Chicago’s supergroup of contemporary musicians performing the best music you haven’t heard yet.
The Grossman Ensemble, in residence at the Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition, has premiered more than 70 compositions since its inception in 2018. The group has become known for its “precision” (Third Coast Review) during world premiere performances of new music by an impressive roster of leading and emerging composers like Chen Yi, Tania León, George Lewis, Sean Shepherd, Melinda Wagner, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, and many more.
The group comprises 13 musicians, passionate about performing music with a sensitive understanding, meticulous preparation, and abundant rehearsal time. World premiere works performed by the Grossman Ensemble are developed over nine weeks, during a series of unique workshopping rehearsals, allowing time for the music to grow in the mind of the composer and to fully inhabit the minds of the musicians. This process encourages collaboration between composers, musicians, and conductors.
Grossman Ensemble concerts offer opportunities for the audience and artists to connect. All composers introduce their world premiere works from the stage, with musicians also offering insight into the music. Composers, conductors, and members of the ensemble share about their unique creative process in the concert program welcome letter, along with pre-concert interviews on the CCCC website and social media.
As part of the CCCC’s mission to record and widely share world premiere music, the entire collection of works performed by the Grossman Ensemble is available to watch on the CCCC’s YouTube Channel. The ensemble also released an album in 2020 titled Fountain of Time—a record that “rewards repeat listenings” (Chicago Reader), and the group was more recently featured on Augusta Read Thomas’s album Terpsichore’s Box of Dreams (Nimbus Records), one of three finalists for the BBC Music Orchestral Award.
The Grossman Ensemble is made possible by support from the Sanford J. Grossman Charitable Trust, Gay K. Stanek, John Balfe and Nancy Herring, and other generous donors.
Meet the Musicians
The Grossman Ensemble has premiered works by more than 70 leading and emerging composers.
Ashkan Behzadi • Gregory Beyer • David Bird • Eliza Brown • Rodrigo Bussad • Shih-Hui Chen • Chen Yi • Anthony Cheung • Andreia Pinto-Correia • Zosha Di Castri • Du Yun • Frederic Durieux • David Dzubay • Jason Eckardt • Keith Fitch • David Fulmer • Vivian Fung • Ryan Garvey • Baldwin Giang • Sarah Gibson • Kathleen Ginther • Sungji Hong • Martha Horst • Jack Hughes • Alison Yun-Fei Jiang • Maria Kaoutzani • Tonia Ko • Felipe Lara • Ingrid Laubrock • Ramon Lazkano • Dongryul Lee • Joungbum Lee • Steve Lehman • Tania Léon • George Lewis • John Liberatore • Brad Lubman • David Serkin Ludwig • Benjamin Martin • Paula Matthusen • Sophie McMillan Myers • David Clay Mettens • Jeffrey Mumford • Eric Nathan • Osnat Netzer • Gabriel Novak • Paul Novak • Elizabeth Ogonek • Daniel Pesca • Sam Pluta • David Rakowski • Shulamit Ran • Kurt Rohde • Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez • Sean Shepherd • Kate Soper • Christopher Stark • Yuting Tan • Stephen A. Taylor • Augusta Read Thomas • Felipe Tovar-Henao • Christopher Trapani • Aaron Travers • Ania Vu • Melinda Wagner • Kari Watson • Justin Weiss • LJ White • Amy Williams • Krzysztof Wołek • Jay Alan Yim • Nina C. Young • Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon
The Grossman Ensemble has had the opportunity to work with some of the best new music conductors of today.
Stefan Asbury • James Baker • Ben Bolter • David Dzubay • David Fulmer • Oliver Hagen • Jerry Hou • Vimbayi Kaziboni • Katherine Killburn • Michael Lewanski • Brad Lubman • Jeffrey Meyer • Georgia Mills • Timothy Weiss
