Professor Dawn Avery’s Residency
University of Michigan | April 11-12, 2023
GRAMMY- and NAMA-nominated world music artist, ethnomusicologist, and composer, Dawn Avery (of Mohawk heritage) offers presentations, meditations, and her new carillon work: Sacred World: Onenh’sa.
Tuesday, April 11
Burton Memorial Tower – Room 506
4:30 – 6:00pm
Presentation: “Native Classical: Musical Modernities, Indigenous Research Methodologies, and a Kanienkéha (Mohawk) Concept of Non:wa (Now)”
Wednesday, April 12
Lurie Carillon Tower – 3rd floor playing cabin
1:00pm Pre-Concert Talk
1:30pm Pre-Hearing of Prof. Avery’s new carillon work (Listen from the ground level)
Lurie Carillon Tower – 2nd floor
2:00 – 3:00pm Guided meditation and wellness session
Lurie Carillon Tower – Listen from the ground level
5:30pm Carillon Recital, featuring world premieres of Global Rings Improv pieces, including Dawn Avery’s Sacred World: Onenh’sa.
We are grateful to our co-sponsors:
CEW+ Frances & Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund
LSA Center for World Performance Studies
LSA Native American Studies
SMTD Dean Gier
SMTD EXCEL
SMTD Musicology
SMTD Robert Glasgow Organ Fund
SMTD Wellness