February Newsletter

Meet our February featured alums: Grace Coberly, Hannah Sobel, and Chloe Smith

As a part of the award for having their work featured at EXTENSITY’s pop up concert series this summer in California, we are excited to share the premiere of Grace Coberly’s (Wildflower ‘20) piece Prima respira, for solo piano. The track, recorded at Skillman Music in Brooklyn, was performed by Chelsea Randall, Co-Founder/Artistic Director of EXTENSITY. Check out the performance here.

About Grace's piece:

“Prima respira” is a celebration of consonance, comfort, and contentment. I spent the fall of 2019 studying abroad in Milan, getting to know myself better as a composer, singer, and individual. Using simple, repeated arpeggiation as a backdrop, “Prima respira” combines the sounds that permeated my time in Milan: my host brother’s daily piano improvisation, my friend’s favorite shimmery chords, rain falling on the tin roof of my homestay. The piece has also been a personal reminder for me to pause and — in the words of my Italian voice teacher — “breathe first.”

Chloe Smith (Wildflower ‘21) and Hannah Sobel (Wildflower ‘21) were recently selected to have pieces performed at the upcoming Relâche New Music Ensemble Concert on March 5th. These works were selected from an open call sent out to all Wildflower alums.

Program include “Glacier” by Chloe Smith, “the bay by the ridge” and “Blue” by Hannah Sobel, and other works by friends of Relâche.