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Ashi Day
Ashi Day is a composer, librettist, and educator whose vocally-driven works explore unconventional intersections between music and theater; strategic use of humor and absurdity; the intersections between the canon and the experiences of performers, especially women; and animal songs. She is a 2022 Opera America Discovery Grant winner and a DC Arts and Humanities Fellow. Her music has been performed by Whistling Hens, Balance Campaign, Calliope’s Call, Juventas New Music Ensemble, Choral Arts Initiative, Metropolitan Master Chorale of Los Angeles, Cantate Chamber Singers, Renegade Opera, Fresh Squeezed Opera, Hartford Opera Theater, KC VITAs, Connecticut Yankee Chorale, and more, including works performed at universities and churches. Ashi earned her BM and MM in Composition from Bucknell University and Westminster Choir College, respectively, and an EdM in Arts in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education as an Urban Fellows Scholar. In addition to composing, she manages education programs for the Washington National Opera and sings as a professional church musician.
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