By popular demand, Brandon James Gwinn returns Feb. 10 to the Bing Studio for his unforgettable piano bar experience.
Stanford’s winter quarter guest artists
From Brandon James Gwinn’s piano bar to Sean Penn’s documentary on the Ukraine war, this season’s calendar has more than 50 opportunities to experience the arts.
Stanford’s 2024 winter’s arts calendar includes an eclectic roster of guest artists, including virtuosos of the gayageum, guitar, harpsichord, kamancheh, pipa, and tabla; a quintet of quartets; Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Pulitzer, and Tony Award winners; and writers whose topics span delight, faith and loss, and a séance with the iconic Mexican-American singer Selena.
Stanford Live offers a deep dive into the developing world of women in jazz with drummer and bandleader Terri Lyne Carrington; bassist, composer, and bandleader Linda May Han Oh; and saxophonist and composer Lakecia Benjamin, each of whom will be featured with their bands in a series of concerts in January. Carrington, the founder of Berklee College of Music’s Institute for Jazz and Gender Justice in Boston, kicks off the series with works from her newly published compilation of New Standards by female composers that highlights the contributions of women in jazz.
Also in January, actor and film director Sean Penn will screen Superpower, a documentary about Ukraine before and during Russia’s invasion in February 2022, followed by a discussion with Michael McFaul, director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
In conjunction with the opening of Day Jobs at the Cantor Arts Center in March, a panel of visual artists represented in the exhibition will discuss how their labor as caregivers and service workers has shaped their creative practices.
Enjoy the winter season.
2024 winter quarter guest artists
JOEY ALEXANDER
As a pianist, composer, and bandleader, Joey Alexander has been enjoying one of the most ascendant careers in jazz, thanks to his technique, innate musical smarts, and ability to communicate irresistible joy.
Performance Jan. 19
Hosted by Stanford Live
MOREHSHIN ALLAHYARI
Morehshin Allahyari (Persian: موره شین اللهیاری) is a New York–based Iranian-Kurdish artist using 3D simulation, video, sculpture, and digital fabrication as tools to refigure myth and history. Through archival practices and storytelling, her work weaves together complex counternarratives in opposition to the lasting influence of Western technological colonialism in the context of the Middle East and North Africa. Her work has been part of numerous exhibitions, festivals, and workshops at venues throughout the world, including the New Museum, MoMA, Centre Pompidou, Venice Biennale di Architecture, and Museum für Angewandte Kunst, among many others.
Talk Jan. 16
Hosted by Department of Art and Art History
CARMEN ARGOTE
Carmen Argote is a multidisciplinary artist who often points to the body, class, and economic structures in relation to architecture and personal history. Their practice draws upon their immediate environment and the networks of labor and consumption that mark these spaces. Argote manifests these connections through drawings, paintings, site-specific sculptures, installations, and performances that directly reference the visual language of abstraction. They live and work in Los Angeles and received their MFA in 2007 from the University of California, Los Angeles, where they also received their BFA in 2004.
Lecture Feb. 1
Hosted by Department of Art and Art History
JANANI BALASUBRAMANIAN, ’12
Janani Balasubramanian, ’12, practices across immersive media, conceptual art, and literary work and in long-term collaborations with scientists, inviting deeper connections with nonhuman worlds while nurturing social imagination for care, complexity, and play.
2023-24 residency
Hosted by Department of Electrical Engineering, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Physics Department, Stanford Compression Forum, with funding from the Stanford Visiting Artist Fund in Honor of Roberta Bowman Denning
MARK BAUGH-SASAKI, '17
Mark Baugh-Sasaki is a San Francisco-based interdisciplinary artist whose practice focuses on our connection to place through embedded narratives in both the built and the natural landscape. He received his BFA in 2004 from Carnegie Mellon University and his MFA in 2017 from Stanford University. Baugh-Sasaki is working with the Doerr’s School’s Ocean’s Department at Stanford’s Hopkins Marine Station to create a new work celebrating Woods Institute for the Environment’s 20th anniversary in the fall.
2024 visiting artist
Hosted by Doerr School of Sustainability
LAKECIA BENJAMIN
Saxophonist and composer Lakecia Benjamin was named a 2020 Rising Star by the Downbeat Magazine Critics’ Poll. A collaborator with artists as diverse as Alicia Keys, Gregory Porter, Anita Baker, and Clark Terry, Benjamin has proven versatility and excellence in multiple fields.
Performance Jan. 27
Hosted by Stanford Live
JOSEPH ALLEN BOONE
Joseph Allen Boone is the Gender Studies Professor in Media and Gender and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. He is the author of three scholarly books, the latest being The Homoerotics of Orientalism. His novel Furnace Creek is the winner of the National Indie Excellence Awards for LGBT+ fiction and winner of the Next Generation Award for first fiction. At the Stanford Humanities Center (2014–15), he began research on a new project, “The Melville Effect,” which he has just finished under the auspices of a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship. Boone is also the recipient of Guggenheim, ACLS, National Center for the Humanities, and Huntington Library Early Modern Studies Institute fellowships and residencies at Bellagio, Bogliasco, and Valparaiso.
Lecture Feb. 6
Hosted by Humanities Center
BRENTANO STRING QUARTET
Since its inception in 1992, the Brentano String Quartet has appeared throughout the world to popular and critical acclaim. It has performed across five continents in the world’s most prestigious venues, including Carnegie Hall in New York, the Library of Congress in Washington, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Konzerthaus in Vienna, Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, and the Sydney Opera House. Festival appearances include Aspen, the Ojai Music Festival, the Edinburgh Festival, the Kuhmo Festival in Finland, and the Seoul Spring Festival of Chamber Music.
Performance Feb. 17
Hosted by Department of Music
VIOLETTE BULE
As a Venezuelan who arrived in New York without family, a stable income, or reliable housing, Violette Bule captures the weight of her lived experiences and the collective challenges immigrant laborers face in this country, emphasizing the importance of immigrants working in the service industry.
Discussion March 3
Hosted by Cantor Arts Center
CALDER QUARTET
The Calder Quartet captivates audiences by exploring a broad spectrum of repertoire, always striving to fulfill the composer’s vision in their performances. The group’s distinctive artistry is exemplified by a musical curiosity brought to everything they perform and has led them to be called one of America’s most satisfying and most enterprising quartets. At Stanford, they perform with dancer Antoine Hunter.
Performance Feb. 25
Hosted by Stanford Live
TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON
Band leader and percussionist Terri Lyne Carrington is the founder and artistic director of the Berklee Institute for Jazz and Gender Justice. She curated a newly published compilation of new standards composed by women, including Carla Bley, Cassandra Wilson, Marilyn Crispell, Lil Hardin Armstrong, Eliane Elias, Jaime Branch, Luciana Souza, Hiromi, Emily Remler, Anat Cohen, and others.
Performance Jan. 25
Hosted by Stanford Live
CELLOGAYAGEUM
Formed in 2016, Austrian cellist Sol Daniel Kim and Korean gayageum player Dayoung Yoon created a musical phenomenon bridging cultural divides through the universal language of music. Their unique fusion of instruments and musical styles creates a timeless and contemporary sound. By showcasing the beauty and richness of South Korean music to audiences around the world, CelloGayageum redefines what it means to be a global musical act.
Performance Feb. 23
Hosted by Stanford Live
LENKA CLAYTON
Reframing her domestic life as a residency, Lenka Clayton has created a set of conditions that enables her labor as a mother to support her work as an artist. Fragmented attention, anxiety, and the limited mobility of parenthood became productive pathways to new methods of working rather than obstacles to overcome.
Discussion March 3
Hosted by Cantor Arts Center
JOSHUA COHEN
Joshua Cohen is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Netanyahus (2021), among many other critically acclaimed novels, including Moving Kings (2017), Book of Numbers (2015), and Witz (2010). At Stanford, Cohen will join Daniel E. Koshland, professor in Jewish culture and history, and Steven J. Zipperstein, faculty director of the Taube Center, to explore Jewish literature, politics, and what it means to use history to write about the present.
Conversation Jan. 16
Hosted by Creative Writing Program, Department of English, Department of History, Humanities Center, Taube Center for Jewish Studies
SASHA COOKE
Two-time Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke has been called luminous. She is sought after by the world’s leading orchestras, opera companies, and chamber music ensembles for her versatile repertoire and commitment to new music.
Performance Feb. 4
Hosted by Stanford Live
DOOSTRIO
Three music masters and old friends join together in a new collaboration called DoosTrio. Kayhan Kalhor, kamancheh; Wu Man, pipa; and Sandeep Das, tabla, are established soloists in their individual traditions. Their new trio highlights the ancient traditions of Iran, China, and India through a 21st-century lens.
Performance Feb. 21
Hosted by Stanford Live
ARIEL ELIAS
Ariel Elias is a comedian living in New York City. Her comedy is a fun mesh of unique, personal stories mixed with witty and wry observations. Elias made her late-night television debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live! She has been featured in Rolling Stone and the Washington Post and on Good Morning America.
Performances Feb. 9
Hosted by Stanford Live
MAHAN ESFAHANI, ’05
Mahan Esfahani, ’05, has made it his life’s mission to rehabilitate the harpsichord, bringing it into the mainstream of concert instruments. Performances by the Iranian-born musician leave critics breathless and audiences rapt.
Performance with Viano Quartet Jan. 28
Solo performance March 6
Hosted by Stanford Live
SOFÍA GALLISÁ MURIENTE
Sofía Gallisá Muriente is a Puerto Rican artist whose practice claims the freedom of historical agency, proposing mechanisms for remembering and reimagining. She employs text, image, and archive as medium and subject, exploring their poetic and political implications. She has been a fellow of the Cisneros Institute at MoMA, Smithsonian Institution, Puerto Rican Arts Initiative, and Flaherty Seminar, and a resident artist at the Vieques Historical Archive, Alice Yard, FAARA, and Amant. Gallisá Muriente’s work has been shown recently in Documenta Fifteen, MoMA, the Whitney Museum, Savvy Contemporary, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, and galleries El Kilómetro and Embajada. From 2014 to 2020, she co-directed the artist-run organization Beta-Local in San Juan. In 2023, she was awarded the Latinx Artist Fellowship and published the artist book Observatorio de lagunas: notas de campo with Editorial Educación Emergente.
Public talk Feb. 13
Student-only talk Feb. 14
Hosted by Cantor Arts Center
OLIVIA GATWOOD
Olivia Gatwood is the author of two poetry collections, New American Best Friend and Life of the Party. She has received international recognition for her poetry, writing workshops, and work as a Title IX Compliant educator in sexual assault prevention and recovery. Her performances have been featured on HBO, HuffPost, MTV, VH1, the BBC, and more. Her poems have appeared in The Poetry Foundation, Sundance Film Festival, Lambda Literary, and The Missouri Review. Her debut novel, Whoever You Are, Honey, will be released in summer 2024. Originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, she lives in Los Angeles.
Performance March 7
Hosted by Creative Writing Program, Stanford Live
ROSS GAY
Ross Gay is the author of four books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding, winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. In addition to his poetry, Ross has released three collections of essays – The Book of Delights was released in 2019 and was a New York Times bestseller; Inciting Joy was released in 2022; and his newest collection, The Book of (More) Delights, was released in September 2023.
Reading Jan. 31
Hosted by Creative Writing Program
JAY LYNN GOMEZ
Jay Lynn Gomez’s art is rooted in her personal, lived experiences. She was born to undocumented Mexican immigrants in the Inland Empire east of Los Angeles. Beginning in 2009, after attending graduate school, Gomez got a job as a live-in nanny to a Beverly Hills family and began to paint figures of unseen workers onto pages torn from luxury magazine spreads discarded by her employer.
Discussion March 3
Hosted by Cantor Arts Center
BRANDON JAMES GWINN
Pianist Brandon James Gwinn produced and performed on Two Birds and One Stone, the first and second albums released by Trixie Mattel (winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race Allstars 3). He also directs and produces music for Alexis Michelle (Drag Race Season 9) and produced her debut album, Love Fool, for Broadway Records. He composed theme music for George Takei’s web series It Takeis Two. Gwinn can often be found entertaining crowds all over the country at piano bars and supper clubs and backing up some of the country’s best music and cabaret talent. He is a staple at New York City’s famous piano bar Marie’s Crisis.
Performance Feb. 10
Hosted by Stanford Live
SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY
Shawné Michaelain Holloway is a new media performance artist and poet. Known for her practice of noisy experimental electronics and software-as-art, HOLLOWAY shapes the rhetorics of computer programming and sadomasochism into tools for exposing structures of power.
Talk Jan. 23
Hosted by Department of Art and Art History
ANTOINE HUNTER
Antoine Hunter is an African American, Indigenous, Deaf, and disabled choreographer, dancer, actor, instructor, speaker, producer, and Deaf advocate. He creates opportunities for disabled, Deaf, and hearing artists, produces Deaf-friendly events, and founded the Urban Jazz Dance Company in 2007 and the Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival in 2013. At Stanford, he performs with the Calder Quartet.
Performance Feb. 25
Hosted by Stanford Live
RINDON JOHNSON
Rindon Johnson is an artist and poet. Last year, he presented his largest exhibition to date at the Rockbund Museum of Art in Shanghai. In 2022, he was awarded the 12th Ernst Rietschel Award for Sculpture by the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Johnson is a fellow at Black Cube and has presented solo exhibitions at Albertinum (Dresden), Chisenhale Gallery (London), The Julia Stoschek Collection (Düsseldorf), and the SculptureCenter (Long Island City), among others. He is the author of four books of poetry and prose. He was born on the unceded territories of the Ohlone people and lives in Berlin.
Talk Jan. 11
Hosted by Department of Art and Art History
KAKI KING
Composer and musician Kaki King is considered one of the world’s greatest living guitarists, known both for her technical mastery and constant quest to push the instrument’s boundaries. She has released nine albums and toured extensively, presenting at the Kennedy Center, MoMA, LACMA, The Met, and Smithsonian Design Museum. King has created music for numerous film and TV soundtracks, including August Rush and Into the Wild, which received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Score.
Performances March 1-2
Hosted by Stanford Live
JONATHAN KREISBERG
Guitarist Jonathan Kreisberg has been steadily building his name as one of the most compelling composers/performers in jazz. Combining timeless melodicism with forward-thinking lines and textures, his style and approach have created a strong following of fans worldwide. He frequently tours worldwide and records with his own groups as well as artists such as Dr. Lonnie Smith. At Stanford, he performs with the Stanford Jazz Orchestra.
Performance Feb. 23
Hosted by Department of Music, Stanford Live
KRONOS QUARTET
For 50 years, San Francisco’s Kronos Quartet – David Harrington, violin; John Sherba, violin; Hank Dutt, viola; and Paul Wiancko, cello – has blended sounds across lines of culture and era, moving beyond the typical terrain for a string quartet. Through brave sonic explorations into the pressing issues of our time, Kronos has established a worldwide influence.
Performance Jan. 27
Hosted by Stanford Live
R.O. KWON
R.O. Kwon is a nationally bestselling author with her first novel, The Incendiaries, named a best book of the year by over 40 publications and translated into seven languages. Her next novel, Exhibit, will be published in 2024.
Winter quarter residency
Reading Jan. 24
Hosted by Creative Writing Program as part of the Stein Visiting Writers Program
LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO
The five-time Grammy Award-winning choral group from South Africa honors the legacy of late founder Joseph Shabalala as they continue to perform worldwide. From brilliantly harmonized a cappella songs sung in Zulu to traditional English gospel songs such as “This Little Light” and “Amazing Grace,” Ladysmith Black Mambazo’s spirited work soothes the soul and brings a smile.
Performance March 20
Hosted by Stanford Live
THE LIVING EARTH SHOW
Contemporary and experimental chamber music duo The Living Earth Show is guitarist Travis Andrews and percussionist Andy Meyerson. They push the boundaries of technical and artistic possibility while amplifying voices, perspectives, and bodies that the classical music tradition has often excluded. The organization uses the tools of experimental and contemporary chamber music to foreground BIPOC and LGBTQ+ artists, facilitating the creation of their most ambitious musical visions and creating work that reflects and responds to our world.
Performances Jan. 18-20
Hosted by Stanford Live
LOST DOG DANCE LTD.
Lost Dog occupies a unique position in the cultural landscape, drawing in and mixing ideas and audiences from theater, dance, comedy, circus, and storytelling like no other company. In its production of Juliet & Romeo, director Ben Duke and the cast and crew take on our obsession with youth and the inevitable issues with romantic longevity.
Performances Feb. 1-3
Hosted by Stanford Live
MELISSA LOZADA-OLIVA
Melissa Lozada-Oliva is a Guatelombian (Guatemalan-Colombian) American writer poet, novelist, and screenwriter. Her novel-in-verse Dreaming of You is about bringing Selena back to life through a séance and the disastrous consequences that follow. She is the co-host with Olivia Gatwood of the podcast Say More, where they dissect the world through a poetic lens. Her most recent novel, Candelaria, is about a Guatemalan grandmother at the end of the world, and how her granddaughters started it. She has been featured or is forthcoming in NPR, Vogue, Remezcla, The Guardian, BreakBeat Poets, Kenyon Review, Vulture, Bustle, Glamour Magazine, The Huffington Post, Muzzle Magazine, The Adroit Journal, and BBC Mundo.
Performance March 7
Hosted by Creative Writing Program, Stanford Live
MALPASO DANCE COMPANY
In the 11 years since its establishment in 2012, Malpaso Dance Company has become one of the most sought-after Cuban dance companies, with a growing international profile. Emphasizing a collaborative creative process, Malpaso is committed to working with top international choreographers while nurturing new voices in Cuban choreography.
Performances March 16-17
Hosted by Stanford Live
ENRIQUE MARTÍNEZ CELAYA
Enrique Martínez Celaya is an artist, author, and former physicist whose work has been exhibited and collected by major institutions worldwide. He is Provost Professor of Humanities and Arts at the University of Southern California, Distinguished Professor for the MFA in Fine Arts at Otis College of Art and Design, and a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College. His work is held in 58 public collections internationally, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, LACMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Conversation Jan. 31
Hosted by Department of Art and Art History
AUDRA MCDONALD
Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the breadth and versatility of her artistry as both a singer and an actor. The winner of a record-breaking six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award, in 2015 she was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people and received the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama. Blessed with a luminous soprano and an incomparable gift for dramatic truth-telling, she is as much at home on Broadway and the opera stage as in her film and television roles. Alongside McDonaldRemezclas theatrical work, she maintains a major career as a concert and recording artist, regularly appearing at the world’s foremost venues.
Performance March 22
Hosted by Stanford Live
ARIAN MOAYED
Arian Moayed is an Iranian-born, Emmy- and Tony Award-nominated actor, director, producer, and co-founder of Waterwell, an award-winning community organizing art and education company in New York City.
Conversation Jan. 9
Hosted by Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies
NEW CENTURY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
One of only a handful of conductorless chamber ensembles in the world, New Century Chamber Orchestra was founded in 1992 and includes 19 string players from the San Francisco Bay Area and throughout the United States. Musical decisions are made collaboratively, resulting in enhanced commitment from the musicians and concerts of remarkable precision, passion, and power.
Performance March 10
Hosted by Stanford Live
LINDA MAY HAN OH
Born in Malaysia, raised in Western Australia, and now living in New York City, Grammy Award-winning bassist, composer, and bandleader Linda May Han Oh began playing piano, bassoon, and electric bass before starting upright bass in 2022 at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, where she graduated with first-class honors.
Performance Jan. 26
Hosted by Stanford Live
SEAN PENN
Sean Penn is an American actor and film director. He won Academy Awards for his roles in the mystery drama Mystic River and the biopic Milk. His documentary film Superpower follows events in Ukraine before and during Russia’s invasion in February 2022.
Screening and discussion Jan. 18
Hosted by Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships
ISAIAH PHILLIPS
Isaiah Phillips is a hip-hop artist whose work focuses on coping with loss and striving for self-actualization as a Black man in America.
2023-24 residency
Hosted by Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Institute for Diversity in the Arts as part of the Mellon Arts Fellowship Program
STEPHEN PRUTSMAN
Stephen Prutsman has been described as one of the most innovative musicians of his time, moving easily from classical to jazz to global music styles as a pianist, composer, and conductor. At Stanford, he performs with the St. Lawrence.
Performance Jan. 21
Hosted by Department of Music
REALTIME COLLECTIVE
A group of women at the top of their profession, Realtime Collective is an all-star quartet of bandleaders with a special connection to creating music in real time. The collective features Kristen Strom on saxophone and vocals, Tammy Hall on piano and vocals, Ruth Davies on bass, and Sylvia Cuenca on drums.
Performance March 9
Hosted by Stanford Live
RODRIGO REYES
Rodrigo Reyes, a filmmaker who is deeply grounded in his immigrant identity, uses striking imagery to portray the contradictory nature of our shared world while revealing the potential for transformative change.
2023-24 residency
Hosted by Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Institute for Diversity in the Arts as part of the Mellon Arts Fellowship Program
ROBERTINA ŠEBIANIČ
Robertina Šebjanič (Ljubljana) is an artist/researcher whose work explores the biological, chemical, (geo)political, and cultural realities of aquatic environments and the impact of humanity on other organisms. Her projects call for developing empathetic strategies aimed at recognizing other (non-human) species. In her analysis of the anthropocene and its theoretical framework, the artist uses the terms “aquatocene” and “aquaforming” to refer to the human impact on aquatic environments.
Conversation Feb. 9
Hosted by Medicine and the Muse
VUYO SOTASHE
South African jazz vocalist, composer, and arranger Vuyo Sotashe moved to the New York in 2013 after being awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to pursue a Master of Music degree at William Paterson University. He won first prize at the first Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival Vocal Competition in 2014 and performed on the festival’s main stage in February 2015. He won the Audience Prize award and placed second at the Shure Montreux Jazz Voice Competition in 2015. In the same year he placed third in the Thelonious Monk Institute International Jazz Vocal Competition, where he was the first male vocalist to place in the competition’s finals. At Stanford, he performs The Sound of (Black) Music with Brianna Thomas, Charenée Wade, and more.
Performance Feb. 28
Hosted by Stanford Live
SPHINX VIRTUOSI
Sphinx Virtuosi is a dynamic and inspiring professional self-conducted chamber orchestra. It serves as the flagship performing entity of the Sphinx Organization – the leading social justice nonprofit dedicated to transforming lives through the power of diversity in the arts. Comprised of 18 accomplished Black and Latinx artists, a critical aim of the Sphinx Virtuosi is to evolve and transform the face of classical music through artistic excellence, pioneering programming, and impassioned community engagement.
Performance March 13
Hosted by Stanford Live
TELEGRAPH QUARTET
Bay Area-based Telegraph Quartet formed in 2013 with an equal passion for the standard chamber music repertoire and contemporary, non-standard works. The quartet was awarded the prestigious 2016 Walter W. Naumburg Chamber Music Award and the Grand Prize at the 2014 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. The quartet is currently on the San Francisco Conservatory of Music chamber music faculty as the quartet-in-residence.
Performance Feb. 24
Hosted by Stanford Live
BRIANNA THOMAS
American musician Brianna Thomas, originally from Peoria, Illinois, is a compelling performer who is well known for her skill in jazz and smooth jazz. She carries listeners into a world of rich melodic textures and genuine feelings with her soulful voice and flawless vocal style. Her profound knowledge of jazz enables her to add a genuine feeling of swing and improvisation to her performances. Her proficiency with music is demonstrated by her ability to skillfully handle intricate harmonies and scat. At Stanford, she performs The Sound of (Black) Music with Charenée Wade, Vuyo Sotashe, and more.
Performance Feb. 28
Hosted by Stanford Live
ROBERTO TURRIN
Pianist Roberto Turrin graduated from the Conservatorio di Musica G. Tartini di Trieste. After receiving awards from the International Music Competitions in Stresa and Morcone, Italy, Turrin began his career as a soloist, performing in North America and throughout Europe. His tours have received wide acclaim from the public and critics alike. Among Turrin’s accomplishments are duet ensembles with violin and clarinet and recordings for television and radio, including RAI in Italy, Radiotelevizija Slovenija, TV Polska, and Belarus TV.
Performance Jan. 21
Hosted by Department of Music
VIANO QUARTET
Praised for their virtuosity, visceral expression, and rare unity of intention, the Viano Quartet is one of the most sought-after performing young ensembles today and currently in residence at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Bowers Program from 2024-2027. The quartet’s Stanford performance is with harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani.
Performance Jan. 28
Hosted by Stanford Live
CHARENÉE WADE
Award-winning vocalist, arranger, educator, and composer Charenée Wade has excited audiences all over the world with her ingenuity and vibrancy. She has performed at top venues including Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Jazz Standard, and the Apollo, and has performed at major festivals worldwide including Montreux, Copenhagen, Newport, Istanbul, Spoleto, Princeton, Bern, Savannah Music, and Jazz en tête. A passionate educator who has taught master classes and private lessons at the Aaron Copland School of Music, Peabody Institute of John Hopkins University, and University of Texas, among others, at Stanford, she performs The Sound of (Black) Music with Brianna Thomas, Vuyo Sotashe, and more.
Performance Feb. 28
Hosted by Stanford Live
WILD UP
Wild Up is self-described as a band that makes shows and records, tells stories, and makes projects that live somewhere between new music and theater and performance art and pop.
Performances Feb. 9 & 10
Hosted by Stanford Live
CHRISTINE WONG YAP
Christine Wong Yap is a visual artist and social practitioner specializing in hyperlocal participatory research projects that gather and amplify grassroots perspectives on belonging, resilience, and mental well-being.
2023-24 residency
Student-only talk March 1
Hosted by Cantor Arts Center, Office of the Vice President for the Arts, Residential Education
KIM YE
Kim Ye is a Chinese American artist whose research-based practice engages gendered constructions around power and the entanglement between public space and private desire.
2023-24 residency
Hosted by Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Institute for Diversity in the Arts as part of the Mellon Arts Fellowship Program