HCP 24: Adrienne Inglis on writing choral music that includes your roots

Adrienne Inglis is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and singer who shares with us her experience including her roots in her choral (and chamber) music. The obstacles and doubts she faced and how she solved them. Listen to her music in the extra episode where you will listen to instruments such as the Cuatro Venezolano!

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In this episode, you will learn:

• What Adrienne bring to her audience as a composer
• How Adrienne came to music and to choral music
• How choral music wasn’t part of her past but it is one of her main things beside performing
• How even though she didn’t see it coming, she became a composer and later co-found Inversion Ensemble (a choral group specialized in choral music)
• Adrienne’s thoughts about performance and composition
• Adrienne’s first choral anthems for the choir church she sang with
• How having her own chamber music (Chaski) helped her find opportunities to grow as a composer and write music
• Carlos use of Venezuelan rhythm in choral music
• Adrienne’s genealogy studies and how they’ve affected her music
• Adrienne’s piece about her eight great grandmother Adrienne’s feelings while adding “unusual” instruments to her choral compositions
• Adrienne’s research and ways to learn about what she doesn’t know to use it in her compositions
• “I still think of singing as 90% magic” Adrienne Inglis
• Her love for nature and birds
• Cultural background as one of the reasons to explore her roots in her writing
• What were the challenges Adrienne faced as a composer while adding these instruments and how she figured it out
• Her experience growing up and how it taught her to research
• How she tries to do something different not focusing on how successful or not it will be but for the sake of learning
• What does Adrienne say to composers thinking about doing this
• Adrienne’s focus on pieces related to the environment and to speak up for the planet
• Her thoughts for conductors and artistic directors about programming pieces about the environment or that contain folk instruments

Share it with me

• Do you include your roots in your choral music? How?

Links mentioned in the show:

• Adrienne Inglis Website
• Inversion Ensemble Website
• Adrienne Soundcloud
• Southwestern University
• Chaski – Harp and Flute duo

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