The Grossman Ensemble's press materials are available for download below. Please feel free to reach out if you need additional materials or information.
Media inquiries:
Margo Strebig, mstrebig@uchicago.edu, 773-702-3427
Watch & Listen
Watch the world premiere performances of works by David Dzubay, Tania Léon, David Clay Mettens, Daniel Pesca, Melinda Wagner, and Amy Williams. Visit our YouTube Channel for the complete collection of works performed by the Grossman Ensemble.
From the Press
“The Grossman Ensemble filled the evening with wonder and, at times, awe. In premiering four new works, it demonstrated high class musicianship and offered big promises of what is to come.” – Third Coast Review (Read review)
"Some of the best contemporary players in the city...the record rewards repeat listenings." – Chicago Reader, about the Grossman Ensemble’s debut album Fountain of Time (Read review)
Fountain of Time: The Grossman Ensemble Provides Space for Creative Incubation – I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Grossman Ensemble Fountain of Time – Stereophile Magazine
The generation-spanning Fountain of Time is an intriguing peek into Chicago new-music lab the Grossman Ensemble – Chicago Reader
Ensemble Project Sparks Surge Of Creative Energy – Classical Voice North America
From the Artists
Composer Sean Shepherd, whose work Simple Machines was premiered in March 2024, reflected on the rehearsal process, “The benefits of this system are many, but I think my favorite is the way that these workshop rehearsals bring the performer fully into their earned role of collaborator—for a Grossman Ensemble commission, we are making this piece together.”
Grossman Ensemble percussionist John Corkill said, "The possibility of being an agent to the extraordinary is one of the most inspiring and catalyzing feelings experienced with every [Grossman Ensemble] premiere."