Eighth Blackbird Tickets

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Quick Facts About Eighth Blackbird

• Founded in 1996 at the Oberlin Conservatory; current core members include Lisa Kaplan, Matthew Duvall, Zachary Good, Maiani da Silva, Lina Andonovska, and Aaron Wolff; they frequently perform from memory and incorporate staging/visual elements in their concerts.
• Four Grammy Awards for Best Small Ensemble/Chamber Music Performance (Strange Imaginary Animals, Lonely Motel; Meanwhile; Filament).
• MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions (2016); Musical America Ensemble of the Year (2017); Concert Artists Guild Grand Prize (1998).
• Celebrated Cedille Records discography includes albums from 2003’s Thirteen Ways through 2020’s Singing in the Dead of Night, highlighting a long-running program of world premieres and collaborations with Sleeping Giant, Viet Cuong, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly, David Lang, and more.
• 2025 activities include Athenaeum residencies (An Introduction to Eighth Blackbird on Jan 15, 2025; Imaginary Lovers on Feb 13, 2025), plus a U.S. tour featuring venues such as Yerkes Observatory (May 22–23, 2025), the Des Moines/Civic Center, The Smith Center in Las Vegas, and Chicago-area CANVAS events in September 2025.
• Social presence centers on the official site (eighthblackbird.org) plus social profiles linked on Cedille and the ensemble site (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, YouTube).