Join us for an evening of new solo and chamber music at 2640 Space featuring members of Mind on Fire and Chicago based percussionist Kyle Flens (of Ensemble Dal Niente)! It will be a thrilling evening! Tickets for the night are $10-20 sliding scale.

Concert Program

Mind on Fire presents:
Blurred by Bill Ryan
Thick Line by Alex Temple
Deck by Will Redman

Kyle Flens presents:
Anima by Igor Santos - Jasmine Hogan, harp
An Economy of Means by Robert Honstein


More about Kyle Flens...
Kyle Flens, (b.1991, Baltimore, MD), is a multi-faceted percussionist. Based in Chicago IL, he is a member of Ensemble Dal Niente.
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Kyle maintains an active and rigorous performance schedule each year. Recent highlights include concerts at the Foro Internacional de Música Nueva Manuel Enriquez (Mexico City, Mexico), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the LA Philharmonic's Noon to Midnight Festival at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the 5th International Festival of Percussion Ensembles (San José, Costa Rica), Institutio Inhotim (Minas Gerais, Brazil), and the Winter Festival in Ouro Preto and Mariana (Minas Gerais, Brazil). As an advocate for new music, he has premiered compositions by Eliza Brown, Anthony Cheung, Elliot Cole, Darcy Copeland, Julio Estrada, Luis Fernando Amaya, Robert Fleisher, Erin Gee, Robert Honstein, Kyle Krause, Alexis C. Lamb, Brian Penkrot, Igor Santos, Ben Wahlund, and Katherine Young.

Kyle’s schedule as an educator is equally as active. He has given clinics at world class institutions: Western Washington University, DePaul University, Instituto Nacional de la Música (San José, Costa Rica), the Juilliard School, and Boston Conservatory at Berklee. He has been in residency at University of California Davis, The Walden School, Brandeis University, Brown University, and Stanford University. Kyle performs on Pearl Drums and Adams Percussion Instruments, and is honored to be an endorsed artist.