IN HER VOICE featuring GRAMMY Award-winning soprano Sarah Brailey

LunART Chamber Music Collective presents “In Her Voice” featuring GRAMMY Award-winning soprano Sarah Brailey in a program of contemporary classical works with string quartet on Thursday, February 27, at 7 PM at the Arts + Literature Laboratory (111 S. Livingston St, Madison) and Saturday, March 1, at 7 PM at the Mineral Point Opera House (139 High St, Mineral Point). The concert will be followed by a meet-and-greet reception with Brailey, violinists Dawn Dongeun Wohn and Kangwon Lee Kim, violist Marie Pauls, and cellist Lindsey Crabb.

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Embarking on March as Women’s History Month, the concert will spotlight renowned living women composers, each a distinct voice with a story to tell, who are currently shaping 21st-century music history.

Vocal text lays a thematic foundation for this program, one of light and transformation. In The Light Blurred by the Stars, composer Eliza Brown (b. 1985) has created musical vignettes from five poems by Susan Stewart, touching on themes of human survival and renewal. Danae Xanthe Vlassee’s (France, Greece) Nocturne pour Caline is a moment of ethereal suspension, an homage to the composer’s beloved feline companion. In By and By, Pulitzer Prize-winner Caroline Shaw (b. 1982) draws listeners into an intimate space, transporting us from timeless folk hymns to lush, reckless abandon instrumentals.

Audiences will get a sneak preview of what’s to come for LunART’s upcoming summer festival with Shuo, a string quartet by 2025 Composer-in-Residence Chen Yi (b. 1953). Dr. Chen, a Guggenheim fellow and former violinist with Peking Opera, seamlessly blends Chinese and Western musical language into a voice all her own.

Doors at 6:30 PM / Concert at 7:00 PM