Performing in the Time of COVID
Online series of mini-concerts, featuring the premieres of four new works for chamber chorus, designed for online rehearsal and presentation: Anne Hege's it sounds like all my dreams, Danny Clay's Singing Puzzles, Joel Chapman's Interdependence, and Pamela Z's Ink. November 2020 – July 2021.
San Francisco Choral Society: Fauré Requiem
Baritone soloist, hybrid live+Zoom performance, July 20, 2021.
Experimental Sound Studios: The Quarantine Concerts
Live-streamed music box performance featuring music by Aphex Twin, Erik Satie, Brian Eno, and an abridged version of Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Presented by The Consortionist on October 25, 2020. Archival video here.
foreignfire: waterpuller’s light
During shelter-in-place, foreignfire presents waterpuller’s light, a series of online Jewish Bible chanting rituals. Each weekly edition integrates traditional chanting with innovative translation and audiovisual work. Numbers 13:1-15:41 | Genesis 23:1-25:18
Town Hall Seattle: Widespread Orchestra
Town Hall Seattle and composer Noah Luna presented Widespread Orchestra, a composition for chorus and cello, as part of cellist Joshua Roman’s Town Music “Fermata” residency. Luna was inspired to write a piece where people could come together, despite their physical isolation, by a poem by Mighty Mike McGee that begins, “Today, I dance knowing / someone somewhere dances with me.”
Rhymes with Opera: A bas, Guillaume
A mini video opera by Ruby Fulton on the death of poet Guillaume Apollinaire in the 1918 flu epidemic. Presented at RWO CyberSalon: American Northwest on May 23, 2020.
UC Berkeley, MUS 155 Music Composition: Guest Lecturer
Exploration of approaches to contemporary music composition, analyzing how safety protocols and health concerns need to transform music practices, and, through the creation of new works, advocating for art that takes advantage of the new reality. Readings of new works for solo performer and for vocal sextet. Offered through Berkeley Arts+Design: Creative Discovery.
Academy of Art University, English for Art Purposes 4: Guest Speaker
Presentation and discussion on creativity and the creative process with undergraduate students working in illustration, fashion, graphic design, and music.
Harvard Opportunes: Change in My Life
Virtual project with Harvard’s oldest all-gender a cappella group