Boston-based ensemble Castle of Our Skins return to the Gardner with special guest Nathalie Joachim, a “powerful and unpretentious” voice in contemporary music, according to the New York Times. Works by living women composers of color form a breathtaking collage of reflections on lineage, history, and belonging.

PROGRAM

Valerie Coleman, Danza de la Mariposa (2008)

Nathalie Joachim, Seen (2021)

Allison Loggins-Hull, The Pattern (2020)

EXCERPTS FROM FANM D’AYITI (2018)
Emerante de Pradines, arr. Nathalie Joachim, Manman voye m peze kafe + Legba na konsole
Nathalie Joachim, Suite pou Dantan
Nathalie Joachim, Madan Bellegarde
Carole Demesmin, arr. Nathalie Joachim, Fanm d’Ayiti