Roomful of Teeth, one of the highlights of Lawrence University’s 2024-25 Performing Arts Series, will take the stage of Memorial Chapel on April 4.
The two-time Grammy Award-winning ensemble features Estelí Gomez, a voice professor in the Conservatory of Music since 2019.
The concert is set for 7:30 p.m. Tickets can be purchased through the Lawrence Box Office by calling 920-832-6749.
The ensemble is dedicated to the performance of new works. Through collaboration, commissioning, and new technologies, they seek to reimagine the expressive potential of the human voice.
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Roomful of Teeth’s latest album, Rough Magic (New Amsterdam Records, 2023), was captured using groundbreaking recording techniques and innovative spatial technology. The ensemble was recognized at the 66th Grammy Awards in 2024, winning Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance for Rough Magic; and composer William Brittelle’s work, Psychedelics, which appears on the album, was nominated for Best Contemporary Classical Composition.
“I’m so glad to have this album out in the world finally, after eight years between our second and third albums,” Gomez said at the time of the Grammy win. “We’re really proud of it. It’s an honor for our group to have been nominated for Grammys for all three of our albums, but this one is such a special mix of music that we’ve gotten to tour and dig into over years of live performances, commissioning projects, and artist residencies.”
Roomful of Teeth also won a Grammy in 2014 in the same ensemble performance category for their self-titled debut album, and they were nominated in two other categories. They were nominated again in 2016 following the release of their second album, Render.
Roomful of Teeth previously visited Lawrence in 2014 and 2017. It was those visits that inspired Gomez to join the Conservatory faculty, she said when she began teaching at Lawrence in 2019.
“In my musical travels over the last decade, having visited nearly 80 institutions of higher learning, no school has better exemplified my ideals for a multi-faceted, holistic approach to music education than Lawrence,” Gomez said. “As an undergraduate at Yale, I benefitted so deeply from my liberal arts education, while also exploring courses and ensembles offered through the graduate School of Music and Institute of Sacred Music. I believe wholeheartedly in access to interdisciplinary resources and know that such access allowed me to become the adaptable, multi-genre, self-managed musician I am today.”
