Keir GoGwilt: The Zarabanda Variations
About This Event
Keir GoGwilt is a singer whose practice sits between opera and early and contemporary classical music, drawing on historical sources and new writing with traces of Celtic song and period practice. At National Sawdust, GoGwilt appears with The Zarabanda Variations, a program shaped by close listening and spare means that favors precision and textual clarity over theatrical display.
About The Zarabanda Variations
At National Sawdust in Brooklyn, *The Zarabanda Variations* arrives as an opera framed for a live New York audience, with violinist Keir GoGwilt among the featured performers. The piece works through the idea of “variations” as a method of inquiry, returning to a central motif and testing what changes when context, voice, and pacing shift. In a city where new opera often lives between concert and theater, this production sits squarely in that in-between space. Its most pointed claim is procedural: repetition can be a form of argument, not decoration.
About the Artist
Keir GoGwilt
Keir GoGwilt is a singer whose work sits between opera and the wider worlds of early and contemporary classical music. Their repertoire draws on historical sources as readily as new writing, with traces of Celtic song alongside period practice.