The Spider & The Stars – Album Release at Hopewell Valley Stage

sp(inner)ace, pronounced “Inner-Space”, is the debut album of composer/vocalist Allison Spann and producer/musician Scott Li, childhood next-door neighbors (Cranbury, NJ!) turned beloved collaborators. The story of a spider who spins her web between the stars, this live rendition of the genre bending contemporary classical album will move you and set your imagination on fire.

About the creators:

Allison Spann is a Brooklyn-based performance creator who uses voice and collaborative art-making as tools for connectivity and transformation. She is a multi-genre vocalist, actor, and composer. Winner of the Princeton Concerto Competition, recipient of the Richardson Auditorium Artist in Residency, semifinalist at the O’Neill’s National Music Theater Conference, and winner of the Edward T. Cone Prize for music composition, performance, and scholarship, Spann has reached audiences from The Kennedy Center, La Maison Symphonique de Montréal, and jazz clubs around the globe. www.allisonspann.com

Scott Li is a NYC-based classically trained violinist, composer, performer, improviser, filmmaker, recording engineer, and sound artist blending the tonal Romantic chamber music tradition with emotive experimental ambient electronic music. Hailed as “one of the pioneers of the next generation’s classical music”, Li’s compositions fuse modular synthesis, live processing, fixed media, film, photography, dance, and prose with elements of classical chamber music to “create a simultaneous understanding of The Beautiful and The Sublime, while exhibiting unparalleled emotional induction.” (Téa Mottolese, The Crossfader, 2019). www.scottli.co