Tracks
1. Alvin Curran: Three Ligurian Chants, I. Alba
2. Giacinto Scelsi: Three Latin Prayers, I. Ave Maria
3. Giacinto Scelsi: Three Latin Prayers, II. Pater Noster
4. Alvin Curran: Three Ligurian Chants, II. Tramonto
5. Alvin Curran: Three Ligurian Chants, III. Mezzogiorno
6. Old Roman Chant: Vidi Aquam
7. Thüring Bräm: Alleluja für Solostimme
8. Giacinto Scelsi: Three Latin Prayers, III. Alleluja
9. George Papajohn: Response
10. Sarah Grace Graves: Embrace
About New Album
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Three Names – Sarah Grace Graves
Three Names was born of Vespro, the culminating performance of my July 2023 residency at Fondazione Isabella Scelsi in Rome, inspired by Michiko Hirayama’s long-standing interest in Gregorian chant and my own intersecting histories with spirituality and experimental music.
Creating Three Names was like weaving a liturgy from life’s manifold threads: the seasons, my lifetime, our current moment, the people whose paths cross mine, the place of performance, the work, the breath. It is impossible to touch all these things intentionally; the ordering of the program and its staging seek to create a frame that can hold us here, just as a liturgy holds us in this life that we don’t understand and provides a frame for us to live with things as they are.
Sarah Grace Graves
Sarah Grace Graves is a singer and composer working at the intersection between recital and ritual.
From 2020-2022 she studied voice with Nicholas Isherwood while conducting an artistic residency at the Fondation des États-Unis on interdisciplinary collaboration with voice. In summer 2023, thanks to the Michiko Hirayama Scholarship, she was singer-in-residence at the Fondazione Isabella Scelsi in Rome. In 2022, she joined the PhD program in composition at the University of California, Berkeley.
An avid collaborator, she has duo projects with Eda Er, Virginia Guidi, and Julie Zhu and has appeared with line upon line, collective lovemusic, Del Sol Quartet, Carol Robinson, Volti, and the Italian vocal ensemble Fragmente. She is an alumna of the Voix Nouvelles Academy at Royaumont and the Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarship at the Fondation des États-Unis.
In addition to her work as a singer and composer of contemporary music, she is also active as a liturgical singer and has sung regularly at Grace Cathedral, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church (San Francisco, CA, USA), the American Cathedral (Paris, FR), and Christ Church Cathedral (Houston, TX, USA).
Credits
Sarah Grace Graves : voice
Eda Er : mixing, mastering, photography, cover design
Composers : Alvin Curran – Giacinto Scelsi – Thüring Bräm – George Papajohn – Sarah Grace Graves
Lyrics : Traditional – Matteo Gualandi (Mezzogiorno) – Henry David Thoreau (Alleluja für Solostimme) – George Papajohn (Response)
Recorded August 3, 2024 at Hertz Concert Hall, Berkeley California USA
Published by Elektramusic Berlin – Paul Clouvel
All rights reserved 2024 © Sarah Grace Graves
2025 ℗ Elektramusic Berlin – Paul Clouvel
