Grey Rose GRANT: Great Lakes Harmony
Performers:
Matt Albert, violin
Nick Photinos, cello
Catherine Brown, Evan Chambers, Clay Gonzalez, Grey Rose Grant, Hannah Resnick, Jeremy York, vocalists for "Manistee" and "Pictured Rocks"
Great Lakes Harmony (2025)
Instrumentation: violin, cello, and tapes
Duration: 7:00
Program note:
This is a work about friendship, about bodies of water. This is a work about how the years go round, bellies grow round, how we live. Many thanks to Matt for his generosity and kindness throughout the creative process of this piece!
About Grey Rose Grant
Grey Rose Grant (she/they) is a composer, performer, and theater-maker whose music: “[Crafts] a work that is moving, evocative and, by the end, exhausting (in the best sense)” and writes “demanding music with precision and nuance.” (Michigan Daily).
Grey’s recent works include The Sun Stands Still, a six-hour sonic immersion for the winter solstice, Magical Thinking, a work for open-instrumentation orchestra and choir, and Little Histories, a folk opera in four acts. Their opera Michigan Trees: A Guide to the Trees of Michigan and the Great Lakes Region (2019) received a BMI Student Composer Award in 2021.
Grey has received commissions from the Regenerate! Orchestra, Contemporaneous, the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music, Tesla Quartet, The Detroit Women’s Chorus, and more. She is a co-founder and creative producer of Fifth Wall Performing Arts, an artist-led experimental performing arts organization based in MI and NYC. North Carolina born, they currently reside in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
For more information, visit linktr.ee/Grey_Matter.
