STEPHANIE LAMPREA + RICHARD CRAIG + ALISTAIR MACDONALD

Stephanie Lamprea, Richard Craig, and Alistair MacDonald present a set of improvised music for vocals, flutes, and live electronics.

Colombian-American soprano Stephanie Lamprea is an architect of new sounds and expressions as a performer, recitalist, curator, and improviser, specializing in contemporary classical repertoire. Trained as an operatic coloratura, she uses her voice as a mechanism of avant-garde performance art, creating “maniacal shifts of vocal production and character… like an icepick through the skull” (Jason Eckardt). Stephanie has received awards from the Concert Artist Guild, St. Botolph Club Foundation, the John Cage Orgel Stiftung, the Puffin Foundation, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. She has performed as a soloist at Roulette Intermedium, Constellation Chicago, Sound Scotland, Southbank Centre, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, National Sawdust, CCA Glasgow, the Hidden Door Festival , and Casa da Música (Porto). She has collaborated with Riot Ensemble, International Contemporary Ensemble, Wavefield Ensemble, the City of London Sinfonia, Hebrides Ensemble, So Percussion, Red Note Ensemble, Talujon, Guerilla Opera, and Post Coal Prom Queen. http://www.stephanielamprea.com/ Richard Craig has a multifaceted career as teacher, performer, composer/improviser and independent researcher. He studied flute at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland with Richard Blake, and later with Mario Caroli at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg, France. Richard has performed with groups such as Klangforum Wien, Musikfabrik and ensembles in the UK such as Ensemble Octandre and the Riot Ensemble. As a recording artist he has released two solo discs (INWARD and VALE) on the Mètier label, as well as numerous chamber music recordings and radio broadcasts. Richard is currently Director of Performance at the University of Edinburgh. https://richardcraig.net/ Alistair MacDonald is a composer, performer and sound artist. His work is often collaborative, working with artists, dancers, musicians in diverse media and from different genres using digital interactive technology. Current projects include music for F.W. Murnau’s silent film Nosferatu with Vlady Bystrov and Phil Minton in Braunschweig. Other partnerships include Strange Rainbow, a live electroacoustic improvising duo with Scottish harp player Catriona McKay; The Last Post with trumpet player Tom Poulson and director Susan Worsfold commissioned by the St Magnus Festival and works for glass percussion, electronics and live flame-working with Carrie Fertig. He is a member of invisiblEARts, a group of Scottish based composers; he teaches composition and directs the Electroacoustic Studios at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where he was made Professor in 2017. http://alistairmacdonald.co.uk/