Events
Upcoming

Saturday November 8th, 2025 | 1pm, 7:30pm
Athenaeum Center for Thought and Culture | Chicago, IL
Phoebe performs chamber works by Fjóla Evans, Viet Cuong, Liza Sobel Crane, and Molly Joyce at the Athenaeum Center in Lake View in Chicago as part of the Eyrie Festival.
The Eyrie Festival is the culminating celebration of the Blackbird Creative Lab community, produced by Eighth Blackbird as part of its 18-month residency at the Athenaeum Center for Thought & Culture. This landmark gathering brings together more than fifty composers and performers from across the Lab’s history—alumni, faculty, and special guests—for two days of innovative, collaborative performance.
Tickets for the Saturday evening concert are $40 and can be purchased here.
Attending the Saturday afternoon concert is free.
Past

Sunday October 5th, 2025 | 4pm
Holocene presents: Expanding
PianoForte | Chicago, IL
Expanding will bring focus to the voices of the living and inanimate that exist in our shared world. Featuring a world premiere by Emma Hospelhorn, Holocene will be joined onstage by the composer herself as vocalist.
Vox Balaenae by George Crumb, inspired by an early recording of the voices of whales, immerses listeners in the sense of nature’s powerful and impersonal forces.
Holocene is Dalia Chin (flute), Phoebe Wu (piano), and Isidora Nojkovic (cello).
See Ear Taxi Festival’s full lineup.

Wednesday March 26th, 2025 | 7pm
unravel by Cassandra Kaczor
Ganz Hall in Chicago, IL
Phoebe performs solo piano piece by the phenomenal Cassandra Kaczor in a night of original music featuring Roosevelt University’s CCPA faculty members & alumni in Ganz Hall.

Saturday October 21st, 2023 | 7pm
No Longer Very Clear | Chilkat Center in Haines, AK
No Longer Very Clear is an energetic and intimate contemporary classical solo concert presented by pianist Phoebe Wu that simultaneously celebrates the roots we come from and the individual creative spirit. The program highlights the beauty of blurred lines in art, featuring music by modern American composers of diverse backgrounds including works by Gabriela Lena Frank, Florence Price, Annika Socolofsky, and Lou Harrison. Each piece holds multiple influences that not only coexist but thrive together without opposing one another. This tour was made possible by support from the Robert Turnbull Piano Foundation.

Thursday October 19th, 2023 | 7pm
No Longer Very Clear | Skagway School in Skagway, AK
No Longer Very Clear is an energetic and intimate contemporary classical solo concert presented by pianist Phoebe Wu that simultaneously celebrates the roots we come from and the individual creative spirit. The program highlights the beauty of blurred lines in art, featuring music by modern American composers of diverse backgrounds including works by Gabriela Lena Frank, Florence Price, Annika Socolofsky, and Lou Harrison. Each piece holds multiple influences that not only coexist but thrive together without opposing one another. This tour was made possible by support from the Robert Turnbull Piano Foundation.

Thursday October 19th, 2023 | 2:15pm
Skagway School Outreach Assembly | Skagway, AK
All K-12 students of Skagway School join Phoebe Wu after school for an outreach presentation. Students will learn about the piano, classical and new classical music, Phoebe herself, and get on stage for a collaborative musical activity.

Sunday October 15th, 2023 | 7pm
No Longer Very Clear | Juneau Arts & Humanities Council in Juneau, AK
No Longer Very Clear is an energetic and intimate contemporary classical solo concert presented by pianist Phoebe Wu that simultaneously celebrates the roots we come from and the individual creative spirit. The program highlights the beauty of blurred lines in art, featuring music by modern American composers of diverse backgrounds including works by Gabriela Lena Frank, Florence Price, Annika Socolofsky, and Lou Harrison. Each piece holds multiple influences that not only coexist but thrive together without opposing one another. This tour was made possible by support from the Robert Turnbull Piano Foundation. Presented by the Con Brio Chamber Series.

Saturday October 14th, 2023 | 7pm
No Longer Very Clear | Sitka Performing Arts Center
No Longer Very Clear is an energetic and intimate contemporary classical solo concert presented by pianist Phoebe Wu that simultaneously celebrates the roots we come from and the individual creative spirit. The program highlights the beauty of blurred lines in art, featuring music by modern American composers of diverse backgrounds including works by Gabriela Lena Frank, Florence Price, Annika Socolofsky, and Lou Harrison. Each piece holds multiple influences that not only coexist but thrive together without opposing one another. This tour was made possible by support from the Robert Turnbull Piano Foundation.

Friday October 13th, 2023 | 10am
REACH Student Outreach | Odess Theater in Sitka, AK
Students of the REACH program in Sitka, AK will gather in Odess Theater on the campus of Sitka Fine Arts Camp to learn about the piano, share their experiences with music, and get to know Phoebe as a performer and person.

Sunday, December 11, 2022 | 4pm
Flight 88
Flight 88 is a music series founded by Ariadne Antipa and Radio Artifact to present weekly and quarterly performances in the unique space of the Reliquary at Urban Artifact in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Get into the holiday spirit with an evening filled with solo piano by Phoebe Wu, jazz combo, voice, and so much more!
Urban Artifact’s signature brews will be available on-tap during the concert. All ages welcome!
Pre-Sale General: $15
Buy tickets and find out more here
The Reliquary at Urban Artifact | 1660 Blue Rock Street, Cincinnati, OH 45223

Sunday December 4th, 2022 | 2pm
Jocelyn Zelasko and Phoebe Wu
Since meeting at Eighth Blackbird’s inaugural Blackbird Creative Lab in 2017, Jocelyn Zelasko (voice) and Phoebe Wu (piano) have performed many engaging and thought-provoking concerts together, with a recent focus on the music of George Crumb. The duo will present two works by George Crumb: the song cycle Apparition with text from Walt Whitman’s ‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d’; and A Little Suite for Christmas, A.D. 1979 for solo piano, inspired by the Nativity frescoes in the Arena Chapel in Padua, Italy. They will be joined by guest artist Michael Whalen (percussion) to perform the Illinois premiere of Fjóla Evans’ Desiccated for piano and percussion. Evans is a Canadian/Icelandic composer and cellist whose work explores the visceral physicality of sound while drawing inspiration from patterns of natural phenomena. Inspired by the patterns of cracks in drying mud, Desiccated builds a world from withered attacks and husky buzzings.
Doors at 1pm, Show at 2pm.
For $20 in-person tickets click here
For $10 livestream tickets click here
Epiphany Center for the Arts | 201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607

Friday September 16th, 2022 | 8pm
Strange Beautiful Music
Opening set with New Music Detroit at the 15th annual Multi-Day Music Marathon: Strange Beautiful Music.
Apparition by George Crumb
Vox Balaenae by George Crumb
Desiccated by Fjóla Evans (premiere)
Doors at 7pm, Show at 8pm
Andy Art Center | 3000 Fenkell St, Detroit, MI, 48238

Sunday April 10th, 2022 | 3pm
Midwest Graduate Music Consortium
The 2022 Midwest Graduate Music Consortium presents a concert of new classical chamber music by emerging composers from member schools and beyond.
Free admission
Northwestern University’s Galvin Recital Hall | 70 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, IL, 60208