Performance: Present Music Presents Nathalie Joachim
Join the Milwaukee Art Museum and Present Music for a concert that brings together the magic and artistry of Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World is a Mystery and the Museum’s world-renowned Haitian art collection. Expand your experience of the exhibition and the Haitian collection through the music of composer, flutist, and vocalist, Nathalie Joachim, who will perform her piece Ki Moun ou ye, which explores her Haitian heritage.
Milwaukee Art Museum Members enjoy a 15% discount on Present Music tickets with the code PMMAM.
About the performer
Nathalie Joachim is a Grammy-nominated Haitian-American performer and composer, praised as “a fresh and invigorating cross-cultural voice” (The Nation). Her work centers storytelling, human connection, and social advocacy. In 2025–26, she appears at Opera Philadelphia as composer-in-residence, presents her upcoming opera Le présent éternel at the Museum of Modern Art, and joins the New York Philharmonic for its Sound On series. Other engagements include Carnegie Hall, Juilliard, Princeton Sound Kitchen, and performances with DeCoda. Joachim’s landmark project Fanm d’Ayiti received a Grammy nomination, and her 2024 album Ki moun ou ye was released by Nonesuch and New Amsterdam Records. She is Assistant Professor of Composition at Princeton University.
