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 — 163 words
If you want to ask award-winning 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.
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Founder, award-winning 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. I’d especially love for someone to premiere my solo piano piece Canoe and commission me to write a violin and harp piece.
Publicity photo
Click on photo below for link to large file. Photo by Emilio Torres
Recognition
2024
Commissions from Inversion Ensemble (Austin, Texas), Organist Cathleen Parsley (Austin, Texas)
Performances in Austin, Texas; Wimberley, Texas; Granville, Ohio; Girona, Spain; Hot Springs, Arkansas; Hot Springs Village, Arkansas; Texarkana, Texas
Featured composer at TUTTI 2024 Festival at Denison University in Granville, Ohio
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
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.
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.