Haitian-American artist to debut highly anticipated work at UB

Grammy-nominated flutist, composer and vocalist Nathalie Joachim will bring an intimate examination of ancestral connection and self to a UB audience in a performance on Sept. 16.

The concert by the Haitian-American musician, part of the Department of Music's Slee Visiting Artist Series, will take place at 7:30 p.m. in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall, North Campus.

Joachim will perform her new evening-length song cycle “Ki moun ou ye” — “Who are you?” The piece will be performed in English and Haitian Kreyòl.

Tickets are $20 and can be purchased at Ticketmaster, at the Center for the Arts box office from noon through 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, or at the Slee Hall box office one hour prior to the performance. UB students are admitted free with ID.

The Brooklyn-born Joachim — hailed by The Nation as being “a fresh and invigorating cross-cultural voice” — is a United States Artist Fellow and co-founder of the critically acclaimed duo Flutronix.

She has performed and recorded with an impressive array of today’s most exciting artists and ensembles, and is the former flutist of the contemporary chamber ensemble Eighth Blackbird. As a composer, Joachim is regularly commissioned to write for instrumental and vocal artists, dance and interdisciplinary theater, most recently creating works for St. Louis Symphony, Boston Lyric Opera, Sō Percussion, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Imani Winds, cellist Seth Parker Woods, and more.

An active educator of students of all ages and skill levels, Joachim has held faculty positions at The Hartt School at the University of Hartford, the Bang on a Can Summer Festival, the Perlman Music Program and the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music.

She has also served as a mentor for The Juilliard School’s BluePrint Fellowship with National Sawdust and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.

Joachim is currently an artistic partner with the Oregon Symphony, a creative associate at The Juilliard School, and an artist-in-residence at Yale University’s Schwarzman Center.