Xenia Rubinos

Xenia Rubinos is a NY based vocalist, composer, and performing artist from Hartford, CT born to a Puerto Rican mother and Cuban father. The pillars of Xenia’s artistic practice are embodiment and centering the voice as a living archive of the body. The New Yorker describes her work as “vocally generous, rhythmically fierce music that slips through the net of any known genre”. She has released three critically acclaimed albums, toured internationally and performed at NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert. Rubinos is Associate Professor for the Master’s Program at Berklee College of Music’s NYC campus. Circulo de Voces reimagines the choir as a public service, a community resource giving voice to memory, new futures and a living vocal archive. Through research, talleres and performances we question what an embodied archival process looks like in a collective voicing practice, personal artistic work and our Boricua community. To expose archival silences, we center historically excluded voices of Puerto Rican women, queer, non-binary people and Afro-Boricuas. Circulos will be recorded in an audio and written archive. This collective exploration will inform a new album and performance by Xenia Rubinos.