Anaïs Maviel is a composer, artist, vocalist & multi-instrumentalist dedicated to translating spiritual concepts to sensory experiences, using sound as medicine & alchemy. With traditional and experimental approaches, her works investigate the power of sound to shape reality, and emphasize the relevance of cultural hybridity. She navigates song, choral, instrumental, orchestral music, and staging with a strong connection to cosmologies of sound and speech rooted in oral traditions such as mantra and ring shout. She strives to bridge the gaps between genres and to create a diverse, inclusive, yet sacred musical experience. Highlights in her music collaborations include Alarm Will Sound, The Rhythm Method, Chiquita Magic, Meshell Ndegeocello, M.Takara, and William Parker. Equally impactful have been several collaborations with dance, including Contra-Tiempo, Urban Bush Women, Merce Cunningham Trust, Okwui Okpokwasili, Melanie Maar, and the Commons Choir. Visual arts collaborators include Nene Humphrey, Sean Webley, and Steffani Jemison. Anaïs facilitates vocal liberation with a focus on the body, its environmental, archetypal, and cosmic resonances. Both her solo albums received international acclaim, and among the generous press shout outs, Jazz Right Now has called her a "unique aesthetic visionary". She is an awardee of the 2019 Van Lier Fellowship, 2020 American Composers Forum Create, 2021-2022 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, 2022 NYFA Artists Fellowship, 2023 New Music USA’s Next Jazz Legacy, and a 2023 Herb Alpert Award in Music nominee. Lastly, she holds a masters degree from Paris Diderot University in modern literature, aesthetics, and contemporary thought, which led her to write about the stakes of music and utopia in the creolized world. One can read her essays & poetry in the form of intimate newsletters.
