Upcoming Performances ~ 2020
Solo & Cherchez la Femme:
CFC Member Showcase - Straight from the heart...
Saturday, April 18, 2020, 3 PM, First United Methodist Church, Park Ridge, IL
Solo performance of Lisa Bielawa's piece Gargoyles
Friday, February 21, 2020, 7PM, Ganz Hall at Roosevelt University
It's Spring: Electro-Acoustic Music Festival, featuring Sam Pluta, guest composer
Premiere of a new work for Solo Flute & electronics by Tim Edwards
-POSTPONED-
Cherchez la Femme perform at Garfield Park Conservatory
Wednesday, March 25, 2020 @ 6:00 PM
-CANCELED-
Tuesday, April 21, 2020, Noon, Chicago Cultural Center
New Music Chicago Concerts
Chicago Premiere of NFA commissioned piece for Flute Choir by Julia Wolfe &
my solo performance of Lisa Bielawa's piece Gargoyles
2019
Tuesday, August 13 @ 10 am
Chicago Botanic Garden
Tuesday Morning Music
Cherchez la Femme perform!
Sunday, July 14, 2019 @ 2PM
Wilmette Public Library Sunday Concert Series
Wilmette, IL
Cherchez la Femme perform Women Composer Sampler
Thursday, June 6, 2019
The Mather, Evanston, IL - private event
Cherchez la Femme perform Woman Composer Sampler
Sunday, April 28, 4PM
Music Extravaganza Fundraiser
Westchester Community Church
solo works by: Debussy, Tower
Monday, April 8
Junior High Flute Workshop/Clinic
Park Jr. HS, LaGrange Park, IL
Thursday, April 4, 2019
Presbyterian Homes of Evanston - private event
3200 Grant St., Evanston, IL
Cherchez la Femme perform "Come Into My Garden" theme concert
Friday, March 1 @ 2PM, Sherwood Recital Hall at Columbia College Chicago
Thursday, March 7 @ 2PM, ChiArts High School
Cherchez la Femme perform, Women Composers In America from 1900 to the Present!
Concerts made possible in part by a grant from the American Music Project www.americanmusicproject.net
works by: Talma, Hazlerig, Holiday, Kolb, Rudd Moore, Tower, Hoover, Warshauer, Walker
Sunday, March 10, 2019 @ 2 PM
Women Composers Throughout the Millennium Sampler Concert
St. Charles Public Library - St. Charles, IL
Cherchez la Femme perform works by: Bonn, Bliss, Holiday, Emtage, Von Bingen, et al
Thursday, February 14, 2019 @ 10 AM
Morning Music With Orchids!
Chicago Botanical Gardens
Come celebrate Valentine's Day with Cherchez la Femme performing among the orchids.
PAST 2018
May 20, 2018 @ 2 PM
Milwaukee House Concert 2018!
516 W. National Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53204
works by: Yannay, Debussy, Curtis, Emtage, Martinez
April 12, 2018 @ 7 PM
Holocaust Remembrance Day: Women Composers of the Holocaust
Presbyterian Homes of Evanston - private event
3200 Grant St., Evanston, IL
works by: Liebmann, Mendelssohn, Fromm-Michaels, Bacewicz, Tailleferre, Schonthal, Weigl
Clinic: Free & Creative Improvisation
January 27 & 28, 2018
Mid-Winter Suzuki Flute Workshop
Class for Suzuki flutists on Free and Creative Improvisation
CFC Member Showcase - Straight from the heart...
Saturday, April 18, 2020, 3 PM, First United Methodist Church, Park Ridge, IL
Solo performance of Lisa Bielawa's piece Gargoyles
Friday, February 21, 2020, 7PM, Ganz Hall at Roosevelt University
It's Spring: Electro-Acoustic Music Festival, featuring Sam Pluta, guest composer
Premiere of a new work for Solo Flute & electronics by Tim Edwards
-POSTPONED-
Cherchez la Femme perform at Garfield Park Conservatory
Wednesday, March 25, 2020 @ 6:00 PM
-CANCELED-
Tuesday, April 21, 2020, Noon, Chicago Cultural Center
New Music Chicago Concerts
Chicago Premiere of NFA commissioned piece for Flute Choir by Julia Wolfe &
my solo performance of Lisa Bielawa's piece Gargoyles
2019
Tuesday, August 13 @ 10 am
Chicago Botanic Garden
Tuesday Morning Music
Cherchez la Femme perform!
Sunday, July 14, 2019 @ 2PM
Wilmette Public Library Sunday Concert Series
Wilmette, IL
Cherchez la Femme perform Women Composer Sampler
Thursday, June 6, 2019
The Mather, Evanston, IL - private event
Cherchez la Femme perform Woman Composer Sampler
Sunday, April 28, 4PM
Music Extravaganza Fundraiser
Westchester Community Church
solo works by: Debussy, Tower
Monday, April 8
Junior High Flute Workshop/Clinic
Park Jr. HS, LaGrange Park, IL
Thursday, April 4, 2019
Presbyterian Homes of Evanston - private event
3200 Grant St., Evanston, IL
Cherchez la Femme perform "Come Into My Garden" theme concert
Friday, March 1 @ 2PM, Sherwood Recital Hall at Columbia College Chicago
Thursday, March 7 @ 2PM, ChiArts High School
Cherchez la Femme perform, Women Composers In America from 1900 to the Present!
Concerts made possible in part by a grant from the American Music Project www.americanmusicproject.net
works by: Talma, Hazlerig, Holiday, Kolb, Rudd Moore, Tower, Hoover, Warshauer, Walker
Sunday, March 10, 2019 @ 2 PM
Women Composers Throughout the Millennium Sampler Concert
St. Charles Public Library - St. Charles, IL
Cherchez la Femme perform works by: Bonn, Bliss, Holiday, Emtage, Von Bingen, et al
Thursday, February 14, 2019 @ 10 AM
Morning Music With Orchids!
Chicago Botanical Gardens
Come celebrate Valentine's Day with Cherchez la Femme performing among the orchids.
PAST 2018
May 20, 2018 @ 2 PM
Milwaukee House Concert 2018!
516 W. National Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53204
works by: Yannay, Debussy, Curtis, Emtage, Martinez
April 12, 2018 @ 7 PM
Holocaust Remembrance Day: Women Composers of the Holocaust
Presbyterian Homes of Evanston - private event
3200 Grant St., Evanston, IL
works by: Liebmann, Mendelssohn, Fromm-Michaels, Bacewicz, Tailleferre, Schonthal, Weigl
Clinic: Free & Creative Improvisation
January 27 & 28, 2018
Mid-Winter Suzuki Flute Workshop
Class for Suzuki flutists on Free and Creative Improvisation
Past concerts & projects
2017
Con Anima, presented by the Western Springs Music Club
Benefit Concert for Instrumental Music Students
Sunday, November 19, 2017 @ 5 PM
Zion Lutheran Church, 204 S. Grant St., Hinsdale, IL
performing w/Jason Deroche (guitar) and Steven Sigurdson, cello
Works: Hill, Villa Lobos, Piazzolla
Western Springs & Hinsdale Music Club's November Concert
November 8, 2017
First United Methodist Church, La Grange, IL
performing solo works by Edie Hill
National Flute Association 2017 Convention,
Minneapolis, MN
August 10, 2017 @ 2:30
Cherchez la Femme performing on the Chamber Music by Midwest Composers Recital
performing works by Edie Hill
Scholarship Benefit Concert
January 15, 2017 @ 2PM
First Congregational Church of Western Springs
performing w/Steven Sigurdson (cello), Rose Sperrazza (clarinet), Linda Nussbaum (violin)
Works: Ian Clarke, Villa Lobos, Haydn
2016
WSMC Luncheon Performance
December 14, 2016 at 12:45
Hinsdale United Methodist Church
Works by: Mike Mower
Thomas Mass
United Lutheran Church , Oak Park, IL
(September 18, October 16, November 20, December 18)
Sciarrino 104
Chicago Premiere
April 16, 2016 at 7:00 PM
Galvin Recital Hall - Northwesten University
w/Claire Chase & 100 other flutists
Second Sundays Concert Series at
North Shore Baptist Church, Chicago
Cherchez la Femme
January 10, 2016 at 2:00 PM
Works by: Katrina Emtage, Anna Bon, Sylvia E. Hazlerig, Edie Hill, Yuko Uebayashi
2015
Western Springs Music Club December Concert
Dec. 9, 2016 @ 12:45
Western Spring Baptist Church
Special Performance of J.S. Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
Chicago Flute Club Flute Festival 2015
November 15, 2015 @ 11:30
"On, New, Borrowed, Blue" Lecture/Performance in collaboration with Jennifer Wilhelms
Transcriptions for flute by: Paganini, Mingus, JS Bach, et al
Works for Solo Flute and Flute & Voice w/ Melissa Adamson
Western Springs Music Club Spring Luncheon/Concert
May 13, 2015 @ 11:30
Hinsdale Country Club, Clarendon Hills, IL
works by: Debussy, Coleman, Saint-Saens
New Music DePaul
Friday, February 20 @ 8PM
DePaul University, Chicago
works by: Christopher Wendell Jones
Six Degrees* - a concert of six women composers in Chicago
Friday, January 16 @ 7:30, Sherwood Recital Hall, Columbia College, Chicago
Cherchez la Femme performs works by: Patricia Morehead
2014
Cherchez la Femme
Saturday, November 22, 2014, Sherwood Community Music School, Chicago, IL
works by: Bon, Hazlerig, E. Wallen
Cherchez la Femme
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 @ noon, Oak Brook Public Library, Oak Brook, IL
works by: Hezlerig, Bon, Goethe-McGinn
Composers Concert @ Columbia College
Saturday, April 12 @ 4PM
works by: Julian Harvey
Guest Artist Coach - Chicago Trio Summer Chamber Workshops
August 16, Fine Arts Building, Chicago, IL
Cherchez la Femme
Wednesday, March 12, 2014 @ noon, Oak Brook Public Library, Oak Brook, IL
2013
Cherchez la Femme, Wednesday, December 11, 2013 @ noon, Western Springs Congregational Church, Western Springs, IL
works by: Uebayashi
L'opera per flauto I by Salvatore Sciarrino
Renaissance Society, Bond Chapel, University of Chicago, Chicago
Sunday, November 10, 2013 @ 2PM
Summer Flute Institute 2013 - July 22 - August 2
Sherwood Community Music School at Columbia College
March 3 @ 3PM, Burt Levy/Yehuda Yannay Concert at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
works by Levy, Yannay w/ Paul Bowman, Bernard Zinck
February 16 @ 4PM, Saturdays at Sherwood with Cherchez la Femme, Sherwood Community Music School at Columbia College
works by Marilyn Bliss, Delores White, Marianna Martinez, Billie Holiday, Kaija Saariaho, Erica Lessie & Lisa Goethe-McGinn
January 26 @ 3:30, Suzuki Faculty Recital, Sherwood Community Music School at Columbia College
works by M. Martinez and M. Bliss for flute and cello
Con Anima, presented by the Western Springs Music Club
Benefit Concert for Instrumental Music Students
Sunday, November 19, 2017 @ 5 PM
Zion Lutheran Church, 204 S. Grant St., Hinsdale, IL
performing w/Jason Deroche (guitar) and Steven Sigurdson, cello
Works: Hill, Villa Lobos, Piazzolla
Western Springs & Hinsdale Music Club's November Concert
November 8, 2017
First United Methodist Church, La Grange, IL
performing solo works by Edie Hill
National Flute Association 2017 Convention,
Minneapolis, MN
August 10, 2017 @ 2:30
Cherchez la Femme performing on the Chamber Music by Midwest Composers Recital
performing works by Edie Hill
Scholarship Benefit Concert
January 15, 2017 @ 2PM
First Congregational Church of Western Springs
performing w/Steven Sigurdson (cello), Rose Sperrazza (clarinet), Linda Nussbaum (violin)
Works: Ian Clarke, Villa Lobos, Haydn
2016
WSMC Luncheon Performance
December 14, 2016 at 12:45
Hinsdale United Methodist Church
Works by: Mike Mower
Thomas Mass
United Lutheran Church , Oak Park, IL
(September 18, October 16, November 20, December 18)
Sciarrino 104
Chicago Premiere
April 16, 2016 at 7:00 PM
Galvin Recital Hall - Northwesten University
w/Claire Chase & 100 other flutists
Second Sundays Concert Series at
North Shore Baptist Church, Chicago
Cherchez la Femme
January 10, 2016 at 2:00 PM
Works by: Katrina Emtage, Anna Bon, Sylvia E. Hazlerig, Edie Hill, Yuko Uebayashi
2015
Western Springs Music Club December Concert
Dec. 9, 2016 @ 12:45
Western Spring Baptist Church
Special Performance of J.S. Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
Chicago Flute Club Flute Festival 2015
November 15, 2015 @ 11:30
"On, New, Borrowed, Blue" Lecture/Performance in collaboration with Jennifer Wilhelms
Transcriptions for flute by: Paganini, Mingus, JS Bach, et al
Works for Solo Flute and Flute & Voice w/ Melissa Adamson
Western Springs Music Club Spring Luncheon/Concert
May 13, 2015 @ 11:30
Hinsdale Country Club, Clarendon Hills, IL
works by: Debussy, Coleman, Saint-Saens
New Music DePaul
Friday, February 20 @ 8PM
DePaul University, Chicago
works by: Christopher Wendell Jones
Six Degrees* - a concert of six women composers in Chicago
Friday, January 16 @ 7:30, Sherwood Recital Hall, Columbia College, Chicago
Cherchez la Femme performs works by: Patricia Morehead
2014
Cherchez la Femme
Saturday, November 22, 2014, Sherwood Community Music School, Chicago, IL
works by: Bon, Hazlerig, E. Wallen
Cherchez la Femme
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 @ noon, Oak Brook Public Library, Oak Brook, IL
works by: Hezlerig, Bon, Goethe-McGinn
Composers Concert @ Columbia College
Saturday, April 12 @ 4PM
works by: Julian Harvey
Guest Artist Coach - Chicago Trio Summer Chamber Workshops
August 16, Fine Arts Building, Chicago, IL
Cherchez la Femme
Wednesday, March 12, 2014 @ noon, Oak Brook Public Library, Oak Brook, IL
2013
Cherchez la Femme, Wednesday, December 11, 2013 @ noon, Western Springs Congregational Church, Western Springs, IL
works by: Uebayashi
L'opera per flauto I by Salvatore Sciarrino
Renaissance Society, Bond Chapel, University of Chicago, Chicago
Sunday, November 10, 2013 @ 2PM
Summer Flute Institute 2013 - July 22 - August 2
Sherwood Community Music School at Columbia College
March 3 @ 3PM, Burt Levy/Yehuda Yannay Concert at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
works by Levy, Yannay w/ Paul Bowman, Bernard Zinck
February 16 @ 4PM, Saturdays at Sherwood with Cherchez la Femme, Sherwood Community Music School at Columbia College
works by Marilyn Bliss, Delores White, Marianna Martinez, Billie Holiday, Kaija Saariaho, Erica Lessie & Lisa Goethe-McGinn
January 26 @ 3:30, Suzuki Faculty Recital, Sherwood Community Music School at Columbia College
works by M. Martinez and M. Bliss for flute and cello