Name: a chicago vignette [for millenials!] by Cassandra Kaczor
Duration: 6 min 9 s
Description: This is a fun piece written for my longtime friend and colleague Seth Pae. It is largely through-composed but allows some room for both of us to improvise!

Three movement piece for piano/human breathing and doing other things. (c) 2013 Cassandra Kaczor

Performed by Jonathan Cook in November of 2013 after his commission of the work in 2012.

i. the rain
ii. the devil's playground
iii. your hands on me

on violence: i

THE LIONS ARE 15-2 AND HAVING A RECORD-BREAKING SEASON. They deserve a new fight song, a new anthem for the fans to scream!

Honolulu Blues

My friend, poet and multimedia artist Samantha Schaefer has been sending me voice memos of vocal improvisations. I have taken these memos and reimagined them as fixed media works.

Sam's Songs 2: Run Up Stairs

A collaboration between composer Cassandra Kaczor and choreographer/dancer Leah Zeiger. Text by Leah Zeiger. (c) 2016 c kaczor music, all rights reserved. This piece is protected by Brunch Project Productions.

Prescribed Burn

An upbeat piece for violin, clarinet, and piano, as performed by the Zodiac Trio at Roosevelt University.

(c) c kaczor music. All rights reserve. This work is protected by Brunch Project Productions.

Rigid |  Fluid

This is a fun piece written for my longtime friend and colleague Seth Pae. It is largely through-composed but allows some room for both of us to improvise!

a chicago vignette [for millenials!]

secondhand smoke is based on a piece of prose I wrote in 2016. It is a story about someone realizing that she is an afterthought to a good friend.

I have tried to portray this image through the viola. The performer will play certain notes with extra bow pressure, causing other strings to sympathetically vibrate, giving a weak, empty drone effect, if the note that is played is perfectly in tune with the open string. In this way, the piece is both an exploration of a story but also a technical study.

secondhand smoke_Clarke

Piano solo written for (and performed by) Jonathan Hannau in 2016. This piece begins peacefully and becomes more and more agitated until its implosion and collapse.

unravel

Bite the Bullet

Peaceful and Patient

Cassandra Kaczor is a pianist-composer currently working in Chicago, Illinois. She has been formally trained in piano (18 years) and composition (5 years). She has had the pleasure of performing in well-known venues such as Severence Hall’s Reinberger Chamber Hall, in her native city of Cleveland, Ohio, the Academie International de Musique de Colombes in Colombes, France and Miller Auditorium in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

When she is not doing music-things, Kaczor enjoys practicing the martial art of Muay Thai, songwriting, long runs on Lake Michigan, ogling strangers' dogs while out walking, good drinks, good company, and chronically overthinking as much as possible.

a chicago vignette [for millenials!]

Cassandra Kaczor

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