The MAVerick Ensemble is dedicated to the performance and presentation of works by composers, artists, and filmmakers of the past fifty years who sought ways to create new works that resisted the trends of the established artistic community.

Known for its bold programming and its exceptional performances, the MAVerick Ensemble presents concerts of experimental music designed to engage, entertain, and inform the audience. In residence at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, the ensemble presents a year-long concert series that has been selected as Critic's Choice in the Chicago Reader.

For more information on how to hire the MAVerick Ensemble for your institution please contact the artistic director, William Jason Raynovich.

Upcoming performances:

Concert XI
Sunday, April 25, 2:00pm
   Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
   2320 West Chicago Avenue, Chicago
Featuring Composers: Bilotta, Boustead, Crumb, Sciarrino, Räisänen

Concert XII
Saturday, May 15, 8:00pm
   Flat Iron Building
   1579 North Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago
Featuring Composers: Boustead, Cage, Räisänen

Featured Composer:
Tomi Räisänen:

     The Finnish composer Tomi Räisänen (born June 2, 1976 in Helsinki) studied composition from 2000 to 2006 at the Sibelius Academy with Erkki Jokinen. Before entering the Sibelius Academy he read music at the University of Helsinki studying musicology and composition with Harri Vuori. He has also participated in several international composition masterclasses, seminars and workshops with composers such as Louis Andriessen, Brian Ferneyhough, Jonathan Harvey, Michael Jarrell, Jouni Kaipainen, Magnus Lindberg, Philippe Manoury and Marco Stroppa. Since early 2000’s Räisänen's list of works has rapidly grown and contains compositions from solo pieces to chamber and choral music, and includes orchestral pieces and concertos. Räisänen's music has been widely performed and broadcast in more than 30 countries across Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia. In year 2007 Räisänen won the international Irino Prize in Japan with his work "Stheno". In year 2002 he was awarded with the 2nd prize in the international composition competition "2 Agosto" in Italy. He has also gained success in other composition competitions in Finland and Australia. All Räisänen works are being published by Edition TROY.

"[The MAVerick Ensemble's] performance of Music for 1, 2, or 3 people reminded me of David Tudor's." - Christian Wolff "Some of the finest performances of [my] pieces that I have ever received" - James Tenney