Nocturne is a concert series based on modern classical, ambient, and early music. Each event showcases acoustic instrumentation with minimal electronics performed in an atmospheric manner. Expect to hear musicians take traditional sounds and reinterpret them according to their unique context.

The inaugural installment of Nocturne will feature experimental musicians Anna Johnson, Kenneth Gregory, and Sophia Deutsch.

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Anna Johnson is an experimental musician and visual artist. Based in drone and hypnotic repetition, her sound unites electroacoustic improvisation with Celtic and Anglo folk traditions and sacred medieval music. She is drawn to the meeting points between personal and mythical, present and ancient.

Johnson is currently based in Chicago and originates from the Twin Cities, where she established roots in experimental and traditional music communities, including two years with Eastern European women's choir Mila Vocal Ensemble and annual performances at the Cedar Cultural Center's Drone Not Drones festival. She holds an MFA from the performance department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She tours regularly in North America and Europe and has presented both solo and collaborative work in music venues, theaters, art galleries and film festivals for over 10 years. Unknowing, Johnson’s debut EP under her own name, was released on cassette in 2025 by UK label Industrial Coast.

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Kenneth Gregory is a musician and composer from northeastern Minnesota. He is fascinated by nature sounds, how they are combined with and influenced by the sounds of industry, and how they may be incorporated into music. He became connected with the Twin Cities underground electronic music scene during the 2010s. Since moving back to his hometown of Duluth, he has adopted a more naturalistic and free-flowing sound that reflects the vast expanse of Lake Superior. Kenneth utilizes experimental recording techniques involving tape loops, field recordings, primitive digital sampling, and vintage keyboards to create sound tapestries that are at once hypnotic and emotionally resonant. His recent album "the ephemeral pool,” which celebrates the new life of spring and the fragility of natural wetlands, was released in May.

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Sophia Deutsch is a Minneapolis-based cellist and composer. Her solo work is a studio, compositional, and improvisational practice centered around the suspension of time and psychedelic emotional states. Using a boutique looping setup inspired by the tape-loop experiments of Eno & Fripp, along with analog tape delay and live processing, she creates immersive musical flotations built from layered cello, shifting harmonic environments, and melody. Rooted in both classical training and years freaking in the experimental and DIY music communities, her work moves between ambient composition, drone, and contemporary minimalism while maintaining a strong improvisational core.