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Sherry Woods
Sherry Woods’ music has been described as “beautiful and riveting.”
(Charleston Post)
Her string quartet Chambers written for the Ciompi quartet was called “a winner” that “swarmed with shimmering color and buzzing rhythms, fluttering and flitting in a busy rush.”
(Classical Voice of North Carolina)
Māra A Chamber Opera with libretto written by Stephen Batchelor, was performed in concert version at the Rubin Museum in New York City in 2017. Scenes from the opera were presented in Santa Fe, New Mexico with a panel comprised of librettist Stephen Batchelor, stage director Ronn Smith, music director Benjamin Woods, and composer Sherry Woods on March 5, 2020. The Buddha’s Death, the final scene from Māra, A Chamber Opera, was performed at the Music by Women Festival at Mississippi University for Women on March 6, 2020.
Most recently, Shakespeare’s Garden for Soprano, Tenor, Flute, Violin, Viola, Cello, Percussion and Speaker follows a line of multi-media works that mingle art, music, and historical aspects to form a script taken from the actual works of William Shakespeare using texts referring to plants and vegetation. This music points to the global climate distress in the world around us. Shakespeare’s Garden was performed as the conclusion to a symposium called Global Environment in Early Modernity at Yale University April 19-20, 2024.