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Luminous Being is a multi sensory performance for solo violin and sound responsive light art, interweaving classical repertoire spanning the 12th through 21st centuries with original music and arrangements by Audrey Wright for a magical, poetic, and playful exploration into the connections between sound, light, and technology. For the performance, Audrey adorns a bespoke garment of wearable light art created by Geoff Robertson, embodying a luminous being of colors, shapes, and sounds. Part solo recital, part installation, and part theater distilled into one unique and intimate space, this is a collective experience that transports and illuminates. To enhance this, the program is performed in low light and without pause. LUMINOUS BEING is ultimately about being fully present and awakening the senses through a journey from darkness into light. 

Audrey Wright is a multifaceted artist across solo, chamber music, and orchestral realms. She joined the New York Philharmonic in 2022 and has been the concertmaster of the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra since 2018. She previously served as associate concertmaster of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. With a passion for innovative programming and juxtaposing a wide range of musical styles, her repertoire spans the 12th century to the modern day, and her performing experience includes the full spectrum of these muslcal styles, from period performance practice to the premiering of new and personally commissioned works. Her debut album, Things in Pairs, with pianist Yundu Wang, was released on Navona Records in 2022.

Geoff Robertson is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York City with a focus in experimental photography, sculpture, industrial design, and interactive installations. With a creative output that is driven both by a self-taught background in the arts and a formal education in human factors and applied cognitive psychology, his work welcomes interaction and challenges the viewer’s notions of technical possibility. His current practice explores themes of material waste, networks, connections, and the natural world. By incorporating custom design and self-engineered props and apparatuses, he creates surreal, luminous, and often whimsical works that have been described as “intriguing and illusionary”.