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!
We are excitedly looking forward to our first performance all together as an ensemble since the pandemic restricted our travel and in person collaboration!
We perform on the Main Stage on Saturday, August 14, 2021 at 4pm.
Works by Amos Gillespie, Katherine Hoover, Pierre Jalbert, Arvo Pärt, and Kevin Puts.
More info at Thirsty Ears Festival.
We are ecstatic to announce the upcoming release of our first professional ensemble recording! This project is made possible in part by a generous grant from Oklahoma State University.
CD details and national tour dates will be announced in fall 2021!
We look forward to performing a Virtual Classical Concert at the Northbrook Public Library on Sunday, January 24 at 3pm.
Program will include works by Maurice Ravel, Oliver Messiaen, Clara Schumann, Kevin Puts, Joseph Horovitz, and two works by Lakeshore Rush Composer-in-Residence Amos Gillespie, including a world premiere of his new work for solo saxophone.
Guest artists will feature award winning pianist and Vice-President of New Music Chicago, Marianne Parker. Check out her website at marianneparker.com
Please visit this link to register online and receive a concert streaming address direct to your email inbox the day of the event!
Lakeshore Rush will perform a concert titled “Nature’s Palette” at PianoForte Studios Chicago (1335 S. Michigan Ave.) at a TBD date due to COVID19.
Pieces will include Henri Dutilleux Sarabande et Cortege, Amos Gillespie Nature’s Palette and Musics, Missy Mazzoli Still Life with Avalanche, Marc Mellits Spam, and Astor Piazzolla Inverno and Otono.
Special guests: Amos Gillespie, composer and saxophone, and Gloria Yehilevsky, percussion.
Tickets: $20 adults/$10 students
Check back for updates as information becomes available!
Today we’re releasing our quarantine edition of Bill Ryan’s Blurred that we recorded remotely this June. Hope you enjoy!
Lakeshore Rush is very excited to announce that our seeds have been planted for a special one night only concert at the gorgeous Garfield Park Conservatory, made possible by the generous support of the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events! This new growth will be an exploration of the connection of music and the arts to the environment around us and the growing need for sustainability. Selections will include works by Mason Bates, Bill Ryan, Christopher Cerrone, Astor Piazzolla, and a new commission by Lakeshore Rush Composer-in-Residence Amos Gillespie. Stay tuned for more details, as we look forward to new safety guidelines for concerts and events.
This project is partially supported by an Individual Artist Program Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, as well as a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency, a state agency through federal funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.
We will perform on the Sunday Concert Series at the St. Charles Public Library on Sunday, January 12 at 2pm in the Carnegie Community Room.
Featuring compositions by Debussy, Glass, Jalbert, Mellits, and Menotti.
Seating is limited for this free concert series. Doors will open 20 minutes prior to the performance. Questions? Contact Denise Blaszynski at 630-584-0076, ext. 240.
St. Charles Public Library is located at One South 6th Ave., St. Charles, IL 60174
We can’t wait to perform at the Chicago Cultural Center on Thursday, October 31 at 12pm.
Our program will include Marcos Balter’s Ignis Fatuus, Seth Boustead’s Three for Zhou, Amos Gillespie’s Musics and Of Nature’s Palette, Pierre Jalbert’s Triple Set, and Bill Ryan’s Blurred.
Come join us in this magnificent space!
We’ll be performing at the Access Contemporary Music Thirsty Ears Festival 2019 on Saturday, August 10 on the Main Stage at 7pm. Thirsty Ears is Chicago’s only classical music street festival in its 4th year.
$10 suggested donation (all proceeds benefit the ACM School of Music, a non-profit organization)
1758 W Wilson Ave
Chicago
Come join us for this fun all ages event!
Lakeshore Rush violinist Henry Zheng and pianist Elena Doubovitskaya will perform a concert for Piano Camp students in Gottlieb Hall at the Merit School of Music on Thursday, July 18 at 1:45pm.
Come hear fantastic selections for violin and piano duo by Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms!
We are excited to announce that Lakeshore Rush has been awarded a 2019 residency at Avaloch Farm Music Institute in New Hampshire. The institute provides a unique opportunity for chamber music ensembles to have the time and space to work intensively on repertoire, prepare for recordings, concerts or competitions, work with composers on commissions, and expand upon the groups musical identity.
Join us for our yearly PianoForte Studios concert on Friday, June 7 at 8pm!!
Lakeshore Rush will be joined by special guests composer/saxophonist Amos Gillespie and percussionist Josh Graham in this exciting program that features works by midwestern composers.
Works will include Amos Gillespie's Spanish Speakers and These Questions Three; Philip Glass's Closing from Glassworks; David Lang's These Broken Wings; Gian Carlo Menotti's Trio for clarinet, violin, and piano; Bill Ryan's Blurred; and the Chicago premiere of Roger Zare's Zodiacal Light.
Link to reserve advanced tickets ($20/$10): EVENTBRITE
Many of our members of Lakeshore Rush had a great time recording the movie score by Seth Boustead to the upcoming film Dreaming Grand Avenue on Sunday, May 12.
We look forward to hearing the final product and seeing the film when it’s released!