Events . Majel Connery with Ky Vöss, Weidenhof Ensemble

Majel Connery with Ky Vöss, Weidenhof Ensemble

Treasure: Dreampop/Ethereal Night & Mr. Smalls Presents
with Alia Musica Pittsburgh
Majel Connery https://www.majelconnery.com/
https://majelconnery.bandcamp.com/

with Ky Vöss https://kyvoss.bandcamp.com/
& Eric Weidenhof Ensemble

Friday, April 24 2019 8:00 PM $10 advance/$12 door all ages
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls 400 Lincoln Ave Millvale
Tickets on sale now!

“Excellent vocals” — BBC3 Radio
“…dreamy art pop with the sensitivity and nuance of classical music.” —Second Inversion
“Regina Spektor-like vocals” — Opera News
“Haunting, Bjork-like vocals” — SF Classical Voice

Majel Connery is a vocalist, composer and roving musicologist. Her music has been called “thoroughly Schubertian” by the Wall Street Journal, and her voice “crystalline” by the Chicago Reader. Most recently, Connery wrote songs about porn, periods, and sad fish for five episodes of Radiolab’s “Gonads” series. She is currently touring her debut EP, Anything Chartreuse.

After moving to the Bay Area in 2013 to take an assistant professorship in musicology at the University of California Berkeley, Connery left a traditional path in academia in 2015 to pursue a career as a professional musician. Since then, as Mohr Visiting Artist at Stanford (2017-18), she commissioned and performed Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw’s “Contriving the Chimes,” written for Connery and the St. Lawrence String Quartet, and staged by opera director Christopher Alden. In 2016, as Mellon Visiting Artist at Wellesley, she commissioned and performed Aeolus, a throat-singing rock opera by Rome- and Berlin Prize-winning composer Ken Ueno. This past spring, Connery co-taught a “Voice” seminar at Princeton with poet & collaborator Jeff Dolven.

She appears most frequently as a solo artist and with composer collective Oracle Hysterical, with whom she has released two albums: Hecuba (2017, National Sawdust Tracks) and Passionate Pilgrim (2016, National Sawdust Tracks). Her solo work includes her debut electronic EP, Anything Chartreuse, a book of vocoder sonnets (May 2019) and Orphea, a Baroque-rock retelling of L’Orfeo arranged by Doug Balliett.

Majel is bi-coastal, based in NYC and Berkeley, CA.

Related Entities: Ky Voss Mr. Smalls
Tags: Indie Synth-pop