Paige Brown
Carolina Borja is an Afro-Colombian cellist, world music performer, composer, storyteller, and educator. Her experimental performances focus on melding cultures from around the world and the questioning of the status quo. Exploration and play inform her compositions, as well as the rendition of images, movements, and feelings. Her concerts tend to have a ritualistic touch anchored in ancestry and improvisation.
For the past decade, Carolina has been exploring the cello as an ever expanding and versatile instrument blending it with a loop pedal to create music landscapes, and discovering her voice as a traditional Afro-Colombian singer. Her work reflects an avid search for her roots and creativity, together with her role as a woman of the African diaspora in the Americas.
Carolina holds a masters in Cello Performance Pedagogy from Ohio University. She is a Fulbright, Martin Luther King Jr. and New Music USA Creator Development Fundreceiver, among other awards.
Opening the evening will be a solo piano/voice performance from the amazing Paige Brown. Having inherited a version of the deep, resonant voices of her father and her late grandfather, she rejoices in the ability to play inside that resonance, bringing this sound to bear in songs that speak of joy, love, grief, and hope. She draws from a broad spectrum of influences that range from high school madrigal singers to college gospel choir, Debussy to Dr. Watts, Porgy and Bess to Patrice Rushen, skipping from soul to funk to folk and weaving through sounds somewhere in between.
Carolina Borja es una violonchelista afrocolombiana, intérprete de músicas del mundo, compositora, cuentera y educadora. Su quehacer se enfoca en la mezcla de culturas del mundo y el cuestionamiento del status quo, esto se ve reflejado en sus interpretaciones experimentales. La exploración y el juego nutren sus composiciones al igual que la conexión con imágenes, movimientos o sentimientos. Sus conciertos suelen tener un toque ritualístico que se ancla en la ancestralidad y la improvisación.
Durante la última década, Carolina ha explorado la versatilidad del violonchelo y su constante expansión en diferentes contextos musicales combinándolo con un pedal de loop para crear paisajes sonoros, además de continuar descubriendo su voz como cantante tradicional afrocolombiana. Su obra refleja una ávida búsqueda de sus raíces y creatividad, junto con su rol como mujer de la diáspora africana en las Américas.
Carolina tiene una maestría en Pedagogía de la Interpretación del Violonchelo de la Universidad de Ohio, y ha recibido reconocimientos como la beca Fulbright, Martin Luther King Jr. y el Fondo de Desarrollo de Creadores de New Music USA, entre otros.
$15 / $10 w/ Student ID - Tickets Available HERE or at the Door
This event is supported in part by a generous grant by the Paul M. Angell Family Foundation.