Events . Sydeboob Duo Debut

Sydeboob Duo Debut

debut concert of voice, piccolo and electronics group
Concert
Irma Freeman Center
All Ages $10

**Attendees must be fully vaccinated and remain masked for the duration of the show.**

On Thursday November 18, 2021 at 8:00pm, Sydeboob Duo will give their first concert entitled "Debut" at Irma Freeman Center for Imagination in Friendship. Soprano Anna Elder and flutist Sarah Steranka make up the female-fronted duo who will perform works by composers Rebecca Saunders, Eve Beglarian, Kaija Saariaho, Anahita Abbasi, Kate Soper, and Brian Riordan.

Saunders’ O Yes & I for bass flute and soprano draws text from Molly Bloom’s monologue, the final chapter of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Eve Beglarian’s Robin Redbreast for voice, piccolo, and electronics features the poetry of Stanley Kunitz and a piccolo part which warps a robin song. This program will also feature the live world premiere of "Succubus" for soprano and live electronics by Pittsburgh-based composer Brian Riordan.

A spinoff of the Pittsburgh-based new music collective Kamratōn, Sydeboob Duo is made up of soprano Anna Elder and flutist Sarah Steranka. Based in Brooklyn, NY, they actively commission and perform contemporary classical music for soprano and flute(s). They are a female-fronted experimental music collective dedicated to pushing the boundaries of contemporary performance, amplifying the voices of female artists, and using alternative performance mediums to invite listeners into a more unique and challenging listening space.

Tickets are $10 per person and will be sold on Eventbrite before the show and at the door.

--ARTIST BIOS--
Soprano Anna Elder’s voice has been described as being, “ethereal” or “a voice that has blues, reds and purples in it” by The New York Times. She performs new music with her ensemble Kamratōn. Anna premiered composer Eric Moe’s opera “We Crossed The River” for City of Asylum’s Literature Festival. She has performed on Oh My Ears, Re:Sound, Experimental Sound Studio, and SEAMUS21. She was a featured artist at Tanglewood, where she sang Andrew Hamilton’s “Music for People Who Like Art” for their Festival of Contemporary music in 2019.

Sarah Steranka enjoys a multifaceted career as a recitalist, chamber musician, and advocate for new music. She has presented programs of new solo and chamber works for flute at the 2021 SCI National Student Conference, the 2020 Mid-Atlantic Flute Festival, Music on the Edge’s Beyond Microtonal Music Festival, and many others. Her recordings of solo and chamber works have been published by Sound Silence Thought, Albany Records, and Naxos, and have in addition been self-published by countless composers. She currently plays with Kamratōn and the Westmoreland Symphony and maintains faculty positions at the Pittsburgh Flute Academy and Carnegie Mellon University. Sarah holds degrees from Duquesne University and Carnegie Mellon.


Read more: https://www.bleepbloopvoice.com/sydeboob

Photo credit: J. Osterman Photography, LLC.
Contact: j.osterman.photography@gmail.com

Related Entities: Irma Freeman Center
Tags: Classical Experimental