Gelsey Bell
Gelsey Bell is a Brooklyn-based multidisplinary performance creator, composer, and vocalist. She has been described by the New York Times as “one of New York’s most adventurous musicians” and “a charismatic and fiercely intelligent performer.” Her recent works include mɔɹnɪŋ [morning//mourning] (2023), presented in the Prototype Festival; “From the Soil Back to the Soil” (2023) for the Daxophone Consort; Cairns (2020), a soundwalk for Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn (included on the New York Times Best Theater of 2020 list); shuffleyamamba: Yamamba as a Bear (2021), created with Yasuko Yokoshi; thingNY’s SubtacTTTTTTTTT (2020); Varispeed’s The Blurring Test (2022); and Skylighght (2019), created with Erin Rogers.
She has released multiple albums on Gold Bolus Recordings, including the recent Heads Together, and received awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Opera America, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, New Music USA, and the Japan Foundation, and recent residencies at Pioneer Works, HERE Arts Center, Mount Tremper Arts and the Kinosaki Arts Center in Japan. Performance highlights also include Dave Malloy’s Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812 (Broadway) and Ghost Quartet, Robert Ashley’s Improvement and Crash, Darius Jones’s Samesoul Maker, Kate Soper’s Here Be Sirens, Gregory Whitehead’s On the Shore Dimly Seen, and other works by John King, Paul Pinto, Raven Chacon, Alaina Ferris, Brent Michael Davids, Aaron Siegel, Tomomi Adachi, and others. She has a PhD from New York University in Performance Studies, and is part-time faculty in the College of Performing Arts at the New School.
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