Till by Turning premiered new music by Clara Latham & Katherine Young at the Stone in December 2009.

The prorgram included a cycle of pieces by each composer:

"Latham's songful experiments carve a liminal space between the strange and the familiar in which lyrical and timbral elements delicate co-existence."

"Young presents a multi-movement meditation on Quartet for the End of Time, exploring Messiaen's musical materials and time-suspending techniques, while grafting material and mundane apocalyptic suggestions onto and across his religious consciousness."

The cycles both included music for voice and ensemble. Till by Turning's Emily Manzo sung, and Latham joined the ensemble for her pieces.

After the festival, the ensemble traveled to Munich, Berlin, and other cities

performing a program of short pieces including new commissions by Jim Altieri, Jason Cady, Clara Latham, Jordan McLean, and Jonathan Zorn.

The program also included original music by Tillers Emily Manzo, Erica Dicker, and Katherine Young, as well as music by Big Star, Faust, and Ornette Coleman.

In March 2007, Till by Turning premiered commissions by Aaron Siegel and Sabrina Schroeder at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, and at the Friends Seminary Meeting House in Manhattan.

The program included the new quintets -- Siegel's Chalk Line and Schroeder's Red Cars -- as well as Harold Meltzer's Snow White for singing pianist, Alex Ness's Shruti for solo viola, Katherine Young's Girl Detective for solo bassoon, Morton Feldman's Intersection IV, and a quintet version of Christian Wolfe's Edges.

Cellist Sarah Biber performed with the ensemble.

Under the Tightrope: The Chamber Music of Sofia Gubaidulina

Till by Turning presented our debut concert, "Under the Tightrope: The Chamber Music of Sofia Gubaidulina," in July 2004. The program included her String Trio with cellist Sarah Biber joining the ensemble; Piano Sonata; der Seiltanzer (Dancer on a Tightrope) for violin and piano; Quasi Hoquetus for viola, bassoon, and piano; and Duo Sonate for two bassoons -- with Rachael Elliot (in New York) and Karl Rzasa (Chicago).

Aiming to attract a young and diverse audience, we chose Chicago's Chopin Theatre, in Wicker Park. The audience was a cross-section of Chicago's rock, improvised, jazz, and classical communities, many of whom where previously unfamiliar with Gubaidulina's work.

In October 2004 we took this program on the road, playing in New York City and throughout eastern Maine. In Maine we performed in schools in the Blue Hill area and as guest artists on a women composers concert at the University of Maine at Orno. We also helped inaugurate and a chamber music series at St. John's Catholic Church in Bangor. The tour culminated in New York with a performance at Columbia University Teachers College.