Spring Revolution:

Amanda Gookin

Name: Spring Revolution: Amanda Gookin
Start: 2017-03-01T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2017-03-01T20:00:00-05:00
Location: National Sawdust

Wednesday, March 1st @ 7pm

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About the Show

The Forward Music Project is driven by social justice for women. We musicians, now more than ever, have an incredible ability to effect change in our communities. Amanda commissioned seven composers to write works based on their personal story or a particular issue that affects women and girls. The compositions are stylistically contrasting and represent the vast definition of what it means to be a woman, ranging from issues of the LGBTQ+ community and reproductive rights to sexual violence and empowerment. This visceral performance requires that Amanda sings, chants, breathes, and fights through these works.

This multi-media concert features seven World Premieres for solo cello + electronics with projection design by S Katy Tucker.

Amanda Gookin

Cellist, Amanda Gookin, is a chamber musician, soloist, and educator living in New York City. She is the co-founder of the innovative string quartet, PUBLIQuartet, specializing in the performance of new music and improvisation. She has given master classes on improvisation and chamber music throughout the U.S. and is a Teaching Artist in New York City public schools. Amanda is on faculty at the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College and has been sought after as a speaker on career development by the Mannes School for Music. Her initiative, the Forward Music Project, commissioned seven new works for solo cello by today’s most forward-thinking composers who encourage social change and empowerment for women and girls.

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