Mark your calendars for Saturday, October 19th at 7pm!
We will be hosting our annual Fireside Concert and Fundraiser at 1216 W Sherwin Ave. The program will feature music from Ukraine, including homemade Ukrainian Pierogis and other delicious treats and beverages — yum!
Tickets are $35 ($25 for students/seniors) in advance and $40 (or $30) at the door!
TICKET LINK
Save-the-date for our Thirsty Ears Festival performance in Chicago’s Ravenswood neighborhood on Sunday, September 8 at 4pm.
Repertoire will include Kenji Bunch Ralph's Old Records, Valerie Coleman’s Maombi Asante, Ross Edwards’ Trio for violin, cello, and piano, and Astor Piazzolla’s Cafe 1930. For more information, go to Thirsty Ears Festival.
See you there!
We invite you to join us in Guarneri Hall for our 2024-25 season opener, The 10th Anniversary Concert and Celebration, featuring works from North America on Friday, September 6 at 6:30pm. The concert will feature music by Kenji Bunch, Valerie Coleman, Amos Gillespie, Adolphus Hailstork, Jessie Montgomery, and Alex Wurman. A reception will follow the performance.
Tickets are available HERE.
The programmatic theme for the upcoming season is “One Small World,” which is both a nod to the Disneyland attraction and a unifying message of peace. This 10th Anniversary season will feature seven concerts highlighting composers from each of the seven continents. Concerts will take place in neighborhoods throughout Chicago beginning in September and continuing through June 2025. Programs will include works by composers from Japan and South Korea, Ukraine, South America, South Africa, Antarctica, North America, and Australia.
Lakeshore Rush is partnering with UNICEF this season to help raise awareness of the work UNICEF does to ensure every child everywhere in the world is healthy, educated, protected, and respected.
This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
Lakeshore Rush is celebrating our 10th Anniversary Season from September 2024 to June 2025! To mark this special milestone, the ensemble’s programmatic theme for the season will be “One Small World,” which is both a nod to the ride at Disneyland, as well as a unifying message of peace.
Our 10th Anniversary Season will feature seven concerts for each of the seven continents, where each concert will highlight several pieces from a particular continent. Concerts this season will take place in various neighborhoods throughout Chicago, and we hope to increase awareness and access to new music and address broader social issues through the universal language of music.
Programs will include One Small World: Celebrating Musical Works by Composers from Japan and South Korea; Ukraine; South America; South Africa; Antarctica; North America; and Australia.
Check back soon for upcoming dates and venues!
Join us for a concert at PianoForte Studios in Chicago on Sunday, April 28 at 5pm!
Repertoire will include works by Anton Arensky, Kenji Bunch, Louise Farrenc, Amos Gillespie, Slava & Svetlana Kazykin, Astor Piazzolla, and Carl Maria von Weber.
1335 S Michigan Ave, 2nd floor, Chicago
Tickets: $20 adults, $10 students
Purchase Tickets Here!
We’re looking forward to returning to the Northbrook Public Library for a Quartet Recital on Sunday, April 21 at 3pm! Musicians include saxophonist Amos Gillespie, violinist Pascal Innocenti, cellist Chris Ferrer, and pianist Elena Doubovitskaya.
Compositions by Arensky, Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, Ravel, Peterson, and Piazzolla.
Northbrook Public Library
1201 Cedar Lane
Northbrook, IL 60062
Register for the event at LINK.
We’re excited to return to Saint John’s On The Lake in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Tuesday, February 20 at 3pm!
Our program will include Kenji Bunch’s Ralph’s Old Records, Louise Farrenc’s Trio for Flute, Cello, and Piano, Amos Gillespie’s Sunlit, Russel Peterson’s Tribute Trio No.2, Astor Piazzolla’s Cafe 1930 from Histoire du Tango, Walter Rabl’s Clarinet Quartet, and Carl Maria von Weber’s Trio for Flute, Cello, and Piano.
Save-the-Date for an evening of new music with Lakeshore Rush! Join us for our annual fundraising event Saturday, October 14 at 7pm (drinks start at 6:30pm). This cozy evening will take place at Lakeshore Rush’s office, a home in Rogers Park with the stage set next to the fireplace. There will be food and drinks, a silent auction, and original music by Amos Gillespie, among others. The home has been owned by musicians for generations, and Lakeshore Rush is thrilled to continue to bring together members of the community through this special connection with the arts!
Lakeshore Rush looks forward to performing at Thirsty Ears on Sunday, August 6, 2023 at 4pm. Amy Wurtz will join us this year as special guest pianist. Can't wait!
Don’t miss Chicago’s only outdoor classical music street festival! They'll be food trucks, a beer tent, and live music galore! More info here.
Catch our spring performance as part of the New Music Chicago Presents Series on Tuesday, May 16, 2023 at 7:30pm at the Experimental Sound Studio (5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660)!
Lakeshore Rush will perform works by Griffin Candey, Amos Gillespie, Chelsea Komschlies, Kevin Puts, and Marc Mellits. Featuring Erin Murphy, flute; Laura McLaughlin, clarinet; Amos Gillespie, saxophone; Pascal Innocenti, violin; Chris Ferrer, cello; Elena Doubitskaya, piano.
Detailed Program:
Kid Gloves (2022) for clarinet and piano by Griffin Candey (b. 1988)
Dual Immersion (2023) for saxophone and cello by Amos Gillespie (b. 1981)
The Entertainment of Being (2020) for flute, clarinet, saxophone, violin, cello, piano by Amos Gillespie (b. 1980)
Spam (1995) for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano by Marc Mellits (b. 1966)
Three Nocturnes, 1. Con moto (2004) for violin, clarinet, piano by Kevin Puts (b. 1972)
Steam (2011) for flute and clarinet by Chelsea Komschlies (b. 1991)
Please join us for a Piano Trio Recital (violin, cello, and piano) at the Northbrook Library on Sunday, April 16 at 3pm. The program will include works by William Bolcom, Claude Debussy, Antonin Dvorak, Nicolai Kapustin, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, and Clara Schumann.
More info and advanced registration details can be found HERE. See you there!
Please join us for our return to the Sunday Concert Series at the St. Charles Public Library on Sunday, January 29 at 2pm.
Our program will include works by William Bolcom, Mel Bonis, Louise Farrenc, Nikolai Kapustin, Aram Khachaturian, Robert Muczynski, and Clara Schumann.
Featuring Erin Murphy, flute; Laura McLaughlin, clarinet; Pascal Innocenti, violin; Christopher Ferrer, cello; and Elena Doubovitskaya, piano.
More information on the event at St. Charles Public Library.
An evening of new music with Lakeshore Rush. Join us for our annual fundraising event Saturday, October 22 at 7pm. This cozy evening will take place at Lakeshore Rush’s office, a home in Rogers Park with the stage set next to the fireplace. There will be food and drinks, a silent auction, and original music by Amos Gillespie. Other musical selections include works by Greg Wannamaker, Fritz Kreisler, Nikolai Kapustin, and Johannes Brahms. The home has been owned by musicians for generations, and Lakeshore Rush is thrilled to continue to bring together members of the community through the special connection of the arts! Wine and silent auction items generously provided by PICNIC Wine & Provisions and Oceanique.
More about Lakeshore Rush’s involvement in their community:
Lakeshore Rush is an integral part of the Chicago community, the city they call home. Over the past eight years the ensemble made appearances at the Chicago Symphony Center, WFMT – Chicago’s classical radio station, Ear Taxi Festival, Chicago Cultural Center, the PianoForte Foundation, Fulton Street Collective, Garfield Park Conservatory in partnership with the Honnold Foundation, Constellation, and the Thirsty Ears Festival – Chicago’s only classical music street festival.
Lakeshore Rush is an active member of New Music Chicago, and has commissioned several works by local established composers, including those by Jonathan Hannau, Amos Gillespie, Laura Schwendinger, Griffin Candey, Roger Zare, Kyong Mee Choi, Seth Boustead, and Beth Bradfish. In 2020, the ensemble premiered its first feature-length film score written by composer Seth Boustead, with the release of Chicago Film Project’s Dreaming Grand Avenue. This year, the ensemble commissioned and premiered the film Curved Silence by Alina Markina and Mario Bosca. This work is a cinematic music video of Lakeshore Rush performing Curved Silence by Beth Bradfish, featuring the City of Chicago as a narrative element in the film.
Lakeshore Rush maintains an ongoing relationship with the Merit School of Music by providing special educational programming for audiences aged 5 – 14, and has presented workshops at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Lawrence University. Much of this work was made possible through generous local support, including grants received by the Cliff Dwellers Arts Foundation, City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE), and private donations. Lakeshore Rush NFP is a tax-exempt organization as defined by the Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)3. All donations are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law. Please consider making a donation here!
The soundtrack album of the film Dreaming Grand Avenue was released Thursday, October 13, 2022, featuring original music by Seth Boustead and music performed by Lakeshore Rush and friends.
Listen to it on Spotify and learn more about the film on IMDb.
Thank you Michael Phillips and the Chicago Tribune for mentioning our involvement in this delightful project, and congratulations to Seth and the Chicago Film Project!
We’re delighted to return to ACM’s Thirsty Ears Festival on Sunday, August 14 at 3pm!
Join us on the Main Stage at 1758 W Wilson Ave as we entertain an audience of all ages with a program featuring works by Mel Bonis, Gabriel Fauré, composer-in-residence Amos Gillespie, Nikolai Kapustin, Robert Muczynski, and Clara Schumann.
Kick back and enjoy a great afternoon with us in Ravenswood at Chicago’s only classical music street festival!
Moving Parts, our debut album, explores varied instrumentation within an ever-changing classical landscape, drawing from past performances of old and new classical music spiraled across seven seasons of live concerts and studio recordings.
Listen as we imitate the flurry and flutter of feathered pets with selections from Mason Bates' Life of Birds, the creaking of ropes, bites of cold, and twinkling of stars in Jonathan Hannau's Isolated Houses, and the mechanical jostle and jolt of modern flight in Villa Lobos' Jet Whistle.
Moving Parts is available today on Amazon, Apple Music, YouTube, and direct from Albany Records. Listen today!
Higgs Boson Study, charcoal and graphite on paper by Benjamin Murphy.
Tour sponsorship provided by Miyazawa Flutes - USA and
We are thrilled to announce the upcoming release of our debut chamber music album Moving Parts on Albany Records this spring! Our concert tour dates include performances in Oklahoma, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan:
Friday, 4/8 at 7pm: St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral in Oklahoma City
[Free and open to the public. Info at https://www.stpaulsokc.org/]
Saturday, 4/9 at 7:30pm: McKnight Recital Hall at OSU in Stillwater
[TICKETS: Adults $12 | Students $7 | Seniors $10. Reserve at LINK.]
Sunday, 4/10 at 3pm: The bART in Tulsa
[Info at https://thebart.org/]
Tuesday, 4/12 at 7:30pm: PianoForte Studios in Chicago
[Free and open to the public. Info at https://pianofortechicago.com/]
Wednesday, 4/13 at 3pm: St. John’s on the Lake in Milwaukee
[Info at https://www.saintjohnsmilw.org/]
Saturday, 4/16 at 4pm: Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan [Free and open to the public. More info at https://www.bslcmi.org/]
Works by Max Bruch, Amos Gillespie, Philip Glass, Pierre Jalbert, Bill Ryan, and Clara Schumann
Hope to see you at one of these great events!
We look forward to performing at Constellation Chicago on Sunday, February 6 at 8:30pm!
Concert will include works by Candey, Gillespie, Mazzoli, and Radiohead.
Special guest performers include violinist Pascal Innocenti, cellist Timothy Archbold, and percussionist Josh Graham.
Tickets: $15 in person, $5 suggested livestream donation. TICKETS
Facebook event: Facebook
Thanks for joining us, Trevor!
With Special Guest Flutist Trevor Patricia Watkin
An evening of chamber music by Amos Gillespie, Shulamit Ran, and Ludwig van Beethoven. Enjoy hot food and beverages while we perform works for flute, clarinet, saxophone, and cello. Performance by Lakeshore Rush commemorating our seventh season.
Friday November 12 at 7pm
1216 W Sherwin
Unit 1
Chicago, IL
Amos Gillespie, Saxophone
Laura McLaughlin, Clarinet
Christopher Ferrer, Cello
Tentative Program
Gillespie: Ellipsis for solo saxophone
Beethoven: Allegro Affettuoso for clarinet & cello from Duo No. 2 in F major WoO 27
Kapustin: Allegretto from Duet for Saxophone and Cello Op. 99
Ran: East Wind for Solo Flute
Gillespie: Musics (fl, clar, vc, sax)
I.Rhythmic, syncopated.
II.Scherzo, Minimalist
III-IV.Steady, driving; dance-like
Suggested Donation: $35
In addition to street parking throughout the neighborhood, there is convenient and affordable parking located at 7331 N Sheridan Rd (credit card or app only).
Our 2021-2022 Season will kick off with a performance at the Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago on Wednesday, September 29 at 6pm.
Each work featured connects to our natural world and environmental sustainability. We will give the world premiere of our composer-in-residence Amos Gillespie’s new commission for our ensemble, The Entertainment of Being.
Additional pieces include Griffin Candey’s Buckboard Charlie, Gillespie’s Sunlit, Missy Mazzoli’s Still Life with Avalanche, and Laura Schwendinger’s Until the Sunrise.
We are excited to partner with the Honnold Foundation on behalf of this performance. The focus of this concert includes musical selections inspired by the environment, and for this reason we could think of no better organization to quite literally shine a solar-powered light on (or shall we say, play some tunes for) than the Honnold Foundation! As artists, we would like to give a nod to the Honnold Foundation for all of the important work they're doing around the world to fund solar power that will not only provide a brighter future, but will also help us find environmentally sound solutions towards ending global energy poverty. The Honnold Foundation routinely awards grants to community organizations whose projects are innovative and equity-focused and we believe in their work towards creating a world where all people have the ability to live in balance with the environment. It's an honor to perform this environmentally-inspired concert and we hope you'll head over to the Honnold Foundation website to learn more.
This event is free and live-streamed. Click here to register!