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Saturday July 13.Nicole Mitchell is an award-winning creative flutist, conceptualist, poet and composer. Having emerged from Chicago’s creative music community in the 90’s, she is the former first woman president of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Mitchell’s music, inspired by the mysteries of nature and the sci-fi writings of Octavia E. Butler, often bridges the familiar with the unknown in effort to offer alternative worlds through sound. As a creative flutist, she’s developed a unique improvisational language which has repeatedly awarded her “Top Flutist of the Year” by Downbeat Magazine Critics Poll and the Jazz Journalists Association. As a soloist and with her Black Earth Ensemble, she has performed throughout Europe, the U.S. and Canada. She is honored to have performed with jazz friends including Terri Lyne Carrington, Joshua Abrams, Brandee Younger, Vijay Iyer, Craig Taborn, Rob Mazurek, Roscoe Mitchell, Rufus Reid, Ballake Sissoko, Joelle Leandre, Fay Victor, Myra Melford, Mike Reed and Tomeka Reid. Mitchell composes for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, orchestra and big bands. Entities that have commissioned her music include: Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Music NOW, the French Ministry of Culture, the Fromm Music Foundation, Chamber Music America, International Contemporary Ensemble, the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, the Newport Jazz Festival, the National Flute Association and the French American Jazz Exchange. Mitchell is the recipient of the Doris Duke Artist Award, the United States Artist Award, the Herb Alpert Artist Award, and the American Academy Arts and Letters Award. She is a Professor of Music at the University of Virginia and enjoys teaching composition, improvisation, creative music ensemble and Black studies courses. Her first book, The Mandorla Letters was published in 2022 by Green Lantern and the University of Minnesota Press. She is honored to be a Powell performing artist since 2011.
With special guest: Special Guest, avery r young, Chicago Poet Laureate
Nicole Mitchell - flutes
Calvin Brown - piano
Matt Booth - bass
JoVia Armstrong - percussion
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4608 Industry Ln, Ste L, Durham, NC, United States, North Carolina 27713
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