Season Announcement
Nova Linea Musica's third season in Chicago: eight concerts and nine world premieres, opening with the JACK Quartet and closing with the Borromeo Quartet. Tickets are on sale now.
Publish Date:
June 6, 2026
Every season at Nova Linea Musica is built on a single promise: music written for this moment, heard for the first time, in a room where the composer and the audience share the same air. Our third season keeps that promise eight times over, with nine world premieres from some of the most compelling voices in contemporary chamber music today. Here is the year ahead, on our Chicago stage.
September 30, 2026
Our generation's leading new-music foursome, in the words of The New York Times, opens the season with a program built for close listening and discovery. Experimental quartets by Cenk Ergün, Keir GoGwilt, and Austin Wulliman lead to the world premiere of a Nova Linea Musica commission by Guggenheim Fellow Juri Seo, who will be in attendance to celebrate the first performance.
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October 28, 2026
A landmark evening honoring one of the most influential composers of the last century. Flutist DeMarre McGill, violinists Desirée Ruhstrat and Rabia Brooke, and cellist Wendy Sutter gather for an intimate program of Philip Glass's most beloved chamber works, marking the milestone with a concert worthy of the moment.
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November 18, 2026
First Prize winners of the 2025 Banff International String Quartet Competition and recipients of the 2026 Cleveland Quartet Award, the Poiesis Quartet performs works by Calvin Ray Shawler, Max Lang, Maya Irizarry Lambright, and Jeff Scott, anchored by the world premiere of a Nova Linea Musica commission from Puerto Rican composer Ivan Enrique Rodriguez. The composer will be in attendance.
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January 27, 2027
An evening of conversation between voices. The Nois Saxophone Quartet brings together five works exploring how music speaks across difference, distance, and tradition, with music by Caroline Shaw, Jessie Montgomery, Shawn Okpebholo, and Nico Muhly. The program culminates in the world premiere of a Nova Linea Musica commission by Grammy-nominated composer Clarice Assad, who joins the quartet on stage.
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February 17, 2027
Seven-time Grammy-nominated violinist and composer Curtis Stewart brings a singular vision to an evening that dissolves the boundaries between classical, jazz, and American vernacular traditions. A 2025 Sphinx Medal of Excellence recipient and Juilliard faculty member, Stewart arrives with a program unmistakably his own, anchored by the world premiere of a Nova Linea Musica commission.
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March 17, 2027
An intimate evening of solo piano with internationally acclaimed pianist Claire Huangci, whose technical brilliance and stylistic certainty illuminate works by John Corigliano, Minako Tokuyama, and George Rochberg, alongside two pieces by Grammy-nominated composer Zhou Tian, including the world premiere of a Nova Linea Musica commission. A Curtis Institute alumna and first-prize winner at the 2018 Concours Geza Anda, Huangci turns the solo recital into an event, and Tian will be in attendance to celebrate the premiere.
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April 14, 2027
Violinist Rabia Brooke, our founding Artist-in-Residence, and the NLM Piano Trio present an evening of two world premieres. The program features a new solo violin commission by Pulitzer Prize finalist Chen Yi, written for Rabia and drawn from the composer's own childhood memories, alongside a new piano trio by our Composer-in-Residence Stacy Garrop, written during her residency in the Rocky Mountains. Both composers will be in attendance.
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May 26, 2027
The legendary Borromeo String Quartet closes the season with the world premiere of a Nova Linea Musica commission by Grammy-nominated composer Mehmet Ali Sanlikol, whose pluralist, multicultural voice has been praised by the Boston Globe as colorful, fanciful, and full of rhythmic life. Hailed as simply the best and performing for thirty-five years on the world's great stages, the Borromeo arrives at Guarneri Hall for a season finale, Where We Converge.
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Eight concerts. Nine world premieres. One more still to be announced. Every program built around a brand new work, every commission heard for the first time on a Chicago stage. Tickets and subscriptions are available now. We hope you will be in the room.
