About

Experimental composer-vocalist Sarah Grace Graves venerates the ritual of performance, weaving together ancient and contemporary music, improvised and orally transmitted music, songs and virtuosic vocal sound that is neither spoken nor sung to express something internal that at the same time transcends the confines of the human body. She is an avid interpreter of the music of Carol Robinson, Giacinto Scelsi, and Erin Gee, among many others.

From 2020-2022 she studied extended vocal techniques with Nicholas Isherwood at Conservatoire de Montbéliard while conducting an artistic residency at the Fondation des États-Unis in Paris centered around interdisciplinary collaboration with the voice. In summer 2023 she was in residence at the Fondazione Isabella Scelsi in Rome as the 2022 Michiko Hirayama Fellow. She is now in the composition PhD program at UC Berkeley.

She has duo projects with Eda Er, Virginia Guidi, and Julie Zhu and has collaborated with Carol Robinson, Helēna Sorokina, Yarn/Wire, EXAUDI, and the Italian new vocal music ensemble Fragmente. She is an alumna of the Voix Nouvelles Academy at Royaumont and the Harriet Hale Woolley residency at the Fondation des États-Unis.

Her solo album Currents is available on Bandcamp.