Team 2: Let it hurt you then let it heal you / Je peux aimer

Samuel Beebe, composer
Sara Costantino, poet
Natasha Nelson, mezzo-soprano
Rebecca Wuu, pianist

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Let it hurt you then let it heal you

Je peux aimer (I can love)

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Team 2 Bios:

Composer and sound designer Samuel Beebe explores the dramatic possibilities of music and sound. He holds a Ph.D. in Music Composition from Stony Brook University, along with degrees from Boston University and Northeastern University. Beebe is a Visiting Lecturer at Salem State University and Merrimack College. Samuelbeebe.com

Based in New York, Sara Costantino works extensively in theater and medical simulation. A writer of various forms, she maintains the poetry blog Where They Harvest Pluviophiles, and received the Stony Brook University Southampton’s Children’s Literature Fellowship. She holds degrees in Theatre and Public Relations from Pennsylvania State University. Wheretheyharvestpluviophiles.tumblr.com

Natasha Nelson began the 2022-23 season performing with the Opera Philadelphia Chorus in Festival O22. Natasha has performed in recital at the Dramatists Guild of America and in concert in Austria and Italy. She hosts a radio show featuring contemporary classical music on WUSB 90.1FM/107.3FM, broadcasting to Long Island, NY.

Rebecca Wuu is a Taiwanese-American pianist and music educator based in New York City. At age 13, she made her concerto debut performing Mozart's Concerto No. 20 with the Oakland Civic Orchestra. She is an active performer and has played in venues throughout the US and participated in festivals in Italy and China. Rebecca received a BM in Piano Performance and Recording Arts and MA in Audio Science at The Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University. She earned her MM at Mannes in New York under the tutelage of Professor Eteri Andjaparidze and is currently pursuing her DMA at SUNY Stony Brook, studying with Gilbert Kalish.

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Presented by Sparks & Wiry Cries for the 2023 songSLAM Festival.

Filmed November 19-20, 2022, at the Blue Building, New York City.

Sparks & Wiry Cries gratefully acknowledges that all of our events take place on the unceded territory of the Munsee Lenape and Wappinger peoples. We honor and pay respect to their ancestors past and present, as well as to future generations and we recognize their continuing presence in their homelands.

Audio/Video: Neville Braithewaite, Executive Producer; Julia Norelli, Audio Engineer

songSLAM Production: Victoria Browers

Administrative support: Maeve Berry, Lucy Fitz Gibbon, Jardena Gertler-Jaffe

Sparks & Wiry Cries: Co-Founded & Co-Directed by Martha Guth & Erika Switzer