Artist Talk: Nicole Mitchell, creative flutist/composer/poet
Schedule
Fri Nov 22 2024 at 03:00 pm
UTC-06:00Location
560 Trinity Ave, St Louis, MO 63130-4315, United States | Clayton, MO
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Pillsbury Theatre, 560 Music Center - FreeIn partnership with New Music Circle
Co-sponsors: WashU African and African-American Studies, Center for the Humanities, Department of English, Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity, and The Center for the Literary Arts
Nicole M. Mitchell is an award-winning creative flutist, composer, bandleader and educator. She is perhaps best known for her work as a flutist, having developed a unique improvisational language and having been repeatedly awarded “Top Flutist of the Year” by Downbeat Magazine Critics Poll and the Jazz Journalists Association (2010-2022). Mitchell initially emerged from Chicago’s innovative music scene in the late 90s. She started with Maia and Shanta Nurullah in Samana (the AACM's first all-woman ensemble) and as a member of the David Boykin EXPANSE. Her music celebrates contemporary African American culture. She is the founder of Black Earth Ensemble, Black Earth Strings, Sonic Projections and Ice Crystal, and she composes for contemporary ensembles of varied instrumentation and size, while incorporating improvisation and a wide aesthetic expression. The former first woman president of Chicago’s Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Mitchell celebrates endless possibility by “creating visionary worlds through music that bridge the familiar with the unknown.” Some of her newest work with Black Earth Ensemble explores intercultural collaborations; Bamako*Chicago, featuring Malian kora master, Ballake Sissoko and Mandorla Awakening with Kojiro Umezaki (shakuhachi) and Tatsu Aoki (taiko, bass, shamisen). As a composer, Mitchell has been commissioned by the French Ministry of Culture, the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Art Institute of Chicago, the Stone, the French American Jazz Exchange, Chamber Music America (New Works), the Chicago Jazz Festival, ICE, and the Chicago Sinfonietta. Mitchell has performed with creative music luminaries including Craig Taborn, Roscoe Mitchell, Joelle Leandre, Anthony Braxton, Geri Allen, George Lewis, Mark Dresser, Steve Coleman, Anthony Davis, Myra Melford, Bill Dixon, Muhal Richard Abrams, Ed Wilkerson, Rob Mazurek, and Billy Childs, and Hamid Drake. She is a recipient of the Herb Alpert Award (2011), the Chicago 3Arts Award (2011), the Doris Duke Artist Award (2012) and the United States Artist Award (2020). Mitchell is a Professor of Music at the University of Virginia, and previously taught at the University of California Irvine and the University of Pittsburgh.
Financial assistance for this project has been provided by the the Regional Arts Commission and the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency.
www.missouriartscouncil.org
https://racstl.org/grants/
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Where is it happening?
560 Trinity Ave, St Louis, MO 63130-4315, United States, 560 Trinity Ave, St Louis, MO 63130-4315, United States,University City, Missouri, ClaytonEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
