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 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.
This is a collaboration with sculptor Jimena Sarno - an artist I have worked with before on projects including Score for the Near Future (composer/music director/performer) and taracatá trabaja (music director/performer). Las Tres Gracias is inspired by the missing neo-classical sculpture of the same name, which once stood in the botanical gardens of Buenos Aires and depicted the three daughters of the Greek god Zeus, believed to bestow beauty, mirth and grace upon humanity. The piece explores imperialism and the normalization of contemporary fascism through the Greek tragedy formal structure, and features a video capturing scenes from various botanical gardens. As composer for the piece, I was commissioned to set a beautiful Spanish libretto for three operatic, Spanish-speaking voices, and my own ethereal background vocals. The libretto interweaves fragments of texts written by South American revolutionaries and journalists, and explores colonialism, genocide, liberal complacency, South American creation myths and more. Let's just say it was an intense project to sink my teeth into, but very rewarding. I also served as music director, leading a trio of incredible singers - Maria Elena Altany, Ivanna Valdespino and Rosa Evangelina - as we recorded the music on and around Indigenous People's Day. Nov. 9 from 2-4pm is the reception for the installation, at Nichols Gallery, which will run until February 14, 2025.
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.
Molly sings Soprano with LA Master Chorale in this Dia de los Muertos concert with Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Gustavo Dudamel leads a festive exploration of Latin American music for Día de los Muertos with Villa-Lobos’ progressive tour de force and Gabriela Ortiz’s 2019 Yanga. Her work for orchestra, chorus, and percussion ensemble is characterized by its use of African instruments and colorful, multilayered rhythms. Ortiz says, “[Yanga] speaks to the greatness of humanity when in search of equality and the universal right to enjoy freedom to the fullest.” Revueltas’ film score La noche de los Mayas digs deeper into Mexico’s ancient culture brought into conversation with the modern world, bolting through thunderous, dynamic rhythms and a flute interlude based on a traditional Yucatan evening song. Within the music is what poet Octavio Paz describes as Revueltas’ “deep-felt but also joyful concern for man.”
Molly sings Soprano with LA Master Chorale in this Dia de los Muertos concert with Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Gustavo Dudamel leads a festive exploration of Latin American music for Día de los Muertos with Villa-Lobos’ progressive tour de force and Gabriela Ortiz’s 2019 Yanga. Her work for orchestra, chorus, and percussion ensemble is characterized by its use of African instruments and colorful, multilayered rhythms. Ortiz says, “[Yanga] speaks to the greatness of humanity when in search of equality and the universal right to enjoy freedom to the fullest.” Revueltas’ film score La noche de los Mayas digs deeper into Mexico’s ancient culture brought into conversation with the modern world, bolting through thunderous, dynamic rhythms and a flute interlude based on a traditional Yucatan evening song. Within the music is what poet Octavio Paz describes as Revueltas’ “deep-felt but also joyful concern for man.”
Molly sings Soprano with LA Master Chorale in this Dia de los Muertos concert with Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Gustavo Dudamel leads a festive exploration of Latin American music for Día de los Muertos with Villa-Lobos’ progressive tour de force and Gabriela Ortiz’s 2019 Yanga. Her work for orchestra, chorus, and percussion ensemble is characterized by its use of African instruments and colorful, multilayered rhythms. Ortiz says, “[Yanga] speaks to the greatness of humanity when in search of equality and the universal right to enjoy freedom to the fullest.” Revueltas’ film score La noche de los Mayas digs deeper into Mexico’s ancient culture brought into conversation with the modern world, bolting through thunderous, dynamic rhythms and a flute interlude based on a traditional Yucatan evening song. Within the music is what poet Octavio Paz describes as Revueltas’ “deep-felt but also joyful concern for man.”
Molly sings solos and Soprano in this fundraiser for experimental theatre company Overtone Industries.
Welcome to Mythical Beasts: an Overtone Industries Fundraiser. Join us at the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles for tacos, drinks, silent auction, and music. Let's come together to support Overtone Industries and the Original Vision development program.
Dine on Chef Ladis' famous tacos! Sip beverage concoctions by the Overtone Industries staff! Bid on fabulous items in our silent auction! And, of course, enjoy live performances by Liz Eldridge, Scott Graff, Kion Heidari, and Molly Pease of compositions by O-Lan Jones, John Ballinger, Maesa Pullman, and a preview from Ruth Margraff and Richard Marriot of this year's Original Vision. More suprises to come - see you there!
A parking lot for the event is located at the corner of Westmoreland Ave. & 8th St.
If you can't make it to the party but you'd still like to support Overtone, please head to overtoneindustries.org/donate. Thank you! 🤍
Molly sings soprano with the vocal ensemble for this MUSE/IQUE concert at Skirball Cultural Center.
MUSE/IQUE Presents "Indivisible: The Glory of Lincoln's Musical Soul"
In dark and uncertain times, music has always given us the courage of conviction. With his presidency plagued by war and civil unrest, Abraham Lincoln often turned to music for comfort, encouragement, and hope. Though he neither sang nor played an instrument, Lincoln once said: “Listening to melody, every man becomes his own poet, and measures the depth of his own nature.” Join MUSE/IQUE for our invigorating season finale, where we examine the impact of music on Lincoln’s soul. This triumphant performance recognizes the power art has to unite us and inspire us to keep marching forward.
Ticket info HERE (must be a member to attend)
Molly sings soprano with the vocal ensemble for this MUSE/IQUE concert at Skirball Cultural Center.
MUSE/IQUE Presents "Indivisible: The Glory of Lincoln's Musical Soul"
In dark and uncertain times, music has always given us the courage of conviction. With his presidency plagued by war and civil unrest, Abraham Lincoln often turned to music for comfort, encouragement, and hope. Though he neither sang nor played an instrument, Lincoln once said: “Listening to melody, every man becomes his own poet, and measures the depth of his own nature.” Join MUSE/IQUE for our invigorating season finale, where we examine the impact of music on Lincoln’s soul. This triumphant performance recognizes the power art has to unite us and inspire us to keep marching forward.
Ticket info HERE (must be a member to attend)
Molly sings soprano with the vocal ensemble for this MUSE/IQUE concert at The Huntington.
MUSE/IQUE Presents "Indivisible: The Glory of Lincoln's Musical Soul"
In dark and uncertain times, music has always given us the courage of conviction. With his presidency plagued by war and civil unrest, Abraham Lincoln often turned to music for comfort, encouragement, and hope. Though he neither sang nor played an instrument, Lincoln once said: “Listening to melody, every man becomes his own poet, and measures the depth of his own nature.” Join MUSE/IQUE for our invigorating season finale, where we examine the impact of music on Lincoln’s soul. This triumphant performance recognizes the power art has to unite us and inspire us to keep marching forward.
Ticket info HERE (must be a member to attend)
Molly sings soprano with the vocal ensemble for this MUSE/IQUE concert at The Huntington.
MUSE/IQUE Presents "Indivisible: The Glory of Lincoln's Musical Soul"
In dark and uncertain times, music has always given us the courage of conviction. With his presidency plagued by war and civil unrest, Abraham Lincoln often turned to music for comfort, encouragement, and hope. Though he neither sang nor played an instrument, Lincoln once said: “Listening to melody, every man becomes his own poet, and measures the depth of his own nature.” Join MUSE/IQUE for our invigorating season finale, where we examine the impact of music on Lincoln’s soul. This triumphant performance recognizes the power art has to unite us and inspire us to keep marching forward.
Ticket info HERE (must be a member to attend)
