Roulette’s Concert Series for New + Adventurous Music, launched in 1978, presents a wide range of experimental music including avant-jazz, new music, opera, world music, and electronic. This eclectic series features the work of well-known innovators in contemporary music, but a large percentage of the Series is devoted to emerging artists and composers.

Tom Goldstein & Paul Hoffmann

Saturday, March 25, 1995. 9:00 pm
Tom Goldstein and Paul Hoffmann play new pieces for percussion and piano, written expressly for them by Malcolm Goldstein, Stuart Smith, Tom […]

Guy Yarden

Friday, March 24, 1995. 9:00 pm
Composer/improvisor Guy Yarden will present reworked versions of the music that he has created for various dance pieces in the past two years. […]

Jeffrey Schanzer

Thursday, March 23, 1995. 9:00 pm
The premiere of No More In Thrall, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald. Performed […]

Hamid Drake & Michael Zerang

Wednesday, March 22, 1995. 9:00 pm
Chicago percussionist/composers Zerang and Drake presenting work utilizing a variety of percussion instrument from the Middle East, Africa and […]

Wadada Leo Smith & Nada Kulture

Saturday, March 18, 1995. 9:00 pm
Hetep – Peace: A homage to the revolutionary movement of the 60s. Performance of music, films and reflections. With Wadada Leo […]

Lenore Von Stein

Friday, March 17, 1995. 9:00 pm
Composer/vocalist Lenore Von Stein in appearing with her band Les trois michels in a show called Blind Love, Stein will perform with Michael […]

Roger Kleier

Thursday, March 16, 1995. 9:00 pm
Guitarist/improvisor/composer Roger Kleier will perform works and improvisations using normal and not-so-normal guitar techniques. Performing […]

Staley/Mori/Parkins

Wednesday, March 15, 1995. 9:00 pm
Some new approaches to thoroughly developed orchestrations. Here is a poem improvised by Jackson Mac Low during the performance, published on […]

Kathleen Supové

Saturday, December 17, 1994. 9:00 pm
The Exploding Piano. The acclaimed series continues with sonic explosions for the piano by Louis Andriessen, Eve Beglarian, Alvin Curran, Aaron […]

Richard Teitelbaum

Friday, December 16, 1994. 9:00 pm
Live electronicist Richard Teitelbaum teams up with virtuoso violinist Mark Feldman for an evening of compositions and improvisations. They have […]