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Roomful of Teeth

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 Roomful of Teeth

Roomful of Teeth is a two-time GRAMMY ® Award-winning genre-defying vocal group that explores and celebrates the potential of the human voice through adventurous music creation, performance, recording and education. The group seeks to uplift and amplify all voices through meaningful and adventurous music using a continuously expanding vocabulary of singing techniques. 

Roomful of Teeth has built a significant and ever-growing catalog of over 100 new works through deep collaboration with composers including Julia Wolfe, David Lang, Missy Mazzoli, William Brittelle, Angélica Negrón, inti figgis-vizueta, Paola Prestini, Nathalie Joachim, Caroline Shaw, Leilehua Lanzilotti, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Gabriela Ortiz, Judd Greenstein, Terry Riley, Toby Twining, Ted Hearne, Eve Beglarian, Michael Harrison, Peter S. Shin, and Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate.

Recent appearances include performances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Paris Philharmonie and the Barbican. The group has also performed commissioned works for Roomful of Teeth and orchestra with the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, The Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony, and others, and have also moved into stage work with the visionary opera director Peter Sellars in Claude Vivier’s opera Kopernikus. 

Roomful of Teeth discography includes their eponymous first album, released in 2012, which was awarded a Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance, and featured Roomful of Teeth member Caroline Shaw's Pulitzer Prize winning piece Partita for 8 Voices. Other recordings include: Render (2015), The Colorado (2016), Yo-Yo Ma’s Silkroad Ensemble’s album Sing Me Home which won the 2016 Grammy for Best World Music Album, and 2 EPs: The Ascendant (Wally Gunn) and Just Constellations (Michael Harrison). Teeth's recordings have been featured on television and in film, including Josephine Decker’s Madeline’s Madeline, Netflix’s Dark, Jeen-Yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy, and Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé. 

Their latest album, "Rough Magic" (New Amsterdam Records, 2023) was captured using groundbreaking recording techniques and innovative spatial technology. Roomful of Teeth was recognized at the 66th GRAMMY awards in 2024, winning Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance for "Rough Magic"; and composer William Brittelle’s work "Psychedelics", which appears on "Rough Magic", was nominated for Best Contemporary Classical Composition.

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"An ensemble as widely known for their impressive and expressive vocality as they are for their boundary-smashing repertory, Roomful of Teeth is a force to be reckoned with, but more importantly, a force to be heard."

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