Eli Winter Trio / This Time’s Quartet / Kajwan Ziaoddini

About

Eli Winter is a composer, guitarist and essayist hailing from Houston, Texas. Now based in Chicago, his music fuses elements of folk, rock, jazz and devotional music, drawing inspiration’s from the city’s genre-defying avant-garde scene. This Time’s Quartet is the project of Elsa Saade (musician/puppeteer) and Tracy Chahwan (cartoonist/illustrator). The group brings together several multi-disciplinary artists for an immersive performance containing poetry, music, live illustration and puppetry. Musician, researcher andeducator Kajwan Ziaoddini is a santur performer specializing in the Iranian classical tradition. He is currently a Ph.D candidiate in ethnomusicology at the University of Maryland, focused on the dynamics of music, identity and politics.