earspace is thrilled to announce our 25-26 season! Our eighth year of concerts is packed with new collaborations and venues, as well as a trip back to our roots at UNC Chapel Hill.
This season invites audiences into a series of bold, multi-sensory programs where sound, space, and performance collide. Featuring newly commissioned works and interdisciplinary collaborations, earspace continues our mission to reimagine what a concert can be.
October 6, 2025 7:30pm
Conversations in Modern Music Series, presented by UNC Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
Works by UNC Professor Emeritus Allen Anderson, John Liberatore, and Chou Wen-Chung.
We are excited to perform Allen Anderson’s Raveled Skein in the composer’s home in Chapel Hill. We met and became friends with Allen in Chapel Hill, so we are so excited to bring this piece to UNC’s Conversations in Modern Music Series. Rounding out the program are John Liberatore’s firefly-inspired capriccio, A Very Star-like Start and Chou-Wen Chung’s double trio of vignettes, Twilight Colors.
January 26, 2026 7:30pm
Ford Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Mississippi
Oxford, MS
Works to include DARK HOLLER by David Kirkland Garner
We commissioned a reduction of David’s chamber symphony, Dark Holler, for our instrumentation in 2024 and we are excited to perform it in northern Mississippi, the home place of the African American fife tradition that inspires one of the piece’s central themes. Garner deftly weaves folk themes from the American south into his signature, minimalist style, blending past and future. You can read more about the piece here.
February 17, 2026
100W Corsicana Artist Residency and Southern Methodist University present Cody Criswell-Badillo’s A Rural Requiem*
Corsicana, TX and University Park, TX
Drawing upon tunes and texts from Baptist hymns, Sacred Harp singing, cowboy folk songs, frontier ballads, and Tex-Mex border music, A Rural Requiem weaves together themes of the decline of the Texas small town, urbanization, the opioid epidemic, rural suicide, and the resilience of contemporary rural communities.
The performance will be accompanied by archival and personal images drawn from Criswell-Badillo’s family photo albums, the Portal to Texas History, and the Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI).
*world premiere