{"id":40,"date":"2014-04-04T19:42:39","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T19:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elizabethstart.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=40"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:11:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T01:11:55","slug":"performances","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/elizabethstart.com\/wordpress\/performances\/","title":{"rendered":"Performances"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_43\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/elizabethstart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/BetsyNice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43\" src=\"https:\/\/elizabethstart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/BetsyNice.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Thomas Hansen\" width=\"200\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elizabethstart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/BetsyNice.jpg 200w, https:\/\/elizabethstart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/BetsyNice-100x142.jpg 100w, https:\/\/elizabethstart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/BetsyNice-150x213.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Thomas Hansen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p align=\"left\"><em><span style=\"font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Elizabeth Start\u2019s <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Nostalgia <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">for flute and string trio illustrated a stunning range of musical emotion throughout its three movements. The opening movement in particular, \u201cRag Tag Too,\u201d was delightfully wilting, with chords folding over each other to create a haunting, sonically brilliant experience.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>From <\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #953734;\"><span style=\"font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>She Scores: a night of musical <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #953734;\"><span style=\"font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>excellence and importance (May 31) <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>by Max Newman<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>Published on <\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">ClevelandClassical.com <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>June 4, 2024.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>.<em>..Unsupervised&#8230;performed music by members of the Chicago Composers\u2019 Consortium. Three of these five works stuck out as some of the finest music of the day. <\/em><em>One was Elizabeth Start\u2019s <strong>O, Aedificatio, O Vita<\/strong>, which received its world premiere. This\u2026music is attractive and shapely&#8230; Start uses a lot of \u201ceffects\u201d&#8230; But they don\u2019t feel like gimmicks and are well integrated into the structure of the music\u2014justified by what seems to be being expressed at any given moment. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><strong>John Y. Lawrence, Chicago Classical Review <\/strong> &#8220;Ear Taxi goes back to the future for festival finale&#8221; Oct 05, 2021,12:40 pm<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/elizabethstart.com\/audio_clips.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"Picture2\" src=\"http:\/\/elizabethstart.com\/images\/audio_md_wht.gif\" alt=\"Audio Clips\" width=\"55\" height=\"28\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"0\" \/><\/a>As Solo Cellist\/Viola da gambist and\/or Composer<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>March 22, 2026, 2:00 pm: Start performs a free concert with Rising string quartet on a program of music by Florence Price, Caroline Shaw, and Start at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum&#8217;s Stryker Theater, 230 N Rose St, Kalamazoo, MI 49007<\/li>\n<li>March 22, 2026, 10:30 am: Start performs at First Baptist Church of Kalamazoo<\/li>\n<li>March 21, 2026, 7:30 pm: Start&#8217;s &#8220;No Loitering&#8221; is premiered by the C3 Chamber Jazz Quintet at The CheckOut, 4116 N Clark St, Chicago, IL<\/li>\n<li>February 22, 2026, 4:00 pm: Start performs a free concert with Rising string quartet on a program of music by Florence Price, Caroline Shaw, and Start at Friendship Village Kiva, 1400 N Drake Rd, Kalamazoo, MI<\/li>\n<li>December 31, 2025: Start performs with Octocelli on Kalamazoo, MI&#8217;s New Year&#8217;s Fest in a program including her &#8220;Multiple Choice Piece&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>December 2 and 9, 2025: Start performs programs of her solo cello works and arrangements for senior communities in Chicago suburbs<\/li>\n<li>October 21, 2025, 7:00 pm CT: Start performs solo and with Rising string quartet on a program of music by Florence Price, Caroline Shaw, Augusta Read Thomas and Start at Horatio May Chapel in Rosehill Cemetery, 5800 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago. Concert is free, donations accepted, parking is free, facilities are limited (one WC).<\/li>\n<li>October 4, 2025, 2:00 pm CT: Start&#8217;s &#8220;Talking Object Songs&#8221; are performed and she performs works by Stephen Ferre and Kathleen Ginther on a Chicago Composers&#8217; Consortium concert as part of New Music Chicago&#8217;s Ear Taxi 2025 festival at the Logan Center in Chicago<\/li>\n<li>September 29, 2025, 6:30 pm ET, Start performs in concert with soprano Susan Anthony and pianist Patricia Hughey at Storypoint, 1700 Bronson Way, Kalamazoo<\/li>\n<li>September 22, 2025, 6:30 pm ET, Start performs a solo concert of works including her own at Storypoint, 1700 Bronson Way, Kalamazoo<\/li>\n<li>August 29, 2025: Tommy Mesa performs Start&#8217;s &#8220;Echoes in Life&#8221; at the DiMenna Center in New York, NY<\/li>\n<li>July 14-15, 2025: Start&#8217;s &#8220;April in New Orleans in April&#8221; is selected for the 2025 ASTA Virtual String Teachers Summit<\/li>\n<li>June &#8211; August, 2025: Start&#8217;s music is part of the Ripple Effect collaboration between Kalamazoo Valley Museum&#8217;s advertising exhibit, Friends of Poetry, and the Connecting Chords Music Festival<\/li>\n<li>May 10, 2025, 7:00 pm: Start&#8217;s &#8220;Uncertain Futures&#8221; is performed by Artemisia on a Chicago Composers&#8217; Consortium concert at Horatio N May Chapel in Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL<\/li>\n<li>April 5, 2025, 7:30 pm: Yarn\/Wire premieres many new works by Chicago Composers&#8217; Consortium members, including Start&#8217;s &#8220;After Clouds,&#8230;&#8221; for 2 pianos and 2 percussionists at PianoForte, 1335 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL<\/li>\n<li>March 30. 2025, 2:00 pm: The Black Squirrel Winds with pianist Elizabeth Etter perform Start&#8217;s works, from woodwind quintet to duos, on the She Roars concert series, at the Bop Stop, Cleveland, OH&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RaMUtwwnVjw\">livestream<\/a><\/li>\n<li>February 25, 2025 3:00 pm: Start performs a solo recital of her works including &#8220;Verdisimilitude&#8221;, and her works for cello and fixed media at Storypoint, 1700 Bronson Way, Kalamazoo, MI. Free<\/li>\n<li>January 4, 2025, 6:00 pm: Start performs with All Ears Radio Theatre in Robert Weir&#8217;s &#8220;For the Love of Music at KNAC, Kalamazoo, MI<\/li>\n<li>December 11, 2024, 8:15 pm: Start performs with Andrea Bocelli at the Allstate Arena in Chicago.<\/li>\n<li>December 10, 2024, 7 pm: Start receives the Community Medal of Arts Lifetime Achievement Award from the Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo<\/li>\n<li>November 22, 2024, 7 pm: Cellist Thomas Mesa performs Start&#8217;s &#8220;Echoes in Life&#8221; at the DiMenna Center, New York, NY (postponed)<\/li>\n<li>September 7, 6 pm ET: Start improvises in a performance\/trailwalk with percussionist Mike Weis at Kleinstuck Preerve<\/li>\n<li>September 6, 2024 at 6:00 pm ET, and September 8 at 4 pm E:, Start&#8217;s &#8220;Traces&#8221; is part of a broadcast of performances by the Kalamazoo Symphony.\u00a0 On Classical WMUK 89.9 FM<\/li>\n<li>August 30, 2024 at 7:00 ET, Start and David Peshlakai perform Start&#8217;s &#8220;Multiple Choice Piece&#8221; on an Octocelli concert, First Congregational Church, Kalamazoo, MI<\/li>\n<li>July 24, 2024, 8:00 pm: Start&#8217;s &#8220;Nostalgia&#8221; is part of a broadcast on WCLV&#8217;s &#8220;Ovations&#8221; program featuring works from the 2024 She Scores<\/li>\n<li>July 15-17, 2024: Start&#8217;s &#8220;Elizabethan Fantasy&#8221; is featured on 2024 ASTA Virtual String Teacher Summit New Music Reading Session, and will be retained for a few months as a resource.<\/li>\n<li>May 31, 2024, 7 pm: Start&#8217;s &#8220;Nostalgia&#8221; is performed at She Scores!, Cleveland, OH<\/li>\n<li>May 23, 2024: Start&#8217;s &#8220;Somewhere Above Their Heads&#8221; is premiered by Axiom Brass on a Chicago Composers&#8217; Consortium Concert, Epiphany Center for the Arts, Chicago, IL<\/li>\n<li>April 3, 2024, 7:30 pm: Start&#8217;s &#8220;Consensus&#8221; is premiered by the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/live\/j5egP55uZQk\">Western Michigan University Trombone Choir<\/a>, Steve Wolfinbarger, conductor, Kalamazoo MI<\/li>\n<li>April 2, 2024, 10 am: Start appears on Classical WMUK 89.9 FM to promote the April 3 premiere of &#8220;Consensus&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>March 24, 2024, 10:30 am: Start performs her &#8220;Prayer&#8221; at First Baptist Church, Kalamazoo, MI<\/li>\n<li>March 6 and 7, 2024: Start&#8217;s &#8220;Conclusions&#8221; is one of 8 quartets featured on &#8220;Music Madness&#8221;, Raleigh and Durham, NC<\/li>\n<li>December 20, 2023, 3:00 pm: Start performs a program of her solo cello Christmas carol arrangements, StoryPoint Kalamazoo at Bronson Place<\/li>\n<li>December 18, 2023, 11:00 am: Start performs a program of her solo cello Christmas carol arrangements, Musicians Club of Women, Union League Club, Chicago, IL<\/li>\n<li>October 2, Start performs U.S. premiere of David Briggs&#8217; Sonata for Violoncello and Organ with David Briggs on the Connecting Chords Music Festival, Kalamazoo, MI (a link to a run-through at rehearsal can be heard here)<\/li>\n<li>August 13, 2023: Start performs works for cello and organ by Rheinberger with Karl Schrock at First Baptist Church, Kalamazoo, MI<\/li>\n<li>May 18, 2023: Start&#8217;s work &#8220;Nostalgia&#8221; is premiered by flutist Mary Stolper and Black Oak Ensemble on a Chicago Composers&#8217; Consortium concert at Epiphany Center for the Arts, 201 S Ashland, Chicago<\/li>\n<li>March 22, 2023, 6:30 pm Start performs cello and piano duos with Patricia Hughey at The Fountains, Kalamazoo, MI<\/li>\n<li>March 8, 2023, 6:30 pm: Start performs viola and cello duos with Nicholas Jeffery at The Fountains, Kalamazoo, MI<\/li>\n<li>February 27, 2023, 3:00 pm: Start performs a solo concert on cello and viola da gamba at The Fountains, Kalamazoo, MI<\/li>\n<li>February 26, 2023, 10:30 am: Start performs original works at First Baptist Church, Kalamazoo MI<\/li>\n<li>January 15, 2023, 10:30 am: Start performs her solo arrangement of &#8220;Simple Gifts&#8221; at First Baptist Church, Kalamazoo MI<\/li>\n<li>December 25, 2022, 10:30 am: Start performs at Holy Family Chapel, Kalamazoo MI<\/li>\n<li>December 24, 2022, 7 pm: Start performs her solo arrangements of &#8220;Aways in the Mangers&#8221; and &#8220;Joy to the World&#8221; at First Baptist Church, Kalamazoo MI<\/li>\n<li>December 4, 2022, 10:30 am: Start performs her solo arrangements of &#8220;Lo How a Rose&#8221; and &#8220;O Little Town of Bethlehem&#8221; at First Baptist Church, Kalamazoo MI<\/li>\n<li>October 1, 2022, 6:30 pm: &#8220;In a Landscape&#8221;, Start performs an improvised concert at Kleinstuck Preserve in Kalamazoo, MI, with percussionist Mike Weis, as part of the Connecting Chords Music Festival<\/li>\n<li>September 22, 2022: The &#8220;Music in Place&#8221; project in which Start participated was featured in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondwavemedia.com\/southwest-michigan\/features\/Kalamazoo-neighborhoods-natural-places-and-more-inspire-Music-in-Place-compositions-per-092222.aspx\"><strong>Second Wave<\/strong><\/a> Southwest Michigan online magazine<\/li>\n<li>July 22, 2022, Thomas Mesa&#8217;s CD, DIVISION OF MEMORY, on which he performs Start&#8217;s &#8220;Echoes in Life&#8221;, is nominated for a GRAMMY in category 78. Best Chamber Music\/Small Ensemble Performance<\/li>\n<li>May 15, 2022, 2:30 pm CT: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ayVxkU0fWrc\">Durward Ensemble premieres Start&#8217;s &#8220;Together 360&#8221;<\/a> on a Chicago Composers&#8217; Consortium concert at Ganz Hall, Roosevelt University, Chicago<\/li>\n<li>May 2022, A <a href=\"https:\/\/pianofortephilia.blogspot.com\/2022\/05\/division-of-memory-thomas-mesa-cello.html\">review<\/a> on Pianomania of Thomas Mesa&#8217;s CD, DIVISION OF MEMORY, on which he performs Start&#8217;s &#8220;Echoes in Life&#8221;, praised her piece&#8217;s use of &#8220;harmonics providing an ethereal feel at its close.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>April 21, 2022, 6:30 pm CT: Start performs repertoire including her &#8220;Echoes in Life&#8221; on electric cello with looper in Benefit event for Ukraine humanitarian aid at the Martini Room, Elgin, IL<\/li>\n<li>March 14, 2022: Chicago premiere: Spektral Quartet performs Start&#8217;s &#8220;Conclusions&#8221; on a Chicago Composers&#8217; Consortium concert at Constellation. Concert includes 9 premieres of works by Bernard Rands and C3 members<\/li>\n<li>March 7, 2022: Spektral Quartet premieres Start&#8217;s &#8220;Conclusions&#8221; on a Chicago Composers&#8217; Consortium concert. Concert includes 9 premieres of works by Bernard Rands and C3 members. This concert was originally scheduled for April 19, 2020. This concert will be repeated March 14, 2022 in Chicago, IL, April 2, 2022 in Madison WI, and April 15 at Southern Illinois University<\/li>\n<li>March 2, 2022: Spektral Quartet premieres Start&#8217;s &#8220;Conclusions&#8221; on a Chicago Composers&#8217; Consortium concert. Concert includes 9 premieres of works by Bernard Rands and C3 members. POSTPONED DUE TO COVID This concert was originally scheduled for April 19, 2020. This concert will be repeated March 7, 2022 in Kalamazoo MI, April 2, 2022 in Madison WI, and April 15 at Southern Illinois University<\/li>\n<li>February 2022: Sphinx Laureate and cellist Thomas Mesa&#8217;s CD, DIVISION OF MEMORY, on which he plays Start&#8217;s &#8220;Echoes in Life&#8221;, won a silver medal in the Global Music Awards in the category of &#8220;classical.&#8221;\u00a0 <a class=\"moz-txt-link-freetext\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globalmusicawards.com\/\">http:\/\/www.globalmusicawards.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>November: release of PARMA Recording&#8217;s &#8220;Dashing 2&#8221; which includes Start&#8217;s recordings playing four of her arrangements of seasonal tunes<\/li>\n<li>October 16, 2021: Start&#8217;s &#8220;Traces&#8221;, commissioned for the 100th Anniversary of the Kalamazoo Symphony, is premiered<\/li>\n<li>October 4, 2021: Start&#8217;s new work for the ensemble Unsupervised &#8220;O, Aedificatio&#8221; for 10 players is scheduled to be performed as part of New Music Chicago&#8217;s Ear Taxi Festival, Kehrein Center for the Arts, 5628 W. Washington, Chicago<\/li>\n<li>October: release of Thomas Mesa&#8217;s album &#8220;Division of Memory&#8221; which includes Start&#8217;s &#8220;Echoes in Life&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>July 24, 2021: Thomas Mesa performs Start&#8217;s &#8220;Echoes in Life&#8221; on Extensity Concert Series at Uncommonly Studio at the Box Factory, 1519 Decatur St, Ridgewood, NY<\/li>\n<li>July 20, 2021: Start performs her &#8220;Verdisimilitude&#8221; and Timothy Dwight Edwards&#8217; &#8220;Cycles&#8221; on an in-person and live-stream concert presented by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newmusicchicago.org\/\">New Music Chicago<\/a>, representing the Chicago Composers&#8217; Consortium, at Nevermore Performance Space, 3411 W. North Ave., Chicago.<\/li>\n<li>June 26, 2021, Amanda Laborete performed Start&#8217;s &#8220;Echoes in Life&#8221; on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mi33RsMdd_8&amp;t=658s\">virtual concert<\/a> presented by the Filam Music Foundation.<\/li>\n<li>June 6, 2021, 8:00 pm CT, 9:00 pm ET: Quintet Attacca performs Start&#8217;s &#8220;Gibbons&#8221; on a live public and streamed Chicago Composers&#8217; Consortium Concert at Chicago&#8217;s Constellation.<\/li>\n<li>May 12, 2021, 7:30 CT, 8:30 ET: Start appears with fellow Chicago Composers&#8217; Consortium member Lawrence Axelrod on Spektral Quartet&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/spektralquartet.com\/concerts\/2021\/5\/12\/the-floating-lounge-feat-c3-composers-elizabeth-start-and-lawrence-axelrod\">Floating Lounge<\/a><\/li>\n<li>May 7, 2021, 10 am ET: Thomas Mesa&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sbPsvfqUXl4\">performance<\/a> of Start&#8217;s &#8220;Echoes in Life&#8221; is presented as part of the Society of Composers, Inc. virtual national conference.<\/li>\n<li>May 2, 2021, 12:30 and 1:30 pm ET: Start performs 20 minute solo cello sets at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts as part of the Connecting Chords Music Festival Resonance Project<\/li>\n<li>May, 2021 TBA: The Connecting Chords Music Festival&#8217;s &#8220;Music in Place&#8221; project is unveiled, containing Start&#8217;s work &#8220;Stetson Chapel Bells&#8221;.\u00a0 This is a site-based project, including an interactive map and ability to stream works on location or enjoy online with images and music<\/li>\n<li>April 30, 2021, 7:30 CT, 8:30 ET: Artemisia premiere&#8217;s Start&#8217;s &#8220;Uncertain Futures&#8221; on a streamed Chicago Composers&#8217; Consortium <a href=\"http:\/\/c3composers.org\/wordpress3\/\">concert<\/a><\/li>\n<li>April 6 and 20, 2021: Start performs live indoors in person for the first time since pandemic shutdown, with pianist Patricia Hughey, and Friendship Village, Kalamazoo<\/li>\n<li>February 2, 2021, 7 pm CT: Cora Swenson performs Start&#8217;s &#8220;Echoes in Life&#8221; on her faculty concert streamed from Illinois State University<\/li>\n<li>November 21, 2020: Start&#8217;s performance with percussionist Mike Weis interacting with Beth Bradfish&#8217;s sound sculpture, installed at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum as part of the Connecting Chords Music Festival, was presented on The Quarantine Concert series of Chicago&#8217;s Experimental Sound Studio (ESS). It can still be viewed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mfsm.us\/events\/2020\/light-behind-the-light-ess-concert-broadcast\/\">mfsm.us site<\/a><\/li>\n<li>October 2020 and ongoing through 2022: Start provided musical responses to two works of art in the Kalamazoo Institute of Art&#8217;s &#8220;Unveiling American Genius&#8221; exhibit which are available for attendees to download and listen to while viewing the exhibit. She was one of 8 musicians commissioned for this &#8220;Resonance&#8221; project by the Connecting Chords Music Festival. The works can also be experienced online at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mfsm.us\/resonance\/\">mfsm.us\/Resonance<\/a><\/li>\n<li>October 10, 2020: Start participates in New Music Chicago&#8217;s 15th Anniversary celebration live-stream, performing her &#8220;April in New Orleans in April&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>September 22, 2020, 10 am: Start is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmuk.org\/post\/peek-connecting-chords-festival-events-october#stream\/0\">interviewed<\/a> by WMUK&#8217;s Cara Lieurance regarding the Connecting Chords Music Festival<\/li>\n<li>September 12, 2020: The Kalamazoo Symphony scheduled the premiere of Start&#8217;s &#8220;Traces: Inspired by Strong Women&#8221;, which is currently rescheduled, due to coronavirus, for their January 2021 concert<\/li>\n<li>August 18, 2020: Start participates in a virtual concert presented by New Music Chicago, performing Timothy Edwards&#8217; &#8220;Cycles&#8221; on a program that also featured Thomas Mesa&#8217;s youtube of Start&#8217;s &#8220;Echoes in Life&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>July 15, 2020, 10 am: Start is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmuk.org\/post\/cellist-composer-finds-herself-re-working-re-writing-during-pandemic#stream\/0\">interviewed<\/a> by WMUK&#8217;s Cara Lieurance about life as a cellist\/composer during the shutdown<\/li>\n<li>June 2020 and ongoing, Start participates in many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/kalamazoosymphony\">stitched-together isolation ensembles<\/a> created by the Kalamazoo Symphony<\/li>\n<li>May 19, 2020, noon: [cancelled due to conavirus] Start performs solo and chamber works with other members of the Chicago Composers&#8217; Consortium at the Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL<\/li>\n<li>April 19, 2020, 8:30 pm: [postponed due to coronavirus] Spektral Quartet premieres Start&#8217;s &#8220;Conclusions&#8221; on a Chicago Composers&#8217; Consortium concert on the Frequency Series at Constellation, 3111 N. Western Ave., Chicago. Concert includes 10 premieres of works by Bernard Rands and C3 members.<\/li>\n<li>March 19, 2020: [postponed due to coronavirus] Thomas Mesa performs Start&#8217;s &#8220;Echoes in Life&#8221; at the DiMenna Center, New York, NY\u00a0 [Mesa has a wonderful youtube of Start&#8217;s &#8220;Echoes in Life&#8221;, which was created from footage taken during the December 2019 recording session]<\/li>\n<li>March 17-20, 2020, mornings: [cancelled due to coronavirus] the Elgin Symphony performs Start&#8217;s &#8220;Celestial Swim&#8221; during their Concerts for Youth, Hemmens Auditorium, Elgin, IL<\/li>\n<li>January 13, 2020, 2 pm: Start performs her new solo works and Bach at Friendship Village, Kalamazoo, MI<\/li>\n<li>November 25, 2019, 7:30 pm: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sbPsvfqUXl4\">Thomas Mesa performs Start&#8217;s &#8220;Echoes in Life&#8221;<\/a> at Mayville State University, Mayville, ND<\/li>\n<li>November 24, 2019, 2 pm: Thomas Mesa performs Start&#8217;s &#8220;Echoes in Life&#8221; at the North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND<\/li>\n<li>November 16, 2019, 7 pm: Thomas Mesa performs Start&#8217;s &#8220;Echoes in Life&#8221; at the home of Fred &amp; Ellen Harris, near 110th St. and Morningside Drive, as part of NYC House Concerts<\/li>\n<li>October 27, 2019, 4 pm: Start performs Faure &#8220;Elegy&#8221; and &#8220;Sicilienne&#8221; on a Connecting Chords Music Festival concert presented by the Michigan Festival of Sacred Music at First Baptist Church, Kalamazoo.<\/li>\n<li>October 6, 2019, 3 pm: Start performs her &#8220;Elizabethan Fantasy&#8221; and &#8220;Meditation&#8221;, and works by Timothy Edwards, Laura Schwendinger and Timothy Johnson on the Chicago Composers&#8217; Consortium 30th anniversary celebration event, at Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago.<\/li>\n<li>June 2, 2019, 8:30 pm: The Chicago-based sax quartet ~Nois premieres Start&#8217;s &#8220;Quatresaxfoil&#8221; on a concert featuring works by members of the Chicago Composers&#8217; Consortium, at Constellation, 3111 N. Western Ave., Chicago.<\/li>\n<li>May 4, 2019, 12:10 pm: Start performs at Fourth Presbyterian Church, 126 E. Chestnut, Chicago, with flutist Mary Stolper, in a concert sponsored by the Chicago Musicians Club of Women.<\/li>\n<li>April 12, 2019, 7 pm: Start&#8217;s &#8220;True Blues&#8221; is performed on a &#8220;Women of Note&#8221; chamber music concert at Kalamazoo College Light Fine Arts Building Recital Hall<\/li>\n<li>April 4, 2019, noon: Start performs and speaks at the meeting of the Elgin Symphony Orchestra League<\/li>\n<li>March 28, 2019, 7:30 pm: Start performs her &#8220;Assisi Impressions&#8221; duo with flutist Caroline Pittman at Guarneri Hall, 11 E. Adams St, Chicago, during the Chicago Composers&#8217; Consortium presentation for Impromptu Fest.<\/li>\n<li>September 23, 2018, 3:00 pm: Start performs her 2009 work &#8220;Camping in the Rafters&#8221; in a new arrangement for cello and guitar, with guitarist and composer Timothy Johnson, on a Chicago Composers&#8217; Consortium concert at Lakeshore Baptist Church, 5244 N. Lakewood, Chicago. She also performs works by Kyong Mee Choi and Jason Raynovich on the program<span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li>September 10, 2018, 7:00 pm: Start&#8217;s &#8220;to remember&#8230;to believe&#8221;, written in 2013 for ACM and the Chicago Architectural Society Open House Chicago, will be performed on Access Contemporary Music&#8217;s &#8220;Songs About Buildings and Moods&#8221; concert at the Davis Theater, 4614 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago.<\/li>\n<li>August 30, 2018, 7:00 pm: Start&#8217;s works will be included on an Octocelli-Cello Explosion-Americana concert. This program will start with a solo cello and end with a choir of cellos. Start&#8217;s works to be performed are Seagull Blues, Quatrefoil, Multiple Choice Piece and her arrangement of Simple Gifts for solo cello.\u00a0 First Baptist Church, 315 W. Michigan Ave., Kalamazoo, MI.<\/li>\n<li>August 11, 2018, 9:00 pm: Start&#8217;s soundtrack for &#8220;The Man Who Was Ill&#8221; will be performed live during the Sound of Silent Film portion of the Thirsty Ears Festival, presented by Access Contemporary Music. 1758 W. Wilson Ave., Chicago.<\/li>\n<li>May 6, 2018, 2:30 pm: Start&#8217;s &#8220;Night Contemplation and Dance&#8221; for clarinet, violin, cello and piano is premiered by Lakeshore Rush on a Chicago Composers&#8217; Consortium concert at Ganz Hall at Roosevelt University, Chicago.<\/li>\n<li>April 22, 2018: Cellist David Peshlakai performs Start&#8217;s &#8220;Echoes in Life&#8221; as an encore after a concerto performance in Parsberg, Bavaria.<\/li>\n<li>April 14, 2018, 7 pm: a new film soundtrack for chamber ensemble by Start will be premiered live on Access Contemporary Music&#8217;s &#8220;Sound of Silent Film&#8221; at the Davis Theater, 4614 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago.<\/li>\n<li>April 12, 2018, 7 pm: Start participates in an Octocelli concert celebrating the legacy of her &#8220;teen years&#8221; cello teacher, Mary Butler, at First United Methodist Church, Kalamazoo, MI. Repertoire on the program includes Start&#8217;s cello quartet, &#8220;Quatrefoil&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>March 18, 2018, 3 pm: Start performs her &#8220;Echoes in Life&#8221; and also performs works by Mischa Zupko and Seung-Ah Oh on a Chicago Composers&#8217; Consortium concert at the Music Institute of Chicago&#8217;s Puth Family theater, 1702 Sherman Ave., Evanston, IL<\/li>\n<li>December 7, 2017, 7 pm: Start performs selections from her new CD &#8220;A Very Cello Christmas&#8221; in a joint CD release concert with Carolyn Koebel&#8217;s new &#8220;Love&#8217;s Pure Light&#8221; CD; First Baptist Church, Kalamazoo, MI<\/li>\n<li>December 1, 2017, 8 pm: Start performs with Johnny Mathis at the Rosemont Theatre, Rosemont, IL<\/li>\n<li>November 26, 2017, 4 pm: Start performs in the orchestra for the Messiah Sing, co-presented by the Michigan Festival of Sacred Music and First Congregational Church in downtown Kalamazoo, which also serves as the venue<\/li>\n<li>November 11, 2017, 11 am: Start performs two selections with flutist Gary Stroutsos on the &#8220;Remembering the Songs&#8221; program presented by the Michigan Festival of Sacred Music at the Kalamazoo Nature Center<\/li>\n<li>October 20, 2017: Start performs her &#8220;Assisi Impressions&#8221; with flutist Caroline Pittman on Chicago Composers&#8217; Consortium concert at North Shore Baptist Church, Chicago.<\/li>\n<li>August 31, 2017, 8 pm: Octocelli &#8220;Cello Explosion&#8221;. Start joins other area cellists in performances from solo\u00a0 to octet, featuring music from the movies. First Baptist Church of Kalamazoo<\/li>\n<li>August 27, 2017, 2 pm: Songs and Travels: Recent Compositions by Elizabeth Start: Free concert featuring music by Betsy Start, settings of Conrad Hilberry poems and compositions based on Alaska and VietNam travels. Performers include Carl Ratner, Lawrence Axelrod, Mark Portolese, Margaret Hamilton, Carolyn Koebel, and Elizabeth (Betsy) Start. First Baptist Church of Kalamazoo<\/li>\n<li>April 22, 2017,\u00a0the Chicago Composers Orchestra premieres Start&#8217;s &#8220;With the Flow&#8221;, based on the Chicago River, at St. James Cathedral, 65 E. Huron, Chicago<\/li>\n<li>April 8, 2017, Start and Erin Villamizar premiere Start&#8217;s &#8220;Flight&#8221;, written in memory of Michael W. Chen, at his memorial celebration in Kalamazoo, MI<\/li>\n<li>April 7, 2017, Start premieres her &#8220;A Cellist in Alaska&#8221; at the Electro-Acoustic Music Festival at Roosevelt University, Chicago<\/li>\n<li>March 26, 2017, Start performs Arioso from her &#8220;Air Swiftly Flies&#8221; and her &#8220;Union&#8221; for solo cello (along with Bach&#8217;s D major viola da gamba sonata on viola da gamba) on an Early Music Michigan concert at First Congregational Church in Kalamazoo, MI.<\/li>\n<li>March 19, 2017 her &#8220;Multiple Choice Piece&#8221; is performed by Start and David Peshlakai on the Cello Explosion concert at Ransom Public Library in Plainwell, MI<\/li>\n<li>March 14, 2017, the Kalamazoo Symphony woodwind trio performs Start&#8217;s &#8220;Tangled Tango&#8221; and &#8220;True Blue&#8221; and her arrangement of &#8220;Tuileries&#8221;\u00a0 at First Presbyterian Church in Kalamazoo<\/li>\n<li>February 26, 2017, Start performs her Fused Art works and premieres her &#8220;Multiple Choice Piece&#8221; with Kerena Moeller, at the Gail Borden Public Library in Elgin, in collaboration with the Elgin Symphony<\/li>\n<li>February 22, 2017, the Kalamazoo Symphony&#8217;s Burdick-Thorne String Quartet performs Start&#8217;s &#8220;Thynnine Wasp&#8221; at Kalamazoo College<\/li>\n<li>January 28, 2017, Start&#8217;s &#8220;Thynnine Wasp&#8221; is presented as part of the final sweet sixteen at the String Quartet Smashdown in Austin, TX.<\/li>\n<li>October 30, 2016, Start&#8217;s work &#8220;Gibbons&#8221; is premiered by Quintet Attacca woodwind quintet on a Chicago Composers&#8217; Consortium concert at the Music Institute of Chicago, Evanston, IL<\/li>\n<li>September 17, 2016, Start&#8217;s &#8220;Burnham Block Bolero Boogie&#8221; for clarinet and cello was premiered during Doors Open Milwaukee<\/li>\n<li>August 25, 2016, a new work by Start composed in memory of Phyllis Jansma, founder of the Chamber Music for Fun adult chamber music camp, is premiered at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp<\/li>\n<li>August 14, 2016 Start performs her &#8220;Enormous Leaf&#8221; for electric cello and processing at Constellation, Chicago, on Chicago Composers Orchestra&#8217;s Club Night<\/li>\n<li>August 11, 2016 David Peshlakai performs Start&#8217;s &#8220;Verdisimilitude&#8221;, and Katelin Spencer and Octocelli premiere Start&#8217;s &#8220;Silence&#8221; for soprano and 8 cellos at First Baptist Church of Kalamazoo<\/li>\n<li>July 25 and 26, 2016, a new work composed by Start during the Composing in the Wilderness program in Alaska will be premiered as part of the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival<\/li>\n<li>July 24, 2016, 2:30 pm, Jay Appaji, mridangam, and Mark Landson, violin, perform Olden Times from Start&#8217;s Suite for mridangam and violin on the Rising Stars series of the Basically Beethoven Festival in Dallas<\/li>\n<li>May 22, 2016, 8:30 pm, Clocks in Motion percussion quartet premieres Start&#8217;s work &#8220;Spoiler: 5 Disruptive Vignettes&#8221; at Constellation, 3111 N. Western, Chicago<\/li>\n<li>May 7, 2016, 8 pm, Rohan Krishnamurthy and Grace Park perform Start&#8217;s works for violin and mridangam (Dance Images, Dance Suite and Migration Too) at the Peninsula Jewish Community Center Up Close Concert Series, Foster City, CA.<\/li>\n<li>April 27, 2016, 2 pm, Start premieres her work &#8220;Golden&#8221; for solo cello at Elgin Symphony Orchestra&#8217;s Listeners&#8217; Club<\/li>\n<li>April 3, 2016, 7:30 pm, Start premieres her work &#8220;Getting By&#8221; for theremini and live processing on Chicago Composers&#8217; Consortium Concert at Experimental Sound Studio, 5925 N. Ravenswood, Chicago<\/li>\n<li>December 31, 2015, Start performs works from her Fused Art CD on cello and electric cello at New Year&#8217;s Fest in Kalamazoo, MI 6:45 and 8:45 pm<\/li>\n<li>November 15, 2015, the Kalamazoo Mandolin &amp; Guitar Orchestra performs Start&#8217;s &#8220;Passacaglia&#8221; on the final concert of the 8th Michigan Festival of Sacred Music, Ladies Library Association, 333 S. Park St., Kalamazoo, MI<\/li>\n<li>November 13, 2015, Start premieres &#8220;Dju-Tongo&#8221; by Yale Strom, for violin and cello, with Rachel Barton Pine, at Michigan Festival of Sacred Music&#8217;s Rachel Barton Pine recital at Portage Chapel Hill United Methodist Church, 7028 Oakland Drive, Portage, MI<\/li>\n<li>November 9, 2015, Start performs and her &#8220;To Hildegard&#8221; is presented at Michigan Festival of Sacred Music &#8220;Hildegard Then and Now&#8221;, Holy Family Chapel, 3427 Gull Road, Kalamazoo, MI<\/li>\n<li>October 9, 2015, Start performs and her &#8220;More Talking Object Songs&#8221; are premiered at Chicago Composers&#8217; Consortium concert, North Shore Baptist Church, 5244 N. Lakewood, Chicago<\/li>\n<li>September 15, 2015, 6 pm, Start premieres her &#8220;Autumn Reflections&#8221; for theremini and flute (Start plays theremini) at the Michigan Festival of Sacred Music annual dinner, First Baptist Church, 315 W. Michigan, Kalamazoo, MI.<\/li>\n<li>May 16, 2015, 7 pm, Start&#8217;s &#8220;To Hildegard&#8221; is presented at the Western Michigan University Medieval Congress in collaboration with the Michigan Festival of Sacred Music and the International Society of Hildegard von Bingen Studies.<\/li>\n<li>April 26, 2015, 3 pm, the Chicago Composers Orchestra performs Start&#8217;s &#8220;Dreams of Summer&#8221; in a program presented by the Chicago Composers&#8217; Consortium at Ebeneezer Lutheran Church, 1650 W. Foster in Chicago.<\/li>\n<li>April 19, 2015, 7 pm, Start&#8217;s new film score for &#8220;Into the Cave of Wonders&#8221; is premiered live through Access Contemporary Music in collaboration with the Chicago Film Festival.<\/li>\n<li>March 19, 2015, 7 pm, Due East flute and percussion duo performed Start&#8217;s &#8220;Moving Toward Evening&#8221; at Illinois State University<\/li>\n<li>March 15, 2015, 3 pm, First Baptist Church of Kalamazoo, Brandon Ridenour and his ensemble Useful Chamber premiered Start&#8217;s &#8220;Father Alfaro&#8221;, on a text of Conrad Hilberry.<\/li>\n<li>February 26, 2015, baritone Brad Jungwirth and pianist Lawrence Axelrod premiered Start&#8217;s &#8220;Talking Object Songs&#8221; on texts of Conrad Hilberry, on a Chicago Composers&#8217; Consortium Concert at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 1218 W Addison St., Chicago.<\/li>\n<li>December 5, 2014, 5-7 pm, First Baptist Church, Kalamazoo, MI: As part of Arthop, Start releases a new CD of her compositions and displays fused glass works, all based on poems of Conrad Hilberry. This is the product of a Kalamazoo Artist Development Initiative grant through the Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo.<\/li>\n<li>November 16, 2014, 6:00 pm: Start performs on a concert in memory of cellist Marc Johnson at St. James, 65 E. Huron, Chicago<\/li>\n<li>July 17, 2014, 9:00 pm: Start&#8217;s composition &#8220;To Hildegard&#8221; is premiered by Ensemble Assisi Suono Sacro at Sala San Gregorio, Assisi, Italy<\/li>\n<li>June 29, 2014, 10:30 am: Start provides special music for First Baptist Church of Kalamazoo, including her own work &#8220;When a Stone Sings&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>May 20, 2014, 7:30 pm: Start performs on Michigan Festival of Sacred Music concert &#8220;Dreams &amp; Memories: Holocaust Remembrance Music&#8221;, First Baptist Church, Kalamazoo, MI<\/li>\n<li>May 18, 2014, 1:00 pm: Start performs 2 works, including a premiere of a new composition, at the reopening ceremonies for the Ladies&#8217; Library Association, Kalamazoo, MI<\/li>\n<li>Date TBD, 2014, San Francisco: Awes\u00f6me Orchestra performs Start&#8217;s &#8220;Early Reflections&#8221; and &#8220;Echoes&#8221; with Rohan Krishnamurthy<\/li>\n<li>March 28, 2014, Western Michigan University: Start and Ben Aldrich perform Start&#8217;s &#8220;Three Pieces for Theremin and Electric Cello&#8221; as part of Society of Composers, Inc. Region V conference<\/li>\n<li>March 20, 2014, Illinois State University: Due East performs Start&#8217;s &#8220;Moving Toward Evening&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>November 15, 2013, Ukrainian Institute, Chicago: Release party for ten x ten project, where Start is one of 10 composers paired with 10 print-makers, creating a book with companion vinyl recording; presented by homeroomchicago.org, Spudnik Press, and Accessible Contemporary Music.<\/li>\n<li>October 19, 2013: Start&#8217;s \u201cto remember&#8230;to believe\u201d is premiered by Accessible Contemporary Music at the Elks Veterans Memorial, Chicago, as part of the Chicago Architectural Society&#8217;s weekend Open House Chicago event.<\/li>\n<li>August 28, 2013: Start premieres \u201cAssisi Impressions\u201d with flutist Mary Stolper at First Baptist Church, Kalamazoo, MI as a preview concert for the Michigan Festival of Sacred Music. The remainder of the program includes the U.S. premiere of \u201cAssisi Musings\u201d and solo cello music by Start and others.<\/li>\n<li>July 13, 2013: Start premieres \u201cAssisi Musings\u201d with flutist Andrea Ceccemori at Chiesa di Santo Stefano, Perugia, Italy, as part of the Assisi Sacred Music Festival. The remainder of the program is solo cello music by Start and others.<\/li>\n<li>June 26, 2013: Due East premieres Start&#8217;s \u201cMoving Toward Evening\u201d at Chicago Composers&#8217; Consortium concert<\/li>\n<li>February 13, 2013: Start performs her \u201cThree Etudes for Electric Cello and Processing\u201d at the national conference of Society of Composers, Inc.<\/li>\n<li>December 24, 2012: Start premieres \u201cMidwinter Carol\u201d at Holy Family Chapel, Nazareth, MI<\/li>\n<li>November 8, 2012: Start performs with CUBE<\/li>\n<li>October 13, 2012: Start performs \u201cRising\u201d with Phillip Chen on annual fund-raising dinner for Michigan Festival of Sacred Music<\/li>\n<li>September 28-29, 2012: Carlo Aonzo and Rene Izquierdo perform Start&#8217;s \u201cPale Cliffs\u201d in Milwaukee and Madison, WI<\/li>\n<li>September 23, 2012: Start premieres \u201cRising\u201d with Phillip Chen on memorial service for W.C.Chen, Kalamazoo College<\/li>\n<li>July 8, 2012: Performance of Start\u2019s \u201cInfluences\u201d at the International Double Reed Society Conference, Miami University, Ohio<\/li>\n<li>June 2, 2012: Start performs solo cello at Kalamazoo Institute of Arts annual Art Fair<\/li>\n<li>May 26, 2012: Start composes music cues and performs for All Ears Radio Theatre, Kalamazoo, MI<\/li>\n<li>May 24, 2012: Start performs 6 new works by Chicago Composers\u2019 Consortium members, including her own \u201cCalled Hers\u201d, in a collaborative concert with CUBE Ensemble, North Shore Baptist Church, Chicago<\/li>\n<li>May 7, 2012, 7:30 pm, Start performs her 3 Etudes for Electric Cello and Processing at a Chicago Cello Society program; Poco Frenetica, from her \u201cAir Swiftly Flies\u201d is also performed, Music Institute of Chicago, Evanston<\/li>\n<li>April 29, 2012, Start premieres her \u201cInfluences\u201d with Shawna Lake, Laura Ross, and Shirley Trissell at First Congregational Church in Crystal Lake, IL<\/li>\n<li>April 9, 2012, 8 pm, Start performs solo works by Robert Fleisher and herself at Northern Illinois University<\/li>\n<li>April 3, 2012, noon, Start appears with WMU Collegium Musicum for Artbreak at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts<\/li>\n<li>February 14, 2012, Start presents an all-school convocation for Northern Illinois University music school on entrepreneurialship in music<\/li>\n<li>January 17, 2012, 2 pm, Start presents her \u201cCello as Muse\u201d program at the Kiva at Friendship Village, Kalamazoo.<\/li>\n<li>November 17, 2011, Start&#8217;s new works for viols are premiered on a concert presented in collaboration between the Michigan Festival of Sacred Music and WMU Collegium Musicum<\/li>\n<li>November 10, 2011, Start performs with MusicAEterna on opening night concert of the Michigan Festival of Sacred Music www.mfsm.us<\/li>\n<li>November 8, 2011, Start appears on Art Break at Kalamazoo Institute of Arts<\/li>\n<li>October 29, 2011, Start appears with the Chicago Composers Consortium, Curtiss Hall, Fine Arts Building, Chicago<\/li>\n<li>July 27, 2011, Carlo Aonzo performs Start&#8217;s Pale Cliffs with Fabrizio Giudice on OperaEstate Festival Veneto 2011 in Bassano del Grappa, Italy<\/li>\n<li>May 20, 2011, Carlo Aonzo performs Start&#8217;s Pale Cliffs with Katsumi Nagaoka in Arenzano, Italy<\/li>\n<li>March 14, 2011, Start performs on cello, electric cello, and viola da gamba, providing a program in contrasts for the Ladies Library Association, Kalamazoo, MI<\/li>\n<li>February 28- March 4, 2011, the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra performs Start\u2019s Echoes as part of its Kids Concerts program, Chenery Auditorium, Kalamazoo, MI<\/li>\n<li>February 11, 2011, dal niente premieres Start\u2019s Options on a Chicago Composers\u2019 Consortium concert<\/li>\n<li>January 24, 2011, Start joins the CUBE Ensemble for a live broadcast performance on WFMT-FM Chicago<\/li>\n<li>November 15, 2011, Start performs three of her solo cello works as part of the program for the Chicago Musicians Club of Women<\/li>\n<li>November 11, 2010, the Avanti Guitar Trio premieres Start&#8217;s Passacaglia arrangement for 3 guitars on a Chicago Composers&#8217; Consortium concert at the Music Institute of Chicago<\/li>\n<li>October 24, Start performs her Prayer and Meditation on a Benefit Concert for Pakistan Flood Relief, presented by the Michigan Festival of Sacred Music at First Baptist Church of Kalamazoo<\/li>\n<li>June 16, 2010, Carlo Aonzo premieres Start&#8217;s mandolin concerto with the Kalamazoo Mandolin and Guitar Orchestra at First Baptist Church, Kalamazoo, MI<\/li>\n<li>May 22, 2010, the Kalamazoo Mandolin and Guitar Orchestra premieres Start&#8217;s Passacaglia at the Ladies Library Association, Kalamazoo, MI<\/li>\n<li>April 24, 2010, Start\u2019s \u201cWhirlwind\u201d is performed by SIU Percussion Ensemble on Chicago Composers\u2019 Consortium concert, Illinois State University, Normal, IL.<\/li>\n<li>April 23, 2010, Start\u2019s \u201cWhirlwind\u201d is performed by SIU Percussion Ensemble on Chicago Composers\u2019 Consortium concert, Sherwood Conservatory, Chicago.<\/li>\n<li>March 30, 2010, Start performs her \u201cA Day Late and a Quarter-tone Short\u201d at John Eaton 75th Birthday Tribute Concert, Sherwood Conservatory, Chicago. She also performs Eaton\u2019s \u201cFantasy Romance\u201d for cello and piano with Philip Morehead.<\/li>\n<li>March 29, 2010, Start\u2019s \u201cWhirlwind\u201d is performed on Southern Illinois University-Carbondale&#8217;s \u201cOutside the Box\u201d festival.<\/li>\n<li>December 4, 2009, Start\u2019s \u201cRuminations\u201d is performed on IAWM concert at Sherwood Conservatory, Chicago.<\/li>\n<li>November 15, 2009, Start\u2019s \u201cRuminations\u201d is performed on Michigan Festival of Sacred Music, Kalamazoo, MI.<\/li>\n<li>October 25, 2009, Start\u2019s \u201cRuminations\u201d is performed on CUBE&#8217;s &#8220;Sounding the Sacred&#8221; concert in Hyde Park (Chicago).<\/li>\n<li>May 11, 2009, Start\u2019s \u201cCamping in the Rafters\u201d is premiered by Julia Miller and Lawrence Axelrod on Chicago Composers\u2019 Consortium Cyber-Victorian Parlor Concert.<\/li>\n<li>May 3, 2009, Start\u2019s \u201cInspired by Mozart\u201d is premiered at First Congregational Church, Kalamazoo, MI.<\/li>\n<li>April 17, 2009, Eric Mandat performs Start\u2019s \u201cRoundabout\u201d at University of Wisconsin-Madison Clarinet Festival. Start also performs her \u201cElizabethan Fantasy\u201d and \u201cA Love Song\u201d, and solo work by Martha Horst, and premieres a new work by Lawrence Axelrod with Axelrod and Mandat.<\/li>\n<li>April 11, 2009, Start\u2019s \u201cThree Pieces for Theremin and Electric Cello\u201d are performed by Start and thereminist Ben Aldrich on Southern Illinois University-Carbondale\u2019s \u201cOutside the Box\u201d festival. Start also performs a solo cello work by Martha Horst and cello and electronics work by Timothy Edwards<\/li>\n<li>April 9, 2009, Start\u2019s \u201cAin\u2019t that Trillin\u2019? A Mazurka\u201d is performed by pianist Lawrence Axelrod on Southern Illinois University-Carbondale\u2019s \u201cOutside the Box\u201d festival<\/li>\n<li>November 22, 2008, Start and Ben Aldrich premiere her \u201cThree Pieces for Theremin and Electric Cello\u201d on Chicago Composers\u2019 Consortium concert at Columbia College, Chicago<\/li>\n<li>November 9, 2008, Start performs on the Michigan Festival of Sacred Music program \u201cThe Sound &amp; Spirit of Kalamazoo\u201d, hosted by PRI\u2019s Ellen Kushner<\/li>\n<li>October 12, 2008, pianist Lawrence Axelrod premieres Start\u2019s \u201cAin\u2019t That Trillin\u2019?\u201d, on Chicago Composers\u2019 Consortium concert \u201cMazurka Mania\u201d at North Shore Baptist Church, 5224 N. Lakewood Ave., Chicago<\/li>\n<li>October 10, 2008, Start performs on Kalamazoo Bach Festival\u2019s opening concert<\/li>\n<li>August 12, 2008, Start performs with singer Emily Lodine and the flute\/harp duo Capriccio on \u201cRush Hour\u201d series concert at St James Cathedral in Chicago<\/li>\n<li>June 13, 2008, Detroit Inst. of Arts, Rohan Krishnamurthy and Ayano Ninomiya perform Start&#8217;s new works for mridangam (South Indian drum) and violin<\/li>\n<li>April 14, 2008, Start performs her \u201cMasks\u201d for electric cello and piano, with Lawrence Axelrod, on a second Chicago Composers\u2019 Consortium concert during the new music festival at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.<\/li>\n<li>April 13, 2008, repeat of Chicago Composers\u2019 Consortium concert of November 18, 2007: Eric Mandat performs Start\u2019s \u201cRoundabout\u201d for solo clarinet, and Start performs her solo cello pieces \u201cUnion\u201d and \u201cElizabethan Fantasy\u201d, during the new music festival at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.<\/li>\n<li>April 9, 2008, Start performs her \u201cFour Briefs\u201d and \u201cElizabethan Fantasy\u201d at her alma mater, Northern Illinois University School of Music<\/li>\n<li>March, 2008, Rohan Krishnamurthy and Ayano Ninomiya perform Start&#8217;s new works for mridangam (South Indian drum) and violin in multiple venues:<br \/>\nMarch 25 Valparaiso University<br \/>\nMarch 26 Hope College<\/li>\n<li>March 14, 2008, the String Orchestra of Kalamazoo performs Start\u2019s \u201cDreams of Summer\u201d at First Congregational Church, Kalamazoo.<\/li>\n<li>March 13, 2008 the String Orchestra of Kalamazoo performs Start\u2019s \u201cDreams of Summer\u201d at Disciples of Christ Church, Kalamazoo<\/li>\n<li>February 24, 2008, Rohan Krishnamurthy performs Start\u2019s \u201cEarly Reflections\u201d and \u201cEchoes\u201d as mridangam (South Indian drum) soloist with the McHenry County (IL) Youth Orchestra.<\/li>\n<li>February 9 and 23, and May 17 and 31, , 2008, Start provides musical cues for performance\/tapings of All Ears Theatre radio plays<\/li>\n<li>January 27, 2008, Rohan Krishnamurthy performs Start\u2019s \u201cEarly Reflections\u201d and \u201cEchoes\u201d as mridangam (South Indian drum) soloist with the Lakeshore (Chicago) Symphony.<\/li>\n<li>November 18, 2007, Chicago Composers\u2019 Consortium concert: Eric Mandat premieres Start\u2019s \u201cRoundabout\u201d for solo clarinet, and Start performs her solo cello pieces \u201cUnion\u201d and \u201cElizabethan Fantasy\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>November 16-18, 2007, Start performs as soloist with the Elgin Symphony Orchestra, on electric cello, in her arrangement of Moreve\/Kay\u2019s 1960\u2019s classic tune \u201cMagic Carpet Ride\u201d (11\/16 in Schaumburg, IL, 11\/17 and 18 in Elgin, IL)<\/li>\n<li>November 8, 2007, Michigan Festival of Sacred Music, Start performs with Capriccio, and Capriccio performs Start\u2019s \u201cUnity\u201d for flute, piccolo, harp and electric harp, commissioned and premiered by Capriccio in 2006<\/li>\n<li>August 12, 2007, Edinburgh (Scotland) Fringe Festival, \u201cSt. Giles\u2019 at Six\u201d series, the Sutherland Piano Quintet performs Start\u2019s \u201cToward Dance, Too\u201d<\/li>\n<li>August 9, 2007, Edinburgh (Scotland) Fringe Festival, Palmerston Place Church, the Sutherland Piano Quintet performs Start\u2019s \u201cToward Dance, Too\u201d<\/li>\n<li>May 24, 2007, Portage Northern High School Concert Band premieres Start\u2019s concert band arrangement of her own \u201cBuoyancy\u201d, originally for symphony orchestra<\/li>\n<li>March 25, 2007, First Baptist Church chancel choir premieres Start\u2019s \u201cLook to the Lord and be Radiant\u201d for SATB a cappella choir<\/li>\n<li>March 22, 2007, Bargemusic, Brooklyn, NY, Carlo Aonzo and Rene Izquierdo perform Start\u2019s Pale Cliffs for mandolin and guitar<\/li>\n<li>March 15, 2007, Rohan Krishnamurthy and the String Orchestra of Kalamazoo, Barry Ross, conductor, premiere Start\u2019s \u201cEarly Reflections\u201d for mridangam (S. Indian drum) and strings. Also on program, Start\u2019s \u201cEchoes\u201d for mridangam and strings<\/li>\n<li>March 9, 2007, Madison, WI, Carlo Aonzo and Rene Izquierdo perform Start\u2019s Pale Cliffs for mandolin and guitar<\/li>\n<li>March 7, 2007, Wisconsin Conservatory of Music Helen Bader Recital Hall, Milwaukee, WI, Carlo Aonzo and Rene Izquierdo perform Start\u2019s Pale Cliffs for mandolin and guitar<\/li>\n<li>March 4, 2007, First Baptist Church Community Arts Program, Kalamazoo, MI, Carlo Aonzo and Rene Izquierdo perform Start\u2019s Pale Cliffs for mandolin and guitar; Start also joins them in performing a work by Cauciello<\/li>\n<li>March, 2, 2007, premiere of \u201cMasks\u201d for electric cello and piano, Chicago Composers\u2019 Consortium, Columbia College, Chicago (E. Start, cello, Lawrence Axelrod, piano)<\/li>\n<li>2007 All Ears Radio Theatre with original music cues by Start on February 17, March 17, and April 7, performed at First Baptist Church of Kalamazoo, delayed broadcast on WMUK 102.1-FM<\/li>\n<li>January 22, 2007, premiere of \u201cToward Dance, Too\u201d for piano quintet, Central European University, Budapest<\/li>\n<li>December 9, 2006, Michigan Bach Collegium performs \u201cAdam\u201d, \u201cCarol\u201d, \u201cThe Animals\u201d, and \u201cShepherd\u201d, Start\u2019s settings of Conrad Hilberry\u2019s \u201cChristmas\u201d poems, Cathedral of Christ the King, Kalamazoo, MI. Start also performs on the program.<\/li>\n<li>November 5, 2006, Start and David Murray repeat October 22nd performances of Start\u2019s \u201cKnot\u201d and duos by Edwards and Kertsman on Chicago Composers\u2019 Consortium concert, Swedish American Museum Center, 5211 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL<\/li>\n<li>November 4, 2006, Capriccio (Donna Milanovich and Stephen Hartman) premieres Start\u2019s \u201cUnity\u201d at the Frank Lloyd Wright Unity Temple concert series, Oak Park, IL<\/li>\n<li>October 29, 2006, Pinotage performs Start\u2019s \u201cMore Sign Songs\u201d, settings of poems by Conrad Hilberry, at the Sonic Impact event, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL<\/li>\n<li>October 22, 2006, Start premieres her duo \u201cKnot\u201d along with duos by Timothy Dwight Edwards and Miguel Kertsman, with David Murray, double bass, on a concert of the Chicago Composers\u2019 Consortium, Butler University, Indianapolis, IN<\/li>\n<li>October 14, 2006, Start premieres her work \u201cUnion\u201d at Jon and Mary Beth\u2019s wedding, Kalamazoo, MI<\/li>\n<li>September 16, 2006, Duo Breve performs Start\u2019s \u201cBits-O-Bugs\u201d at the College Music Society\u2019s annual conference, San Antonio, TX<\/li>\n<li>July 7, 2006, Start performs her works as part of the Chicago Composers\u2019 Consortium\u2019s electronic party at Rubin Gallery, 3318 N. Halsted, Chicago<\/li>\n<li>June 16, 2006, 8 pm, Park Club of Kalamazoo, performs two sonatas by Gaetano Boni with Italian mandolin virtuoso Carlo Aonzo.<\/li>\n<li>June 11, 2006, 2:00 p.m.,First Baptist Church of Kalamazoo, MI, Trio Dagoba performs Start\u2019s Circuits<\/li>\n<li>June 10, 2006 7:00 p.m., Ann Arbor, MI Trio Dagoba performs Start\u2019s Circuits<\/li>\n<li>June 9, 2006 7:00 p.m., Homer Community Center, Homer MI, Trio Dagoba performs Start\u2019s Circuits<\/li>\n<li>June 8, 2006 at the Kalamazoo College Light Fine Arts Building, Barry Ross, Rohan Krishnamurthy and Leslie Tung premiere Start\u2019s Migration<\/li>\n<li>May 28 2006, Santa Cruz, CA, Trio Dagoba premieres Start\u2019s Circuits<\/li>\n<li>May 1, 2006 Start&#8217;s work for piano trio, Toward Dance, premiered by the Lincoln Trio in collaboration with the Chicago Composers&#8217; Consortium at the Music Center of Chicago in Evanston<\/li>\n<li>April 2, 2006 Start&#8217;s Water Music is premiered by Corlyn and Joseph Schreck with the Kalamazoo Mandolin Orchestra, Community Arts Program at First Baptist Church of Kalamazoo<\/li>\n<li>March 17, 2006 Start performs as cellist and composer with Chicago Composers Forum<\/li>\n<li>March 12, 2006 a new commissioned work for electric cello and acoustic instruments is premiered on a CUBE concert in Chicago<\/li>\n<li>February 28 &#8211; March 3, 2006 Start&#8217;s &#8220;Echoes&#8221; is performed by Rohan Krishnamurthy and the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra on their Kids Concert series.<\/li>\n<li>February 26, 2006, Unna, Germany, Duo Ahlert &amp; Scwhab performs Start\u2019s Pale Cliffs<\/li>\n<li>January 11, 2006 Start&#8217;s &#8220;Duo&#8221; for English Horn and cello is performed on &#8220;the Definiens project&#8221; Crescent Series in Culver City, CA<\/li>\n<li>December 19, 2005 Start performs her Divergence and Repercussions with the Chicago Composers&#8217; Consortium at the Roy O. Disney Hall at CalArts<\/li>\n<li>December 01, 2005 Start performs interludes and underscores to poetry reading by Conrad Hilberry, Community Arts Program at First Baptist Church of Kalamazoo<\/li>\n<li>October 30, 2005 Start performs many of her works with the Chicago Composers&#8217; Consortium at Chicago&#8217;s Green Mill<\/li>\n<li>October 15, 2005 Start&#8217;s electronic work &#8220;little girl&#8221; is performed on Chicago Composers&#8217; Consortium concert<\/li>\n<li>September 25, 2005 Start participates in John Cage&#8217;s Musicircus with the Chicago Composers Forum at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago<\/li>\n<li>September 25, 2005 Capriccio performs Start&#8217;s &#8220;Bits-O-Bugs&#8221; at the University of Wisconsin-Richland<\/li>\n<li>June 4, 5, 2005 Start&#8217;s &#8220;Echoes&#8221; is performed by Rohan Krishnamurthy and the Kalamazoo College and Community Orchestra, Dalton Theater, Kalamazoo College<\/li>\n<li>May 5, 2005 Start&#8217;s &#8220;Echoes&#8221; is premiered by the Kalamazoo College Chamber Orchestra to great success at the Kalamazoo Juvenile Facility<\/li>\n<li>May 5,7, 2005 Start&#8217;s &#8220;Pale Cliffs&#8221; performed with the Chicago Composers&#8217; Consortium, on a concert by German duo Alhert and Schwab<\/li>\n<li>May 4, 2005 Start&#8217;s &#8220;Pale Cliffs&#8221; premiered live on Chicago&#8217;s WFMT-FM<\/li>\n<li>May 5 &amp; 7 2005, The German mandolin and guitar duo, Ahlert &amp; Scwhab (<span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahlert-schwab.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.ahlert-schwab.de<\/a><\/span><\/span>), premiere Start&#8217;s &#8220;Pale Cliffs&#8221; on Chicago Composers&#8217; Consortium concerts May 5,2005, 8 pm, at the Music Institute of Chicago in Evanston, and May 7,2005, 7:30 pm, at the Somnambulist Music Series in Chicago. They will also appear live on WFMT-FM on May 4 at 4 pm. www.c3composers.org<\/li>\n<li>March 9, 2005, soprano Diane Ragains and cellist Marc Johnson perform Three Songs in faculty recital at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL<\/li>\n<li>February 15, 2005, Pinotage performs More Sign Songs on a guest artist recital at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL<\/li>\n<li>December 12, 2004, Elizabeth Start performs her own &#8220;Air Swiftly Flies&#8221;, Laura Schwendinger&#8217;s &#8220;Rapture&#8221;, and premieres a new piece by Paul Chihara, for the Chicago Composers&#8217; Consortium, with pianist Helen Lukan<\/li>\n<li>November 9, 2004, Pinotage performs Sign Songs, and More Sign Songs at the 2004 Festival of New American Music, California State University, Sacramento<\/li>\n<li>October 29, 2004, 8 p.m.: Chicago Composers\u2019 Consortium, DePaul University, Chicago<\/li>\n<li>October 22, 2004, 25th New Music and Art Festival, Bowling Green State University:<br \/>\nThe critically-acclaimed Chicago-based ensemble Pinotage performs selections from Start&#8217;s &#8220;Sign Songs&#8221; and &#8220;More Sign Songs&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>October 6-9, 2004, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana<br \/>\nStart performs during the conference of the International Society of Hildegard von Bingen Studies: &#8220;Bridges to Infinity&#8221;, 20th Anniversary Celebration and International Symposium<\/li>\n<li>September 26, 2004, 3 p.m.: Pinotage performs Sign Songs and More Sign Songs, Lake Forest, IL<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">September 26, 2004, 4:30 p.m.: CD Release Concert, \u201cFrom the Start\u201d, First Baptist Church of Kalamazoo, MI<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>As Orchestral Cellist<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>With the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elginsymphony.org\/\">Elgin (IL) Symphony<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>With the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kalamazoosymphony.com\/\">Kalamazoo (MI) Symphony<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>With the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagophilharmonic.org\/\">Chicago Philharmonic<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>With <a href=\"http:\/\/earlymusicmichigan.com\/\">Early Music Michigan<\/a> (formerly Michigan Bach Collegium)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Start\u2019s Nostalgia for flute and string trio illustrated a stunning range of musical emotion throughout its three movements. The opening movement in particular, \u201cRag Tag Too,\u201d was delightfully wilting, with chords folding over each other to create a haunting, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/elizabethstart.com\/wordpress\/performances\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Performances<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-40","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethstart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethstart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethstart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethstart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethstart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":113,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethstart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethstart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethstart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}