The Quarantine Trilogy Constance Hauman, Ross Pederson, Julia Adamy

• 1 The Quarantine Trilogy: I. Panacea 08:18
• 2 The Quarantine Trilogy: II. Total Lockdown 05:01
• 3 The Quarantine Trilogy: III. Apollo 04:12
• 4 The Quarantine Trilogy: IV. Spirit 08:08
• Total Runtime 25:39

Info for The Quarantine Trilogy

The Quarantine Triology is a recording of instrumental works written and performed by Constance Hauman during the Covid-19 pandemic in New York. The recording includes four tracks, three of which were written in March 2020 prior to the lockdown. The recording marks Hauman’s first foray as a solo pianist and her first release of purely instrumental music. The recording features Hauman (piano), with contributions from the celebrated jazz virtuosi, Ross Pederson (percussion, synthesizers) and Julia Adamy (bass).

One of the most versatile performing artists on today’s contemporary music scene, Hauman’s rich imagination continually leads her to new realms of self-expression and artistic creation. In The Quarantine Trilogy she articulates her personal experience of the most disruptive, isolating, yet communally shared event of our time.

Following two highly acclaimed solo vocal albums, created with co-producer Ross Pederson, singer/songwriter Constance Hauman leaves the vocals behind on The Quarantine Trilogy and channels her voice into the piano. The tracks Panacea, Total Lockdown and Apollo are real-time improvisations between Hauman and Pederson. They were recorded at Isotopia Studios on the eve of New York City’s lockdown resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic. As social distancing regulations interrupted their recording sessions, they decided to leave the three tracks in their improvised states with the exception of Apollo for which Pederson and Julia Adamy remotely added drums and bass.

Spirit is an improvisation created by Hauman and Pederson on 13th January 2017, three days after Barak Obama’s Farewell Address. What began as an improvisation between strings and piano, became a moving tribute to President Obama’s legacy. Pederson asked Hauman if she wanted to add vocals or lyrics. Looking out the window at the full moon, Hauman said ‘There is only one voice I want to hear right now.’ They took phrases from Obama’s speech and added them to the track. Since Spirit‘s release on Soundcloud in 2017, the track has received over 85,000 streams internationally. Hauman comments on the inclusion of Spirit on this recording, ‘Given the uncanny and unsettling timing of this catastrophic pandemic and with the virulent and divisive political climate of this election year, it seemed fitting to add Spirit to The Quarantine Trilogy‘.

Constance Hauman, piano
Ross Pederson, percussion, synthesizers
Julia Adamy, bass

Constance Hauman
is a singer, pianist, actress and producer. During her wide-ranging career, she has appeared at major opera houses and concert halls and worked in the film industry. She has sung at New York City Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Washington National Opera, Canadian Opera, English National Opera, Opéra de Nice, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Opéra National de Paris and Hong Kong Festival, to name just a few. She has worked with the Berlin Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, San Francisco Symphony and London Symphony orchestras. Her solo album Falling Into Now made it into the Guardian’s Top 10 Pop Albums 2015. Its successor, High Tides, appeared in 2019. Constance Hauman has toured the US and Europe as musical director, keyboarder and producer of the band Miss Velvet and the Blue Wolf. Her live recording of Alban Berg’s Lulu, in which she sang the title role, was just as much of a success as her Alice/Renee in Olga Neuwirth and Elfriede Jelinek’s stage adaptation of David Lynch’s film Lost Highway. As Cunegonde in Candide she was directed by Leonard Bernstein and racked up a full 150 performances of this role. In 2000, she made her ROH Covent Garden debut in Harrison Birtwistle’s Gawain.

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