Shepherd School students combine their new music with new art at Rice’s Moody Center

New Art New Music

Students from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music composed and performed a series of compositions that served as musical responses to the themes and artworks present in the Moody Center for the Arts’ spring 2024 exhibition “Hayv Kahraman: The Foreign Among Us.” Directed by junior Jaylin Vinson and graduate student Victor Cui, who both study composition, the March 30 event offered a multisensory journey through the galleries, providing an immersive experience of exploration and artistic expression.

Click the links below to watch the performances:

“Memory Sketches” | Ravi Nguyen, composer | Timothy Tan, violin

“An Extremely Normal Person” | Victor Cui, composer | Mengshen Li, viola

“Ascension” | Jaylin Vinson, composer | Ariel Workeneh, piano

“LIFE PURIFIES” | Antonio Centenera, composer | Christian León, horn I; Andrew Burhans, horn II; London Stoval, horn III; George Andrews, horn IV

 

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