Miraculous City was a live piano concert performed in the SoWa Power Station of the historic South End. Two videos will reflect one another in conjunction with the debut performance—the keyboard and the pianist’s hands will be projected onto one wall, and on the other will be a video montage echoing the narrative in the music. This son et lumière (sound & light) experience will celebrate a new era of the arts in the City of Boston.

 

 

Elizabeth Schumann

Elizabeth Schumann has a diverse career portfolio of musical compositions, projects, recordings and performances. The first place winner of both the Bösendorfer International Piano Competition and the Pacific International Competition, Dr. Schumann has won over 25 prizes and awards in other major national and international musical competitions. She has performed concerts worldwide in venues including Vienna’s Bösendorfer Saal, Toronto’s Koerner Hall, The Kennedy Center, National Public Radio, and was highlighted in a PBS television documentary. Her artistry was hailed by the Washington Post as “...deft, relentless, and devastatingly good—the sort of performance you experience not so much with your ears as your solar plexus.” Passionate about combining technology and artistic creativity to reach under­served audiences, Elizabeth founded Piano Theatre, an artist group formed to engage audiences with innovative combinations of music, theatre, literature, art and technology. Piano Theatre’s recent tours of Canada, the US, and Australia were acclaimed by critics and audiences alike. In 2012, Elizabeth founded Project Classical, Inc.¸ a nonprofit organization whose mission is to support artist led initiatives that encourage public education and appreciation of classical music, art and literature. Elizabeth’s recent inter­disciplinary project, Piano Carnival, brings classical music to children without arts education. The Piano Carnival Interactive Ebook is available for free on iTunes.

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Street Corner Society / Dan Pecci

Gathered in 2010, Street Corner Society (SCS) is an experimental theater, fashion & entertainment collective based in Boston, Massachusetts. It specializes in adapting classic literature, ancient myths & historical hearsay into unusual events & uncanny experiences of a ritualistic nature. Drawing inspiration from The Wolf Gang, the Society’s resident team of teenage wolf adventurers, SCS artists create events that blend highand lowbrow traditions in pursuit of a uniquely American aesthetic. SCS members are visionary personalities from a diverse array of backgrounds including but not limited to visual artists, street performers, musicians, local celebrities, chefs, business leaders, robot engineers, designers, fashion icons, foxes, wolves, witches & magical beings of all kinds. Their work has been seen in the MBTA system, the Outside the Box Festival on Boston Common, the Watermill Center: a laboratory for performance, and various laundromats, cafes, bars, apartments, restaurants, churches, warehouses, parking lots, forests and nontraditional sites throughout New England.

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goodgood—Karen Stein

goodgood is an interdisciplinary design studio with offices in Boston and Detroit. goodgood looks beyond established boundaries, embracing a cross-disciplinary collaborative approach. We traverse traditional design, working with all forms of media, allowing the formal solution to arise through assessing the needs of client and audience. Moreover, we consider economical, social equity and ecological factors to be an integral part of the process, revitalizing the role of design. Founded in 2008, we focus on fostering positive interactions, empathizing with those who utilize our designs. We seek to create unexpected, joyful experiences in the everyday.

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Matthew Shanley

Matthew Shanley is a multimedia artist whose range of practice includes sound, video, installation, internet art, generative computer projections, and print. He holds an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art.

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