Join us on Monday evening, August 17th, at the Civitella Castle for Presentations by Music Fellows Darrell Grant and Youmna Saba. Reserve your spot below or tune in to our livestream on Instagram @CivitellaRanieri.
6:00 PM CEST Welcome Cocktail
6:15 PM CEST/12:15 PM EDT Presentations
Darrell Grant has released 10 albums as a leader, performed with jazz icons such as Betty Carter, Tony Williams, and esperanza spalding, and built an international reputation as an artist who channels the power of music toward community and social justice. His compositions include Step by Step: The Ruby Bridges Suite, The Territory, and Sanctuaries, a jazz chamber opera exploring gentrification and displacement. He is a CMA New Works and MAP Fund grantee as well as Professor of Music & Interdisciplinary Studies at Portland State University, where he directs the Social Justice and the Arts program.
Youmna Saba is a musician, composer, and musicologist. Her current research focuses on instrument and space resonances in different sonic and musical contexts. With five albums to this date (the latest is Wishah, 2023), she has collaborated with musicians of different musical expressions such as Kamilya Jubran, Mike Cooper, and the Neue Vocalsolisten. In 2022-23, she was a resident artist at the Musée du Quai Branly, where her sound installation La Réserve des Non-Dits was exhibited. Other residencies include the INA-GRM (Paris) and Elektronmusikstudion EMS (Stockholm).