Music Meets Drama

  #BringingBackBranscombe

Today the Picton Gazette published an article about the upcoming "From Picton to the World: Bringing Home the Music of Gena Branscombe" concert.  A great article explaining the importance of Gena Branscombe and our work to bring her home!  Please join us on August 15th at the Picton United Church.....4 PM. https://pictongazette.ca/post/the-countys-composer #BringingBackBranscombe

  #BringingBackBranscombe

  Harley Winzenried , (they/she), The Gena Branscombe Project’s 2026 Arts Administrator scholarship winner, is a Vermont-based theatremaker. Harley has been described in the press as displaying "skill beyond her years," and their work is guided by the objective of providing a space for the stories of historically excluded voices to be shared.  They are the founder and program director of the Historically Close Friends new play development project, a program of Between The Willows, Burlington's premiere queer theatre & dance company. They are also  a member of The Furnace, an artists' collective that programs ensemble-driven theatre & donation-based skill-sharing opportunities. In the education realm, Harley serves as the Festival Associate for the Young Playwrights Festival at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center and volunteers as a theatre educator & program coordinator at Camp Treetops in the Adirondacks. Vermont locals may have seen Harley's ac...

  Interlochen Public Radio (IPR) broadcast Scene VI of Gena Branscombe's dramatic oratorio "Pilgrims of Destiny" during the week of July 4th.    Gena Branscombe, with colorful orchestration, her own words set in beautiful vocal lines, proclaims the pilgrims' joy as they  site their new found home "AMERICA."  Enjoy listening and watching this video from the Clark University Concert Choir, Orchestra and Soloists performance from April 2019!   And, many thanks to IPR for broadcasting the finale of Gena Branscombe's  "Pilgrims of Destiny."   #BringingBackBranscombe

Hannah Mufuka The Gena Branscombe Project’s 2026 Composer scholarship winner Hannah Mufuka is a composer and sound artist from Decatur, Georgia. She is a recipient of a 2025-2026 Kenan Fellowship at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, where she developed and premiered an original composition, Mbira, My Love . In 2024-2025, she was a See/a/change fellow, where she collaborated on two environmental arts pieces, both of which premiered at the Winston-Salem Arts Council in 2025. Hannah Mufuka has worked with various ensembles, such as the Golden Hornet Quartet, Decoda, the European Recording Orchestra, and Ensemble Intercolor, and her compositions have been presented in the United States and Europe. Additionally, as an Emerging Composers Program Fellow at the Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival, she premiered a new composition, Osprey , at the Juilliard School.  Currently, Hannah continues to lean into her passion for environmental advocacy through the NC Climate Justice Colle...