BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Acme Widgets\, Inc.//NONSGML ExportToCalendar//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Groupmuses near X-WR-NAME:Groupmuses near BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260608T174146Z UID:b2fd1e71-bf5d-49a5-bdae-8ebffeda9e39 DTSTART:20221119T233000Z DTEND:20221120T020000Z DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Jay J.\nMusicians: Jay Julio\, Yoonjung Hwang\, Lara Lewison\, and Ezra Escobar\n\nHello all! Jay from Sound Off: Music for Bai l here\, inviting you to join us this November 19th for a historic show. W e are so thrilled to have our first event at the People's Forum in the Gar ment District this November\, partnering with Asian & Asian-American-led m assage workers' rights collective Red Canary Song (redcanarysong.net) for a concert that commemorates the past and looks towards our futures. String quartets by Rhiannon Giddens\, Wu Man\, and Yong Cheng Qin will start off the show\, and we are delighted to be joined by vocalist-composer Dai Wei in a performance of her very own "Partial Men". Following that\, we will welcome a guest speaker from Red Canary Song\, then transition into a time of reflection and remembrance with George Walker's "Lyric for Strings" an d Jessie Montgomery's "Strum".\n\nIn RCS' own words\, "We began our organi zing in a fight for justice and police accountability after the death of F lushing massage worker Yang Song\, who was killed during a police raid in November 2017. We started as a project to provide legal support for her fa mily and help her mother pay for healthcare expenses."\n\nFrom there\, Red Canary Song has served as a leader in advocating for political representa tion\, workers' rights\, and envisioning bodily and community safety acros s the Asian diaspora. Many will remember their work in the wake of the 8 A sian women massage workers in Atlanta. We will be welcoming a representati ve from the collective as our featured speaker\, and using this time to co mmemorate the 5th anniversary of Yang Song's death and our communal pursui t of justice.\n\nAffordable food and drink will be available for purchase at the People's Forum and no one will be turned away from the event for la ck of money -- however\, RSVPs help us and Groupmuse organize and fund our community-centered work!\n\nNOTE: For arrival purposes\, our doors will o pen at 6:30 -- the show proper will start at 7 PM!\n\nWe hope to see you t here.\n\nBIOS:\n\nDai Wei is a composer and vocalist whose musical journey navigates in the spaces between east and west\, classical and pop\, elect ronic and acoustic\, innovation and tradition. She often draws from easter n philosophy and aesthetics to create works with contemporary resonance\, and reflects an introspection on how these multidimensional conflicts and tension can create and inhabit worlds of their own. Being an experimental vocalist\, she performs herself as a Khoomei throat singer in her recent c ompositions\, through which are filtered by different experiences and back grounds as a calling that transcends genres\, races\, and labels. She was recently featured in The Washington Post’s “22 for 22’: Composers an d Performers to Watch this year.”\n\nDescribed as “impassioned” by T he New York Times\, “with a striking humanity” by The Washington Post\ , and "incredibly creative and dynamic" by the Utah Symphony Orchestra\, s he was awarded CANOA Commission (Composing a New Orchestra Audience) from the American Composer Orchestra Underwood New Music Reading. Her newly com posed chamber orchestra Invisible Portals\, conducted by Marin Alsop\, pre miered at Carnegie Hall in March 2022. Her orchestral work\, Samsāric Dan ce is featured at New Jersey Symphony Orchestra's Edward Cone Composition Institute in July 2022.\n\nHer music has received commissions and performa nces by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra\, Utah Symphony Orchestra\, New Jer sey Symphony Orchestra\, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra\, West Virginia Sym phony Orchestra\, Reno Philharmonic\, American Composers Orchestra\, Opér a Orchestre National Montpellier\, the Philharmonia Orchestra\, Chamber Or chestra of Philadelphia\, Bang on a Can\, and Aizuri String Quartet. Upcom ing projects include new works for Alarm Will Sound\, Curtis Symphony Orch estra 2023 West Coast and Asia Tour\, Carnegie Hall Link Up program\, and her new album. Wei is a Ph.D. candidate in Music Composition at Princeton University.\n//\nLara Lewison is a violinist from Mukilteo\, WA. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University in Music\, where she studied violin with Maja Cerar. She was the class recipient of the Louis Sudler Pr ize in the Arts\, for her works in various art disciplines including visua l\, music\, performance\, and music.\n\nLara was a two-time violin fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center\, where she performed as a co-concertmaster of the TMCO\, and has participated in Lucerne Festival Academy. She has p erformed as a soloist with orchestras local to Washington State\, includin g the Bremerton Symphony. She is a member of varied chamber groups\, inclu ding BlackBox Ensemble\, a new music ensemble\, the Intimate Artistry Stri ng Quartet\, an improvising movement/noise quartet\, and Melodica Drone an d Bach Quartet\, where she plays melodica. She also performs as a section violinist in Symphony in C\, and as a substitute with Princeton Symphony O rchestra.\nLara also works as a freelance VR/AR developer and visual artis t.\n//\nYoon Jung Hwang (she/her) is a NYC-based violinist from Korea. As a chamber musician\, she has been featured at the Montclair Music Club and as string quartet musician with the Cell Theater's recent production of " The Final Veil". Orchestral performances have seen her on the Holland Amer ica Line Rotterdam with RWS Entertainment\, premiering works with the Next Festival of Emerging Artists and Composers Concordance\, and repeat appea rances at Birdland with clarinetist/saxophonist Ken Peplowski in sold-out performances of Charlie Parker's eponymous album standards with strings.\n \nYoon Jung has had masterclasses with Yura Lee\, Gregory Fulkerson\, and Lewis Kaplan\, and is an adjunct faculty at New York University. She was a dmitted to Shenyang Conservatory of Music in China when she was 12 years o ld\, and later attended the Aaron Copland School of Music to study with pr ofessor Daniel Phillips where she was the recipient of the LeFrak Fund/End owment Scholarship\, the Cantor S. Katz Scholarship\, and Benno and Evelyn Feldmann-Ansbacher Scholarship. Additional studies include degree work at the New School and the Manhattan School of Music.\n\nFun fact: Yoon Jung was featured in Kyung Hyang Newspaper when she was 7 years old for being t he youngest accompanist in a Korean Catholic church.\n//\nOriginally from Uniondale\, New York\, 25-year old first-generation Filipino-American Jay Julio (they/them) is a multi-instrumentalist\, teacher\, and composer-arra nger currently based in NYC. Jay is the Assistant Principal Violist of the Opera Philadelphia Orchestra\, a section member of the Palm Beach Opera O rchestra and Symphony in C\, substitute violist with the Phoenix\, Memphis \, Virginia\, Fort Worth\, and Dallas Symphony Orchestras\, and has been i nvited to play with the American Composers Orchestra\, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra\, PROTESTRA\, and the Metropolis Ensemble. They have shared the stage with Broadway singers\, pop stars\, and classical music’s hottest young talents in performances from Washington D.C. to the Philippines\, a nd can be heard on Captured Tracks\, Fiendish Endeavor\, and Broadway Reco rds. They appeared in the official collaborative music video for Major Laz er & Marcus Mumford’s single\, Lay Your Head On Me\, released as a fundr aiser for COVID-19 research efforts\, recently performed with Nigerian art ist Burna Boy in his Hollywood Bowl debut\, and have been invited by Briti sh icons Foreigner to join their California orchestral performances. Their compositions and arrangements have been heard at the Cannes Film Festival and at New York Fashion Week and performed by soprano-double bass duo con fluss.\n\nJay has attended the Music Academy of the West\, Orpheus@Mannes\ , the New York String Orchestra Seminar and the Aspen\, Pacific\, Thy\, Sp oleto and Lake Tahoe music festivals\; they have also spent summers at the Yellow Barn Young Artists Program and the National Symphony Orchestra’s Summer Music Institute as a Young Artist of Color. They have served as a Teaching Fellow at the Juilliard School’s Music Advancement Program\, in structed at Interlochen Center for the Arts and the Stony Brook University Chamber Strings Camp\, and worked as substitute viola & chamber music fac ulty at the Manhattan School of Music Precollege Division.\n\nA prizewinne r in national competitions held by the National Federation of Music Clubs and the Music Teachers National Association and recipient of a 2019 Juilli ard Career Grant\, Jay is indebted to the Virtu Foundation and the America n Viola Society for their past support through instrument and bow loans. T hey were recipient of a 2020 Music Academy of the West Fast Pitch Award fo r their music-meets-prison-analysis organization Sound Off: Music for Bail \, which was also recently awarded a 2021 Juilliard Career Grant to furthe r an upcoming recording project highlighting string quartet music of Flore nce Price\, George Walker\, Yaz Lancaster\, and Dorothy Rudd Moore.\n\nAft er taking their first viola lesson at age 14 at the Mannes Preparatory Div ision\, Jay graduated from the Interlochen Arts Academy at 16 studying wit h Renee Skerik with their highest musical honor\, the Young Artist Award\, received their BM in Viola Performance from the Manhattan School of Music under Karen Ritscher on full scholarship\, and received their MM at the J uilliard School on a full-tuition Susan W. Rose Fellowship under the tutel age of Heidi Castleman and Misha Amory. Other important mentors include An ne Leilehua Lanzilotti and Lina Bahn. For rhythm\, Jay studies poetry\, an d was a finalist in the 2021 Mississippi Review & Meridian poetry prizes. Their writing can be found in Room Magazine\, Poetry Online\, Winter Tange rine Review\, Barrelhouse Mag\, and more.\n\nThey are a proud member of AF M Local 47\, 33\, 77 and 802\, the Justice Committee\, and the IWW.\n//\nL auded as “vibrant” and “gifted” (Chicago Classical Review)\, Chica go-born Filipino-American cellist Ezra Escobar (he/him) maintains a prolif ic output as a multigenre cellist\, composer\, arranger\, and music produc er. He made his orchestral debut at age 16 with the Oistrakh Symphony of C hicago and was a guest soloist with the Lake Forest Civic Orchestra. Other concert engagements include the Young Steinway Concert Series\, the Evans ton Chamber Music Festival\, and the Waukegan Chamber Music Society.\n\nEz ra has won prizes at the DePaul Concerto Festival\, the Chinese Fine Arts Society Music Festival in Honor of Confucius\, and the Walgreens National Concerto Competition\, and his compositions have premiered at Bennett Gord on Hall at Ravinia Festival and the Heifetz Institute. He is a resident ar tist of the Fil-Am Music Foundation\, a nonprofit organization dedicated t o promoting exceptional Filipino classical musicians through scholarship a ssistance and performance opportunities.\n\nEzra is currently pursuing an undergraduate degree at the Mannes School of Music under the tutelage of M arcy Rosen\, having previously studied with Dr. Tanya Carey at the Music I nstitute of Chicago. Additional studies include master classes with Johann es Moser\, Hans Jensen\, Timothy Eddy\, Colin Carr\, & Amit Peled\, among others. LOCATION:Garment District SUMMARY:Sound Off x Red Canary Song: @ The People's Forum URL:https://www.groupmuse.com/events/12734-sound-off-x-red-canary-song-the- people-s-forum END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR