My Brightest Diamond Fall 2024 Tour
Tickets go on sale April 5 at 10am EST.
Shara Nova in the musical ILLINOISE on Broadway
Shara is involved in the stage show of Illinoise as a musical performer, singing and playing guitar in the musical based on Sufjan Stevens’ album of the same name. Her musical and emotional throughline as an original collaborator on the album serve as an anchor to the sound of the show.
My Brightest Diamond Releases New Single - "Black Sheep"
Black Sheep on YouTube
My Brightest Diamond Supporting Wilco This Fall
Single Release
The Crossing’s 30th album:
Shara Nova’s TITRATION
TITRATION, composed and written by Shara Nova, performed by the amazing Grammy award winning choir The Crossing, conducted by Donald Nally, will be released April 28 on Navona Records. The first single, Imagine A Favorite Place, is now streaming everywhere.
Artwork by Vermeerier
Detroit performance at DSO Cube
Saturday, September 17, 2022 Shara will be performing pieces from recent works at DSO Cube as part of New Music Detroit’s Strange Beautiful Music 15! Please join her for this wonderful night of music in beautiful Detroit. TICKETS
Listen now: No. 36 We are as Paper
Available for your listening pleasure is "No. 36, We are as paper", a song Shara composed for The Blue Hour. The release of this new song follows the previous release of album tracks by Negrón, Snider, Shaw, and Grimes, all available to preview and pre-order here: https://thebluehour.lnk.to/album
The Blue Hour song cycle out October 14
We’re so proud to share with you this new release, available October 14 via Nonesuch / New Amsterdam records. The Blue Hour is a song cycle with text from Carolyn Forché’s poem On Earth created with Shara and co-composers Rachel Grimes, Angélica Negrón, Caroline Shaw, and Sarah Kirkland Snider, performed by Shara along with A Far Cry chamber orchestra.
OCEAN BODY at Caroline Performing Arts
February 9–16, 2022
Ocean Body is a multi-screen film and music installation collaboratively created by composer/vocalists Shara Nova and Helga Davis, and director Mark DeChiazza. It examines the decade-long close friendship between the artists and seeks a necessary bridge for the division that exists not only in our society, but in ourselves, creating a multi-sensory experience of a place where sand, sun, and water surround experiences of intense communion and profound isolation.
Tickets *must* be reserved in advance HERE.
THE BLUE HOUR with the Louisville Orchestra
Shara will perform THE BLUE HOUR with the Louisville Orchestra on SAT 19 FEB at 8PM at Old Forester’s Paristown Hall • Based on the poetry of Caroline Forché, The Blue Hour is a collaborative composition by five women who explore the way humans try to control the uncontrollable.
Tickets available HERE.
LONG PLAY Festival in NYC: Apr 29 - May 1, 2022
"I Have Never Loved Someone" & "Love Was There" featuring the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra - out now!
My Brightest Diamond is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of her hauntingly beautiful song “I Have Never Loved Someone” with the release of a stunning new version recorded live in August 2019 during a performance in Denmark for the Queen with the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra and German conductor Andreas Delfs. It’s a breathtaking commemoration and is accompanied by the recently commissioned “Love Was There” featuring Vincent Taurelle (Air, Beck, Christine and The Queens) on synths and Lydia Cleaver from the famed Cass Tech Harp and Vocal Ensemble on harp. The new two-song single is out today via all DSPs, available HERE.
“I Have Never Loved Someone” was originally released in 2011 on My Brightest Diamond’s All Things Will Unwind LP and over the past decade has grown to be one of her most beloved songs. The release of the song was followed by a solo performance of the single for La Blogothèque in 2011, watch HERE, which has amassed more than 750K views and cemented the track’s legendary status. La Blogothèque director Christophe ‘Chyrde’ Abric emotionally recalled this “Take Away” performance today, “Over the years, I’ve produced literally thousands of videos, with hundreds of artists. And I know that only a few ones will survive everything in the fragile drawers of my failing memory. The one we recorded with Shara in Berlin is one of them. It’s been 10 years now since we filmed her, on a calm and hazy morning. Ten years since, in one take, in 4 minutes, she strung a special chord in our hearts that we didn’t know even existed, and is now here forever, ready to make us cry in seconds. I’m forever grateful for this, forever bound, by this moment, to the wonderful human being Shara is. And guess what? I’ve played the video to write those few lines, and I’m crying again.”
"Matthew Ritchie: Florilegium" at CVAD Galleries
Aug. 24–Dec. 10, 2021: Internationally renowned artist Matthew Ritchie is debuting an interdisciplinary exhibition at the University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design Gallery this fall.
As part of a larger collaborative project, Ritchie has been developing a joint performance, Infinite Movement, with Associate Professor Kristina MacMullen, D.M.A., in the UNT College of Music and UNT alumna Shara Nova, (B.A., Performance - Voice), to debut on Oct. 9, 2021, at 7 p.m. This event will explore musical possibilities to reflect, in sound, the process of the GAN, which finds connections between disparate images and imagines or generates what might exist in the space between them.
OCEAN BODY at Wasserman Projects
Wasserman Projects is pleased to present their Fall 2021 Exhibition, Ocean Body – featuring an immersive four-screen, multi-channel sound installation by Helga Davis, Mark DeChiazza, and Shara Nova. The work brings together song, found text, conversations, and new compositions written and performed by Davis and Nova in a sculptural dress built for two by artist, Annica Cuppetelli. Filmed and directed by DeChiazza, the installation explores the potential of interracial coalition through the deep yet tenuous bonds of the decade-long close friendship between the two women.
Paired alongside the installation is a six-person group exhibition featuring works by John Dante Bianchi, Lily Cox-Richard, Ed Fraga, Jack Henry, Sandra Osip, and Ashley Eliza Williams. Mirroring the duality of intimacy and isolation in our relationships with each other and the world around us, the two and three-dimensional works as part of Ocean Body range from the monolithic to the minute. The exhibition will be on view by appointment beginning September 29 through December 18, 2021.
Please join us for the opening day of the exhibition on September 25th, in the presence of the artists during our VIP pre-registered time slots for guaranteed entry from 6-9pm. Click here to reserve. Please note: from 12-6pm, Wasserman Projects will be open on a first come basis, with limited capacity.
She Is Called - Brooklyn Youth Chorus
She Is Called is an original choral/theater production being developed for the stage by Brooklyn Youth Chorus under the direction of Founder and Artistic Director, Dianne Berkun Menaker. Over a multi-year artistic development process, the young artists of the Chorus are collaborating with established theater artists to present commissions by contemporary composers that address themes of gender and identity.
The production features new compositions from four celebrated composers - Nathalie Joachim, David Lang, Alev Lenz, and Shara Nova - and features significant artistic contributions from the students themselves. In collaboration with the students are four theater artists - Janani Balasubramanian, Charlotte Brathwaite, Sunder Ganglani, and Tareke Ortiz - who, through ongoing workshops, collaborated with the Chorus to bring this ambitious project to life. Listen to the project here.
The Invisible College: Color Confinement
We made something. Yours truly with Matthew Ritchie (@matthewritchiestudio).
Don’t miss the premiere of the video The Invisible College: Color Confinement by Matthew Ritchie, a multi-part transmedia artwork, on April 6, 2021. The Invisible College, created by 2018–21 MIT CAST Dasha Zhukova Distinguished Visiting Artist Matthew Ritchie, incorporates the many dimensions of the university—social, material, intellectual, technological—from the informal conversations to the new technologies being developed in the labs. In exploring the Institute as both an information space and a physical one, Ritchie captures those states of turbulence, chaos, and indeterminacy—the rush between classes, or the blurry moment before a picture sharpens into legibility—sketchy zones that, as he says, create “the most generative space for the radical rethinking of reality.” Learn more and meet the artist and members of the project team in a live Q&A on April 9, 2021.
TAPP, Tratar de Transformar, Ocean Body
"‘CARM - TAPP (feat. SHARA NOVA)’ IS OUT NOW!
The official music video was made in collaboration with Project Home and released via 37d03d Records.
‘OCEAN BODY’ PREMIERES AT PROTOTYPE FESTIVAL
The world premiere of the art installation Ocean Body, created by Shara Nova, Helga Davis, and Mark DeChiazza, launched at Prototype Festival in New York on January 9, 2021, and ran until January 16. The films featured in the project depict Davis and Nova interconnected within a sculptural dress built for two, created by artist Annica Cuppetelli. Tethered, the two cannot avoid affecting each other, as the actions of one will move, confine, support, or even wholly re-shape the other. Check out the trailer here.
“TRY / TRATAR DE TRANSFORMAR' LANDS NPR'S TOP LATINX SONGS OF THE YEAR
The song, featuring Gaby Moreno, Cantus Domus, and soloist Lisa Korsch, garnered the attention of NPR's Alt.Latino radio show. You can check out the rest of their picks here: Alt. Latino's Favorite Songs of 2020
All proceeds from this song go to KIND (Kids In Need of Defense).
You can listen to and download "TRY / Tratar de Transformar" here, or watch the video drawn by artist Tim Fite.
Click here to purchase the official sheet music.
"Let a Change Come" Premiere
Hi all!
I hope everyone is staying healthy and safe. I recently had the opportunity to premiere a work commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra titled "Let a Change Come." Detroit based Singer / Harpist Ahya Simone will also be performing her version of the song in an upcoming performance.
Check it out here!
Home
Dear Ones,
Concerts have been cancelled at least through June. Check out mybrightestdiamond on Instagram for the latest news. We hope you all are safe at home, as we together navigate through pandemic and out of empire.
Love,
Shara
CSO Look Around | August 9 | Cincinnati, OH
Friends, this is the largest thing I have ever attempted ... kind of like the olympics, kind of like a half-time show, part history lesson, part glimpse towards the future. I invite you to join us in Cincinnati, to watch below, to share, to explore, to come together.
💕,
Shara
Sat August 3, 2019 | CSO Look Around | Cincinnati
7 PM | Washington Park + Ziegler Park
*Free outdoor event*
(rain date: Sun August 4)
CSO Look Around is “a musical experience for you to explore” which inspires us to see each other and our world through music. This new event will kick-off the CSO's 125th anniversary season by transforming Ziegler and Washington Parks into a musical celebration of our city. More than 600 local artists from 20+ local ensembles will participate in this free event, which is co-curated by Shara Nova, Mark DeChiazza, Siri Imani, the CSO and YOU.
Also, we have added a late-breaking My Brightest Diamond show in the city that inspired A Million And One, the city that I call home ...
