The existence of queer love remains a blind spot, discovered Annika Socolofsky (winner of the Gaudeamus Award 2021) when a group of professional detectives, during a night out, kept trying to flirt with her girlfriend—ironically without realizing that she was clearly not straight. It became the starting point for her new piece, DETECTIVE CONVENTION, which will have its world premiere at Gaudeamus 2024.
Also on the program: K-ourante by Jinwook Jung, a work that builds a bridge between gender representation in K-pop culture and 17th- and 18th-century France.
Annika Socolofsky (1990) is an American composer and avant-folk vocalist. Her music grows from the power and nuances of the human voice and ranges from orchestral works and operas to a cappella folk ballads. Annika frequently writes for her own voice with chamber ensemble, including a growing repertoire of “feminist rage lullabies” titled Don’t Say A Word, aimed at challenging centuries of harmful lessons taught to young children by reworking old lullabies for a new, queer era.