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Tucson, Arizona-based True Concord Voices and Orchestra present two works by the pioneering American composer Jocelyn Hagen. Based in Minnesota, Hagen composes primarily for voice — solo, chamber and choral — and has explored large-scale multimedia works, electro-acoustic music, dance, and opera. The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci has been performed more than 50 times around the world since 2019, incorporating visuals, sound, light, and movement. HERE I AM was inspired by True Concord’s founding music director Eric Holtan’s suggestion that Hagen should write a piece celebrating the women’s suffrage movement and the centennial of the 19th Amendment in 2020. Recently presented by Consonance (formerly Chicago Choral Artists) with Spirito Singers and soprano Laura Strickling, HERE I AM is performed with live-concert projections of portraits of 47 inspiring women from across the world and across time, whose words form the libretto. For the world premiere recording True Concord is joined by the Tucson Girls Chorus and soprano Susanna Phillips.

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