Liquid Music at The Parkway: 2021.22 // Six Concert Series
Presented in partnership with Liquid Music
A salon-style, six-concert series featuring some of the biggest names in contemporary jazz, classical, indie rock, and electronic music.
Featured performances include:
Terence Blanchard: Absence Featuring The E-Collective & Turtle Island Quartet November 6, 2021
Erika Dohi: I, Castorpollux + David Friend & Jerome Begin: Post- , March 12, 2022
Arooj Aftab: Vulture Prince, April 10, 2022
Adam Tendler: Inheritances, April 23, 2022
Julianna Barwick: Healing Is A Miracle, with special guest, Malibu, May 13, 2022
Ariana Kim: Plucked, June 17, 2022
Tickets on sale Friday, September 17 at 8 am CT for the FULL SIX-CONCERT SERIES.
Get exclusive access and the best seats first! Package seats available for one week only. Tickets for individual concerts will go on sale September 24 at 8 am CT based on availability.
VIP Seating (includes premium reserved seating, center section rows 1-3, and a complimentary specialty Liquid Music-inspired cocktail or mocktail at each performance): $329
Reserved Preferred Seating (reserved seating in the wings of rows 1-3 or center section & wings of rows 4-7): $234
Advance General Admission (general admission seating in rows 8-17): $169
Please note that The Parkway Theater requires proof of COVID-19 vaccination OR negative test results from a COVID-19 test (taken no more than 72 hours prior to the event) is required to attend these events. View The Parkway Theater’s COVID-19 Policy.
Terence Blanchard: Absence
Featuring The E-Collective & Turtle Island Quartet
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
6:30 pm Doors // 7:30 pm Music
Five-time GRAMMY®-winning trumpeter/composer, two-time Oscar® nominee Terence Blanchard pays tribute to legendary saxophonist/composer Wayne Shorter in Absence, a “lush and dramatic soundscape” (New York Times) featuring The E-Collective and Turtle Island Quartet that reconsiders a handful of Shorter works alongside original compositions.
Erika Dohi: I, Castorpollux + David Friend & Jerome Begin: Post-
A shared evening of new piano perspectives
Saturday, March 12, 2022
7 pm Doors // 8 pm Music
This remarkable double bill features music from two inventive piano records: I, Castorpollux by “barrier-defying artist” (Mix Magazine) Erika Dohi and Post- by the “astonishingly compelling” (Washington Post) David Friend in collaboration with composer-pianist Jerome Begin. Both performances reevaluate the concept of “solo piano music,” diving headlong into uncharted territory and crashing through stylistic barriers and hidebound conventions to breathtaking effect along the way.
Arooj Aftab: Vulture Prince
Co-presented with Walker Art Center
Sunday, April 10, 2022
6 pm Doors // 7 pm Music
Pakistan-born, Brooklyn-based composer and vocalist Arooj Aftab’s liminal sound conjures together classical minimalism, Sufi devotional poetry, and electronic trance into pure states of being. The composer’s remarkable voice and signature songwriting style, backed by her band of renowned musicians – master multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily (Laurie Anderson, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy), guitarist Gyan Riley (father Terry Riley, John Zorn), harpist Maeve Gilchrist (Viktor Krauss, Esperanza Spalding) and drummer Greg Fox (Liturgy, Colin Stetson), transports listeners to worlds once known. Quickly becoming an in-demand musical figure, Pitchfork called Aftab's most recent release Vulture Prince “an incandescent love letter to the light.”
Adam Tendler: Inheritances
World Premiere
Saturday, April 23, 2022
7 pm Doors // 8 pm Music
After his father’s unexpected death, “relentlessly adventurous pianist” (Washington Post) Adam Tendler used his inheritance, a wad of cash received in a parking lot, to begin a commissioning project inviting a broad spectrum of sound artists and composers to create new piano works exploring the idea of ‘inheritance’ itself. Woven into one intimate program, these pieces tell a universal story of lineage, loss, and place, and become a meditation on confronting our past while moving forward into the future. Featuring commissioned composers Devonté Hynes, Nico Muhly, Meredith Monk, inti figgis-vizueta, Pamela Z, Ted Hearne, Angelica Negrón, Christopher Cerrone, Marcos Balter, Missy Mazzoli, Darian Donovan Thomas, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Scott Wollschleger, Mary Prescott, Timo Andres, and John Glover.
Julianna Barwick: Healing Is A Miracle
With special guest, Malibu
Friday, May 13, 2022
7 pm Doors // 8 pm Music
A distinctive meditation on sound, reverb and the voice, Healing Is A Miracle (“salve for the collective wound”— Pitchfork) by composer, vocalist, and producer Julianna Barwick is a record that builds on improvisation and electronic mastery, from which Barwick spins engrossing, expansive universes. Opening the evening of music is French electronic musician Malibu.
Ariana Kim: Plucked
Friday, June 17, 2022
7 pm Doors // 8 pm Music
GRAMMY®-nominated violinist/composer and educator Ariana Kim will spotlight Minnesota-based Asian-American visual art and music creators (to be announced) in her program Plucked, a title she describes as a nod to “being ‘plucked’ from one’s motherland and placed gently into the world of Minnesota.”
Liquid Music (New York Times “Best of Classical”) is a leading producer of special projects in contemporary music, an internationally recognized laboratory for artists from across genre and disciplinary spectrums. This creative institution serves as a safe place for performers, composers and audiences to stretch and challenge their comfort zones – to discover, learn and be transformed.
Founded at The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in 2012, Liquid Music became an independent LLC in 2020, owned and operated by artistic director Kate Nordstrum who has been widely praised for her programmatic vision, catholic tastes and “storied matchmaking” (Minneapolis Star Tribune). Through Liquid Music, Nordstrum has built a boundary-defying platform for collaboration and earned her reputation as “the most adventurous music curator in town” (MinnPost), “a presenter of rare initiative” (Star Tribune), and “Twin Cities’ curatorial powerhouse with international pull” (Minnesota Public Radio).
