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Yaz Lancaster

Yaz Lancaster (they/them) is a transdisciplinary artist focused on relational aesthetics, collage, and liberatory politics. They love chess, horror movies, and trills.
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Amy Beth Kirsten -- Courtesy of Artist

Amy Beth Kirsten’s Multidimensional Storytelling is on Display in “Infernal Angel”

Transdisciplinary artist and director Amy Beth Kirsten is motivated by curiosity. Whether she is com...
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Yasuaki Shimizu -- Photo by Ryan Muir, courtesy of AdHoc

Yasuaki Shimizu Re-Introduces Himself at National Sawdust

The vernal equinox has shepherded us into an air of newness and return. This was clear on March 20,...
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Yaz Lancaster
Damon Locks -- Photo by Jamie Kelter Davis

Damon Locks Broadens the Continuum of Black Art with his “List of Demands”

Despite being a New Yorker for over a decade, my first trip to Chicago in 2024 made me reconsider th...
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Yaz Lancaster
George Lewis -- Photo by Maurice Weiss

George Lewis Has Spent His Career Creating Space for Black Musicians — His New Opera is No Exception

This sponsored article is part of a paid partnership with the Curtis Institute of Music. George Lewi...
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Yaz Lancaster
The Honorable Elizabeth A. Baker -- Courtesy of artist

The Honourable Elizabeth A. Baker Challenges Paradigms of Access and Connection

Listen to an audio version of this article (7-minute listen) The Honourable Elizabeth A. Baker is a...
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Fuubutsushi -- Photo by Matthew Sage

Fuubutsushi is All About Time on New Album, “Meridians”

In the thick of the early Covid era (mid-2020), Matthew Sage had an idea for a record. Taking advant...
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Yaz Lancaster
MIZU -- Photo by Dan Silver

MIZU Maps Terra Incognita on “Forest Scenes”

MIZU is an artist who knows how to distill the mosaic process of defining oneself. On her debut reco...
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Yaz Lancaster
Women From Space 2024

Women From Space Festival Fosters Encouraging Environments

Toronto’s new and experimental music scene is saturated with innovative and eccentric artists, so it...
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Yaz Lancaster
Tania León -- Photo by Gail Hadani

5 Questions to Tania León (composer, conductor)

This sponsored article is part of a paid partnership with the Curtis Institute of Music. Tania León’...
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Yaz Lancaster -- Photo by Connie Li

Anatomy of a Commission: Building an Accessible and Community-Focused Practice

Designed for both music creators and their collaborators, “Anatomy of a Commission” is a digital res...
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Yaz Lancaster
Roya Sadat--Photo by Farzana Wahidy

5 Questions to Roya Sadat (film and opera director)

Credited as one of the first women to direct film in post-(2001) Taliban Afghanistan, Roya Sadat cen...
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innova Recordings Celebrates 40 Years of Putting Artists First

This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. This year marks the 40th anniversary for...
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Yaz Lancaster
J.E. Hernández--Photo by Claire McAdams

J.E. Hernández Uplifts Migrant Laborers through Multidisciplinary Work

This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. This fall has seen the yearslong struggle...
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Yaz Lancaster
Trevor Weston--Photo by Bill Cardoni

Trevor Weston Facilitates a New Way Forward with Composing Inclusion

This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. Trevor Weston grew up as a choirboy at Sa...
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Yaz Lancaster
Denali Foxx and Angeria Paris VanMichaels will host Lakeside Pride Music Ensembles' Sweet Home Chicago

Lakeside Pride’s Sweet Home Chicago “Yassifies” Concert Band Music

In early spring of 2020, another new term was popularized via social media – “yassification.” By the...
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Yaz Lancaster
Alexa Dexa--Photo by Alexa Dexa

Alexa Dexa Dreams of Transformative and Accessible Spaces

An adventurous electroacoustic composer, facilitator of sound-based meditation, and radical queer dr...
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Yaz Lancaster
Jose Solís--Photo by Joseph Hernandez

5 Questions to Jose Solís (culture critic)

Jose Solís is a Honduran-born culture critic, writer, podcast creator, and mentor who has been satur...
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Yaz Lancaster
Norman W. Long BLACK BROWN GRAY GREEN

BLACK BROWN GRAY GREEN: Healing in Post-Industrial Communities

Sitting at the crossroads of the industrial and the natural, Norman W. Long’s BLACK BROWN GRAY...
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Yaz Lancaster
Sultana Isham--Photo by Nadia Sumac

5 Questions to Sultana Isham (composer, violinist, ethnomusicologist)

In the aftermath of George Floyd’s death, nearly 200 confederate monuments have been removed i...
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Yaz Lancaster
Clarice Assad--Photo by Marcelo Macaue

5 Questions to Clarice Assad (composer, performer)

Clarice Assad is a GRAMMY-nominated Brazilian-American composer, performer, and educator. Her prolif...
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Yaz Lancaster
They Will Take My Island--Photo by Ego Film Arts

They Will Take My Island: Collective Memory and Preservation

They Will Take My Island is a multi-disciplinary collaboration between Armenian-American composer Ma...
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Yaz Lancaster
Carla Canales Duende

Carla Canales Navigates Cultural In-Betweens in “Duende”

In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month in October 2020, Mexican-American opera singer and arts ad...
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Yaz Lancaster

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