Due to Coronavirus health concerns, Vanderbilt University recently announced the cancellations of all upcoming on-site events for the rest of their semester. Our upcoming performance of Smash Division on 3/20 was to be hosted at Vanderbilt, so we have had to cancel the program. Fortunately, composer Leila Adu will be back on November 1 for the world premiere of her new chamber opera and a local residency, so stay tuned for updates!
All tickets purchased for Smash Division will be refunded in full. However, we're hearing from artists all over the country who have already lost significant wages due to cancellations. If you would like to make a gift to chatterbird, or donate the proceeds of your ticket purchase, 100% of your gift will be directed to musicians that were scheduled to perform for this concert.
Making decisions like this is never easy, but we're excited that we still have the opportunity to share Leila's music later this year, and we thank you for supporting contemporary music in Nashville!
Friday, March 20th, 8:00PM
Tickets: $7-$60. Tickets can be purchased HERE.
This concert is offered on a sliding scale, with a suggestion to "Pay Your Wage" - at the door or online, pay an hour's worth of your wage. Cash and cards will also be accepted at the door.
Join chatterbird at Vanderbilt's Turner Hall for a special concert featuring work by Leila Adu. Adu will appear in concert alongside the ensemble.
Adu is a New Zealand composer of Ghanaian descent who has composed for the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the Brentano String Quartet, So Percussion, Gamelan Padhang Moncar and Orchestra Wellington. She recently received her doctorate in music composition at Princeton University, and is currently on the faculty of New York University. She has also taught music to prisoners at Sing Sing Correctional Facility as a faculty member of Musicambia – music for social change. Adu currently plays in improvised groups, and Lucked In Sound System, which is active in New York and Paris.
With a “voice like hot treacle on broken glass,” Leila Adu has performed her original piano songs and improvisations alongside international artists at festivals and venues in the UK, mainland Europe, the US, Russia, Ghana and Asia. Leila has been voted as MTV Iggy’s Artist of the Week, performed on the BBC World Service, composed, produced a short-film and documentary soundtrack with screenings on BBC Knowledge TV channel and the NZ Film Festival and performed with Luscious Jackson on ‘MTV VH1’ and ‘Late Night with David Letterman.’
