Description
sparksLIVE 2026
February 21 - 10th annual songSLAM competition
Hosted by mezzo-soprano Rebecca Hass, the Sparks & Wiry Cries songSLAM is a unique and energizing community event for composer/performer teams to premiere new art songs and compete for cash prizes. Fashioned after poetry slams and storytelling events, teams of composers and performers compete for $2,000 in audience-awarded cash prizes with new art song premieres.
Each team will present a new song of no more than 5 minutes for voice and piano, in any language, for the live voting audience, who—in the poetry slam tradition—will then vote on their favorite and award prizes. While votes are tabulated, hear the world premiere of the 2025 songSLAM commission.
Theatre
Leonard Nimoy Thalia
Expected Run Time is 90 minutes
