CHIMERA

Multiple beings, intelligences, and artifacts merge in performance to momentarily enliven a new entity. Inspired by the image of the Chimera of classical mythology and its uncanny reality in contemporary biology, bass Andrew Robert Munn and pianist Rami Sarieddine founded Chimera in January 2019 to build on their five years of close collaboration. The voice and piano duo forms the nucleus of a collaborative hub between musicians, living and deceased composers and poets, scholars, and interdisciplinary artists. The duo’s interpretations have been shaped by coaching with Thomas Quasthoff, Peter Sellers, Peter Serkin, Sanford Sylvan, and Dawn Upshaw. Steeped in tradition, they combine a deep exploration of the classical song repertoire with a taste for informed experimentation, focusing on the relationship between, and inseparability of, human and natural forces. They have presented recitals in Abu Dhabi, Athens, Berlin, New York, Nicosia, Paris, and at Bard College.

STUDIO RECORDINGS

Hugo Wolf / Drei Lieder nach Gedichten von Michelangelo / 2018

1. Wohl denk’ ich oft an mein vergangnes Leben

2. Alles endet was entstehet

3. Fühlt meine Seele das ersehnte Licht

Conrad Winslow / Viewing Rooms / with Conrad Winslow, piano four hands / 2020

1. The Windows (1903), C.P. Cavafy

2. Across the space (1952), Tennessee Williams

3. Club L’Esclave (2012), Garth Greenwell

Nina C. Young / Prelude to the Anthropocene / with Julian Lambert, contrabass / 2015

LIVE RECORDINGS

Mortal Desire / Paris / 2020

Video: Schubert,Goerthe Lieder, Ganymed, Prometheus, Grenzen der Menschheit
Mozart, Per questa bella mano, with Hugo Abraham, double bass

Echoes of the Classics / Athens / 2019

Video: Barber, Three Songs on Poems of James Joyce, Op. 10
Full Performance Video
Program Notes (PDF))

Winterreise / Bard College, New York / 2016

Full Performance Video on request / Program Notes (PDF)

INTERVIEWS

Art Song, Poetry, and the world premiere of Andys Skordis’ Lo…on

Cyprus Broadcast Company in Nicosia Cyprus / 2019
with Andreas Iacovides and Rami Sarieddine /