Chicago, From Scratch is a cost-free creative music composition program. Over the course of two months, directors Hannah Christiansen and Joseph Bricker provide a series of group and individual workshops to introduce students to writing for their own and other instruments and ultimately commission them to write brand new works. At the end of the workshops, students oversee a professional recording of their work and introduce the live premiere of their pieces at a performance event.

The 2021 cohort included student composers from the Chicago Musical Pathways Initiative. Music composed by Brandon Harper, Sophia Luong, Malik Ali Muhammad, Nazeeh Shahid, and Noëlle Streuber-Eden and performed by Joe Bricker, percussion and Hannah Christiansen, violin.

Recorded at Guarneri Hall in Chicago on May 31, 2021.