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BAM 2013 Next Wave Festival #21cLiederabend

Brooklyn Academy of

Alan H. Fishman, Chairman of the Board

William I. Campbell, Vice Chairman of the Board

Adam E. Max, Vice Chairman of the Board

Karen Brooks Hopkins, President

Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer 21c Liederabend, op. 3 Festival of Contemporary Art Song

Creative direction by Beth Morrison and Paola Prestini Music direction by Julian Wachner Featuring New York’s finest solo singers, NOVUS NY, and The Choir of Trinity Wall Street

BAM Harvey Theater Nov 22 at 7:30pm—Program 1 Nov 23 at 7:30pm—Program 2 Approximate running time: two hours, no intermission

Composer in residence Anna Clyne Librettist in residence Scenic and lighting design by Maruti Evans BAM 2013 Next Wave Festival sponsor Projection and video design by S. Katy Tucker

Featuring compositions by: Thomas Cabaniss, Christopher Ceronne, Thomas Cipullo, Anna Clyne, Mohammed Fairouz, Judd Greenstein, David Handler, Viacom is the BAM 2013 Music Sponsor , Marie Incontrera, David T. Little, , , , Major support for music at BAM provided by The Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation Olga Neuwirth, Paola Prestini, Huang Ruo, , Aleksandra Vrebalov, Endowment funding has been provided by Julian Wachner, Eric Whitacre, , and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fund for Netsayi & Black Pressure and Music-Theater

Co-commisioned and co-produced by Beth Morrison Projects Additional endowment support provided by and VisionIntoArt, presented in association with Trinity Wall the BAM Fund to Support Emerging and Street. Local Musicians 21c Liederabend Op. 3

Being educated in a classical conservatory, the Liederabend (literally “Song Night” and pronounced “leader-ah-bent”) was a major part of our vocal educations. It was a regular opportunity to perform pieces from the classical song repertoire in an intimate salon-style format in front of friends, peers, and public. This 19th-century format harks back to Schubertiades, when art song first appeared as a “pop-culture” celebration of Schubert’s new works. The Liederabend was something to look forward to, a way to share with like-minded colleagues and friends and to make music together.

Outside of conservatories, the Liederabend ceases to exist. So, in 2009, we decided to update this 19th-century format and give it a contemporary make over... and the 21c Liederabend was born. To make it relevant to a 21st-century audience, we wanted to make it contemporary in every way; so we brought together living and living visual artists/filmmakers and created a song festival that had a stamp of the NOW on it. That first event was held at Galapagos Art Space. In 2011 we expanded the 21c Liederabend, op. 2 to the Kitchen in a three-day festival. We couldn’t be more thrilled to present our “op. 3” in the Harvey Theater as part of the 2013 BAM Next Wave Festival. Over two nights of different programming, audiences will share in the music of 22 com- posers featuring nine world premieres, including a commissioned piece by -in-residence Anna Clyne, as well as a new libretto from librettist-in-residence Royce Vavrek for a composition by Marie Incontrera. It has been our mission to commission a new work by a female composer for each of the Liederabends, and we hope that these new works will enter and expand the song repertoire.

We exist within a visual culture. So to that end, we have paired the composers with filmmakers, projection designers, sculptural lighting design, and sound design. The 21c Liederabend is a mul- timedia experience that we hope will delight the senses. At the center of it all, of course, are the composers. The marriage of words and music continue to inspire creative work, and we are proud to showcase the 22 incredible compositional voices that are represented in our op. 3. We share New York, America, the Middle East, Europe, , and Africa through song.

We hope you will enjoy our “lieder palooza”!

—Beth Morrison and Paola Prestini

DESIGN AND PRODUCTION TEAM

Production manager/Technical director Michael Givey Video engineer and Associate projection designer Brad Peterson Sound engineer Garth MacAleavey Stage manager Jason Kaiser Assistant director Tom Dugdale Assistant stage manager Catherine Constanzo

Master class: Art Song Forward: For Singers and Composers With Christopher Burchett and Julian Wachner | In conjunction with 21c Liederabend, op. 3 Sat, Nov 23 at 10:30am | 1hr 30min | Penthouse Studio | $25 for singers; $15 for composers 21c Liederabend, Op. 3

FRIDAY, NOV 22—PROGRAM 1 Commissioned by The Serbian National Theater for its 150th Anniversary Season Distance to the Market (2012) Composed by Paola Prestini His Name is Jan (World Premiere) Libretto by Donna Di Novelli Composed by Missy Mazzoli Christopher Burchett, baritone Libretto by Royce Vavrek Stephen Gosling, Breckenridge, soprano Commissioned for the Opera America Songbook Ted Hearne, conductor

America 1968 (2008) “Miranda’s Aria” from Death and the Powers Composed by Tom Cipullo (2010) Text by Robert Hayden Composed by Tod Machover I. Monet’s Waterlilies Libretto by Robert Pinsky II. The Whipping Sara Heaton, soprano David Adam Moore, baritone Ted Hearne, conductor Stephen Gosling, piano Commissioned by Association Futurum with the Commissioned by Andrew Garland and Patronage of Albert II of Monaco Donna Loewy. Used with permission from Liveright Publishing Corporation. “I Must Survive” from Woman: The War Within (2013) “Líadan’s Lament” from Celtic Verses Composed by Du Yun Reorchestrated for mezzo-soprano and Libretto by Matthew Maguire harpsichord 2013 Solange Merdinian, mezzo-soprano Composed by David Handler Ted Hearne, conductor Text by Anonymous Daisy Press, vocalist “Albert, Bound or Unbound” from No Shirts, No Orlando Alonso, harpsichord Skirts, No Service (World Premiere) Composed by Marie Incontrera Drama Theatre: No. 3 (2009), “Written on Libretto by Royce Vavrek the Wind” Cree Carrico, soprano Composed by Huang Ruo Tyrone Chambers, tenor Text by the composer Chorus of Soldiers: Peter Tantsits, Timur, Min Xiao-Fen, and vocal David Adam Moore, Christopher Burchett Ted Hearne, conductor Sleep (2000) Composed by Eric Whitacre From The Source (World Premiere) Text by Charles Anthony Silvestri Composed by Ted Hearne Choir of Trinity Wall Street Libretto by Mark Doten André de Quadros, conductor I. In which the Grey Hat who exposes Pfc Manning defends himself on Twitter (6.1.10— Scene from the opera Bhutto (World Premiere) 6.7.10) Composed by Mohammed Fairouz II. In which sundry newspersons interview Libretto by Olivia Giovetti Julian Assange (7.10.10—12.22.10) Rachel Calloway, mezzo-soprano Theresa McCarthy, Daisy Press, Timur, vocalist Daniel Breaker, Joseph Keckler, vocal soloists Christopher Burchett, baritone Ted Hearne, conductor Choir of Trinity Wall Street Ted Hearne, conductor From Artaud in the Black Lodge (World Premiere) Composed by David T. Little “Lullaby” from Mileva (2011) Libretto by Anne Waldman Composed by Aleksandra Vrebalov I. Petrograd, 1917 Libretto by Vida Ognjenovic II. Here my severed digit / write my way out Anne-Carolyn Bird and Sara Heaton, sopranos Timur, vocalist Choir of Trinity Wall Street Ted Hearne, conductor 21c Liederabend, Op. 3

Netsayi and Black Pressure Cornelius Dufallo, and live electronics I. Hondo Choir of Trinity Wall Street II. Georgie Julian Wachner, Conductor III. Sara Regina The Hubble Cantata was commissioned by Photography by Helena Christensen Bay Chamber Concerts and received its world Netsayi B. Chigwendere—vocals, acoustic premiere in Rockport, Maine on July 25, 2013. , mbira This performance marks the world premiere of Humfrey N. Domboka—electric guitar, marim- the version with chorus. bas, vocals Raymond T. Mupfumira—electric guitar, mbiras, “Mannahatta” from My City (World Premiere) marimbas, vocals Composed by Judd Greenstein Tapuwa B. Bright—drums Text by Walt Whitman Cornelius Dufallo—violin DM Stith, vocals and guitar Jeffrey Zeigler— Choir of Trinity Wall Street Julian Wachner, conductor SATURDAY, NOV 23—PROGRAM 2 New animation by Joshua Frankel Part of My City, commissioned by the Distance to the Market (2012) Engagement Lab, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Composed by Paola Prestini and Waterbury Symphony Orchestra Libretto by Donna Di Novelli Christopher Burchett, baritone The Lost Thought (Festival Commission) Stephen Gosling, piano Composed by Anna Clyne Commissioned for the Opera America Songbook Text by Film by S. Katy Tucker “Up then, you virgins, off to battle” from Trio Mediæval (Anna Maria Friman-Henriksen, Penthesilea (2012) Linn Andrea Fuglseth) Composed by Thomas Cabaniss Martha Cluver Libretto by Douglas Langworthy and Julian Wachner, conductor David Hershkovitz Amelia Watkins, soprano Hymns for Private Use (World Premiere) Stephen Gosling, piano Composed by Nico Muhly Marnie Breckenridge, soprano I Will Learn to Love A Person (2013) Julian Wachner, conductor Composed by Commissioned by Het Concertgebouw Libretto by Tao Lin Amsterdam and Wigmore Hall, London, with I. That Night with the Green Sky the support of André Hoffmann, President of the II. Eleven Page Poem Part III Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making Daisy Press, soprano foundation, for the (world premiere) performanc- Stephen Gosling, piano es on April 2012. Commissioned for the Opera America Songbook Come My Dark Eyed One A Boy and a Girl (2002) Composed by Julian Wachner Composed by Eric Whitacre Text by Sara Teasdale and e. e. cummings Text by VII. Shall we too rise forgetful from our sleep Translated by Muriel Rykeyser VIII. I shall bury my weary love Choir of Trinity Wall Street Christopher Burchett, baritone André de Quadros, conductor Cree Carrico, Soprano Choir of Trinity Wall Street Hubble Cantata (2013) Julian Wachner, conductor Composed by Paola Prestini Libretto by Royce Vavrek “Ilana’s Dream” from After Life (2006) with narrations by Mario Livio Composed by Michel Van der Aa Film by Carmen Kordas Text by the composer after Hirokazu Kore-Eda Jessica Rivera, soprano Film by Michel van der Aa 21c Liederabend, Op. 3

Marnie Breckenridge, soprano Netsayi and Black Pressure Maeve Höglund, soprano Photography by Helena Christensen Julian Wachner, conductor I. Chosen Ones Commissioned by De Nederlandse Opera and II. Nyuchi MuDhorobha the Holland Festival in 2006 III. Don’t’ Wake Me Up Netsayi B. Chigwendere—vocals, acoustic Three selected songs from the song-cycle guitar, mbira Hommage à Klaus Nomi (1998) Humfrey N. Domboka—electric guitar, marim- I. So Simple (Simple Man) bas, vocals II. Awake from Winter (Cold Song) Raymond T. Mupfumira—electric guitar, mbiras, III. The Witch marimbas, vocals Composed by Olga Neuwirth Tapuwa B. Bright—drums Libretto by Klaus Nomi with special guests: Video by Lillevan Cornelius Dufallo—violin Timur, vocalist Jeffrey Zeigler—cello Julian Wachner, conductor Commissioned by the Salzburg Festival supported by Betty Freeman, 1998 This performance is dedicated to Lou Reed

NOVUS NY Oboe Trumpet Synthesizer Conrad Harris Michelle Farah Hugo Moreno Stephen Gosling Laura Lutzke Nathan Koci Trombone Orlando Alonso Viola Eileen Mack (/ James Hirschfeld John Stulz Bass Clarinet) Electric Guitar Joshua Sinton Percussion Matthew Setzer Cello (Clarinet/Bass Clarinet/ Peter Wise Brian Snow Alto Sax) Molly Yeh Electric Bass Sam Sadigursky (Alto James Ilgenfritz Contrabass Sax/Bass Clarinet) Piano Eleonore Oppenheim Stephen Gosling Pipa Bassoon Min Xiao-Fen Damian Primis Harpsichord Roberta Michel Orlando Alonso Sitar Kelli Kathman Horn Kamala Sankaram Jecca Barry Nathan Koci

TRINITY WALL STREET CHOIR SOPRANO ALTO TENOR BASS Jennifer Bates Luthien Brackett Eric Dudley Kelvin Chan Martha Cluver Matthew Hensrud Timothy Hodges Steven Hrycelak Linda Lee Jones Kate Maroney Stephen Sands Tim Krol Marguerite Krull Virginia Warnken Steven Caldicott Wilson Thomas McCargar Melanie Russell Liam Moran Katie Wessinger Jonathan Woody Who’s Who

PRODUCERS comes from the National Endowment of the Arts, Cary Trust for New Music, the Trust for Mutual BETH MORRISON PROJECTS, founded in Understanding, the New York State Council on 2006, encourages risk-taking, creating a struc- the Arts, Lower Cultural Council, ture for developing new work that is unique to ASCAP, the BMI Fund, the Morgan Stanley each artist, which gives them the time and space Foundation, the Kenan Institute, Nathan Cum- to experiment and push boundaries. Noted as mings Foundation, National Video Resources, the a composers’ producer, “Beth Morrison, of Beth Council on Foundations, the Amphion Founda- Morrison Projects, has been gathering strength tion, and individual donors. for several years, producing some of the most exciting music-theatre projects in the city” (The TRINITY WALL STREET is an Episcopal New Yorker). To date, the company has com- parish that has been a part of missioned, developed, and produced more than since 1697. Located in the heart of Manhattan’s 30 premiere opera and music-theater works financial district, Trinity has created a dynamic that have been performed around the globe. The home for great music. Serving as director of New York Times recently said, “The produc- Trinity’s Music and the Arts Program—as well as tion of new [opera] works in the city still falls principal conductor of the Grammy-nominated mostly to the tireless Beth Morrison and her Beth Choir of Trinity Wall Street, period-instrument Morrison Projects…” Trinity Baroque Orchestra and contemporary-mu- wrote, “Ms. Morrison may be immortalized one sic ensemble-in-residence NOVUS NY—Julian day as a 21st-century Diaghilev, known for her Wachner also oversees all liturgical, professional, ability to assemble memorable collaborations and community Music and Arts programming at among artists.” Current and upcoming projects Trinity Church and St. Paul’s Chapel. The music include works by composers Darcy James Argue, at Trinity ranges from large-scale oratorios to Jonathan Berger, , Ted Hearne, David , from intimate a cappella Lang, David T. Little, , Keeril Makan, to jazz improvisation. All concerts at Trinity Wall Missy Mazzoli, Nico Muhly, Paola Prestini, Ka- Street are professionally filmed and webcast live mala Sankaram, Scott Wheeler, and more, with at trinitywallstreet.org. directors Rachel Dickstein, Daniel Fish, Yuval Sharon, and Robert Woodruff. Projects have been DIRECTORS performed in American and international venues, including BAM, the Kitchen, PS 122, Lincoln Beth Morrison (creative direction), leader of Center, Walker Art Center, The Barbican, Holland BMP, is an opera and theater producer, singer, Festival, Music Festival, New York Musi- and voice teacher with bachelor and master cal Theater Festival, and more. of music degrees and a master of fine arts in theater management/producing from the Yale VisionIntoArt (VIA) is a multimedia production School of Drama, as well as many years of company that creates interdisciplinary works experience in the development of new opera and stemming from new music. With the belief that theater works. She first cultivated her extensive collaboration sustains artistic innovation, VIA experience in arts administration at the Boston creates and commissions works that involve University Tanglewood Institute where she served various disciplines, presented around the world as administrative director for four years. Morrison for the general audience, and forged from the served a founding tenure as the producer for most exciting emerging and established artists the Yale Institute for Music Theatre from 2009 living today. Since Paola Prestini cofounded the to 2011, as well as producer for New York City company in 1999 at the , VIA Opera’s VOX:Contemporary American Opera has created and performed over 70 original Lab from 2010 to 2011. She is also a founding works and has been seen at , the director of PROTOTYPE: Opera/Theatre/Now, , Atlas Theater, HIFA (oimba- a festival showcasing contemporary chamber bwe), and the Kennedy Center. VIA’s works have opera-theater and music-theater projects that toured to colleges and universities in the US, tour. BMP is the realization of Morrison‘s vision, and to international festivals such as Apertif in which stems from a deep commitment to nurtur- at Teatro Manzoni, Etna Fest in Italy, ing composers and other artists and fostering and BEMUS in Belgrade, Serbia. Support for VIA the development of new opera and other new Who’s Who

music-theater works. Previous projects presented explosions. Her work includes collaborations with at BAM include Don Juan in Prague (2006 choreographers, visual artists, filmmakers, and Next Wave), Babylon (2011 Next musicians. Clyne’s work has been championed Wave), and ELSEWHERE and love fail (both by such conductors as Riccardo Muti, Leonard 2012 Next Wave). Slatkin, and Esa-Pekka Salonen, with recent commissions from Carnegie Hall, the Los Ange- Paola Prestini (creative direction; composer) les Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, London Sin- is founder/director of VisionIntoArt, an interdisci- fonietta, and Southbank Centre, among others. plinary production company, and creative direc- Recent works include Masquerade, an orchestral tor of Original Music Workshop (Brooklyn). She overture that opened the BBC’s Last Night of the is a Black Ship member. Her work is performed Proms, Prince of Clouds (double violin concerto), worldwide: Kennedy Center, BAM Next Wave A Wonderful Day for the All- Festival, BEMUS (Serbia), Etnafest (Italy), and Stars, See(k) (orchestral ballet score for Nicolo Barbican Centre (London). Her work been Fonte/Houston Ballet), and The Violin (collabo- commissioned and presented by Carnegie Hall, ration with artist Josh Dorman and violinists Chicago Symphony Orchestra, New York City Cornelius Dufallo and Amy Kauffman). Currently Opera, and in venues worldwide. the Chicago Symphony’s Mead Composer-in- Current projects include works for New York Residence through 2015, Clyne has received Philharmonic’s 2014 Biennal, two installation numerous accolades, including a Charles Ives (commissioned by the Krannert Center Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts for and Cornelius Dufallo); The and Letters. Her debut album, Blue Moth, was Hubble Cantata (commissioned by Bay Chamber released on the Tzadik label in 2012. Concerts for International Contemporary En- semble); Oceanic Verses (Barbican Centre with Royce Vavrek (21c Liederabend librettist BBC Symphony Orchestra); an evening length in residence) is a Brooklyn-based librettist and dance for Lar Lubovitch Dance Company; and lyricist whose work includes Dog Days (Peak Aging Magician (Rinde Eckert, Julian Crouch, Performances @ Montclair/Beth Morrison and Brooklyn Youth Chorus, in residence at Wa- Projects), Am I Born (Brooklyn Philharmonic/ termill Center and Park Avenue Armory). She has Brooklyn Youth Chorus) and Vinkensport, or the enjoyed many collaborations with muses, visual Finch Opera (Bard Conservatory), Song from the artists, writers, and filmmakers. Residencies Uproar (Beth Morrison Projects, the Kitchen), include MASS MoCA, Hermitage Retreat, Ucross Strip Mall ( Philharmonic) and A Foundation, Sundance, and LMCC Governor’s Song for Wade (This is Not That Song) (Alarm Island, and she has worked in colleges and in Will Sound), Angel’s Bone (Mann Center), residencies in Italy, Africa, Mexico, and Venezue- Stoned Prince (loadbang) and Violations (Yale la. She was a 2012 Musical Exchange Fellow for School of Music), and Maren of Vardø (New York Carnegie Hall and was a Paul and Daisy Soros City Opera VOX; Yale Institute for Music Theater). Fellow. She has taught in inner city schools in Upcoming projects: 27 with New York, and El Sistema in Venezuela, among (Opera Theatre of St. Louis), JFK with David others. She is editor of ’s T. Little (Fort Worth Opera Festival), and The Cro- Very Young Composer book. Her music is cus Field with Josh Schmidt (Signature Theater, released on Tzadik Records, and her writing is VA). Vavrek is co-artistic director of the Coterie, published in the Arcana series by Hips Road. an opera-theater company founded with soprano She is a graduate of the Juilliard School, and has . He received a BFA from Con- studied with , and Sir cordia University, Montreal; an MFA from NYU; Peter Maxwell Davies. and attended American Lyric Theater’s Composer Librettist Development Program. ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE COMPOSERS ANNA CLYNE (21c Liederabend composer in residence) is a London-born composer of THOMAS CABANISS’ recent works include acoustic and electro-acoustic music, combining Celestial Fire (2013 Radio Radiance commission resonant soundscapes with propelling textures for the Young People’s Chorus of NYC), Drum- that weave, morph, and collide in dramatic lines, Come to Play, To Make Words Sing, Away Who’s Who

I Fly (interactive orchestral pieces for Carnegie neapolis Pops New Orchestral Repertoire Award Hall’s orchestra education program), My Song is (2009) for Sparkler, the National Association of a Fire (oratorio, Fairfield County Chorale & Or- Teachers of Singing Art Song Award (2008) for chestra), Searching for Kristallnacht (oratorio for Of a Certain Age, and the Phyllis Wattis Prize for singers, musicians, and actor to commemorate song composition from the San Francisco Song the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht), and Three Festival for Drifts & Shadows (2006). Cipullo’s Sabbaths ( Bach Society). A Visit with Emily, Another Reason Why I Don’t Dance works include The Reclamation, Noise Keep a Gun in the House and Of a Certain Age + Speed, It’s All True, and The Short-Cut for are published by Oxford University Press. Other Hilary Easton. The Sandman, a chamber opera works are distributed by Classical Vocal Reprints. based on a story by E.T.A. Hoffmann with libretto by Douglas Langworthy and David Herskovits, Du Yun, born and raised in , China, premiered at the Connelly Theater in New York is a composer, performer, and performance (2002, revived in 2003). Cabaniss is a faculty artist who practices her works at a crossroads member at Juilliard and Mannes College The of orchestral, chamber music, opera, theater, New School for Music, and a consultant to the cabaret, storytelling, , visual arts, and Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall. noise. Selected commissions: , thomascabaniss.com Detroit Symphony, Mann Center for the Perform- ing Arts, Whitney Museum, Berkeley Symphony, Christopher Cerrone is a Brooklyn-based Fromm Foundation, Chamber Music America, composer whose works range from chamber Festivals für Neue Musik & aktuelle Kultur music, orchestral works, and fully-staged (Switzerland), and ICE. Selected venues: Festival to multimedia projects, ambient electronic works, d’Avignon, Ultima Norway, Salle Playel Paris, and collaborations with artists. Recent collabo- Darmstadt, Musica Nova Helsinki, Carnegie rations include performances by Los Angeles Hall, Lincoln Center, RedCat, Kimmel Center, Philharmonic, , New York City Shanghai Symphony, Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, Opera, Tulsa Opera, Brooklyn Philharmonic, and and Philharmonie Luxembourg. In art: Guang- Ensemble ACJW. His opera Invisible Cities will zhou Art Triennial, National Academy Museum, be presented by the Industry in collaboration Sharjah Biennial (UAE), Auckland Triennial (New with LA Dance Project this fall; the interactive Zealand), Ullens Art Center (Beijing). Upcoming production, directed by Yuval Sharon, will take highlights: Istanbul Biennial, Shanghai Opera place in LA’s Union Station. Cerrone has received Orchestra, Prototype, Smithsonian Museum, awards and grants from the American Academy , São Paolo Contemporary of Arts and Letters, Chamber Music America, Museum, and Seattle Symphony. the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Opera America, the Jerome Foundation, ASCAP, and New Music Mohammed Fairouz integrates Middle-East- USA, and holds degrees from the Yale School of ern modes into Western structures. His output Music and Manhattan School of Music. He was encompasses opera, symphonies, ensemble co-artistic director of Red Light New Music and works, chamber and solo pieces, choral settings, he is one-sixth of the Sleeping Giant composer and song cycles. Commissions have come from collective. His works are published by Schott NY , , and Project Schott New York. Imani Winds, New York Festival of Song, Da Capo Chamber Players, Cantus, and others. Re- Tom Cipullo is the winner of a 2012 Gug- cent premieres include his first opera, Sumeida’s genheim Fellowship and a 2013 award from Song, and his fourth symphony, In the Shadow the American Academy of Arts & Letters, and of No Towers, both greeted with critical acclaim. has received commissions from Mirror Visions Fairouz was a featured artist on the television se- Ensemble, SongFest, Joy in Singing, Sequitur, ries Collaboration Culture on BBC World TV. He Cantori New York, tenor Paul Sperry, mezzo- has been interviewed on shows such as NPR’s soprano Mary Ann Hart, the Five Boroughs All Things Considered, BBC/PRI’s The World, Music Festival, pianist Jeanne Golan, soprano and The Bob Edwards Show. Recordings are Martha Guth, baritone Jesse Blumberg, soprano available on Naxos, Innova, Bridge, and other Hope Hudson, New York Festival of Song, and labels. His principal teachers in composition many others. Recent honors include the Min- have included György Ligeti, Gunther Schul- Who’s Who

ler, and Richard Danielpour, with studies at the HUANG RUO, winner of the Luxembourg Inter- Curtis Institute and New England Conservatory. national Composition Prize, draws inspiration mohammedfairouz.com. from Chinese ancient and , Western avant-garde, rock, and jazz, integrating them in Judd Greenstein is a Brooklyn-based a compositional technique he calls “dimensional- composer of structurally complex works for ism.” Ruo’s writing spans orchestra, chamber varied instrumentation, heard at Carnegie Hall, music, opera, theater, and modern dance, to Tanglewood, Amsterdam’s Musiekgebouw, Bang sound installation, multimedia, experimental on a Can Marathon, and MusicNOW festival; improvisation, folk rock, and film. It has been recent commissions include from the Minnesota performed by New York Philharmonic, San Orchestra, Alabama Symphony, Claremont Trio, Francisco Symphony, National Polish Radio ETHEL, yMusic, and Roomful of Teeth. Current Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Opera projects: a song cycle for vocalist DM Stith and Hong Kong, , Chamber orchestra, and an opera with director Joshua Music Society of Lincoln Center, and Ethel Frankel and poet Tracy K. Smith. Judd is also ac- Quartet, and others, under conductors including tive as a promoter of new music. He is co-direc- Wolfgang Sawallisch, James Conlon, and Dennis tor of New Amsterdam Records/New Amsterdam Russell Davies. His opera Dr. Sun Yat-Sen has its Presents, an organization supporting musicians American premiere at Santa Fe Opera in 2014. open to all genres. He curates the Ecstatic Music Upcoming commissions include a vocal drama Festival (Merkin Hall), a showcase of collabora- for Ars Nova Copenhagen and Danish Dance tive concerts among artists from different musical Theatre, orchestral works for Remix Ensemble backgrounds, and he is a founding member of and Casa da Musica in Porto, Netherlands Radio NOW Ensemble, a performer/composer collective Philharmonic Orchestra and Concertgebouw in that develops new chamber music for , clari- Amsterdam, and National Symphony Orchestra net, electric guitar, , and piano. Judd of Taiwan. huangruo.com studied at Tanglewood Music Center and Bang on a Can Summer Institute and holds degrees Marie Incontrera is a composer, conduc- from Williams College, , and tor, and martial artist in Brooklyn. She won the Princeton University. Miriam Gideon Composition Award for women composers, the Remarkable Theater Brigade David Handler composes acoustic and elec- Art Song Competition, the 2011 Vocalessence/ tronic music that explores notions of incongruity American Composers Forum “Essentially Choral” and deconstruction. Recent commissions include readings, and was a finalist in the Iron Composer the transcription and orchestration of Riceboy 2010 competition. She was awarded a Meet the Sleeps by Alex Somers & Jónsi Birgisson of Sigur Composer Metlife Creative Connections award, Rós, commissioned by Lincoln Center. Additional a Foundation for the Contemporary Arts Grant, a orchestral premieres include Smile by Ossia Puffin Grant, and a New York Women Composers Symphony and The Diving Bell Sketches by Seed Money Grant. Commissions have Manhattan School of Music Symphony. Promi- come from the Young New Yorkers Chorus, nent performances include a composer portrait Remarkable Theater Brigade, Brooklyn Art Song curated by Orange Mountain Music’s Richard Society, and Atlanta Opera, among others. Her Guérin at Barbéz (2009). As both violinist and work was performed in Weill Hall (Carnegie violist, he collaborates regularly with Kurt Masur Hall), Kaufman Center, Symphony Space, Merid- and Zdeneˇk Mácal, with whom he studied con- ian Arts Festival (Bucharest), Roulette, Galapa- ducting. Handler is the co-founder and executive gos Art Space, WOW Cafe Theatre, highSCORE director of Le Poisson Rouge and Ensemble LPR. Festival (Italy), and others. She is the conductor The venue’s mission is to revive the symbiotic for a series of engagements by Green Mon- relationship between art and revelry, invigorating ster Big Band, including the 2013 Next Wave the musical landscape for artists and audiences Festival; she is also guest composer and arranger alike; in its five years, the venue has received for some of these engagements. She studies numerous awards and accolades. composition and conducting with Fred Ho.

TED HEARNE (see conductors) David T. Little’s music, a fusion of classi- cal and popular idioms, has been performed Who’s Who

at Tanglewood, Aspen, and Cabrillo Festivals, composer-in-residence with Opera Philadelphia, and by eighth blackbird, So¯ Percussion, Lon- and in 2011—12 was composer-in-residence don Sinfonietta, Brooklyn Philharmonic, and with Albany Symphony. In February 2012 Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, among others. Beth Morrison Projects produced Song from Little’s operas have been produced by Beth Mor- the Uproar, Mazzoli’s first multimedia chamber rison Projects, Peak Performances at Montclair, opera, in a sold-out premiere run at the Kitchen PROTOTYPE Festival, and Bard Conservatory. (NY). Recently, an extended work for Kronos Upcoming projects: new works for Kronos Quar- Quartet premiered at Carnegie Hall, plus new tet, Maya Beiser, Todd Reynolds, wild Up, and works by pianist Emanuel Ax and the Detroit an opera with collaborator Royce Vavrek about Symphony. A pianist and keyboardist, she the final day of John F. Kennedy’s life, com- performs her music with Victoire, a band she missioned by the Fort Worth Opera. An active founded in 2008. Its album Cathedral City was drummer, Little has performed and recorded with named one of 2010’s best classical albums by the International Contemporary Ensemble and Time Out New York, NPR, , and performs with his amplified chamber ensemble . In February 2014 the band Newspeak, for which he is founding artistic performs a set of new material at Carnegie Hall, director. From 2010—12 Little was executive joined by percussionist of . director of New York’s MATA Festival. He holds Mazzoli recently joined the faculty at Mannes a PhD from Princeton University and is the head College of Music, and her works are published of composition and new music coordinator at by G. Schirmer. Shenandoah Conservatory. His music can be heard on New Amsterdam Records and Innova. Nico Muhly has composed for American davidtlittle.com Ballet Theatre, American Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, Carnegie Hall, Chicago Symphony, Tod Machover, composer and inventor, is the Gotham Chamber Opera, New York City Ballet, Muriel R. Cooper Professor of Music and Media New York Philharmonic, Paris Opéra Ballet, at the MIT Media Lab where he is director of Royal Ballet, Seattle Symphony, and many other the Opera of the Future Group. He is also visit- groups and solo artists. Muhly has lent his skills ing professor of composition at London’s Royal as performer, arranger, and conductor to Antony Academy of Music. Machover’s compositions and the Johnsons, Grizzly Bear, Jónsi (of Sigur have been commissioned and performed by Rós), , and others. In 2011, Muhly’s first many of the world’s prestigious ensembles and full-scale opera, , commissioned by soloists, and he has been awarded numerous the , Lincoln Center Theater, prizes and honors, including France’s Chevalier and with libretto by Craig des Arts et Lettres and the 2013 Arts Advocacy Lucas and direction by premiered in Award (Kennedy Center). He is recognized as London (2012). A chamber opera commissioned a prominent designer of new for by the Opera Company of Philadelphia, Music music, including Hyperinstruments, Hyper- Theatre Group, and Gotham Chamber Opera score, and the technologies behind Guitar Hero. premiered in New York (2012). Recently, Los Particularly known for his visionary operas, his Angeles Master Chorale and Decca released a most recent, the “robotic” Death and the Powers disc of Muhly’s choral music, A Good Under- (finalist, 2012 Pulitzer Prize), appears at Dallas standing. Aurora Orchestra recorded his Seeing is Opera in February 2014, from where it will be Believing; with choreographer Stephen Petronio, interactively simulcast worldwide. Since 2012, Muhly created I Drink the Air Before Me, both Machover has worked on a series of “collabora- on Decca. Muhly frequently collaborates with tive symphonies,” created with citizens of Toronto , an artist-run label headed and Edinburgh; the next in the series premieres by Icelandic musician Valgeir Sigurðsson, inau- at Perth (Australia) International Festival in gurated in 2007 with the release of Muhly’s first March 2014. album, Speaks Volumes. He released a second album, Mothertongue, and also worked closely MISSY MAZZOLI’s music has been performed with Sigurðsson, , and on globally by Kronos Quartet, eighth blackbird, respective solo releases. In 2012, Muhly’s three- New York City Opera, and many others. She is part Drones & Music was released (with Bruce Who’s Who

Brubaker, Pekka Kuusisto, and ). 1999 at the Wiener Festwochen (Ernst Krenek Film credits include scores for Joshua (2007), prize). She wrote Clinamen/Nodus for Pierre Margaret (2009), and The Reader (2008). Boulez and London Symphony Orchestra. In -born and raised in Rhode Island, Muhly 2002 Neuwirth became composer-in-residence graduated from Columbia University with a de- at the Lucerne Festival. With novelist Elfriede gree in English Literature. In 2004, he received Jelinek she created two radio plays and three a masters in music from Juilliard, studying under operas. Her opera Lost Highway, based on Christopher Rouse and . Since his David Lynch’s film, premiered in 2003 and won sophomore year, he worked for Philip Glass as a a South Bank Show Award for the production MIDI programmer and editor for six years. by English National Opera (Young Vic, 2008). In 2012 Neuwirth completed two new operas Netsayi & Black Pressure while in New York: The Outcast, on Herman Netsayi, singer-songwriter and “Queen of Melville, and American Lulu, a version of Alban Afrofolk” (Daily News), is back recording and Berg’s Lulu (Bregenz, Edinburgh, London, Aug/ performing. After a 40-date UK tour support- Sep 2013). She is working on a radio play about ing Grammy Award-winning legends Ladysmith Herman Melville for the Ensemble Intercontem- Black Mambazo, Netsayi returned home to Ha- porain and a new work for Vienna Philharmonic rare in 2010, where she put together the band Orchestra. Black Pressure. Her new incarnation maintains the familiar wit and poetic writing, while her PAOLA PRESTINI (composer; see directors) show is by turns emotive and energizing, reveal- ing flashes of virtuosic brilliance from musicians Michel van der Aa (Netherlands), a who rework the traditional sounds of Zimbabwe multidisciplinary figure in contemporary music, to dramatic effect. Arriving in the UK around not only composes but is also a director and 2000, Netsayi forged a reputation performing a script writer. His works blur boundaries between cappella in London’s singer-songwriter clubs. Af- live action and recording, and between music, ter her self-produced demo landed on BBC Radio theater, and film. Before studying composition DJ Trevor Nelson’s desk, she went on to receive (with , among others), Van der universal acclaim in the British press for two al- Aa trained as a recording engineer at the Royal bums: Chimurenga Soul and Monkey’s Wedding, Conservatory in The Hague, and studied film di- (“refreshingly, startlingly excellent” raved Mojo). rection (New York Film Academy, Lincoln Center In 2012 Netsayi & Black Pressure were spotted Theater Director’s Lab). Among the ensembles by American composer and artistic director Paola performing his music: ICE, Tokyo Sinfonietta, Prestini at the Harare International Festival of Arts; Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, BBC Sym- invitations to the US followed. These included a phony Orchestra, and Amsterdam Sinfonietta. rapturously-received live show on NPR and col- The 3D opera Sunken Garden will be staged at laborations with photographer Helena Christensen Opera Lyon next season, following successful and Kronos Quartet’s Jeffrey Zeigler. Netsayi is at runs at Holland Festival and Barbican Centre, the forefront of the new wave of African artists on London. Among his awards are the International the verge of global recognition. Gaudeamus Prize (1999), the Charlotte Köhler Prize (2005), and, in 2013, the Kagel Prize and Olga Neuwirth’s multi-layered works can for Music Composition for draw on effects of electronic and orchestral Up-Close. Interdisciplinary collaborators include instruments and video. From Austria, she performers such as and Rod- studied at the Academy of Music in Vienna erick Williams, Ana Moura, Kate Miller-Heidke and San Franciso Conservatory of Music; she and These New Puritans, novelist , studied painting and film at the same time. Her and actor Klaus Maria Brandauer. Since 2011 he composition teachers included Adriana Holszky, has been house composer with Royal Concertge- Tristan Murail, and . At 22, two of her bouw Orchestra leading to several major works, mini-operas were performed at Wiener Fest- including a violin concerto for Janine Jansen. wochen, and since then, her works have been He is writing a clarinet concerto for the London presented worldwide. In 1998 she was featured Sinfonietta, musikFabrik, and the Finnish Avanti! in Salzburg Festival’s Next Generation series. Her ensemble, to be performed in 2014. music-theater work Bahlamms Fest premiered in Who’s Who

ALEKSANDRA VREBALOV’s works have been and conducted the winning entries of the Abbey performed by Kronos Quartet, ETHEL, Serbian Road 80th Anniversary Anthem Competition, National Theater, and Belgrade Philharmonic, recording the London Symphony Orchestra and among others. Vrebalov has been commissioned his professional choir, the Eric Whitacre Singers, by Carnegie Hall, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Barlow in Abbey Road Studio. Endowment, Clarice Smith Center, Merkin Hall. Residencies/festivals featuring Vrebalov’s work CONDUCTORS include New Dramatists, BBC Proms, Edinburgh Festival, Ravinia, American Opera Projects, Julian Wachner (festival Music Director) Rockefeller Bellagio Center, MacDowell Colony, is a Grammy-nominated conductor, composer, and Tanglewood. Named 2011 composer of the and keyboard artist whose recent engagements year by Muzika Klasika (for the opera Mileva, include Lincoln Center Festival (The Blind), commissioned by Serbian National Theater), Juilliard Opera Theatre (2013 Mainstage), The Vrebalov, who lives in New York, has received Rolling Stones (50th anniversary tour), New awards from American Academy of Arts and York City Opera (VOX), Hong Kong Philharmonic, Letters, Vienna Modern Masters, ASCAP, Meet TENET (TENEbrae), Portland Baroque (Mes- the Composer, Douglas Moore Foundation, and siah), and Carnegie Hall (Arvo Pärt’s Passio). two Mokranjac Awards from Serbian Association As Director of Music and the Arts at New York’s of Composers. Her works have been released on historic Trinity Wall Street, Wachner oversees Nonesuch, Centaur Records, Innova, and Vienna an annual season of over 900 events, including Modern Masters labels, and accompanies dances concerts, series and festivals, museum exposi- by Dusan Tynek, Rambert Dance Company, Take tions, dance and theater performances, poetry Dance, and Providence Festival Ballet. Her music and literary readings, and educational/outreach has been used in the films Soul Murmur (dir. initiatives in lower Manhattan and Brooklyn in Helen Doyle) and Slucaj Kepiro (Natasa Krstic). partnership with New York City’s public school aleksandravrebalov.com. system. At Trinity Wall Street, Wachner serves as principal conductor of NOVUS NY (Trinity’s JULIAN WACHNER (see conductors) resident contemporary music orchestra), and the Trinity Baroque Orchestra & Choir of Trinity Eric Whitacre, a highly popular composer, Wall Street, a 2012 Grammy nominee for its is also a distinguished conductor, broadcaster, recording of Handel’s Israel in Egypt. Wachner and public speaker. His ground-breaking Virtual is also music director of the Grammy-winning Choir, Lux Aurumque, has received over three Washington Chorus (ASCAP’s Alice Parker award million views on YouTube; it features 185 singers for adventurous programming, 2011). He has from 12 countries. Virtual Choir 2.0, Sleep, was guested with Philadelphia Orchestra, Montreal released in April 2011 (2,000 voices from 58 and Pittsburgh Symphonies, Spoleto Festival countries). Virtual Choir 3, Water Night (3,746 USA, Handel and Haydn Society, Glimmerglass submissions, 73 countries) launched at Lincoln Opera, Hawaii Opera Theater, New York City Center and went online in April 2012. The latest Opera, and Boston Pops. A Baroque specialist, is Virtual Choir 4, Fly to Paradise (released July he was founding music director of Boston Bach 2013, 8,400 submissions from 101 countries, Ensemble and Bach Académie de Montréal, and launched at Coronation Festival, Buckingham artistic director of International Bach Festivals in Palace/BBC 1). Whitacre has written for Tal- Boston and Montreal. In 2011 he founded New lis Scholars, BBC Proms, London Symphony York City’s Twelfth Night Festival of Early Music, Orchestra and Chorus, , Berlin Rund- presented in collaboration with Gotham Early funkchor, and the King’s Singers, among others. Music Society (GEMS), featuring New York’s His musical, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings, leading baroque and renaissance ensembles. won the ASCAP Harold Arlen and Richard Rodg- Wachner has recorded with Chandos, Naxos, ers Awards, and earned 10 nominations at the Dorian, and Titanic labels, among others. Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Awards. A versatile musician, he has also worked with leg- André de Quadros, conductor, human rights endary film composer, , co-writing activist, and professor of music at Boston Uni- the Mermaid Theme for Pirates of the Caribbean: versity, has conducted and undertaken research On Stranger Tides. In 2011, Whitacre judged in over 40 countries. He studied at the Bombay Who’s Who

School of Music; University of Bombay; La Trobe Yes is a World, resident conductor of Red Light University, University of Melbourne, Monash New Music, and was for five years composer- University (Australia); Universitat Mozarteum in-residence of the Chicago Children’s Choir. (Salzburg with a DAAD German Academic Ex- Hearne’s most recent collaboration paired him change Service scholarship), and Victorian Col- with hip-hop legend Erykah Badu to create a lege of the Arts. As a conductor, he is developing new evening-length work performed in June new cross-cultural experimental repertoire with 2013 with the Brooklyn Philharmonic. He is half influences of Arab, Indian, Latin American, and of the explosive electronic/vocal duo R WE WHO Indonesian music. Engagements of note include R WE (with Philip White), the leader of his indie the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Bulgaria rock project Delusion Story, and a member of the with which he toured Spain, Massachusetts six-person composer collective Sleeping Giant. All-State Chorus, Tanglewood Institute Young Hearne attended Manhattan School of Music and Artists Orchestra, Prokofiev Symphony Orchestra Yale School of Music, and has studied with Mar- (Ukraine), National Youth Choir of Great Britain, tin Bresnick, , , Baden-Baden Orchestra (Germany), Nusantara , , and . Chamber Orchestra (Indonesia), Moscow State Radio Symphony Orchestra, New Monash NOVUS NY is Trinity Wall Street’s ensemble for Orchestra, Jauna Muzika Choir (Lithuania), and the music of our time. Hailed by The New York Choralies 2010 (France). He is a member of Times as a “poised, youthful orchestra,” NOVUS Interkultur’s World Choir Council and Artistic NY was established by composer-conductor Director of Aswatuna – Arab Choral Festival. De Julian Wachner in 2011 coinciding with his in- Quadros is conductor of Manado State University augural season as Trinity’s Director of Music and Choir (Indonesia) with which he toured France, the Arts. The ensemble has recorded for the Avie Sweden, and Poland in 2010, winning first prize label, and has been an integral aspect of some at the Warsaw International Competition. He is of the most important musical activities at Trinity, a member of the scientific board of the Interna- including last year’s Twelve in ’12 series and the tional Network for Singing Hospitals, an advisor ongoing Celebrate Britten Festival. Most of these on the Board of the International Federation for performances are available for on-demand view- Choral Music, a member of the editorial board of ing at trinitywallstreet.org. the peer-reviewed journal, Arts and Health, and a member of the steering committee of Conduc- Choir of Trinity Wall Street, nominated tors without Borders. In 2010, he conducted a for a Grammy, is the premier vocal ensemble at historic project with Palestinian and Israeli choral Trinity Wall Street. Under the direction of Julian musicians in East Jerusalem. Wachner, the Choir leads the liturgical music at Trinity Church during Sunday services, performs TED HEARNE, from Chicago, is a composer, in concerts throughout the year, and has made singer, and bandleader as comfortable in world-class recordings for Naxos and Musica operatic and orchestral works as in rock and Omnia. It is both a beloved church choir, singing choral music. Hearne’s compositions are socially favorite Anglican hymns and historic sacred engaging, exploring the complexity of contem- music, and one of New York City’s most ac- porary experience with visceral power and raw claimed professional vocal ensembles. The choir emotional beauty. His music has been performed is increasingly in demand around the world, by the Minnesota Orchestra, Calder Quartet, the and this season sees the ensemble performing Knights, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Wet at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, BAM, Paris’ Ink Ensemble, Present Music, and New York Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, and London’s City Opera, and heard at the MATA Festival, Barbican Hall. All concerts at Trinity Wall Street Bang on a Can Marathon, Carlsbad Music are professionally filmed and webcast live at Festival, Le Poisson Rouge, and Brooklyn’s Is- trinitywallstreet.org. sue Project Room. Hearne is artistic director of Beth Morrison Projects | VisionIntoArts | Trinity Wall Street

Beth Morrison Projects VisionIntoArt Executive Producer Paola Prestini, Executive Director Courtenay Casey, Managing Director Beth Morrison, Creative Director Jecca Barry, General Manager Board of Directors Noah Stern Weber, Associate Producer Paola Prestini Co-Founder & Executive Director Jill Steinberg, Board Chair Board of Directors Elizabeth Madigan Jost Beth Morrison, President Sarah Johnson Jane M. Gullong (Board Chair) Melville Straus Gregory J. Gordon (Treasurer) Diane Volk Ralph Dandrea (Secretary) Matthew Annenberg Advisory Board Judy Brick Freedman Eric Booth Jane A. Gross Anna Clyne Frederick Peters Helga Davis Cornelius Dufallo Advisory Board Naomi Grabel Linda Brumbach Warren Ilchman Andrew Hamingson Margaret Janicek Ruby Lerner Richard Kessler Joseph V. Melillo David Krakauer Limor Tomer Frances Richard Jeffrey Zeigler

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