Life Uncloseted With Rick Clemons

516: Bringing Trans and Nonbinary Voices To Music – Aiden Feltkamp

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We've all heard the term "life imitates art, and art imitates life" or something along those lines. Now add to the mix a person who lives, as themselves, as trans and nonbinary opera singer and you have today's guest - Aiden K. Feltkamp (they/he). They are breaking the molds of opera and musical theater with their intimate perspective of their release of the Anthology of New Music: Trans & Nonbinary Voices. Get ready for an enlightening and eye-opening journey of truly expressing one's authentic self. About Aiden https://newmusicshelf.com/product/trans-nonbinary-v1/ ()Aiden K. Feltkamp (they/he) is a Turn the Spotlight fellow and graduate of Bard College Conservatory’s Graduate Vocal Arts Program.   As a trans nonbinary singer, Aiden often found opera and musical theater compositions to be aggressively gendered and binary and was at a loss for repertoire that spoke to them. Aiden came up with the idea to build a first-of-it’s-kind collection of vocal and piano music that, rather than focusing on a partic