World Premiere: New Works by Danielle Jagelski and JL Marlor

An enrolled citizen of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and Red Cliff Band of Ojibwe, composer Danielle Jagelski often collaborates and performs with other Indigenous and Native American artists. She is passionate about kinship building and decolonization through interdisciplinary projects. JL Marlor is a multidisciplinary artist, composer, electric guitarist, songwriter, and educator whose work blurs the boundaries between the personal and political, the collective and individual, and the classical and contemporary.

As part of Recomposing America, ACF has commissioned new works from Danielle and JL for Protestra, an NYC-based activist orchestra that bridges the divide between advocacy and classical music. The new orchestral works will highlight the concepts of girlhood and womanhood as they relate to the history and future of America.

Recomposing America is a multi-year initiative led by American Composers Forum that highlights artistic perspectives unique to the United States and the broader Americas through direct commissions, institutional collaborations, and public dialogue. Timed with the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Recomposing America aims to refresh and reimagine the “who,” “what,” and “why” of the United States, and the stories therein.