Join us for a solo performance by Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Creative Lab commissioned artist Sarah Hennies. In this intimate program, Hennies performs on a set of German cowbells (almglocken), gifted to her by percussionist Michael Ranta from his Cologne shop, Asian Sound. Scholar and educator Madison Heying will lead a post-concert conversation with the artist.

Sarah Hennies (b. 1979, Louisville, KY) is a composer based in Upstate NY whose work is concerned with a variety of musical, sociopolitical, and psychological issues including including queer & trans identity, psychoacoustics, and the social and neurological conditions underlying creative thought. She is primarily a composer of acoustic ensemble music, but is also active in improvisation, film, and performance art. She presents her work internationally as both a composer and percussionist with notable performances at MoMA PS1 (NYC), Monday Evening Concerts (Los Angeles), Warsaw Autumn, Ruhrtriennale (Essen), Archipel Festival (Geneva), Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Time:Spans (NYC), and the Edition Festival (Stockholm). As a composer, she has received commissions across a wide array of performers and ensembles including Bearthoven, Bent Duo, Ensemble Dedalus, The Living Earth Show, Mivos String Quartet, Sarah Saviet/Joe Houston, Talea Ensemble, Nate Wooley, and Yarn/Wire.

Madison Heying is an educator, scholar, and arts administrator. She is a Lecturer at UC Santa Cruz and a co-founder of Indexical. Her teaching and research focus on experimental music, technology, gender, and the formation of musical communities.