Voices 21C
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André de Quadros: Artistic Director
VOICES 21C is an artists collective that is devoted to exercising the choral art in pursuit of human rights and justice and dedicated to a mission of global understanding through music.

​We explore improvisational and interdisciplinary modes of performance through co-creating and utilizing an egalitarian consensus model.

ABOUT US

In a time when American ideals are epitomized by nationalism and aggression, VOICES 21C aligns itself with the great American voices of compassion, love, and non-violence.
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VOICES 21C is a Boston-based choral artists collective that seeks to combine high technical proficiency with creativity and compassion. The choir creates personal meaning in performance by connecting its musical messages to social justice issues in the USA and abroad, centering the voices of the silenced, the forgotten, and the marginalized.

​VOICES 21C’s work builds on existing and co-created works to create a long-form and cohesive narrative blending the choral art with imaginative and innovative practices, borrowing from kinesthetic art and theatre. VOICES 21C Is a welcoming space for LGBTQIA+, committed to contemporary composers, and to improvisational, interdisciplinary modes of performance through a co- creating, egalitarian consensus model.

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VOICES21C · "We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest" 2020, ACDA Rochester
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2020-2021 Collaborations

Unity As Fragile As A Spark - June 2021

Digital Collaboration with Lauren Fields and VOICES 21C 
Poetry: "Smoking Car: After Frances Ellen Watkins Harper" by Lauren Fields  
Creative Facilitation, Audio Production, and Video Design: Michael Genese  

Using Zoom, SoundTrap, and OBS, VOICES 21C was privileged to collaborate with poet and spoken word artist Lauren Fields on a musical response to her poem, "Smoking Car: After Frances Ellen Watkins Harper." VOICES 21C composed a piece around the poem (digitally in SoundTrap), and submitted video work that culminated into this final product.
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The eight minute work explores several interconnected themes, among which the idea of being simultaneously bound to something, while also being bound for something else. Body hierarchy, racism, and modern manifestations of slavery and segregation such as mass-incarceration and American policing, together paint an intersectional picture of “progress that isn’t really progress” that we must reconcile with as a nation.

Collabortion with Sister Cities Girl Choir: More information on this collaboration available in the When I Sing concert program book. 
The Choral Commons Podcast: Creative Responses composed, improvised, led, and sung by members of VOICES 21C
VOICES21C · The Choral Commons - Creative Responses
"Extra Credit" | Farrah Karapetian, VOICES 21C

Extra Credit, 2020, video, 20:20 from farrah karapetian on Vimeo.

VOICES 21C Virtual Collaboration - edited by Cheryl Engelhardt
VOICES21C · Response: Episode 1 of Choral Commons - Jeremy Haneman


​VOICES 21C are proud creative partners with The Choral Commons podcast, crafting creative responses to their conversations on choral music.

VOICES 21C IS ON PATREON!

Exclusive content, rehearsal footage, guest list access, what's not to love? V21C has chosen Patreon to create a long term support network, funding our international appearances, operating costs, and reimbursement for our 100% volunteer roster. You will not want to miss this! Click here to visit our Patreon page. 
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  • Home
  • ABOUT
    • Singers
  • PROJECTS
    • 2022 ACDA Conference (Boston)
    • 2020 ACDA Conference
    • 2019 Choralies Festival
    • 2018 Mexico City
    • 2017 Here I Am
    • 2016 Pain & Promise
  • 2021 Singers Portal
  • Testimonials