Neko Cortez '20

Summer 2019

Finding My Unique Voice Through Musical Syncretism

Neko Cortez will travel to Quezon City, Philippines in the Summer of 2019 to research traditional instruments and styles, pedagogical techniques that share music inter-generationally, and how music functions in the community and intersects with other art forms. Neko will compose and arrange a work which combines elements of traditional Southeast Asian music forms with jazz music, and on return will perform a concert of the new work.