Xenia Rubinos

Xenia Rubinos is a New York-based vocalist, composer, and performing artist from Hartford, Connecticut, born to a Cuban father and Puerto Rican mother. The pillars of Rubinos' artistic practice are embodiment and centering the voice as a living archive of the body. The New Yorker describes her work as “vocally generous, rhythmically fierce music that slips through the net of any known genre." She has released three critically acclaimed albums, toured internationally, and performed at NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert, the Museum of Modern Art, and Pitchfork Music Festival. 

Equally at home in rock clubs as she is in museums, theaters and festivals, Rubinos' work is increasingly anti-disciplinary, engaging with multiple modes in performance, composition, theater and visual media. Rubinos is assistant professor of graduate studies at Berklee College of Music's New York campus. In 2024, she was awarded an artist fellowship by the Center for Puerto Rican Studies for her research on the body as archive in an embodied improvisation process. Her ongoing Circulo de Voces is a public performance piece of new music and a series of workshops reimagining the choir as a public service. In Circulo, the choir is a community resource giving voice to memory, new futures, and a living archive.