Alana Price
Alana marks up her music excessively and loves dissonant chords. Along with IOC member Nori Heikkinen, she spent most of her childhood in Madison, Wisconsin, singing with Cantabile, a choir that experimented in its early years with feminist and poststructuralist approaches to choral education.
Before moving to the Bay Area, Alana lived in Chicago, where she performed Siberian folk music with Golosá, a small ensemble in Hyde Park. Before that she lived in Philadelphia, where she sang with a women’s choir called Anna Crusis. During college, Nori, Laura Wolfram, and Alana all performed with Swarthmore’s early music ensemble, Cantatrix. Alana also sang with the youth division of the Coro Nacional de Cuba while she conducted research on the urban agriculture movement in Havana.
Alana is the assistant editor of Tikkun, a progressive, interfaith magazine focused on politics, spirituality, and culture. She spends her evenings making mosaics, talking politics, creating surrealist artwork with friends, reading, pickling veggies, and planning out the children’s books that she someday hopes to finish writing.