Kitty Brazelton is a composer and improviser, rock-mezzo, multi- instrumentalist, songwriter, leader of the electro-acoustic nonet Dadadah (Rise Up!, Accurate; Love Not Love Lust Not Lust, BUZZ-Records, Amsterdam, March 22, 1999), co-founder of the 21st-century medieval quartet Hildegurls as well as digital-punk trio What Is It Like To Be A Bat?, producer-curator of the Women's Avant Fest, Composer-In Residence at The Earth School and at LaGuardia High School for Music & Art and the Performing Arts, and a member of the College Music Society's Committee for Music, Women & Gender and NARASs Grammys-In-The-Schools panel. Her DMA is from Columbia where she's a composer-at-large at the Computer Music Center and teaches music history. Since leading the progressive rock quintet Musica Orbis in the '70s, Kitty has drawn on everything from plainchant to funk, whether writing for pop singers Terence Trent D'Arby, Joan Jett and Madonna; librettists Heather McCutchen, Denise Lanctot and Billy Aronson (Kitty and Billy are working on Fireworks, a 4th-of-July opera commissioned for summer by American Opera Projects); choreographers Beth Leonard, Eduardo Zeiger and Philadelphia's Group Motion, or ensembles including the Absolute Ensemble Orchestra, Double Edge, Manhattan Brass Quintet and twisted tutu. She's performed at Lincoln Center festival, the Bang on a Can marathon, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Music America festival, USArts-Berlin, the Knitting Factorys New York Jazz festivals, and frequently at CBGB's.

Events:
"What Is It Like To Be a Bat",Concert 3

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