Irreverence Group Music
Presents
Yana Mann
LIVE @ Carnegie Hall
Thursday, February 10, 2022 8:00 PM
Weill Recital Hall
For this recital, Russian mezzo soprano Yana Mann premieres works by minimalist composer Julián De La Chica, including cycle Op. 12, Poemas de Bar, recently released in her debut studio album and the song cycle, Op. 15, Arias Florentinas composed during Summer 2021 in Florence. The dark and pensive music captures moments of intimate confessions. Mann will be accompanied by De La Chica.
Program
De La Chica: 10 Poemas de Bar, Op. 12 (*)
No. 1: Ella
No. 2: Octubre
No. 3: La noche
No. 4: New York
No. 5: La Ausencia
No. 6: Su voz
No. 7: Yo no soy libre
No. 8: El amor
No. 9: Noche de Jazz
No. 10: El bar
De La Chica: 5 Arias Florentinas, Op. 15 (*)
No. 1: El soneto
No. 2: Sigilo de un beso
No. 3: El Arno
No. 4: El sueño
No. 5: Las calles de Florencia.
(*) World Premiere
On Set
YANA MANN
Brooklyn record label Irreverence Group MusiC (IGM) takes us behind the scenes with the eclectic classical singer, whom they film for her Carnegie Hall debut.
“For Mann, the achievement is a remarkable solo debut album that demonstrates not only the natural beauty of her voice but the sustained emotional directness with which she deploys it. Mann accentuates the faintest glimmer of hope in these songs detailing loss and absence with such gentle force that the cycle comes to generate a distinctly up-to-date melancholia.”
“Yana eschews the operatic conventions of extreme vibrato and delivers in a voice with a clear, pure tone and perfect diction together with a passion that cannot fail to impress.”
“The dark, pensive music captures moments of intimate, sometimes anonymous confessions, painful recollections and nocturnal reflections on life, death, love and loss.”
Poemas de Bar is at the same time a cycle of deceptive simplicity. Each song suggests the bare outlines of a complex scenario of relationships, layers of memory filtered through the straightforward poetry. Musically, De La Chica knows how to use space and the weight of silence to load the most commonplace chords with aching resonance. Preconceived musical entities like “dissonance” or a jazz riff become sealed in a kind of sonic amber—objects in themselves.
Interview
Yana Mann &
Julián De La Chica
(Video)
Yana Mann &
Los Poemas de Bar
Sadness and pain. Love and separation. Loss and hope. These are some of the themes running deeply throughout Dubai-based mezzo-soprano, Yana Mann’s debut studio album. A collaboration with Brooklyn-based Colombian composer Julián De La Chica, who describes Yana as having, ‘A very intriguing voice. There is a palpable darkness to her that gives the songs that peculiar atmosphere necessary to tell a story’.
Irreverence Group Music presents 11 Poemas de bar, Op. 12, the new studio album of Russian Mezzo-Soprano Yana Mann. The music, composed by minimalist composer Julián De La Chica, explores the most ordinary conversations that take place after 3:00 am in a New York bar.
links:
Review Fatea Magazine
Video Premiere Music & Myth
Video Premiere SonofMarketing
Interview Yana Mann Vents Magazine
The Artists
Mezzo Yana Mann
Photo by Yulia Kem
Yana Mann is a singer, song-writer and music producer based in Dubai.
Born in St Petersburg, Russia, Yana began her music studies at a very young age immersing herself in the world of classical music, fine art and theater. She completed her studies at the St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov College of Music and graduated from the Tchaikovsky Academic Music College at the Moscow State Conservatory. Later, she studied at the Russian Academy of theater Arts and Academy of young singers at the Mariinsky theater.
During her time in St. Petersburg, Yana worked and performed on many stages, including the Mariinsky Theater and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. It was during this period that she experimented with different artistic proposals, including fashion and modeling. Although Yana's musical background came from classical music and opera, she has a great interest in exploring new genres and musical architectures. Yana was a member of a heavy metal band and she has also explored the electronic music.
In late 2020, Yana announced the release of her first studio album, Los Poemas de bar, a work commissioned to minimalist composer Julián De La Chica, and published by Independent Brooklyn Record Label, Irreverence Group Music. The music explores conversations that take place at 5am in a New York City bar.
Composer Julián De La Chica
Photo courtesy by IGM
Award-winning Colombian composer Julián De La Chica, is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY, whose influences range from minimalism & post-minimalism to the alternative electronic scene. His work is often inspired by everyday images, the search of personal spiritual reflection, and the inner darkness. It mixes piano, strings, and classical singers, with electronic keyboards and controllers, crossing over from classical to ambient and electronic music.