Performer Portraits: Maren Montalbano
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Maren Montalbano began her vocal career with the San Francisco Girls Chorus at age seven, and has been singing ever since. A graduate of both New England Conservatory of Music and Tufts University, Ms. Montalbano can be heard in three GRAMMY Award-winning albums: John Adams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning work, On the Transmigration of Souls (2005), and Gavin Bryars’ The Fifth Century (2018), and Lansing McLoskey’s Zealot Canticles (2019), on which she is a featured soloist.
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Woodwind Doubler Overdub - Original Composition
Joseph Howell - flutes, clarinet, saxophones, composer/arranger, drawing.Form: 3 short choruses: opening flute/clarinet choir, 8-bar solos traded, sax soli, woodwind bigband development section.
Catharsis, by BlueVein
BlueVein is the performance persona of Alex Gonzalez. This track, Catharsis, was premiered on the Jeeni JAM Festival in April 2021.
Audrey Reid Competition winner_ The Thing - Issac Shatford - Dunedin Youth Orchestra
The Thing - Issac Shatford, performed by the Dunedin Youth Orchestra
Maren Montalbano - Three Sean-Nos Folk Songs: No. 3 - Fear a’ bháta (Crean)
At the Viorel Farcas Art Gallery in Philadelphia, PA March 7, 2020.For more information about Maren, visit https://marenmontalbano.com/