Since January 2024, In Series has been working at a lofty goal: bringing composed music to a scene with more than its fair share of noise-niks, improvisers, nooks, and crannies. Having found a stable home at Capitol Hill’s Vermillion, series organizers Peter Tracy (cello) and Aaron Michael Butler (percussion) have curated concerts centered around works and performances by local composers, enlisting relevant deep cuts from the contemporary composed landscape to fill the gaps.
For their second appearance at the Chapel, In Series hopes to address an uncertain future with premiers and reprises of works by Anthony Donofrio and Peter Tracy. Donofrio’s “8 pieces for Vibraphone and ‘Cello” ranges from fragile melodic interplay in near-traditional notation to sparse text scores. Tracy’s “Munin” for solo glockenspiel will see its second performance, with a new trio by the same, “Errata”, to be premiered by Tracy, Butler, and series veteran Carlos Cotallo Solares (violin).