About

TURN UP is a woman-centered, Artist-led, culture-connecting, multimedia Music & Arts festival turning up the volume for woman artists in traditional and electronic/digital media.

The concert is April 14 at 7:30 PM in Homer Rainey Hall (Jessen Auditorium) on the UT campus here in Austin. FREE admission! Come out. Have fun. Support our amazing female artists! We hope to see you there.

The statistics are out there. Women artists in composition and media design are not just a minority, but a tiny percentage of those who work or wish to work in these professions. We need to raise the profile of female artists in these fields. Without that, the next generation of women artists will end up in the same position as their predecessors, largely forgotten.

One of the goals of TURN UP multimedia festival is to bring the historical women composers out of the archives. We also want to bring living female composers out of the shadows. Bring their music live on the stage. And, bring the music to the ears of the audience. These women have been underappreciated. Just listen to any classical music station. It’s always the famous men. Where are the women? We want to bring the women out and show them off!

We will TURN UP the visibility of Women Artists. The concerts will be free. Come hear and see what women can do when given a stage. It’ll be great.

Event Details

• Date: April 13,2018
• Time: 7:30 p.m.
• Venue: Jessen Auditorium at Homer Rainey Hall
• Website: https://turnupfestival.weebly.com/news-and-beliefs.html

Ticket Information

• Cost: Free

Presenter Details

• Name: Kay He (Director)

Yuanyuan (Kay) HE began learning piano at age 5. She spent much of her youth studying the instrument and learning to paint with her paternal grandparents, who were both professional artists. She began studying composition at age 15 when she enrolled in the affiliated middle school of Shenyang Conservatory of China. From there, Kay went on to earn her BA at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and her MM at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She is currently pursuing her DMA in composition at the University of Texas at Austin, studying under Dr. Russell Pinkston and Dr. Yevgeniy Sharlat. Kay is also the founder and Director of the Austin, TX-based Turn Up Multimedia Festival for Women Artists, which works to promote women composers, performers, and visual artists.

Kay’s works often explore and intertwine various forms of media to create unique audiovisual experiences that engage the audience. Many of her works involve collaborations with choreographers, dancers, video artists, audio technicians, and stage lighting and design artists.

* This spring we are going to present our first TURN UP multimedia concert for female artists. In our concert at Homer Rainey Hall in Austin, TX on Saturday April 14th at 7:30 pm, a concert free and open to the public, we are going to feature pieces by historical women composer Florence Price, Elsa Sangiacomo, and Undine Smith Moore; new collaboration work by Austin based artists Grace Ma and Rachel Frock; We are also going to program New Renaissance Artist Elizabeth Baker's new work; along with Austin based multimedia artist Yuliya Lanina's video work and Kay He's multimedia work.

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