INDEPENDENT PROJECTS

 

MODERN DICKINSON • BEATSONG  

 

MODERN DICKINSON

Through music written after 2000, these GRAMMY award-winning artists explore the poetry of Emily Dickinson with a modern lens. This 85-minute, non-stop program shatters the 4th wall and invites you right into Emily's living room, into a conversation through her enlightened, paradoxical, and fanatically truth-seeking words. 

Sonja DuToit Tengblad • Soprano
Eric Neuville • Tenor
Michelle Schumann • Piano


BEAT SONG

Sonja Tengblad + Jonathan Hess

 
 

Beat Song is dedicated to commissioning and performing works that explore the first instruments of humankind: percussion and voice. In addition to recreating early works by Downland and Purcell and performing today's most established contemporary composers, world premieres include works by Matthew Peterson (ASCAP Nissim Prize winner, 2013), Adam Jacob Simon, and Emmy award-winning composer Kareem Roustom.