Ensemble Dal Niente

Ensemble Dal Niente performs new and experimental chamber music with dedication, virtuosity, and an exploratory spirit. Dal Niente’s roster of 23 musicians presents a broad range of contemporary music, guiding listeners towards music that transforms existing ideas and subverts convention. 

Now in its second decade, Ensemble Dal Niente has performed concerts across Europe and the Americas, including appearances at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The Foro Internacional de Música Nueva in Mexico City, MusicArte Festival in Panama City, The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Darmstadt Summer Courses in Germany, where it was the first-ever ensemble to win the Kranichstein prize for interpretation in 2012. 

The group has recordings available on the New World, New Amsterdam, New Focus, Navona, Parlour Tapes+, and Carrier labels; has held residencies at The University of Chicago, Harvard University, Stanford University, Brown University, Brandeis University, and Northwestern University, among others; and collaborated with a wide range of composers, from Enno Poppe to George Lewis to Erin Gee to Greg Saunier and Deerhoof.

Dal Niente's Music of the Americas debut is dedicated to Latin American music and includes one premiere by Argentine composer Tomás Gueglio. 

Program

• Tomás Gueglio Triste y madrigal (World Premiere)
  • Amanda DeBoer Bartlett, soprano
  • Emma Hospelhorn, flute
  • Matt Oliphant, french horn
  • Ben Melsky, harp
  • Jesse Langen, electric guitar
  • Tara Lynn Ramsey, violin
  • Michael Lewanski, conductor
     
• Melissa Vargas Es casi como el inicio...y comienza (2010)
  • Amanda DeBoer Bartlett, soprano
  • Katherine Schoephflin Jimoh, clarinet
  • Jesse Langen, guitar
  • Kyle Flens, percussion
     
• Hilda Paredes Siphonophorae (2016) 
  • Emma Hospelhorn, flutes
  • Katherine Schoepflin Jimoh, clarinets
  • Mabel Kwan, piano
  • Tara Lynn Ramsey, violin
  • Ammie Brod, viola
  • Chris Wild, cello
  • Michael Lewanski, conductor

     

• Tania León Homenatge (2014)
  • Mabel Kwan, piano
     
• Julán Carrillo Preludio a Colón (1922, rev. 1934)
  • Amanda DeBoer Bartlett, soprano
  • Emma Hospelhorn, flute
  • Ben Melsky, harp
  • Jesse Langen, guitar
  • Tara Lynn Ramsey, violin I
  • Caitlin Edwards, violin II
  • Ammie Brod, viola
  • Chris Wild, cello
  • Michael Lewanski, conductor