Anaïs Maviel

Anaïs Maviel’s work as a vocalist, composer, percussionist and artistic director focuses on the function of art to address Relation. With sound, she intends to lay common grounds for utopian futures. Connecting intimacy and subconscious narratives with collective and large-scale principles, Anaïs navigates song, choral, instrumental music and staging with a strong connection to cosmologies of sound and speech rooted in oral traditions such as mantra and ring shout.

With traditional and experimental approaches, she investigates the power of sound to shape reality. Anaïs cares for the stakes of hybridity in culture, working towards opening up the interstices between genres, for a multiple, inclusive-yet-sacred experience of music. She conducted scholarly research on music & utopia in Black American music, interviewed master musicians and has a sustained poetic and essay writing practice. An in-demand collaborator, Anaïs has worked with William Parker, Meshell Ndegeocello, String Noise, Contra Tiempo, Alarm Will Sound, Okwui Okpokwasili and Stefani Jemison, among many artists across mediums. She is an awardee of the 2019 Van Lier Fellowship, 2020 American Composers Forum Create, 2021-2022 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, 2022 NYFA Artists Fellowship, 2023 New Music USA’s Next Jazz Legacy, and a 2023 Herb Alpert Award in Music nominee.