“Mei-Ann Chen, music director of Chicago Sinfonietta, which kicks off its 31st season Sept. 5 with a concert at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park, wants to see more women in classical music.”
Crain’s Chicago Business interviewed our music director about women in music. Read more here!
“The Sinfonietta celebrated the finale of its 30th season [Monday night in Orchestra Hall]. Though the program ranged from sublime to silly (intentionally so), the high points were unforgettable.”
Howard Reich of the Chicago Tribune recalls meeting the Chicago Sinfonietta’s founder and first music director, Paul Freeman, and praises the energetic finale of our 30th anniversary season. Read more here!
“The impassioned production is brainy, heart-felt, resonant and extremely rhythmic. […] This was a sweeping and ambitious piece performed on an auspicious occasion by- how fitting- the most diverse Orchestra in the world..”
Read more about our 2018 Martin Luther King Jr. tribute concert in Splash Magazines’ full review!
“We thought it would be fun to have a lot of references to Sinfonietta history and experiences we provide,” [Chief Executive Officer Jim Hirsch] said. “This is a concert made up of a lot of elements you typically find in a Sinfonietta concert experience. This is a pretty patently typical Sinfonietta concert in that regard.”
Read more about the start of our 30th anniversary season from the Chicago Tribune!
“Throughout the entire piece the conductor could not be happier. Her obvious passion and sheer happiness with this music was palpable and helped give life to this concert.”
To read more about Sinfonietta’s 2016-17 season finale, check out don411’s review!
“His transformation of the tune — which quoted the first three notes but not much more — was very nearly Brahmsian in its ardors. And in the sprinting coda, Roberts’ trio and the orchestra rode a wave of energy they’d jointly created.”
“Roberts’ version went a long way toward conjuring this element of surprise, although he did so in deeply personal terms.”
Read more about Rightness in the Rhythm, the concluding concert of our 2016-17 season, in Howard Reich’s review for the Chicago Tribune!
“Playful and angry in the “Dies Irae” invocations, delicate, assured, and sublime in the tranquil middle variations, Buechner held her own with the mightily accompanying orchestra.”
To read more about Chicago Sinfonietta’s celebration of the LGBTQ community in the arts, check out Stage and Cinema’s review of our concert here!
“As our young artists played with established Sinfonietta members, we could hear the future in every bar.”
“This concert confirmed a myriad of commitments, musical and more.”
Read more about our 2017 Martin Luther King Tribute Concert in Stage and Cinema’s full review!
“How wrong those fleeting thoughts were that the timing of Chicago Sinfonietta’s ‘Dia de los Muertos’ (Day of the Dead) performance on the actual Halloween night might have been bad timing. Though the CTA bus wound past many a colorful band of trick or treaters en route, the big show and best Halloween event in the city perhaps WAS the Chicago Sinfonietta at Symphony Center. Knowing how the Sinfonietta infuses everything they do with fun, we should have known better and anticipated the festive air.”
Read more about the Sinfonietta’s Day of the Dead concert in Picture this Post’s full review!
“Science and art naturally complement each other.”
“People will be able to see visuals that maybe they have never seen before,” he said. “People might have heard of the Northern Lights or seen a still photograph, but not necessarily seen a film based on how beautiful the Northern Lights not only look in the sky but how they interact with the landscape and how they illuminate the landscape, how they get reflected off lakes.
“What we want is for these film to inspire people to learn more about what we present. But as I was saying recently, everything is better with music (including) … learning about science and the world and the universe.”
Read more about the Chicago Sinfonietta’s collaboration with video artist and astronomer Jose Francisco Salgado and their program “Cosmic Convergence” in the Chicago Tribune’s article!
