Pulitzer Prize-Winning Composer Tania León’s Organization Composers Now Collaborates with Miami Light Project on Upcoming Concert
In collaboration with Miami Light Project, Composers Now presents the fourteenth edition of Dialogues, a unique program that brings together audiences and composers through conversation and live performances.
Dialogues, launched in 2015, is a program designed to foster meaningful interactions between composers and their audiences. This edition, co-hosted by Composers Now Founder/Artistic Director Tania León and Director of New Music Miami ISCM Festival Orlando Garcia, will feature compositions by Issy Garcia, Juraj Kojs, and Molly Turner.
This collaboration marks the first of its kind between Composers Now and Miami Light Project, Florida International University, Rhythm Foundation, and the New World Symphony, and serves as a prelude to the expansion of the annual Composers Now Festival into Miami in February 2025.
About Composers Now
Composers Now empowers all living composers, celebrates the diversity of their voices, and honors the significance of their artistic contributions to the cultural fabric of society. Composer and Artistic director Tania León leads the organization since its founding in 2010. Composers Now features a broad spectrum of performances in concert halls, jazz mobiles, opera stages, experimental spaces, conservatories, museums and other musical venues.
About Miami Collaborators
The Rhythm Foundation, New World Symphony, Florida International University’s New Music Miami ISCM Festival, and Miami Light Project are all dedicated to enriching the community through diverse and inclusive musical experiences. The Rhythm Foundation fosters international cultural exchange and community building through live music, emphasizing Miami’s global status. The New World Symphony is committed to ensuring a vibrant future for classical music by promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion, and preparing its Fellows for leadership in the field. The New Music Miami ISCM Festival brings innovative and avant-garde music to South Florida, celebrating cutting-edge compositions and performances with opportunities for direct engagement between trailblazing artists and the community. Miami Light Project presents live performances by innovative dance, music, and theater artists from around the world, supports the development of new work by South Florida-based artists, and offers educational programs for students of all ages.
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Eventz Paul is currently the Technical Director and Productions Manager at Miami Light Project. He has been a part of this organization since 2011. He participated in Miami Light Project’s first class of the Technical Fellowship Program held at The Light Box. He joined this program hoping to improve his existing theater skills. He received training from experts in the industry that mentored and further his theater technical skills. Now, he has successfully used his professional knowledge and has had the opportunity to work with various arts organizations and venues throughout Miami including Miami Theater Center, National Young Arts Foundation, the Colony Theatre and many more. He has become an instructor and conducts audiovisual classes to incoming technical fellows.
Beth Boone has been the Artistic & Executive Director of Miami Light Project since 1998, developing critically acclaimed artistic programs that have asserted the organization as one of the leading cultural institutions in South Florida. These programs include: the establishment of Here & Now, South Florida’s most respected commission and presenting program for community-based artists; premiere presentations of internationally acclaimed; pioneering historic international cultural exchange with Cuba; and the creation of The Light Box at Goldman Warehouse, a multi-use performance and visual art space in Miami’s Wynwood Arts District. She previously served as Associate Director of Development for Florida Grand Opera, Deputy Director for the Department of Cultural Affairs at Miami Dade Community College, Wolfson Campus, co-founded an Off Broadway theater company (New York Rep), and served for six years as a Program Associate in the Arts & Culture Program of the AT&T Foundation. She received a B.A. in Fine Arts from the College of Charleston in South Carolina, and a MFA in Theater Arts from Brandeis University in Boston, MA.