The Next Generation: Young Women Composers
$12 suggested donation
- Chelsea Randall, piano
Lawren Brianna Ware — Selected works
Jordan Millar — Selected works
Ebunoluwa Oguntola — Selected works
Mena C. Williams — Selected works
Chloe Clarke Smith — Selected works
Sena Ahouangijnou — Selected works
Zuri Butler — Selected works
KiMani Bridges — Selected works
Pianist Chelsea Randall, founder of the American Mavericks Project (AMP) dedicated to piano music by Black Ameircan composers, presents a lecture-recital celebrating the next generation of young, talented female composers in honor of Women's History Month. The program includes pieces by AMP's 2024 Call for Scores winners Lilyanne Dorilas and Lawren Brianna Ware, Luna Composition Lab alums Jordan Millar and Ebun Oguntola, Wildflower Composers alums Mena Williams and Chloe Clarke Smith, A4TY alums Sena Ahouangijnou and Zuri Butler, and WC and LCL alum KiMani Bridges.
This concert will also be livestreamed.
About American Mavericks Project
The American Mavericks Project (AMP) celebrates piano music by Black American composers 1900-present, with emphasis on 21st-century composers, through commissions, performances, education, and research.
https://www.americanmavericksproject.com/About Chelsea Randall, piano
NY-based pianist Chelsea Randall is a multifaceted artist who seeks to create fresh dialogues between the old, new and undiscovered as a performer. Recent appearances include a series of livestream recitals featuring seldom heard works by Robert Palmer, supported in part by a grant from Live From our Living Rooms, and solo recitals in California, New York and the Tri State Area. As a soloist, Chelsea has concertized at venues from Weill Recital Hall and Alice Tully Hall to Clare College at Cambridge University, and is the recipient of research and performance grants from Conservatoire de Paris and McGill University among others. She is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of EXTENSITY, a concert series in NY which aims to promote underrepresented and new voices in music. Chelsea received her musical education from NYU, The Royal College of Music and Juilliard.
https://www.chelsearandall.com/