Angel Bat Dawid

silent green present Angel Bat Dawid is a Chicago-based composer, conductor, clarinetist, pianist, DJ, and recording engineer with over 35 years of experience as a performer. A 2025 United States Artist Fellow and current Artist in Residence at Northwestern University's Black Arts Consortium, Dawid is recognized as one of the defining voices of contemporary Afrofuturism — her practice bridges classical composition, gospel, jazz, and avant-garde improvisation with speculative aesthetics and archival research. Since her debut album The Oracle (2019, International Anthem Recording Co.), which she produced, performed, and engineered entirely herself, Dawid has established herself as a singular compositional voice. Her 14-movement work The Souls of Black Folk Suite premiered at Chicago's Harris Theater in 2026, following the commissioned piece Blk Metropolis Apocalypse, which she premiered with the string ensemble D-Composed at the opening of Theaster Gates' Land School.