CV

Shara Lunon
Vocalist • Improviser • Composer • Poet


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Residencies/Grants
  • ACF| Create Grant Winner, “BLASÉ I”,  2024
  • PULP Arts Recording Residency, History Dog “Root Systems”, 2024
  • University of Florida, Guest Maker in Residence Workshop and Performance, 2023
  • OneBeat Fellow 12- Fall Cohort, 2023
  • Papillion Farm Residency - August Cohort, 2023
  • Heavy Florals Series Curator- Sisters Brooklyn, 2023- Present
  • MATA Presents- Open Call Project Winner “Bitter Fruits”, 2023
  • ALIVE! at Satellite Art Miami, Art Basel, 2022
  • INNOVA Records Open Call, 2022
  • MATA Festival  2022 - “Samples No. 3: Why I believe Womyn”, 2022
  • AUDIOFEMME Grant, 2022
  • BESPOKEN Fellow, 2021- 2022
  • AMANDA + JAMES “POLLINATE” Residency, 2021  


Performances/ Commissions
  • Harlem Wellness Center at the High Line “Sounds of Justice”, 2024
  • Blasé EP, 2024
  • The Ritual of Breath and Issue Project Room Commission, “11x7”, 2024
  • Ches Smith “Laugh Ash” Big Ears, 2024
  • History Dog at Afrofurturist Festival UF CAME, 2024
  • Ches Smith “Laugh Ash” Album, 2024
  • International Contemporary Ensemble Premiere “Sample Series No. 1”, 2023
  • Roulette Intermedium “Bitter Fruits”, 2023
  • Darian Donovan Thomas and InfraSound Ensemble Recordings, 2023 
  • Olivia Jones Recital Commission, 2022
  • Judson Arts “Shadow Work”, Crossroads Festival, 2022
  • Marisa Tornello, “Shattered” and “Fruit Scores”, 2022
  • MATA Festival “Sample Series No.3”, 2022
  • MATA Festival Chris Williams, "Of Yours", 2022
  • Metropolis Ensemble BIOPHONY “Sankofa” Commission, 2022
  • Amanda + James "Sessions" Commission with Joy Guidry, 2022
  • Asia Stewart, “Legs is Legs”, 2022
  • International Contemporary Ensemble "GROUNDS", 2021
  • Darius Jones Trio, 2021


Teaching
  • Abrons Art Center, Music in L.E.S, Present
  • Brooklyn Conservatory Voice Instructor, 2022- Present
  • Brooklyn College Guest Lecturer, 2022-Present 
  • University of Florida Workshop, 2023
  • International Contemporary Ensemble: Ensemble Evolution at the New School, 2023
  • Horizons Summer Camp- Beat Lab/ Production Teacher, 2022



Education
  • MMPC, New School, 2021
  • University of Florida, 2012
  • University of São Paulo, 2011

Press/Interviews