St. David's Music Series: Ensemble-in-Residence Concert – Musica Spira
Free
- Paula Maust, harpsichord
- Grace Srinivasan, soprano
The 2023-2024 Ensemble-in-Residence Musica Spira ("Music Breaths") presents a concert entitled "Her Perspective," featuring music of Baroque women composers retelling stories of Biblical heroines.
About St. David's Music Series (Baltimore)
https://stdavidsrolandpark.com/music/the-st-davids-music-series.html
About Paula Maust, harpsichord
Paula Maust is a performer, scholar, and educator dedicated to fusing research and creative practice to amplify underrepresented voices and advocate for social change. She is the creator of Expanding the Music Theory Canon, an open-source collection of music theory examples by women and/or people of color. A print anthology based on the project is under contract with SUNY Press, and she has published articles in Women and Music and the Journal of the International Alliance for Women in Music. Maust is also an Early Modern Area Editor for Grove Music Online's substantial gender and sexuality revision project. As a harpsichordist and organist, Maust has been praised for combining "great power with masterful subtlety" (DC Metro Theater Arts) and as a "refined and elegant performer" (Boston Musical Intelligencer). As the co-director of Musica Spira, she curates provocative lecture-concerts connecting baroque music to contemporary social issues focused on women. Maust performs extensively as a continuo player with numerous ensembles in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C. region, including the Washington Bach Consort, the Folger Consort, and Third Practice. She is an assistant professor of music theory at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. Prior to her appointment at Peabody, she taught music theory and keyboard skills at UMBC from 2016 to 2021.
https://www.paulamaust.com/About Grace Srinivasan, soprano
Praised for her "beautiful vocalism" (San Francisco Gate) and engaging presence, soprano Grace Srinivasan has established herself in the Baltimore-Washington area as a performer of a wide spectrum of repertoire ranging from medieval chant to contemporary compositions.
A graduate of Peabody Conservatory and a Washington, D.C. area native, Grace sings professionally as a cantor and associate music director at St. Stephen Martyr Catholic Church, section leader at Temple Sinai, and at Washington National Cathedral as a staff soprano. Grace has sung with ensembles throughout the region, including the Washington Bach Consort, Cathedra, and Chantry, and has performed on concert stages across North America from Boston to the Dominican Republic.
Grace serves as resident music director for the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company in downtown Baltimore and is a co-founder of the early music duo Musica Spira, which highlights music by early modern women. An occasional screen actor, she appeared in the PBS docudrama Enemy of the Reich as Noor Inayat Khan.
http://www.gracesrinivasan.com/