Concert: Castle of Our Skins, Boston-based Music Series Celebrating Black Artistry, Oct. 12
October 4, 2021
Contact: Office of Advancement and External Relations
Phone: 410.837.5739
The University of Baltimore's program in Integrated Arts will present a free performance by Castle of Our Skins, the Boston-based performance series celebrating Black artistry, on Tuesday, Oct. 12 at 7 p.m. at An die Musik Live!, 409 N. Charles St. in Baltimore. This concert will be a piano quartet of Gabriela Díaz, Ashleigh Gordon, Francesca McNeeley, and Joy Cline Phinney, performing works by Coleridge Taylor-Perkinson, Jeffrey Mumford, Carlos Simon, Adolphus Hailstork, and Brian Raphael Nabors, with videography by George Little.
Limited in-person seating is available for the performance, which can be reserved for free at andiemusiklive.com. Proof of vaccination is required. The concert will also be live-streamed, with registration avaialable at the same website.
Castle of Our Skins was born out of a need to bring equity in composer representation to concert stages and present important stories and figures in Black history. The group fosters cultural curiosity through carefully designed educational workshops and creative concert programs, and gives intergenerational and interdisciplinary concerts range in themes from Black love, African American quilting, and Black feminism to freedom, civil rights, visual arts and Black excellence. Castle of Our Skins will give workshops to UBalt's World Music class, as well as the Seminar in Creativity in the Univeresity's MFA in Creative Writing and Publishing Arts.
In the Bachelor of Arts in Integrated Arts program, UBalt students learn about the cultural, political and business aspects of the arts while concentrating on the art that interests them most, from visual art to creative writing to music. Students are prepared to work for businesses, nonprofit organizations and government agencies that deal in, represent or interact with artists and the arts—in addition to managing a freelance artistic career and being prepared for graduate-level study in business and the arts.
The Oct. 12 performance is supported by the Peggy and Yale Gordon Charitable Trust, which has supported the advancement of classical music in Baltimore for the past 35 years.
Send questions about the event to Ian Power, assistant professor and director of Integrated Arts, at ipower@ubalt.edu.