Belgian Composers, Music Exchange, and Online Documentaries
May 20th 2009.
Through exchange, we navigate the world.
Part of this website is dedicated to the promotion of music through idea exchange. Its foundational project is a compendium of interviews with professional and student composers in Belgium, executed in the fall of 2008. Most of the interviews are in English with the exception of one in Liège which was conducted in French.
I have plans to begin a series of interveiws with American composers and to include a forum on this site for composers and viewers to comment on each others' work and ideas.
The left hand navigation bar includes links to my video interviews. These can also be accessed through the website www.vimeo.com. Most of the videos are about a half hour in length to an hour. I do have plans to create an edited version of the videos including recordings from some of the composers I interviewed...as with many ideas, this is still a WIP.
Welcome and Bio
Welcome to a piece of the virtual world!
Solange Guillaume is a Musician+ (Musician Plus!) living in Minneapolis, Minnesota who loves the adventure of exploring life through music creation, cultural understanding, theater, and the outdoors. She has participated in diverse artistic productions including inter-arts collaborations, musical theater, chamber and solo recitals, and new music premieres. Her recent projects synthesize elements of theater, electronica, and acoustic piano.
This August, Solange performed at ICMC 2008 in Belfast, Ireland, a musical composition by Josh Clausen, a fellow composer in Minneapolis. Her electronic 8-channel composition, Atlas, was produced in a continuous play performance at the Grand Hall of Queens University, part of ICMC's exhibited works. This performance and production were made possible in part by a generous Subito grant from the American Composers Forum.
Solange Guillaume (stage name Yvette Guillaume) also performed She Quietly Enters and Leaves the Fray, by Josh Clausen at the Spark 2009 Festival of Electronic Music. She also completed a combined solo piano and art song CD in the summer of 2008 with mezzo-soprano Lauri Nichols, rendering the music works by Justin E.A. Busch and Anton Rubinstein.
Ms. Guillaume's passion for music often overlaps with her love of the theater. Currently, she is working as musical director and performance pianist at the show 20 Days to Find a Wife, with music by Marya Hart and lyrics/script by Lauri Flanigan. It is showing through the rest of this month (last show: May 31st) at the History Theatre in St. Paul. Other musical credits include musical direction of The Hormel Girls, Urinetown, Company, and substitute accompanist for Church Basement Ladies II: A Second Helping.Solange is grateful for all of her amazing mentors and teachers. These include: Professor Reynaldo Reyes (Towson University), Dr. Gerald Phillips (Towson University), Paul Shaw (University of Minnesota), Gwendolyn Mok (San Jose State University), Mack McCray (San Francisco Conservatory), Dr. Craig Nies (Vanderbilt University), and Mrs. Ila Berenson (Columbus, GA). This gratitude also extends fully to her husband, the Minneapolis posse, family Vanderbilt buddies, Baltimore and California super-stars, high school amigas, and newfound friends and family in Belgium. Standing on the shoulders of giants as it were...
Addendum
Solange's pursuits and interests include (and remain generally
limitless): philosophy, DIY electronics, languages, theater, poetry,
literature, and the environment.
Time permitting, she loves to run and rock climb, and has hiked in many
locations across the continental United States. She and her husband, Zachary Crockett,
another composer-extroaordinaire
in the Twin Cities, love to travel and have climbed in the
Gunks, Hueco Tanks, Fontainebleau, Seneca, Devils Tower, and may
soon take up the sport of sea-kayaking. We're going to road-trip this summer out to the
west coast and back!
Life-pics
