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Cyclature - 26 Cycles for Solo Piano - Music by Amy Wurtz I am thrilled to announce the album release event for Cyclature, 26 pieces for piano (one including voice!) that I wrote between 2017-2025 which are now brought to life by 21 Chicago-based pianists.  The album will be available on all streaming platforms on September 27, 2026, and available for purchase everywhere music is sold.   The album release event will feature live performances of many of the Cycles, performed b

Find all the information for the May 3, 2026 concert below. New Music at the Green Mill Sunday, May 3, 2026 4:00 pm 4802 N. Broadway, Chicago $10 cover at the door info here Program Ravenswood Winds Quantum Entanglement* (2026) Airan Wright Lily Floeter, Flute Laura Perkett, Oboe Dan Williams, Clarinet Anna Jacobson, Horn Airan Wright, Bassoon Ravenswood Winds Five Songs after Rumi (2000) Amy Wurtz Mo Ryan, Soprano         1. Who Says Words with my Mouth?         inter

Sunday, May 3, 3036 4:00 pm New Music at the Green Mill Sunday, May 3, 2026 4:00 pm 4802 N. Broadway, Chicago, 60640 $10 cover at the door New Music at the Green Mill features Chicago’s most adventurous composers and performers playing music in the iconic, relaxing atmosphere of the Green Mill.  This series has been going on for decades and 2026 comes with even more new music, new ensembles, and new performers, alongside those who have made this series what it is for so many

I am so excited to play Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, Op. 73, in Eb major, known as the “Emperor”, tonight, November 14, with Symphony 847! I was delighted and honored to be asked to play this joyful music with them, and frankly, even though it was a little crazy preparing this music during the months leading up to and including Ear Taxi Festival, this has been the perfect project to focus on and keep my wheels turning (and fingers moving!) post-ETF. The concert is doubl

Free Concert on September 12, 2025, 12 noon On Friday, September 12, 2025, at 12:10 pm, I have the honor of presenting a program dedicated to our planet and all it suffers. The centerpiece of the program is Brian Field's "Three Passions for our Tortured Planet", which he wrote as an open-source piece, available at no cost to pianists around the world, which he wrote to bring attention to climate change and raise awareness around this alarming state of the Earth. Balancing thi

Tuesday, July 15, 7:30 pm Experiemental Sound Studios 5925 N Ravenswood Ave Chicago, IL 60660 Hello friends! On Tuesday, July 15, 2025, at 7:30 pm, the Wurtz-Berger Duo will be presenting a concert, New Memories, Lost Memories, on the New Music Chicago Presents program. In-person audience members are welcome to attend at Experimental Sound Studios, 5925 N. Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, 60660, and the concert will also be live-streamed for viewing at any time during or after the co

Hello friends! I'm excited to host another New Music at the Green Mill concert on Sunday, May 4, 2025, 4:00 pm. All concert details, including performer bios, are below! Sunday, May 4, 2025 4:00 PM New Music at the Green Mill 4802 N Broadway Chicago, IL 60640 $10 cover at the door Facebook Event Page Concert Program: Flannau Duo Music for Amplified Toy Pianos John Cage Jonathan Hannau, piano Kyle Flens, percussion Jonathan Hannau, piano Soundings George Flynn Wurtz-

I am beyond excited to have been a special guest at Northern Illinois University’s Festival of New Music, with an emphasis on connections from Chicago for their twelfth annual festival, which took place November 6-8, 2024.  It was in fact like a mini-residency and I spent three days in DeKalb, IL, meeting students and faculty members and getting to know what a fantastic, supportive environment they have created in their School of Music.   Wednesday began with the NIU Philharm

I am so thrilled to be presenting my brand-new Piano Sonata on Friday, October 11, 2024, at 12 noon at Fourth Presbyterian Church's Friday Noonday Concert series. This Sonata is something I've been working on for quite a while, and was proudly commissioned by Linda Winke in honor of her mother, Barbara Slivka. More about them and the sonata in a minute. The concert will be just me on piano! I have put together a solo program which I'm calling "Who We Are || Not" which to m

Here is the entire program, followed by information about the performers. New Music at the Green Mill Sunday, May 5, 2024 4:00 pm Program Ben Zucker Xenoweave (for Peter Garland) Ben Zucker, vibraphone Daniel Lewis, vibraphone Ari Scott Descending Ari Scott, cello Amy Wurtz Winter Ari Scott, cello Jason Hurlbut, violin Amy Wurtz, piano Danny Clay see-saw Missing Piece Dan Galat, Violin Kelly Quesada, cello Myra Hinrichs Unseen Wildfire Missing Piece Pause Jeff Morris On the E

Hello friends! It's time for the 35th Spring edition of New Music at the Green Mill! I've been in charge of the Spring version of New Music at the Green Mill for a while now, and it's my pleasure to bring you another concert of new music, new performers, AND a new album! The Wurtz-Berger Duo released our latest album back in March with physical copies, and now we are celebrating the worldwide digital release of Touching Rapture on all the major streaming platforms. To celebr

It's here! It's finished! It's ready for you to listen! The Wurtz-Berger Duo is pleased to announce our new album, Touching Rapture. We have been hard at work on this album for the better part of two years, recording, editing, designing, and producing this album, and it is now ready to go out into the world. Touching Rapture contains four powerful works for cello and piano: Alex Shapiro: Of Wood and Touch Tina Davidson: Hum Amy Wurtz: Chambers Laura Elise Schwendinger: Ra

Hello friends! It's that time of year—time to celebrate women, and all we do to make the world a wonderful place. I am so excited to bring to you 31 more works written by women composers—some who lived long ago, and many who are still alive today—one per day, for each day of March. I've got some extra additions this year—watch for surprise visits from special guests, a return of Mrs. Razzle Dazzle, and a special high-tech performance that you won't want to miss! I'm fulfill

I am so thrilled to be presenting a concert dedicated to the women Composers of Chicago! I'll be playing a solo concert at Fourth Presbyterian Church's Friday Noonday Concert series on Friday, September 8, 2023, at 12:10 pm. This concert is free and open to the public if you'd like to come in person, or can be watched online either live during the concert or anytime afterwards at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfD2dFeZWa0 We will be blessed to have a number of the composers

Artwork by Susan Giles Sue Young 2022 18 x 24 inches Colored pencil on paper “They're singing for their hearts, for their souls, for their minds.” Come Through the Door is a work for chorus and piano I am excited to premiere on Thursday, June 22, 2023 at 7 pm at Friendship Village of Schaumburg, 350 W Schaumburg Rd., Schaumburg, IL, 60194. The event is free and open to the public, no tickets are necessary. Just show up! This music is the result of a collaboration with artis

It's that time of year again! We gather at the Green Mill, one of Chicago's coolest music venues, to tap into the latest in the New Music scene. This Spring's concert will be on Sunday, May 7, 4:00 pm. We feature music from Chicago composers Amos Gillespie, Kyle Gregory Price, William Jason Raynovich, and George Flynn. We hear selections from flutist extraordinaire Trevor Patricia Watkin's nationwide call for scores. We let our imaginations run wild with the Fabulous Bea

Hello friends! It's been a joy to bring more music by women into the world on a daily basis during the month of March. I'm going to close it all out with an INTERACTIVE concert bringing everyone's favorite pieces back to life one more time. On Sunday, April 2, at 7 pm CST, I'll be giving an online concert, with a twist—YOU decide which pieces I'll play on this closing celebration! I'll have played 31 pieces by the end of March, and you can select which you'd like to hear o

Hello everyone! I'm extremely pleased to announce I'm presenting a whole month's worth of music in celebration of Women's History Month! My plan is to release one video per day of a piano piece written by a woman composer. I've got colleagues here in Chicago, in California, in Washington on the docket, I've got historical greats like Fanny Mendelssohn and Clara Schumann, and of course a few of my own works thrown in for good measure. Today marks Day 7 and one of my favorit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy_BCGUl1FAI truly enjoyed creating and performing livestream concerts during lockdown, and have equally enjoyed the return to live, in-person concerts since then. So what could be better than. . .both?!?! On Sunday, November 20, 200, at 7 pm, I will be opening my house to an in-person audience, as I simultaneously broadcast via YouTube worldwide! I am so very excited, first of all for the MUSIC and also for this new format! My program is, as

Chicago's own Thirsty Ears Festival is happening this weekend! I'm so happy to be part of it again this year. Alyson and I are playing a set at 4 pm with music we are really excited about—the Debussy sonata, Only Gestures Remain by Jane O'Leary, which has me making all sorts of crazy sounds from inside the piano, Hot Streak, written by Seth Boustead especially for us, and polishing it all off with some rousing Beethoven, Sonata No. 4 in G major. We'll also be playing again