Award-winning opera composer and singer Kristin Norderval and Argentinian composer and clarinetist Guillermo Gregorio will perform a set of improvisations for voice, clarinet and electronics. Texts for the improvisations will include excerpts from Oscar Wilde’s “De Profundis” interspersed with words of women who have given birth in prison, or whose pregnancy terminations have been criminalized. A 2005 recipient of the Henry Cowell Award from the American Music Center, and two-time recipient of the Norwegian Artist’s Stipend, Norderval has specialized in developing new works for voice, cross-disciplinary work, and works using interactive technology. Gregorio’s series of pieces entitled Otra Música (2005 to the present), focus on history and critical issues as well as syntactic aspects of text and music. Currently, Gregorio’s interests are related to improvisation and “composition in real time” playing clarinet, in addition to the aforementioned compositions.

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