EVENTS
October 2 and 4: I have been working with Berlin-based vocal ensemble The Present (SSATB) to create a new concert-work as artists-in-residence for the Heinrcih Schütz festival in East Germany, centered around Dresden.
October 14: solo and duo sets at Leveller Brewing in Weaverville, NC. Zach Cooper and I will each play solo sets (I will sing songs and play keyboard), and then we will do a set together with two contrabasses and some tuning forks.
November 6: Asheville-based contrabass ensemble, Grotto Lung Three will play as Grotto Lung Four! Music for four basses created by myself, Landon George, Zach Cooper, and Charlie Boss. We will be opening for Sham, for their record release show. More details soon.
November 19: playing in a new musical project of Charlie Boss, Musicians Guild, at Ayurprana Listening Room.
December 5: A new work for orchestra, working title Andromeda, beset upon by the ocean waves, commssioned by the London Contemporary Music Festival. The final piece in a triptych on the mythology of Perseus.
MEDIA
+ Piriforms now out! Available digitally, or cd with 22 page color booklet on Bandcamp from Sacred Realism. Four works for voice, some with bass flute as well. Performed by Yannick Guédon, Julia Holter, Catherine Lamb, Rebecca Lane, and Evelyn Saylor.
+ “Yes it is polyphony, and a map: revisiting the 72 Verses for St. Martial” research paper on an eleventh-century polyphonic composition by Ademar de Chabannes available here
+ Imaginary Music Radio Hour shows are archived here
+ Essay and recording (viola da gamba solo) on Lateral Addition
+ Harmonica Fables, release by nueni recs. Info here, and reviews here.
+ Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble release, Motherland, includes The Four Winds (2015).
+ For Mike Winter’s release, lower limit, he asked me to write the liner notes and I got to learn a lot about math as a result.
+ Article by Leah B. Levinson in Soap Ear #2
+ I was included in The Guardian feature, The Sound of LA
+ Research paper about word painting in medieval Byzantine chant has been published in Aural Architecture in Byzantium: Music, Acoustics and Ritual, ed. Bissera Pentcheva.
ABOUT
Bio: Laura Steenberge is a composer and performer who sings and plays piano, contrabass, and viola da gamba. Her practice is centered on language and the voice, encompassing studies of medieval chant, the function of non-semantic language, folksong traditions, and the physics of harmony. Since 2021 she has been based in Asheville, North Carolina.
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