Bard Vocal Arts Alum Aiden K. Feltkamp ’16 Curates Collection of Music for Transgender, Nonbinary Voices

Bard Vocal Arts alum Aiden K. Feltkamp ’16 wants to help transgender and nonbinary people have their voices heard. Anthology of New Music: Trans & Nonbinary Voices, curated by Feltkamp, is thought to be the first compiled volume of songs written for and/or by transgender and nonbinary people. “It’s been in my brain for a long time,” said Feltkamp of the collection. “I really, really love art song, but so much of it was so gendered and I found that it was really hard to connect to it for that reason. Because it was either you had to sing this very feminine music about being a woman or it was this music that . . . was still very much about being a man in the world in the 18th century or whatever.” The compositions featured in the anthology are from 2007 to 2019. “It's really a starting place as a singer to find repertoire, and as a teacher it’s also a place to find things to suggest to students, to teach to students,” says Feltkamp.

Post Date: 03-01-2022