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Make it stand out Performing Hasse’s “Non Verranno” for Company XIV’s Rococo Rouge, New York City, photo by Joshua Flannigan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51ed7645e4b06b8ec4efaa2c/64181260-d26e-4237-a02b-44aa60bb5245/FAMIL_2019.019.jpg PHOTOGRAPHS - Make it stand out Performing with SIREN Baroque, New York City https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51ed7645e4b06b8ec4efaa2c/3d628b53-c3b7-45c6-86dd-48b4bf2144d5/BINDLESTIFF_Brett20374324_10154569758291573_7834386101242947011_n+2.jpg PHOTOGRAPHS - Make it stand out For Bindlestiff Circus, New York City, photo by Maike Schulz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51ed7645e4b06b8ec4efaa2c/db94f0bc-74ae-4c0a-998b-2afd57fb49d7/Brett_XIV_DOV_Valentines_Stage_0.jpg PHOTOGRAPHS - Make it stand out Performing “Amado Mio” for Company XIV and Dances of Vice at La Serenissima Festival for Carnegie Hall, New York City, photo by Adrian Buckmaster https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51ed7645e4b06b8ec4efaa2c/aeb297c5-34e5-4eef-9192-b394e54b2a2c/Brett_XIV_DOV_Valentines_Red_0-2.jpg PHOTOGRAPHS - Make it stand out Performing “Amado Mio” for Company XIV and Dances of Vice at La Serenissima Festival for Carnegie Hall, New York City, photo by Adrian Buckmaster http://www.brettumlauf.com/kassia daily 0.75 2026-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51ed7645e4b06b8ec4efaa2c/1645805158719-V924I5UOZA1RTY35VIP8/Tracing%25252BKassia%25252BFlyer2.jpg KASSIA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51ed7645e4b06b8ec4efaa2c/f96da6a1-7ba7-4932-ac68-ec09d9ede8bd/Kassia+still+2+Newport.jpg KASSIA - KASSIA sound icon Explore the short dance film by co-creators Noah Amir Arjomand (direction and photography), Mariia Bakalo (choreography and dance) and Brett Umlauf (story and sound), slated to premiere at the 2024 Newport Beach Film Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51ed7645e4b06b8ec4efaa2c/c5b0bbdb-28aa-4812-b85d-96051b285e93/Tracing+Kassia+Flyer2.jpg KASSIA - tracing KASSIA Watch the performance talk that Dr. Alexander Lingas and I gave for the Medieval Studies Institute at Indiana University (Bloomington), January 25, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51ed7645e4b06b8ec4efaa2c/53cca188-6dd9-481b-9cee-4dcad48c63eb/Turkey_Talk_Kassia_Poster.jpg KASSIA - KASSIA modes of access Watch my 15-minute talk on methods for approaching Kassia’s music, presented for Bahcesehir University Conservatory (Istanbul), March 30, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51ed7645e4b06b8ec4efaa2c/13477bcd-f3a1-4e6b-8b44-20551645ccd0/Brett_Natl_Gallery_Talk.jpg KASSIA - (Re)formed Icon: Kassia…in her Hymn to Saint Pelagia My presentation for Women in Art and Music: An Early Modern Global Conference, hosted jointly by The Juilliard School and the National Gallery of Art’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (excerpt) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51ed7645e4b06b8ec4efaa2c/1a7d9515-ff0e-4ae4-b772-3ddd99c0579b/Kassia_Kiev_for_website_Page_1.jpg KASSIA - KASSIA in Kyiv Online speaking engagement at Ukrainian National Academy of Music (Kyiv) as part of Dr. Maria Alexandru’s (Aristotle University, Thessaloniki) team of Chrysorrhemon Palaeography Group and St. Anysia Byzantine Choir: Signs and Sounds in the Compositions of the Famous Byzantine Poetess and Composer St. Kassia the Nun, April 4-6, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51ed7645e4b06b8ec4efaa2c/6b63244d-5096-42a7-a82e-88cb00616cb5/SUORE_Project_at_SoHIP_Boston_2023.jpg KASSIA - KASSIA and sisters SUORE Project brings Kassia to the SoHIP (Society for Historically Informed Performance) audiences in Boston, Andover and Lincoln, Massachusetts, 8th, 9th and 10th of August 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51ed7645e4b06b8ec4efaa2c/63369363-9972-41da-a8d1-6ba0f42acb25/KASSIA_sound_icon_watermarked_website_image_thumbnail_20230123_091701.jpg KASSIA - In Her Footsteps KASSIA Read about my ongoing work based on my ethnographic research on Kassia perceptions and performance as a 2022-2023 Fulbright Fellow in Greece and Turkey. http://www.brettumlauf.com/suoreprojectabout daily 0.75 2025-11-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51ed7645e4b06b8ec4efaa2c/1666532110708-09O8HC66ODNVHI0RLZBV/convent_interior_website_suore_survey.png SUORE PROJECT ABOUT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51ed7645e4b06b8ec4efaa2c/e34ec33e-07b3-4ab8-9289-3473d983bef1/Day2_1.68.1.jpg SUORE PROJECT ABOUT - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51ed7645e4b06b8ec4efaa2c/9b513863-48b9-4fe0-9acf-83ca7ebb21b9/SUORE_PROJECT_Anneke_Bio_Photo.jpg SUORE PROJECT ABOUT - Anneke Schaul-Yoder Anneke Schaul-Yoder performs in both period-instrument and modern ensembles at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, BAM, the 92StY, and other venues. Anneke plays with the Suore Project, Piano Music & Song Trio, Eudemonia, and Siren Baroque; she has also performed with the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, Live from Lincoln Center, and the Britten Centenary Quartet. Anneke has recorded with the Lumineers, Shawn Mendes, and members of Arcade Fire, TV on the Radio, and Antibalas. Green Age, her recording of cello sonatas by Bohuslav Martinu and Jordan McLean, is available through System Dialing Records. She studied with Julia Lichten and Marcy Rosen at Yale, SUNY Purchase, and Mannes College of Music. Anneke plays on a French cello from 1713 by Jacques Boquay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51ed7645e4b06b8ec4efaa2c/8e6a3b4a-db67-4fa8-b0f3-33f367154647/SUORE_PROJECT_Kelly_bio_photo_4.jpg SUORE PROJECT ABOUT - Kelly Savage Kelly has been praised by the New York Times for her “deft accompaniment.” She is the artistic director of SIREN Baroque and is a founding member of the New York opera company Opera Feroce. Ms. Savage enjoys an active performing schedule as a continuo player and solo harpsichordist. She is an Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music where she teaches ear training. Ms. Savage holds a doctorate from Stony Brook University, where she studied with Arthur Haas and holds masters degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory and the University of Wisconsin—Madison. She co-created Partifi, a popular online part-making tool for musicians. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51ed7645e4b06b8ec4efaa2c/1ec39561-920b-4459-9ad9-4bf45768c54a/SUORE_PROJECT_Brett_bio_photo+copy.jpg SUORE PROJECT ABOUT - Brett Umlauf For over a decade, Brett brought her "pealing, focused sound" and "luminous yet earthy" (New York Times) performances to NYC with MORNINGSIDE OPERA, COMPANY XIV and SIREN BAROQUE. The Swedish Institute, American Scandinavian Society and Swedish Women's Educational Association awarded her BELLMAN OM BELLMAN and SKID ROCOCO shows about C.M. Bellman, "Sweden’s Shakespeare." She premiered Kate Soper’s HERE BE SIRENS (Peitho) and THE HUNT (Fleur). Her travel-performance project HAZELNUT ROAD recently won her a Fulbright Fellowship to Greece and Turkey to research 9th-c. hymnographer Kassia of Byzantium. She co-produced the film KASSIA SOUND ICON, as well as O HOW HAPPY THE BRIDE for SUORE PROJECT’s recording of a little-known gem by 17th-c. nun composer Rosa Giacinta Badalla. http://www.brettumlauf.com/inherfootstepskassia daily 0.75 2024-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51ed7645e4b06b8ec4efaa2c/1679337029726-XR5ICMSX92T6JFLZ6UYO/20230123_085921.jpg In Her Footsteps KASSIA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51ed7645e4b06b8ec4efaa2c/b2d6fca4-b049-488f-a3ab-7a9a43f9e199/Sound_Icon_I_Spiritual_Lyre_Image_Nun_Semantron_20221226_081749.jpg In Her Footsteps KASSIA - Make it stand out IMPRESSION I. SPIRITUAL LYRE Kassia the Monastic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51ed7645e4b06b8ec4efaa2c/0975f13b-193e-4bcc-9a64-cc83956b49cb/Sound_Icon_II_Myhrrbearer_Kassia_the_Poet-Composer_Myhrrbearers_Georgios_Buyukada.jpg In Her Footsteps KASSIA - Make it stand out IMPRESSION II. MYRRHBEARER Kassia the Poet-composer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51ed7645e4b06b8ec4efaa2c/244ceafe-e0d3-4b7f-af82-83bea73c38fa/Sound_Icon_III_A_Saint_Who_Hates_ODOX_KASSIANHS_20230106_111059.jpg In Her Footsteps KASSIA - Make it stand out IMPRESSION III. A SAINT WHO HATES? Kassia in the City https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51ed7645e4b06b8ec4efaa2c/6c6c2527-1dab-4fe0-b11c-4154fc2bff24/Sound_Icon_IV_Idolmania_Kassia_On_Beauty_mask_hammered_metal_icons_20230120_154746.jpg In Her Footsteps KASSIA - Make it stand out IMPRESSION IV. IDOLOMANIA Kassia on Beauty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51ed7645e4b06b8ec4efaa2c/d65883ec-c394-4d47-bc19-28692d530b48/SLIDE6_ag-Pelagia.jpg In Her Footsteps KASSIA - Make it stand out IMPRESSION V. DEAD NAME Kassia & Antioch/Antakya https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51ed7645e4b06b8ec4efaa2c/22a6f2e8-0804-4ea1-a1ae-33f9be979dd6/Sound_Icon_VI_Voicing_Support_Woman_chanting_kassia_Wheel_of_koukouzlis_ALEXANDROU_IMAGE__00.DA_Encheiridio+Paleografias%2C+anatheorimeni+proti+ekd.jpg In Her Footsteps KASSIA - Make it stand out IMPRESSION VI. VOICING SUPPORT Women Chant Kassia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51ed7645e4b06b8ec4efaa2c/b8976425-8af9-4ef1-91cd-4dd947aa49f8/Sound_Icon_VII_For_Your_Strength_Hospitable_Kassia_20230122_161552.jpg In Her Footsteps KASSIA - Make it stand out IMPRESSION VII. “FOR YOUR STRENGTH” Hospitable Kassia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51ed7645e4b06b8ec4efaa2c/c90b8801-e1d2-41e9-b835-90ea002444b4/Sound_Icon_VIII_SEVENTH_HILL_Sea_of_Marmara_Imagined_Seventh_Hill_20230428_193020+copy.jpg In Her Footsteps KASSIA - Make it stand out IMPRESSION VIII. THE SEVENTH HILL In Her Footsteps https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51ed7645e4b06b8ec4efaa2c/715f6a22-c85c-4281-a8ed-d57fdd53a495/Sound_Icon_IX_A_Steep_Ascent_Pilgrimage_with_Kassia_St_George_Stick_House_20230423_085743+copy.jpg In Her Footsteps KASSIA - Make it stand out IMPRESSION IX. A STEEP ASCENT Pilgrimage with Kassia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51ed7645e4b06b8ec4efaa2c/7e503068-a115-4dc6-8869-7939f4e6390a/Sound_Icon_X_Folk_Hero_Failed_Bride_Kassia_Screen+Shot+2023-05-17+at+5.59.42+PM.jpg In Her Footsteps KASSIA - Make it stand out IMPRESSION X. FOLK HERO FAILED BRIDE Kassia as Popular Legend https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51ed7645e4b06b8ec4efaa2c/288e6d2b-3965-4f6e-b11a-33aba7727dcb/Sound_Icon_XI_On_Her_Tomb_KASOS_CROSS_SEA_20230121_140032.jpg In Her Footsteps KASSIA - Make it stand out IMPRESSION XI. ON HER TOMB Kassia’s Fate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51ed7645e4b06b8ec4efaa2c/4167e338-36a9-4f61-b790-6ff9c9a8f02b/Sound_Icon_XII_From_One_Saint_to_Another_Manuscript_eikasia_attribution.jpg In Her Footsteps KASSIA - Make it stand out IMPRESSION XII. FROM ONE SAINT TO ANOTHER Kassia meets Hildegard http://www.brettumlauf.com/kassiasoundiconthefilm daily 0.75 2024-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51ed7645e4b06b8ec4efaa2c/1683895850996-LXXGMUBBPLYFE4MDFULX/Kassia_Tomb_UMLAUF_2023.jpg KASSIA Sound Icon THE FILM https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51ed7645e4b06b8ec4efaa2c/e286fc30-ca1e-409d-87ab-7db5c091f0d9/talanton_2.jpg KASSIA Sound Icon THE FILM - I. THE CELL discerning Danced within the dimensions of a monastic cell to sounds gathered at a female monastery overlooking Mount Olympus. Nuns recite Kassia’s epigrams on monastic life and chant her most famous hymn “Lord, the woman fallen into many sins.” We consider the different paths women have taken to the monastic life over the centuries. Listening and feeling for boundaries, but also for portals. Discerning what is restriction, what is freedom on either side of the cloister wall. A mallet strikes the talanton, a long wooden block, calling the nuns to prayer. The slam and lock of the cloister gate bids visitors farewell. The rhythms of each woman’s holy routine continue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51ed7645e4b06b8ec4efaa2c/92bf5f88-aea1-460f-87d7-6c113d608021/KOUKOUZELIS_Wheel_MODES_Koukouzeli_Wheel_Byantine_Warmup_00.DA_Encheiridio+Paleografias%2C+anatheorimeni+proti+ekd.%281%29.jpg KASSIA Sound Icon THE FILM - II. THE WHEEL learning This hypnotic Byzantine vocal exercise, based on the medieval “Wheel of St. John Koukouzelis,” cycles through the musical modes of Byzantine chant. Sand and black stones, indicating the different modes, recall Aegean island mosaics like those on Kasos, the legendary home of Kassia’s unmarked tomb. The chant’s syllables symbolize a prayer. The infinitely repeating pattern of the Wheel suggests the continuous life force of the tradition, passed from chanter to chanter. Filmed in a Native American Garden, itself a living, sacred space of learning that honors the land’s original inhabitants and features flora native to the region. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51ed7645e4b06b8ec4efaa2c/68ae1f58-c6cc-4491-b0fe-5303d3c0b6c5/SLIDE8_Stoudios_20230503_152800+copy.jpg KASSIA Sound Icon THE FILM - III. THE HATE sharpening We imagine Kassia’s experience living the monastic life in the midst of a heaving cosmopolis. This film interprets Kassia’s epigrammatic verses that all begin with the word Μισώ (I Hate). Her muscular condemnation of hypocrisy is a list 27 lines long of the people and behaviors she most hates. Lay chanters, monastics, artists and activists recite her rebukes in medieval Greek, English and Turkish. Though Kassia’s monastery does not survive, that of her spiritual father still stands in ruins (pictured here) in Kassia’s historical home city of Constantinople, modern-day Istanbul. The texts are bound by a rising and falling Kyrie Eleison that the women of St. Anysia Byzantine Choir chant weekly in service at Thessaloniki’s St. Demetrios. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51ed7645e4b06b8ec4efaa2c/a5f82315-c5d7-4c5b-974e-2f3eb517fd5d/A139sup_0029v_compressed.jpg KASSIA Sound Icon THE FILM - IV. THE HYMN protecting Kassia’s Hymn to St. Pelagia honors the patron saint of performers who converted to the faith and pilgrimaged to Jerusalem. Devout Pelagia identified as the male hermit monk “Pelagios.” How does it sound? Kassia’s melody flows through scribal hands and chanting voices from the 800s to today. The signs and formulas of Byzantine notation transmit Kassia’s music, as do “the ears of the congregation.” The development of the oral tradition also preserves her work. The identity of Kassia’s melody depends on the interpreter. We highlight two versions of her Hymn to St. Pelagia: one from a medieval manuscript and one from a 19th-century manuscript. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51ed7645e4b06b8ec4efaa2c/6fb42f3a-1346-4381-9532-73b1da650e73/Exi_Ekklesia_Six_Churches_Kasos_UMLAUF_2023.jpg KASSIA Sound Icon THE FILM - V. THE BREATH expanding …Evil is easier than good; for the good is like a steep ascent… -Kassia, tr. Tripolitis The dancer makes a pilgrimage in California’s astonishing nature. We contemplate the function of Kassia’s works outside their liturgical context. Kassia’s Hymn to St. Agathi sung from the medieval notation accompanies the journey, along with a sister’s reminder of St. Gregory of Nazianzus’s maxim. She says, “It is better to think about God, than to breathe.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51ed7645e4b06b8ec4efaa2c/9c54343d-0309-4fa6-a88f-24f617ad281e/Noah_Photo_2024_IMG-20231208-WA0005.jpg KASSIA Sound Icon THE FILM - Noah Amir Arjomand Direction, Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51ed7645e4b06b8ec4efaa2c/e2d68ed2-7be8-4995-9694-1aa6e2a496fc/Mariia+Bakalo_0132.jpg KASSIA Sound Icon THE FILM - Mariia Bakalo Choreography, Dance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51ed7645e4b06b8ec4efaa2c/540a1831-7b5e-47ad-890d-b024a0e122ee/brettie_california_IMG-20231208-WA0006.jpg KASSIA Sound Icon THE FILM - Brett Umlauf Story, Sound https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51ed7645e4b06b8ec4efaa2c/e838775c-daf6-4604-9d01-e7ace49fc185/The_Hymn_stills.jpg KASSIA Sound Icon THE FILM - THE ARTISTS KASSIA Sound Icon Kassia of Byzantium is the earliest woman composer with surviving works, yet few know her name. She founded a monastery in 9th-century Constantinople, where she wrote hymns and gnomic verses. KASSIA Sound Icon brings her vibrant texts and music to new audiences in a series of five short scenes which we are calling “sound icons.” The 30-minute film, comprising these five scenes, can also be presented as a multi-channel installation. Noah Amir Arjomand (film), Mariia Bakalo (movement) and Brett Umlauf (music) devised the work. Icon veneration is integral to the Orthodox faith. The worshipper bows before and can “touch” the saint, kissing hands or feet, cross or holy book depicted in the painting. Kassia lived during the Age of Iconoclasm, when icon worship was outlawed and punished. Nevertheless she was a staunch defender of iconophiles. We invite viewers to connect with Kassia through these “sound Icons,” to “touch” and be touched by different aspects of the saint’s life and works. Umlauf was a 2022-23 Fulbright Fellow in Greece and Turkey, where she researched Kassia’s life and works. KASSIA Sound Icon grew out of her voice and field recordings from her ethnographic work in a women’s Byzantine choir and an Orthodox women’s monastery. Read more about the origin project here: In Her Footsteps: KASSIA. KASSIA Sound Icon shines a bright light on an important woman overshadowed in the patriarchal telling of medieval history and on a musical tradition often ignored in the Western musical canon. 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