BIO

Aurora Josephson is a musician and visual artist who currently resides in Portland, Oregon. Building on the foundation of operatic training and a BA and an MFA in Music Performance from Mills College, she has forged a bold vocal style that is uniquely her own. To unleash the limitless range of sonic possibilities in the voice, Josephson employs a variety of extended and unconventional techniques drawn from the worlds of contemporary composition, improvisation, and rock. She has performed and recorded with Alvin Curran, Fred Frith, Gianni Gebbia, Henry Kaiser, Joelle Leandre, William Winant, among others, and musical groups Big City Orchestrae, Flying Luttenbachers, ROVA Saxophone Quartet, T.D. Skatchitband and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.