The 2026 Firebird Residency invited Firebirds to stand on the edge of harmony: the place where beauty, tension, courage and change meet. Alongside a number of larger ensemble works, they created seven ‘Tiny Desk’ style performances, each paired with a local artist from the Antioquira region.
Through rehearsals, conversations, and performance, the hope was for Firebirds to model the kinds of mindsets and skills we want our students to learn: such as how to hold complexity, how to meet difference without fear and how to transform tension into imagination and connection rather than avoidance or harm.
INÁ:
Daniel Pedraza,
@comfenalcoctg - Violin
José Julián Lezcano,
@comunidad_red_ Red - Tuba
Juli Contreras,
@insculturacajica - Flute
Lucy French,
@eim_santacecilia - Cello
Luis Felipe Posada,
@sinfonicaitagui - percussion
The 5 Firebirds had the opportunity to learn about ceramics from Dairo Zuluaga, a ceramic artist working in the regeneration and resignification of ancestral craft traditions. His practice centres on making by hand, family-based cultural spaces and the living continuity of material heritage.
Photos by
@ivangonzalezphotography and
@pablo_mier_fotografia_ 
