Silo City Reading Series: Richie Hofmann, Albert Abonado, Yuki Numata Resnick with Clarice Jensen, Pat Cray

Featured Artists

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  Richie Hofmann Poet
  

  Richie Hofmann

  Poet

  Richie Hofmann’s new book of poems is A Hundred Lovers, published by Alfred A. Knopf. He is the author of Second Empire (2015), and his poetry appears recently in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, and The Yale Review. He teaches at Stanford University.

  Photo credit: Marcus Jackson

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  Clarice Jensen Composer & Cellist
  

  Clarice Jensen

  Composer & Cellist

  Clarice Jensen is a composer and cellist based in Brooklyn, NYC who graduated with a BM and MM from the Juilliard School. Jensen’s debut album For This From That Will Be Filled was released in April 2018 on the Berlin-based label Miasmah and followed in September 2019 with the “Drone Studies” EP, a cassette release via Geographic North. Signing to FatCat’s 130701 imprint in late Summer 2019, her sophomore album The experience of repetition as death was released April 2020. Naming it among the top 50 albums of 2020, NPR remarked “This collection of requiems for a dying mother ranks among the great ambient albums of the 21st century.”

  Jensen has recorded and performed with a host of artists including Jóhann Jóhannsson, Max Richter, Björk, Stars of the Lid, Dustin O’Halloran, Nico Muhly, Taylor Swift, Michael Stipe, the National and many others. In her role as the artistic director of ACME (the American Contemporary Music Ensemble), she has helped bring to life some of the most revered works of modern classical music, including pieces by Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Gavin Bryars, and more.

  photo credit: Naoko Maeda

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  Albert Abonado Poet, Essayist
  

  Albert Abonado

  Poet, Essayist

  Albert Abonado is the author of JAW (Sundress Publications). He has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. His poems and essays have appeared in Boston Review, Colorado Review, Poetry Northwest, Citron Review, West Branch and others. Albert teaches creative writing at RIT and SUNY Geneseo. He lives in Rochester, NY with his wife.

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  Yuki Numata Resnick Violinist, Nonprofit Leader, Educator
  

  Yuki Numata Resnick

  Violinist, Nonprofit Leader, Educator

  Yuki Numata Resnick is a violinist, nonprofit leader, educator and professional problem-solver. She is passionate about her newfound home, Buffalo, New York, and ensuring that all youth in Buffalo have equitable access to music education.

  Born in Vancouver, Canada, Yuki holds violin performance degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the University of Michigan. She has also received a Certificate in Nonprofit Management from Duke University.

  As a violinist, Yuki has performed on stages from the Sydney Opera House to Carnegie Hall and is a passionate advocate for new music. A versatile musician, Yuki has also played with and recorded for bands such as The National, Beirut, Local Natives, Lisa Hannigan, and Arcade Fire. Most recently, Yuki has recorded for Taylor Swift and can be heard on Swift’s Folklore, Evermore, Fearless (Taylor’s Version) and Red (Taylor’s version).

  photo credit: Andrea Wenglowskyj

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  Pat Cray Photographer
  

  Pat Cray

  Photographer

  Pat Cray is a Buffalo-based photographer specializing in portraiture made on location with mostly natural light. His photographs portray the frank humanism and complexity of people and places in Buffalo and beyond.

  photo credit Raul J. Marrero