Guitarist, composer and improviser Mary Halvorson has been named a 2019 MacArthur Fellow, receiving the $625,000 award regarded informally because the ‘Genius’ Grant.
As one of the 26 chosen fellows, who run the gamut from legal professionals to philosophers to geophysicists, the Boston-raised, New York-based artist will get hold of from the MacArthur Foundation a no-strings-connected grant of $625,000 to be disbursed over a length of five years.
“I’ve continually played guitar with a strong assault,” Halvorson says in a brand new video produced with the aid of the MacArthur Foundation, “and I’ve constantly valued the physicality of the device, and in reality being capable of listen the wooden and the resonance.”
Learn approximately Halvorson’s creative manner, her enjoy as a girl guitarist inside the jazz world and more within the video underneath:
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Halvorson’s closing releases had been a joint album with Robbie Lee titled Seed Triangular, released September 2018, and a double album Code Girl in April 2018. Next month, she can launch A Tangle Of Stars, a report made in collaboration with Deerhoof’s John Dieterich. She is also working on a 2d album with her Code Girl collaborators.