Concert entitled Contempo: Focus on Europe will be held on February 29, 2016 at Performance Hall, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts in Chicago.

Contempo (The University of Chicago Contemporary Chamber Players) looks across the ocean to today’s leading European composers, creating a compelling program that features award-winning compositions and stunning soprano lines. The electric Agata Zubel, making a return to Contempo, and Tadeusz Wielecki, director of Warsaw Autumn Festival, perform in their own works.

Performers:
eighth blackbird
Pacifica Quartet
Agata Zubel - vocalist
Tadeusz Wielecki - double bass

Programme:
6.30 pm - panel discussion with Seth Brodsky and composers
7.30 pm - concert:
Agata Zubel - Not I
Tadeusz Wielecki - The Thread is Spinning
Christophe Bertrand - Madrigal
Marta Ptaszynska - Mosaics
Alfred Schnittke - String Quartet No. 2

More information: www.arts.uchicago.edu

Tickets available on-line: www.ticketsweb.uchicago.edu