CRS is proud to be a sponsor of the 3rd International M³ Festival featuring 6 Duo World Premieres by the incredible M³ (Mutual Mentorship for Musicians) Summer Solstice 2021 Cohort. Please join us online on March 19 and 20 to experience their groundbreaking music!

The 3rd International M³ Festival is presented by the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, hosted by Kyla Marshell.

This event takes place on ZOOM. You must RSVP to receive ZOOM link. Link will be emailed to you after registration.
Part One: Saturday, March 19 at 2:00 p.m.ET: https://tinyurl.com/m3festival3pt1

Part Two: Sunday, March 20 at 2:00 p.m. ET: https://tinyurl.com/m3festival3pt2

Join us in experiencing the 3rd Cohort’s six world premieres born from the new initiative Mutual Mentorship for Musicians (M³), a revolutionary model of mentorship launched in June 2020 at the height of the pandemic. Each premiere will be followed by a Q&A with the audience about its creative process.

Created by co-founders Jen Shyu and Sara Serpa, M³ is a think tank for new ways to connect, collaborate, support, create, and empower women and non-binary musicians and those of other historically underrepresented gender identities in intersection with race, sexuality, or ability across generations in the US and worldwide. More information: https://mutualmentorshipformusicians.org/

Saturday, March 19 at 2:00 p.m. ET: Part One:

Layale Chaker (violin) & Milena Casado (flugelhorn, trumpet, voice): ‘First Movement’ Nature Mort & ‘Second Movement’ Preguntas

Diane Monroe (violin) & Rebekah Heller (bassoon, voice): Hope Is the Thing with Feathers

Ria Modak (guitar) & Barbara Togander (voice, turntable, electronics): People of Many Lands

Sunday, March 20 at 2:00 p.m. ET: Part Two:

Song Yi Jeon (voice) & Eli Maliwan aka Saxreligious (saxophones, woodwinds, EWI): Intervallic Experimentasian

Rani Jambak (electronic, soundscape, vocals) & Sheila Maurice-Grey (trumpet, vocals, visual artist): Petals of the Rising Sun

Francesca Tanksley (Piano) & Thandi Ntuli (Piano/Vocals): Change of Heart

Co-commissioned by Mutual Mentorship for Musicians (M³), Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Arlene and Larry Dunn, and New Music USA, made possible by annual program support and/or endowment gifts from Helen F. Whitaker Fund, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc., The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts, Fidelity Foundation, The Rodgers & Hammerstein Foundation, Anonymous.

Special thanks to our Anthology of Writings Developmental Editor Naomi Extra, media The Foundation, Nancy & Joe Walker, Vanessa Reed, Sara Donnelly, South Arts Jazz Road, NYC Winter Jazz Festival, CRS (Center for Remembering and Sharing), Christopher Pelham, Emily Bookwalter, Tracy Hyter-Suffern, Ryan Maloney, The National Jazz Museum in Harlem, and to M³’s fiscal sponsor New York Foundation for the Arts.