Lisa Goethe-McGinn ~ flutist & educator
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Past Performances

2021
Virtual Performance 2021
Worthy of Note:  Music by Women Composers for Flute & Cello
 https://ismta.org/VConf_Presentations

2020
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
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-Concert CANCELED- presented on YouTube (personal video recordings from performers)
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

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
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Friday, March 1, 2019 @ 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.
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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
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Clinic:  Free & Creative Improvisation 
January 27 & 28, 2018
Mid-Winter Suzuki Flute Workshop
Class for Suzuki flutists on Free and Creative Improvisation
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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

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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
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Chicago Premiere

April 16, 2016 at 7:00 PM
Galvin Recital Hall - Northwesten University
w/Claire Chase & 100 other flutists

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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
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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
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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


2012
November 18 @ 3PM, Bach & Beyond Orchestra @ Dank Haus, Chicago
works by Telemann, Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart

July 16 - 28, Summer Flute Institute @ Sherwood Community Music School at Columbia College
May 6, Bach & Beyond, German, Austrian and Transylvanian-Saxon Masters of Music @ DANK HAUS
works by J.S. Bach, Sonata in A and Sonata in Eb, et al.

March 12, Arts & Ideas at Lewis University, MAVerick Ensemble
works by Chen Yi, George Crumb

January 28, Art Music, MAVerick Ensemble @ UIMA
works by Ludmilla Yurina, George Flynn, Milton Babbitt

January 22, New Music at the Green Mill
works by Charles Wuorinen, George Flynn

2011
November 12, Collaboraction, MAVerick Ensemble @ Flat Iron Building
works by John Cage, Charles Wuorinen

May 22, MAVerick Ensemble @ UIMA
works by Ludmilla Yurina

April 15, Saturdays at Sherwood, Faculty Recital
works by Bach, Copland, Chen Yi, Sciarrino and Improvisations

March 13, MAVerick Ensemble @ UIMA
works by James Tenney, Copland, Chen Yi

February 27, MAVerick Ensemble @ Flat Iron Building
works by James Tenney, Salvatore Sciarrino

2010
November 13, MAVerick Ensemble @ Flat Iron Building
works by Shulamit Ran, Thorkell Sigurbjornsson

October 24, MAVerick Ensemble @ UIMA
works by Shulamit Ran, George Crumb

June 26, Memorial for Burt Levy (BurtFest), University of Mississippi
solo works by Burt Levy, Herbert Brun

May 15, MAVerick Ensemble @ UIMA
works by Salvatore Sciarrino

April 25, MAVerick Ensemble @ UIMA
works by Salvatore Sciarrino, George Crumb

February 21, MAVerick Ensemble @ UIMA
works by Amos Gillespie, Salvatore Sciarrino, William Jason Raynovich

2009
December 19, MAVerick Ensemble @ Flat Iron Building
works by Villa-Lobos, Elliott Carter, Salvatore Sciarrino

October 3 & 4, MAVerick Ensemble at UIMA/Flat Iron Building
special guest Ruben Serioussi (IS), guitar
works by Debussy, Yehuda Yannay

October 1, Music From Almost Yesterday w/ MAVerick Ensemble, Univeristy of WI-Milwaukee
special guest Ruben Serioussi (IS), guitarworks by Yehuda Yannay

July 12, Bach & Beyond Orchestra @ DANK HAUSA 
Midsummer Night's Dream, Mendelsohn

May 17, Bach & Beyond Orchestra 2 DANK HAUS
Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G MAjor (BWV 1049), J.S. Bach
Dido and Aeneas, Purcell

February 22, MAVerick Ensemble @ UIMA
works by Geoffrey Gordon

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