Open Rehearsal with Whistling Hens and Composer Sonia Morales-Matos

Name: Open Rehearsal with Whistling Hens and Composer Sonia Morales-Matos
Start: 2025-10-18T15:00:00-04:00
Location: Center For The Arts

Schedule

Sat, 18 Oct, 2025 at 03:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Center For The Arts | Towson, MD

As part of the COFAC Latin American Festival, Ensemble in Residence Whistling Hens and Featured Guest Composer Sonia Morales-Matos present an open rehearsal of “Canciones de amor y soledad.” This composition was commissioned by Whistling Hens and written by Morales-Matos in 2025 for the festival. Get a behind-the-scenes look at the collaborative process, as the ensemble and composer work together for the first time on the piece before its premiere on Monday, October 20, 2025 at 6:00 p.m. in the Center for the Arts Recital Hall.
This event is free and open to the public. The open rehearsal takes place Saturday, October 18 at 3:00-4:00 p.m. in the Center for the Arts, Room 3069 (Choir Room).
Sonia Ivette Morales-Matos is a Puerto Rican composer, performer, and educator who belongs to a family of distinguished musicians. Her compositions explore a wide variety of styles and genres such as chamber music, the concerto, choral music, Latin Jazz, pop, sacred and/or contemporary Christian, and Latin or Tropical music.
Whistling Hens® was founded by soprano Jennifer Piazza-Pick and clarinetist Natalie Groom to perform and commission music by women composers to create a financially and artistically equitable future for women in music. Since its founding in 2018, Whistling Hens has premiered 29 pieces and commissioned 14 compositions, 10 transcriptions, the Whistling Hens Women Composer Coloring Book, and inspired 17 dedicated works.
This event is partially sponsored by the New Music Ensemble at Towson University.