Becca Stevens sings at Mondavi Thursday night
Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023 鈥 7:30 p.m., Jackson Hall
Becca Stevens stretches the boundaries of convention with songs that weave together her classical and Appalachian folk music upbringing and her love of the rich rhythms and harmonies of jazz and world music, enhanced by her skill on multiple string instruments.
The North Carolina native and Brooklyn transplant straddles those two worlds, with music that moves in unpredictably fascinating directions. Smart lyrics and funky beats topped with her remarkable vocal gifts are hallmarks of her most recent album, Wonderbloom, a record that Jazz Magazine鈥痙escribed as 鈥渟ophisticated and sensual pop.鈥 Find more information and purchase tickets for the Mondavi Center event .
Trio Foss at noon Thursday
Feb. 9, 12:05 鈥 1 p.m., a Shinkoskey Noon Concert, free, Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center
Trio Foss includes Hrabba Atladottir, violin; Nina Flyer, cello; and Miles Graber, piano.
The program includes Varga B谩lint Ligatur谩ja, Trio in E Major, K. 542, Trio No. 2 in C Major, op. 87.
Icelandic violinist Hrabba Atladottir has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in several Northern California ensembles, including 麻豆传媒鈥檚 Empyrean Ensemble, The New Century Chamber Orchestra, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, ECO, and the SF Contemporary Music Players. Before coming to California, she spent time in New York, where she played on a regular basis with the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, the Orchestra of St. Luke鈥檚, and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra among others. She studied violin with Professor Axel Gerhardt at K眉nste University, Berlin. After her studies in Germany she participated in a world tour with the Icelandic pop artist Bj枚rk and a tour with violinist Nigel Kennedy. She also freelanced in Germany, regularly playing with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Deutsche Oper, and Deutsche Symphonieorchester.
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The 鈥淩eckoning鈥 in American Art History and Art Museums: A panel discussion
Thursday, Feb. 9, 4:30 鈥 6 p.m., Manetti Shrem Museum of Art; followed by student night
Art historians and curators Bridget Cooks and Nana Adusei-Poku discuss art, museums and demands for change in the age of Black Lives Matter with museum educator Stacey Shelnut-Hendrick. They consider the complexities of rethinking art history and museum practices through the lens of Blackness and explore how artists are imagining worlds of Black freedom.
Adusei-Poku is an assistant professor in African Diasporic art history in the Department of History of Art at UC Berkeley. She is the editor of the forthcoming book Reshaping the Field: Art of the African Diasporas on Display and curated the seminal exhibition Black Melancholia at the CCS Bard Galleries, Bard College, New York.
They consider the complexities of rethinking art history and museum practices through the lens of Blackness and explore how artists are imagining worlds of Black freedom.<