Uploaded March 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
A performance by Nia Imani Franklin at the American Library in Paris. Filmed on 12/03/2024 with a live audience.
Miss America 2019 sings jazz standards, spirituals, and music of her own from her 2021 EP, Extended. Nia will be accompanied by Julie Sévilla-Fraysse on the cello and Anastasia Calmus on the piano.
About the performer:
Nia Imani Franklin is a composer and singer whose music has been performed by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Friction Quartet, Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and many others. In 2024 Nia was named the inaugural Composer-in-Residence for the American Library in Paris where she will perform this spring. Previous Composer-in-Residence tenures include Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California and Festival Napa Valley where she was awarded the Darioush and Shahpar Khaledi Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Classical Music.
Upon finishing her Lincoln Center fellowship in New York City, she earned the jobs of Miss New York 2018 and Miss America 2019 where she devoted her service to arts education advocacy.
Reverberations:
In March, the Library was delighted to be hosting Reverberations: Literature Out Loud, a festival spotlighting innovations in the arts. In a series of concerts, conversations, and workshops, artists and authors come together to celebrate the history of storytelling and sound.
Reverberations is organized in partnership with the Opéra Comique and with the generous support of Festival Napa Valley, the American Center for Arts and Culture, and the Florence Gould Foundation.
A performance by Nia Imani Franklin at the American Library in Paris. Filmed on 12/03/2024 with a live audience.
Miss America 2019 sings jazz standards, spirituals, and music of her own from her 2021 EP, Extended. Nia will be accompanied by Julie Sévilla-Fraysse on the cello and Anastasia Calmus on the piano.
About the performer:
Nia Imani Franklin is a composer and singer whose music has been performed by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Friction Quartet, Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and many others. In 2024 Nia was named the inaugural Composer-in-Residence for the American Library in Paris where she will perform this spring. Previous Composer-in-Residence tenures include Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California and Festival Napa Valley where she was awarded the Darioush and Shahpar Khaledi Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Classical Music.
Upon finishing her Lincoln Center fellowship in New York City, she earned the jobs of Miss New York 2018 and Miss America 2019 where she devoted her service to arts education advocacy.
Reverberations:
In March, the Library was delighted to be hosting Reverberations: Literature Out Loud, a festival spotlighting innovations in the arts. In a series of concerts, conversations, and workshops, artists and authors come together to celebrate the history of storytelling and sound.
Reverberations is organized in partnership with the Opéra Comique and with the generous support of Festival Napa Valley, the American Center for Arts and Culture, and the Florence Gould Foundation.
