About me
Artist statement
As both a composer and performer, I want my music to invite the listener into a shared musical experience in which our common hopes, joys, and sorrows mingle with engaging texts, haunting modalities, and folk rhythms. As an avid birder and environmentalist, I weave voices with harp, flutes, and other instruments or soundtracks to bring together aural colors steeped in nature. I also draw on my family history and Ojibwe, Venezuelan, and Scottish roots for inspiration. I compose choral, solo vocal, micro operas, orchestral, and chamber music.
Biography — 130 words
Passionately striving to connect people to nature through music, Adrienne Inglis serves as founder, composer, and singer with Inversion Ensemble of Austin, Texas. As an award-winning Latina composer, her music has enjoyed performances in North and South America, Europe, and Australia and reflects her strong environmental mission and love of birds. She also frequently draws on her Ojibwe, Venezuelan, and Scottish ancestral roots, with many of her pieces in Spanish and Native American languages. She plays principal flute with the Central Texas Philharmonic and the flute/harp duo Chaski and has music degrees from Lewis and Clark College and the University of Texas at Austin. She lives in the rural hill country of Central Texas, inspired by the natural beauty to listen, learn, and create music that cherishes wild places.
Biografía — 149 palabras
Apasionadamente esforzándose por conectar a las personas con la naturaleza a través de la música, ADRIENNE INGLIS es fundadora, compositora y cantante del Inversion Ensemble de Austin, Texas. Como compositora latina galardonada, su música ha sido interpretada en América del Norte y del Sur, Europa y Australia, y refleja su fuerte misión ambiental y su amor por las aves. También se inspira con frecuencia en sus raíces ancestrales ojibwe, venezolana y escocesa, y muchas de sus obras están en español y en lenguas nativas americanas. Toca la flauta principal con la Filarmónica de Texas Central y el dúo de flauta y arpa Chaski, y tiene títulos en música del Lewis and Clark College y de la Universidad de Texas en Austin. Vive en el área rural de la región montañosa de Texas Central, inspirada por la belleza natural para escuchar, aprender y crear música que valore los lugares salvajes.
ASCAP
I am a member of the performing rights organization ASCAP. My member name is ADRIENNE CECILIA INGLIS and my WRITER IPI 447396227. Please report performances of my compositions to ASCAP (http://www.ascap.com/) or to me.
Biography — 164 words
If you want to ask award-winning Latina composer Adrienne Inglis about learning piano and flute in Berkeley as a child or about her music degrees from Lewis and Clark College and University of Texas at Austin, make sure she's not near a window because she's easily distracted by birds and will stop speaking suddenly if she sees one. So it won't surprise you that her compositions often include bird sounds. Luckily, her family history research draws her to other topics such as her Ojibwe, Venezuelan, Scottish, and colonial roots. Her choral, chamber, and orchestral compositions also sometimes explore nature, scripture, Shakespeare, and bugs. She lives in the rural hill country of central Texas, freelances, and plays principal flute of the Central Texas Philharmonic. She puts down her binoculars to perform, record, and tour with flute/harp duo, Chaski. As a founding member, she composes and sings with Inversion Ensemble. Adrienne Inglis is a member of ASCAP., the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers.
Biografía — 102 palabras
Compositora venezolana-americana Adrienne Inglis nació en Berkeley, California. Se crió con madre venezolana en un medioambiente con tradiciones venezolanas. Ha tenido el gusto de pasar mucho tiempo en Latinoamérica aprendiendo las costumbres y ritmos que hacen latir el corazón de Sudamérica. Estudió flauta en Lewis and College College en Portland, Oregon, y en la University of Texas at Austin. Es compositora y una de las fundadoras de Inversion Ensemble, flautista principal de Central Texas Philharmonic, y flautista con el duo Chaski. Ha compuesto varias obras corales en español y con ritmos latinos. Es miembro de ASCAP.
Biography — 84 words
Founder, award-winning Latina composer, and singer with Inversion Ensemble of Austin, Texas, Adrienne Inglis also serves as principal flute with the Central Texas Philharmonic and flutist with flute/harp duo Chaski. She has music degrees from Lewis and Clark College and the University of Texas at Austin. Frequently drawing on her family history and Ojibwe, Venezuelan, and Scottish roots, Inglis composes choral, chamber, orchestral music and a little opera. An avid birder and environmentalist, she lives in the rural hill country of Central Texas.
Seeking
I am seeking commissions for both choral and instrumental works as well as performances all over the world for works that have already been performed.
Publicity photo
Click on photo below for link to large file. Photo by Emilio Torres
Recognition
2025
Nominated for Texas State Musician Classical 2025 Texas Commission on the Arts
Commissions from Inversion Ensemble (Austin, Texas)
Performances in Austin, Texas; Georgetown, Texas; Hot Springs, Arkansas, Hot Springs Village, Arkansas
One Ounce Opera’s 6th annual Fresh Squeezed Ounce of Opera that included I am worth nothing was selected as one of KMFA’s Top Twelve Classical Highlights in Austin from 2024
Released 4 Jan 2025 Video Score — Letters to Faith (2017) revised 2024 SATB+piano Inversion Coda https://youtu.be/jixz07RtoTA
Released 6 Feb 2025 Oure Light in Oure Night (2020) nature soundtrack, revised 2024 https://youtu.be/6o7vF2LwibI
Released 26 Feb 2025 Hope Splits Despair (2024) SATB+piano+percussion+nature soundtrack — Inversion https://youtu.be/fsl_CrXHij0
Released 28 Feb 2025 Video score — Hope Splits Despair (2024) SATB+piano+percussion+nature soundtrack — Inversion https://youtu.be/PaNtxMTz8ig
2024
Commissions from Inversion Ensemble (Austin, Texas), Organist Cathleen Parsley (Austin, Texas)
Performances in Austin, Texas; Wimberley, Texas; Granville, Ohio; La Bisbal d'Empordà, Spain; Hot Springs, Arkansas; Hot Springs Village, Arkansas; Texarkana, Texas; San Marcos, Texas; Berlin, Germany; Georgetown, Texas; Bryan, Texas
Featured composer at TUTTI 2024 Festival at Denison University in Granville, Ohio
Winner of 2024 ASCAP Plus Award
I am worth nothing at One Ounce Opera’s Fresh-Squeezed Ounce of Opera earned 2023-24 B. Iden Payne awards nomination for soprano Cristina Jones and for the OOO production.
I am worth nothing was selected by One Ounce Opera for inclusion in the 2024 Opera Austin Festival November 16, 2024.
Darkness As Light was selected as a winner of the Memorial Episcopal Church of Baltimore, Maryland 2024-25 Call for Scores
Released 12 Jan 2024 Video score—Extinction (2022) SATB a cappella or with optional nature soundtrack — Inversion https://youtu.be/h8MkQC5inKg
Released 24 Jan 2024 listening (2022) for flute and harp by Adrienne Inglis — Chaski https://youtu.be/CzkPAjHZzxk
Released 19 May 2024 Video score—Whirligig (2023) SAB+piano — Inversion Nova https://youtu.be/fx_9-uCXMWE
Released 27 May 2024 The Way We Meet (2024) — Inversion Da Capo https://youtu.be/Skl8KuG0gxc
Released 3 Jun 2024 Video Score — The Way We Meet (2024) SSA+piano — Inversion Da Capo https://youtu.be/0ESYewPvF34
Released 20 Jul 2024 P. S. I Love You for flute and guitar, composed with Walter Torres https://youtu.be/T9EVS3ngapY
Released 22 Jul 2022 Whirligig for for SAB and piano — Inversion Nova https://youtu.be/KfouP662c8M
Released 18 Oct 2024 Canoe for solo piano — Fidan Aghayeva Edler https://youtu.be/2zEfQZPzNfk
Released 24 Nov 2024 Leaving Footprints for flute and piano — https://youtu.be/6h72qQViz2Q
Released 24 Nov 2024 I am worth nothing micro-opera — Opera Austin Festival / One Ounce Opera https://youtu.be/mLys-feDcK0
2023
Commissions from Inversion Ensemble (Austin, Texas), Panoramic Voices (Austin, Texas)
Performances in Sydney, Australia; Martin, Tennessee; Cuenca, Ecuador; Austin, Texas; Hot Springs, Arkansas; Bryan, Texas; Georgetown, Texas; Dripping Springs, Texas; Seattle, Washington; Lago Vista, Texas
Selected for final round of 2023 Efferent Verb: Voices, Vol. 1 Open Call
Winner of One Ounce Opera‘s 6th Annual Fresh Squeezed Ounce of Opera Composition Competition for the micro-opera I am worth nothing
Selected for final round of 2023 Marion Brown Prize at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine
Winner of 2023 ASCAP Plus Award
Inversion and Density512’s Björk Songbook concert that included Mycelia was recognized as #9 of the Top Twelve Classical Highlights in Austin from 2023.
TUTTI 2024 Festival selected La ciudad sumergida to include in its March 2024 festival at Denison University.
Released 13 Feb 2023 Video Score — La loba for SATB+flute https://youtu.be/Mnv0Tc7oFhE
Released 18 Feb 2023 Video Score — Julian's Hazelnut SSA+Bb clarinet https://youtu.be/ioKClCE809Y
Released 13 Mar 2023 Incandescence by Walter Torres and Adrienne Inglis https://youtu.be/5tOW-AKK7y0
Released 7 Apr 2023 Video Score — Santo y Hosanna SATB+piano https://youtu.be/3wUqq_k0wEw
Released 18 May 2023 Antarctica (2023) by Adrienne Inglis (ASCAP) https://youtu.be/kI91KBnBBvU
Released 3 Jul 2023 Most Importantly, Loves by Adrienne Inglis https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQcGFbz2wNu0zsLIUV-6FNKrPCRckxje-
Released 16 Jul 2023 Stars Through the Rain — electronic track by Walter Torres https://youtu.be/HlQFoy9hw0E
Released 5 Sep 2023 listening (2022) for flute and clàrsach (lever harp) https://youtu.be/lbEDDTEVMJo
Released 6 Sep 2023 Watershed Love for flute and harp by Adrienne Inglis (ASCAP) https://youtu.be/3-xqRYxclds
Released 29 Sep 2023 Oure Light in Oure Night — December 1, 2022 https://youtu.be/8jMo7wkZHJI
Released 10 Nov 2023 Julian’s Hazelnut by Adrienne Inglis (ASCAP) (world premiere) https://youtu.be/YA-Z-1QYD3c
Released 10 Nov 2023 Stars Through the Rain by Adrienne Inglis (ASCAP) and Walter Torres (BMI) https://youtu.be/KhxBv7mFZwo
Released 29 Dec 2023 Video Score—El sol SATB+cuatro+harp https://youtu.be/4d487K9zGis
2022
Commissions from Inversion Ensemble (Austin, Texas), Dr. Joseph Choi (Austin, Texas), Jonathan Riemer (Austin, Texas)
Performances in Austin, Texas; Seattle, Washington; San Francisco, California; Hot Springs, Arkansas; Little Rock, Arkansas; Texarkana, Texas
Winner of 2022 ASCAP Plus Award
Third Prize Winner of the 2022 New Voices for the Young Flutist Competition
2021
Commissions from Chorus Austin (Austin, Texas), Maureen Broy Papovich (Austin, Texas), Lewis and Clark College Choral Program (Portland, Oregon), Inversion Ensemble (Austin, Texas)
Performances in Buffalo, New York; Austin, Texas; New York, New York; Portland, Oregon; Naperville, Illinois
Winner of 2021 ASCAP Plus Award
2020
Commissions from North Central College and Dr. Ramona Wis (Naperville, Illinois), Inversion Ensemble (Austin, Texas), Becky and Ted Mercado (Austin, Texas), Panoramic Voices (Austin, Texas)
Performances in Austin, Texas; Georgetown, Texas
Winner of 2020 ASCAP Plus Award
Carlos Cordero interviewed Adrienne Inglis for his April 6, 2020 Happy Choir Podcast #24: Adrienne Inglis On Writing Choral Music That Includes Your Roots.
2019
Commissions from Balcones Community Orchestra of Austin, Texas; Jonathan Riemer of Austin, Texas
Performances in Austin, Texas; Georgetown, Texas
On May 13, 2019, Austin Critics Table announced that Innocent Blood by Adrienne Inglis was nominated for best Original Composition/Score for 2018-19. Inversion Ensemble’s concert I, Too, Sing America, the concert on which it was performed, was nominated for best Concert/Opera performance.
2018
Performances in Cedar Park, Texas; Georgetown, Texas, Austin, Texas; Pflugerville, Texas; Lakeway, Texas
On December 28, 2018, Inversion Ensemble’s I, Too, Sing America concert was listed by Robert Faires in the Austin Chronicle as one of Austin’s top ten ten classical music experiences of 2018: “8) I, Too, Sing America (Inversion Ensemble) A history lesson through choral music, speaking to struggles present and past (e.g., witch trials in Adrienne Inglis’ forceful Innocent Blood), with the choir's united voices ever a symbol of e pluribus unum.”
“The Sunshine of Your Smile” from Letters to Faith was performed by Chorus Austin with conductor Ryan Heller at its Southwest Voices concert, which won the Austin Critics Table Award 2017-18 for Classical Music Concert/Opera.