Readers
Alex Rowney
Chicago, IL
Amalia Weddle
Chicago, IL
Ani Gogova
Burgas, Bulgaria
Read in English and Bulgarian
Anthony Cargile
Chicago, IL
Amaia Gabantxo
Basque Country, Spain
Read in English and Basque
Bahareh Poureslami
Tehran, Iran
Read in English and Farsi
Bill Rohlfing
Chicago, IL
Blake Beckstrom
Chicago, IL
Bob Bertucci
Chicago, IL
ChangHan Kim, painter
Korea
Read in English and Korean
Chris Torem
Chicago, IL
Christina Sedlmaier
Munich, Germany
- Farmer
- Active Dreaming Teacher
- ArtistDamian Flecther
Kingston, Jamaica
Daniel A. Virt
Virtual City
Darren Pollard
Detroit, MI
Darren Pollard is a self-taught artist from Detroit, currently residing in Chicago, IL and Philadelphia, PA. His first book Waltzing with a Guerrilla was published in 2017.
Debbie Cole
Chicago, IL
Debbie Putman-Hansen
Chicago, IL
Elizabeth Shuman
Chicago, IL
Eugenia Cheng
Chicago, IL
Mathematician, pianist, educator, author
Fred Ionberg-Holm
Kingston, NY
www.facebook.com/LonbergHolm.Info
Greg Schwem
Chicago, IL
Gregory Peebles, cmi
Chicago, IL
Former choral boyband member turned messy monk
Gregory Rohlfing
Chicago, IL
Herbert Quelle
Herford, Germany
Read in English and German
Herbert Quelle is a long-standing German career diplomat, currently serving as Consul General of Germany to the Midwest, based in Chicago. On the side, Herbert is a musician who composes, writes lyrics and occasionally performs in public. He is also an author, whose recently published novel on the connection between the German harmonica and African-American Blues culture has had an excellent reception.
Howard Greenblatt
Chicago, IL
Howard Greenblatt’s photography career began with a photo shoot of John Lennon with a borrowed SLR in 1972. In 1973, he moved to a kibbutz in Israel where he became a farmer. Howard saved his shekels to buy his own 35mm SLR to document the daily beauty he was experiencing.
Back in Chicago in 1980, Howard discovered TUTs Chicago. His Lennon photo helped secure a job as house photographer.
In 1988, Howard accepted a position as staff photographer at Brookfield Zoo. Later he became the Zoo’s videographer producing many conservation videos and winning numerous awards during his 18 years there.
Howard has come full circle and is shooting music once again, although this time he is following his passion for Blues and hopes to do his part to help bring people access to the blues so they too will love them!
Irina Fimov
Kharkov, Ukraine
Irwin Myers
Chicago, IL
Isobella Guill
Naperville, IL
Jason Grunebaum
Chicago, IL
Jerry Fuller
Chicago, IL
Jim Haba
Marengo, IL
Joe DeSario
Chicago, IL
Joe Frey
Chicago, IL
Joe Svec
Chicago, IL
Jon Groot
Chicago, IL
John Grod
Chicago, IL
John Guill, Naperville , IL
Naperville , IL
John Murphy
Chicago, IL
Director of Photography
Julianna Crisanti
Chicago, IL
Julie Paradiso
Chicago, IL
Julie Ris, artist
Chicago, IL
Karen A. Virt
Virtual City
Kirin Nielsen
Oak Park, IL
Born in Montreal, lived in two countries, two provinces, five states, thirteen addresses. Degrees in English literature and art (Cornell U), music (conducting MM Westminster Choir College, conducting DMA U of Illinois in Urbana). A passion for singing Renaissance polyphony. Especially love choral music and in fact vocal music generally, with the knitting together of words and music. Currently living in Oak Park, working as editor at a music publisher, and singing in an Episcopal church.
Kaurina Crisanti
Chicago, IL
Karina Konotorovitch
Chicago, IL
Read in English and Russian
Katherine Chronis
Chicago, IL
Leah Polk
Chicago, IL
Leona Haba
Marengo, IL
Linda Beckstrom
Chicago, IL
Lisa Montesano
Chicago, IL
Lisa Torem
Chicago, IL
Lisa Torem writes music-related journalism for Pennyblackmusic and other popular music sites. She cowrote Through the Eye of the Tiger and has had fiction and poetry published in The Cost of Paper, Orion Magazine and Literature Emitting Diodes, etc.
When not reviewing concerts or interviewing, she composes on piano and breaks up fights between her feisty felines.
Luis Rafael Vivanco
Lima, Peru
Liven Zhang
Beijing, China
Read in English and Chinese
Manuel Morales y Mendez
Chicago, IL
Read in English and Spanish
Matt Dula
Chicago, IL
Melissa Primavera
Chicago, IL
Melodie Laine Fox
Chicago, IL
Armed with a Coe College Bachelor of Music and a Performance Certificate in Vocal Performance from 1981, Melodie Laine Fox chose to work in Costa Rica 1982-1984 before calling Chicago home in 1986. Her performances have usually been of scored acoustic vocal and choral soprano in mainly traditional formats. She teaches private lessons in classical vocal technique from a body awareness perspective, how to sight-read keyboard scores, and music theory translated into something that makes sense.
You may access her teacher profile or email her at melodieaou@gmail.com.Michael Crisanti
Chicago, IL
Michael D. Costello
River Forest, IL
Michael D. Costello is the Cantor at Grace Lutheran Church & School in River Forest Illinois and the Artistic Director of Chicago Choral Artists. He graduated from Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, North Carolina with a degree in Sacred Music and from Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary in Columbia, South Carolina, with a divinity degree. Michael spends most of his time making music by composing, performing as an organist, or conducting a variety of different ensembles.
Mike Grosse
Chicago, IL
Been doing VO's for many years and I'm always up for any fun projects.
Nathaniel Guill
Naperville, IL
Nils Higdon
Chicago, IL
Oliver Camacho
Chicago, IL
Pat Hilander
Chicago, IL
Paul Crisanti
Chicago, IL
A Chicago based artist. Attended art school and holds an art teaching degree, but largely self taught, learning through doing, intuition and in collaborations with fellow creatives and peers.
- In old age
- Thinking & Aging
- Hell is personal
- Knowing takes a lifetime
- Chasing the myth of Easy Street
- Have a nice whale
- Owning
- a lessor greatness
- In your dreams
- Misty mornings
- What we wish were true
- America
- Flag
- Force
- The trashing of America
- Change
- Solitude
- On sunny days
- Grown down
- Life Curious
- Narcissist
- Simplicity
- Talking to myself
- 10 Warning Signs of Madness
- Typo
- Lucky
- The critic
- A last thought
- a-puzzling-life
- Crying Zone
- Do no harm
- Escape
- Highway
- If
- Parents
- Raising cane
- Strangely scenic
- The secret to love
- True love
- Puppets
- Thirst for power
- Ghost
- Silence
Peter Sedlmaier
Munich, Germany
Peter Wesoloski
Chicago, IL
Philip Solomonson
Chicago, IL
Phillip is a Chicago based concert and performance photographer shooting as City Winery Chicago’s house photographer and works with a number of Chicago arts organizations. He endeavors to explore the depth and variety performances from dance to classical music. A contributor a variety of online music web sites, he has covered many festivals and headline acts as well as intimate club shows. As a long time attendee of The Burning Man Festival Phillip explores interactive arts installations as well as found object and assemblage art.
Complemented with former careers as a performing arts presenter and digital producer, he bring a unique and broad perspective to his art and how it is presented.
Randall A. Cummins
Chicago, IL
L.M.T., M.T.I., A.O.B.T.A. Cert. Instructor, NCBTMB Provider. In his 31-year career, Randy has taught at the Chicago School of Massage Therapy, the Lauterstein-Conway School,The New School for Massage and Zen Shiatsu in Evanston, Illinois. Along with providing CE trainings, he maintains private practices in Chicago and Austin, Texas.
Rita Catino
Chicago, IL
Rita Guill
Naperville, IL
Rob Herman
Chicago, IL
Sven Herman is a multi-instrumentalist from Chicago. As one of the founding members of the infamous punk band "Mentally Ill" and current member of chamber-rock quartet "Hedgehog and the Fox", Sven blurs the genre lines of music. Primarily a bass player, Sven also plays keyboards, drums, guitar and cello.
Robert Redell
Cape Canaveral, FL
Rohan Zhou Lee
Chiicago, IL
Ryan De Ryke
Chicago, IL
Seth Parker Woods
Chicago, IL
Shoshanna Weinberger
Newark, NJ
Born in Kingston, Jamaica, 1973. Lives and works in Newark, New Jersey. Her work as exhibited in Chicago, Miami, Brussels, London, South Africa and the West Indies. Awarded: 2014 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant; and 2016 Fellowship, New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Her work has been published in numerous publications and acquired by The Newark Museum and New Jersey State Museum to name a few. Holds a Bachelors of Fine Art from The School of the Institute of Art in Chicago, 1995; and completed her Masters of Fine Arts at Yale School of Art, 2003.
Sophie Webber
San Diego, CA
Stuart Greer Hall
Chicago, IL
A native of Central Florida and US Navy veteran, Stuart came to Chicago to participate in the text book publishing industry as a production artist. With the impending doom of being outsourced and automated, he set out on a course to reinvent himself in the vibrant world of Chicago art.
Hall is an independent curator that is also nearing completion of his first body of work as an artist. His canvas is the urban landscape of Chicago and he plies his trade as a public expressionist (street artist) beneath guise of fleurs de guerre. His studio practices include painting, sculpture and installation art.
As a curator, Hall involves himself with upwards of 50 art shows and projects per year. He is formerly a curator and facilities liason for Pop-up Art Loop, an artistic outreach initiative of the Chicago Loop Alliance and continues his relationship with the CLA as production lead for their latest initiative, Activate— a monthly multi-media, multi-disciplined art event installed in iconic alleys in the Chicago’s Loop district. Currently he is a staff member of the Museum of Contemporary Chicago and is the co-curator of the annual Chicago Bike Winter Art Show.
Sue Friscia
Chicago, IL
34 year veteran of the "Teacher/Child Education Conflict". It taught me that a good teacher, was a great actor, with lots of compassion and untiring resolution. My motto was, and still is, "If it isn’t fun, I don’t want to do it!" Consequently, I figured out ways to make everything fun.
Terry Lynn Montesano
Chicago, IL
Tessa A. Virt
Virtual City
Tim Stine, Chicago jazz guitarist
Chicago, IL
Tom Crawford
Chicago, IL
Veena A. Virt
Virtual City
Vennese Gordon
Kingston, Jamaica