tickets $50 | $35

Includes a drink ticket for one craft cocktail.
Festival Passes on sale October 16, 2023. 
Single tickets on sale in 2024. 
Fourth Coast’s Shores of Song Festival is our 10th Anniversary celebration of the city that has nurtured our art making for a decade. Focusing on the four major components of our repertoire, song, poetry, and composition, the festival spans four concerts. From Schumann to Chicago kicks off the festival with Robert Schumann’s quintessential 1849 song cycle for four voices, Minnespiel, followed by a curated second half of songs by Chicago composers, each chosen in direct response to a corresponding movement of Minnespiel.  

Pianists Andrew Rosenblum and Maria Sumareva join the quartet at the beautifully appointed KOVAL Tasting Room in Ravenswood. The program lasts 90 minutes, and each attendee will receive a drink ticket for one craft cocktail at the bar.

artists

Andrew Rosenblum enjoys a multifaceted career as a pianist and harpsichordist. Praised for his “beautifully responsive…warm and inviting” playing (Fanfare Magazine), he has performed internationally with renowned artists at venues including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and The Kennedy Center. Highlights of his 2022-23 season include performances of chamber works by George Walker at The Phillips Collection, and a U.S. tour with cellist Seth Parker Woods.
Maria Sumareva has performed as a soloist and as a collaborative pianist across Europe and the United States. Her interest in new works has led to recording the complete sonatinas by J.A. Benda and premiering works by Bussad, McLoskey and Beleaev. Sumareva has appeared in several international festivals and her live performances have been broadcast on Moldovan, Romanian, and Hungarian radio and television stations. Sumareva currently teaches piano and chamber music at Loyola University Chicago.

ABOUT OUR VENUE

Founded in 2008 by husband-and-wife team, Dr. Robert Birnecker and Dr. Sonat Birnecker Hart, KOVAL began as the first distillery to open in Chicago since the mid-1800s. Prior to starting the distillery, Sonat and Robert had established careers in government and academia, but chose to forge a new path together.  KOVAL means 'smith' or 'blacksmith' in many Eastern European languages, however in Yiddish, it has the added meaning of someone who 'forges ahead.' KOVAL is an homage to Sonat's great grandfather who earned it as a nickname when he dared to move from turn-of-the-century Vienna to the US to start a new life from scratch, while it also honors Robert's grandfather, from whom he learned to distill, as his family name is Schmid, the German equivalent of Koval. Every product KOVAL makes is Certified Organic by Midwestern Organic Services Association (MOSA) and Certified Kosher through the Orthodox Union (OU). The KOVAL Tasting Room is located inside the production distillery (along with the KOVAL store, tours, events, and outdoor patio) at 4241 N. Ravenswood Avenue. Visit the KOVAL tasting room for cocktails, flights, perfect pairs, light bites, international coffee drinks and more.