Recital Stream is a new platform for audiences and performers of classical music in response to the Coronavirus crisis. I’ll be performing a few works from Forward Music Project!

Program:

Leila Adu-Gilmore: For Edna

Allison Loggins-Hull: Stolen

Las Desaparecidas: Angélica Negrón

Dam mwen yo: Nathalie Joachim

Performing FMP 2.0 commission, SEETHING, by Shelley Washington

Amanda will give an early World Premiere of Pamela Z’s new work for Forward Music Project 3.0 as part of The Park Avenue Armory’s 100 Years | 100 Women Celebration of Commissions! This work is commissioned in part by National Sawdust.

Park Avenue Armory, with lead partner National Black Theatre, has invited ten New York City-based cultural institutions to join 100 Years |100 Women, a two-part, multidisciplinary initiative marking the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment. Together, this cohort of institutions—which includes the Apollo Theater; The Juilliard School; La MaMa Experimental Theatre Company; The Laundromat Project; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of the Moving Image; National Sawdust; New York University (Department of Photography and Imaging, Tisch School of the Arts; Office of Global Inclusion, Diversity and Strategic Innovation; and Institute of African American Affairs & Center for Black Visual Culture); and Urban Bush Women—is commissioning one hundred artists who self-identify as women to respond to this significant anniversary. The culminating event—a large gathering, showcase, and celebration of the commissions—will take place on May 16, 2020, in the Armory’s Wade Thompson Drill Hall and historic rooms.

"100 Years | 100 Women will launch on February 15, 2020, as part of the Armory’s annual “Culture in a Changing America” symposium—a day-long event hosted throughout the institution’s historic period rooms, featuring conversations, performances, and salons led by artists, activists, scholars, and civic and cultural leaders.”

National Sawdust will present Forward Music Project as part of a performance and panel discussion celebrating the Suffrage movement and artistic creation within the last century. 

4:00–5:30pm
Salons
Second Floor

I’ll be performing FMP commission, Veiled, by Niloufar Nourbakhsh as part of the 2020 Composers Now Festival kick-off event

Join Talea in an open conversation with Amanda Gookin and Bill Solomon on the role of gender in music programming & education.

How might an organization best approach its programming decisions to represent diverse gender identities in programming? How do our perceptions of music relate to perceptions of gender norms? And what are some resources available to performers, administrators, educators, and listeners when considering gender representation in today's music?

The conversation is free and open to all; please join us and share your thoughts and questions!

I’ll be representing Forward Music Project as a guest speaker on the panel, “Small and Mid-Sized Presenting: Scaling Classical Music Programming to Your Needs.”

Description:

Room: Hilton Concourse Level, Concourse E

Presenting classical music can pose unique challenges for small and mid-sized organizations. This session explores strategies for building a classical music audience, maintaining artistic quality despite budget limitations, and offering tactics for new classical music presenters. This interactive session will benefit presenters from all types of communities and organizational structures.

Tribeca New Music presents LOST and FOUND

Featuring works by: Robert Honstein, Sam Suggs, Allison Loggins-Hull, and Shelley Washington

Mike Compitello, percussion

Sam Suggs, bass

Amanda Gookin, cello

In presenting the world premiere of Lost and Found Mike and Robert create a program that plays on the idea of things lost and discarded, but also on the collaborative spirit driving their process. The artists on this program - cellist Amanda Gookin, bassist Sam Suggs, and percussionist Mike Compitello - have worked together for years in many different contexts and their coming together represents a similar fusion of friendship and creativity.

The Kennedy Center presents National Sawdust as part of The REACH Opening Festival. I will perform works from Forward Music Project 1.0 and collaborate with Magos Herrera in a tribute to João Gilberto!

Student CoLab is National Sawdust’s flagship education program for middle school composers and artists. This performance is the culmination of a three-month program in music composition, film, and projection design, for young people at El Puente Beacon Leadership Program in Williamsburg. The program features National Sawdust Artist-in-Residence cellist Amanda Gookin (Forward Music Project). This multimedia concert features new music for cello, voice, and electronics, as well as video projection and film, all written, designed, and performed by students at MS50.

This year, Student CoLab took Amanda Gookin and S Katy Tucker’s Forward Music Project as the inspiration for the program. Forward Music Project is a multimedia project driven by social justice and empowerment for women and girls. Using the same format and principles of collaboration, and drawing upon similar themes of justice, gender, and empowerment, young people have created all of the new music, film, and visuals which you will experience at this performance.

This journey of artistic discovery and self expression empowers young people to have a voice on issues that affect them, while also enabling them to explore and fulfill their potential as a creative beings.

I am honored to be a featured National Sawdust artist on the opening night performance of Classical:NEXT in Rotterdam!

The Opening Ceremony of 2019 Classical:NEXT is curated by Composer and National Sawdust Artistic Director, Paola Prestini, and produced by Holly Hunter, Director of National Sawdust Projects. This night will feature Deep Listening led by IONE as developed by composer Pauline Oliveros, Amanda Gookin's Forward Music Project with visuals by S Katy Tucker, National Sawdust Hildegard Award-winner Emma O'Halloran, short film "Kipatsi, Nija, Añaantsi (Land, Water, Life)," directed by filmmaker Murat Eyuboglu, and a live performance by Peruvian composer/performer Pauchi Sasaki.

Featuring:

Paola Prestini: “To Tell a Story” for cello and electronics (FMP 2.0 commission)

Paola Prestini: “Body Maps” for cello and voice

Nathalie Joachim: “Dam Mwen Yo” for cello and electronics

The Kennedy Center presents Forward Music Project in collaboration with video artist, Katy Tucker as part of DIRECT CURRENT and National Sawdust Projects.

In the face of division, hashtags, and soundbites, Forward Music Project 2.0: In This Skin commissions five new multimedia works for solo cello and provides space and time for audiences to listen deeply to, interact with, and contemplate the visceral joys and struggles of women.

World Premieres:

Alex Temple: “Tactile” for cello and vocal effects

Paola Prestini: “To Tell A Story” for cello and electronics

Kamala Sankaram: “Belly” for cello and electronics

Niloufar Nourbakhsh: “Veiled” for cello and electronics

Shelley Washington: “SEETHING” for cello and kick drum

Day-long residency with the music students at Georgetown University participating in reading sessions, conversations on activism in music and concert programming, plus a performance of Forward Music Project!