Ars Nova Workshop presents the vocalist-composer and Whitney Biennial 2024 participant Holland Andrews for a two-night residency at Solar Myth, September 19-20.

Brooklyn-based Holland Andrews is a vocalist, composer, producer, and performer whose work focuses on the abstraction of operatic and extended-technique voice to build cathartic and dissonant soundscapes. Andrews arranges music for voice, clarinet, and electronics and frequently highlights themes surrounding vulnerability and healing, harnessing these instruments’ innate qualities of power and elegance to serve as a cohesive vessel for these themes. As a vocalist, their influences stem from a dynamic range including contemporary opera, theater, and jazz, while also cultivating their own unique vocal style which integrates these influences with language disintegration, vocal distortion, and environmental ambience.

Andrews previously performed solo music under the stage name Like a Villain. Andrews also composes and performs for dance, theater, and film, and their work is toured nationally and internationally with artists such as Bill T. Jones, Dorothee Munyaneza, Will Rawls, Sonya Tayeh, Jenn Freeman, and poet Demian Dinéyazhi. Notable musical collaborations include Son Lux, Nils Frahm, Christina Vantzou, William Brittelle, Methods Body, West Thordson, Darian Donovan Thomas, and eddy kwon.