ChamberQueer Pride Festival: Opening Night
$25
- Mazz Swift
- Miriam Parker
- Andrew Yee, cello
- Lucas Bouk, baritone
- Clara Kim, violin
- Giancarlo Latta, violin
- Jessica Meyer, viola
- Elizabeth van Os, soprano
- Elijah McCormack, countertenor
- Melissa Wimbish, soprano
- MaKayla M. McDonald, soprano
- Brian Mummert, baritone
- Jules Biber, cello
Connor D'Netto — Dawn Wail for the Dead
Alexis Lamb — For Marsha (P. Johnson)
Rosśa Crean — Selected works
On June 10 and June 12, National Sawdust presents ChamberQUEER, an organization dedicated to highlighting historically underrepresented queer figures in western classical music and providing an intersectionally inclusive space within western classical music for artists and audience. The timing of these shows will coincide with Pride Week in NYC. Following these dates, the shows will be available to stream free via National Sawdust and ChamberQUEER's respective websites.
ChamberQUEER's concert on June 10 features a new collaboration by Miriam Parker and Mazz Swift, Connor D’Netto’s Dawn Wail for the Dead, Alexis Lamb and Aiden Feltkamp’s For Marsha (P. Johnson), and a new work by Rosśa Crean and Bea Goodwin for Lucas Bouk and CQ founder Andrew Yee. Other featured performers will include Clara Kim, Giancarlo Latta, Jessica Meyer, Elizabeth van Os, Eli McCormack, Melissa Wimbish, MaKayla McDonald, and CQ founders Brian Mummert and Jules Biber.
Doors open at 6pm; performance begins at 7pm.
Please review National Sawdust's COVID-19 safety protocols before attending this event: https://nationalsawdust.org/covid-safety-protocols
About ChamberQUEER
ChamberQUEER highlights LGBTQ+ voices in classical music; creates intersectionally inclusive spaces; and applies a queer lens to the experience of classical music in the 21st Century.
https://www.chamberqueer.org/About Andrew Yee, cello
Praised as "spellbindingly virtuosic" by Michael Kennedy of the London Telegraph, the Juilliard School trained cellist Andrew Yee is a founding member of the internationally acclaimed Attacca Quartet who have released several albums to Critical acclaim. Their newest recording of the string quartets of Caroline Shaw won a Grammy for best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble performance.
Inspired by their experience as a bi-racial and non-binary person, their solo project, Halfie, draws from their access to multiple communities at once, while simultaneously not feeling at home in any of them. Yee plays on an 1884 Eugenio Degani cello on loan from the Five Partners Foundation.
https://www.andrewyeecellist.com/About Lucas Bouk, baritone
About Clara Kim, violin
About Giancarlo Latta, violin
About Jessica Meyer, viola
About Elizabeth van Os, soprano
About Elijah McCormack, countertenor
About Melissa Wimbish, soprano
About MaKayla M. McDonald, soprano
About Brian Mummert, baritone
Brian Mummert sings, conducts, arranges, and composes music spanning eras and genres, all in the service of harnessing musical narrative as a mode for deepening mutual understanding. He is the founding artistic director of The New Consort, an American Prize-winning vocal ensemble dedicated to exploring the roles musical ritual and community play in our lives; a co-founder of ChamberQUEER, a chamber music collective highlighting the voices of LGBTQ+ composers and performers; and co-founder of The Red Ribbon Revue, a World AIDS Day concert featuring HIV+ performers celebrating the legacy of artists lost to AIDS.
http://www.brianmummert.com/