Sarah Hennies (born 1979) is an American composer and percussionist based in Ithaca, New York. She is best known for her work as an acoustic group composer. She also contributes to improvisation, film, and performance art.[1] She is currently a visiting assistant professor of music at Bard College.
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| Born | 1979 (age 42–43) Louisville, Kentucky |
| Origin | Ithaca, New York |
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| Years active | 1993–present |
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| Website | https://www.sarah-hennies.com/ |
Hennies was born in 1979, in Louisville, Kentucky. She attended the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and received a master's degree from the University of California, San Diego. Later, she moved to Ithaca, New York.[2][3][4]
After her graduation, Hennies relocated to Austin, Texas, in 2003, and started collaborating with the guitarist Aaron Russell in the group Weird Weeds. In 2013, she founded her own record label, Weighter Recordings. Some of the musicians and ensembles with whom she has collaborated as a composer include Bearthoven, Bent Duo, Claire Chase, R. Andrew Lee, Talea Ensemble, Thin Edge New Music Collective, Two-Way Street, Nate Wooley, and Yarn/Wire. She is also a member of the music trio Meridian.[2][5][3][6]
Hennies went through a gender transition in 2015 and much of her artwork reflects some aspects of her experience as a transgender woman.[2] Her audio-visual work Contralto was premiered in 2017, featuring transfeminine identity issues[2][7][8] and was nominated for the Queer|Art Prize in 2019.[9]
Hennies is the recipient of an Artist Fellowship from New York Foundation for the Arts (2016) and the Grants to Artists Award (2019) from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.[10]
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| Everything Else [11] |
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| Gather & Release[12] |
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| Reservoir 1: Preservation (with Philip Bush & Meridian)[6] |
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| The Reinvention of Romance [13] |
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| Extra Time |
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| Spectral Malsconcities (with Bearthoven & Bent Duo) |
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