Performance – Ty Bouque & Nolan Ehlers

Music for Percussion & Voice

April 17, 2025

7:00-9:00pm

Doors at 6:30pm

Tickets:

$10 Student – use code STUDENT at checkout

(Valid Student ID will be requested at the door)

$10 IMSS Members Presale – use code IMSSMEMBER at checkout

(Valid IMSS Membership card will be requested at door)

$15 GA Presale

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$15 Student & IMSS Members (With valid ID & Membership Card) at Door

$20 GA at Door

Join us at IMSS as we are joined for the first time by vocalist Ty Bouque and percussionist Nolan Ehlers for an evening of contemporary music for percussion and voice!

Program:

John Luther Adams – The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies: I. Burst (2006)

Enno Poppe – Wespe (2005)

Michael Finnissy – Outside Kavafis (2020)

Liza Lim – Chang-O Flies to the Moon (1997)

Ryan Garvey – The Wind Could See* (2024)

*World Premiere

About the Performers:

Ty Bouque writes about opera: its slippery histories, its sensual bodies, and the work of mourning for a dead genre. Elsewhere, Bouque sings in various solo, ensemble, and opera settings around the world. Bouque lives in Chicago.

Nolan Ehlers is a Chicago-based percussionist specializing in new music, improvisation, and chamber music. He has commissioned and premiered works from composers such as Michael Gordon, David Fennessy, John Supko, and Molly Joyce. He is a co-founding member of the new music/improvisation trio Else, if Else and the artist collective Inland Ocean. Nolan has performed with Aiyun Huang, Wynton Marsalis, Ensemble Modern, Beyond This Point, and others. In 2025, Nolan will work with students of Kunstacademie Deinze in Belgium to present collaborative multidisciplinary performances alongside members of Inland Ocean.