Freshworks: Zuly Inirio
KST Presents
La Voz que Soy
Friday & Saturday, April 4* – 5*, 2025 | *with discussion
7:30pm – 9:00pm (including discussion)
KST’s Alloy Studios | 5530 Penn Ave.
Pay What Moves You: $15 – $30
La Voz que Soy, or The Voice I Am, is Afro-Latina soprano Zuly Inirio’s reinterpretation of the 1958 French opera La voix humaine. This multidisciplinary performance-in-progress uses the opera’s original framework—revisiting her past love through a final phone call—to explore colonialism, double consciousness, Black womanhood, and the African diaspora’s legacy. By intertwining these issues with the opera’s original themes of loss, assimilation, and the cost of self-preservation, La Voz que Soy highlights Zuly’s journey as a Black Latinx woman. The piece invites audiences into meaningful conversations about identity, resilience, and the shared experiences that connect us across diverse backgrounds.
Photo Credit: Kristin Pulido
AND DON’T MISS…
Fugue
Friday & Saturday, May 2* – 3*, 2025 | *with discussion
7:30pm – 9:00pm (including discussion)
KST’s Alloy Studios | 5530 Penn Ave.
Pay What Moves You: $15 – $30
- ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Afro-Latina soprano, scholar, and TEDx Speaker Zuly Inirio is from the Dominican Republic and has appeared as a soloist throughout the United States and Europe. She actively pursues bringing awareness to Afro-Latinidad in classical music with her ‘Afro-Latinx Song and Opera Project’ whose goal is to commission new works about Afro-Latin and Afro-Latinx communities, as well as decolonize the classical music canon by uplifting the contributions and stories of Afro-Latin American and Afro-Latinx classical composers.
Percussionist Hugo Cruz Machado is a Cuban-born, award winning, internationally renowned drummer and composer who has performed in South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Mexico, Chile, and Venezuela. Hugo is the leader of Caminos, who fuse rhythms and melodies of Afro-Cuban, Cuban, American jazz and funk styles. Caminos released their first original album Punto de Partida in 2022, and have made appearances at Fábrica de Artes in Havana, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, and the Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival, among others.
Dr. Jason C. Méndez is a storyteller, educator, and strategist with over two decades of experience in arts-based inquiry. He collaborates with artists, creatives, and organizations to develop strategies that advance equity and justice through storytelling and digital media literacy. As Co-founder and Executive Director of Block Chronicles, he leads a digital literacy and arts hub. He also founded the Pittsburgh-Latinx Artist Residency. A writer and playwright, he premiered Sons of the Boogie at New Hazlett Theater in summer of 2024.
Pianist Amaury Morales, praised as “an authority in the classical music world” (Ciudad Corazón), has performed across Latin America, the U.S., Europe, and Asia, earning recognition for advocating Latin American classical music. A top award-winning artist, he has collaborated with Andrea Bocelli, Renée Fleming, and Pia Toscano, and performed with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Born in the Dominican Republic, he studied at Boston Conservatory and Carnegie Mellon and is Chair of Piano at Pittsburgh Music Academy.