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Recitals and Concerts

Masterclasses and Workshops

Masterclasses and Workshops

November 11-13, 2011, Chicago Flute Club Flute Festival: The Unconventional Flute (Details):

April 22, 2012: Snap, Flutter, Pop: New Music from New Angles, San Diego Flute Guild Spring Festival

Explore the basics of extended techniques and contemporary flute repertoire in an interactive workshop, and learn how they can benefit y

Sonic Sculptures: Snap, Flutter, Pop Pedagogy Workshop

February 22, 2-5pm, Suzuki-Orff School, Chicago, IL, Chicago Flute Club

Concert and Workshop Tour: Colombia, South America, August 2009

Bogotá, August 3-4:  Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Lecture recital, Master class for flute, composer's workshop, evening recital entitled Musique Fatale featuring  music by women composers from around the world, including two world premieres:  August 3: Lecture Recital, Flute masterclass, August 4: Composers Forum

Bucaramanga, August 11, 2pm: UNAB, Lecture recital and workshop

July 12-17, 2009: Faculty, Flute Camp, University of Wisconsin at Whitewater

April 7-8, 2009: Oakland University, Rochester, MI, Varner Hall: Recital and Masterclass on contemporary flute music

March 23, 2009: Bloomington, IL Concert and ISU Residency  www.dalniente.com

May 14-15, 2007: Masterclass,  Bucaramanga, Colombia, UNAB

Sunday March 11, 2007, 10am: Chicago Flute Club Annual Flute Fair, Northeastern University. Young Performer's Masterclass Clinician  teacher. See http://www.chicagofluteclub.org/ for more information.

Recitals and Concerts

September 29, 2011, 7:30pm: Professor Bad Trip, Mayne Stage, Details: Ensemble Dal Niente

Chicago Premiere of Fausto Romitelli's Professor Bad Trip coupled with Gesualdo and Donatoni.

Sunday, November 13, 1:00-2:15, Trembling Air, featuring Timothy Munro, Constance Volk, and Shanna Gutierrez
Flutes sing, speak, growl, wheeze and chirp in Trembling Air, a kaleidoscopic musical
patchwork that features Chicago's new music flute all-stars Tim Munro, Shanna
Gutierrez and Constance Volk. The program includes Amy Beth Kirsten's evocation of
a muttering, whispering Harlequin, as well as the rolling dark waves of Helena Tulve's
otherworldly Soaring. The concert ends with Yoshi-hiko Shimizu's virtuosic trio Tritoly, an
ambitious and fascinating work that stretches these players to their limit...

          US Premiere of THINKI by Karlheinz Stockhausen

December 10, 2011, 7:30pm: Hard Music, Hard Liquor, Mayne Stage, Details: Ensemble Dal Niente

Some of the hardest music ever written...ever.

January 27, 2012, 7:30pm: Jesse Langen's Gutiar Recital with special guest, Shanna Gutierrez, Musical Offering (743 Custer Ave., Evanston). Music by De Visee, Da Milano, Legnani, Ponce, Turina, Takemitsu, Murail, Gifford, and Stockhausen, including some music we're recording next month in Portugal with Fred Gifford.

February 4, 2012: 5th Annual Flute Day, Oglesby, IL: Sonic Sculptures, Snap, Flutter, Pop II, Details here.

February 23-March 11, 2012: Portugal, Switzerland

February 25-29, 2012: World Premiere Recording Mobile 2012 for flute solo and Janus for flute and guitar by Fredrick Gifford in Porto, Portugal

February 26, 2012, 7:30pm: Music of Fredrick Gifford, Sala Teresa Macedo at the Escola Superior de Musica, Artes e Espectaculo, Porto, Portugal.  Featuring World Premiere of Mobile 2012 for flute solo

March 9, 2012: Samuel Beckett, Words and Music (Morton Feldman) with ensemble interface, Dampfenzentrale, Bern, Switzerland

March 17, 2012, 9am: National American Saxophone Alliance, Arizona State University, Organ Hall. Strohbass for bass flute and baritone saxophone (Marcos Balter) with Ryan Muncy, Saxophone.

March 30, 2012: University of Illinois Residency with Ensemble Dal Niente: Ensemble Dal Niente

May 12, 2012, The Party with Marino Formenti, Tickets and Details: Ensemble Dal Niente

June 9, 2012, Season Finale, Details: Ensemble Dal Niente

July 21, 2012, Workshop Concert, Ensemble Dal Niente at the Darmstadt Festival, Germany, Details: Ensemble Dal Niente

July 24, 2012, Ensemble Dal Niente at the Darmstadt Festival, Orangerie, Germany, Details: Ensemble Dal Niente

July 25, 2012, Music Circus at the Cage Stage at the Darmstadt Festival, Germany, with Jesse Langen, guitar, and Fredrick Gifford, speaker.

April 9, 2011, 5pm: Concert featuring composers from University of Chicago, Fulton Hall

June 5, 7:30pm - $15/5 Ensemble Dal Niente: French Music

Anne and Howard Gottlieb Hall, 38 South Peoria, Chicago June 5, 7:30pm - $15/5
Hurel: In Memoriam Gerard Grisey.  Mabel Kwan, piano
Boulez: Derive 1 for ensemble
Fabien Levy: Les deux ampoules d'un sablier peu à peu se comprennent for amplified solo harp,  Janelle Jansen Lake, harp.
Grisey: Partiels for ensemble from Les Espaces Acoustiques

Sunday, May 2, 7:30pm $15/5

Ensemble Dal Niente: Concerto Concert

Nichols Hall, 1470 Chicago Ave
WORLD PREMIERE – Rob Keeley: Concerto for oboe/English horn and strings.  Andy Nogal, oboe
WORLD PREMIERE – Broberg: new work for violin and ensemble.  Austin Wulliman, violin
Lee Hyla: Pre-Pulse Suspended

Race to Save Lives Concert & Silent Auction Benefiting the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

Saturday, March 13, 6-8pm, Ebenezer Lutheran Church , 1250 West Foster Avenue, Chicago, IL 60640, Join Shanna Gutierrez, Flute, and Gerald Rizzer, Piano, for an exciting concert of classics and rarely performed flute works. Program includes: Vivier, Arvo Part, Clarke, and a little Schubert for good measure...
 

Thursday, December 3, 8pm, ensemble dal niente:
Layers and Threads: music by Kaija Saariaho, Magnus Lindberg, Jay Alan Yim and Kirsten Broberg
This concert, featuring virtuoso Amsterdam-based clarinetist Gareth Davis and dal niente's principle violinist Austin Wulliman, includes "Ablauf" for clarinet and percussion by Magnus Lindberg, the American premiere of Kaija Saariaho's "Calices" for violin and piano, the world premiere of Kirsten Broberg's "Origins" cycle for clarinet and chamber ensemble and the American premiere of three simultaneous layers of Northwestern professor Jay Alan Yim's "Songs in Memory of a Circle" vertical cycle with video by Northwestern professor Marlena Novak Immanuel Lutheran Church, 1500 W Elmdale Dr., Chicago, IL 60660, $10/5
 

Pre-Season Party, Friday, September 18 - 8pm - $10,  The Spot, 4437 N. Broadway Ave. Join ensemble dal niente for an evening of some drinks and food (included) and eclectic performances til late into the night!  To RSVP click here

GERMAN MUSIC RECITAL -- ensemble dal niente OKTOBERFest, Sunday, October 4 - 3:00pm - $10/5, Sherwood Conservatory of Music at Columbia College, 600 S. Michigan Ave. An homage to the master German composers throughout the centuries. Ranging from Bach and Beethoven to Schumann and Stockhausen, the program highlights those composers who forged new frontiers in music - a sublime blending of new and old. Performing CPE Bach's Sonate in D Major Wotq 83 with Matthew Gemmill, piano.

TRIOS -- ensemble dal niente OKTOBERFest , Sunday, October 18 - 2:00pm - $5, Green Mill Cocktail Lounge, 4802 N. Broadway Ave., Featured Composers: George Crumb, Jonathan Harvey, Helmut Lachenmann, Hans Thomalla. Performing George Crumb's  Vox Balaenae and Helmut Lachenmann's temA

Concert and Workshop Tour: Colombia, South America, August 2009

Bogotá, August 3-4:  Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Lecture recital, Master class for flute, composer's workshop, evening recital entitled Musique Fatale featuring  music by women composers from around the world, including two world premieres  August 3: Lecture Recital, 7pm Recital: Musique Fatale

Bogotá, August 5: Centro Colombo Americano, Recital: Musique Fatale featuring  music by women composers from around the world, two world premieres  **more info coming soon**

Bucaramanga, August 13, 6pm: Centro Colombo Americano, Recital,  Musique Fatale

Hard Music, Hard Liquor, April 18th 2009 9pm, The Spot, 4437 N. Broadway, Chicago: US Premiere of La terreur d'ange nouveau  for solo flute by Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf-- Complexity Composers Concert, www.dalniente.com

April 7-8, 2009 Oakland University, Rochester, MI, Varner Hall: Recital and Masterclass on contemporary flute music

March 23 Bloomington, IL Concert and ISU Residency  www.dalniente.com

March 7 2009: Dal Niente Birthday Bash, 6-8pm at Winestyles (1741 Sherman Ave, Evanston). Music, Wine, and food.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 8pm, Fulton Hall, University of Chicago: Saariaho Portrait. Music of Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, winner of Northwestern's prestigious Nemmer's Prize, including Laconsime de L'aile for solo flute and Cendres for alto flute, cello, and piano. For more info: www.dalniente.com

November 30, 3pm, Chicago Cultural Center, Preston Bradley Hall: ensemble dal niente All American Music For more info: www.dalniente.com

Thursday November 20, 7:30pm: Flutist Shanna Gutierrez will give the world premiere of Nomi Epstein's work Trio for flute, cello, piano (2008) with cellist Benjamin Kulp and pianist Matthew Gemmill at Ganz Hall, Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL. Written for Shanna, Trio explores sound and color through musical textures.

Friday, October 10, 8pm, Curtiss Hall, Fine Arts Building, dal niente season opener: Italian music

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 6pm: Race to Save Lives Benefit Concert and Silent Auction with Gerald Rizzer, piano. Entertaining and Virtuosic music for flute and piano. Free Will donations and Silent Auction proceeds to benefit the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Reception following

Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, solo flutist, Aspen Music Festival, Aspen, CO  June - August Performances at Harris Hall: 4pm on 6/21, 4pm on 6/28, 3pm on 7/5,  7/8 Day of Music, 8:30pm on 7/11, 3pm on 7/12, 2pm on 7/24 for the American Opera Theatre Company, 4pm on 8/2, 8:30pm on 8/8, 8:30pm on 8/12, and 4pm on 8/16

June 2, 7pm., Chicago Cultural Center: dal niente performs works for the Chicago Composers Forum

April 15, 8pm, Hill Auditorium, University of Michigan. University Symphony Orchestra

April 12, 4:30pm, Kerrytown Concert House, UM Composers Concert

April 2, 8pm, Britton Recital Hall, Flute Studio Recital

March 6, 2008, 7:30pm: Faculty Composition Recital, Roosevelt University featuring works by Kyong Mee Choi and Stacy Garrop. Shanna Gutierrez, Flute, performing Slight Uncertainty is Very Attractive.

University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra Tour, February 24-28, 2008,  Carnegie Hall premiere of Evan Chambers' The Old Burying Ground, Mahler's 5th Symphony.

January 12, 2008, 8pm: Master of Music Degree Recital, McIntosh Recital Hall, University of Michigan School of music. Shanna Gutierrez, Flute, Matthew Gemmill, Piano, Rachel Patrick, violin, Nick Finch, cello, Nick Hancox, viola. Works by Gubaidulina, Debussy, Jacob Gade, Boulez, Saariaho, and Mozart. For directions info: http://www.music.umich.edu

December 10, 2007, 8pm: University Symphony Orchestra Concert, including a world premiere by Evan Chambers and Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. Hill Auditorium
 

November 8-11, 2007: University of Michigan Opera Production of Puccini's La Boheme. Power Center.

October 11, 2007: University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra. 8pm Hill Auditorium

September 24, 2007: University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra. 8pm Hill Auditorium

June-August 2007: Aspen Contemporary Ensemble

June 7, Chicago Composers Forum, Soloist

May 14-15, 2007: Solo Recital Bucaramanga, Colombia, UNAB: In a program entitled Kaleidoscope, Shanna Gutierrez will present a recital of music for solo flute from Baroque to jazz-fusion and contemporary works in conjunction with a masterclass at UNAB. Santiago Sierra, professor of flute at UNAB will make a guest appearance on the recital program.

April 1, 2007 8pm: Mad About Chamber Music, Kerrytown Concert House. Poulenc Sextet

March 30, 2007 8pm: University of Michigan Symphony Band concert for the CBDNA. Hill Auditorium.

Sunday, March 18, 2007, 7pm: Race to Save Lives Benefit Concert and Silent Auction to benefit the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), Kerrytown Concert Hall, Ann Arbor, MI. As members of Team in Training, Shanna Gutierrez and Brandy Hudelson, flutes, accompanied by David Gilliland, piano, will present an exciting concert program to help raise money for the LLS. Silent auction items include concert and event tickets, unique art works from local and nationally known artists. for more information and tickets contact me.

Friday, December 8, 2006, 8pm: "Variations and Fugues" UM Symphony
Band, Hill Auditorium. Variation techniques have been a consistent tool of
composers for centuries.

Sunday, November 19, 2006. 2pm Women Composer's Concert, MacIntosh
Theater, UM, Saariaho's Laconisme de l'aile and other works

Friday, November 3, 2006, 8pm: UM Symphony Band, Hill Auditorium.
Band-O-Rama: American Icons

October 29, 2006, 4pm: New Music Chicago: Sonic Impact, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Dal Niente Ensemble, with feature performance of Saariaho's Laconisme de l'aile by Shanna Gutierrez. For more info: http://www.mcachicago.org/performances/perf_detail.php?id=4

Wednesday, October 25, 2006, 8pm: "Consorts" University of Michigan Symphony Band, Hill Auditorium. Repertoire highlights individual musicians, sections, and unique combinations. UM faculty member Andrew Mead's Concerto for Winds will be premiered.

Tuesday, July 25, 7:30 pm: Northwestern Univ. Summer Orchestra, Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Robert G. Hasty, conductor, Louise Chan, piano, Claude Debussy, Prélude à "L'après-midi d'un faune", Franz Liszt, Piano Concerto No. 1, S.124, E-flat major, Johannes Brahms, Symphony No. 3, op.90, F major

Sunday, July 9, 7:30 pm: Northwestern Univ. Summer Orchestra, Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Robert G. Hasty, conductor, Michael J. Anderson, chorus master, Northwestern University Summer Community Chorus, University Choir, University of Illinois at Chicago Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No.9, op.125, D minor ("Choral")

Monday, May 1, 2006, 8-10pm: "Live from WFMT "   --   WFMT 98.7FM
(Mavericks and Masters)   Shanna Gutierrez, flute and Gerald Rizzer, piano in a live radio broadcast recital program with host Kerry Frumkin. Works of composers who helped challenge the boundaries of musical invention, including works by Poulenc, Mower, Martin, Mozart, Jolivet, and Wilder. see www.wfmt.com for more info.

Saturday, April 29, 2006, 8pm: Preview Concert (Mavericks and Masters)

As a preview to their radio debut, Shanna Gutierrez, flute and Gerald Rizzer, piano, will present their radio program in a salon-style concert in Highland Park. Works of composers who helped challenge the boundaries of musical invention, including works by Poulenc, Mower, Martin, Mozart, Jolivet, and Wilder. Please contact me directly if you'd like info on attending this private event.

Sunday, April 23, 2006, 2:30pm: Preview Concert (Mavericks and Masters) : As a preview to their radio debut, Shanna Gutierrez, flute and Gerald Rizzer, piano in a short recital program at the North Shore Retirement Hotel in Evanston. Works of composers who helped challenge the boundaries of musical invention, including works by Mozart, Jolivet, and Mower.

Sunday, November 13, 2005, 4pm: Sonic Sculptures: Benefit Concert featuring Shanna Gutierrez, flute, and Gerald Rizzer, piano. Reception to follow. Program featuring the substantial Sonata in B Minor by J.S. Bach, the effervescent Sonata for flute and piano by Poulenc, the powerful Chant de Linos by Jolivet and Ballade by F. Martin, an unusual Sonata for Flute, Alto, and Piccolo by Alec Wilder, and the playful and exciting Opus di Jazz by Mike Mower. North Shore United Methodist Church, 213 Hazel Ave., Glencoe, IL (Hazel and Greenleaf). Free will Donations will benefit the All Africa Famine Relief Initiative of UMCOR. For directions: http://www.nsumcglencoe.org/Directions.htm

July 26, 2005 7:30pm, 2005: Northwestern Summer Orchestra Concert. Pick-Staiger Concert Hall. Featuring Claude Debussy, Rapsody for Saxophone and Orchestra, Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 7 in A Major, conducted by Dr. R. Hasty.

July 10, 2005 6pm: Full Score (formerly Zion Chamber Orchestra) presents American Folk Music, including Appalachian Spring by A. Copland. Zion, IL.

June 17, 18, 2005 7:30pm and June 19, 3pm: Chicago Chamber Opera Company, Loyola University. The Telephone and The Medium by Gian Carlo Menotti.

Sunday, April 10, 2005: Lakeside Flutes performing at the Chicago Flute Fair at Northeastern University.

March 15, 2005, 7:30pm: Exposure --Musicians for New Music concert. Shanna Gutierrez performing music of Nomi Epstein and Ryan Vigil. Ditmar Gallery, Norris Center, Northwestern University

March 4, 2005, 8pm: A Parisian Salon Concert, sponsored by Baird & Warner, Northbrook Library, featuring a Shanna Gutierrez, Kim Sopata, and Ellena Chen in works for two flutes, and two flutes and piano.

February 20, 2005, 2pm: Lakeside Flutes Flute Choir will perform at the North Shore Retirement Hotel.

November 7, 4pm: Benefit Recital featuring Shanna Gutierrez, flute, Robert Hasty, violin, and Gerald Rizzer, piano performing works by Bozza, Prokoviev, Martinu, Mower, J.S. Bach, Griffes and others. Proceeds will benefit Habitat for Humanity. Reception to follow. North Shore United Methodist Church, 213 Hazel Ave., Glencoe, IL (Hazel and Greenleaf). CDs available mid-December.

October 1, 2004 8pm: Parisian Salon Concerts and the Northbrook Library Celebration concert and reception.

August 14, 2004, 8pm: Chicago Virtousi Symphony Orchestra performing works by Michael Karasis at the Northside Preparatory School. 5501 N. Kedzie, Chicago

July 11, 2004 7:30pm: Northwestern Summer Orchestra Concert. Pick-Staiger Concert Hall. Featuring Tschaikowsky's 5th Symphony and the Prokoviev Violin Concerto No.2, conducted by Dr. R. Hasty.

June 20, 2004 10-11:30am: Lake Bluff Arts Festival on the Village Green in Lake Bluff, featuring performances of Bach, Carnival of Venice Syrinx, etc.,  performed by Shanna Gutierrez

January 24, 2004, 8pm: Chicago Virtuosi Symphony Orchestra in performance of works by Michael Karasis. Woodstock Opera House.

December 14, 2003, 2pm: Lakeside Flute presents a holiday concert in Willowbrook, featuring a variety of entertaining holiday pieces. Check back for directions.

December 8, 2003, 6:30 pm: Performing at the Light of Hope Benefit dinner and silent auction at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Chicago.

November 22, 2003, 8pm: Chicago Virtuosi Orchestra, A concert featuring music of Michael Karasis in celebration of World War II America, the GI Suite. The work will be narrated by former senator, Paul Simon. Event to take place at Chicago Historical Society.

November 7, 2003, 7:30pm: A Parisian Salon Concert, sponsored by Baird & Warner, Northbrook Library, featuring a Broadway Review, Argentinean Pianist, Ana Fau playing Albeniz and more, and Shanna Gutierrez playing solo flute works by C.P.E. Bach, Debussy, and DeLorenzo.

October 19, 2003, The Chicago Flute Club will hold a masterclass with Gary Schocker. Shanna will be performing in this masterclass playing the "Chant de Linos" by A. Jolivet with Gerrald Rizzer, piano at the Sherwood Conservatory in Chicago. Gary Schocker will be giving a concert at 2:30pm and the masterclass begins at 4pm.

Tuesday July 29, 7:30pm: Northwestern Summer Orchestra Concert. Pick-Staiger Concert Hall.

Sunday July 13, 7:30pm: Northwestern Summer Orchestra Concert. Pick-Staiger Concert Hall.

Saturday June 21, 3:45-5pm    Outdoor Festival of the Arts on the Village Green in Lake Bluff, featuring performances of Tangos, Carnival of Venice and Syrinx performed by Shanna Gutierrez, and the Trio for flute, violin, and cello by the Elmwood Trio (Matthew Wright, Flute)

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