BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.3.5//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:53@brontebirthplace.com DTSTART:20260818T183000Z DTEND:20260818T200000Z DTSTAMP:20260616T154609Z URL:https://brontebirthplace.com/events/online-monthly-talk-chaos-into-cre ativity-reflections-on-the-bronte-chamber-music-series-with-courtney-caitl in-phillips/ SUMMARY:Online Monthly Talk: Chaos into Creativity: Reflections on The Bron të Chamber Music Series with Courtney Caitlin Phillips DESCRIPTION:\n\nTITLE OF TALK:    Chaos into Creativity: Reflections on The Brontë Chamber Music Series\n\nSpeaker:   Courtney Caitlin Phillips \n\nDate:       Tuesday 18 August 2026       VIA ZOOM:      at 18.30 UK time\n\nThis talk will take place exclusively online via zoo m\, there is no in person attendence\, a link will be sent out via email p rior to the talk. A recording will be made available for all attendees to watch for a month after the date. Tickets on sale here.\n\nSynopsis:   \n\nComposer Courtney Caitlin Phillips wrote an 8-piece chamber music seri es for each of the Brontë sisters’ novels\, including Charlotte’s unf inished Emma. Though its April 2020 live premiere was cancelled due to th e pandemic\, she was thrilled to resurrect her work and celebrate the lega cy of the Brontës in a world premiere of her compositions at the Kilkee B rontë Festival in Ireland in September 2025. She is now delighted to be a ble to share her work with the Brontë Birthplace\, Thornton. Her talk wil l include some brief\, personal vignettes of how she was first introduced to the Brontës\, how her connection to them has deepened over the years\, and how they continue to inspire her creativity. She will also share exce rpts and analyses of the chamber music series\, show how each piece connec ts with its respective novel\, and reveal a few Easter eggs hidden in the scores.\n\n \;\n\nCourtney Caitlin Phillip’s biography:\n\n \;\n \nCourtney Caitlin Phillips is a composer and singer from Birmingham\, Ala bama (USA) with experience in classical\, sacred\, and metal music. She st udied music composition with Dr. Mark Lackey at Samford University and has composed for solo instruments\, choir\, and various chamber ensembles. He r compositions are tightly woven with storytelling and are often inspired by literature\, including the Brontës’ novels\, Longfellow’s poems\, and the Bible. She is an ASCAP member and publishes under White Orchid Res onance.\n\n \;\n\nCourtney graduated as valedictorian of her high scho ol and is an alumnus of the Omicron Gamma chapter of Delta Omicron\, Samfo rd’s professional music fraternity\, in which she served as an officer i n the role of its mascot. She also served in Zimrah\, the music student or ganization at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary\, as its vice pres ident and later president. She is a former recipient of the Shepherd-Walke r Scholarship\, the Hazel Boren Music Scholarship\, and the 2020 NAMM Pres ident’s Innovation Award.\n\n \;\n\nPassionate about music education \, she has taught piano and voice at two Mason Music locations in Birmingh am\, Alabama\, The Studio in Centreville\, Alabama\, and was also head pia no teacher at Ethnic Group Academy for refugee children in Fort Worth\, Te xas. Her primary instrument is voice\, and she has been a member of severa l prestigious choirs in different states and was also the lead singer for a melodic death metal band called Exalt the Throne in Fort Worth\, Texas. In 2021\, she was featured on the atmospheric doom metal track Ashes fro m In Memoriam by Crowned in Sorrow. Additionally\, she collaborated with Type-Kast for six songs from 2023–2025. Currently\, she resides in Mobi le\, Alabama where she leads worship with her husband at Christ Anglican C hurch\, sings in a virtual doom metal project called Orchis Nocturna\, and teaches voice privately.\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://brontebirthplace.com/wp-content/uploads/ 2026/06/Picture8.jpg CATEGORIES:Guest Speaker END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR