In their second concert series of their inaugural season, Vanishing Point Ensemble brings their program, Intersecting Planes, featuring works whose composers interweave contrasting musical traditions and fragmentation. Influences include Renaissance chorale and Gregorian chant, Celtic fiddle tunes, Georgian and Japanese folk song, heavy metal, American and Appalachian traditions, and Mozart.
Works by Kevin Lau, Gabriela Ortiz, Paul Wiancko, Gabriella Smith, and Reena Esmail. Program will be approximately 1 hour, no intermission.
Featuring Performers:
Carmen Abelson, Dylan Feldpausch, violins
Rebecca Miller, viola
J Holzen, cello
Doors at 6pm and the performance will begin at 7pm. Dorothy remains open after the event until 11pm.
RSVPs are free. A $12 cover will be charged at the door.
RSVPs are not required and do not guarentee entry. RSVPs serve as calendar reminders for guests and attendance anticipation for the Dorothy staff and are not in lieu of a cover charge at the door.
Dorothy is 21+ and requires physical or mobile ID at the door. Dorothy is also ADA Accessible with elevator access on Campbell Ave. If you are a guest who requires elevator access, please wait by the black door with our logo in the window and call our staff to assist: 773-770-3799
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ABOUT THE ENSEMBLE + PERFORMERS
Vanishing Point Ensemble is a contemporary classical chamber collective, founded in 2025 and based in Chicago, Illinois. We aspire to amplify the voices of composers from the modern era, broaden access to musical experiences, and energize the role of chamber music in today's world. The vanishing point in a picture is where all lines converge, providing perspective beyond the frame. https://www.vanishingpointensemble.com/
Violinist Carmen Abelson (she/her/hers) works throughout the Chicagoland and Midwest areas as an orchestral, chamber, and solo performer and music educator. Currently assistant principal 2nd violin of the West Michigan Symphony and a tenured member of the Illinois Philharmonic and Elgin Symphony orchestras, Abelson recently won a position with the Chicago Sinfonietta. As well, she teaches violin through the People’s Music School SLAM program, at Glenbard East high school, and maintains a private studio. Abelson holds degrees from Rice, Sam Houston State, and DePaul Universities where she pursued interests in music history, period performance, and pedagogy in addition to violin playing. Having performed chamber music throughout Chicago as a Civic Fellow during her three-year stint with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Abelson is a current member of Varo String Quartet. Outside the world of classical music, she performs in the family band “Susan and Sons” with her mother and sister and with the Bristol Busk ‘n’ Frolic at the Bristol Renaissance Fair.
Dylan Feldpausch is a violinist and composer from Austin, Texas with degrees in violin performance from Rice University and Arizona State University. They were a Chicago Civic Orchestra Fellow from 2021 to 2023, and they are currently the Program Manager and Head Teaching Artist for Apollo’s Fire Baroque Orchestra’s Side-by-Side strings program in Matteson, Illinois. Whether they're teaching or performing, Dylan seeks to adapt musical convention to best serve whichever audience or community they're bringing their experience to. They are a founding member of Hot Second, a genre-bending violin and percussion duo based in Chicago, and are a core member of Ensemble Mycelium.
Rebecca Miller is a violist with extensive experience across a variety of genres, both onstage and in the pit. She performs with a number of orchestras throughout the greater Midwest, including Northwest Indiana Symphony, Des Moines Metro Opera Orchestra, Orchestra Iowa, Camerata Chicago, Elgin Symphony, and Chicago Sinfonietta. Rebecca has been a top prizewinner at Glenn Gould School Chamber Music Competition with the Highwood Quartet. An enthusiastic advocate for contemporary music, she was part of a 2024 performance of Steven Takasugi’s Sideshow, and has premiered works by many young composers, most recently alongside cellist Anssi Kartunnen, violist Steven Dann, and composer Magnus Lindberg as part of Creative Dialogue France. She has taken part in Chicago’s NUNC Festival, Toronto’s 21C Festival, and enjoyed multiple seasons with the NEXT Festival of Emerging Artists. Rebecca holds degrees from Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music, the Glenn Gould School, and the Boston Conservatory.
Cellist and educator J Holzen is in constant pursuit of musical collaborations of all kinds, including contemporary chamber music, pop and jazz shows, and working with students to achieve their artistic goals. Their enthusiasm and sincerity as an artist and performer encourages audience members and students alike to join J on their artistic journey or begin their own. J is a current Fellow with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and a member of Orchestra Iowa and the Sioux City Symphony. Engagements as an educator include serving as a Teaching Associate in Music at Lake Forest College, teaching early childhood music classes through outreach teaching programs in the Chicago Public Schools, and maintaining a private cello studio. J grew up in a musical family in St. Louis, Missouri, and holds a Master of Music in Cello Performance from DePaul University and a Bachelor of Music in Cello Performance from Oberlin Conservatory. Their primary teachers include Brant Taylor, Darrett Adkins, and Ken Kulosa.