From the Cosmos to the Soul: A Celebration of Women's Music
Company: Illuminate Women's Music
Soprano and curator Rose Hegele and pianist Julia Scott Carey present From the Cosmos to the Soul: A Celebration of Women’s Music on May 19, 2021 at Illuminate Women’s Music’s digital livestream series. The program journeys from the outer world to the inner world, starting with pieces that celebrate the creation of the universe and the natural world, moving inward to embrace the human voice and examine how we connect to others, and ending with self-reflection. This concert is supported through a seed grant from New York Women Composers Inc. (NYWC), and features compositions by five NYWC members: Sabrina Peña Young, Anne Phillips, Svjetlana Bukvich, Niloufar Nourbakhsh, and Beata Moon. Other works are by Mari Kotskyy, Kamala Sankaram, Margaret Bonds, Sungji Hong, and Mason Bynes.
Admission is Free.
YouTube Stream Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHTERcEWAyP9PsYzTSpCWwA/featured
PROGRAM
Sabrina Peña Young’s “Light” from Creation Oratorio
Anne Phillips’s “Why Faith Abides,” “Romancing Ketchikan” and “An Enduring Imbalance” from An Alaskan Trilogy
Mari Kotskyy’s “Winter Song” (world premiere)
Kamala Sankarm’s “Ololyga”
Svjetlana Bukvich’s “Tattoo” from Interior Designs - originally commissioned by Carolyn Dorfman Dance.
Margaret Bonds’s “Women Have Loved Before As I Love Now,” “Feast” and “What Lips My Lips Have Kissed” from Six Songs on Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sungji Hong’s “Bell Song" (world premiere)
Niloufar Nourbakhsh’s “The Window”
Mason Bynes’s “The House”
Beata Moon’s “Time to Reflect”
Canadian soprano Rose Hegele facilitates rigorous performance experiences that explore the extremes of human vocal expression in 20th and 21st century art music. She has been lauded for her ease with extended vocal techniques, creating “siren-like sounds that explored extremes of the vocal range” (The Boston Music Intelligencer). Specializing in contemporary opera, chamber music, and improvisation, Ms. Hegele sings to create a space to heal souls and bodies, and to allow humans to embrace all of their complexity and humanity. Highlights include world premiering the roles of “Venus,” “Doctor” and “First Lady” in Andy Vores’s Chrononhotonthologos with Guerilla Opera in 2017; leading ensemble performances in Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire at Clark University in February 2020; and collaborating with the Berklee College of Music’s Neither/Nor Composers’ Ensemble to perform improvisatory works by George Lewis, Iancu Dumitrescu, Richard Carrick, and Berklee’s student composers.
Ms. Hegele was awarded a Post-Master’s Degree Fellowship from the Berklee College of Music in 2019. She holds a Master’s Degree in Contemporary Classical Music from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and a Bachelor of Music Degree in Vocal Performance and Musical Arts from the Eastman School of Music.
Julia Scott Carey is the Minister of Music at the Central Square Congregational Church in Bridgewater, where she leads the adult and children’s choirs from the keyboard. She is one of the accompanists for the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and the Boston Symphony Children’s Choir. She also serves as the accompanist for the Metropolitan Chorale, the Dedham Choral Society, the Boston College University Chorale, and the Boston Saengerfest Men’s Chorus. Julia teaches musicianship and serves as department coordinator at the Suzuki School in Newton. She is also a founder and core ensemble member of Juventas New Music Ensemble.
As a composer, her orchestral works have been performed by numerous orchestras, including the Boston Symphony and the Boston Pops, and have been broadcast on national TV and radio in the U.S. and in Russia. She was the youngest composer ever published by the Theodore Presser Company. She was also chosen to arrange a folk song for Yo-Yo Ma and Lynn Chang to play at Deval Patrick's inaugural ball.
Julia Scott Carey received a master’s degree in composition from the Harvard-New England Conservatory joint degree program, as well as a master’s degree in collaborative piano from Boston University.
Illuminate Women’s Music is a project to promote the work of emerging women composers and performers. It also gives a platform for historical repertoire by women composers to sit alongside new works. The project has been set up by Dr Angela Elizabeth Slater in 2017, a freelance composer who is a strong advocate of the promotion of women’s music both past and present. The project continues with the support of fellow composers Blair Boyd and Sarah Westwood.
New York Women Composers, Inc. was founded by composers Elizabeth Bell, Lucy Coolidge, Ann Callaway, and Robert Friou, Esq., in 1984. It is a New York 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation, under the direction of its members. Membership is open to residents of New York State and the greater New York City metropolitan region who are women composers of serious concert music and to those in musical occupations who support the recognition of women composers.
Admission is Free.
YouTube Stream Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHTERcEWAyP9PsYzTSpCWwA/featured
PROGRAM
Sabrina Peña Young’s “Light” from Creation Oratorio
Anne Phillips’s “Why Faith Abides,” “Romancing Ketchikan” and “An Enduring Imbalance” from An Alaskan Trilogy
Mari Kotskyy’s “Winter Song” (world premiere)
Kamala Sankarm’s “Ololyga”
Svjetlana Bukvich’s “Tattoo” from Interior Designs - originally commissioned by Carolyn Dorfman Dance.
Margaret Bonds’s “Women Have Loved Before As I Love Now,” “Feast” and “What Lips My Lips Have Kissed” from Six Songs on Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sungji Hong’s “Bell Song" (world premiere)
Niloufar Nourbakhsh’s “The Window”
Mason Bynes’s “The House”
Beata Moon’s “Time to Reflect”
Canadian soprano Rose Hegele facilitates rigorous performance experiences that explore the extremes of human vocal expression in 20th and 21st century art music. She has been lauded for her ease with extended vocal techniques, creating “siren-like sounds that explored extremes of the vocal range” (The Boston Music Intelligencer). Specializing in contemporary opera, chamber music, and improvisation, Ms. Hegele sings to create a space to heal souls and bodies, and to allow humans to embrace all of their complexity and humanity. Highlights include world premiering the roles of “Venus,” “Doctor” and “First Lady” in Andy Vores’s Chrononhotonthologos with Guerilla Opera in 2017; leading ensemble performances in Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire at Clark University in February 2020; and collaborating with the Berklee College of Music’s Neither/Nor Composers’ Ensemble to perform improvisatory works by George Lewis, Iancu Dumitrescu, Richard Carrick, and Berklee’s student composers.
Ms. Hegele was awarded a Post-Master’s Degree Fellowship from the Berklee College of Music in 2019. She holds a Master’s Degree in Contemporary Classical Music from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and a Bachelor of Music Degree in Vocal Performance and Musical Arts from the Eastman School of Music.
Julia Scott Carey is the Minister of Music at the Central Square Congregational Church in Bridgewater, where she leads the adult and children’s choirs from the keyboard. She is one of the accompanists for the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and the Boston Symphony Children’s Choir. She also serves as the accompanist for the Metropolitan Chorale, the Dedham Choral Society, the Boston College University Chorale, and the Boston Saengerfest Men’s Chorus. Julia teaches musicianship and serves as department coordinator at the Suzuki School in Newton. She is also a founder and core ensemble member of Juventas New Music Ensemble.
As a composer, her orchestral works have been performed by numerous orchestras, including the Boston Symphony and the Boston Pops, and have been broadcast on national TV and radio in the U.S. and in Russia. She was the youngest composer ever published by the Theodore Presser Company. She was also chosen to arrange a folk song for Yo-Yo Ma and Lynn Chang to play at Deval Patrick's inaugural ball.
Julia Scott Carey received a master’s degree in composition from the Harvard-New England Conservatory joint degree program, as well as a master’s degree in collaborative piano from Boston University.
Illuminate Women’s Music is a project to promote the work of emerging women composers and performers. It also gives a platform for historical repertoire by women composers to sit alongside new works. The project has been set up by Dr Angela Elizabeth Slater in 2017, a freelance composer who is a strong advocate of the promotion of women’s music both past and present. The project continues with the support of fellow composers Blair Boyd and Sarah Westwood.
New York Women Composers, Inc. was founded by composers Elizabeth Bell, Lucy Coolidge, Ann Callaway, and Robert Friou, Esq., in 1984. It is a New York 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation, under the direction of its members. Membership is open to residents of New York State and the greater New York City metropolitan region who are women composers of serious concert music and to those in musical occupations who support the recognition of women composers.
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