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Phillips Collection x WAE at Howard University: Leading International Composers with Andile Khumalo

  • Lulu Vere Childers Recital Hall 2455 6th Street Northwest, 3rd floor Washington, DC, 20059 United States (map)

Phillips Collection x WAE at Howard University: Leading International Composers with Andile Khumalo

ADMISSION IS FREE

This event is 100% free. We only ask that you register ahead of time. Thank you!

Thursday, November 9, 2023

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

FREE ADMISSION

Lulu Vere Childers Recital Hall at Howard University

2455 6th Street NW, 3rd floor
Washington, DC 20059

EVENT DETAILS

Join us on Thursday, November 9 for a composition and performance workshop on the music of South-African composer Andile Khumalo, featuring Carrie Henneman Shaw, soprano and member of the contemporary music group Ensemble Dal Niente. Andile and Carrie will discuss the relationship and interaction between composer and performer and how this influences the compositional process, how Andile Khumalo approaches writing for the voice as an instrument, and how performers approach the interpretation of contemporary works. 

This event is presented in partnership with Howard University and The Phillips Collection as part of the Leading International Composers series.

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Andile Khumalo, composer
Andile Khumalo, composer

Durban-born composer Andile Khumalo studied composition at Columbia University under the guidance of Tristan Murail, Fabien Lévy, and George Lewis. His former teachers include Jürgen Bräuninger, Urlich Süße, Fabio Nieder and Marco Stroppa with whom he studied in Stuttgart (Germany) where he got his Masters in Composition.

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Carrie Henneman Shaw, soprano
Carrie Henneman Shaw, soprano

Praised in the New York Times “as graceful vocally as she was in her movements”, “consistently stylish” (Boston Globe), and as a “cool, precise soprano” (Chicago Tribune), Carrie Henneman Shaw is based in Seattle and Chicago. A member of Chicago’s Ensemble Dal Niente, Pesedjet, and Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble, and contributor to many of St. Paul and Minneapolis's new music projects, Shaw is a McKnight Performing Musician Fellow and has earned arts entrepreneurship awards in her role as co-director of St. Paul’s Glorious Revolution Baroque. She has performed and created a number of live-music-for-dance projects, including Jocelyn Hagen's Slippery Fish, her Wright Brothers dance-opera Test Pilot, and James Sewall Ballet's Rib Cage. Carrie earned degrees in English and voice performance from Lawrence University and completed a doctorate at the University of Minnesota, and she currently teaches at University of Washington in Seattle.

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