POSTPONED to a later date TBD due to inclement weather. Chelsea will premiere six new piano pieces by acclaimed Black composers, inspired by Black Arts Movement poetry, commissioned for the American Mavericks Project.
Chelsea presents a concert celebrating diverse, living women composers.
Chelsea presents a recital celebrating the next generation of Black women composers in honor of Women’s History Month.
Guest lecture/recital for Newark School of the Arts Conservatory students, featuring piano works by some of today’s most exciting contemporary Black composers.
Chelsea presents a guest lecture/recital on multigenerational contemporary Black composers.
Chelsea will present a guest lecture/recital: Beyond Impressionism: Three Piano Works by Florence Price, Joyce Solomon Moorman and Krystal Folkestad for the International Florence Price Festival at Temple University, PA.
Concert cancelled.
Lecture/recital featuring some of today’s most exciting young, emerging composers.
Guest artist for St. John the Divine’s inaugural Juneteenth Celebration. Performing works from the African Diaspora.
In collaboration with kora virtuoso Malang Jobarteh, Chelsea brings her Crossings Project exploring intersections between African and Western music, to the historic St. Mark's Church-in-the Bowery.
In anticipation of her duo concert "Passages" with kora master Malang Jobarteh on 6/16 at t St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery, Chelsea will perform selections from her upcoming program, including works by Joshua Uzoigwe and Philip Glass.
Lecture/recital spotlighting some of today’s most talented, young emerging composers.
Concert Postponed.
In celebration of International Women’s Month, Chelsea will perform a diversity of piano music by multigenerational Black American women composers.
Recording solo and duet pieces for Standing on The Corners’ Bembe Secreto: Seven Prepared Pianos for the Seven African Powers.
Recording solo and four hands pieces for Standing on the Corners’ Bembe Secreto: Seven Prepared Pianos for the Seven African Powers.
Workshop on Black American composers in partnership with Clinton Hill and Fort Greene, Brooklyn P.S. schools.
Performance of works by Talib Rasul Hakim, Dorothy Rudd Moore, George Walker and more.
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Lecture/recital on Black American women composers.
Chelsea will record works by Regina Harris Baiocchi, Adolphus Hailstork and Joyce Solomon Moorman for her American Mavericks project.
Duo concert with Gambian kora master Malang Jobarteh, exploring the intersections between African music and modern African and Western piano repertoire, featuring the world premiere of a new work for kora and piano by Jobarteh and Randall.
Crossings is supported by New Music USA’s 2022-2023 Creator Development Fund.
Concert postponed to a later date TBA.
Duo concert with Gambian kora master Malang Jobarteh, exploring the intersections between African music and piano repertoire inspired by African rhythms and harmonies, featuring the world premiere of a new work for kora and piano by Jobarteh and Randall.
Crossings is supported by New Music USA’s 2022-2023 Creator Development Fund.
Chelsea brings the American Mavericks project to San Francisco, with a solo recital featuring works by trailblazing modern Black American composers, and the West Coast premier of “The Forest” by emerging composer Chloe Clarke Smith.
Chelsea presents an intimate concert celebrating 20th and 21st century Black American Composers as part of her American Mavericks project.
Chelsea will record pieces by contemporary composers Grace Coberly and Joyce Solomon Moorman.
Chelsea presents a solo recital celebrating new and seldom performed piano masterworks by 20th & 21st century Black American composers for the NY launch of her American Mavericks project.
All proceeds will go towards the project’s commissioning fund.
Chelsea will perform a stimulating duo-recital with pianist and fellow EXTENSITY Concert Series co-founder Francesca Khalifa featuring rarely heard and new works by Black and Latin composers, alongside West Coast premieres of pieces by fellows from Wildflower Composers.
Chelsea joins forces with pianist and fellow EXTENSITY Concert Series co-founder Francesca Khalifa for an stimulating duo-recital to raise funds for EXTENSITY’s commissioning program and California Chapter, in partnership with Wildflower Composers.
Chelsea launches her “American Mavericks” project dedicated to 20th & 21st century Black American composers, with a solo recital spotlighting monumental, late piano works by trailblazing composer George Walker in celebration of the Centennial Anniversary of his birth.
Chelsea interviews JUNO-award winning composer Vivian Fung about her rich life as a composer and educator, in anticipation of cellist Christine Lamprea’s 3/26 performance of Fung’s cello work “Humanoid” for EXTENSITY’s WOMEN NOW Festival.
Free Virtual Event.
Details HERE.
Chelsea interviews acclaimed composer Mary D. Watkins about her compositional process and her piano work “Summer Days,” ahead of Sarah Cahill’s performance of the piece for EXTENSTIY’s WOMEN NOW Festival on March 19.
In honor of International Women’s Day, Chelsea will co-moderate a panel discussion on gender equity and diversity in classical and new music with representatives from The Sphinx Organization, NYFA, International Alliance for Women in Music and American Composers Forum, as part of EXTENSITY’s WOMEN NOW Festival.