The Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective was conceived in 2017 by husband-and-wife duo Tom Poster, piano, and Elena Urioste, violin. The Collective operates with a flexible roster featuring many of today’s most inspirational musicians, both instrumentalists and singers, and its creative programming is marked by an ardent commitment to celebrating diversity of all forms and a desire to unearth lesser-known gems of the repertoire.
Poster and Urioste write, “Kaleidoscope has championed many unjustly neglected composers, but in the case of Reynaldo Hahn the neglect seems particularly puzzling to us. His music is immediately approachable, soaringly beautiful, and speaks directly to the heart; audiences, on the rare occasions that they get to hear it, seem to adore it. His life story is fascinating, too: born in Caracas, to a Jewish-German father and a Catholic-Venezuelan mother of Spanish / Basque origin, the handsome and urbane Hahn charmed high-society Paris, enjoying great success as composer, conductor, singer, writer-lecturer, and music critic.”
Kaleidoscope presents Hahn’s Piano Quintet, Piano Quartet, and select songs arranged for chamber ensemble by Tom Poster featuring Grammy-winning tenor Karim Sulayman.
In February, Karim Sulayman, a Chicago native and alum of Chicago Children’s Choir (now Uniting Voices), gives a local recital with pianist Shannon McGinnis.
