Rick Ferguson will explore the lives, music and legacies of groundbreaking French composers Louise Farrenc (1804-1875) and Lili Boulanger (1893-1918). He will be joined by cellist Veronica Kolegas in Farrenc's Sonata for Cello and Piano, Opus 46 and soprano Anna Joy Buegel in a selection of songs by Boulanger. Get tickets here!
As the artistic director of The Musical Offering in Evanston, it was my pleasure to help create the Young Women’s Composition Competition. Music has the ability to connect us to our past, reflect our present, and offer us glimpses into our future.
Celebrate the life and music of Austrian composer Franz Schubert at The Musical Offering! Attend the Annual Schubertiade Faculty Performance at The Musical Offering on January 28th, 2023 at 7pm. Click here to learn more and register!
Join me at The Musical Offering in Evanston for a Young Women's Composition Competition concert on Saturday, November 5th at 7:30 Chicago time.
Attend a performance of Silver Dagger by Stacy Garrop at The Musical Offering, 43 Custer Avenue Evanston, Illinois on Saturday, October 29th at 7pm, part of our Women’s Composer Series. Click here to purchase tickets.
To benefit The Musical Offering Scholarship Fund
Program
To be determined
Program
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich - Sonata in Three Movements for Violin and Piano
Cecile Chaminade - Piano Trio No 1 in G Minor, Op. 11
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Program
Beethoven, Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major, Op. 12 Nr. 2
Chopin, Scherzo for Piano in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 39
Saint-Saëns, Sonata for Violin and Piano in D Minor, Op. 75
Program
Arpeggione Sonata in A Minor, D. 821 for Cello and Piano
Selected Songs
Notturno in E-Flat Major, D. 897 for Piano Trio
Beat the summer heat with this cool chamber music program!
Tickets go on sale July 3.
General admission: $20
Non The Musical Offering students*: $10
The Musical Offering students*: free
*18 and under
Performers
Rick Ferguson, curator and piano
Andrew Santiago, flute
Ally Hurd, clarinet
Jonathan Hauser, piano
Program
Gabriel Faure - Dolly Suite for Piano 4-Hands
Robert Muczynski - Duos for Flute and Clarinet
Pierre Sancan - Sonatine for Flute and Piano
Witold Lutoslawski - Dance Preludes for Clarinet and Piano
Frederic Chopin - Selected Piano Pieces
Saturday, May 18th - 7:00 - 8:30 pm
The Musical Offering
This Junior Music On Madison features Musical Offering students in music for mixed winds, strings and piano. The program includes JS Bach's Keyboard Concerto in F Minor, an original composition by Jonathan Hauser and Mozart's Piano Concerto in C Major, KV 415. Tickets available at the door and at Junior Music On Madison Concert.
Brevard College welcomes the White-Smith/Ferguson Duo to its popular First Monday Series in a program which includes the music of Ulysses Kaye, David Amram, Harold Genzmer and George Onslow. Free and open to the public.
Rick partners with two of his favorite people for his annual Birthday Bash concert. The program will include a wide-ranging selection of music for piano, violin, soprano and (you guessed it!) ukelele by Fritz Kreisler, Rachmaninov, Debussy, Newman-Jacobs, Ferguson and more. The Musical Offering, Music On Madison.
for a musical exploration of the relationship to the passage and meaning of time.
Covenant Presbyterian Church of Chicago
2012 West Dickens Avenue, Chicago
Olivier Messiaen's transcendent chamber work is presented in the acoustically-rich Covenant space. Tickets available at the door.
Music On Madison at The Musical Offering
743 Custer Avenue, Evanston, Illinois
Rick shares the stage with teaching artists from The Musical Offering in this annual celebration of JS Bach's music and ongoing legacy.
A collaborative performance of my Equity Suite for concert band involving students from Chute Middle School social studies, advanced art and honors band classes. Social studies and art students will create a series of brief performance pieces and accompanying art work exploring various equity-related issues – all interwoven into the music. Free and open to the public.
Dr. Juliet White-Smith, viola; Rick Ferguson, piano
Music of George Onslow, Halsey Stephens and David Amram
Rachel Brown, violin; Veronica Nettles Kolegas, cello; Rick Ferguson, piano
Sonata for Violin and Piano in D Major, D 384; Piano Trio in E Flat Major, Op. 100
I'm very proud of the work that my students are bringing to this performance and I look forward to sharing this wonderful music with you! General admission $20 Click here to purchase tickets.
featuring the Musical Offering Continuum Players
Salieri Concertina in G-Allegro spirituoso; Mozart Six Piano Variations on a theme of Salieri; Beethoven Ten Variations on a theme of Salieri.
Beethoven's late cello sonata is paired with the iconic hyper-Romantic sonata of Cesar Franck. Presented in a lecture-recital format by Mr. Ferguson and The Musical Offering cello instructor Veronica Nettles Kolegas.
Amer Hasan, clarinet
Copland Concert, mvt I; Widor Introduction and Rondo; D'Rivera Two Pieces
This event will take place in a private residence.
