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Best Chamber Music /Small Ensemble Performance

BRIDGE TO PEACE: Invocation by Kim D. Sherman

Allison Charney, Soprano

Will Liverman, Baritone

Benjamin Loeb, Conductor

The PREformances-Lviv Chamber Ensemble

with Kelly Hall-Tompkins, Violin and Peter Seidenberg, Cello

Producers: Allison Charney, Jonathan Estabrooks; Co-Producers: Jeff Keswin, Peter Seidenberg

Executive Producer: Jeff Keswin; Executive Director: PREformances Chamber Music Collaborative

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ABOUT THE MUSIC

“BRIDGE TO PEACE: Invocation” by American composer, Kim D. Sherman expresses a single sentiment and lyric, “Make peace on all your lands” set in fifteen world languages.

“Invocation” was first developed as part of a project sponsored by the UN Global Women’s Peace Initiative. Sherman chose the 15 languages by walking around her diverse Washington Heights neighborhood and simply asking her neighbors how to say “Make peace on all your lands” in their language of origin. She recorded each person speaking the text so she understood the cadences required to set each one musically.

This brand new composition, “BRIDGE TO PEACE: INVOCATION” – recorded in war-torn Lviv, Ukraine, Los Angeles, California and Brooklyn, NY – is conducted by Benjamin Loeb, sung by soprano Allison Charney and baritone Will Liverman, featuring violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins, cellist Peter Seidenberg and 20 members of the Lviv National Philharmonic. It was released as a single on Lexicon Classics August 16th, 2024 and is available on all streaming services. The single was produced by Allison Charney and Jonathan Estabrooks along with co-producers Jeff Keswin and Peter Seidenberg.