Music For New Bodies
Directed by PETER SELLARS*
A major new work and first collaboration between AMOC* member and co-founder composer Matthew Aucoin and director Peter Sellars is brought to life by five vocal soloists and an 18-instrument ensemble conducted by Matthew Aucoin.
Music for New Bodies is inspired by the visionary poetry of Jorie Graham, addressing some of the most urgent questions of our time: In our quest for immortality, what have human beings done to the planet, and what are we doing to ourselves? What are these post-human, machine-generated intelligences that we so heedlessly continue to create, and which seem almost capable of replacing us? Music for New Bodies is a 360-degree portrait of the moment we are living in, a piece that brings together questions of environmental responsibility, scientific progress and the ethics of humanity’s questionable quest to surpass the human.
SOFIA GOTCH*, soprano
MERYL DOMINGUEZ*, soprano
ELANA BELL*, mezzo
PAUL APPLEBY, tenor
DAVÓNE TINES, bass-baritone
EMI FERGUSON, flutist
HUNTER O’BRIEN*, flutist
JOE JORDAN*, oboist
YASMINA SPIEGELBERG*, clarinetist
ALEXANDER DAVIS*, bassoonist
JACQUELINE KERROD*, harpist
NING YU*, keyboardist
LUCAS AMORY*, pianist
KEIR GOGWILT, violinist
MIRANDA CUCKSON, violinist
CARRIE FREY*, violist
COLEMAN ITZKOFF, cellist
IVA CASIAN LAKOS*, cellist
MAGGIE COX*, bassist
SANDBOX PERCUSSION: JONNY ALLEN, TERRY SWEENEY*, IAN ROSENBAUM*, VICTOR CACCESE*, percussionist
*denotes guest artist
Co-commission of DACAMERA, the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, AMOC*, LA Opera and Aspen Music Festival and School
Upcoming:
Incubator Residency followed by invited sharing on September 5, 2024 at Lindemann Performing Arts Center, Brown University. Learn more.
photo by Lynn Lane.
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