Mazumal is a featured guest artist in Kamratōn’s SheScores Festival in Pittsburgh, PA, presenting a double bill of concerts on the festival’s opening day.
Opening Concert: March 21, 7:00 pm
Women+ Experimental: March 21, 9:00 pm
Five world premiere mini-operas written by composers from Guerilla Opera’s inaugural Emergence Composition Fellowship. Composers and librettists to be featured are: Leah Reid, Caroline Louise Miller, Daniel Reza Sabzghabaei (دانیال رضا سبزقبایی) and Mina Salehpour (librettist), Jeremy Rapaport-Stein, and Niko Yamamoto.
The Emergence Fellowship performing ensemble features soprano Felicia Chen (Guerilla Opera debut), soprano Aliana de la Guardia, baritone Brian Church, clarinetist Amy Advocat, saxophonist Philipp A. Stäudlin, and percussionist Mike Williams.
Reading session of drafts from five composers who have been awarded the inaugural Emergence Composition Fellowship. Each awardee has been commissioned to write a micro-opera for Guerilla Opera, which will be premiered in March 2020 at Brandeis University.
Mazumal guest lecture in Professor Claire Chase’s Music 185r class: Experimental Music Ensemble, Harvard University.
The Berklee Composition Department presents an evening of original works by faculty composers. Felicia performs the premiere of Margaret McAllister’s ‘the first person to make words’ for voice, bass clarinet, and fixed media.
Felicia is on maternity leave for the birth of her first child!
Recording session of vocal demonstrations for the five composers who have been awarded the inaugural Emergence Composition Fellowship. Each awardee has been commissioned to write a micro-opera for Guerilla Opera, which will be premiered in March 2020 at Brandeis University.
Felicia returns to The Banff Centre for her third summer residency under the artistic direction of Claire Chase and Steven Schick.
Felicia performs Bahar Royaee’s ‘Leylie’ with the National Sawdust Ensemble in the winners concert of the Hildegard Competition.
Felicia performs Bahar Royaee’s “Kitchen” for voice, fixed media, and live electronics, in a benefit concert to support the New York Immigration Coalition.
Felicia performs Bahar Royaee’s “Kitchen” for voice, fixed media, and live electronics.
Performing Bahar Royaee’s Kitchen at the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) Conference in Boston.
Mazumal makes their NYC debut in a double bill with The Parhelion Trio at Spectrum in Brooklyn.
Flutist Claire Chase performs at Holden Chapel as part of her Harvard Residency. Felicia joins the program for Phyllis Chen’s Mobius for music-boxes and electronics. Also on the program are works for solo flute by George Lewis, Tyshawn Sorey, Du Yun, and Felipe Lara.
Holden Chapel, Harvard University. 8pm, FREE.
Mazumal - Felicia Chen (voice) and Olivia J.P. Harris (cello) - present a program of new works, as part of Boston Sculptors Gallery's Second Sunday Concert Series.
Chicago premiere of Marcos Balter’s PAN, with Claire Chase and community participants from Chicago West Community Music Center and the People’s Music School.
Felicia performs in George Lewis’ Artificial Life 2007 as a guest of Claire Chase's Music 185R class at Harvard. This performance is a musical response to Teresita Fernandez's "Autumn...(Nothing Personal)" exhibition in Harvard Yard. Also on the program is Pauline Oliveros’ Environmental Dialogue” and the premiere of a new composition by Ganavya Doraiswamy.
Black Sheep Contemporary Ensemble presents an evening of music by Georges Aperghis. This event will take place at Third Life Studio on September 21st at 8:00pm. FREE ADMISSION with donations accepted at the door.
Performers:
Felicia Chen, Soprano
Bradley Frizzell, Clarinet
Nicole DeMaio, Contrabass Clarinet
Caitlin Cawley, Percussion
Program:
Les Sept crimes de l'amour
Cinq Couplets
Recitations
280 Measures
Performance fellowship at Nief-Norf Summer Festival and Conference in Knoxville, TN. The 2018 conference topic is "New Asia: an exploration of the geographic, cultural and musical situation of Asia in the global community of contemporary music."
