COMPOSITION WORKSHOP & PERFORMANCE
Meet Medina
Medina’s artistic work focuses on amplifying the female voice by curating performances of both historical and living women composers. Her series Evolutions: A Timeline of Women Composers, created in partnership with New York Women Composers, reintroduces neglected repertoire while championing contemporary creators. Her 2025 season includes an East Coast recital tour that foregrounds women’s voices.
Meet Ellen
Ellen’s recent work explores spatial audio as a medium for immersive musical storytelling. After presenting a concert of spatial piano works in New York City last season and having previously collaborated on a solo piece, they reunited to develop a new project shaped by Ellen’s research into archival recordings of women speaking about their struggles for recognition and artistic autonomy.
SHE’S SPEAKING!
WHAT IS IT?
This event will introduce participants to the clarinet and interactive technology piece featured in the concert, showing how acoustic and electronic elements combine to create new forms of musical expression.
The session includes performance and discussion, demonstrations on how the clarinet’s sound can be extended, reshaped, and transformed through live digital processing.
Following the demonstration, participants will take part in a guided, hands-on activity where they can experiment with the same tools and hear the immediate results of their interactions.
MEDINA & ELLEN, SOLO 360
Our collaboration brings together clarinetist Medina and composer-technologist Ellen Fishman, two artists committed to reshaping classical music by centering the creative voices and lived experiences of women. As a collaborative team, our mission is to elevate women composers while expanding artistic possibilities through technology, interdisciplinary experimentation, and community-driven performance practices.
Both Ellen and Medina are experienced educators and artists dedicated to sharing the creative potential of music and technology with young people.
COMBINING MUSIC & TECH
Through shared research and creative exploration, we are developing a new work that integrates live clarinet performance, spatial audio, and historical female voices. Our overarching goals are to cultivate sustainable creative spaces for women, generate new interdisciplinary work, and spark meaningful dialogue about representation, equity, and the evolving future of classical music.
The event aims to make cutting-edge music technology accessible and engaging for a broad audience, sparking interest in both the arts and STEM fields.