I was thrilled to interview Reid, Mazzoli, Luna Labs' executive director Alyssa Kayser-Hirsh, and three Luna Lab alumni, the composers KiMani Bridges, Yuri Lee, and Maya Miro Johnson. It is an amazing program, providing one-on-one online composition lessons and mentoring to six young female, nonbinary, or non-gender-conforming teens, age 13-18, every year, providing continuing professional development opportunities, performances, and a professional recording of the young composers' project from their mentoring year.
There's also a wonderful online course, Adventures in Sound, that teaches basic music theory and composition; composer Whitney George developed and teaches the curriculum.
Luna Lab is ten years old this year, and they've got many events planned. Two big ones are an anniversary performance in New York and an anniversary performance in Berkeley, CA, at Cal Performances. (You bet I'll be there.)
Many organizations are Luna Lab partners for Luna Lab@10; in California, these include the Kronos Quartet, Ensemble for These Times, Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, Friction Quartet, S.F. Girls Chorus, and the Sarah Gibson Foundation. There are many, many others across the country; watch for performances of works by Luna Lab alumni.
Lastly, San Francisco Choral Artists will present the world premiere of Yuri Lee's "I Loved You First." She is this year's winner of their New Voice Project. Performances are on May 31 (SF), June 6 (Palo Alto), and June 7 (Oakland). The entire program looks great, mixing very new and very old works.
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