Voices From The Shoreline: 3 Human Rights Songs for Choir

Commissioned by Robert Pacillo and the Harmonia Chamber Singers, “Voices From The Shoreline” reflects on the prevention of world-wide violence against women, of which every nation participates in some way. One movement: “Lost Girls of Juarez”, was performed by Harmonia in Buffalo, NY in 2013 (also on YouTube), and the first recording of that movement appears on Kryszak’s “Codex Suburbia” album on AppleMusic. The Facebook site “Loud Guys Against Violence Against Women”, includes over 10,500 people from Israel, Egypt, Sudan, New Zealand and 80 other nations, representing men’s intention of fighting the only world-wide epidemic that doesn’t cost a dollar to cure. Al Kryszak is a composer, filmmaker, pianist & guitarist based in Maine. Work includes Turner Classic Movies, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, The New England Film Orchestra, The American Festival of Microtonal Music, Mabou Mines, June-in-Buffalo, Symphony Space, LA Directors Guild, & KINO. He is on the Creative Arts/Media Faculty at the University of Maine at Machias, Unity College & Southern New Hampshire University. Kryszak studied at SUNY Buffalo with Lukas Foss, Morton Feldman, Bill Kothe, Louis Andriessen & Lou Harrison.