IN HER VOICE: LunART String Quartet with Soprano Sarah Brailey

LunART Chamber Music Collective presents “In Her Voice” featuring GRAMMY Award-winning soprano Sarah Brailey in a program of chamber works with a string quartet. Embarking on March as Women’s History Month, the concert will spotlight renowned women composers of today, each a distinct voice with a story to tell, who are currently shaping 21st-century music history.

LunART with Sarah Brailey will perform Saturday, March 1, at 7 PM at the Opera House, with doors opening at 6 PM.  Adult admission is $20-30 and student tickets are $10, plus Eventbrite fees. A meet-and-greet with the artists will follow the performance in the lobby. All are invited for conversation with Sarah, violinists Kangwon Lee Kim and Dawn Dongeun Wohn, violist Marie Pauls, and cellist Lindsey Crabb.

Vocal text lays a thematic foundation for this program, one of light and transformation. In The Light Blurred by the Stars, composer Eliza Brown has created musical vignettes from five poems by Susan Stewart, touching on themes of human survival and renewal. Danaë Xanthe Vlasse’s (France, Greece) Nocturne pour Caline is a moment of ethereal suspension, an homage to the composer’s beloved feline companion. In By and By, Pulitzer Prize-winner Caroline Shaw draws listeners into an intimate space, transporting us from timeless folk hymns to lush, reckless abandon instrumentals.

Audiences will get a sneak preview of what’s to come for LunART’s upcoming summer festival with Shuo, a string quartet by 2025 Composer-in-Residence Chen Yi. The Chinese word for “initiate,” ”shuo” also refers to the beginning of a new moon cycle. Dr. Chen, a Guggenheim fellow and former violinist with Peking Opera, seamlessly blends Chinese and Western musical language into a voice all her own.