About this Event
The American Mavericks Project (AMP) celebrates seldom-heard, recently discovered and contemporary piano music by Black American composers 1900-present, with emphasis on 21st century composers, through performances, commissions, education and research. Composers include Regina Harris Baiocchi, Adolphus Hailstork, Jonathan Bailey Holland, Julius Eastman, Dorothy Rudd Moore, Undine Smith Moore, Joyce Solomon Moorman, Jeffrey Mumford, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Daniel Bernard Roumain, George Walker, Mary D. Watkins and many more. Repertoire featured in AMP is performed by pianist Chelsea Randall and guest artists.
Chelsea Randall is a New York-native pianist, curator and educator. She is a dedicated advocate of underrepresented and new music, and seeks to create fresh dialogues between the old, new and undiscovered. She has performed at venues including Weill Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall, The Kaufman Center, Yamaha Piano Salon, Steinway Hall, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, The Princeton Club, St. Peter’s Church Hammersmith in London, the University of Cambridge, UK and Théâtre Adyar in Paris. She is the recipient of grants and awards from New Music USA, Music Talks, Live From Our Living Rooms, McGill University and Conservatoire de Paris, among others.
In ‘22 Chelsea launched the American Mavericks Project celebrating piano music by Black American composers with a US tour, and in ‘23, with support from New Music USA, she presented the inaugural concert of her Crossings Project exploring connections between African and Western music, with kora master Malang Jobarteh at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. She is also the co-founder and director of EXTENSITY Concert Series in NY, which aims to promote diversity and equity in classical music.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center, 740 East 56th Place, Chicago, United States
USD 12.51
