Projects

Women’s Strength in Song

A recital and recording of strong women's lives, loves, joys, and heartbreaks

  • Project Created By

    Jamie Sampson

    Jamie Leigh Sampson is a composer, bassoonist, author, teacher, and entrepreneur based in Western New York. She currently teaches music composition, theory, and entrepreneurship in the School of Music at the State University of New York at Fredonia and is Co-Owner of the publishing entity ADJ•Ÿective New Music, LLC.

  • Project Location
    Fredonia, New York
  • Key Collaborators
    Amanda DeBoer

    Vocalist • Poet

    Sandra Leary

    Pianist

  • Project Dates
    Start Date
    August 1, 2020
    End Date
    December 31, 2020

Women’s Strength in Song

A recital and recording of strong women's lives, loves, joys, and heartbreaks

Amanda DeBoer Bartlett, Mariami Bekauri, Anne Kissel, Sandra Leary, and Jamie Leigh Sampson have collaborated on Sample Rate, a song cycle with 8 different phone conversations throughout one woman’s life, and American Mother, with text by Pamela Hart on the imperfection of motherhood. These five collaborators will tour New York State with a recital of five works including Sample Rate, American Mother, two works by other women composers, and conclude with a new work for the collaborators to perform together.

The recital will be studio recorded and released independently with both digital and physical sales.

Media Highlights

NewMusicUSA Grantee Event

Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival: VIRKO BALEY AT 85

March 29, 2024 | 7:00 pm

The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 450 West 37th Street New York, NY 10018

NewMusicUSA Grantee Event

Plastic Dream Fugue – Aaron Larget-Caplan in Concert

March 29, 2024 | 7:30 pm

First Church Boston, 66 Marlborough Street, Boston 02116

NewMusicUSA Grantee Event

An Evening of Roots Music with Jalopy Records

March 30, 2024 | 8:00 pm

LeFrak Concert Hall 153-49 Reeves Ave Flushing, NY 11367

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