Upcoming
2026.10.23
LCollective performs AT A STEADY CONSISTENT RATE.
2026.04.04
Lex Leto x the Christine Burke Ensemble perform at Hancher Auditorium's inagural Stop/Time Festival. Full lineup and festival tickets here.
2026.01.18
Terns (Sasha Ishov and Will Yager) premieres Abandoned tree, scentless animal for bass flute/object and double bass at Constellation, Chicago, IL. Livestream here.
2025.10.30
LIGAMENT performs Nocturne at University of Northern Iowa's 2025 New Music Festival.
News
The Christine Burke Ensemble (also the Justin K Comer Ensemble and the Levi Raleigh Brown Ensemble) released their album RECENT WORKS in April 2026.
Lex Leto x Christine Burke Ensemble's album I am here but I must go is out! Streaming, CDs, and vinyl available on Bandcamp. Check out a review by Winston Jamison (Little Village) here. ("beautiful haunting energy... so alluring")
Thrilled to share Duo Axis' gorgeous performance of My simple measured steps have brought me here, a piece for amplified prepared piano & bass flute.
Since June 2022 I've been doing organ improvisations that are based loosely on one of two improvisational concepts; It creeps the mind and Something kept close.
In July 2022, my debut album, Something kept close : outdoor music was released on Sawyer Editions! Chris Molinari's review of the album can be read here.
About
Christine is a composer from Iowa whose music has been performed by LIGAMENT, Duo Axis, Alkali Collective, Bob Spring, the Walden School Creative Musicians, line upon line, Will Yager, Wolftone, Dog Star Orchestra, Density512, ETHEL, Southland Ensemble, Koehne Quartet at Wien Modern, a.pe.ri.od.ic, Alarm Will Sound at the Mizzou International Compsers Festival, the Chicago Civic Orchestra Fellows, JACK Quartet, Talea Ensemble, Heavy Air, The Living Earth Show, NOW Ensemble, and Kamratōn Ensemble. She has participated in Northwestern University's New Music Conference, Núcleo Música Nova, the UNK New Music Festival, and the Earle Brown Music Foundation’s International Summer Academy. Current projects include tabletop organ improvisations and recording an album of works by members of the Christine Burke Ensemble.
Christine holds degrees in composition and clarinet performance from the University of Iowa and Duquesne University.
Email: cburkecomp@gmail.com
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/burkec2
"Burke mines her materials masterfully"
(Cacophony Magazine)
"Striking..."
(Musical America)
"Burke’s balanced yet asymmetric musical creations dare listeners to predict the next sonic surprise"
(Vero Rose Smith, Feed Me Weird Things Visual Mixtapes)