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Civic Fellows & International Contemporary Ensemble
Jan 25, 2026 — 6:30 PM
Overview
Let’s Think About This… invites audiences into a concert centering dialogues between composer and performer, performer and audience, and audience and experience. Through works that merge music, speech and movement, the Civic Fellows collaborate with members of the International Contemporary Ensemble to explore what it means to lead, to follow, to dissent and to listen. Be a part of an experience that transforms the concert stage into a space for inquiry, negotiation and exploration.
Note Location: Epiphany Center for the Arts, 201 S. Ashland Ave.
Tickets are free; reservations are required.
Program
Knowles
Landscape
Hearne
Furtive Movements
Holzen & Novilla
UNIT/ED
Temple
Viola Joke
Montgomery
Concerto Grosso
Bunch
26.2
Chacon
American Leger No. 1
Performers
Sponsors & Partners
The 2025/26 Civic Orchestra season is generously sponsored by Lori Julian for the Julian Family Foundation, which also provides major funding for the Civic Fellowship program.
The Civic Orchestra of Chicago acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council.
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