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

 march 20th, 2026
the checkout
4116 n clark st.
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)

guest artist

Ruby Que is an interdisciplinary artist focusing on site-specific intervention and expanded cinema performance. In their work they open portals and create hauntings. Many projects grapple with absence; with video, sculpture and installation, they attempt to give shape to what lies within and beyond the perceived void. Drawing from their lived experience as a queer, itinerant immigrant, they meditate on yearning and find belonging in transit. They believe in the power of collective myth-making, often engaging collaborators and viewers as co-conspirators towards liberation. 
They have exhibited and performed at Poetry Foundation, Roman Susan, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Elastic Arts, Comfort Station (Chicago, IL), Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (Ithaca, NY), Coco Hunday (Tampa, FL), SOLOS (Karlsruhe, Germany) and elsewhere. They have been awarded residencies at Vermont Studio Center, ACRE, Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, and Chicago Artists Coalition. Their work has been featured in The Chicago Reader, Performance Review Journal, and Sixty Inches from Center. Newcity Magazine named them a 2023 Breakout Artist. Que holds a BA in Comparative Literature from Cornell University and an MFA in Film, Video and New Media from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where they currently teach.

composers

Baldwin Giang (b. 1992) is an internationally-performed composer, pianist, interdisciplinary creator, and educator whose music aims to empower communities of audiences and performers by creating concert experiences that are opportunities for collective wonder and judgment. He won the Samuel Barber Rome Prize and is in residence as a fellow at the American Academy in Rome from 2023-2024. Baldwin recently completed a 2022-2023 Fulbright artist Fellowship in Taiwan, and was appointed as a composer-in-residence with the Louisville Orchestra in 2024-2025. He was a nominee/finalist for the 2022 Gaudeamus Award, the most prestigious international prize for composers under 35.   Described as “taut and cohesive…challenging and rewarding” (Cacophony), Baldwin’s music has been performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, Symphony Center in Chicago, and Chateau de Fontainebleau. He has received commissions from the National Sawdust Ensemble, Metropolis Ensemble, New York Youth Symphony, Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Loadbang, Playground Ensemble, Grossman Ensemble, Fondation Maurice Ravel, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, Robert Black Foundation, Music in Bloom, How It’s Musically Made, and Music from Copland House. Additionally, he is lucky to have collaborated with such celebrated performers as the New Jersey Symphony, Albany Symphony, Ensemble Intercontemporain, International Contemporary Ensemble, New European Ensemble, Riot Ensemble, Ensemble Garage, Argento Ensemble, [Switch~ Ensemble], orkest de ereprijs, Ensemble MotoContrario, Arditti Quartet, Spektral Quartet, JACK Quartet, Longleash, Sandbox Percussion, Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble, Quince Vocal Ensemble, Rage Thormbones, So Much Hot Air, unassisted fold, Ensemble But What About, ChamberQUEER, Verdant Vibes, AEPEX Contemporary Performance, Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra, Curtis Symphony Orchestra, Yale Symphony Orchestra, University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra, Opera Theatre of Yale College, Indiana University’s New Music Ensemble, University of Michigan’s Contemporary Directions Ensemble, University of Iowa’s Center for New Music Ensemble, University of North Texas’s Nova Ensemble, and members of Ensemble Dal Niente and Mocrep.
Cole Reyes is a composer, educator, and arts administrator whose creative exploration delves into the intersection of individual human experiences and the broader world. His musical output, which draws inspiration from diverse genres such as pop, rock, and folk music, is distinguished by a fusion of lyricism and rhythmic propulsion. Recent and upcoming performances include those with distinguished ensembles such as the JACK Quartet, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, the United States Marine Band, Contemporaneous, BlackBox Ensemble, the Rhythm Method Quartet, Bergamot Quartet, BlackBox Ensemble, Del Sol Quartet, among others. Recent commissions include those from the National Orchestral Institute and Festival, Bang on a Can Summer Festival, the Victory Players, and ARTZenter. As an educator, Reyes has taught at the University of Michigan in the Composition and Music Theory Departments. His pedagogy is driven by the understanding of music within and outside the Western Art Music canon, acknowledging the often exclusionary practices that have led to a diverse canon of various kinds of musical expression.  His primary composition teachers include Julia Wolfe, Michael Gordon, Robert Honstein, Bright Sheng, Roshanne Etezady, Kristin Kuster, Evan Chambers, Christopher Stark, and LJ White. He is co-founder of Telos Consort, a professional chamber ensemble based in New York City dedicated to the performance and curation of new music that features saxophones, strings, and piano. He is currently pursuing doctoral studies at the University of Michigan.
Dylan Feldpausch is a violinist and composer from Austin, Texas with degrees in violin performance from Rice University and Arizona State University. He was a Chicago Civic Orchestra Fellow from 2021 to 2023, and he is currently the Program Manager and Head Teaching Artist for Apollo’s Fire Baroque Orchestra’s Side-by-Side strings program in Matteson, Illinois. Whether he’s teaching or performing, Dylan seeks to adapt musical convention to best serve whichever audience or community he’s bringing his experience to. He is a founding member of Hot Second, a genre-bending violin and percussion duo based in Chicago, and is a core member of Mycelium New Music.
Described as “some kind of musical Thomas Edison – you can just hear her tinkering around in her workshop, putting together new sounds and textural ideas” (San Francisco Chronicle), composer Katherine Balch is interested in the intimacy of quotidian objects, found sounds, and natural processes. A collector of aural delights, field recordings are often at the heart of her work, which ranges from acoustic to mixed media and installation. A recipient of the 2020/21 Rome Prize and a 2025 Guggenheim fellowship, Katherine’s work has been commissioned and performed by internationally leading ensembles and presenting organizations including the New York Philharmonic, Ensemble Modern, the London Sinfonietta, Tanglewood, Suntory Summer Arts (Japan), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (UK) and the symphony orchestras of Tokyo, Darmstadt, Minnesota, Oregon, Albany, Indianapolis, Pittsburg, and Dallas. Her music is published exclusively worldwide by Schott. Katherine is Associate Professor of Composition at Yale School of Music and holds a D.M.A. from  Columbia University. When not making or listening to music, she can be found building windchimes, cooking, or free-ranging with her flock of hens.