UPCOMING EVENTS:

Dal Niente commissions and selects music that earns the designation ‘new’ not just because it’s freshly composed; it also challenges both players and audience to experience performance in new ways.
— The Chicago Reader
“Dal Niente keep their finger on the pulse of living music.
— The Wire

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NEW RECORDINGS OUT NOW

Praise for MUSIC FOR FILM…:

dazzling control across the instrumental gamut (with equally dazzling performances throughout the album)
— Gramophone

Praise for WAKE UP THE DEAD:

a multi-pronged, contrapuntal feast of jagged stops and starts, striated timbres, and fleeting harmonies is elucidated with impressive precision and energy by Ensemble Dal Niente
— Peter Margasak

Praise for Dot : Line : Sigh:

deeply personal and personalized, visceral and dynamic...with a lively wit and a keen sense of the absurd.
— Broadway World

This season is generously supported by:

SMART Growth of the Chicago Community Trust
The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE)
Fromm Music Foundation
Lester and Hope Abelson Fund for the Performing Arts
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
Richard H. Driehaus Foundation
Paul M. Angell Family Foundation
The Aaron Copland Fund
Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation
Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation
Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University
Amphion Foundation, Inc.
Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation

Dal Niente acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council Agency