Gelsey Bell is a singer, songwriter, and scholar. She is a core member of thingNY, Varispeed, and the Chutneys. Her recent works include mɔɹnɪŋ [morning//mourning] (2023), presented in the Prototype Festival; From the Soil Back to the Soil (2023) for the Daxophone Consort; Cairns (2020), a soundwalk for Green-Wood Cemetery; shuffleyamamba: Yamamba as a Bear (2021), created with Yasuko Yokoshi; thingNY’s SubtacTTTTTTTTT (2020); and Skylighght (2019), created with Erin Rogers. Performance highlights also include Dave Malloy’s Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812 (Broadway) and Ghost Quartet, Robert Ashley’s Improvement and Crash, and various works by Darius Jones, John King, Kate Soper, Tomomi Adachi, Raven Chacon and others. She has released multiple albums on Gold Bolus Recordings, including the recent Heads Together. She has had residencies at the HERE Arts Center, Pioneer Works, and the Kinosaki Arts Center, and awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Opera America, Japan Foundation, and others.

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