WMSE Presents My Brightest Diamond
Shara Nova has released six chamber-pop albums under the moniker My Brightest Diamond; her newest album, entitled Fight the Real Terror, was released in September 2024. Shara was an original member of the Broadway show Illinoise, directed by Tony Award winner (2024) Justin Peck and co-written by Jackie Sibblies Drury.
She has composed works for choirs such as The Crossing, Conspirare, Roomful of Teeth, iSing Youth Choir, Detroit Women’s Chorus, and The Detroit Opera’s educational touring company, as well as for the yMusic chamber ensemble, Oregon Symphony, Aarhus Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, American Composers Orchestra, and the BBC Concert Orchestra, among others. Her 2022 album The Blue Hour, co-composed with Sarah Kirkland Snider, Angélica Négron, Caroline Shaw, and Rachel Grimes, was listed in NPR’s Top 10 Albums of the Year.
Nova is a 3-time Grammy nominee (2023), an Opera America Discovery Grant awardee (2024), a Kresge Arts fellow (2012), a Carolina Performing Arts Creative Futures fellow (2018–2021), a United States Artists fellow (2015), and a Knights Grant recipient (2018, 2024).
