E4TT performs works by a diverse group of ten of today’s women composers in a hybrid concert. Purchase tickets for in-person attendance or watch online here: https://youtu.be/1M_qlRr1hkI
Please note:
- Masks are required for all in attendance.
- Attendees are required to be fully vaccinated.
- Audience capacity is reduced, so purchase your tickets early!
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 7:00 p.m.
Musicians: soprano Nanette McGuinness, soprano; pianist Margaret Halbig; violinist Ilana Blumberg, and cellist Abigail Monroe.
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.
E4TT’s 2021/22 home season is supported by a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission, and sponsored, in part, by a grant from The Ross McKee Foundation.