Soldier Songs Thursday-Saturday June 23-25, 2011 THU & FRI at 8pm | SAT at 5pm Frederick Iseman Theater, 1156 Chapel Street, New Haven PROGRAM Tutte (Palm Beach Opera), the title role/Rands’ Vincent (guest artist David T. Little’s - Indiana University), Orff’s Carmina SOLDIER SONGS Burana (Saint Louis Symphony), and Schubert’s Winterreise (Houston). Music and Libretto David T. Little Future seasons bring him to Grand Produced By Beth Morrison Projects Théâtre de Genève, San Diego Opera, Stage Direction Yuval Sharon New Orleans Opera, and Orchestra of Conducted By Todd Reynolds St. Luke’s. Operatic engagements Starring David Adam Moore include Demetrius/a Midsummer and featuring Sam Poon Nights Dream and Maxmilian/ with the ensemble Newspeak Candide (Teatro alla Scala); Billy Budd, Set & Costume Design Chisato Uno Marcello/La Bohème (Pittsburgh Animation Design Corey Michael Opera); Zurga/Les Pêcheur De Perles, Smithson Guglielmo/Così Fan Tutte (Seattle Lighting Design Lucas Benjaminh Opera); Prior Walter/ Krech Eötvös’ Angels in America (BBC Sound Engineering Garth Macaleavey Symphony Orchestra, Fort Worth Video Engineering luckydave Opera); Maxmilian in Candide (Théâtre Associate Designer Brian Ireland du Châtelet; Hyogo and Tokyo, Production Stage Manager Lindsey Japan); Aeneas/Dido And Aeneas Turteltaub (Glimmerglass Opera); Billy Budd, Ned Assistant Stage Manager Allison Keene/Peter Grimes (New Israeli Johnson Opera); Figaro/Il Barbiere Di Siviglia, Technical Direction Ryan Gardner Don Giovanni (Staatsoper Hannover); This presentation is the World Papageno/Die Zauberflöte (New York Premiere of a re-orchestration of City Opera); Guglielmo/Così Fan Tutte (Arizona Opera), and Mercutio/ Soldier Songs. Roméo et Juliette (San Diego Opera, Opera Theater of Saint Louis, Utah BIOGRAPHIES Opera). Concert performances include David Adam Moore (the Soldier) Elgar’s The Apostles (Netherlands Recent engagements include Radio Philharmonic); Vaughan Figaro/il Barbiere Di Siviglia Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem (Utah (Seattle Opera), Guglielmo/così Fan Symphony); Mozart’s Mass In C Minor And Vesperae Solemnae (Orquestra 60 International Festival of Arts & Ideas Real de Sevilla), and Schumann’s Man- Q2 as a “rising star of the 21st century fred, Dargomizhsky’s The Stone Guest opera scene,” Little fuses classical and (American Symphony popular idioms to dramatic effect. His Orchestra). An advocate of music is widely performed— contemporary music, Moore has including at the Tanglewood, Aspen, premiered a number of other works and Cabrillo Festivals, and by eighth by American composers including blackbird, So Percussion, the London Martin Hennessy and Stephen Louis Sinfonietta and the Baltimore Bayne’s 9/11/01, Michael Webster and Symphony Orchestra under Marin Eileen Myles’ Hell, and Eaton’s Alsop. He recently completed a PhD Travelling With Guliver. at Princeton University, and holds davidadammoore.com degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Sam Poon (boy) NYC: New York Stage Susquehanna University. He is the Originals Northeast Tour: Scrooge in founding Artistic Director and Concert (Tiny Tim), a staged Equity drummer of Newspeak, and the reading of Pan directed by Jeffrey Executive Director for New York’s Seller (Slightly), a reading of Wonder MATA Festival. Recent and upcoming Wounded Heroes (Young Harry) with projects and performances include F. Murray Abraham.Regional/ the opera Dog Days commissioned Equity Credits: MUNY (St.Louis) by Montclair State University Peak – Miss Saigon, (Tam), Camelot (Royal Performances (2012, Robert Wood- Page), 90 Years of MUNY Magic (Toy ruff, director; Royce Vavrek, librettist), Soldier), Disney’s Beauty and the Haunt Of Last Nightfall for Third Coast Beast (Salt Shaker). Opera Theatre of Percussion, Radiant Child for the New St.Louis - Brundibar (Fido). Variety World Symphony, Charm for Marin Club of St.Louis- Tom Sawyer the Mu- Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony sical (Ensemble). Dramarama Orchestra, Vinkensport at New York Theatre Company- Disney’s Beauty City Opera’s VOX, and new works for and the Beast (Chip),It’s a Alarm Will Sound, Nadia Sirota, Wonderful Life Radio Play (Young Kathleen Supové, Lisa Moore and Harry and Tommy), Film/Video: Ashley Bathgate, and many others. An Portraits in Dramatic Time for 2011 active drummer, Little has performed Lincoln Center Festival (Holly Hunter’s and recorded with the International son),Other: Recordings as vocalist Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), and for Kimbo Ed., and Child Evangelism performs regularly with his ensemble Services. National and featured radio Newspeak, which recently released and television voice-overs, currently their first disc on New Amsterdam Bobby in the Chicken of the Sea ads. Records. Little’s music can also be Please visitwww.SamPoonOnline.com. heard on Todd Reynold’s recent Thanks to Nancy Carson, Bob Marks, Innova records release, Outerborough. Amelia DeMayo and Thommie Retter. davidtlittle.com COMPOSER BIOGRAPHY DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY David T. Little has been described as Yuval Sharon (stage director) The “dramatically wild…rustling, raunchy work of Yuval Sharon has been and eclectic,” showing “real described as “magical” (The Village imagination” by New York Times critic Voice), “ingenious” (San Francisco Anthony Tommasini, and his work Chronicle) and “having a keen eye to “completely gripped” New Yorker mythology in the modern world” (The- critic Alex Ross: “every bad-ass atermania New York). The Los Angeles new-music ensemble in the city will Times called his latest production, want to play him.” Hailed by WQXR/ Veronika Krausas’s opera The Mortal 61 International Festival of Arts & Ideas Thoughts Of Lady Macbeth, which integrating minimalist, pop, Jazz, took place at an abandoned dance Indian, African, Celtic and indigenous hall, “a major event, where surprise folk musics into his own sonic blend. sidesteps operatic convention.” He has As a cross-genre improviser and worked both with large international collaborator, he has appeared and/or houses like the San Francisco Opera, recorded with such artists as Anthony the Mariinsky Theater, the Bregenzer Braxton, Uri Caine, John Cale, Steve Festspiele in Austria, Komische Oper Coleman, Joe Jackson, Dave Liebman, Berlin and New York City Opera, Yo-Yo Ma, Graham Nash, Greg Osby, as well as experimental venues like Steve Reich, Marcus Roberts and Todd Berkeley Opera, Le Poisson Rouge, Rundgren, and has commissioned and and the Deitch Projects. He was premiered countless numbers of new assistant director to Achim Freyer on works by America’s most compelling the Los Angeles Ring Cycle. A composers, including John King, Phil passionate advocate for new music, Kline, Michael Gordon, Neil Rolnick, Yuval was Project Director for four Julia Wolfe, David Lang, Evan Ziporyn years of New York City Opera’s VOX, and Randall Wolff. His interdisciplinary an annual workshop of new American work includes ongoing collaborations compositions, which became the most with SoundPainter Walter Thompson important crucible for new opera in as well as media artists Bill Morrison the country under his direction. He is and Luke DuBois and sound artist now Artistic Director of The Jody Elff. Reynolds is a founder of the Industry, an initiative for new opera band known as Ethel, a critically and interdisciplinary performance in acclaimed amplified string quartet, Los Angeles, with an inaugural with whom he wrote and toured production of Anne LeBaron’s internationally. He has also produced hyperopera Crescent City planned for Still Life With Microphone, an ongoing the spring of 2012. theater piece which incorporates his yuvalsharon.com own written and improvised music, compositions written for him, and CONDUCTOR BIOGRAPHY elements of video and theatrical arts. Todd Reynolds (conductor) is a Nuove Uova [new eggs], new works composer, conductor, arranger, for violin and electricity, another Todd violinist, and a longtime member of Reynolds production is a ‘new-music Bang On A Can, Steve Reich and cabaret’ of sorts, having as its home Musicians and an early member of Joe’s Pub in Manhattan. He is the Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project. His recipient of ASCAP awards, an commitment to genre-bending and American Composers Forum Grant technology-driven innovation in music for Still Life with Mic and a 2003 has produced innumerable Meet-the-Composer Commissioning collaborations with artists that Music/USA award. His current string regularly cross musical and quartet featuring all-stars from New disciplinary boundaries, regularly York’s new music scene is currently on placing him in venues from clubs to tour with Meredith Monk’s Songs of concert halls around the world. A Ascension and engaged in forerunner in the expansion of the collaborations with composers and violin beyond its classical and performers such as Kenny Werner, ‘wood-bound’ tradition, Reynolds Neil Rolnick and Theo Bleckmann. electrifies in concert, weaves together Current commissions include music composed and improvised segments, for dance, theater and orchestra, as and makes use of computer well as a double CD to which was technology and digital loops to sculpt released on March 29th, 2011. his sounds in real time, seamlessly toddreynolds.wordpress.com 62 International Festival of Arts & Ideas DESIGN TEAM BIOGRAPHIES Chisato also enjoys working on Lucas Benjaminh Krech feature films and commercials that (lighting design) Krech is a designer have unusual design requirements, for opera, dance, theater, installation such as her recent collaboration with