Welcome to Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago,
Chicago’s home for Art Song and Vocal Chamber Music.
CAIC seeks to make Chicago a world home for the performance and study of art song and vocal chamber music repertoire. Through vocal coachings, master classes, and performances in venues throughout the Chicago area, including the annual Collaborative Works Festival, CAIC offers musicians and audience members the opportunity to experience the intimate, inspiring world of song.
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CAIC PRESENTS: SONGS OF AMERICA AND GREAT BRITAIN, MASTER CLASS with PIANIST MARTIN KATZ - 4/5/2013
Renowned collaborative pianist returns to CAIC for its final public event of the season, a master class for singers and pianists. Six singer-pianist teams will perform art songs by British and American composers; Martin Katz will offer constructive insight about musical style, technical considerations, and performance practice. This event is free and open to the public, but advance registration is required. Please visit www.martinkatz.eventbrite.com for ticketing...(read more)
Martin Katz's appearance is sponsored by Mesirow Financial. Special thanks to DePaul University School of Music for the use of its Concert Hall for this event!
COLLABORATIVE MUSINGS: DOMINIC ARMSTRONG'S LIEDER LOUNGE PROGRAM - 2/26/2013
We recently renamed our salon series at Chicago's historic Fine Arts Building the Lieder Lounge series.
Our Lieder Lounges are a wonderful chance to hear some of the most exciting young classical singers from around the country perform some of their favorite Art Songs and Vocal Chamber Music in the intimate setting of Dixon Stein Studios over a glass of wine and desserts... (read more)
SPRING LIEDER LOUNGE ANNOUNCED - 1/22/2013
CAIC is pleased to announce the addition of a new event to the 2012-2013 season!
Many of you attended one or both of the events we held at the Salon of Elizabeth Stein in Chicago’s historic Fine Arts Building this past year. We will convene at the Studio again on March 16, as part of the newly named Lieder Lounge series, in a recital program featuring tenor Dominic Armstrong and CAIC Executive Director and pianist, Shannon McGinnis. The March 16th program will include songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Roger Quilter, as well as the famous cookies by Judith Freilich.
Please see here for more information and tickets!
JANUARY 'DIARY OF VIRGINIA WOOLF' EVENT POSTPONED - 11/13/2012
Lauren Curnow has had to withdraw from the performances of 'From the Diary of Virginia Woolf' that were scheduled for January 12 and 13 at Curtiss Hall. This event has been postponed until further notice. We regret any inconvenience, and we look forward to presenting this inspiring work in the near future.
COLLABORATIVE MUSINGS: FAILING BETTER - 10/29/2012
I just finished reading another moving memoir by Mary Karr. My first Mary Karr encounter, with ‘The Liar’s Club: A Memoir’, came while I was in rehearsals for ‘Madame Butterfly’ with Sugar Creek Opera last summer, so it seems fitting that I’d gravitate toward her work again now, while I’m in the midst of rehearsals for ‘Cendrillon’ at Kentucky Opera. I find in Karr’s writing a perfect mix of sadness and humor... (read more)
CAIC FALL WORKSHOP - "THE EMBODIED SINGER" WITH MASTER TEACHER TIMOTHY CALDWELL - 10/7/2012
Timothy Caldwell, author of Expressive Singing: Dalcroze Eurhythmics for Voice leads CAIC's Fall Workshop November 9 - 11, 2012. The workshop will focus on improving singers' performance through movement. Teachers often use the phrase, "your body is an instrument," but what does that mean? How can you become more ‘expressive’, or ‘more musical’? Using the principles of the century-old method, Dalcroze Eurhythmics, Caldwell's workshop will give singers concrete ways to become more expressive, more musical performers.
For more information, click here!
CAIC TO PRESENT ANTHONY ROTH COSTANZO AND BRYAN WAGORN IN SALON RECITAL ON 10/6/2012 - 9/20/2012
Please join us for an evening of wine, conversation and song, featuring rising-star countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo with pianist Bryan Wagorn in the pair's only appearance in Chicago this season!
2012 Operalia Competition Winner, Anthony Roth Costanzo, recently made his debuts at the Metropolitan Opera in the company's productions of Rodelinda and The Enchanted Island; the Canadian Opera Company in Handel's Semele; and at Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival. Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Bryan Wagorn has performed throughout Canada, the US, Europe, and Asia as vocal accompanist, soloist, and chamber musician, in such venues as Carnegie Hall's Weill and Zankel Halls, Boston's Jordan Hall, and Canada's National Arts Centre in Ottawa... (read more)
Renowned collaborative pianist returns to CAIC for its final public event of the season, a master class for singers and pianists. Six singer-pianist teams will perform art songs by British and American composers; Martin Katz will offer constructive insight about musical style, technical considerations, and performance practice. This event is free and open to the public, but advance registration is required. Please visit www.martinkatz.eventbrite.com for ticketing...(read more)
Martin Katz's appearance is sponsored by Mesirow Financial. Special thanks to DePaul University School of Music for the use of its Concert Hall for this event!
COLLABORATIVE MUSINGS: DOMINIC ARMSTRONG'S LIEDER LOUNGE PROGRAM - 2/26/2013
We recently renamed our salon series at Chicago's historic Fine Arts Building the Lieder Lounge series.
Our Lieder Lounges are a wonderful chance to hear some of the most exciting young classical singers from around the country perform some of their favorite Art Songs and Vocal Chamber Music in the intimate setting of Dixon Stein Studios over a glass of wine and desserts... (read more)
SPRING LIEDER LOUNGE ANNOUNCED - 1/22/2013
CAIC is pleased to announce the addition of a new event to the 2012-2013 season!
Many of you attended one or both of the events we held at the Salon of Elizabeth Stein in Chicago’s historic Fine Arts Building this past year. We will convene at the Studio again on March 16, as part of the newly named Lieder Lounge series, in a recital program featuring tenor Dominic Armstrong and CAIC Executive Director and pianist, Shannon McGinnis. The March 16th program will include songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Roger Quilter, as well as the famous cookies by Judith Freilich.
Please see here for more information and tickets!
JANUARY 'DIARY OF VIRGINIA WOOLF' EVENT POSTPONED - 11/13/2012
Lauren Curnow has had to withdraw from the performances of 'From the Diary of Virginia Woolf' that were scheduled for January 12 and 13 at Curtiss Hall. This event has been postponed until further notice. We regret any inconvenience, and we look forward to presenting this inspiring work in the near future.
COLLABORATIVE MUSINGS: FAILING BETTER - 10/29/2012
I just finished reading another moving memoir by Mary Karr. My first Mary Karr encounter, with ‘The Liar’s Club: A Memoir’, came while I was in rehearsals for ‘Madame Butterfly’ with Sugar Creek Opera last summer, so it seems fitting that I’d gravitate toward her work again now, while I’m in the midst of rehearsals for ‘Cendrillon’ at Kentucky Opera. I find in Karr’s writing a perfect mix of sadness and humor... (read more)
CAIC FALL WORKSHOP - "THE EMBODIED SINGER" WITH MASTER TEACHER TIMOTHY CALDWELL - 10/7/2012
Timothy Caldwell, author of Expressive Singing: Dalcroze Eurhythmics for Voice leads CAIC's Fall Workshop November 9 - 11, 2012. The workshop will focus on improving singers' performance through movement. Teachers often use the phrase, "your body is an instrument," but what does that mean? How can you become more ‘expressive’, or ‘more musical’? Using the principles of the century-old method, Dalcroze Eurhythmics, Caldwell's workshop will give singers concrete ways to become more expressive, more musical performers.
For more information, click here!
CAIC TO PRESENT ANTHONY ROTH COSTANZO AND BRYAN WAGORN IN SALON RECITAL ON 10/6/2012 - 9/20/2012
Please join us for an evening of wine, conversation and song, featuring rising-star countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo with pianist Bryan Wagorn in the pair's only appearance in Chicago this season!
2012 Operalia Competition Winner, Anthony Roth Costanzo, recently made his debuts at the Metropolitan Opera in the company's productions of Rodelinda and The Enchanted Island; the Canadian Opera Company in Handel's Semele; and at Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival. Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Bryan Wagorn has performed throughout Canada, the US, Europe, and Asia as vocal accompanist, soloist, and chamber musician, in such venues as Carnegie Hall's Weill and Zankel Halls, Boston's Jordan Hall, and Canada's National Arts Centre in Ottawa... (read more)
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