Tatiana Castro Mejia’s Nomade

When:
Friday, Jun 27, 2025 8:00p -
10:00p

Where:
New School of Music
25 Lowell St
Cambridge, MA 02138

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Admission:
$20

Hosted by:
creativemusicseriesqi [email protected]

Categories:
Music

Event website:
https://www.creativemusicseries.com/events

Pianist, improviser, and poet Tatiana Castro Mejia returns to the series with a new strings-based ensemble featuring piano, voice, violin and viola.

NOMADE

One subject

Multiple axes and forces. Constant journey

A self that encounters other selves, in a given space and time

Tatiana Castro Mejia, piano and poetry

with:

Ángela Varo Moreno, violin

Amelia Hollander Ames, viola

$20, $15 students/seniors

www.creativemusicseries.com

Tatiana Castro Mejia travels an improvised path, seeking to cross lines with dance, theater, writing, and poetry. Her artistic career began between Bogotá and Buenos Aires. She studied jazz and improvisation at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, and continued her studies in Buenos Aires at the Escuela de Música Contemporánea where she taught music from 2007 to 2021.

During her time between Bogotá and Buenos Aires, she participated in many projects with artists from both cities: Castro Mejía-Salgado Duo, Trío+Una, Guillermo Roldán’s El Cuarteto Instantáneo, and the trio Eriza with Cecilia Quintero and Amanda Irarrázabal. She is part of the interdisciplinary artistic collective Creatividad en Movimiento.

Since 2021 she has lived in Boston, where she continues to develop her artistic and pedagogical work, and has played with improvising musicians including John Dalton, Evan Palmer, Jorrit Dijkstra, Eric Rosenthal, Curt Newton, and Brittany Karlson. Recently she participated in two Piano Summit events, and in 2023 programmed a musical series, "Granular," along with Nomi Epstein and Tori Cheah.

Photo by Julieta Toledo Widensky

Violist Amelia Hollander Ames recently embarked with her family on a “Worldschooling” year in Mexico and Europe. Highlights included residencies at the Escuela Superior de Artes en Yucatán, where Amelia premiered a concerto written for her by Judith Alejandra Gonzalez Benitez, and the Conservatorio Massotti in Murcia, Spain. There were also concerts in France, Italy, and the UK. In Boston, she performs with different groups, including BMOP, the Semiosis Quartet, and the Vista Philharmonic Orchestra, where she plays Principal Viola. Her piano-viola duo, RAHA, with Elaine Rombola Aveni (debut album, Swirl, in July 2024 on New Focus Recordings). International festivals include the Israel Festival, Kneisel Hall, Panama Jazz Festival, Schleswig-Holstein, Singapore Arts Festival,Vancouver Jewish Music Festival, and Verbier. She has collaborated with numerous composers, including Iva Bittová, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Jessie Montgomery, Matana Roberts, Caroline Shaw, and Mazz Swift. Amelia can be heard on recordings released by the Naïve, New Amsterdam, Nonesuch, and Tzadik record labels. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music and New England Conservatory, Amelia lives in Arlington, MA.

Ángela Varo Moreno is an Andalusian (Spain) violinist, composer, and producer whose innovative music merges the worlds of jazz and flamenco. Rooted in the Andalusian cultural heritage, her sound brings together traditional flamenco influences with contemporary jazz improvisation. A Berklee College of Music graduate, she earned bachelor degrees in Contemporary Writing and Production and Jazz Performance and a Masters in Jazz Performance from the Berklee Global Jazz Institute. Ángela has collaborated with jazz legends like Danilo Perez, Kris Davis, John Patitucci, Terri Lyne Carrington, Joe Lovano, and Brian Blade, among others, and currently performs as a member of Perez's Global Jazz Messengers. Ángela has work also highlights the artistry of her native Andalusia through collaborations with the renowned flamenco group Califato 3/4, which combines electronic elements with flamenco roots.

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