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Canceled: Chelsea Randall: Celebrating Black Women Composers

Update 2/16/24: Unfortunately, the Chelsea Randall concert has been canceled. No new date has been scheduled. Thank you for your understanding. 

In celebration of International Women’s Month, this concert features a diversity of piano music by multigenerational Black American women composers, ranging from rarely heard gems by Undine Smith Moore and Dorothy Rudd Moore, to pieces by living composers working in collaboration with Chelsea Randall including Regina Harris Baiocchi and Joyce Solomon Moorman. The program will include a complete performance of Joyce Solomon Moorman’s partially unpublished Sonata “A Summer Afternoon in South Carolina” and the world premiere of “Modern Prelude & Minuet” by emerging composer and Wildflower Composers alum, Mena Williams. Program duration approximately 60 minutes. 

The concert is part of Randall's American Mavericks project dedicated to the performance, commissioning and research of seldom performed and new solo piano repertoire by Black American composers 1900-present.

Chaunte Vaughn

Brooklyn, NY-based pianist Chelsea Randall is a multifaceted artist who seeks to create fresh dialogues between the old, new and undiscovered as a performer and artistic director. Her eclectic programming has been featured at venues including Weill Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall, The Kaufmann Center, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Yamaha Piano Salon, Steinway Hall, The Princeton Club, Mannes School of Music, Manhattan School of Music, Old First Concerts in SF, St. Peter’s Church Hammersmith in London, Clare College at the University of Cambridge and Théâtre Adyar in Paris, and she has appeared as a guest artist at the Pacific, Colby, Salluzo, Allegro and Orvieto festivals. She is the recipient of grants from New Music USA, Music Talks, Live From Our Living Rooms, McGill University and Conservatoire de Paris among others.

In June 2022, Chelsea launched her American Mavericks project dedicated to Black American composers with a US tour featuring overlooked masterpieces and... Read More

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