"Amina Claudine Myers, Pianist, Organist, Vocalist, Composer, Master Improvisationalist, Actress and Educator.  Ms. Myers has performed nationally and internationally throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and North America.  She is well known for her work involving voice choirs, voice and instrumental ensembles.  Ms. Myers’ career in music began in her preteens and throughout high school directing church choirs, singing and playing gospel and rhythm and blues.  She began playing and singing jazz in college in and around Arkansas.  Myers studied concert music at Philander Smith College, Little Rock, Arkansas and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Education.

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University of Virginia Department of Music

University of Virginia

MacArthur fellow George Lewis is a composer, musicologist, and trombonist who serves as the Artistic Director of the International Contemporary Ensemble. On this concert, the US premiere of his Blombos Workshop (2020) for piano, which engages Sylvia Wynter’s celebration of the human, and Assemblage (2013) for nonet, which explores in musical form the practice of assemblage—artmaking that recombines and recontextualizes collections of natural and human-made objects—are performed by members of the Ensemble on a special double bill with Amina Claudine Myers. This multidimensional artist and creator is joined by her trio and actress, vocalist, and playwright Richarda Abrams to perform Stay in the Light, a partly notated, partly improvised composition that highlights her spiritual connection to the universe and reinforces positivity, faith, and love for all living things.

Amina Claudine Myers

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Sep 12, 2025

University of Virginia Department of Music · University of Virginia Department of Music

Dec 18, 2023

Artists Studio: Double Bill: George Lewis/amina Claudine Myers · Park Avenue Armory

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