The announcement of this program highlight comes ahead of the full lineup reveal for Mona’s midwinter festival this Friday April 10.
Throughout the English-born transgender artist’s career Antony Hegarty has performed with symphony orchestras throughout the world, including The London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican, The Chamber Orchestra of Sydney at Sydney Opera House, The Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Lincoln Center, and the Brooklyn Philharmonic at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Hegarty received the prestigious Mercury Prize for their second album I am a Bird Now, was a musical director and performer in Robert Wilson’s opera,The Life and Death of Marina Abramović; and collaborated with filmmaker Charles Atlas on TURNING; a series of live video portraits of 13 iconic trans- and cis-gendered women from downtown New York City’s art and nightlife community, just to name a few career highlights.
