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Lana Norris

Lana Norris (she/her) is a pianist and music journalist convinced that both science and art are aesthetic. She brings an interest in diplomacy to her coverage of new music, and enjoys sacred choral and shameless pop. She is based in New York City, Munsee Lenape and Wappinge territory.
Lana Norris
Hafez Modirzadeh Facets

Hafez Modirzadeh’s Facets (Pi Recordings) is Shimmering Liberation

Lustre is the way light interacts with the surface of a jewel. It’s ambiguous and has a wealth of in...
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Lana Norris
La Indita Cautiva at PROTOTYPE 2021--Photo by Raven Chacon

PROTOTYPE 2021: Diffusive and Exploratory Music-Theater

PROTOTYPE Festival has become known for nurturing intense, anguished music-theater pieces that go on...
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Lana Norris
Roberta Gumbel in dwb (Driving While Black)--Screenshot courtesy of BPAC

Reimagined for Streaming, dwb (Driving While Black) Examines Black Motherhood

Mamie Till altered history by insisting that the world see her murdered child. We are accustomed, an...
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Lana Norris
Kris Davis--Photo by Caroline Mardok

5 Questions to Kris Davis (pianist, composer)

Pianist and composer Kris Davis is the Associate Program Director of Creative Development for the In...
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Lana Norris
Ellen Reid SOUNDWALK--Photo by Lana Norris

Ellen Reid’s Immersive SOUNDWALK Premieres in Central Park

Central Park, New York City, 96th Street. Curling violins, Young People’s Chorus of New York City, s...
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Lana Norris
Valerie Coleman--Photo by Matthew Murphy

5 Questions to Valerie Coleman (composer, flutist)

According to the Institute for Composer Diversity’s analysis of 120 American orchestras’ 2019-2020 p...
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Lana Norris
Connecting ACO Community streaming presentation featuring Sakari Dixon Vanderveer--Photo courtesy American Composers Orchestra

Connecting ACO Community: Sakari Dixon Vanderveer and Derek Bermel

Overwhelmed by the wave of livestream? As amazing as all the archives are, I’m finding myself drawn...
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Lana Norris
Sweet Land--Photo by Casey Kringlen for The Industry

The Industry’s Immersive Opera Sweet Land Mythologizes Itself

Sweet Land was originally an immersive “historical pageant” opera presented in Los Angeles, March 20...
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Lana Norris
Olivia Shortt--Photo by Alejandro Santiago

5 Questions to Olivia Shortt (multi-disciplinary artist)

Olivia Shortt (she/her/hers: Anishinaabe from Nipissing First Nation) is a Tkarón:to-based multi-dis...
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Lana Norris
Katie Brown and Dalanie Harris--Photo by Richard Desinord

5 Questions to Katie Brown & Dalanie Harris (Classically Black Podcast)

Violist Katie Brown and double bassist Dalanie Harris, co-hosts of Classically Black Podcast, discus...
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Lana Norris
Magdalene--Photo by Maria Baranova

Magdalene Wrests Control from the Male Gaze in a Complicated Production at PROTOTYPE

Mary Magdalene is famous for her intimate position in Jesus’ inner circle at a time women were not c...
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Lana Norris
Sahba Aminikia--Photo by Matthew Washburn

5 Questions to Sahba Aminikia (Founder, Flying Carpet Festival)

Sahba Aminikia is an Iranian-American composer, pianist, and educator born in post-revolutionary war...
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Lana Norris
Sphinx Virtuosi--Photo by Stephanie Berger

Sphinx Virtuosi “For Justice and Peace” Confronts Social Justice Issues

Music happens in real time. On Friday, October 11th, 2019, the Sphinx Virtuosi string orchestra conc...
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Lana Norris
ICE and IFCA at Mostly Mozart--Photo courtesy of DigitICE

ICE Showcases the Iranian Female Composers Association at Mostly Mozart

The Iranian Female Composers Association was founded in 2017 by Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Anahita Abbasi,...
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Lana Norris
Unsuk Chin--Photo by Thor Brodreskift

Bergen International Festival Hosts Unsuk Chin as Composer-in-Residence

Unsuk Chin is at a turning point, and the maverick composer is reinvigorated from her turn as Compos...
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Lana Norris
Blo∂hofnír at MATA Festival 2019--Photo by Steven Pisano

“Joint Feminine Force:” Bló∂hófnir at MATA Festival 2019

Bló∂hófnir (Bloodhoof) is an incredible tale that provokes burning ambivalence. Presented by MATA an...
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Lana Norris
Claire Chase's Density 2036: part vi--Photo by Karen Chester

Claire Chase Prophesies What’s Possible in “Density 2036, part vi” at The Kitchen

Claire Chase‘s last “Density 2036“ episode, Marcos Balters’ Pan, was a 90-mi...
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Lana Norris
Composers Now 2019 Festival Opening Event--Photo by Nan Melville

Composers Now 2019 Festival Opening Event at National Opera Center

The Composers Now 2019 Festival Opening Event showed off an organization on target. Few evenings wra...
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Lana Norris
Philip Venables' 4.48 Psychosis at PROTOTYPE

Philip Venables’ 4.48 Psychosis at PROTOTYPE

“It’s absorbing, and even after two volumes I can’t figure out why.” The gentleman seated in front o...
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Lana Norris
Julia Wolfe's Anthracite Fields

Labor and Belief: Julia Wolfe’s Anthracite Fields at Carnegie Hall

Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer-prize winning oratorio Anthracite Fields returned to New York City and a full...
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Lana Norris
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5 Questions to Eldbjørg Hemsing (violinist)

Eldbjørg Hemsing recently premiered Fire Ritual: A Musical Ritual in Memory for the Victims of War c...
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Lana Norris
Tan Dun at Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival

Joy in Memorial: Tan Dun at Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival

Let’s sit Tan Dun on a couch between Beyoncé, Mozart, and Solange. Her Louvre takeover, his operas,...
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Lana Norris
KHORIKOS performs in Go Blue: Wolverine New Music

“Go Blue: Wolverine New Music” Features U-M Composers at National Sawdust

Michigan did New York a solid. The U-M School of Music, Theatre, & Dance sent distinct compositi...
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Lana Norris
Mia Hartley

5 Questions to Mia Hartley (Founder & Co-Artistic Director, MERGE Art Collective)

MERGE Art Collective exists to facilitate collaborations between D/deaf and hearing visual and perfo...
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Lana Norris
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