CHICAGO TRIBUNE LISTS 2021 COLLABORATIVE WORKS FESTIVAL IN TOP 10 FALL CRITIC'S PICKS

The Chicago Tribune has listed CAIC’s 2021 Collaborative Works Festival, Strangers in a Strange Land, which Nick curates and performs in, as the second of its top 10 classical music and jazz critic’s picks for the 2021 Fall season:

“The Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago (CAIC) — the city’s prized art-song outfit — is back with an in-person festival, and it’s managed to outdo itself yet again on the programming front. This year’s festival ruminates on immigration and migration, placing dead composers in dialogue with living ones such as Mohammed Fairouz, Gabriela Lena Frank and Chen Yi. But in a classic case of ‘The more things change …,’ when it comes to xenophobia and displacement, the sentiments depicted in the century-old pieces will feel achingly current.”