our 2025/26 season: deep roots, wild sounds

In our 25/26 season, mycelium new music invites you into a living musical network. With 3 performances across Chicago, we continue our mission of creating imaginative, multidisciplinary performances of contemporary music that showcase diverse emerging voices. 

ways of looking

with guest artist Pamela Z
sunday, nov. 23th, 2025, 8:30pm
constellation chicago
3111 n western ave.
$20/$15 for students
mycelium new music joins forces with pioneering composer-performer Pamela Z to present ways of looking. In her first Chicago show since the pandemic, Z will perform a solo set which blends voice, live electronic processing, sampled sound, and video, before joining mycelium in a performance of her piece with sextet Ways of Looking. The performance also features mycelium’s 2025 rhizome project, which showcases recent works by rising star emerging composers from around the country. These are pieces which may have received a premiere but no subsequent performances, or to which the composer may want to revise or add to, or which may not yet have a recording. As part of the rhizome project, three composers -  Sofia Jen Ouyang, Arjan Singh Dogra, and Carlos Bandera - travel to Chicago for a collaborative workshop, recording, and performance.
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program 
Rukh for pierrot ensemble - Arjan Singh Dogra
Spirare IV for pierrot ensemble - Carlos Bandera
Commotion for pierrot ensemble - Sofia Jen Ouyang
Solo voice and multimedia set - Pamela Z
Ways of Looking for performer and sextet  - Pamela Z
guest artist Pamela Z

s.p.o.r.e. series no. 1

 march 20th, 2026
the checkout
4116 n clark st.
composer Baldwin Giang
mycelium new music presents the inaugural performance of its s.p.o.r.e. (satellite performance of reduced ensemble) chamber music series. Violinist Dylan Feldpausch, cellist Isidora Nojkovic, and pianist Jonathan Hannau perform an immersive and multimedia-driven program of music for piano trio. The program centers Baldwin Giang’s songs after sufjan, a tender meditation on grief and solitude, paired with a new work by visual artist and performer Ruby Que. The performance also features the premiere of new piece by violinist Dylan Feldpausch, alongside recent works by Cole Reyes and Katherine Balch.

program 
songs after sufjan for piano trio - Baldwin Giang
                 paired with a new work by artist Ruby Que 
melt, meld, mold for piano trio - Cole Reyes
different gravities [excerpt] for piano trio - Katherine Balch
new work for piano trio - Dylan Feldpausch (premiere)

folk songs

with guest artists Kristina Bachrach, soprano, and Cheng Jin Koh, yangqin
thursday, may 28th, 2026, 7:30pm
fulton street collective
1821 w. hubbard street
mycelium new music presents folk songs, a program exploring connections between contemporary classical music and musical traditions from around the world. The performance showcases music by three living composers who engage with folk traditions: Saad Haddad’s Selig Licht, which blends with the rhythmic and melodic framework of Arabic music with a Bach chorale, Charles Peck’s colorful and groovy Kindling, which is influenced by bluegrass fiddle techniques, and Cheng Jin Koh’s YAMA, which will feature the composer playing the yangqin (chinese hammered dulcimer) alongside the ensemble. Ethnomusicologist Varshini Narayanan leads a panel discussion with the composers about their compositional influences and musical backgrounds, before guest artist soprano Kristina Bachrach joins mycelium to perform Luciano Berio’s lush and lyrical Folk Songs.
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program 
Selig Licht for pierrot ensemble - Saad Haddad
Kindling for pierrot ensemble - Charles Peck
YAMA for yangqin and pierrot ensemble - Cheng Jin Koh
Folk Songs for voice and seven instruments - Luciano Berio
composer and yangqin player Cheng Jin Koh