Turning Up the Volume: Adeliia Faizullina (composer, multi-instrumentalist) [Cycle 6, 11 Composer Fellow]
on April 19, 2019 at 6:00 am
Turning Up the Volume is a collection of interviews that focuses on the individual stories of up and coming musicians in American classical music. These interviews explore topics of race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and disability as they apply to historically underrepresented artists. But most importantly, Turning Up the Volume is a platform for these musicians to share their experiences in their own words.
This Turning Up the Volume interview is with Adeliia (Adele) Faizullina. Faizullina is a composer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist – with accolades ranging from being a recipient of the Cynthia Jackson Ford Fellowship of the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music to winning 1st prize in the 2018 Radio Orpheus Young Composers Competition. Additionally, her works have been performed by Invoke Quartet, The University of Texas at Austin’s New Music Ensemble, Density512, SoundSpace of Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art, State Academic Choir of Tatarstan, the State String Quartet of Tatarstan, and Kozjevnicov’s Moscow Choir. Adeliia Faizullina is at the intersection of multiple identities–being Tatar, visually-impaired, and female has given her a unique perspective unlike any I have encountered before. In this interview, Faizullina talks about her culture, her challenges, and her music.
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