Molly is a composer and performer with HEX in this collaborative performance at LA Municipal Art Gallery!

In celebration and expansion of our current exhibition Too Fast To Sing, join us on Saturday, December 13th at 2 p.m. for a special performance with Elana Mann and HEX, the award winning contemporary vocal sextet.

Speak Again is a collaborative assembly of performances exploring the shifting politics of hearing, listening, and speaking. Reimagining LAMAG’s gallery as a stage, the artists of HEX weld Mann’s sculptural instruments into a meditation on the subtle distinctions between sound, language, and meaning. The performance resonates with the spirit of Mann’s practice oriented around freedom of speech, the amplification of divergent voices, and the productive force of difference. Speak Again arrives at a moment of international upheaval, asking audiences to consider how listening and speaking function as critical tools for navigating an incoherent and volatile present.

Please note this program is free but will require an RSVP for entry. Visit our website for more information or follow the links in our bio. 

This public program is made possible by support from the Plum Foundation. Additional support and thanks to the Jenni Crane Foundation, an initiative dedicated to preserving the legacy of the esteemed artist and curator.

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This program is part of Too Fast To Sing curated by Hugo Cervantes, LAMAG Curator.

Brightwork Digital: MIXTAPE

Tuesday, December 9 at 8:00pm

Monk Space

4414 W 2nd St

TIX & INFO

On December 9th, Tuesdays @ Monk Space presents MIXTAPE: Celebrating the launch of our new in-house label, Brightwork Digital, this special event includes live performances of some of the incredible music we are releasing this year, including works by composers Eric Moe, Nina Shekhar, Molly Pease, Ian Dicke, Dana Kaufman, Andy Akiho, Tom Flaherty, and Pam Madsen. Performances by Brightwork Ensemble with guest artists including Hex vocal ensemble make this is THE end-of-the-year new music event to attend.

Molly plays the role of Gemini in this workshop of The Joining, a new opera by Isaac Schankler with libretto by Aiden Feltkamp, presented by Synchromy.

The Joining is a speculative fiction opera exploring the collision of two civilizations — the Underland and the Overland. Frem, an Underlander technician and inventor, must journey to the prosperous Overland to seek help with an impending famine. The Overlanders take an interest in Frem’s golem Tachlis, an artificial lifeform that is more than it first appears.

Drawing from Jewish folklore, the opera uses the golem to explore our relationship with technology, and how it can make us complicit in exploitation, oppression, and dehumanization.

This semi-staged workshop concert allows audience members to engage directly with the work through feedback forms, a live feedback session, or during the reception following the event.

Saturday, December 6 · 7:30–8:30 PM PST
Los Angeles LGBT Center – Davidson/Valentini Theater
1118 North McCadden Place, Los Angeles, CA 90038

Reserve Your Seat:
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DIRECT ADDRESS is theater as discourse. It is a celebration of the First Amendment and an experiment in making art out of the present tense. DIRECT ADDRESS is an appeal to your imagination and a gathering in the heart of the storm. 

Cornerstone Theater Company has commissioned a group of local artists to make works for public spaces throughout Los Angeles County—works that directly address the state of things as they are right now and attempt poetic interventions on behalf of a just future. These short works will be performed across Los Angeles leading to their complete one-night presentation at The Ford. DIRECT ADDRESS is inspired by the history of American activism and public performance—from Frederick Douglass to ACT UP and beyond. It's an invitation to reimagine how we exercise our first amendment rights. Commissioned artists include Ana María Álvarez, Agnes Borinsky, Daniel Alexander Jones, Fahad Siadat & HEX, Mario Vega, Members of the Cornerstone Ensemble, and more.  

Founded in 1986, Cornerstone Theater Company began as a traveling ensemble living and working in primarily rural communities. In 1992, the company settled in Los Angeles to focus on urban collaborations. Cornerstone has commissioned more than 100 playwrights, produced over 150 new works, trained thousands of students, and worked with tens of thousands of community members, in Los Angeles and across the country. 

Molly is the soprano soloist and sings in the chorus for this concert of the music of acclaimed video game Elden Ring at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

Molly will perform an aria from her in-progress opera HYSTERIA at this Composer-Librettist Speed Dating Event hosted by Overtone Industries and Synchromy!
Sign up HERE

October 5, 5pm at First Unitarian Church of LA

Overtone Industries is excited to host our first-ever Composer-Librettist “Speed Dating” event—created to connect emerging composers and writers in Los Angeles.

This event is the starting point for Original Vision, Overtone’s annual development program that helps early-to-mid-career composer-librettist teams create and workshop original works of opera-theater.

Over the years, we’ve heard from composers and librettists who are interested in applying for Original Vision, but haven’t yet found the right collaborators. We decided to help bridge that gap with a fun, daytime mixer that will include performances, surprises, and plenty of time to network.

Applications are due September 10th! Composers can apply here and librettists can apply here. We are so excited to get to know you and your work!

If you’d like to support this unique event, join our fundraising effort at https://givebutter.com/lmvhRv

I was honored and excited when renowned composer Pamela Madsen reached out to me to ask if I would be willing to premiere her new mono-drama/piano concerto/aria In America: Modjeska!, a 40-minute piece based on the life of Polish actress Helena Modjeska. This piece traverses lands, oceans, emotions, and characters, and incorporates the words of Shakespeare and multiple contemporary poets including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Edna St. Vincent Millay, as well as Modjeska herself. The vocal lines also traverse every part of my range and multiple styles of singing, and the piano part is turbulent and impressive, expertly played by David Bergstedt. In addition to this work, I'll also be performing two pieces from my own Inner Astronomy, as well as movements from another Pamela Madsen opera, and exploring music by Pauline Oliveros with the CSUF New Music Ensemble. 

CSUF is far for most LA folks but if you are interested in this concert, I'd love to see you there! Carpools are always a good option :) The concert will also be filmed and available to watch on the CSUF website.
Tickets are available at https://calendar.fullerton.edu/?eventid=1287912368.

Molly is performing with Sharon Chohi Kim in the REDCAT season opener.

Sharon Chohi Kim premieres a performance inspired by murmurations—meaning both spontaneous flocks of starlings and a collection of low, continuous sounds. Drawing on the intelligence of decentralized and adaptive systems in nature—such as mushroom spores and moss—this performance is a meditation on shape-shifting and collective intelligence. Bodies resonate in a responsive negotiation of sound and movement, while film and video projections designed by Jennifer Bewerse layered throughout the theater evoke the textures and behaviors of organic systems. Both composing and performing in the work, Kim remixes live, soaring vocals with electronics, accompanied by choreography by Stephanie Zalatel. 

Molly will share a set of her voice and electronics project “erde dreams” in this concert at Scribble.

Molly is a soloist in this Tuesdays @ Monk Space concert, also featuring Brightwork newmusic and Stacey Fraser.

Snap, Crackle, Brightwork goes pop!

Join us for a rousing evening of cutting edge chamber music that fuses some of our favorite pop music with the exciting modernism that this Pierrot ensemble is known for. Including innovative Beatles settings, newly commissioned works by living composers, and unique takes on the music of Nirvana, Radiohead, Prince and others.

More info to come, HERE

Molly will be one of the featured performers in the PARTCH Ensemble's annual concert at REDCAT, June 13 and 14.

More info to come, HERE

Molly will be one of the featured performers in the PARTCH Ensemble's annual concert at REDCAT, June 13 and 14.

More info to come, HERE

Molly sings background vocals in this show with JODIE LANDAU & WILLIAM BRITTELLE - Band Name TBD
w/ Lisel, Meara O’Reilly’s Hockets for Two Flutes, And David Longstreth’s The Legend of Ochi

Molly is a singer/performer in this free festival produced by Synchromy.

Crafts and activities at noon. Performances begin at 2:00.

Urban Birds: The Plasticene takes its name from the current geological epoch, defined by the role of petroleum and petroleum-based plastic in the unfolding Sixth Age of Mass Extinction. The debut performance will be set within Angels Gate Cultural Center – a decommissioned military base on a precipice of land overlooking the Port of Los Angeles, the Pacific Ocean, and the International Bird Rescue clinic.

The work is comprised of four acts beginning with the end of the last age of mass extinction (the event that created the world’s petroleum reserves), moving through the reemergence of animals, especially birds, and into the Anthropocene and the unfolding Sixth Age of Mass Extinction. The Bird Rescue will be staged as a field hospital inside a military battery, where three vocalists will perform Anuj Bhutani’s score alongside three dancers performing as bird.patients, accompanied by the Isaura String Quartet. This interspecies opera will conclude with a speculative posthuman performance overlooking the Korean Friendship Bell and the Pacific Ocean by Yozmit the Dogstar with speculative bird song and experimental bells from MA Harms.

Molly sings and plays electronics during the interludes of this LA Choral Lab concert.

The L.A. Choral Lab’s 11th Season, IN/HUMAN, is an exploration of some of the central tensions that inspire and challenge us in our current times. What is it that makes us human in a world where technology and identity are inextricably intertwined? How do we manage being human within a rapidly and dramatically evolving landscape? What do we hope for humanity as we envision and shape the future? Get ready to join us for two major productions–IN/HUMAN: Departures in the spring and IN/HUMAN: Arrivals in the fall–transformative choral experiences of unparalleled musical excellence that will inspire introspection, imagination, and interconnection, composed exclusively by living composers.

HEX is the resident vocal ensemble for the Hear Now Festival. This year, the festival is featuring its first-ever vocal music night, featuring the members of HEX! More information to come!
More info HERE

Molly is a singer/performer in this free festival produced by Synchromy.

Urban Birds: The Plasticene takes its name from the current geological epoch, defined by the role of petroleum and petroleum-based plastic in the unfolding Sixth Age of Mass Extinction. The debut performance will be set within Angels Gate Cultural Center – a decommissioned military base on a precipice of land overlooking the Port of Los Angeles, the Pacific Ocean, and the International Bird Rescue clinic.

The work is comprised of four acts beginning with the end of the last age of mass extinction (the event that created the world’s petroleum reserves), moving through the reemergence of animals, especially birds, and into the Anthropocene and the unfolding Sixth Age of Mass Extinction. The Bird Rescue will be staged as a field hospital inside a military battery, where three vocalists will perform Anuj Bhutani’s score alongside three dancers performing as bird.patients, accompanied by the Isaura String Quartet. This interspecies opera will conclude with a speculative posthuman performance overlooking the Korean Friendship Bell and the Pacific Ocean by Yozmit the Dogstar with speculative bird song and experimental bells from MA Harms.

HEX is collaborating with Brightwork newmusic for a concert at CSU Fullerton’s Meng Hall. The April 9th concert will feature Molly's piece "Waterways and Dwellings", as the two groups re-visit their "Interstitial" collaboration from 2022.
More info HERE

HEX is collaborating with Brightwork newmusic for a concert at Pomona College. The April 4th concert will feature Molly's piece "Waterways and Dwellings", as the two groups re-visit their "Interstitial" collaboration from 2022.
More info HERE

HEX is the resident vocal ensemble for the Hear Now Festival. Molly will perform with HEX and others in the electro-acoustic concert as part of the festival. More information to come!
More info HERE

Molly sings with LA Master Chorale and Colburn Orchestra for a performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 2 at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Tickets are only $10!

The Colburn Orchestra joins forces with the Los Angeles Master Chorale for a breathtaking performance of Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony led by Earl Lee in his LA debut. Bold and passionate, Symphony No. 2 explores the concepts of life and death using a large orchestra, organ, choir, church bells, offstage brass ensemble, and more.

Get tickets HERE

Molly is a soloist and section leader with Laude and Cathedral Choir at The Cathedral at First Congregational Church of LA for their annual magical Christmas Eve services. These are free and open to all in person, and are also available to stream live online via YouTube!
More info HERE

Molly is one of the soprano soloists and is a section leader with Laude and Cathedral Choir at The Cathedral at First Congregational Church of LA for their Christmas concert of Handel's "Messiah" Part 1 on December 15. All performances are free and open to all in person, and are also available to stream live online via YouTube!

More info HERE

Molly performs multiple solo roles in three new opera scenes as part of Overtone Industries’ Original Vision.

Join us Saturday December 7th at 7:30 at Teatro Frida Kahlo for the fourth interation of Overtone Industries' ground-breaking Original Vision Development Program.

Directed by O-Lan Jones and music directed by Fahad Siadat, Original Vision IV: the Deeps include scenes from operas in development by Brian Gyamfi & Collin Kemeny, Ruth Margraff & Richard Marriot, and Pedro Pascoali.

Featured musicians include Molly Pease, Scott Graff, Chohi Kim, Kion Heidari, and Brightwork newmusic.

A panel discussion will follow . Works showcased include:

THE ANTS ARE ILLUMINATED by Brian Gyamfi & Collin Kemeny

A group of spirits connect with a street performer in Los Angeles. They find themselves locked in a city of capitalism, dependent on Calypso, a street magician who wants to use her magic to help them return home.

The Fishermen by Pedro Pascoali features two very different, very hungry fishermen friends. They are visited by a Creature bringing unexpected abundance. 

BAYAHA (danger) by Ruth Margraff & Richard Marriot is a new myth about two sisters who have drifted apart as glaciers melt, one to the South and one to the North—and a wayfarer who descends to the depths to comb the sister’s hair free of the pollution that has gathered in it.

Molly joins friend and collaborator Fahad Siadat as we improvise with voice and electronics in his series Living Meditation Project: An Ecstatic Listening Soundbath at The Philosophical Research Society.

This one hour event is one-part deep listening soundbath and one-part ecstatic meditation. This event is part of an on-going exploration of the intersection between creative and spiritual practices with composer/performer Fahad Siadat who will be joined by guest vocalist Molly Pease. During the event, the artists will employ musical tools including musical drones, rhythmic patterning, and free improvisation to induce a trance / transcendental space for listeners.

Attendees are invited to bring their voices and/or instruments and actively participate as players or just enjoy the sounds and bliss out.

Ticket price: $15 suggested donation (in person only)

Molly sings with HEX as they perform an immersive version of Stockhausen’s “Stimmung” at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA as part of Wild Up’s “Democracy Sessions”.

A reimagined performance of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Stimmung, expanded with ritualistic elements and layers of live electronics by vocal ensemble HEX. Stimmung (“tuning” in German), explores harmony and the communal experience of making music to understand the vital and deeper social and political meanings and implications of sound and tuning.

Before the performance, the audience is welcomed into a participatory workshop of the score, revealing the process for developing the score and tuning into each other.

Highways Performance Space Presents

Future Travel

David Rosenboom with HEX Trio: Molly Pease, Fahad Siadat & Scott Graff

In our age of technologically induced cognitive somnambulism, the abandonment of conscious awareness to the techno-social networks of the synthetic infosphere, Future Travel is about the poiesis of a positive possible, affirming the power of creative assertion and proactive being, no matter the presence and stresses of global uncertainties.

This performance celebrates the expanded reissue of composer-performer David Rosenboom’s classic 1981 journey in sonic imagery, Future Travel, with new music derived from it and performed in combination with his latest score for creative singers, Is Existence Is. The original narrative of Future Travel imagines a spirit being representing the first awareness of a new form of consciousness to which humans evolved after becoming aware of the unstoppable momentum of the course which they had set and the unlikelihood of their surviving. Collaborating with Rosenboom, a scintillating, electrified HEX Trio unfolds this narrative in a dialogue among three personas of the spirit being, interwoven with a seldom-seen film made to accompany the dialogue in 1981 in collaboration with legendary experimental filmmaker, George Manupelli. Future Travel is also the first major composition created with Touché, a radical approach to an electronic keyboard instrument resulting from a 1979-80 design collaboration of Rosenboom with Donald Buchla. A software-based successor called Touché II is heard in this concert. In combination, Is Existence Is arises from reflections on facts and philosophies of existence: concurrent complexities linking inside with outside; places, locations and times of individual and other; and the resplendent emergence of pure spirit. Text modules, images, and sounds combine and recombine like philosophical DNA, as the HEX Trio navigates many possible pathways through notated materials, while their resplendent voices activate banks of ringing electronic resonators tuned to the work’s unique harmonic architecture.

Highways Performance Space Presents

Future Travel

David Rosenboom with HEX Trio: Molly Pease, Fahad Siadat & Scott Graff

In our age of technologically induced cognitive somnambulism, the abandonment of conscious awareness to the techno-social networks of the synthetic infosphere, Future Travel is about the poiesis of a positive possible, affirming the power of creative assertion and proactive being, no matter the presence and stresses of global uncertainties.

This performance celebrates the expanded reissue of composer-performer David Rosenboom’s classic 1981 journey in sonic imagery, Future Travel, with new music derived from it and performed in combination with his latest score for creative singers, Is Existence Is. The original narrative of Future Travel imagines a spirit being representing the first awareness of a new form of consciousness to which humans evolved after becoming aware of the unstoppable momentum of the course which they had set and the unlikelihood of their surviving. Collaborating with Rosenboom, a scintillating, electrified HEX Trio unfolds this narrative in a dialogue among three personas of the spirit being, interwoven with a seldom-seen film made to accompany the dialogue in 1981 in collaboration with legendary experimental filmmaker, George Manupelli. Future Travel is also the first major composition created with Touché, a radical approach to an electronic keyboard instrument resulting from a 1979-80 design collaboration of Rosenboom with Donald Buchla. A software-based successor called Touché II is heard in this concert. In combination, Is Existence Is arises from reflections on facts and philosophies of existence: concurrent complexities linking inside with outside; places, locations and times of individual and other; and the resplendent emergence of pure spirit. Text modules, images, and sounds combine and recombine like philosophical DNA, as the HEX Trio navigates many possible pathways through notated materials, while their resplendent voices activate banks of ringing electronic resonators tuned to the work’s unique harmonic architecture.