Alicia Hall Moran, mezzo
Allison Loggins-Hull, flute
Gabriela Martinez, piano

Alicia Hall Moran, mezzo-soprano, is a multi-dimensional artist performing and composing between the genres of opera, theater, visual art, and jazz.

She is currently a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow developing performances for and about the ice, with wide-ranging collaborators including Lyric Opera of the North.

Moran composes and records music, but also writes about music—recently “Jessye Norman and Alban Berg” for Princeton University Press, and “RBG and the Opera” for Tidal Magazine.

In a steady artistic through line also embracing literature, dance, and contemporary music, Moran’s recent engagements included a four-hour solo vocalize for dances conceived by Lee Mingwei and Bill T. Jones at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, premieres of new arias by Tomeka Reid for Long Beach Opera, by Pulitzer prize-winning composer Tania León for Bellagio, Italy, and new art songs by composer James Moore. Moran can be heard as soloist in Gabriel Kahane’s oratorio emergency shelter intake form recorded with Oregon Symphony, and in recital with concert pianist Lara Downes, in a new collaboration with saxophonist Yosvany Terry, and in the evening-length concert works she directs and co-produces with her husband, Jason Moran (including the touring Two Wings: The Music of Black America in Migration that premiered at Carnegie Hall in 2019.

Before starring as Bess on the celebrated 20-city American tour , Moran made her Broadway debut in the Tony-winning revival The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, and subsequently performed Gershwin with orchestras nationwide, including National Symphony Orchestra.

Steadily rewriting a template for the classical singer, her own critically-acclaimed albums “Heavy Blue”, and “Here Today” and independent shows like the motown project, and Black Wall Street, highlight Moran's ingenuity.

Previous Artist Residencies and lectures include the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, MASSMoCA, National Sawdust, The Juilliard School, Yale University, New England Conservatory, University of Michigan, and National Portrait Gallery. Moran has been commissioned by ArtPublic/Miami Art Basel, Museum of Modern Art, The Kitchen, Histories Remixed/Art Institute Chicago among many others. Last season she was named the Inaugural Chamber Music Artist in Residence at the Frost School of Music, and was Creative Associate at The Juilliard School.

In partnership with husband and collaborator Jason Moran, she a Ford Foundation Art of Change fellowship recipient, and has generated work for the Venice Biennale, Whitney Biennial, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Symphony Center in Chicago, Studio Museum in Harlem, and Spoleto FestivalUSA, and Elb Philharmonie. Their next opus can be seen at Boston Institute for Contemporary Art in 2022–2023.

Allison Loggins-Hull is a “powerhouse” (The Washington Post) flutist, composer, and producer whose work defies classification and has been described as “evocative” by The Wall Street Journal. She has been associated with acts across the spectrum of popular and classical music including Flutronix, Hans Zimmer, Lizzo, Imani Winds, Alarm Will Sound, the International Contemporary Ensemble, Alicia Hall Moran, and Jason Moran. Her music is resonant with social and political themes of the current moment, encompassing motherhood, Blackness, and cultural identity. Loggins-Hull and Nathalie Joachim co-founded the critically acclaimed duo Flutronix, which has been praised by The Wall Street Journal for being able “to redefine the instrument” and for “redefining the flute and modernizing its sound by hauling it squarely into the world of popular music” (MTV).

Beginning with the 2022-2023 season, and continuing for three seasons, Loggins-Hull is the Cleveland Orchestra’s eleventh Daniel R. Lewis Composer Fellow. In addition to several Cleveland Orchestra commissions, including an expanded arrangement of her composition Can You See? in the 2022-23 season, Loggins-Hull’s work will be centered around the narratives and history of Cleveland, through chamber music performances and composition workshops with students. During the 2022-23 season, Loggins-Hull performs with Alicia Hall Moran and Jason Moran at the Mississippi Museum of Art, with ETHEL at the Brooklyn Public Library, and on an East Coast tour with Flutronix and Third Coast Percussion. As a composer, she has eight world premieres, a U.S. premiere, and a New York premiere this season, including 7th Ave. S for the Cygnus Ensemble at New York City’s The Village Trip; the world premiere of her Persist at the Brooklyn Public Library; Love Always with Toshi Reagon and Alarm Will Sound at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center; a world premiere performed by yMusic at Carnegie Hall; Chasing Balance premiered at Toronto’s Koerner Hall, UCSB Arts & Lectures, Carnegie Hall as part of cellist Alisa Weilerstein’s FRAGMENTS; and a world premiere for Castle of Our Skins at Philadelphia Chamber Music Society.

Last season, Loggins-Hull joined the Bang on a Can All-Stars for their People’s Commissioning Fund concert and performed Alicia Hall Moran and Jason Moran’s Two Wings: The Music of Black America in Migration at Cal Performances in Berkeley. Her compositions were performed by the LA Phil and San Francisco Symphony, and she premiered two projects with Flutronix: Black Being at the Arts Club of Chicago and Cincinnati Symphony and Discourse with Carolina Performing Arts. The New Jersey Symphony premiered Can You See? and her commissioning project Diametrically Composed – composed with fellow composers/mothers Alicia Hall Moran, Sarah Kirkland Snider, and Jessica Meyer – received its long-awaited premiere at Bryant Park in New York City.

Highlights of Loggins-Hull’s performances include concerts at The Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Chicago’s Orchestra Hall, World Cafe Live, and many other major venues and festivals around the world. She has composed for Flutronix, Julia Bullock, and many others, and has been commissioned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Carolina Performing Arts and The Library of Congress. In support of her work, Loggins-Hull has been awarded grants from New Music USA, and a fellowship at The Hermitage Artist Retreat in Englewood, Florida.

With Flutronix, she has released two full studio albums (Flutronix and 2.0), a live album (Live From the Attucks Theatre), an EP (City of Breath) and is signed to Village Again Records in Japan. As a member of The Re-Collective Orchestra, Loggins-Hull was co-principal flutist on the soundtrack to Disney’s 2019 remake of The Lion King, working closely with Hans Zimmer. She was a co-producer of Nathalie Joachim’s celebrated album Fanm d’Ayiti, which was nominated for a 2020 GRAMMY for Best World Music Album. On the small screen, she has been featured in an internationally broadcast ESPN Super Bowl commercial, the 62nd annual GRAMMYs Award Show and the Black Girls Rock! Awards Show. Continuing her work in film, Loggins-Hull composed the score for Bring Them Back, a 2019 award-winning documentary about the legendary dancer Maurice Hines directed by Jon Carluccio and executive produced by Debbie Allen.

Allison Loggins-Hull is a former faculty member of The Juilliard School’s Music Advancement Program and teaching artist at The Juilliard School’s Global Ventures. From 2018-2022, Allison Loggins-Hull served on the flute faculty of The John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University. Born in Chicago, she lives with her family in Montclair, New Jersey.

Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Martinez has a reputation for the lyricism of her playing, her compelling interpretations, and her elegant stage presence.  Her playing has been described as “magical… a remarkable pianist, with a cool determination, a tone full of glowing color and a seemingly effortless technique” (LA Times) and “…versatile, daring and insightful” (New York Times).

Gabriela made her orchestral debut at age 6, and since then has performed with over 100 orchestras including the San Francisco, Chicago, Houston, San Diego, Grand Rapids, New Jersey, Tucson, Pacific and Fort Worth symphonies, Buffalo Philharmonic; Germany’s Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nurnberger Philharmoniker; Canada’s Victoria Symphony Orchestra; the Costa Rica National Symphony, and the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra in Venezuela. She has performed with Gustavo Dudamel, James Gaffigan, James Conlon, JoAnn Falleta, Michael Francis, Marcelo Lehninger and Guillermo Figueroa, among many others.

Gabriela is passionate about new music, and has premiered works by many composers including Mason Bates, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Paola Prestini, Jessica Meyer, and Dan Visconti.  Gabriela’s debut album, Amplified Soul, was released on the Delos label, and was recognized with a GRAMMY Award for Producer of the Year, David Frost.

She has performed at such venues as Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Merkin Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York City; San Diego’s The Rady Shell, Canada’s Glenn Gould Studio; Salzburg’s Grosses Festspielhaus; Dresden’s Semperoper; Copenhagen’s Tivoli Gardens; and Paris’s Palace of Versailles.  She has performed at festivals such as the Ravinia, Mostly Mozart, Colorado and Rockport festivals in the United States; Germany’s Dresden Music Festival; Italy’s Festival dei Due Mondi (Spoleto); Switzerland’s Verbier Festival and Snow and Symphony Festival; the Festival de Radio France et Montpellier; and Japan’s Tokyo International Music Festival.   Her performances have been featured on National Public Radio, CNN, PBS, 60 Minutes, ABC, From the Top, Radio France, WQXR and WNYC (New York), MDR Kultur and Deutsche Welle (Germany), NHK (Japan), RAI (Italy), and on numerous television and radio stations in Venezuela.

Gabriela was the First Prize winner of the Anton G. Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Dresden, and a semifinalist at the 12th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, where she also received the Jury Discretionary Award.  She is a 5th generation female pianist, and began her piano studies in Caracas with her mother, Alicia Gaggioni.  She then attended The Juilliard School, where she earned her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees as a full scholarship student of Yoheved Kaplinsky. Ms. Martinez was a fellow of Carnegie Hall’s The Academy, and a member of Ensemble Connect, concurrently working on her doctoral studies with Marco Antonio de Almeida in Halle, Germany.