Hai-Ting Chinn

mezzo-soprano


May
17
4:00 PM16:00

Astronautica: Voices of Women in Space

A new commission by Voices of the New (a Voices of Ascension venture)

Music for Trio Triumphatrix (Lindsay Kesselman, Hai-Ting Chinn, Kirsten Sollek) by women composers, setting words of women astronauts of NASA, with video accompaniment.

Music by Renée Favand-See, Jennifer Jolley, Elaine Lachica, Gilda Lyons, RaShonda Reeves, Kamala Sankaram, Bora Yoon.

Using words and images from NASA

Video by Elena Mannes

More information and tickets: Astronautica at Voices of Ascension

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May
16
7:00 PM19:00

Astronautica: Voices of Women in Space

A new commission by Voices of the New (a Voices of Ascension venture)

Music for Trio Triumphatrix (Lindsay Kesselman, Hai-Ting Chinn, Kirsten Sollek) by women composers, setting words of women astronauts of NASA, with video accompaniment.

Music by Renée Favand-See, Jennifer Jolley, Elaine Lachica, Gilda Lyons, RaShonda Reeves, Kamala Sankaram, Bora Yoon.

Using words and images from NASA

Video by Elena Mannes

More information and tickets: Astronautica at Voices of Ascension

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May
15
7:00 PM19:00

Astronautica: Voices of Women in Space

A new commission by Voices of the New (a Voices of Ascension venture)

Music for Trio Triumphatrix (Lindsay Kesselman, Hai-Ting Chinn, Kirsten Sollek) by women composers, setting words of women astronauts of NASA, with video accompaniment.

Music by Renée Favand-See, Jennifer Jolley, Elaine Lachica, Gilda Lyons, RaShonda Reeves, Kamala Sankaram, Bora Yoon.

Using words and images from NASA

Video by Elena Mannes

More information and tickets: Astronautica at Voices of Ascension

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May
14
7:00 PM19:00

Astronautica: Voices of Women in Space

A new commission by Voices of the New (a Voices of Ascension venture)

Music for Trio Triumphatrix (Lindsay Kesselman, Hai-Ting Chinn, Kirsten Sollek) by women composers, setting words of women astronauts of NASA, with video accompaniment.

Music by Renée Favand-See, Jennifer Jolley, Elaine Lachica, Gilda Lyons, RaShonda Reeves, Kamala Sankaram, Bora Yoon.

Using words and images from NASA

Video by Elena Mannes

More information and tickets: Astronautica at Voices of Ascension

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Jan
31
7:30 PM19:30

Moon in the Mirror

  • Music and Communication Building, Waetjen Auditorium (Room 332) (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

An operatic monodrama of Chinese folklore by composer Stephen Dembski and librettists Zhang Er and Martine Bellen.

Music and Communication Building, Waetjen Auditorium, Cleveland State University

Presented by the Cleveland Contemporary Players Residency Series in collaboration with the Confucius Institute

More Information: CSU

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Jan
16
8:30 PM20:30

Marymere, as part of AOP's New Works Showcase

  • BAM Lepercq Space / BAM Cafe (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Hai-Ting sings in excerpts from Marymere, Matthew Schickele’s folk opera about love, loyalty, and murder on the American frontier.

Also featured, excerpts from Omar, by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, about a scholar living in West Africa who is captured and sold as a slave in Charleston, South Carolina; and HATUEY: Memory of Fire, a soaring Cuban-Yiddish opera by Frank London and Elise Thoron about a love story in a Havana nightclub in 1931

more information and tickets: AOP

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Apr
25
8:00 PM20:00

Music of David Schiff:

Shifrin (and friends) play Schiff. Co-presented with Chamber Music Northwest.

Hai-Ting sings/narrates “Vashti,” a llight-hearted yet topical reimagining of the Purim tale, with clarinetist David Shifrin, musical director of CMNW, musicians from Chamber Music Northwest

also Scenes from Adolescence, and Divertimento from Gimpel the Fool

Pre-concert conversation with Robert McBride, 7pm. 

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Apr
2
7:00 PM19:00

SAVIOR: a mystical re-telling of the life and death of Joan of Arc

  • Harris Theater of Music and Dance (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Chicago Symphony Orchestra's MusicNow series, in collaboration with HOWL ensemble,

presents this new work by Amy Beth Kirsten

HOWL / ensemble:
Molly Netter, soprano
Eliza Bagg, soprano
Hai-Ting Chinn, mezzo-soprano
Sandy Smillie, pre-recorded voice

CSO MusicNOW / ensemble:
Timothy Munro, alto flute
Katinka Kleijn, violincello
Cynthia Yeh, percussion

HOWL / creative team:
Amy Beth Kirsten, composer / librettist / director
Mary Ellen Stebbins, lighting design
Christopher Kriz, sound design
Denisa Musilova, movement
Christina Lorraine Bullard, mask design

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Mar
1
8:00 PM20:00

Intollerenza with American Symphony Orchestra

Luigi Nono's Intollerenza

More information and tickets: http://americansymphony.org/intolerance/

In post-Fascist Italy, Luigi Nono's one-act opera Intolleranza attempted to speak out against dictatorship. It follows a migrant worker travelling home as he gets caught up in a political protest, is tortured in prison, and escapes to fight for a world without war.

  • American Symphony Orchestra
  • Leon Botstein, Conductor
    Daniel Weeks, Tenor (A Migrant)
    Serena Benedetti, Soprano (His Companion)
    Hai-Ting Chinn, Mezzo-Soprano (A Woman)
    Matthew Worth, Baritone (An Algerian)
    Carsten Wittmoser, Bass-Baritone (A Torture Victim)
    Bard Festival Chorale
    James Bagwell, Director
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