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Artist
Sarah Kirkland Snider
12+ albums
contemporary classicalindiefemale vocalistalternativeClassical
about
Recently deemed 'a composer with an enviable knack for crafting moody, strikingly beautiful works' (TimeOut, New York), Sarah Kirkland Snider is a New York-based composer whose music defies easy categorization, drawing on elements of modern classical composition, indie rock, classical cabaret & folk music. Her first album, Penelope, features Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond) & the chamber orchestra Signal and has been critically acclaimed by NPR, The Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, Time Out New York, Filter, The Utne Reader, Textura, Death and Taxes, Popshifter, The Indie Handbook, and many others. Her works have been performed by artists and ensembles from around the world including Shara Worden, Signal, Colin Currie, the Knights, Hebrides Ensemble, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, Psappha, Dinosaur Annex, Newspeak, Quatuor Bozzini, and many others, in venues ranging from Carnegie Hall, the Aspen Music Festival, Merkin Hall, the Colorado Music Festival, the Bang On a Can Summer Festival, the MATA Festival, the Look & Listen Festival, and the Keys to the Future Contemporary Piano Music Festival to New York multimedia art cabarets such as (le) Poisson Rouge, the Bell House, The Red Bull Theater, and Theater for the New City. Her most recent music explores her love of songwriting. These works include Penelope (2009), a 60-minute song cycle with lyrics by playwright Ellen McLaughlin, written for vocalist Shara Worden (of My Brighte
top songs
albums
Penelope
Currents
Penelope (feat. Shara Worden and Signal)
Sarah Kirkland Snider: Unremembered
Beautiful Mechanical
Sarah Kirkland Snider: Mass for the Endangered
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Snider: The Lotus Eaters
Roomful of Teeth
Eye of Mnemosyne: III. Mori, "Memory of the Dead”
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Snider: Penelope
Unremembered
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Mass for the Endangered: Sanctus - Benedictus