'); Misha Penton, United States, Texas, Houston | Fresh Arts Artist Registry

Misha Penton


About

I’m a soprano, composer, director, writer, filmmaker, and collaborator. I invent and
perform solo and collaborative dramatic new music works. My projects blossom in many
forms: live performance, audio projects, video works, site specific installations, visual art works,
lyrics, and writings.

My music is a blend of futuristic art song and chamber electronica—
you will hear the rise and fall of my many layered voices in swirling electronic soundscapes.
My music inhabits a dreamworld where poetry comes alive in the movement of language
through the voice and body. From a delicate spider-silk tone thread to a shimmering and
cascading wail—I use all of my vocal skills to discover something new and uncharted. I
make my home in Houston, Texas and I’ve come to love the dystopian beauty of Houston’s
spiraling super highways, the cathedral-like concrete pilings of the underpasses, the
wildflower-lined bayous, and the ever-expanding glass and steel of the metropolis.

Recent projects include a 13-part Micro Opera Project including my (micro)Requiem inspired
by Mozart’s unfinished Requiem in D minor; Visible Darkness, a new postopera music video;
Threshold, a site specific experimental ensemble performance inspired by the ancient Greek
Eleusinian Mysteries created for the cavernous and iconic Silos at Sawyer Yards in Houston, as
well as the release of the Threshold music video; Anecdote of the Spirit, a contemplative work
created the Rothko Chapel in Houston; Visible Darkness, a voice and fixed media work that
premiered at Voice and the Unknown, an international vocal performance research symposium,
Inter Arts Center, Malmö, Sweden; The Medusa Project, a multi-version monodrama for
voice and media comprised of films, writings, and installations including Medusa Emergent:
a film and sound work created for the 35’ high MediaWall at Bath Spa University, UK; This is
our universe
, a new monodrama based on the work of Virginia Woolf; Siren on the Sabine,
a dramatic music-dance piece inspired by Homer’s Odyssey which premiered at The Menil
Collection; the fall 2021 release of a new set of video miniatures, Creation Stories, related
to the phases of the moon and inspired by sacred cosmogony texts; and the newly released
music video EP, Radiant Poison, an exploration of our delicate and ephemeral bodies.

I made my directorial debut with Houston Grand Opera directing A Rose, a new web opera
in HGO’s series Star Cross’d, as well as singing a principal role in the music workshop for a
new opera with the company. I’ve been delighted to be a guest artist at The Juilliard School,
Concordia University Montreal, University of Regina, Canada, University of Houston Honors
College, Sam Houston State University, Texas, A&M College Station, and Lone Star College
Montgomery, Texas.

Upcoming projects include a full-length album released as singles over the coming year.


Additional Information

Willing to be contacted for: Directing, collaborations, commissions, panels,, etc

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Contact

Houston, Texas 77009
United States