Licity Collins
Music Fellow
Licity Collins is a fearless, multidimensional artist whose work defies genre.
Described by NPR as “Courageous. Writing and singing full-frontal,” her music invites audiences to confront fear and embrace vulnerability. Blending folk intimacy with rock energy, classical complexities, and personal spoken prose, Licity’s music has been praised for its emotional depth and transformative power.
Licity’s visionary approach to music is deeply collaborative, boundary-pushing, and inventive. She gathers musicians from around the world to collaborate on her music in her SynchroLicity Collective, combining a pursuit of innovation with a deep care for each other. Licity received an Artist Facilitator Residency from the IFCC/Portland Parks, composed the music for the North Pole Studio Gala, and served on the BRAVO Committee of the Ojai New Classical Music Festival.
Licity is currently developing her first opera, One Death in Seven Doorways, a spoken-sung exploration of death and grief. In addition to her collections of folk/rock and classical music, Licity also composes Flow State music to balance our nervous systems in an increasingly challenging world.
Previous to making music, Licity’s trailblazing conceptual art earned global recognition, inclusion in art history books, features on NPR, and an award for advancing conversations on bigotry and human rights. Licity co-founded Portland’s rebel defunkt theatre company, developed scripts with Cornerstone Theatre, launched the Women’s Prison Theatre Project, and was a founding board member of Disjecta Arts (Oregon Contemporary).
Licity grew up in the cello section of the Washington DC Youth Orchestra and hears the world like a symphony. She has sung in 8 different languages, played piano, recorders, and saxophone, and now finds her home on the guitar. She holds a dual-concentration BA from Brown University and an MFA from Portland State University. Licity is based in Portland, Oregon.
Licity’s visionary approach to music is deeply collaborative, boundary-pushing, and inventive. She gathers musicians from around the world to collaborate on her music in her SynchroLicity Collective, combining a pursuit of innovation with a deep care for each other. Licity received an Artist Facilitator Residency from the IFCC/Portland Parks, composed the music for the North Pole Studio Gala, and served on the BRAVO Committee of the Ojai New Classical Music Festival.
Licity is currently developing her first opera, One Death in Seven Doorways, a spoken-sung exploration of death and grief. In addition to her collections of folk/rock and classical music, Licity also composes Flow State music to balance our nervous systems in an increasingly challenging world.
Previous to making music, Licity’s trailblazing conceptual art earned global recognition, inclusion in art history books, features on NPR, and an award for advancing conversations on bigotry and human rights. Licity co-founded Portland’s rebel defunkt theatre company, developed scripts with Cornerstone Theatre, launched the Women’s Prison Theatre Project, and was a founding board member of Disjecta Arts (Oregon Contemporary).
Licity grew up in the cello section of the Washington DC Youth Orchestra and hears the world like a symphony. She has sung in 8 different languages, played piano, recorders, and saxophone, and now finds her home on the guitar. She holds a dual-concentration BA from Brown University and an MFA from Portland State University. Licity is based in Portland, Oregon.