Licity Collins grew up in the cello section of the Washington DC Youth Orchestra and hears all music like a symphony. When her cranky cello teacher yelled at her, “What do you want to play, saxophone?” she took up the saxophone. In addition to guitar, Licity continues to play recorder and piano, which she learned in elementary school and at home. Licity has sung all her life, singing in eight different languages by the time she was in eighth grade, embracing parts from First Soprano to Tenor, from Fauré to Sondheim.
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 commentary "Beethoven's Fifth" (audio below) was featured on Public Radio International. From 2020-2022 she sat on the BRAVO Community and Education Committee of the prestigious Ojai Music Festival (reflection below).
Her recent release "The Flower in the Mirror Was Dead" combines spoken word and solo instruments in an undefinable experience that some classified as 21st Century Classical. This work sparked her current collaborative composition endeavor, a new spoken-sung opera.