Join composers Mary Bichner and Singer Mali for an intimate, piano-and-vocal "salon"-style performance; featuring original classical-meets-chamberpop (including a world premiere), impromptu Q&A, and a handful of reimagined early-2000s-era rock covers (because why not).
TICKET LINK: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mary-bichner-and-singer-mali-at-the-lilypad-tickets-903266021987
Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/2171462683234386 (Cohost request will come from Mali Sastri / Singer Mali)
MARY BICHNER
Mary Bichner is an American orchestral composer with synesthesia (a neurological condition that allows Mary to “see” splashes of specific colors when she hears their corresponding pitches sounded) whose work has recently appeared in National Geographic, BBC Music Magazine, La Nouvelle République, and more. Noted commissions and collaborations include serving as composer-in-residence at The Vasilicos of Santorini, Greece; serving a two-year composer residency at the historic Mount Auburn Cemetery of Massachusetts; serving as composer-in-residence at The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico and Marble House Project of Vermont; a multi-year partnership with the Museum of Science Boston for the “Synesthesia Suite: Live” concert series; and an ongoing partnership with French composer Christina Goh for the "Rencontres Poétiques" international poetry chamber concert series; among others. In May 2024, she finished her first full-length opera, "The Memoirs of Antonina", inspired by Marie Antoinette.
SINGER MALI
Singer Mali is a singer/songwriter, performer/composer based in Boston and Littleton, MA. Her operatic anti-pop blends and juxtaposes pop music with elements of jazz, classical, musical theater, world music, and the avant-garde. For over a decade she has been the primary songwriter, lead vocalist, and frontwoman for the avant chamber pop/art rock band Jaggery, with whom she’s released eight albums and toured nationally. Mali’s multihued voice — trained in the expressive arts discipline Voice Movement Therapy — can move from “new-age songbird to woman scorned to woodland fairy to blood-thirsty werewolf to sultry lounge singer”(Boston Herald), oftentimes within the same song. She released the solo album Lodestone in 2023, a “modern opera ruminating on the complex intersection of human nature and its murky future” (WBUR’s 2023 Fall Music Guide).
https://www.singermali.com/ | https://singermali.bandcamp.com/