News from
Hearing in Color
Spring 2023
Young Composer Residency
Applications are now open for the 2023-2024 Season’s Young Composer Residency!
Hearing in Color and La Caccina are proud to partner on the Hearing in Color Young Composer Residency, an immersive residency focused on engaging emerging composers of various backgrounds to write choral music for advanced treble voices.
Chicago Classical Review recognition
Following the premier of his piece “All Things Sublime and Colossal” with La Caccina in November, Hearing in Color Young Composer-in-Residence Ephraim Champion received positive recognition by reviewer Katherine Buzard of Chicago Classical Review. Read the full review of La Caccina’s program Extraordinary Machine below.
Summer 2022
Announcing our 2022-2023 Young Composer in Residence
We are so excited to announce our 2022-2023 Young Composer in Residence, Ephraim Champion!
Ephraim Champion is an active musician and composer in Chicago, Illinois who received his Bachelor’s of Music in Performance (Horn) from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is also a member of the 484th United States Army Reserve Band out of Arlington Heights, Illinois, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Latinidad: la gente ya la música
We’re so excited to announce our next program: “Latinidad: La gente y la música.”
Streaming online on June 11 at 7pm CT, “Latinidad: La gente y la música” is an exploration of the term Latinidad, through music.
Spring 2022
An evening of Filipino art song on WFMT
On May 17 at 8pm CT, join LaRob K. Rafael and Dr. Joseph Legaspi for an evening of Filipino Art Song on Classical WFMT Chicago (98.7 FM, wfmt.com, WFMT mobile app). Dr. Legaspi shares a program of Kundiman, traditional Filipino love songs, and explains the importance of incorporating this genre of music into the broader classical lens.
Fall 2021
Undying Love
A Chamber Opera by Steve Wallace
Hearing in Color presents the world-premiere of contemporary chamber opera Undying Love in a one-night-only performance on Friday, November 12 at 7 p.m. at the Kehrein Center for the Arts (5628 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60644).
Written and composed by Chicago-native Steve Wallace, the performance marks Hearing in Color’s first opera and collaboration with WFMT- 98.7 FM, Chicago’s top classical music radio station.
Spring 2021
Arts Work Fund
We are proud to announce that we are one of ten in this year's spring grantees of the Think Grant from the Arts Work Fund! Think Grants give arts organizations the time and space to think through a question, analyze challenges and opportunities, and develop plans or small tests of change. This grant will support a strategic planning and organizational development process that helps codify the organizational, operational, and financial structures needed to ensure a sustainable model of equitable production and presentation centered on experiences of historically excluded creative communities.
We are so grateful for this opportunity, and can't wait to take you all along for the ride with us. We'll be posting updates throughout the summer as we meet with consultants, attend trainings, and grow as a team. We hope you'll #growwithus too!
Hearing in Color Team meets with Consultants
As part of an ongoing effort to build a stronger foundation as an organization, the Hearing in Color team will be meeting with consultants all summer long. Our goal is to learn how to better serve our mission and our community. In May 2021, we were joined with Sarah Geocaris, Assistant Director of Annual Giving for the Joffrey Ballet, to discuss inclusive and ethical fundraising methods, and financial growth and stability in the arts non-profit sector.
In June 2021, we had the opportunity to speak with Cayenne Harris, Vice President of Education & Community Engagement at the University Musical Society, where we learned about organizational structure and audience building. We are grateful for Sarah and Cayenne’s mentorship, and look forward to additional opportunities this summer!
Winter 2021
Kababayan:
A Celebration of Filipino Identity
Kababayan is a livestream, multimedia event that celebrates the unity and diversity of Filipinos, and the complex connection to the Filipino identity through art and music. Kababayan is the Philippine word for “countrymen,” and appears in many languages of the Philippines. It is a word that connects all Filipinos, no matter where they are.