Works performed by Earplay:
Mouthpiece 40
Erin Gee, American composer/vocalist, has created the "Mouthpiece Series" in an experimental vocal/instrumental world that began as one piece for solo voice in 2000, and has grown to over 30 works for orchestra, opera, vocal ensemble, large chamber ensemble and string quartet. Erin Gee's awards for composition include a Herb Alpert Award for the Arts 2023, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship, the 2008 Rome Prize, and the Award in Music 2022 from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for outstanding artistic achievement. She has also won the Zürich Opera House's Teatro Minimo, the Picasso-Mirò Medal from the Rostrum of Composers, and a Koussevitsky Award. Mouthpiece 34 was premiered in the "Neurons" exhibit at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2020.
Her website is erin-gee.com.
[from program for May 20, 2024 concert]