MANTAWOMAN

Reylon aka Mantawoman (Manta/Rey) is a genre-fluid yangqin player and singer-songwriter from San Francisco. They are the first yangqin player in history to feature on a GRAMMY-winning album (Sing Me Home, 2016, alongside Yo-Yo Ma and Rhiannon Giddens). They have toured internationally with the Silkroad Ensemble, playing venues like TED, Lincoln Center, and Tanglewood. A 2016 Harvard College graduate and 2017 Marshall Scholar, Reylon makes music to explore and enact the plurality of identity, drawing influence from Daoist philosophies of nature. Reylon co-directs Tangram, a London-based artist collective, who are Associate Artists at LSO St Luke’s from 2022-25.