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Chelsea Randall
Arts + Literature Laboratory presents an evening of music for piano by Black American women composers, performed by Chelsea Randall, on Saturday, March 2, 2024 at 7:00pm. Tickets $20 general admission or $15 student/ALL Member in advance online, or $25 at the door for everyone.
In celebration of International Womens Month, this concert features a diversity of piano music by multigenerational Black American women composers, ranging from rarely heard gems by Undine Smith Moore and Dorothy Rudd Moore, to pieces by living composers working in collaboration with Chelsea Randall including Regina Harris Baiocchi and Joyce Solomon Moorman. The program will include a complete performance of Joyce Solomon Moormans partially unpublished Sonata A Summer Afternoon in South Carolina and the world premiere of Modern Prelude & Minuet by emerging composer and Wildflower Composers alum, Mena Williams. Program duration approximately 60 minutes.
The concert is part of Randall's American Mavericks project dedicated to the performance, commissioning and research of seldom performed and new solo piano repertoire by Black American composers 1900-present.
Brooklyn, NY-based pianist Chelsea Randall is a multifaceted artist who seeks to create fresh dialogues between the old, new and undiscovered as a performer and artistic director. Her eclectic programming has been featured at venues including Weill Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall, The Kaufmann Center, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Yamaha Piano Salon, Steinway Hall, The Princeton Club, Mannes School of Music, Manhattan School of Music, Old First Concerts in SF, St. Peters Church Hammersmith in London, Clare College at the University of Cambridge and Théâtre Adyar in Paris, and she has appeared as a guest artist at the Pacific, Colby, Salluzo, Allegro and Orvieto festivals. She is the recipient of grants from New Music USA, Music Talks, Live From Our Living Rooms, McGill University and Conservatoire de Paris among others.
In June 2022, Chelsea launched her American Mavericks project dedicated to Black American composers with a US tour featuring overlooked masterpieces and West Coast premiers by emerging composers. Her editorial and research initiatives for the project included editing the first engraved edition of Dorothy Rudd Moores Dream and Variations (1974) for American Composers Alliance. In May 23 with support from New Music USAs Creator Fund, Chelsea presented the inaugural concert of her Crossings project exploring connections between African and Western music, with kora master Malang Jobarteh at Brooklyn Conservatory of Music.
Chelsea is the co-founder and artistic director of EXTENSITY Concert Series in NY, which aims to foster interdisciplinary connections between artistic disciplines with emphasis on underrepresented and new voices. She received her musical education from the Juilliard School, NYU and the Royal College of Music, London.
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LocationArts + Literature Laboratory (View)
111 S. Livingston St. #100
Madison, WI 53703
United States
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