Shara Nova has released five indie rock albums under the moniker My Brightest Diamond and has composed works for The Crossing, Conspirare, Cantus Domus, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Roomful of Teeth, The Detroit Opera touring company, many community choirs, yMusic, Brooklyn Rider, as well as Aarhus Symfoni, Cincinnati Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, American Composers Orchestra and the BBC Concert Orchestra, among others.
Ms. Nova has composed for theater and film with such artists as Matthew Barney (River of Fundament), Matthew Ritchie (Infinite Movement), playwright / librettist Andrew Ondrejcak (Kings of Macedonia; You Us We All, Hermès), puppeteer Lake Simons (Alice in Wonderland) and Adam Rapp (Trueblinka directed by Simon Hammerstein).
In 2019, she composed for over 600 musicians along with the Cincinnati Symphony, a piece entitled “Look Around,” with director Mark DeChiazza. Her baroque chamber p’opera “You Us We All” premiered in the US in October 2015 at BAM Next Wave Festival. With co-composer and performer Helga Davis, Nova created a four screen film entitled “Ocean Body,” along with director Mark DeChiazza, which premiered at The Momentary in August 2021..
Ms. Nova composed and is the featured singer on ‘23 Grammy nominated album “The Blue Hour” with the string orchestra A Far Cry and co-composers Rachel Grimes, Angélica Negrón, Sarah Kirkland Snider and Caroline Shaw on Nonesuch Records (Sept ‘22).
Nova is a Kresge Arts fellow, a Carolina Performing Arts Creative Futures fellow, a Knights Grant recipient, a United States Artists fellow, a New Music USA recipient, an Opera America Discovery Grant awardee. In 2023 three of Shara’s projects were nominated for Grammy awards.
https://www.mybrightestdiamond.com/
Photo: Shervin Lainez