Black Cat Ensemble (BCE) is a woodwind quintet providing communities with interactive community performances, and inclusive education programming.
Black Cat Ensemble's mission offers accessible community performances and educational outreach opportunities both in-person and virtually.
Founded in 2019, BCE has served hundreds of students and counting in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin community, offering storybook presentations, Meet the Instrument demonstrations, and traditional chamber performances that engage with each audience. An advocate of supporting the local community, BCE has held yearly "Black Cat Gives Back" fundraiser concerts, raising money for local organizations such as Street Angels of Milwaukee and Hope House Milwaukee.
Black Cat Ensemble aims to provide inclusive and representational repertoire selection, working with living composers and emphasizing repertoire by underrepresented composers. Efforts to fulfill these goals include utilizing storybooks focused on cultural diversity and education, as well as performing in non-traditional venues to defy the hierarchical stigma of elitism in classical music.
Recital History
June 2-4 2023
April 2023
Danceworks Small but Mighty Collaboration
Michigan Residency with Mason County Eastern Schools
May 2022
to find the beauty in surviving our emotions in collaboration with Microcosm Ensemble
2020
Black Cat Gives Back virtual fundraiser concert for Street Angels of Milwaukee
2020
Samantha Carr, Oboe Master's Recital