Esperanza Spalding
(also known as irma nejando, or, i.e.) is a being who has grown to recognize love in the abstract and aspirational, and is now fully dedicated to learning how she can serve and embody actualized love through honor for and receptivity to, fellow humans, teachers, and practitioners of various regenerative arts.
Bass, piano, composition, performance, voice and lyrics are tools and disciplines she is engaged in deeply to cultivate her own channel for transmitting care and beauty through vibration/sound/presence.
She has written an Opera with Wayne Shorter slated for premier in Fall 2021 // she is currently developing a mockumentary in collaboration with brontë velez and San Francisco Symphony // researching and developing liberation rituals in jazz and black dance // and continuing a lifelong collaboration with practitioners in various fields relating to music, healing and cognition to develop music with enhanced therapeutic potential.
She is presently paid by Harvard University to co-create and learn with students enrolled here, working on developing creative practices that serve the restoration of people and land.
Follow on Instagram: @esperanzaspalding
Songwrights Apothecary Lab
Songwrights Apothecary Lab is a live installation where Esperanza Spalding and her fellow songwrights, researchers and mentors will be creating original music. The creation of this original music, which the lab will share with visitors during the festival, will continue Spalding's exploration over the past years of how musicians might meaningfully incorporate therapeutic practices and knowledge into their work.
The space will be open for “shareback” sessions in which the public will be welcomed and able to experience the lab. On June 18, the lab will open for audiences to hear music being created in the lab as well as conversations between the musical collaborators and the researchers.
The programs will take placa at the Flamboyán Theater, The Clemente
Shareback Sessions scheduled for June 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22 from 7 pm – 7:30 pm
Matinee - June 18 from 3 pm – 4:30 pm (Shareback Sessions are drop-in and do not require RSVP)
Opening Concert with Esperanza Spalding, Terri Lyne Carrington & Leo Genovese on June 10th, 2021 at 7:30pm.
Presented as part of the LMCC River to River 2021 Festival in partnership with The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center
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