Our fourth Innovation Roundtable guest is alumnus, singer, composer Moira Smiley, our April Entrepreneur of the Month!
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Friday, May 1, from 12-1pm (ET)
Zoom Connect (registration required):
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Moira’s a great artist to hear from and discuss the world of music! While studying in the Jacobs School of Music, Moira formed her own vocal ensemble, VIDA – and then went on to sing in arenas, cathedrals, kitchens, back porches, sound stages, and on glaciers, and has performed with Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Tune-Yards, Tim O’Brien, Eric Whitacre, Los Angeles Master Chorale, New World Symphony, Solas, and The Lyris String Quartet. As a composer, Moira’s original compositions, choral arrangements, and folk arrangements are being sung by millions of voices around the world today.
More about Moira Smiley
Singer/composer powerhouse Moira Smiley travels the world creating new works for voices and accompanying her performances with her banjo, accordion, piano, and percussive movement. Her recordings feature spare, vocally-driven collections of warped traditional songs and original polyphony. A vocal polyglot, her voice and compositions have been featured in TED conferences, on BBC Radio and TV, NPR, ABC Australia, and live at countless venues from Lincoln Center to Royal Festival Hall.
Moira Smiley’s unique, folk-rooted style has been described as “some of the most captivating music you’ll hear from some of the sparest ingredients” (The Providence Journal). Seven Days praised her for her “high-voltage harmonies” and ability to “mix Bartok with street-singing,” creating “a genre-bending world tour of rootsy tunes.” When she’s not leading her own vocal group, moira smiley & VOCO, Moira has toured with pop artist, tUnE-yArDs; Irish super-group, SOLAS; The Lomax and Folklife Projects; and Billy Childs’ “Laura Nyro Re-Imagined”. Moira premiered her solo album Unzip The Horizon at the Savannah Music Festival in 2018, and published its companion choral Songbook in 2019.
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