Constellation Chor has spent a month recording and filming at Pioneer Works studio through their Music residency program. From March 2nd through March 31st, Constellation Chor will be recording music and filming for several projects, including Marisa Michelson x Miriam …
MetaSimulacrum with Bill Brittelle
Courtesy of William Brittelle Constellation Chor will join William Brittelle on a multimedia project commissioned and premiered by Cincinatti Symphony Orchestra. The project will form part of a larger cosmos of production called CSO PROOF: The Meta Simulacrum Vol. 1. “Grounded …
Hildegard Commission at National Sawdust Broadcast
Photo courtesy of National Sawdust March 11, 2021 Singers from Constellation Chor (Maya Carney, Sarah-Beth Pfeifer, Heath Saunders, Raphael Sacks, Kalli Siamidou and Luisa Muhr) will perform the world premieres of three commissioned composers, Flannery Cunningham, Jimena Maldonado, and …
“Two Songs” by Marisa Michelson published in Ayin Press
Photo by Isaiah Tanenbaum Founder and director Marisa Michelson wrote Two Songs, an essay about Constellation Chor’s practice of coming together. The essay is now published in Ayin Press’ inaugural journal, along with two songs: Radiant Lyre, by Marisa Michelson, …
Center for Ballet Arts and National Sawdust Toulmin Fellowship ’20
Founder and Director Marisa Michelson, and interdisciplinary artist Miriam Parker, have been chosen as Toulmin Co-Fellows ’20-21. The Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation announced the creation of a new program to foster collaboration between women composers and choreographers with the aim …
Tree of 40 fruit by Paola Prestini | Maria Popova at Pioneer Works
Photo by Walter Wlodarczyk October 3, 2020 With songs, poems, and stories, Maria Popova presides over the ceremonial planting of Sam Van Aken’s Tree of 40 Fruit: New York Apples, a grafted tree that will yield 40 different New …
“I Simply Want To Be Dead” on Brain Pickings by Maria Popova
SEPTEMBER 2020 I Simply Want to be Dead, a song in Marisa Michelson’s music-theatre piece, Sappho Fragments, has been included in Maria Popova’s essay, “Sappho’s Timeless Elegy for Heartbreak at the End of Love, Reimagined in a Haunting Choral Invocation,” on …
Final performance of our Fall residency at Spectrum
Vibrating voices and moving bodies create an experience that is deeply human, magical, healing and psychedelic. Every evening is totally unique. Spectrum | 70 Flushing Avenue | $15 dollars at the door
With Claire Chase at Harvard ArtLab
Claire Chase: Density 2036, part vi Date: Thursday, November 7, 2019, 7:30pm Location: ArtLab, 140 N.Harvard St Allston, MA A recital of new music commissioned for flute and electronics featuring Claire Chase with Constellation Chor, a New York City-based vocal performance ensemble. Composers …
Constellation Chor in Residence at Spectrum, BK
Photo by Konstantina Messini We will be sharing an hour long improvisation on Friday September 27th at 8pm at the amazing and cozy event space that is Spectrum | 70 Flushing Avenue | $15 dollars at the door. Vibrating voices and moving …
Constellation Chor at The Vovousa Festival, Greece
Photo by Konstantina Messini Constellation Chor performs at the Vovousa Festival in Greece! The Chor travels to Greece to participate in this gorgeous festival for sustainability and the arts! We will perform Sappho Fragments by Chor Director, Marisa Michelson, as …
Constellation Chor at The Spectrum, NYC
Come! We will improvise for an hour and we want you there. In the words of Dave Malloy, hopefully it will once again be “like an LSD trip.” Spectrum has no advance ticket sales; tickets are available at the door. …
Symbiosis at The Spectrum, NYC
Symbiosis kicks off on February 22nd at 7:30pm with improvising vocal ensemble Constellation Chor, and a fresh collaboration between violinist and composer Aimeé Niemann and dancer Ichi Go. Symbiosis, curated by Sarah Chien and Caitlin Cawley, is a new series …
Density 2036, part vi at The Kitchen
TICKETS For the sixth year of Density 2036, her 23-year project to commission an entirely new body of repertory for solo flute each year until the 100th anniversary of Edgard Varèse’s groundbreaking 1936 flute solo, Density 21.5, Claire Chase premieres …
Women Between Arts at the New School
Featured Artists: JANUARY 12, 2019 (4:00pm): Adeena Karasick (with Frank London) / Alison Kobayashi / Marisa Michelson & Constellation Chor All events will take place at The New School Glass Box Theater, 55 W 13th St, New York, NY 10011 …
Song of Song of Songs wins Inaugural Eric Salzman Award
Song of Song of Songs wins an inaugural Eric Salzman Award for New Music Theater Composition which includes a performance at Symphony Space in 2020. Constellation Chor developed and premiered this composition by founder Marisa Michelson. The most recent performance …
Dragon’s Egg Studio Retreat
Constellation Chor dives deep into principles of performance practice and mindful performance practice on retreat at the Dragon’s Egg in Ledyard, CT.
NY Philharmonic at David Geffen Hall
Constellation Chor is thrilled to be the “moving voices” in the brilliant composer Ashley Fure’s Filament (World Premiere–New York Philharmonic Commission) at Lincoln Center in September! We’ll be performing as part of the opening gala on September 20th welcoming Jaap van …