Bowerbird is pleased to present an evening of music by Laura Cetilia from her two releases on the elsewhere label, performed by Jack Yarborough (piano), Hannah Soren (cello), and Laura Cetilia (cello). Works included: laminae for solo piano, becoming of shadows for cello and piano, and soil + stone for two cellos.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

As a daughter of mixed heritage, Mexican-American musician, Laura Cetilia is at home with in-betweenness, straddling multiple worlds as a cellist / composer / educator / artist while working within acoustic / electronic / traditional / experimental sound practices. Her compositions have been described as “unorthodox loveliness” (Boston Globe) and “weightless and deeply profound” (Bandcamp’s Best Contemporary Classical). Jack Yarbrough is a pianist active in contemporary and experimental music. His idiosyncratic programming and collaborations explore the rich minutiae of touch, resonance, and decay. In the words of Alex Ross, “Yarbrough’s piano seems less a physical machine than a zone of resonance.” With his duo partner, cellist Hannah Soren, they have worked closely with composers of nuanced music such as Linda Catlin Smith, Makiko Nishikaze, and Seare Farhat. Their most recent collaboration is with composer/cellist Laura Cetilia who they met during her DMA studies at Cornell University. Through New Music USA, the duo was awarded a New Music Creator Fund to commission Laura to write a suite of new works for piano and cello and tour the Northeast in Fall 2026.