GENERATIVE PERFORMING ARTIST

Allison Spann is a Brooklyn-based performance creator who uses voice and collaborative art-making as tools for connectivity and transformation. She is a multi-genre vocalist, actor, composer, producer, and educator. Winner of the Princeton Concerto Competition, recipient of the Richardson Auditorium Artist in Residency, semifinalist at the O’Neill’s National Music Theater Conference, and winner of the Edward T. Cone Prize for music composition, performance, and scholarship, Spann has reached audiences from The Kennedy Center, La Maison Symphonique de Montréal, and jazz clubs around the globe. She has worked as a soloist with Gustavo Dudamel, Laurie Anderson, Bobby McFerrin, Archie Shepp, Billy Childs, Roomful of Teeth, and Darcy James Argue, among others. Spann shares her passion for education in her private music studio, where she teaches beginners and professionals alike. She is the producer and vocalist for Constellation Big Band and co-creator of STICKS, a new musical. Spann holds a BA in music from Princeton University (magna cum laude).