The program includes Raven Chacon’s 2022 Pulitzer Prize-winning Voiceless Mass in addition to his Owl Song and a world premiere by Bienen student composer Matthew Mailman. In Chacon’s words, Voiceless Mass “considers the spaces in which we gather, the history of access of these spaces, and the land upon which these buildings sit.”

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Contemporary Music Ensemble

Alice Millar Chapel

Music by Bienen students Matthew Mailman and Jianing Yang receives world premieres. Also featured is splitting to collapse by Bienen professor Kelley Sheehan, a work “once becoming aware of itself, it collapses in, exhausted.” Concluding the evening is Frederic Rzewski’s Coming Together, a burning dive into the injustices of incarceration.

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May 23, 2026

Contemporary Music Ensemble · Northwestern Bienen School of Music

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Mar 7, 2026

Contemporary Music Ensemble · Northwestern Bienen School of Music

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Conductor in splitting to collapse by Sheehan

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Conductor in Coming Together by Rzewski

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