“Rarely are performers as at home at Lincoln Center
as they are in a sweat lodge. Composer, cellist, vocalist,
educator and Grammy-nominated performer Dawn Avery is
equally comfortable with either. Working with musical
luminaries from Luciano Pavarotti to Sting, Dawn spent
years honing her musical talents, collaborating and performing
with John Cage, Glen Velez, Joanne Shenandoah, David Darling,
Ustad Sultan Kahn, Sussan Deyhim, Karsh Kale, Baba Olatunji,
Reza Derakshani, John Cale, Jeff Ball, Ron Warren, and
Mischa Maisky.
Dawn Avery has performed at the Montreux, Copenhagen,
Helsinki and Banlieu Bleu Jazz Festivals in Europe. She’s
played uptown at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, as
well as in New York’s thriving downtown music stages
like the Knitting Factory, La Mama and Thread Waxing Space.
Dawn Avery specializes in the performance of Native American
music with her own ensemble OKENTI, indigenous classical
music with her cello, voice and percussion duo CELLOVISION!
and in a Persian Duo with Reza Derakshani.
As an educator, Dawn helps to nurture future generations
of musicians as Professor of Music at Montgomery
College where she also produces an annual World Arts
Festival.
Dawn Avery’s compositions span from orchestral ro
chamber to contemporary. She has collected awards for
her works from the American Dance Festival at Duke University,
NYU, Meet the Composer, the Maryland Flute Association
and the Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County
in Maryland.
Dawn’s exploration of sacred music led her to study
the relationship between music and spirituality, especially
in meditative practice. She has led meditation groups
and spiritual music performances at the Milan Sacred Music
Festival, the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, The
Open Center in NYC and Musicales Visuales in Mexico City.”
As leader of meditation and creativity workshops, she
has worked with such great healers as the Dalai Lama,
Rick Jarow, Ron Young, and Hilda Charleton."
Virginia Prescott, radio producer and journalist.
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“A
mixture of Ethnic and Classical!
A style all her own!” “Magical,
passionate and virtuosic exploration of ethnic song and
extended technique.”
Kitty Brazelton,

“Sumptuous vocalizing, a style we
associate with Meredith Monk.” Linda Belans,

“Ms. Buckholz Avery’s work evokes
the confusion and pathos of city life, incorporating thorny
jazz textures, folk songs, fierce rock rhythms, and performance-art
set pieces. The composer dominated her instrumental ensemble,
drawing weird sounds from her cello and singing forcefully.
Alex Ross,

“. . .the public was enchanted, demanding an encore!”
Cesar Delgado Martinez,

“. . .her voice produces chants, strongly reminiscent
of medieval song, bringing to mind the Australian duet,
Dead Can Dance, only more daring!” New Music Across
America,
MUSICALES VISUALES
“She plucks, bows and sometimes sings
in a strange language of her own. There’s a freshness
to this work. Suzanne Sloat,
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