Zenobia is a composer and explorer of sounds and emotions who has shared a stage with Foo Fighters, Rachel Sage, Edie Carey, Mila Drumke, and the Dresden Dolls. She has collaborated with contemporary popular electronic and ambient music pioneer Roedelius, worked in studio with Counting Crows founding member Matt Mally, studied tabla and Hindustani classical voice in Kolkata, India, and performed at a wide range of venues/events solo, with a band, with a string section, with a choir, and with an orchestra.
Zenobia is also an active theater musician who served as percussionist for Wheelock Theatre’s (AEA) original stage adaptation of Pinocchio. She was invited by theatre company Liars & Believers to create a themed collaborative show (or “coLAB”) with an ensemble of innovative actors, dancers, writers, musicians, and visual artists. The resulting multidisciplinary immersive theatrical and music performance, Irresistible, premiered at Sonia Theatre in Boston on January 24, 2018.
She was commissioned to compose a musical setting from The Raven for Dream Within a Dream, an Edgar Allan Poe-inspired production that premiered at the Somerville Theatre and commissioned from NASA to compose, recorded, play, mix and delivered a 12 minute original score for their time-lapse footage of a shuttle being built. The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey hosted Zenobia and fellow synesthetic composer, Mary Bichner, on March 10th, 2018 for VACNJ’s Concert in the Gallery series. The performance, Colorful Concert, celebrated three new VACNJ exhibitions of visual artists whose works center around color and color theory with a synesthesia-inspired musical set and discussion on how they use color to inspire their individual composition processes, followed by a Q&A.
Zenobia is a collector of sounds & colors, creator of soundscapes, an engineer and designer, with three studio albums under her belt. You can see what she’s up to on her youtube channel @mollyzenobia, or her instagram @zenobia.zen