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"What Collins does isn't just music. It's emotional alchemy.” — CR Indie
CLASSICAL MUSIC
Passionate about classical music of all flavors, Licity engages as enthusiastically with Early Music as she does with New Classical, and everything in between. Her compositions and chamber ensemble/band incorporate instrumentation from recorders to electric guitar.
Licity grew up in the cello section of the Washington DC Youth Orchestra and learned recorder and piano in elementary school and at home. When her cranky cello teacher yelled at her, “What do you want to play, saxophone?” she took up the saxophone. Then aged 40, she bought a guitar. Licity has sung all her life, solo and in choral/chamber ensemble, singing in eight different languages by the time she was in eighth grade, embracing parts from First Soprano to Tenor, from Fauré to Sondheim.
Equally thoughtful in her verbal reflections on music, her commentary "Beethoven's Fifth" (below) was featured on Public Radio International. Licity is a 2026 Sozo Arts Fellow, from 2024-2026 she served as the Inaugural Music Fellow at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, and from 2020-2022 she sat on the BRAVO Community and Education Committee of the prestigious Ojai Music Festival (reflection below).
Licity was recently awarded a $74,000 Creative Heights grant from the Oregon Community Foundation to premiere her genre-expanding spoken-sung chamber opera about death and grief, ONE DEATH IN SEVEN DOORWAYS.
PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR LICITY'S OFFICIAL COMPOSER SAMPLES PAGE
"SynchroLicity is a transformation that happens when we give ourselves permission to be fully present in an exchange which takes time and emotional participation. All of my work holds this as its key motivation and key outcome.”
—Licity
Syn: Together Chronos:Time Licit: Permission/Freedom
“Permission to Spend Time Together in the Pursuit of Freedom”
scores are available
These scores and more are available. Please visit the SCORES PAGE to browse all scores.
NOTE: ALL CHAMBER WORKS CAN BE CONFIGURED FOR ANY INSTRUMENTATION