Sound Worlds (2025)

November 2021-April 2025

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Ilana and Brannon at Sound Worlds performance in Berkeley, CA

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A Year with Cancer by Brannon Warn Johnston; Performed by Ilana Zaks

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Introduction to A Year with Cancer by Brannon Warn-Johnston

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Silent Moment (2022) by Hunter Prueger, performed by Ilana Zaks

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2025 Sound Worlds, is a a one-hour program featuring music for violin and electronics. The program features music by Hunter Prueger, ('Silent Moment'), Brannon Warn-Johnston ('A Year with Cancer’), Patrick Long ('Shadow Steps'), and Aaron Levin, (‘Video game Vespers")

Many thanks to these sponsors:

• 2020-2021 Yale University CCAM Blended Reality Fellowship (‘Shadow Steps’)

• 2023 Fontainebleau Music Festival (‘Silent Moment’)

• 2023-2024 Seattle Symphony Merriman-Ross Young Composers’ Workshop (‘A Year with Cancer’)

• 2025 City of Burien Arts and Culture and Burien Library Award Winner: Performance on November 22nd 2024

• 2025 City of Bellevue (WA) Arts Commission Grant Winner: Performance on February 28th, 2025 at Theatre33 in Bellevue, WA.

• 2025 City of Auburn (WA) Arts Commission Winner: Performance on April 4 2025, at Postmark Center for the Arts

• 2025 Kent (WA) Arts Commission Give Me Culture program Winner: Performance at Kent Library April 11th, 2025

• June 2025 Bellevue (WA) Community Programming Fund Award Winner; Performance June 2025 at Bellevue City Hall Plaza

• September 2025 West Roxbury, (MA) Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture Opportunity Fund Fall 2025 Winner; Performance at West Roxbury Library Fall 2025