Roomful of Teeth

‘If you get the opportunity to hear them live, just go, and experience for yourself the wonder and power of voice with Roomful of Teeth.’ 

– Lisa Lansi, Theatre Travels, Review of Adelaide Festival, 2020

Roomful of Teeth is a GRAMMY Award-winning vocal ensemble dedicated to reimagining the expressive potential of the human voice. The ensemble’s work is built upon creative collaborations with a spirit of curiosity and fearless experimentation, creating genre-defying, imaginative repertoire that pushes the boundaries of vocal music.

On their first Australian tour in six years, Roomful of Teeth presents an a cappella program that centres around two works from their GRAMMY Award-winning album Rough Magic: Caroline Shaw’s The Isle (Melbourne/Adelaide/Perth premiere) – a mystical and fantastical ode to Shakespeare’s The Tempest; and William Brittelle’s aptly titled Psychedelics (Australian premiere).

The concert also includes Australian premieres of Leilehua Lanzilotti’s on stochastic wave behavior, sung entirely in ‘Ōlelo Hawai`i; Vesper Sparrow by Missy Mazzoli, a rhythmic and virtuosic work with text by Farnoosh Fathi featuring an imitation of the vesper sparrow’s call; Gabriel Kahane’s Speaking in Tongues from his Elevator Songs, a set composed for Kahane and the ensemble; and Angélica Negrón’s Math, the one which is sweet, which represents ‘the sound of getting lost in new love’.

Estelí Gomez
Mingjia Chen
Tynan Davis
Virginia Kelsey
Jodie Landau
Steven Bradshaw
Thann Scoggin
Cameron Beauchamp | Artistic Director

Caroline Shaw (b. 1982)
The Isle [15′]

I. Prologue
II. Ariel
III. Caliban
IV. Prospero
V. Epilogue

Leilehua Lanzilotti (b. 1983)
on stochastic wave behavior [12′]

I. ō
II. nāueue
III. nā 'ū
IV. nalukai

Missy Mazzoli (b. 1980)
Vesper Sparrow [5′]

INTERVAL

Gabriel Kahane (b. 1981)
Speaking in Tongues from Elevator Songs

Angélica Negrón (b. 1981)
Math, the one which is sweet [9′]

William Brittelle (b. 1977)
Psychedelics [15′]

I. Deep Blue (You Beat Me)
II. I am the Watchtower
III. My Apothecary Light