Anaïs Maviel

Anaïs Maviel is a multidisciplinary artist whose work transforms spiritual concepts into immersive sensory experience, treating perception itself as a medium. A composer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist, she works across traditional and experimental practices to explore the power of sound to shape reality and highlight the stakes of cultural multiplicity. She moves fluidly between song, choral, instrumental, and orchestral music, as well as interactive staging, drawing on sacred geometry and cosmologies of sound as structural foundations. Through an aesthetically layered vocabulary and embodied processes, she creates multidimensional, “spiritually illuminating” experiences (New York City Jazz Record). Her expansive collaborations across mediums include Alarm Will Sound, Craig Taborn, Meshell Ndegeocello, Meredith Monk, Merce Cunningham Trust, Okwui Okpokwasili, Sean Webley, and Nene Humphrey. Jazz Right Now has called her a “unique aesthetic visionary.” She is a recipient of the Van Lier Fellowship (2019), the American Composers Forum Create Award (2020), the Jerome Foundation Fellowship (2021–2022), the New York Foundation for the Arts Artists Fellowship (2022), New Music USA’s Next Jazz Legacy (2023), and a nominee for the Herb Alpert Award in Music Composition (2023). She holds a master’s degree from Paris Diderot University in modern literature, aesthetics, and contemporary thought, which led her to write about music and utopia in the creolized world. Her essays and poetry can be read in her intentional newsletters.