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Hartley Residency: Reena Esmail
October 16
13:00 to 17:30
Highfield campus and online
We are proud to host Reena Esmail for our latest Hartley residency.
Reena Esmail works between the worlds of Indian and Western classical music, and brings communities together through the creation of equitable musical spaces. She holds degrees from The Juilliard School and the Yale School of Music. A resident of Los Angeles, Esmail is the 20-25 Swan Family Artist in Residence with Los Angeles Master Chorale, and was the 20-21 Composer in Residence with Seattle Symphony. She is a Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Shastra, a non-profit organization that promotes cross-cultural music connecting musical traditions of India and the West.
Program
13:00 to 15:00 - Hartley Lecture: Reena Esmail: ‘Composing Into Connection: How Listening and Questioning Can Connect Us Across Cultures and Communities’
Internal response: Matthew Shlomowitz, ‘It’s Not About You: Do We Still Need an “Artistic Voice”?’
Location: Building 58 / 1067. Contact Erin Johnson-Williams to join in person [email protected]
15:00 to 16:00 - break
16:00 to 17:30 Hartley Roundtable – ‘Co-Creation, Creative Practice and Social Justice’
Location: Building 100 / 7013. Contact Erin Johnson-Williams to join in person [email protected]
Roundtable participants:
Reena Esmail
Matthew Shlomowitz
Liz Gre
Erin Johnson-Williams
Max Syedtollan (Chair)