‘Meet the Composer’ podcaster Nadia Sirota’s triumphant return as the maven of classical music maker
"In the 1980s, while other kids plastered their bedroom walls with posters of Michael Jordan suspended in air mid-dunk or the dreamboats from New Kids on the Block showing off well-coiffed manes, Nadia Sirota decorated her room with heroes of a different sort: early 20th century modernist composers.
Nadia Sirota (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) “I was obsessed with Benjamin Britten and Stravinsky when I was a little kid,” the 36-year-old violist, curator and podcast host says. “Hindemith, too. I cut all three of their names out of construction paper and put them on my walls.”
Sirota’s musical taste evolved and expanded over the years, but her obsession with the lives and music of inventive, forward-looking composers never dissipated. Rather, it intensified and solidified into a clearly defined mission: to share contemporary classical music with the widest possible audience.
In pursuit of that goal, Sirota will appear onstage at the Theatre at Ace Hotel this Saturday night alongside composers Andrew Norman and Caroline Shaw and new music ensemble wild Up for the first iteration of “Living Music Live!”
Presented by Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, this hybrid conversation-concert will draw audiences into the music and creative processes of Norman and Shaw, with wild Up performing demonstrations and excerpts and Sirota acting as musical sherpa and host."— Catherine Womack, Jan. 08, 2019
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