E4TT | Below the Surface: Music by Women Composers
Online: Free | In person: $15 ($10 members)
- Nanette McGuinness, soprano
- Margaret Halbig, piano
- Ilana Blumberg Thomas, violin
- Abigail Monroe, cello
Lisa Bielawa — Selected works
Sarah Kirkland Snider — Selected works
Elena Ruehr — Selected works
Gabriela Ortiz — Selected works
Angélica Negrón — Selected works
Akshaya Avril Tucker — Selected works
Jungyoon Wie — Selected works
Seo Yoon Soyoona Kim — Selected works
Manjing Zhang — Selected works
Musicians: soprano Nanette McGuinness, soprano; pianist Margaret Halbig; violinist Ilana Blumberg, and cellist Abigail Monroe.
E4TT performs works by a diverse group of ten of today’s women composers in a hybrid concert. The highlight of the program will be the world premiere of a COVID-delayed commissioned song cycle, Below the Surface, by Canadian-born, Scotland-based Call for Scores composer, Emily Doolittle (b. 1972) for soprano and piano, to texts by Bay Area poets Rachel Richardson (b. 1979) and Rella Lossy (1934-1996), along with nine other works by women composers:
- 2020 Opera America Discovery Grant for Female Composers recipient Lisa Bielawa (b. 1968);
- 2016 Opera America Discovery Grant for Female Composers recipient Sarah Kirkland Snider (b. 1973);
- 2014 Guggenheim Fellow Elena Ruehr (b. 1963);
- 2004 Guggenheim Fellow, Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz (b. 1964);
- Emerging Puerto-Rican-born composer Angélica Negrón (b. 1981)
- Four alumnae of the Gabriela Lena Frank Academic of Music: Akshaya Avril Tucker (b. 1992), Korean-American Jungyoon Wie (b. 1990), Seo Yoon (Soyoona) Kim (b. 1988), and Chinese composer Manjing Zhang (b. 1991).
Virtual Pre-concert COMPOSER talk at 7pm Pacific.
The concert will be performed at the Center for New Music for attendance in person by socially distanced, vaccinated, masked attendees. For those who are more distant, prefer not to attend in person or are unvaccinated, the concert will be live-streamed on YouTube.
Post-concert Meet & Greet on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83206993102?pwd=eTkrV255SkRvM2ZYVlppR2JEbE1NZz09
Link to donate: https://centerfornewmusic.com/donate/