Spektral Quartet

Listen: WUOT Interview on Fanm d’Ayiti

Big Ears Festival was honestly one of the performances I was most looking forward to this season. Very sad that it’s been cancelled, but very glad that WUOT still shared this fun interview that Spektral Quartet‘s Doyle Armbrust  and I did. Hope everyone is staying healthy and safe out there. > Listen to the WUOT […] Read more…

News: Fanm d’Ayiti Receives Grammy Nomination

I am speechless. My album, Fanm d’Ayiti – is a labor of love that was made possible by my incredible creative team, my family and the people of Haiti. Today, it was nominated for a Grammy in the Best World Music Album category, and I am so incredibly proud. Huge thanks to Spektral Quartet (Clara Lyon, Maeve […] Read more…

Read: The New Yorker features Fanm d’Ayiti

This New Yorker just checked one big bucket list item off of her list: I’ve been immortalized as an illustration in The New Yorker! Not only is the artwork beautiful, the write up is equally fabulous, stating that “No more joyous chamber-music collection has arrived this year than “Fanm d’Ayiti,” the exuberant, expressive song cycle […] Read more…

Read: The New York Times features Fanm d’Ayiti

Always nice to open up your copy of the Sunday issue of The New York Times and see yourself! Even nicer for it to describe Fanm d’Ayiti as a collection of  “delicately entrancing songs for string quartet, flute, and electronics — led by Joachim’s powerful and unpretentious voice”. Swoon! > Read the full story Read more…

News: Fanm d’Ayiti at Big Ears Festival

I am SO excited to finally be able to shout from the rooftops that Spektral Quartet and I will be playing Fanm d’Ayiti at this year’s Big Ears Festival, which announced its full 2020 lineup this morning! It is honestly my absolute favorite festival, and this year’s lineup is (as always) out of this world. […] Read more…

Read: I Care If You Listen Reviews Fanm d’Ayiti

Another day, another phenomenal review for Fanm d’Ayiti. Big thanks to I Care If You Listen for the love. Here’s a highlight: “On her debut solo album, Fanm d’Ayiti (New Amsterdam Records), Haitian-American composer, flutist, and vocalist Nathalie Joachim offers the listener an intimacy of vocal storytelling and a blossoming sense of familiarity. It is a […] Read more…

Read: The Nation Reviews Fanm d’Ayiti

Wow. I have received many nice reviews in my day, but this one in The Nation is legitimately the review of my dreams for Fanm d’Ayiti – a project that represents all of me. To put myself out there – every piece of me – and be recognized in this way…it’s something. It’s everything really. […] Read more…

Read: Fanm d’Ayiti named Best of Bandcamp

Fanm d’Ayiti just hit the streets, and the press praise is already rolling in! I’m very proud to see the album at the top of Bandcamp’s Best of Contemporary Classical list for August 2019. Among other incredibly kind words they had to say about me and the album, they add “her singing has a measured, crystalline […] Read more…