thèriot.

Building on his strong body of work as leader of the Awakening Orchestra – music heralded by DownBeat as “a Great American Songbook of another order” – composer Kyle Saulnier returns under the mononym thèriot., The shift is both a nod to his Acadian heritage, and a recognition that the artist he was is no longer the artist he is. Deeply personal and brutally vulnerable, the Other. is a collection of music centered around grief, depression, and the masks we wear while pretending everything is okay.

thèriot. fronts a hybrid ensemble of New York City heavies including Nadje Noordhuis (Maria Schneider, Darcy James Argue, Anat Cohen), Andrew Gutauskas (Brass Against, Miho Hazama), and Samuel Quiggins (the Heartstrings Project), alongside leading members of Vermont’s creative music scene: Michael Chorney (Hadestown orchestrator, Freeway Clyde, Viperhouse), Matthew LaRocca (Freeway Clyde, soft rocks, Vermont Symphony Orchestra), Brooke Quiggins (Vermont Symphony Orchestra, Osso String Quartet, Jukebox String Quartet), Jane Boxall (Freeway Clyde, Tinkerbullet), and Daniel Ryan (the Dan Ryan Express, Madaila, Saturn People’s Sound Collective).