The word “new” in new music implies a lack of regard for convention, and eighth blackbird -- lowercase and all -- takes the implication seriously. For this Chicago-based sextet, gaining career ...

On the heels of their 2012 Grammy Award for the recording of Steve Mackey’s Lonely Motel: Music from Slide, new music ensemble eighth blackbird returns to Texas Performing Arts for ten days of ...

Based at the University of Chicago, the Contemporary Chamber Players have been championing new music for 38 years. These days the core of the ensemble’s fluid lineup is two groups with established ...

The Detroit vocalist and Grammy-winning Chicago sextet have turned musical kinship into a Feb. 13th Chicago concert about love. Shara Nova has one of those voices you recognize right away. Whether ...

Tonight at Millennium Park at 6:30, the outstanding local new-music ensemble Eighth Blackbird plays Steve Reich’s Double Sextet, the Pulitzer-winning piece they commissioned from the veteran ...

An audience member scanned Camp Concert Hall on Wednesday night as eighth blackbird, the University of Richmond’s resident contemporary music ensemble, prepared to take the stage. Islands of listeners ...

Renowned singer and actor Will Oldham, aka Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, University of Richmond ensemble-in-residence Eighth Blackbird and Bryce Dessner will release a collaborative album, “When We Are ...

Wow: Steve Reich wrote a piece for the great local new-music ensemble eighth blackbird, which they’ve been rehearsing. (If Reich is going to be writing for local groups, he should consider doing some ...

Richmonders had reason to rejoice when University of Richmond’s ensemble-in-residence, eighth blackbird, won their third Grammy Award. The wind, string, piano and percussion group won in the category ...