Kara-Lis Coverdale – Music for Organ

Music

Pipe organ is a connective tissue throughout Kara-Lis Coverdale’s opus, underpinning her spectral understanding of sound and harmony. After a hiatus from the instrument for strict focus on electronic touring from 2016–2018, she began to explore solo pipe organ performance internationally. Underlying these works is a spectral sensitivity tempered with animism and weavings of harmonic interjections, described by New York Times writer Jon Pareles as “elevated, disembodied contemplation, patiently celestial.” As part of The Dark, Coverdale presents a program of newly created works for the organ at St. James Church in Chatham along with previously composed material.