In October, the season begins with Lost Objects to open the Ear Taxi Festival, presented by New Music Chicago, at Logan Center for the Arts. The 2001 oratorio is a Bang on a Can project, composed by Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe, with libretto by Deborah Artman. It features an amplified ensemble comprising three vocal soloists, chamber chorus, DJ, Baroque orchestra, electric guitar, electric bass, percussion, and synthesizer.

Hannah De Priest is a fearless performer especially renowned for her “masterful” (Olyrix) performances of Baroque repertoire. Consistently described as a “standout” and praised for her “bright, ideally-focused sound, allied to a probing expressive intelligence” (Chicago Classical Review), the young soprano enjoys a fast-rising career in North America and Europe. Recent highlights include debuts with the Wrocław Baroque Orchestra (Bach’s Johannes-Passion), the Innsbruck Early Music Festival (Gilde, L’amazzone corsara), and her Kennedy Center debut with Opera Lafayette (Serpina, La servante maîtresse). She has performed lead roles across multiple productions with the Boston Early Music Festival. Her 2025-26 season includes three operatic tellings of the Orfeo myth; Gluck’s Orfeo (Amore, Music of the Baroque), Jacopo Peri’s Euridice (Dafne, Haymarket Opera), and Monteverdi’s Orfeo with Ars Lyrica Houston (Proserpina). She also returns to the Boston Early Music Festival for her first title role with the company in Provenzale’s La Stellidaura vendicante. On the concert stage, she will perform Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the Washington Bach Consort, Handel’s Messiah with the St. Louis Bach Festival, and headline a concert and tour of Handelian cantatas with Les Délices. Her debut solo album with the ensemble is set to release in the Spring of 2026.

Countertenor Ryan Belongie’s operatic engagements have included Canadian Opera Company, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Atlanta Opera, Boston Baroque, Chicago Opera Theater, Festival Napa Valley, Haymarket Opera Company, Long Beach Opera, Opera Bergen, Opéra de Montréal, St. Petersburg Opera, Tulsa Opera, West Edge Opera, and Wolf Trap Opera.  Concert appearances include Alabama Symphony, Apollo Chorus of Chicago, Dallas Opera Orchestra, Elmhurst Symphony, Grand Rapids Symphony, Grant Park Music Festival, Il Complesso Barocco, Kansas City Symphony, Leipzig Baroque Orchestra, Lexington Philharmonic, Music of the Baroque, San Diego Symphony, San Francisco Opera Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Utah Festival Opera, and Utah Symphony.  He has been heard on Chicago’s WFMT in performances with Music of the Baroque in addition to a solo recital on the network’s series, “Live from WFMT,” and has appeared on PBS across the United States in A Renaissance Christmas.  Belongie is an alumnus of the Merola Opera Program and the Adler Fellowship at San Francisco Opera.

Countertenor Luke Lemmeier is actively engaged as a singer in the Chicagoland area. He currently sings with Bella Voce and in the St. Chrysostom’s Episcopal Church choir in the Gold Coast. He has previously sung with Bach in the City, common pulse, Chicago Choral Artists, Chicago Bach Week Festival, Early Music at the Barn, and has been engaged as a cover soloist with the Grant Park Music Festival. Luke was a Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions District Winner. He holds a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music.
 

ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2025

7:30 PM @  LOGAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS (CHICAGO)

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