Amina Claudine Myers Birthday Celebration
Vision Festival 25 Lifetime Achievement Honoree

March 21, 2021 - 3:00pm
Solo Piano Performance Streaming Live from Scholes Music Studio

March is Women’s History Month, so Arts for Art is declaring March Amina Claudine Myers Month!
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Join us for a special solo piano performance celebrating the birthday of Vision Festival 25 Lifetime Achievement Honoree Amina Claudine Myers. Following the performance, Myers will participate in the Artist Talk with Patricia Nicholson.
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Funds raised support the lifetime achievement programming at the Vision Festival, including the creation of a new biopic on Myers' art and career.
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The event is viewable through Friday March 26.

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Save the date! Vision Festival 25 will take place over three weekends in New York City:  July 22-23 and July 29-30 at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, and July 24-25 at The Clemente in the Lower East Side.  The performances will be outdoors, in-person and online. On Friday July 23, 2021, Vision Festival 25 will celebrate Amina Claudine Myers' lifetime of achievement with an evening of performances featuring the renowned pianist, composer, and vocalist. Myers is known for her work with voice choirs and voice and instrumental ensembles encompassing the blues, musical theater, gospel, jazz, and the avant-garde.

Vision Festival 25

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Spotlight on Amina Claudine Myers

Amina Claudine Myers photo by Michael Wilderman

Born in Blackwell, Arkansas, Amina Claudine Myers' music career began in directing church choirs, singing, and playing gospel and rhythm and blues, and her early jazz experience came in groups lead by Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt.
 
After moving to Chicago in the 1960s, Ms. Myers became a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), began composing for voice and instruments and appearing on classic AACM records. 

Now based in NYC, Myers has become well known for her work involving voice choirs, voice and instrumental ensemble, musical theater, and a robust exploration of the pipe organ, all while seamlessly blending the blues, jazz, gospel and extended forms.

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