Sita
Chay

Violin
Sita Chay
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Sita Chay

Sita Chay is a violinist, composer, and a music director who won a 2017 Latin Grammy Award for Best Mariachi Album, as violinist of the Flor de Toloache. She is an awardee of NYFA Women's Fund, NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, New Music USA’s Creator Development Fund, LMCC Grant, and Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and was invited for residencies at the Stone, Joe’s Pub, and the Cell Theatre for various projects she is envisioning.

 

Ms. Chay is the director and a founder of the Korean Shaman Music Ritual, SaaWee, which was received by international critics as a “delicate powerhouse”. For SaaWee, she has interwoven her theatrical experiences from Broadway shows, folkloric spirituality from Korean shaman rituals, and contemporary music flare from New York jazz scenes. SaaWee's Return of Songbirds debuted at the Lincoln Center as part of #Retartstage project in 2021 and was invited to Ars Electronica Festival 2021.  SaaWee won the California Music Video Awards 2022 in Best World Music category.

Her most recent project “Multidimensionally Human” is an interdisciplinary series collaborating with Dr. Nikolai Chapochnikov, neuroscientist and IFS practitioner. Through this project, she is exploring psychotherapy modality through narrative, dance, visual art, and music.  

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Violin

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Contemporary Classical Music

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Contemporary jazz

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