Till by Turning is the collective effort of Amy Cimini, Erica Dicker, Emily Manzo, and Katherine Young.

Working as performers, educators, improvisers, scholars, composers, and songwriters--Till by Turning performs new chamber music by established and emerging artists and develops creative educational programs. Our programming features original songs, compositions, and arrangements written by our core members.

As Time Out Chicago wrote about the ensemble: "There’s an old Shaker dance number, written in 1848 by Elder Joseph Brackett, that likely serves as inspiration for...Till by Turning. It’s called 'Simple Gifts' and what it describes is a kind of serendipitous joy in movement through time and space: When true simplicity is gain'd / To bow and to bend we shan't be asham'd / to turn, turn will be our delight / Till by turning, turning we come round right."

"The group belongs to a new generation of adventurous musicians bringing contemporary music to clubland....[T]he players dip into the modern canon...and give breath to new works by their peers."

The members of Till by Turning met while studying instrumental performance at Oberlin Conservatory. Inspired in part by a unique instrumentation (violin, viola, bassoon, and piano), our first concert was a program of Sofia Gubaidulina's music.

Since then, we have commissioned and premiered music by Jessica Pavone, Aaron Siegel, Jason Cady, Jim Altieri, Sabrina Schroeder, Alex Ness, and Jordan McLean. Our repertoire also includes pieces by Morton Feldman, Olivier Messiaen, Ornette Coleman, Harold Meltzer, Faust, James Tenney, and Christian Wolff. We explore our group's creativity by presenting original and collaborative works produced by our members.