Name: Student Composer Works Workshop with Composer Sonia Morales-Matos and Whistling Hens Duo
Start: 2025-10-21T18:00:00-04:00
Location: Center For The Arts

Student Composer Works Workshop with Composer Sonia Morales-Matos and Whistling Hens Duo

As part of the COFAC Latin American Festival, TU composition students have written pieces for Whistling Hens, a duo comprised of TU clarinet professor Natalie Groom and soprano Jennifer Piazza-Pick. As Ensemble in Residence of the festival, Whistling Hens will perform the student works and provide feedback from the performer perspective. Sonia Morales-Matos, the Featured Guest Composer of the festival, will provide feedback from the composer perspective.
This collaborative workshop is free and open to the public. The session takes place Tuesday, October 21 at 6:00-8:00 p.m. in the Center for the Arts Recital Hall.
Sonia Ivette Morales-Matos is a Puerto Rican composer, performer, and educator who belongs to a family of distinguished musicians. Her compositions explore a wide variety of styles and genres such as chamber music, the concerto, choral music, Latin Jazz, pop, sacred and/or contemporary Christian, and Latin or Tropical music.
Whistling Hens® was founded by soprano Jennifer Piazza-Pick and clarinetist Natalie Groom to perform and commission music by women composers to create a financially and artistically equitable future for women in music. Since its founding in 2018, Whistling Hens has premiered 29 pieces and commissioned 14 compositions, 10 transcriptions, the Whistling Hens Women Composer Coloring Book, and inspired 17 dedicated works. Learn more at www.whistlinghens.com.
This event is partially sponsored by the New Music Ensemble at Towson University.