Images of Asia have long sparked the European musical imagination. As described by European poets and composers, these images include exotic landscapes and fetishized female figures, stereotypes that remain even as the Asian diaspora has taken root and claimed citizenship all over the world.

With three newly-commissioned song cycles by Asian American composers Justine F. Chen, Melissa Dunphy, and Kamala Sankaram, this recital asserts Asian American lived experience from the perspective of those of us who live it. As contrasted with Maurice Ravel’s “Asie,” a prime example of European musical Orientalism, these new songs describe the joys, pains, contradictions, and pride we experience as Asians living in this land we call home.

-Jennifer Lien

To be announced

The ten fellows of CSI’s inaugural The Fellowship of the Song take the stage for the first of two scintillating programs.

Love, in all its forms, can be found throughout nature and in each of us. Sometimes it's sensual, blissful, unconditional. Sometimes it's surprising, crazy, carnal. No matter the moment, love is everywhere - always.

The science is undeniable: our earth's climate is changing at alarming rates, and only we have the power to curb the effects it will have on our planet. The world premiere of Lisa Neher's monumental cycle confronts this reality while Ericsson Hatfield's award-winning cycle God's World celebrates the natural world that we must continue to cherish and protect.

The ten fellows of The Fellowship of the Song take the stage for the second of two scintillating programs.