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Photo by Zaira Castillo
Alissa Voth (she/her) is a composer and paper artist based in Chicago Illinois. Her creative work explores narrative and the unconscious mind with an artistic focus on the voice and woven imagery.
Upcoming projects include works for Varo String Quartet, the Northwestern University saxophone studio, and Flannau Duo. Recent works include commissions from Composing the Climate with Cacie Miller and Missing Piece, Masso Quartet, Garden Unit, Timothy Hanley, Charles Lilley, Sarah Brady, and Tyler Harper, with premieres by Cosmia Opera Collective, Northwestern University's Contemporary Music Ensemble, and Zachary Good, Stare at the Sun vocal ensemble, the Unheard-of Ensemble, Lilith Vocal Ensemble, Steph Davis, Seth Parker Woods, Antonina Styczén, Lucy Yao, and the LoadBang ensemble.
Her music has been premiered and performed at festivals and venues such as at the UT Contemporary Music Festival, the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music, the University of Michigan, Percussive Arts Society, the Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Constellation’s Frequency Series, the New School of Music, Elastic Arts, Constellation Chicago, Epiphany Center of the Arts, the Northwestern University New Music Conference, the Cortona Sessions for New Music, the Andrew Rafacz Gallery, the Isador Bajic School, Longy's Divergent Studio, the Manhattan International Composers Conference, the deCordova Sculpture Museum, Areté Venue and Gallery, the New Music Gathering, the Boston New Music Initiative, and the North American Saxophone Alliance.
Her viral paper weaving and collage art has been curated by Society6 on two separate occasions, Apartment Therapy, and the Chicago Collage Community; she has additionally lead workshops on paper weaving at the International Museum of Surgical Science.
She is a PhD candidate at the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University, where she focuses her studies on music cognition and composition pedagogy. She attended the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, which she now returns to as composition faculty for the High School Composition Intensive.
Alissa is a former church pianist and public school accompanist from Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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