The Next Generation: Young Women Composers

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Friday, March 28 • 7 PM • BKCM Concert Hall

Pianist Chelsea Randall, founder of the American Mavericks Project (AMP) dedicated to piano music by Black composers, presents a lecture-recital celebrating the next generation of young, talented female composers in honor of Women’s History Month. The program includes pieces by AMP’s 2024 Call for Scores winners Lilyanne Dorilas and Lawren Brianna Ware, world premieres by Luna Composition Lab alums Jordan Millar and Ebun Oguntola, Wildflower Composers alums Mena Williams, Chloe Clarke Smith and Kimani Bridges,  Bloomingdale School of Music’s A4TY alum, 11-year-old Zuri Butler and others.

About Chelsea Randall

Chelsea Randall is a New York-native pianist, curator and educator. She is a dedicated advocate of underrepresented and new music, and seeks to create fresh dialogues between the old, new and undiscovered. She has performed at venues including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, The Kaufman Center, Yamaha Piano Salon, Steinway Hall, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Old First Concerts in SF, St. Peter’s Church Hammersmith in London, the University of Cambridge, UK and Théâtre Adyar in Paris. She is the recipient of grants and awards from New Music USA, Music Talks, Live From Our Living Rooms, McGill University and Conservatoire de Paris, among others. In ‘22 Chelsea launched the American Mavericks Project celebrating piano music by Black American composers with a US tour, and in ‘23, with support from New Music USA, she presented the inaugural concert of her Crossings Project exploring connections between African and Western music, with kora master Malang Jobarteh at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. She is also the co-founder and director of EXTENSITY Concert Series in NY, which aims to promote diversity and equity in classical music.

Highlights of Chelsea’s ‘25 season include American Mavericks Project East and West Coast tours, new commissions for AMP from composers including Carolyn Yarnell, Adolphus Hailstork, Regina Harris Baiocchi and Joyce Solomon Moorman inspired by acclaimed Black poets, US performances of the Crossings Project featuring new, original kora and piano works, a guest performance at the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine’s Juneteenth Celebration, and collaborations with avant-garde ensemble Standing on The Corner. Chelsea is an alum of New York University, The Royal College of Music in London and the Juilliard School. www.chelsearandall.com

A Note from BKCM’s DEI Director, Uton Onyejekwe

As part of our ongoing DEI efforts, the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music is committed to expanding the repertoire that we teach, play, study, and program by highlighting and uplifting past and contemporary composers of backgrounds that have historically been underrepresented. During Women’s History Month, we are excited to partner and collaborate with Chelsea Randall and the American Mavericks Project to provide a platform for a new generation of Black, female composers to display their work, and we look forward to continued collaboration beyond Women’s History Month.

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