Tyshawn Sorey, Presidential Assistant Professor of Music, conducts his song sequence, “Cycles of My Being,” in a filmed presentation by Opera Philadelphia. Sorey is a multi-instrumentalist and composer who occupies a unique space between the worlds of spontaneous and formal composition.
“Sorey has been on everyone’s radar at least since winning a MacArthur ‘genius’ grant in 2017, but the shock to the performing arts since late winter brought him suddenly to the fore as an artist at the nexus of the music industry’s artistic and social concerns,” wrote Zachary Woolfe, the classical music editor of The New York Times, in January.
