Reena Esmail - Composer Lecture
Schedule
Thu Apr 25 2024 at 12:00 pm to 12:50 pm
Location
Westerbeck Recital Hall - CA 140 | Pasadena, CA
About this Event
Reena Esmail presents a lecture, "Common Ground: Creating Collaborative Ecosystems Between Musical Cultures" as part of the PCC Music Department 2024 Pamela L. Girard Guest Artist Series
Esmail divides her attention evenly between orchestral, chamber and choral work. She has written commissions for ensembles including the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Seattle Symphony, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Kronos Quartet, and her music has featured on multiple Grammy-nominated albums, including The Singing Guitar by Conspirare, BRUITS by Imani Winds, and Healing Modes by Brooklyn Rider. Many of her choral works are published by Oxford University Press.
Esmail is the Los Angeles Master Chorale’s 2020-2025 Swan Family Artist in Residence, and was Seattle Symphony’s 2020-21 Composer-in-Residence. She also holds awards/fellowships from United States Artists, the S&R Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Kennedy Center.
Esmail holds degrees in composition from The Juilliard School (BM’05) and the Yale School of Music (MM’11, MMA’14, DMA’18). Her primary teachers have included Susan Botti, Aaron Jay Kernis, Christopher Theofanidis, Christopher Rouse and Samuel Adler. She received a Fulbright-Nehru grant to study Hindustani music in India. Her Hindustani music teachers include Srimati Lakshmi Shankar and Gaurav Mazumdar, and she currently studies and collaborates with Saili Oak. Her doctoral thesis, entitled Finding Common Ground: Uniting Practices in Hindustani and Western Art Musicians explores the methods and challenges of the collaborative process between Hindustani musicians and Western composers.
Esmail was Composer-in-Residence for Street Symphony (2016-18) and is currently an Artistic Director of Shastra, a non-profit organization that promotes cross-cultural music connecting music traditions of India and the West.
She currently resides in her hometown of Los Angeles, California.
Photo credit: Rachel Garcia
This lecture will be presented during the Concert Music (MUSC 010) class meeting time. Seating may be limited. Students enrolled in the class will have first priority access to seating for the lecture.
Where is it happening?
Westerbeck Recital Hall - CA 140, 1570 East Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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