Detroit's Jocelyn Zelasko in Livestream Concert 7 pm CST, June 17

The four-time Grammy Award-winning Eighth Blackbird's Chicago Artists Workshop (CAW) live streamed performance series continues 7 p.m. (CST), Thursday, June 17, with a Matthew Burtner composer portrait, with Jocelyn Zelasko, soprano. The concert will be staged at Eighth Blackbird's production facility located at 4045 N. Rockwell St., Chicago and will also include interviews and a live Q&A with the artists.

Detroit-based soprano, Jocelyn Zelasko, is the vocalist for Detroit's premiere ensemble, New Music Detroit, and a founding member of ensembles Juxtatonal and Whoopknox. Her career began in the classical realm, but a passion for making complex vocal music accessible to audiences led her to pursue new music. She has performed with the Grammy award-winning ensemble Eighth Blackbird, Eastman Broadband Ensemble, and Matt Ulery Trio, among others. As an advocate for the creation of new works, Zelasko has commissioned 15 composers including Michelle McQuade Dewhirst, David Smooke, Marti Epstein, Daniel Felsenfeld and more. She also originated the title role of 100-year-old photographer, Pat Sturn, in the new mixed-media chamber opera, Pat & Emilia (Smallman/ Gervais/ Sievers-Hunt) which toured extensively in Canada and the Great Lakes region.

Burtner is an Alaskan-born composer, sound artist and eco-acoustician whose music and research explores embodiment, ecology, polytemporality and noise. Honors include First Prize Winner of the Musica Nova International Electroacoustic Music Competition (Czech Republic), a 2011 IDEA Award Winner, and a recipient of the Howard Brown Foundation Fellowship, Burtner's music. His creative musical work is closely intertwined with the sciences, particularly environmental science and engineering. He develops systems for human-computer-environment interaction featured in his music. He invented the NOMADS telematic system, the MICE human-computer ensemble and orchestra, the Metasaxophone augmented instrument, and a number of ecoacoustic approaches and is Director of the Alaskan-based environmental arts non-profit organization, EcoSono.

Tickets for the 7 p.m. CST June 17 composer portrait with Matthew Burtner and Jocelyn Zelasko, are $20, but options include choosing a price as well as contributing as a supporter. For tickets and more information visit https://www.eighthblackbird.org/product-category/caw-tickets/.