The Amity Trio is roaring into Indiana, bringing a full eight days of activities to Bloomington and surrounding rural communities. The group will be joined next week for a variety of performances and workshops featuring Nur Slim’s opera Lucrecia y el Canto de los Dudasaurios, a special appearance by IU alum and tubist Richard White in recital titled The Dance Goes On, and a premier of Maggie Polk-Olivo’s recently commissioned song set, Illuminating Apologues. A complete list of events is included at the end of this article.
The Amity Trio will be first performing Nur Slim’s children’s opera Lucrecia y el Canto de los Dudasaurios. “Nur is one of the first people that we had asked to write a commission for Amity,”
says pianist Kimberly Carballo. “She’s an amazing artist of all sorts. She started as a jazz musician and guitarist and sort of came to composition through that and through being a working musician on a rock band tour…she is just so fantastic to work with and a composer with a completely unique voice and a lot of interesting things to say.” The opera will be sung in Spanish by mezzo-soprano Olga Perez Flora, while Nur Slim will make an appearance to narrate the opera in English.
The Amity Trio, consisting of soprano Katie Dukes, horn player Michael Walker, and pianist Kimberly Carballo, is a strong advocate for music written by living composers, especially that of underrepresented voices. Officially formed in 2018, the group met during a community engagement project near the end of their school studies and have been working and performing together ever since.
