CSO Chamber Music at the University of Chicago

Apr 19, 2026

Tickets available through UChicago Presents

Overview Schedule Program Performers

Overview

CSO musicians explore the art of remix in a program highlighting women composers, featuring Annie Gosfield’s Daughters of the Industrial Revolution — a fusion of factory sounds and live instruments — and Louise Farrenc’s romantic Piano Trio No. 4 in E Minor.

Please note: this event takes place at Logan Center at University of Chicago.

Venue
Community Venue
Length
1 hour 50 minutes

Schedule

Program

Joyce

Light and Dark

Villa-Lobos

Assobio a Jato (“Jet Whistle”) for flute and cello

Shaw

Boris Kerner

Chen Yi

Qi for flute, cello, percussion, piano

Dehnhard

WAKE UP! for piccolo and alarm clock

Gosfield

Daughters of the Industrial Revolution

Farrenc

Piano Trio No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 45

Performers

Cynthia Yeh

Percussion

Jennifer Gunn

Flute

Kenneth Olsen

Cello

Christopher Guzman

Piano

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