Residency for the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music

Liza is in residency in St. Paul to participate in the Bahlest Eeble Readings. Her piece for flute, horn, and cello will be workshopped.

Residency for the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music

Liza is in residency in St. Paul to participate in the Bahlest Eeble Readings. Her piece for flute, horn, and cello will be workshopped.

Residency for the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music

Liza is in residency in St. Paul to participate in the Bahlest Eeble Readings. Her piece for flute, horn, and cello will be workshopped.

Residency for the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music

Liza is in residency in St. Paul to participate in the Bahlest Eeble Readings. Her piece for flute, horn, and cello will be workshopped.

Residency for the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music

Liza is in residency in St. Paul to participate in the Bahlest Eeble Readings. Her piece for flute, horn, and cello will be workshopped.

Residency for the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music

Liza is in residency in St. Paul to participate in the Bahlest Eeble Readings. Her piece for flute, horn, and cello will be workshopped.

Liza presents at Northwestern University's Composition Colloquium

Liza will present her music to Northwestern's composers.

Liza performs in Walter Hilse's Memorial Service

Liza will sing in composer, organist, and pianist, Walter Hilse's Memorial Service.  She will sing Hilse's Psalm 27, which he composed specifically for Liza, and his On a Night of Snow.

Liza performs in Chicago Soundings

Liza will sing Natasha Bogojevich's Kyrie and the titular aria from Liza's opera, I DID, DID I? as part of Chicago Soundings' fall concert. In addition, the concert features music by Cornelius Cardew, Hughes Dufourt, George Flynn, Joanie Pallatto, Bradley Parker Sparrow, Hugh Schrapnel and Thomas Winthrop Stevens.

Benefit for Ukraine

Liza will sing in the St. Romanos Cappella in a benefit concert for Ukraine.  The performance features world and American premieres of music by Natasha Bogojevich, Roman Hurko, Ivan Moody, and Nazo Zakkah.

F-Plus performs Liza's Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Percussion at the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival

F-Plus will perform Liza's trio as part of the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival

World Premiere of (E)Merging Dances)

The New York Youth Symphony will perform the world premiere of Liza's new orchestral work, (E)Merging Dances, as part of their First Music Commission program.

World Premiere of I DID, DID I?

Sopranos Christina Pecce and Liza Sobel Crane perform with the Zafa Collective the world premiere of Liza's new opera, I DID, DID I?.  The libretto is co-written by Gina Elia and Liza Sobel Crane

World Premiere of Chasing

The Texas State University Symphony Orchestra will perform the world premiere of Liza's orchestral work, Chasing.

Performance of Liza's Trio for Violin, Clarinet, and Percussion as part of Ear Taxi Festival

F-Plus will perform Liza's trio as part of Chicago's Ear Taxi Festival.

Performance of Five Scenes for string quartet as part of Ear Taxi Festival

The Zafa Collective will perform Liza's string quartet as part of Chicago's Ear Taxi Festival.

Liza Sobel and Jonathan Hannau - American Composers Recital as part of Ear Taxi Festival

Joining forces for the first time in concert, pianist, Jonathan Hannau and Liza have curated a program of music focused around the haunting song cycle George Crumb’s Apparition in celebration of his 90th birthday and Chicago composers' music. Both Jonathan and Liza will include their own original songs. They will perform Jonathan's "Humility" and the world premiere of the titular aria from Liza's opera, I DID, DID I?. In addition, the concert will feature vocal music by Chicago based composers Niki Harlafti and Carlos Jaquez Gonzalez . Their performance is part of Chicago's Ear Taxi Festival.

World Premiere of Waiting

Liza's piece, Waiting, will be performed by the Mammoth Trio as part of Yale School of Music's Norfolk Chamber Music Festival New Music Workshop.

Bridges performed at Chicago Speaks, Chicago Listens

Chicago Speaks, Chicago Listens is an event that pairs spoken remarks from Chicago’s community leaders with music performed by musicians of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. This season’s featured speakers come from nonprofit organizations that focus on women’s rights and gender justice. As a reflection on our speakers’ remarks Civic musicians will perform music written by women composers with Chicago connections. Members of the Civic Orchestra will perform the Chicago premiere of Liza's piece, Bridges, for flute, clarinet, violin, and cello.

Lynx Project Performance of Liza's song

Hear an additional performance of "I Love You" presented through Lynx Project and the Poetry Foundation as part of Lynx's Amplify Series, in which composers set text by neurodiverse authors. After the concert, there will be a live Q&A with the composers

Liza's TeachX Presentation

Watch Liza's presentation as part of TeachX on Creating Virtual Connections and Collaborations.

Bridges performed at NACUSA

Liza's Bridges will be performed as part of the National Association of Composers (NACUSA)'s Spring Fever concert.

Lynx Project
World Premiere of Liza's song
Hear the world premiere of Liza's song "I Love You" as part of Lynx Project's Amplify Series, in which composers set text by neurodiverse authors. The performance is presented through Groupmuse.

Performance of Liza's Bridges

Liza's Bridges was performed as part of University of South Florida's International New Music Festival.

Liza's Talk at New Music Gathering

Liza spoke at New Music Gathering as part of a series called The Composer's Voice. She discussed how mental health and social media impact her compositional process. 

Reverse Forward featured in Relevant Tones podcast

Liza's piece, Reverse Forward, was featured in Seth Boustead's Relevant Tones podcast.  The episode, "Pandemic Dances" focused on how composers are staying creative and creating music during the pandemic.

World Premiere of Reverse Forward

Hear the world premiere of Liza's Reverse Forward as part of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago's 100th Anniversary Virtual Concert. The original concert was canceled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and seven composers were commissioned to create new pieces both inspired by the pandemic and the Civic Orchestra’s originally scheduled performance of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5.

World Premiere of Bridges by Ensemble Dal Niente

Ensemble Dal Niente performs the world premiere of Liza's piece, Bridges, and music by Northwestern composers.

World Premiere of Jasmine Thomasian's Electric

Liza will sing the world premiere of Jasmine Thomasian's Electric with pianist, Lam Wong, as part of Northwestern's Student Composers Concert.

Minnesota Orchestra's Performs Ticking Time Bomb

The Minnesota Orchestra, conducted by Osmo Vänskä, performs the world premiere of Liza's Ticking Time Bomb. The performance is part of the Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute.

World Premiere of Ben Zucker's Circling the Sky

Liza Sobel will sing the world premiere of Ben Zucker's song, Circling the Sky, with pianist, Mabel Kwan, as part of Northwestern's Student Composers Concert

Liza Sings at Thirsty Ears

Liza Sobel and pianist, Nathan Canfield, perform at Thirsty Ears Festival, Chicago's only classical music street fair.  They will perform music by Debussy, John Adams, Walter Hilse, Liza Sobel's song cycle, Skin, and the world premiere of Nathan's new song cycle, Brennan Song Cycle

World Premiere of Sandia Reflections

The Orchestra of St. Luke's will perform the world premiere of Liza's new orchestral piece, Sandia Reflections, as part of the inaugural DeGaetano Composition Institute.