Context//Lunch lecture 13.3.26 - 12:15-13:00
Context welcomes Dr. Katherine Pukinskis Friday, March 13 with the lecture Defining A Creative Voice: How Do You Show Up in Your Work?
In the lecture, Pukinskis provides insight into her creative process and discusses narrative, artistic voice, and compositional identity She is a composer and scholar who has presented her work and research in many parts of the United States and Europe and currently works as an adjunct professor of composition and music theory at Carnegie Mellon University.
The event takes place in Dynjanda, the building of the music department of the Iceland Academy of the Arts, Skipholt 31, Reykjavík.
All welcome.
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Context welcomes Dr. Katherine Pukinskis on Friday, March 13 with the lecture Defining A Creative Voice: How Do You Show Up in Your Work?
In this lecture, Pukinskis offers insight into her creative process, exploring storytelling, artistic voice, and identity in composition. She is a composer-scholar whom work and research have presented widely across the United States and Europe and currently serves as Assistant Professor of Music Composition and Theory at Carnegie Mellon University.
The event takes place in Dynjandi, the Iceland University of the Arts Music Department, Skipholt 31, Reykjavík.
All are warmly welcome.
Katherine Pukinskis is a composer-scholar whose work explorations storytelling and voice. Collaborators include Artemisia Vocal Trio, Agarita Chamber Players, as well as members of Ensemble Dal Niente and the Chicago Symphony Chorus. Pukinskis has been commissioned by the San Antonio Symphony, Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, Akropolis Reed Quintet, Mägi Ensemble, and Nuorten Kuoroliitto. Dr. Pukinskis's scholially work centers cultural identity, diaspora, and choral music in Latvia, with secondary areas in contemporary American art song and musical theory. She has presented her projects and received the United States research and applied. Baltic Musics Beyond the Post Soviet (University of Tartu Press, 2024), a collection of essays and conversations bringing together different generations of scholars and artists to continue along critical new paths in Baltic cultural studies from the position of sound and music. Pukinskis is an Assistant Professor of Music Composition and Theory at Carnegie Mellon University.
