里安农吉登斯

Lunch and Learn: Career in Conversation: A conversation on career development for artists with multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi and Alice Jones, assistant dean of community engagement and career services

Historical Performance Workshop: A discussion and exploration of listen-and-learn methods through traditional and folk music with the Historical Performance department

Vocal Performance Seminar: Guest lecture and demonstration for vocal arts, 戏剧, 爵士乐, and composition students about what to consider when performing and writing for the voice

Traditional 音乐 Workshop for Chamber 音乐ians: A jam session with classical instrumentalists and multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi

Traditional 音乐 Workshop with Historical Performance: A workshop with the Historical Performance community and multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi making traditional music together and discussing its place in today’s musical landscape

第十届年度Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Speaker Series—Art as Service: The Artist’s Responsibility to Self, 来处理, and to the Community: 吉登斯说 on the theme of artists’ responsibilities to themselves and the world for the 10th annual MLK Speaker Series

Spring ChamberFest Concert: 吉登斯策划, 指导, and hosted a performance of her own vocal and chamber works as part of Juilliard’s annual festival. The concert included selections from her opera 奥马尔、舞剧 Black Lucy and the Bard, and an arrangement of her song “At the Purchaser’s Option”

音乐ian and Juilliard Creative Associate 里安农吉登斯 uses her art to excavate the past and reveal bold truths about our present. A MacArthur “genius” grant recipient and two-time Grammy winner, Giddens co-founded the Black string band Carolina Chocolate Drops, formed the band Our Native Daughters with three other Black female banjo players to create music from stories of historic Black womanhood and survival, and has been nominated for six additional Grammys for her work as a soloist and collaborator. Giddens’ latest album, They’re Calling Me 首页。, her second collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi, won the 2020 Grammy for best folk album. In 2020, Giddens was named artistic director of Silkroad, a social impact organization and global music ensemble founded by Yo-Yo Ma. Last year saw the world premiere of her first opera, 奥马尔, at the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston and the LA Opera in Los Angeles. Co-composed with Michael Abels, 奥马尔 is based on the autobiography of 奥马尔 Ibn Said, an Islamic scholar sold into slavery. Giddens co-composed the music for the ballet Black Lucy and the Bard (fka 露西·内格罗·雷杜克斯) with Turrisi, which premiered in 2019 with the Nashville Ballet and was shown on PBS’ 伟大的表演 去年秋天. In October, she released her first children's book, 建造一座房子， based on the lyrics of her song. Giddens is also curating a four-concert Perspectives series as part of Carnegie Hall’s 2022–23 season.