Verna Gillis

Verna Gillis

Verna Gillis is a free-lance producer who has gained recognition for her work promoting and producing music from various cultural backgrounds.

From 1972 to 1978, Gillis recorded traditional music in Afghanistan, Iran, Kashmir, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Peru , Surinam, and Ghana. In 1979, she opened Soundscape, a multi-cultural performance space in New York City, which she directed for the next five years.

After the closing of Soundscape in 1984, Gillis worked career development with such musicians as Youssou N'dour from Senegal, Yomo Toro from Puerto Rico; Salif Keita form Mali, and Carlinhos Brown from Brazil.

Presently, Gillis represents jazz legend Roswell Rudd and continues to work with Yomo Toro.

In 1996, she was hired as a consultant by the ICRC to accompany musicians on a trip to Angola, Liberia, Kenya and South African to witness first hand the results of ethnic cleansing. Gillis worked with the International Committee of the Red Cross to produce a CD.

Twenty-five of Gillis' recordings have been released by Smithsonian Folkways and Lyrichord.

As well, there have been 9 releases on DIW of LIVE FROM SOUNDSCAPE tapes made during the years that the performance space which was located at 500 West 52nd Street was open.

In 2000, she was nominated for a Grammy in the Producer category for the Archie Shepp/Roswell Rudd Quartet LIVE IN NEW YORK and again in 2001 for Roswell Rudd's MALIcool.

Gillis holds a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology. She was an Assistant Professor at Brooklyn College from 1974 to 1980 and at Carnegie Mellon University from 1988 to 1990.

Discography

* 1973 "Folk Music from Afghanistan: In Kabul" (Lyrichord LLST 7259)
* 1973 "Folk Music from Kashmir: On Lake Dal" (Lyrichord LLST 7260)
* 1973 "Folk Music from Iran: Luristan and Fars Provinces" (Lyrichord LLST 7261)
* 1976 "The Island of Quisqueya - Dominican Republic - Vol. I" (Folkways FE 4281)
* 1976 "The Island of Española - Dominican Republic - Vol. II" (Folkways FE 4281)
* 1976 "Cradle of the New World - Dominican Republic - Vol. III" (Folkways FE 4283)
* 1976 "Peru: Music from the Land of Macchu Picchu" (Lyrichord LLST 7294)
* 1976 "Vodun: Radad Rite for Erzulie - Haiti" (Folkways FE 4491)
* 1977 "Suriname - Javanese Music" (Lyrichord LLST 7317)
* 1978 "Songs from the North - Dominican Republic - Vol. LV" (Folkways FE 4284)
* 1978 "Rara in Haiti - Gaga in the Dominican Republic" (Folkways 4531)
* 1978 "Kora Music from the Gambia - Foday Music Suso" (Folkways FW 8510)
* 1978 "Anpao - An American Indian Odyssey" (Folkways FC 7776)
* 1978 "Ghana - Music of the Northern Tribes" (Lyrichord LLST 7321)
* 1978 "Music of the Dagomba from Ghana" (Folkways FTS 32425)
*1979 "Comanche Flute Music Played by Doc Tate Nevaquaya" (Folkways FE 4328)
*1979 "Music of the Ashanti of Ghana" (Folkways FE 4240)
* 1979 "David "Honeboy" Edwards - Mississippi Delta Blues Singer" (Folkways FTS 32425)
* 1979 "Rev. Audrey Bronson - Are You Ready for Christmas?" (Folkways FS 32425)
* 1980 "African, New York - Drum Masterpieces with Ladji Camara" (Lyrichord LLST 7345)
* 1981 "South Indian Strings - L. Subramaniam" (Lyrichord LLST 7350)
* 1981 "Merengues from the Dominican Republic" (Lyrichord LLST 7351
* 1981 "Traditional Women's Music from Ghana" (Folkways FE 4257)
* 1981 "From Slavery to Freedom - Music of the Saramaka Maroons of Suriname" (Lyrichord - List 7354)
* 1982 "Nicholas Guillen - Poet Laureate of Revolutionary Cuba" (Folkways FI 9941)
* 1985 "Music of Cuba" (Folkways FE 4064)

External links

* [http://www.vernagillis.com/ Verna Gillis official site]


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