In 2009, just out of school and starting music careers in New York City, Elisabeth Halliday-Quan and Zach Herchen formed The Emerging Voices Project, a voice/sax duo commissioning, performing, and recording new works for soprano and saxophone. We loved the combo of our instruments, but couldn't find any music! After a successful three years of commissioning pieces, touring the new works, and releasing a CD, we retired our duo.
A lot has changed since then.
In the current increasingly hostile climate - an economy hostile to artists, a government hostile to all our vulnerable populations, and a planet becoming more hostile to life itself - we are moved to look at our communities and lift up perspectives, using the lens of "Place."
How do we define "Place"? It it where we are from? Where we were formed? How we are constrained? Who we are with on the journey?
The Emerging Voices Project reboot will commission five composers with diverse perspectives to create Place-works for voice and saxophone.
Join us on the journey!
-Elisabeth & Zach
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