Som Dela is dedicated to performing multi-genre music by women composers from Brazil, including their original compositions, as well as the music of Léa Freire, Luisa Mitre, Carol Panesi, Chiquinha Gonzaga, Anat Cohen, Daniella Spielmann, Lucianna Rabello, and more. For hundreds of years, women’s voices as composers and performers all over the world have been ignored, marginalized, dismissed, and discouraged. Som Dela is part of the movement to retrieve, uncover, support and celebrate the historic compositions of women through research, musical arrangements, and active live performances.
Som Dela emerged from the friendships of four accomplished women in the Bay Area music scene, performers, improvisers, and composers in multiple styles: Irene Sazer, violinist/composer, founder of Real Vocal String Quartet and an original member of the Turtle Island Quartet; Jane Lenoir, flutist, director of Berkeley Choro and Festival, and a versatile performer in classical, baroque, jazz and other styles; Rebecca Hass, pianist/composer/founder of Women Composers’ Collective, and Michaelle Goerlitz, percussionist, a long-time member of multiple ensembles covering styles including Latin jazz, Brazilian, Middle Eastern, AfroCuban, singer-songwriter, and new music.
