West End Music | West End Micro Music Festival: Ecstatic Voices

ECSTATIC VOICES envisions a new context for the eight-voice choir. Featuring bold, sensual works for voices — Cassandra Miller’s The City, Full of People, Caroline Shaw’s Pulitzer Prize winning Partita for 8 Voices, Luciano Berio’s Cries of London, and Thomas Tallis’ Lamentations of Jeremiah — this performance subverts expectation for the choir; bending, twisting, and mutating historical forms into new shapes and gestures.

​Punctuating the performance is Claude Vivier’s Cinq Chansons pour Percussion, featuring virtuso percussionist Aiyun Huang. In dialogue with the vocal works, these wordless songs evoke an otherworldly ecstasy.​

Repertoire
Cassandra Miller – The City, Full of People
Caroline Shaw – Partita for 8 Voices
Luciano Berio – The Cries of London
Thomas Tallis – Lamentations of Jeremiah
Claude Vivier – Cinq Chansons pour Percussion

Artists
Aiyun Huang, percussion
Sydney Baedke, voice 1
Reilly Nelson, voice 2
Danika Lorèn, voice 3
Whitney O’Hearn, voice 4
Marcel d’Entrement, voice 5
Elias Theocharidis, voice 6
Bruno Roy, voice 7
Graham Robinson, voice 8
Simon Rivard, conductor

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