Press Kit

Bio:

For pioneering NYC composer, bandleader, and multi-instrumentalist Kitty Brazelton, music is personal, and the personal is universal. Brazelton confronts the encroaching invisibility we all feel in a tech-driven world in The Planes of Your Location (why are you here?), a live chamber concert project with LA-based Isaura String Quartet that premiered March 7, 2020, days before the global shutdown! The irrepressible Brazelton has always championed music’s power to unite—across genre, across tradition, across language: a cappella “Essential Prayers Project” redefines, defies, and yet embraces the tradition of prayer, making powerful words of hurt and hope accessible to all, religion aside. Brazelton’s award-winning opera-in-progress The Art of Memory turns anthem St. Augustine’s (sung by a woman) early-Christian, yet ever prescient message “now is all there is.”

• “Brainy, boisterous and quintessentially downtown.”–Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times

• “impressive nerve”—Rolling Stone

• “one of the more brilliant lights”— The New York Times

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Photo credits, in order of appearance: (1) Lourdes Delgado, (2) Arthur Elgort, (3) J.R. Rost, (4) Julia Evanczuk, (5) Ebet Roberts, (6) Judy Schiller