Soprano/vocalist Nina Dante is a soloist, chamber musician, improviser and composer. Musical experimentation and the continual discovery of the voice’s emotive power and technical ability are the inspiring forces behind her work. Her current work and artistic practices are rooted in the lush, animate landscape of the Pacific Northwest, and are dedicated to deepening communication with, exchange with, knowing of, and personal relationship with the local wilderness.

Hailed for her “amazing performance of vocal versatility by a uniquely gifted young artist” (Chicago Classical Review), Dante has performed at/for the Long Beach Opera, Resonant Bodies Festival, BAM, Lampo, Issue Project Room, Roulette, the Kitchen, National Sawdust, the University of Chicago’s Contempo, the Mexican Cultural Institute, Performa, Indexical, Visiones Sonoras, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo, the Experimental Sound Studio, the 113 New Music Festival, New Music Miami, the Latino Music Festival, the Frequency Festival, Festival Interfaz, the Poetry Foundation, and the Renaissance Society, among others.

Dante is co-founder, co-director and soprano of the avant garde chamber ensemble Fonema Consort, which has a special focus on presenting innovative new works for the voice in a chamber setting, and on presenting the works of Latin American composers. Her recordings with Fonema can be found on New Focus Recordings and Parlour Tapes+.

With Fonema and as a soloist, Dante has given been in residence and given performances at Oberlin Conservatory, Columbia University, Harvard University, UC Berkeley, Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, Scripps College, UNAM, the 113 Composers Collective, and New England Conservatory, among others.

Dante’s recent compositions have been featured on the Resonant Bodies Festival, the ESS Quarantine Concerts, Sō Percussion’s Brooklyn Bound, Indexical, the Center for New Music, the 113 Twin Cities New Music Festival and the Essential Indexical recent release Early MMXVIII.

Banner photo credit: Michael Duffy