Molly sings Soprano with L.A. Choral Lab in "Blossom", a cyclical meditation on the mysteries and promises of interconnection. Blossom celebrates the dance of life and how we, like pollen adrift on the wind, intersect paths and find meaning.
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Molly sings Soprano with HEX in this reading of Fahad Siadat's opera "The Moon has Made us Brothers".
More info available HERE.
erde dreams uses themes of nature and earthly phenomena to explore issues of mental health. Composer and soprano Molly Pease wlll present new music for voice and electronics, joined by special guests M. A. Tiesenga and Miller Wrenn.
Molly sings Soprano and has an original composition featured in this concert with First Congregational church of LA’s professional vocal ensemble Laude as part of Resonance Collective’s Golden Thread Series.
When We Plant Trees celebrates the interconnectedness of humanity and plant life. The June 1st Golden Thread Concert Series event presented by Laude doubles as a fundraising concert for the Cathedral Gardens urban garden initiative. Laude, the resident professional ensemble at FCCLA, will sing the Gardens into being, and invite the broader public to participate. A party of revelry and dancing will round out the evening. Laude’s robust vocal capacity is matched by their well-grooved intimacy as a repertory ensemble and deep stack of solo headliners. Their music inspires, challenges, and invites the listener into contemplation while leading them into places of curiosity and wonder. Molly’s piece “vast blue” will be featured in this concert, along with pieces by other Laude members Sharon Chohi Kim, Fahad Siadat, David Conley, Joanna Wallfisch, and David Harris.
Molly plays the lead role “Sue” in this production of Songs and Dances of Imaginary Lands with Overtone Industries as part of OperaFestLA. Tickets available HERE.
This “imaginative,” and “ambitious” (L.A. Times) opera first made its world premiere in a vacant Culver City car dealership in 2010. The 25,000 square-foot establishment served as the only suitable backdrop for Tom and Sue, a couple nearing the end of their lives, to be catapulted into the Lands of their childhood, adolescence and adulthood after falling as victims of Identity Theft at the deepest levels. They visit the Social Services office to find a remedy and are launched separately into these imaginary lands and then brought together.
The wondrous lands each create a unique world and hold the Indigenous Dances of pivotal moments in each of their lives. Tom and Sue are immediately participants in each dance that holds the essence of that particular time in their lives. After their arduous journey through the 21 lands, they find themselves together again in “The Land With An Answer For Everything” – our own world. This journey celebrates how memories are held in our bodies and feelings, rather than the mental narrative people fall back on to describe their lives.
The work is a large-scale, collaborative effort, written by 21 librettists and 11 composers where everyone, the singers, the dancers, and even the audience, is on the move.
IrelandWeek: Elmear Noones' "Ireland - Where Legend Lives"
Molly sings Soprano in IrelandWeek's concert featuring dramatic songs and stories from contemporary Ireland.
Tickets available HERE.
Molly sings with HEX, the resident vocal ensemble of Hear Now Festival, in the Electroacoustic concert of this years’ festival. They will perform Kion Heidari’s piece “In Waves”, which talks about the cyclical nature of depression, evoked through natural phenomena.
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Molly is the vocal soloist in this concert of new music by Sidney Hopson.
Wild Up percussionist, composer, activist, and arts futurist Sidney Hopson builds a multimedia project underscoring his work with refugee musicians in Jordan and Afghanistan. Part concert, part documentary video, part conversation, Through the Looking Glass (World Premiere) shows music as a container for our hopes and histories, the personal and the universal.
Molly is singing in this performance with the Miller Wrenn Large Ensemble.
Open Gate Sunday Evening Series: Miller Wrenn Large Ensemble and Ben Rosenbloom Band
Molly will sing Soprano in this concert of music from the video game NieR: Automata.
AWR Music Productions is proud to partner with legendary video game developer SQUARE ENIX to present a phenomenal multimedia production: ‘NieR:Orchestra Concert 12024 [the end of data]’.
With symphony orchestra and chorus under the direction of conductor Eric Roth, the performance features the solo vocals of original NieR series singers Emi Evans and J’nique Nicole, as well as a specially created program with HD video projections from NieR series director Yoko Taro and composer Keiichi Okabe.
In addition, the concert features a recorded reading by 2B (voiced by Kira Buckland) and 9S (voiced by Kyle McCarley) in a new episode written by director Yoko Taro.
Immerse yourself in the NieR universe like never before!
Molly is a soloist/performer in Overtone Industries' Original Vision Showcase, performing in three new opera scenes by composer/librettist teams. Tickets available soon - more information HERE.
Molly is the composer and one of the performers for this concert in collaboration with Synchromy as part of the California Festival.
General admission: $25.00
Senior citizens, students, and artists financially impacted by covid-19: $15.00
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Contemplating the question “What’s a dwelling place?”, Molly Pease’s Waterways and Dwellings, with text by Molly Bendall, turns towards Ballona Creek as a source of ecological and cultural knowledge. This meditative piece for four voices charts a course through Culver City’s landscape. The composition began with a walk along the nearly nine-mile-long creek that connects the city to the Ballona Wetlands, Marina Del Rey, and the Pacific Ocean. Over the course of their walk, they paid attention to the ecological and social conditions of the area: what could be heard, seen, and smelled from the path. These sounds and textures were recorded and interpreted by the composer to create a sonic landscape that pulls from local birds, rowers yelling and paddling by, rolling bicycles, and the boardwalk. Waterways and Dwellings looks to Culver City’s history to converse with its present condition: LA County’s housing crisis, the homeless people affected by it living along the creek, and the environmental impact of littering in the area.
HEX is the Hear Now Festival’s resident vocal ensemble, and will be performing a piece by composer Michael Roth for this concert as part of the California Festival.
Molly is the Mezzo Soprano soloist in this concert performance of Fahad Siadat’s Conference of the Birds.
The Conference of the Birds is an a capella oratorio composed by Fahad Siadat with a libretto by Sholeh Wolpé. The work utilizes virtuosic musical techniques found in singing styles across the globe. The chorus moves throughout the work embodying the birds on the journey while also functioning musically as the ‘orchestra’ to tell the story and support the vocal solos.
The story follows the birds of the world who embark on a journey to find their sovereign, Simorgh, a divine/mythical creature. Led by the wise Hoopoe they travel through Seven Valleys, each a spiritual realm of understanding that unfolds as they journey toward Simorgh’s sanctuary. The libretto is drawn from Sufi mystic poet Attar’s seminal text about the journey of the soul as it seeks union with the Divine.
Molly sings Soprano in her first concert with LA Choral Lab.
Birdsong is a musical communion between the human condition and the natural world, exploring how flight encapsulates our fascination with power and potential while reflecting back our own fragility and fallibility.
Whether it be in the story of the Pierides of Greek Mythology, Leonardo Da Vinci’s Renaissance-era sketches of flying machines, or the feeling of watching a bird soar in the sky; art has utilized flight as a narrative thread that connects us as humans through our shared fascination with possibility and simultaneously warns us of the dangers of over-ambition, obsession with fame, or fixation upon beauty. As our human society has sought to modernize and advance, we have concurrently harmed our natural surroundings and ourselves in concert.
Tickets available HERE.
Molly sings with the LA Master Chorale in this concert at Walt Disney Concert Hall.
HEAVEN + EARTH: The Music of Reena Esmail and Philip Glass
How do we live in unity with each other and with nature? Esmail’s This Love Between Us examines our shared humanity by juxtaposing texts of seven major religions of the Indian subcontinent, set with a unique combination of Hindustani and Western classical styles, bringing together chorus, Baroque orchestra, tabla, and sitar. Philip Glass’ propulsive Itaipú, based on the Creation myth of the Guarani peoples, paints an epic and unforgettable symphonic portrait of nature for chorus and orchestra.
HEX performs the original a cappella score written and premiered by C3LA in 2018 - “The Fall of the House of Usher” at First Congregational church of Los Angeles on Friday the 13th! Tickets available HERE.
Jean Epstein and Luis Buñuel’s adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Fall of the House of Usher” is a haunting combination of the Impressionist and Surrealist approaches of the film’s director (Epstein) and writer (Buñuel). The film follows an unnamed Narrator as he visits an ailing friend and his wife: Sir Roderick Usher and Madeline. The pair live in isolation in their “dilapidated mansion,” where Roderick obsessively paints Madeline’s portrait. Her health wanes, and eventually she expires and is buried. Roderick, though, is convinced that she is not dead, a conviction that is validated in the final moments of the film, when she rises from the grave to rejoin her husband. As Madeline returns, the house begins to collapse, and its inhabitants (along with the Narrator) flee the wreck.
Molly sings Soprano with LA Master Chorale and LA Phil in this concert of Verdi’s Requiem conducted by Caleb Young.
As Warner Bros. celebrates 100 years of entertaining audiences around the world, the Hollywood Bowl will add a highlight to the yearlong celebration through Stanley Kubrick’s sci-fi epic 2001: A Space Odyssey. A landmark film in the 1960s, it has topped many critics’ lists for greatest film of all time. A key ingredient in Kubrick’s cinematic alchemy was his clever use of classical music, which forever changed and gave new meaning set against stunning celestial imagery. From the ethereal music of György Ligeti to Richard Strauss’ Also sprach Zarathustra and Johann Strauss, Jr.’s The Blue Danube, watch and listen as the Los Angeles Philharmonic performs the score live to picture while the movie shows on the Bowl’s big screens.
Molly sings Soprano with LA Master Chorale and LA Phil in this concert of Verdi’s Requiem conducted by Gustavo Dudamel.
From its stunningly beautiful solo moments to the rapturous “Dies Irae” that movie trailers have—rightly—lifted as a soundtrack to the end of the world, Verdi’s Requiem is a darkly dramatic 90-minute roller-coaster ride. When Gustavo Dudamel last conducted it a decade ago, the Los Angeles Timesraved about his “radical and wondrous” performance that drew in the Bowl audience for moments of “intimate, personal expression” while also soaring in the many massive moments that “shook the Cahuenga Pass.”
HEX will perform as a Guest Ensemble at the N.E.O. Voice Festival, and will present Stockhausen’s “Stimmung”. More info here: https://www.neovoicefestival.com/currentfestival.html
Presentation of Music as Drama Projects, with guest artists HEX Ensemble, Performing Stockhausen: Stimmung.
Free concert, info here: https://www.fullerton.edu/arts/music/events/nmf.php
The fourth presentation of our season focuses on education and how to create a future that prioritizes unity and equality. These selections will discuss some of the issues within our school system such as the Dont Say Gay Bill, Critical Race Theory, school shootings, the school to prison pipeline, and will feature collaborations with the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA).
Molly is the featured composer and soloist in this concert for organ and choir.
For this performance, we will present new and innovative works that speak to the powerful relationship between our planet, sky, sun, and moon. At the heart of our concert is a unique work, Ode to the Sun, a setting of Scott Mehner’s text that articulates the important relationship between earth and the sun, “the green Earth's golden muse.” It is paired with newly commissioned works from several regional composers, including Sarah Wald and Adam Ward. Our featured artist is Vox Alumnus Molly Pease, a vocalist, and composer who explores the musical realm of innovation and expectation. ODE TO THE EARTH & SKY is a three-night performance with a pre-recorded, professionally mastered audio & video recording option for anyone who would like to watch virtually.
Friday, April 21st, 2023 • 7pm
In-Person @ St. Johns Lutheran Church (1701 L St, Sacramento, CA 95811)
Saturday, April 22nd, 2023 • 7pm
In-Person @ St. Paul Lutheran Church (1658 Excelsior Ave, Oakland, CA 94602)
Featured Performance - Reception
Sunday, April 23rd, 2023 • 5pm
In-Person @ Trinity Episcopal Church (2620 Capitol Ave, Sacramento, CA 95816)
April 23rd - 30th
Unique Virtually Streaming Content Available on our Website (www.VoxMusica.net/watch)
Molly is the featured composer and soloist in this concert for organ and choir.
For this performance, we will present new and innovative works that speak to the powerful relationship between our planet, sky, sun, and moon. At the heart of our concert is a unique work, Ode to the Sun, a setting of Scott Mehner’s text that articulates the important relationship between earth and the sun, “the green Earth's golden muse.” It is paired with newly commissioned works from several regional composers, including Sarah Wald and Adam Ward. Our featured artist is Vox Alumnus Molly Pease, a vocalist, and composer who explores the musical realm of innovation and expectation. ODE TO THE EARTH & SKY is a three-night performance with a pre-recorded, professionally mastered audio & video recording option for anyone who would like to watch virtually.
Friday, April 21st, 2023 • 7pm
In-Person @ St. Johns Lutheran Church (1701 L St, Sacramento, CA 95811)
Saturday, April 22nd, 2023 • 7pm
In-Person @ St. Paul Lutheran Church (1658 Excelsior Ave, Oakland, CA 94602)
Featured Performance - Reception
Sunday, April 23rd, 2023 • 5pm
In-Person @ Trinity Episcopal Church (2620 Capitol Ave, Sacramento, CA 95816)
April 23rd - 30th
Unique Virtually Streaming Content Available on our Website (www.VoxMusica.net/watch)
Molly is the featured composer and soloist in this concert for organ and choir.
For this performance, we will present new and innovative works that speak to the powerful relationship between our planet, sky, sun, and moon. At the heart of our concert is a unique work, Ode to the Sun, a setting of Scott Mehner’s text that articulates the important relationship between earth and the sun, “the green Earth's golden muse.” It is paired with newly commissioned works from several regional composers, including Sarah Wald and Adam Ward. Our featured artist is Vox Alumnus Molly Pease, a vocalist, and composer who explores the musical realm of innovation and expectation. ODE TO THE EARTH & SKY is a three-night performance with a pre-recorded, professionally mastered audio & video recording option for anyone who would like to watch virtually.
Friday, April 21st, 2023 • 7pm
In-Person @ St. Johns Lutheran Church (1701 L St, Sacramento, CA 95811)
Saturday, April 22nd, 2023 • 7pm
In-Person @ St. Paul Lutheran Church (1658 Excelsior Ave, Oakland, CA 94602)
Featured Performance - Reception
Sunday, April 23rd, 2023 • 5pm
In-Person @ Trinity Episcopal Church (2620 Capitol Ave, Sacramento, CA 95816)
April 23rd - 30th
Unique Virtually Streaming Content Available on our Website (www.VoxMusica.net/watch)
Molly will star as Kassandra in Overtone Industries’ production of “Cynossema: A Dirge from the Dog’s Tomb” as part of USC’s Visions and Voices Festival:
Mystical sound storyteller and opera composer O-Lan Jones and her multidisciplinary company Overtone Industries are joining forces with the theatre company By The Souls Of Our Feet to create a brand-new immersive theatre experience that explores the roots of the Hecuba myth that is personified by the iconic 20-foot statue of the Queen of Troy in University Village.
Incorporating live music using the ancient Greek Olympos’ pentatonic scale and exploring a mother’s grief-stricken revenge, Cynossema: A Dirge from the Dog’s Tomb tells a story of rage, power, misogyny, immense grief, and, ultimately, catharsis and healing that vibrates with impactful relevance today. The unique, one-time event will begin at the statue of Hecuba and proceed to the Physical Education Building for an unforgettable performance.
A conversation with the new-yet-ancient opera’s creators and performers, and special guests including Christopher Slatoff, the sculptor of USC’s Hecuba statue, will follow.
Tickets are free. RSVP available starting March 1st here: Visions and Voices
A performance of Stimmung, Karlheinz Stockhausen’s seminal work for vocal sextet. This spiritual and musical ‘tuning’ is an exploration of the power of sound on both a micro and macro scale, pulling apart the harmonics of our singing as they collide with rhythmic chanting, invocation of magic names from around the world, and the recitation of erotic poetry.
Molly will be performing Nina Shekhar’s piece “Don’t Beat a Word” with Brightwork Newmusic Ensemble in this concert.
Tuesdays @ Monk Space: Nina Shekhar & Friends
Composer Nina Shekhar curates an evening of chamber music by and for Friends!
Performers include Brightwork Ensemble, Lyris Quartet, and Nina Shekhar playing music by Nicolas Lell Benavides, Akshaya Avril Tucker and Nina Shekhar with video interludes by Nina Shekhar.
Tickets and more info here: Brightworknewmusic.com
Our third concert of the season will focus on the climate crisis, including the use of words from young leaders who have spoken about the urgency of action toward conserving what resources are available on this planet.
HEX Ensemble Workshop
Featuring new works by CSUF composers
Wednesday, March 1 at 6pm
Recital Hall
Free of charge
More info here: New Music Series
HEX is the featured vocal ensemble in the CSUF New Music Series with Artistic Director Dr. Pamela Madsen:
HEX Ensemble and Soprano Stacey Fraserwith CSUF New Music Ensemble present the world premiere of Sacred Mountain, by CSUF faculty composer Pamela Madsen , preceded by the world premiere of Prelude to Sacred Mountain by Fahad Siadat .
Tickets and more info here: New Music Series
Molly sings with Tonality and Kronos Quartet in this performance of “At War With Ourselves” by composer Michael Abels.
A rhapsodic modern-day song cycle spun from the skin of history for string quartet, chorus, and narrator, At War With Ourselves – 400 Years of You features a text by National Book Award-winning poet Nikky Finney inspired by her 2013 poem “The Battle of and for the Black Face Boy.” The music was composed by Michael Abels, composer for the Jordan Peele films Us and Get Out. This powerful new work explores race relations, social justice, and civil rights in 21st century America.
Molly sings with Tonality and Kronos Quartet in this performance of “At War With Ourselves” by composer Michael Abels.
A rhapsodic modern-day song cycle spun from the skin of history for string quartet, chorus, and narrator, At War With Ourselves – 400 Years of You features a text by National Book Award-winning poet Nikky Finney inspired by her 2013 poem “The Battle of and for the Black Face Boy.” The music was composed by Michael Abels, composer for the Jordan Peele films Us and Get Out. This powerful new work explores race relations, social justice, and civil rights in 21st century America.
“Hope is a Hammer” is an interdisciplinary collaborative performance directed and produced by Sharon Chohi Kim and Elana Mann. Through immersive sound, sculpture, text, and movement, “Hope is a Hammer” confronts the silencing of women’s voices and the struggle for body sovereignty, while offering strategies for collective empowerment. The performance includes music by Sharon Chohi Kim and Corey Fogel, text by Carol Ockman, choreography by Stephanie Zaletel, sculpture and set design by Elana Mann, and costume design by Jill Spector. Kim and Fogel will activate Mann’s sonic sculptures through voice and percussion, along with a group of musicians. They will play hand-horn megaphones, a ten-foot six-person protest horn, and ceramic rattles, culminating with a procession.
Performers include: Mikaela Elson, Corey Fogel, Sara Sinclair Gomez, Samantha Hopkins, Sharon Chohi Kim, Divya Maus, Giles Miller, Molly Pease and Kathryn Shuman, among others.
Molly’s cantata for voices and strings Inner Astronomy will receive its live premiere in Resonance Collective’s “Golden Thread Concert Series” at First Congregational church of Los Angeles. This will also serve as a release for the book Molly created with her father’s poetry and drawings to accompany the music.
