Portuguese vocalist-composer Sara Serpa presents her new work “Encounters and Collisions,” a commission from Chamber Music America. The project draws inspiration from Ethiopian-Italian writer Igiaba Scego’s book My Home is Where I Am.

Encounters & Collisions combines music, text, images and media to reflect on ideas of identity and migration influenced by Scego’s writings on the post-colonial relationships between African and Europe.

Featured Musicians

Sara Serpa: voice, composition
Erik Friedlander: cello
Ingrid Laubrock: saxophone
Angelica Sanchez: piano

Sara Serpa

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Sara Serpa first performed at city of Asylum in Jazz Poetry 2019, presenting an earlier work commissioned by Chamber Music America that went on to be recorded and subsequently nominated by the NYTimes as 2021 best album of the year.

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