Pariah

A multimedia piece that blurs the lines between several disciplines and genres.

a Conceptual Fairytale Album

This dreamlike, theatrical album expands across media. In signature Cellista style, Pariah defies standard categorization. The project tells the tale of Pariah, a woman cast out from her community for daring to speak truth to power. The story follows her exile from her home in Cloture, her encounters with apparitions, love, and her eventual acceptance of herself.

“Pariah is an opera, an operetta, a piece of conceptual art. . . .Pariah exists between planes, on the roof of an expensive townhouse, in the opium den of a posh bordello, in a craggy forest in the darkest part of night, among an undulating throng of barely-dressed club denizens dancing to death.”

— Daniel Felsenfeld, composer, professor of music Juilliard, New York Philharmonic