety of musicians in as many situations as possible. Fred’s current and ongoing projects include the Valentine Trio, the Peter...
Lynn Book >
Former Chicagoan Lynn Book has a vibrant stream of interdisciplinary artistic practice that traverses boundaries between performance art, dance, theater, language and new music forms. She deploys what she calls ‘voiced...
Michael Zerang >
Our Sunday Solos series continues this week with a set by innovative interdisciplinary artist and musician Michael Zerang. For this solo performance, Michael will premiere a 42-minute work for piano and...
Olivia Block >
Olivia Block is a composer and sound artist who combines field recordings, scored segments for acoustic instruments and electronically generated sound in works for recorded media, chamber ensembles, video and site-specific...
Jim Baker >
Jim Baker has been playing in and around Chicago as a pianist, keyboardist, and synthesist for more than two decades, mostly in improvisational contexts. He initially studied piano with Thomas Scott,...
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