We’ve reached 1 year of Pleiades Series! It’s been an incredibly special year of performances, jam sessions, and femme artist elevation. We’re so thankful Emily Beisel has presented this year of events and can’t wait for another year! To celebrate we have a very special night planned featuring a first-time duo of Macie Stewart w/ Patrick Shiroshi and a solo set from Robbie Hunsinger. The show as always will include a free improvisation jam session: open to all womxn and nonbinary musicians, movers and other artists (e-mail pleiades@elasticarts.org to join the jam.) Join us! Bring an instrument! Jam!
Artists
Robbie Lynn Hunsinger is a classical oboist turned multi-instrumentalist, improviser, composer, visual artist, creative technologist and educator. She played regularly with the Chicago Symphony, ran the XoinX Music Series and played the FMP, Chicago World Music and Chicago Jazz Festivals. Her Trio album with Tatsu Aoki and Joseph Jarman won a 4 star Downbeat review. She also founded the Chicago Bird Collision Monitors program before moving to Nashville several years ago. Her recent work includes virtual reality, interactive and immersive art installations, sound reactive audiovisual compositions and electro-acoustic multimedia performance, sometimes with robotics and game controllers. She is excited to reconnect with her Chicago roots and is currently splitting her time here and in Nashville. http://robbiehunsinger.com
Patrick Shiroishi is a Japanese-American multi-instrumentalist and composer based in Los Angeles who is perhaps best known for his extensive and incredibly intense work with the saxophone. Over the last decade he has established himself as one of the premier improvising musicians in Los Angeles, playing solo and in numerous collaborative projects. Shiroishi may well be considered a foundational player in the city’s vast musical expanse.
Macie Stewart (she/her/they/them) is a multi-instrumentalist, composer/arranger, songwriter, and improviser based in Chicago, IL who Downbeat Magazine calls “a master of equilibrium.” Stewart began her musical career at the age of 3. Learning piano while she learned to talk, she discovered two foundational modes of communication at once. As the daughter of a career musician (pianist Sami Scot), Stewart was encouraged to explore the piano and violin, and she became proficient on both instruments. After helping to found the Chicago bands Kids These Days and Marrow, Stewart broadened her interests and spent time in the avant-garde jazz scene, performing regularly at Chicago institutions Constellation and The Hungry Brain. It was in that scene Stewart distinguished herself as a go-to collaborator, co-founding the band OHMME (with Sima Cunningham) and performing and improvising with Ken Vandermark’s Marker ensemble, the improvised act The Few (with guitar player Steve Marquette and bassist Charlie Kirchen) and the violin/cello duo Macie Stewart & Lia Kohl. Stewart has also spent years working as a string arranger, drawing on her varied background in classical, jazz, and Irish folk music to create unique arrangements for artists such as the band Whitney, SZA, V.V. Lightbody, Knox Fortune, and many others.
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