Lucy Holstedt |
This event features performances and discussions about the
creative process with Berklee College of Music professor Lucy Holstedt. She
will perform some of her poem settings and songs for piano and voice, as well
as pieces written with poet/musician Kirk Etherton.
There will be time for a Q&A with the audience.
Lucy Holstedt teaches in the Harmony and Piano Departments
at Berklee. She is founding director of the Women Musicians Network, producing an
annual major concert at Berklee for the past 17 years. Her poetry credits include
publication in Ibbetson Press (founded by Endicott professor Doug Holder) and
performing and serving on the board of directors of the Boston National Poetry
Month Festival, where last year she also produced a concert of poetry set to
dance and music.
Kirk Etherton is a writer, musician and visual artist. Besides
numerous writing credits in the field of
advertising, he can claim published poems, recorded music (some co-written with
Lucy Holstedt), and exhibitions of his artwork. A board member of the BNPMF,
Kirk regularly performs poetry in the Boston area.