We kickoff our high season with the auditory voyages of AREPO in the Dome on Thursday, May 22nd and Friday, May 23rd at 7:30pm! Our Blackbird Creative Lab alums will perform new works including ones written at Yerkes with composers Arjan Singh Dogra and Harriet Steinke under the mentorship of Grammy winners Eighth Blackbird. Only 55 tickets available!

AREPO is cellist and vocalist Elizabeth Kate, guitarist Marco Slaviero, accordionist Noël Rubli, and clarinetist Madara Eleonora Mežale. The quartet travels headlong into a borderless wilderness by building their own standards for classic instrumentation thus creating a heretofore unheard Voice. They recently finished a lengthy project of Scandinavian-based composers which premiered in Zurich, Switzerland and Oslo, Norway. Their all-over-the-map works involve performative art, contemporary classical , and media mixed with style-transcendent sounds. Based between Norway and New York City, they are one of the most internationally-diverse ensembles on Earth. With members raised in Switzerland, Italy, the United States, and Latvia, AREPO hatch one another’s cultures with a cross-dusting and reverence that’s perfect for Yerkes’ contemporary, spacey programming.

Yerkes’ staff absolutely adored having them here last year as part of our beloved Eighth Blackbird’s Blackbird Creative Lab. The two-week immersion of musicians, ensembles, and composers is unlike any existing sound symbiosis. It’s our honor to have AREPO’s curated and spotlighted performances be the bridge to our summer season of science and music dancing together.

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