Samhengi: Defining A Creative Voice: How Do You Show Up in Your Work? // Dr. Katherine Pukinskis

Name: Samhengi: Defining A Creative Voice: How Do You Show Up in Your Work? // Dr. Katherine Pukinskis
Start: 2026-03-13T12:15:00+00:00
End: 2026-03-13T13:00:00+00:00
Location: Skipholti 31, 105 Reykjavík, Iceland

Schedule

Fri Mar 13 2026 at 12:15 pm to 01:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Skipholti 31, 105 Reykjavík, Iceland | Reykjavík, RE

Samhengi býður velkomna Dr. Katherine Pukinskis föstudaginn 13. mars með fyrirlesturinn Defining A Creative Voice: How Do You Show Up in Your Work?
Í fyrirlestrinum veitir Pukinskis innsýn í skapandi ferli sitt og fjallar um frásögn, listræna rödd og sjálfsmynd í tónsmíðum. Hún er tónskáld og fræðimaður sem hefur kynnt verk sín og rannsóknir víða í Bandaríkjunum og Evrópu og starfar nú sem aðjúnkt í tónsmíðum og tónfræðigreinum við Carnegie Mellon University.
Viðburðurinn fer fram í Dynjanda, húsi tónlistardeildar Listaháskóla Íslands, Skipholti 31, Reykjavík.

Öll hjartanlega velkomin.
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Samhengi welcomes Dr. Katherine Pukinskis on Friday, March 13 with the lecture Defining A Creative Voice: How Do You Show Up in Your Work?
In this lecture, Pukinskis offers insight into her creative process, exploring storytelling, artistic voice, and identity in composition. She is a composer-scholar whose work and research have been presented widely across the United States and Europe and currently serves as Assistant Professor of Music Composition and Theory at Carnegie Mellon University.
The event takes place in Dynjandi, the Iceland University of the Arts Music Department, Skipholt 31, Reykjavík.
All are warmly welcome.
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Katherine Pukinskis is a composer-scholar whose work explores storytelling and voice. Collaborators include Artemisia Vocal Trio, Agarita Chamber Players, as well as members of Ensemble Dal Niente and the Chicago Symphony Chorus. Pukinskis has been commissioned by the San Antonio Symphony, Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, Akropolis Reed Quintet, Mägi Ensemble, and Nuorten Kuoroliitto. Dr. Pukinskis’s scholarly work centers cultural identity, diaspora, and choral music in Latvia, with secondary areas in contemporary American art song and musical theater analysis. She has presented her compositions and research across the United States and Europe. Pukinskis co-edited Baltic Musics Beyond the Post Soviet (University of Tartu Press, 2024), a collection of essays and conversations bringing together different generations of scholars and artists to continue along critical new paths in Baltic cultural studies from the position of sound and music. Pukinskis is an Assistant Professor of Music Composition and Theory at Carnegie Mellon University.