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Susan Botti has received a Support for Artists grant from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) to support her creative work. Sponsored by Fractured Atlas, this award will fund Duo della Luna's project Dreaming Poetry into Music - and a new work, Dreamer Songs, created in collaboration with the beautiful and inspiring poets from the Dream Project Writing for Resilience Cohort
Dido Refuses to Speak featured in CBC Podcast about the Aeneid:
(Dido excerpts start at around 22:50)
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-aeneid-u-s-politics-empire-1.7474758
Susan Botti awarded 2023 Chamber Music America commission - new work for Infrasound to premiere APRIL 25-27, 2025 - St. Malachy’s Church, NYC
Vespers (Walk in Beauty)
New work for Chorus and Wind Ensemble
Commissioned by an international consortium led by Glen Adsit
and the Hartt School
Premiere - November 17, 2022
University of Michigan
Within Darkness
Listen to the live recording from Carnegie Hall premiere (January, 2000)
Martha Caplin - violin solo
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
New b&w Jabberwocky!
- premiering in the peak minute of the Lunar Eclipse at 10:44pm on Tuesday, September 17, 2024! It's a dramatically transformed version of the original color film, spookier and grittier using B&W film emulation. Howl! (H. Paul Moon)
Susan Botti - voice
Benjamin Toth - percussion
Film - H. Paul Moon
Audio - Johnathan Smith
Words - Lewis Carroll
River Spirits - a theatrical motet
River Spirits has been granted a commission from the Fromm Foundation
Yellow Barn Residency and premiere September 11, 2022
Mangetsu - Duo della Luna
New Focus Recordings
“throughout the recording, the two opulently creative performers consistently bring out the best in each other…” (Joshua Rosenblum / Opera News)
Susan Botti-voice, Airi Yoshioka-violin
Music composed by Susan Botti, Kaija Saariaho, Linda Dusman, Béla Bartók