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2019 Winter/Spring Season

Brooklyn Academy of Music

Adam E. Max, BAM Board Chair Katy Clark, President

William I. Campbell and Nora Ann Wallace, David Binder, Artistic Director BAM Board Vice Chairs Triptych (Eyes of One on Another)

Composed by

Libretto by Korde Arrington Tuttle featuring words by & Directed by Kaneza Schaal

BAM Howard Gilman House Jun 6—8 at 7:30pm

Running time: approx. one hour & 10 minutes, no intermission

Featuring with Alicia Hall Moran & Isaiah Robinson Associate director Lilleth Glimcher Music direction & by Brad Wells Set and costume design by Carlos Soto Lighting design by Yuki Nakase Video by Simon Harding

Produced by ArKtype / Thomas O. Kriegsmann in cooperation with The Foundation

2019 Winter/Spring is programmed by Joseph V. Melillo.

Season Sponsor:

Major support for the presentation of City artists provided by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund’s Charles E. Culpeper Arts and Culture Program

Support for the Signature Artists Series provided by the Howard Gilman Foundation

Triptych (Eyes of One on Another) Photo: Maria Baranova

Contributing choreographer & performer Martell Ruffin Sound design by Damon Lange & Dylan Goodhue / nomadsound.net Production management William Knapp Dramaturgy by Talvin Wilks & Christopher Myers Managing producer ArKtype, J.J. El-Far Associate music director William Brittelle Associate lighting designer Valentina Migoulia Associate video designer Moe Shahrooz Production stage manager Ryan Gohsman Assistant stage manager Heather Englander Company manager Iyvon Edebiri Session copyist & score manager Dominic Mekky Consulting producer Gill Graham Public relations Carla Parisi / Kid Logic Media

ROOMFUL OF TEETH Cameron Beauchamp, Martha Cluver, Eric Dudley, Estelí Gomez, Abigail Lennox, Thomas McCargar, Thann Scoggin,

ORCHESTRA Jessica McJunkins, ; Tia Allen, viola; Byron Hogan, cello; Kyra Sims, French horn; Ian Tyson, clarinet/bass clarinet; Laura Barger, /harmonium; Donnie Johns, percussion; Victor Pablo, percussion; James Moore, guitar

Thomas O. Kriegsmann, President J.J. El-Far, Managing Producer PO Box 180241, , NY 11218 / arktype.org Triptych (Eyes of One on Another)

Music by Bryce Dessner is used with permission of Chester Music Ltd.

“, For Robert Mapplethorpe” by Essex Hemphill, 1988. Courtesy of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, reprinted by permission of The Frances Goldin Literary Agency.

“American Wedding” by Essex Hemphill, from Ceremonies, Cleis Press, 1992, reprinted by permission of The Frances Goldin Literary Agency.

“The Boy Who Loved Michelangelo,” by Patti Smith, from , 2012.

“Untitled,” by Patti Smith, June 1988, from The Perfect Moment Exhibition Catalogue.

COMMISSIONER CREDITS

Produced in Residency with and Commissioned by University Musical Society, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

Co-produced by Philharmonic, Music and Artistic Director.

TRIPTYCH was co-commissioned by BAM; Luminato Festival, Toronto, Canada; Opera, Cincinnati, OH; Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center as part of the Nostos Festival, Athens, Greece; Cal Performances, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; Stanford Live, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; Adelaide Festival, Australia; John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for performance as part of DirectCurrent 2019; ArtsEmerson: World on Stage, Emerson College, , MA; Performing Arts, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX; Holland Festival, Amsterdam; Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; the Momentary, Bentonville, AR, Celebrity Series, Boston, MA; and developed in residency with MassMOCA, North Adams, MA.

Our deepest thanks to Joree Adilman and the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation for their care and support in bringing this work to life.

Very special thanks to the commissioning partners who made this project possible, our dear friends at BAM including Joseph V. Melillo and Katy Clark, as well as Gill Graham, James Rushton, Mary Hickson, Mily Paschali, Josephine Ridge, Daniel Fish, Ashley Tata, Jim Findlay, Robert O’Hara, , Ashton Muñiz, Shanta Thake, Michael Kondziolka, Rachel Chanoff, Sue Killam, Curt Leclair, Jesse Ontiveros, Sunny Cyr, Victoria Nassif, Trevor Litsey, Daniel Alexander Jones, Jeff Miller and Williams College, Beth Given, Ted Pallas, Nat Trottman, the Guggenheim, and Paul Steinberg. Triptych (Eyes of One on Another)

the work of the eyes is done. go now and do the the texture of black skin excites me heart-work on the images imprisoned within you. photographically, maybe as well as other ways… —rainer maria rilke there is a reason that bronzes are bronze. —robert mapplethorpe

when i work, and in my art, i hold hands with god. holy mary, mother of god, pray for us sinners —robert mapplethorpe now and at the hour of our death —hail mary

we liked each other and understood passion and good form as a constant source of gratification. i am obsessed with beauty. i want everything — (on robert mapplethorpe) to be perfect, and of course it isn’t. and that’s a tough place to be because you’re never satisfied. —robert mapplethorpe when race and ethnicity become commodified as resources for pleasure, the culture of specific groups, as well as the bodies of individuals, can be seen as constituting an alternative playground where members of dominating races, genders, sexual practices affirm their power-over in intimate relations with the other. —bell hooks

Photo: Maria Baranova Note by Christopher Myers

There is a stream of thinking in the West that of the present , Triptych (Eyes of One associates “the beautiful” with, as Kant calls it, on Another). But still the question lingers: How a “disinterested pleasure.” “Interested” pleasures do we as contemporary viewers acknowledge like and propaganda were contrasted and embrace all of the ways, all of the vantage with more noble pursuits, for example, the nude points, from which we can see this work? or classical dramas. This disinterest lays the foundations for high modernism, its formalisms, In Triptych (Eyes of One on Another), Bryce its universalist fallacies, the abstractions that Dessner and Korde Arrington Tuttle, in purport to be thin as the canvases they are collaboration with Kaneza Schaal, Roomful of painted on, the movement vocabularies that Teeth, producer ArKtype, and with texts from pretend to come from the deepest recesses of the Essex Hemphill, Patti Smith, and the Cincinnati human soul, the radical borrowings that see all trial, rethink Mapplethorpe’s work as forms as somehow “neutral.” not only an intersection of the photographer’s interests and multiple positionalities, but also Though several generations of artists and to imagine the work itself as a locus around thinkers have made clear that there is no such which various communities find themselves both thing as “disinterested pleasure,” for a certain included and alienated by the work itself, often at era of makers who lived on the cusp of the the same time. transition from high modernism to the hydra of forms that have followed, they discovered in The work and its collaborators, who bring to the double-speak of modernist “universalities” a bear performance languages as diverse as Tuvan certain liberation. Robert Mapplethorpe was one throat techniques, pop, folk, film, and such artist who photographed bodies, practices, experimental music, 80s downtown performance, and selves that were considered abject or Ailey, and classical ballet, inhabit the space taboo at the time but was able to do so with between the photographic work and its audiences. the assurance that his interest in these forms Much like the fable of The Blind Men and the was “disinterested.” He said, about the work Elephant, they cobble together a landscape of he showed in his 1986 solo exhibition Black viewerships. The artists ask questions of the work Males, “I’m photographing them as form, in the and of themselves within the work. same way I’m reading the flowers.” Is it possible to imagine these men who are Mapplethorpe’s work, its beauty and its photographed with the impersonal intimacy of controversies, its legal challenges, most notably flowers, or bronze sculptures, as full human the obscenity trial in Cincinnati surrounding the beings, with desires and pleasures of their own? exhibit, The Perfect Moment, all spun on the Can we read the desire of the photographer, question of this “disinterested” beauty. Were these his conflicts and self-denials, in his steadfast photographs pornography or were they nudes? commitment to a classical language that recasts leather daddies and daddy’s boys into upper- But what are we to make of the work in our middle class living room fantasies? Where in this current moment of understanding, that there thorny bramble of gazes, objectification, outrage, are no disinterested pleasures, that the white and intimacy do our own wants and expectations marble figures that Mapplethorpe referenced as an audience live? so cleanly in his photographs were originally splashed with vibrant color, that the valorization When Martell Ruffin, the classically trained of Greco-Roman bronzes or nearly grain-less dancer who functions as a kind of ghost of both black and white photography is as culturally Mapplethorpe’s subjects and invisible audiences, specific as saying that the only real music was enters he literalizes the sense of multiple written by Beethoven. Artists like , viewerships and makes us aware that as we take Rotimi Fani-Kayode, and less directly, Catherine in this work, and Mapplethorpe’s work, there are Opie, have addressed some of the complications and will be other eyes, other ways of engaging of Mapplethorpe’s oeuvre. Essex Hemphill, with these bodies, these sounds, these hearts. Mapplethorpe’s contemporary, who along Beauty is never “disinterested;” it is made of a with Marlon Riggs delineated a set of African- thousand overlapping interests and wants and American gay sensibilities provides an alternative cares. way of viewing some of the same bodies Mapplethorpe depicts, and forms one cornerstone —Christopher Myers Sources

THE PERFECT MOMENT for Robert Mapplethorpe

Aesthetics can justify desire, but desire in turn can provoke punishment. Under public scrutiny the eyes of one man are focused on another. Is it desire, equality, disgust, or hatred? Is the quality of loneliness present or overlooked? Is it diminished by the breaking of taboos? Is the passion mutual or is one wary of the other? Does fear haunt the edges of the photographs? Does it blaze inside the cornea or lurk like men in shadows posed for the perfect moment Essex Hemphill to snap or strike or sigh?

—Essex Hemphill, 1988

Self Portrait, c.1972 © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Used by permission. Triptych (Eyes of One on Another)

Patti Smith, c.1973 © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Used by permission.

It is the Artist’s desire to permeate existence A testament of his own life force and also He does so by the power of his own presence his gift to humanity. And by will alone he breathes a work into art. As air into a balloon, that when let go, Certain gifts are chosen and arranged in retrospect. permeates the sky. The Artist machetes a clearance. Here one can be spared the pain and the extravagance of the entire He sees perfection in a leaf or another man’s body and be transported by snaking through a psyche. He is a city of veins and lead; glittering fraction. building and rebuilding the same chapel, the same marble stairway. His gifts, his children, traveled beyond the eye and hand that spun them into existence. As one walks these stairs and looks around A lifetime of work letting go one notes a gallery of light wars. That is all. of one who has weathered innocence. A ship dissolving into an atmosphere, into sea. Pressed laurels upon intelligence And when night falls — the light as well. All with the generosity And all disappears into walls. No more of a transforming luminous than a moon. Composed of love smile. and will alone. —Patti Smith, 1988 And the artist does indeed love. In love with his own process. It reaffirms his mastery, his mystery. Triptych (Eyes of One on Another)

ALICIA HALL MORAN ISAIAH ROBINSON MARTELL RUFFIN

ROOMFUL OF TEETH

BRYCE DESSNER & KORDE ARRINGTON TUTTLE KANEZA SCHAAL

Photos: Moran, by Renaldo Davidson; Robinson and Ruffin, courtesy the artists; Roomful of Teeth, by Bonica Ayala; Dessner/Tuttle, by Pascal Gely; Schaal, by Christopher Myers. Who’s Who

ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE was born in 1946 has given millions of dollars to fund medical in Floral Park, . In 1963, Mapplethorpe research in the fight against AIDS and HIV by enrolled at in nearby Brooklyn, establishing research and care centers at major where he studied drawing, , and medical facilities such as Harvard University and sculpture. He also experimented with mixed- Beth Israel in New York. It has also supported media , using images cut from books the American Foundation for AIDS Research and magazines. He was gifted a Polaroid (amfAR) and the AIDS Community Research camera in 1970 and began producing his own Initiative of America (ACRIA), among others. photographs to incorporate into the collages. In In the field of photography, the Foundation has 1975, he acquired a Hasselblad camera and funded publications, supported exhibitions and began photographing his circle of friends and acquisitions, and provided grants—in the form of acquaintances—artists, musicians, celebrities, funding or gifts of original Mapplethorpe works— and the S&M underground. Throughout the to art institutions ranging from the world’s major 1980s, Mapplethorpe produced images art museums to small university galleries. In that simultaneously challenged and adhered 1993, the Foundation provided a major gift to the to classical aesthetic standards: stylized Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation to create compositions of male and female nudes, delicate the Robert Mapplethorpe Gallery and inaugurate flower still-lifes, and studio portraits of artists the Guggenheim’s photography department and and celebrities. He introduced and refined program. In 2011, the Foundation made a gift different techniques and formats, including, to and facilitated an acquisition by the J. Paul photogravures, platinum prints on paper and Getty Museum and the Los Angeles County linen, Cibachrome, and dye transfer color Museum of Art (LACMA) of over 2,000 works prints. In 1986, he was diagnosed with AIDS. of art by the artist; the most extensive archive Despite his illness, he accelerated his creative of his career will reside at the Getty Research efforts, broadened the scope of his photographic Institute. In addition to its charitable work, the inquiry, and accepted increasingly challenging Foundation maintains Mapplethorpe’s artistic commissions. The Whitney Museum of American legacy by organizing and/or lending to exhibitions Art mounted his first major American museum around the world, preserving its collection of retrospective in 1988, one year before his death Mapplethorpe artworks, strictly maintaining the in 1989. His vast, provocative, and powerful editions he established and placing his work in body of work has established him as one of important collections. the most important artists of the 20th century. Today Mapplethorpe is represented by galleries BRYCE DESSNER () is one of the in the Americas and Europe and his work can most sought-after of his generation, be found in the collections of major museums with a rapidly expanding catalogue of works around the world. Beyond the art historical and commissioned by leading ensembles across social significance of his work, his legacy lives the world. A curator and vital force in the on through the work of the Robert Mapplethorpe flourishing realm of new creative music, Dessner Foundation. He established the Foundation is known to many as a guitarist with The in 1988 to promote photography, support National. His orchestral, chamber, and vocal museums that exhibit photographic art, and to compositions have been commissioned by the fund medical research in the fight against AIDS likes of , Ensemble and HIV. Intercontemporain, Metropolitan Museum of Art (for the ), , THE ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE FOUNDATION BAM Next Wave Festival, Barbican Centre, was established by the artist in 1988, a year Edinburgh International Festival, , before his death. In determining the Foundation’s Sydney Festival, , Sō Percussion, philanthropic mandate, Mapplethorpe targeted Ballet, and many others. He the two areas of his greatest concern: support collaborates across art forms with some of the of medical research in the area of HIV/AIDS, world’s most creative and respected artists, and the promotion of photography as a fine including , , Alejandro art form deserving the same prominence as Iñarritú, , , Caroline painting and sculpture. In keeping with its Shaw, Johnny Greenwood, , Justin founder’s wishes, the Mapplethorpe Foundation Peck, Ragnar Kjartansson, Jennifer Koh, Kelley Who’s Who

O’Connor, and . Dessner’s work 2018 Playwrights Initiative Fellowship at the Murder Ballads, featured on eighth blackbird’s Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and was Filament, won the 2016 Grammy selected as a finalist for both the 2017 Alliance/ Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Contest Performance. He also co-wrote the score, along and City Theatre National Award for Short with and Alva Noto—and Playwriting Contest. Tuttle is a playwright-in- was Grammy and Golden Globe nominated—for residence at Theater, resident Alejandro Iñárritu’s Oscar Award-winning film, artist at Ars Nova, and Middle Voice Theatre The Revenant. Aheym, commissioned in 2009 Company member at Rattlestick Playwrights by Kronos Quartet, served as the centerpiece of a Theatre. His debut collection of haiku and 2013 Kronos disc devoted to Dessner’s music on photography, falling is the one thing i, was the Anti- label. St. Carolyn by the Sea followed published by Candor Arts, in May 2018. Korde in 2014 on , featuring completed his undergraduate studies at UNC the lyrical title work and two other Dessner Chapel Hill and received his MFA in playwriting compositions performed by the Copenhagen at The New School. Instagram: @heykorde. Philharmonic under Andre de Ridder. May 2015 marked the release on Brassland of Music ESSEX HEMPHILL (1957—95) was a poet, for Wood and Strings, an album-length work activist, journalist, and performer whose first performed by Sō Percussion on custom-built collections of poems were the self-published “Chord Sticks” that lend a shimmering, hammer chapbooks Earth Life (1985) and Conditions dulcimer-like quality. In 2015, MusicNOW, the (1986). His first full-length collection, Cincinnati-based contemporary music festival he Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry (1992), founded celebrated its 10th anniversary. He is won the National Library Association’s Gay, also co-curator of HAVEN, Copenhagen’s annual , and Bisexual New Author Award. His festival which launched in 2017 and PEOPLE, work is included in the anthologies Gay and which launched officially in Berlin in 2018. Lesbian Poetry in Our Time (1986) and Life Other recent notable projects include Quilting, Sentences: Writers, Artists, and AIDS (1993). a 17-minute score co-commissioned with Hemphill studied English at the University of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and The Most Maryland; in 1978, and with a fellow student, Incredible Thing, a ballet created by Dessner, he helped found and run the Nethula Journal , and Marcel Dzama, and Dessner’s of Contemporary Literature. His later editing Concerto for Two , written for Katia and credits include the anthology Brother to Brother: Marielle Labèque, recently released by Deutsche New Writing by Black (1991), which Grammophon. Further commissions include: won the . In 1983, Voy a Dormir (2018) written for mezzo-soprano Hemphill participated in the performance Kelley O’Connor and St. Luke’s Orchestra; poetry group Cinque with Wayson Jones and Skrik Trio, commissioned by Steve Reich and Larry Duckette; their work was later featured Carnegie Hall for the Three Generations Series; in the documentaries Tongues Untied (1989) No Tomorrow (a ballet by Ragnar Kjartansson, and Black Is… Black Ain’t (1994). Hemphill’s Margrét Bjarnadóttir, and Bryce Dessner) winner poetry was also included in the film Looking for of Iceland’s Griman Award; and the soundtrack Langston (1989). Known for his political edge, for Death of Marsha P. Johnson, the he openly addressed race, identity, sexuality, documentary about the LGBT rights activist. HIV/AIDS, and the family in his work, voicing Dessner earned his bachelor’s and master’s issues central to the African-American gay degrees from and resides in . community. His aversion to the work of Robert Mapplethorpe and criticism of the art world’s KORDE ARRINGTON TUTTLE (librettist) is embracing of his work were well-known and a multi-disciplinary artist from Charlotte, NC. articulated in his seminal essay “Does Your He is writer for the forthcoming series Mixtape Mama Know About Me?” He wrote, “What is (Netflix) and THEM: Covenant (Amazon). He insulting and endangering to Black men is is a recipient of New York Stage and Film’s Mapplethorpe’s conscious determination that the 2018 Founders’ Award, 2018 Falco/Steinman faces, the heads, and by extension, the minds Commission Award at Playwrights Horizons, and experiences of some of his Black subjects Who’s Who

are not as important as close-up shots of their Smith was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall cocks.” Hemphill received fellowships from the of Fame. France’s Ministry of Culture named her National Endowment for the Arts and grants Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in from the Pew Charitable Trust Fellowship in the 2005, and she was awarded the Polar Music Arts and the DC Commission on the Arts and Prize for her contributions to music and art by Humanities. He was a visiting scholar at the Getty the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 2011. Center for the History of Art and the Humanities in 1993 in Santa Monica, CA. Hemphill died of KANEZA SCHAAL (director) is a New York complications from AIDS in 1995. City-based theater artist. Her recent work JACK & showed in the 2018 BAM Next Wave, Museum PATTI SMITH is in full Patti Lee Smith (born of Contemporary Art , and with its December 30, 1946; Chicago, IL), American co-commissioners Walker Arts Center, REDCAT, poet, rock songwriter, and singer. Growing up On the Boards, Center for Contemporary in New Jersey, Smith won an art scholarship Art Cincinnati, and Portland Institute for to Glassboro State Teachers College. In 1967, Contemporary Art. Schaal received a 2019 she moved to New York City, where she became Artists Award, 2019 Soros Arts active in the downtown arts scene, Fellowship, 2018 Ford Foundation Art for Justice writing poetry and living with the photographer Bearing Witness award, 2017 MAP Fund award, Robert Mapplethorpe. Her performance- 2016 Creative Capital Award, 2008 Princess driven poetry readings soon took on a musical Grace George C. Wolfe Award, and was an component, and from 1971 she worked Aetna New Voices Fellow at Hartford Stage. Her regularly with the guitarist and critic Lenny last project GO FORTH premiered at PS 122’s Kaye. By 1973, they had formed a band and COIL Festival and then showed at the Genocide began performing widely in the downtown club Memorial Amphitheater in Kigali, Rwanda; scene. Smith’s mesmeric charisma, chantlike, LMCC’s River-to-River Festival; Contemporary but hoarsely compelling musical declamation, Arts Center ; Cairo International visionary texts, and simple but ingenious Contemporary Theater Festival in Egypt; and rock music won her an intense . at her alma mater Wesleyan University, CT. Schaal’s new piece CARTOGRAPHY premiered Signed to a contract with , she at the Kennedy Center and will be at the New released her first album, Horses, in 1975; it was Victory Theater in January 2020. Her work has produced by John Cale, the Welsh avant-gardist also been supported by Baryshnikov Arts Center, and cofounder (with ) of the Velvet Nathan Cummings Foundation, Foundation Underground. After Radio Ethiopia (1976) she for Contemporary Arts, Joyce Foundation, and released her most commercially successful Theater Communications Group. Schaal’s work album, Easter, in 1978. It included a hit with the Wooster Group, Elevator Repair Service, single, “,” written with Bruce Richard Maxwell/ New York City Players, Claude Springsteen. Following the album Wave in 1979, Wampler, and Dean Moss has brought her Smith disbanded her group and retired to Detroit, to venues including , Royal MI, where she raised a family with Fred (“Sonic”) Lyceum Theater Edinburgh, Whitney Museum, Smith, founder of the band MC5. In 2010, and MoMA. Smith published the memoir , which focused on her relationship with Mapplethorpe. ROOMFUL OF TEETH (performers) is a The critically acclaimed work won the National Grammy-winning vocal project dedicated to Book Award for nonfiction. Another memoir—M reimagining the expressive potential of the Train, which chronicles her travels and other human voice. Through study with masters from experiences—was published in 2015. Two years vocal traditions the world over, the eight-voice later, she released Devotion, an installment in ensemble continually expands its vocabulary Yale University Press’s Why I Write series. In of singing techniques and, through an ongoing 2016, Smith accepted Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize commissioning process, forges a new repertoire for Literature on his behalf. A pioneer in the without borders. Founded in 2009 by Brad fusion of the bohemian sensibility with rock, she Wells, Roomful of Teeth gathers annually at was able to translate the incantatory power of MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA, studying with beat writers such as Allen Ginsberg and William some of the world’s top performers and teachers S. Burroughs into the rock mainstream. In 2007, Who’s Who

in Tuvan throat singing, yodeling, Broadway Cluver spends most of her musical life as a belting, Inuit throat singing, Korean P’ansori, chamber musician, focusing on early and new Georgian singing, Sardinian cantu a tenore, music. She has performed and recorded many Hindustani music, Persian classical singing, and works by Steve Reich, and frequently works with Death Metal singing. Commissioned composers the composers of . She attended include Rinde Eckert, Fred Hersch, Merrill the Eastman School of Music, where she earned Garbus (tUnE-yArDs), William Brittelle, Toby her bachelor’s degree in music performance, Twining, , , , viola, in 2003. She resides in Brooklyn with her and Ambrose Akinmusire, among many others. husband and fellow musician Caleb Burhans and their daughter, Fiona. CAMERON BEAUCHAMP (Roomful of Teeth) is a two-time Grammy Award-winning bass, active ERIC DUDLEY (Roomful of Teeth) enjoys a throughout the country as a soloist, chamber multi-faceted musical career as a conductor, musician, clinician, and experimental artist. He vocalist, pianist, and composer, residing in San is an original member of Roomful of Teeth, the Francisco and performing throughout the world. artistic director of Austin-based Convergence, He was recently named artistic director of the and was named best singer in the 2013—14 San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. Austin Critics’ Table Awards. Beauchamp has Dudley has been a member of Roomful of Teeth been an artist in residence as a performer and since its founding in 2009, performing and clinician at numerous universities and museums composing a number of works for the group. around the US, including Stanford University, For eight years, he also sang in the acclaimed Yale University, , University Choir of Trinity in New York. As a of North Texas, and Mass MoCA. He has also chamber musician and pianist, he has worked been featured as a soloist with the Austin, with instrumentalists from the Cincinnati and Dallas, Seattle, and Colorado Symphonies. Albany symphony orchestras, and his own works Beauchamp has recorded on Sony Classical, have been performed and recorded by Roomful Harmonia Mundi, , of Teeth, Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Quey 4AD, Pro Organo, GIA, Edition Lilac, Klavier, and Percussion, and through a grant from Meet the for PBS. He has performed on Grammy-winning Composer and New England Foundation for the with Roomful of Teeth and Conspirare, Arts. Born in Canada and raised in Connecticut, nine Grammy-nominated albums, and one Dudley received his bachelor’s degree from the Downbeat Award-winning album. Beauchamp Eastman School of Music in 2001. He holds received his musical training at the University his master’s and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees of North Texas, where he studied voice and in orchestral conducting from Yale University’s trombone. When not making music, he is School of Music. He is the recipient of the Louis a husband and father in Austin, TX, where he Lane Prize in composition, given by the Eastman polishes his cowboy boots and dreams of a cure School of Music, and the 2004 Dean’s Prize for type 1 diabetes. from Yale.

MARTHA CLUVER (Roomful of Teeth) has ESTELÍ GOMEZ (Roomful of Teeth) is a soprano been praised by for her praised for her “clear, bright voice” (New York “exquisitely sultry, dusky,” “fluid, dark-hued,” Times) and “artistry that belies her young and “soulful” vocals. An original member of years” (Kansas City Metropolis), quickly gaining Roomful of Teeth, she also performs regularly recognition as a stylish interpreter of early and with Pomerium and is a former longtime member contemporary repertoires. An avid performer of of the Church of Trinity Wall Street Choir. Her early and new music, Gomez can be heard on latest project is with the newly formed vocal trio the Juno-nominated recording Salsa Baroque ModernMedieval, with Eliza Bagg and director with Montreal-based Ensemble Caprice, as well Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek. The group’s most as Roomful of Teeth’s self-titled debut album. recent performance was a collaboration with Recent highlights include her solo debut with Julianna Barwick, and featured new works by Seattle Symphony in Nielsen’s Symphony No. Barwick, Caleb Burhans, and Caroline Shaw. 3, the role of Francesca Cuzzoni in a concert Upcoming performances include world premieres of Handel with Mountainside Baroque, by Joel Friedman and Daniel Thomas Davis. the world premiere of a song cycle by Andrew Who’s Who

McIntosh with piano/percussion quartet Yarn/ Square in the singing of John Lennon’s “Imagine” Wire, soprano solos in Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass for ’s installation Imagine Peace; and with Bach Collegium San Diego, Craig Hella singing “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” Johnson’s new oratorio Considering Matthew with . He lives in Brooklyn. Shepard in Boston and Austin, solo teaching residencies at University of Oregon, Eugene and THANN SCOGGIN (Roomful of Teeth) is widely University of Missouri, Kansas City, and tours recognized for his versatility as a soloist and with Roomful of Teeth across North America and chamber musician. Throughout this season, Europe. Originally from Santa Cruz, CA, Gomez he is engaged in touring and educational received her Bachelor of Arts with honors in outreach with Grammy-winning experimental music from Yale College, and Master of Music vocal band Roomful of Teeth. Highlights include from McGill University, studying with Sanford performances at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Sylvan. She travels and performs full-time. Center, and collaborations with pianist Tigran Hamasyan, cellist Jeffrey Zeigler, and others. He ABIGAIL HAYNES-LENNOX (Roomful of Teeth), also makes his first appearances with Tucson’s soprano, cited as angelic and stylish in her True Concord, in addition to performances interpretations of Bach and Mozart, is equally at with Austin’s Conspirare and ensemble viii. He home with genres ranging from early plainchant to has performed regularly with Boston Baroque, 19th-century melodie to improvised avant-garde. Handel and Haydn Society of Boston, Emmanuel Originally from Bartlett, TN, she began her vocal Music, Texas Early Music Project, and numerous studies in Ann Arbor, MI, where after finishing other ensembles. He makes noise with electric her bachelor’s degree in vocal performance guitar and his voice in the experimental music at the University of Michigan, she served as group Convergence. Scoggin has also appeared music director for the Wesley Foundation of on recordings on the Harmonia Mundi, Linn, First Methodist, performed with Michigan Opera CORO, Gothic, and Albany labels, including Theater under Stephen Lord, and was a frequent Conspirare’s 2014 Grammy-winning album, soloist appearing on premier recordings of The Sacred Spirit of Russia. He is a voracious contemporary works. In 2007 Lennox completed collector of vinyl records and an avid hiker her master’s degree study in voice at the Yale and of the outdoors. He is a passionate Institute of Sacred Music where she studied under advocate for public lands and spends several James Taylor, Ted Taylor, and Judith Malafronte. weeks a year climbing the high peaks of the Inspired by her experiences, Lennox enjoys Mountain West. teaching and working with young musicians and engaging in collaborative projects with fellow CAROLINE SHAW (Roomful of Teeth) is a artists in addition to pursuing a solo career. New York-based musician—vocalist, violinist, composer, and producer—who performs in THOMAS McCARGAR (Roomful of Teeth), solo and collaborative projects. She was the baritone, studied vocal performance at the Drake youngest recipient of the University in Des Moines, IA graduating in in 2013 for , written for 2004. Called “gripping” by The New York Times Roomful of Teeth, of which she is an original and described as singing with “calm fluidity” by member. Recent commissions include new The Washington Post, McCargar has established works for Renée Fleming with Inon Barnatan, himself as both a soloist and sought-after Dawn Upshaw with Sō Percussion and Gil ensemble singer in New York City and around Kalish, Orchestra of St. Luke’s with John the US. In addition to his work with Roomful of Lithgow, Dover Quartet, TENET, The Crossing, Teeth, he is a member of the acclaimed Trinity Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, Calidore Wall Street Choir and also performs regularly Quartet, , Baltimore Symphony, with Pomerium, Seraphic Fire, Spire, TENET, and Roomful of Teeth with A Far Cry. She has Musica Sacra, VOX Vocal Ensemble, Antioch produced for Kanye West (The Life of Pablo; Ye) Chamber Ensemble, Voices of Ascension, and Nas (NASIR), and has contributed to records New York Virtuoso Singers, Early Music New by The National and by ’s Richard York, Yale Choral Artists, and Meridionalis. Reed Parry. Shaw has studied at Rice, Yale, and Other highlights include touring the world with Princeton, teaches at NYU, and is a creative Chanticleer; leading over 1,000 people in Times associate at The . She has held Who’s Who

residencies at Dumbarton Oaks, Banff Centre, the featured vocalist at the inauguration of Rahm Music on Main, and the Vail Dance Festival. Emanuel as mayor of Chicago. He performs Shaw loves the color yellow, otters, Beethoven with and facilitates workshops for the Chicago opus 74, Mozart opera, Kinhaven, the smell of Children’s Choir, and is on staff as a musician/ rosemary, and the sound of a janky mandolin. organist and choirmaster at the Life Center C.O.G.I.C. in Chicago, where he has served for ALICIA HALL MORAN (performer), mezzo- more than 16 years. soprano and critically-acclaimed recording artist, also composes between genres of opera, art, BRAD WELLS (music director & conductor) theater, and jazz. Tapped by artists including is the founder and artistic director of the Carrie Mae Weems, Adam Pendleton, Joan Grammy Award-winning new music vocal group Jonas, and Ragnar Kjartansson, curator Okwui Roomful of Teeth. Wells has led the ensemble in Enwezor, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, premieres of over 75 works by many of today’s musicians Bill Frisell, Jason Moran (her leading composers including , husband), , and diverse writers Caroline Shaw, Rinde Eckert, Missy Mazzoli, from Simon Schama to Carl Hancock Rux, Michael Harrison, , Anna Clyne, commissions include Two Wings for Carnegie , Julia Wolfe, and Tigran Hamasyan, Hall, Work Songs for Venice Biennial, Bleed for among others. This new music “vocal band” Whitney Biennial, Breaking Ice for Prototype performs regularly in festivals, on concert stages Festival/MASS MoCA, Black Wall Street (Tulsa and in educational residencies around the world. Race Riot of 1921) for River-to-River Festival, Roomful of Teeth’s debut recording (2012), the motown project for The Kitchen, Jazz Goes to directed by Wells, included the Pulitzer-winning the Opera for Opera Southwest, and residencies composition, “Partita for 8 Voices,” written at Yale, , and Isabella Stewart by ensemble member Caroline Shaw. His Gardner Museum, and engagements with own compositions are featured on the group’s and Louisville Orchestra second album, Render (2015); the title work (Gabriel Kahane’s emergency shelter intake was selected as one of NPR’s Favorite Songs of form), Dayton Philharmonic, NSO Pops, Austin 2015. He has composed and arranged vocal Symphony, Chicago Philharmonic, Harlem and instrumental works performed in the US Chamber Players, Grant Park, and others. and Europe. His permanent sound installation Moran’s creativity and output are unique. She Silo Songs opened at Hancock Shaker Village made her Broadway debut in the Tony-winning in 2018. Since 1999 Wells has been artist in revival The Gershwins’ , starring residence in vocal music at Williams College, as Bess on the successful 20-city American tour. where he directs the choral program and leads courses in conducting, voice science and style, ISAIAH ROBINSON (performer), tenor, is and sound art. Wells has held conducting and a multi-talented musician who was born in teaching positions at Yale, Trinity, UC Berkeley, Chicago into a musical family of singing parents. and Cal State Univ./Chico. His ensembles As an actor he was featured in ’s have performed throughout North and South 1991 film Hook, playing the role of Pockets, America, South Africa, and Europe. A champion and has also appeared in radio and television of Estonian choral music, he has led the US commercials. As a vocalist he was primarily premieres of works by Estonian composers trained singing in church by his parents and his including Raimo Kangro, Jüri-Ruut Kangur, and siblings which led to performing on jingles and Lembit Veevo. He has lectured/published articles voiceovers. He has performed with the Barrett on the physiology and acoustics of non-classical sisters, Aretha Franklin, Pattie Labelle, Rascal vocal styles and the role of singing in film. He Flatts, Rene Marie, Jonita Lattimore, Mavis has sung/recorded with Theatre of Voices and Staples, Chaka Khan, Yo-Yo Ma, Chance The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, and more. Rapper, Angela Davis, and more. Robinson is a Wells holds music degrees from Yale, University teaching artist for the Lookingglass Theater, City of Texas/Austin, and Principia College. of Chicago After School Matters Program, Urban Gateways, and private students in the Chicago MARTELL RUFFIN (performer) began his area. He also performs with the Stu Hirsh formal dance training at the Joffrey Ballet in Orchestra, Silent Theater, and others. He was Chicago in 2009. He attended Chicago High Who’s Who

School for the Arts under then director Lisa Beautiful Things (Long Wharf Theatre), Hope Johnson-Willingham, former dancer for Alvin (Wild Project), Queen of Basel (Colony Theatre), Ailey American Dance Theater. Ruffin has been Octavia (University of Rochester), Blue Window awarded dance scholarships to intensives at (Columbia Stages/CSC), The Hartt School Dance Joffrey Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem, and Division Fall Concert (University of Hartford), Complexions, and received first place in the all- Apparition (Stony Brook University), Un city NAACP ACT-SO Competition in 2011. Ruffin Yamada’s Kaya (Japan), Chanel Haute Couture trained at The Ailey School as a scholarship Presentations FW 17/18 (Venue57), Circling student and has performed works by Lisa the Center (3LD), Decoder 2017 (Agnes Varis Johnson-Willingham, Earl Mosley, George Faison, PAC), No One Asked Me (SoHo Playhouse), Darrell Grand Moultrie, Matthew Rushing, Bastards of Strindberg (Theatre Row), Black Jae Man Joo, Robert Battle, and Alvin Ailey. Milk (East 13th Street Theatre), and The Golem Martell has also been seen in the “poison girl” of Havana (La MaMa). She was born in Tokyo, Christian commercial and a Urban Outfitters grew up in Kyoto, Japan and currently lives north commercial for music artist Samantha Urbani. of NYC in the woods. She earned a BA in dance Martell recently completed two years dancing (JWCPE) and an MFA in lighting design (NYU). with Ailey II and freelances around the world. yukinakase.com

CARLOS SOTO (set & costume design) is a SIMON HARDING (video design) is an director, designer, and performer based in New award-winning set and video designer for York City. He has presented performances at live performance, interested in modalities , Guggenheim Museum, of performance that create a living space Kampnagel Hamburg, Pace Gallery, Palais between objects and the body. He has designed de Tokyo, Performa 09, and has been artist- nationally and internationally for theater, dance, in-residence at Willem de Kooning Studio, and work. Upcoming/recent: Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York Custodians of Beauty (Palissimo), The Echo Drift Live Arts, and the Watermill Center, among (Beth Morrison Projects), Distant Star (Caboca), others. Soto has collaborated with American Strangers in Paradise (Opera Omaha), Shadow artist and director since 1997 Play (Trusty Sidekick/Touring), Jack Spicer’s Billy as a performer and designer on numerous the Kid (3 Headed Calf), Up and Away (Trusty productions including Adam’s Passion, Einstein Sidekick), and The Iceman Cometh [Act IV] on the Beach, and The Life and Death of Marina (Target Margin Labs). Abramovic. Soto has collaborated with recording and performance artist Solange as associate LILLETH GLIMCHER (associate director) creates director and costume designer on multiple performance, experiential installation art, film/ projects, including her multi-city concert tour, video, objects, , and music. She is Cosmic Journey/Orion’s Rise; her performance the founder and artistic director of YOU ARE work Scales at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, HERE (@yah.world), presenting and supporting TX; and metatronia (metatron’s cube), a short interdisciplinary art that creates space for film and installation-performance at the Hammer community-building and healing, specifically Museum, LA. In 2018 Soto designed costumes for queer, trans, and non-binary artists of color. for Robert Wilson’s Oedipus Rex; costumes Glimcher’s work and direction has been shown and sets for The Black Clown by Davóne at the New York Philharmonic, Lincoln Center’s Tines, Michael Schachter and Zack Winokur at Mostly Mozart Festival, Abrons Art Center, the American Repertory Theater; UR by Sulayman American Academy in Rome, P-E-O-P-L-E 2018, al Bassam at the Residenztheater, Munich; and DAAD Galerie Berlin, National Sawdust, Capri Mile-Long Opera, a collaboration in NYC with Marfa, Pace Gallery, Dixon Place, Ars Nova, Anne Carson, Claudia Rankine, David Lang, Westbeth Artist Building, Flea Theater, The Ragnar Kjartarsson, and Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Future of Storytelling, and myriad site specific locations. Glimcher has also associate and YUKI NAKASE’s (lighting design) recent design assistant directed for Ashley Fure, Ivo van Hove, credits include Theo, The Bridge of San Luis Lila Neugebauer, Niegel Smith, Robert Whitman, Rey, The Importance of Being Earnest, The André Gregory, César Alvarez, 600 Highwaymen, Women of Padilla (Two River Theater), Tiny Lily Whitsitt, Shira Milikowksy, Teddy Bergman, Who’s Who

and other artists across disciplines. She Mass MoCA, and Basel Sinfonietta, among graduated from Harvard University with a BA others. Recent commissions include Spiritual in psychology and secondary in dramatic arts. America, a series of electro-acoustic orchestral lillethglimcher.com / @lilglim art songs featuring the band Wye Oak, Metropolis Ensemble, and Brooklyn Youth Chorus; Love DYLAN GOODHUE (sound designer) is a front Letter for Arca, for and orchestra of house and musician. He has with Seattle Symphony; Oh Albert: An LSD worked with Grammy Award winners Roomful of Oratorio for the Basel Sinfonietta; Psychedelics Teeth, Grupo Fantasma, Béla Fleck, and Willie for Roomful of Teeth and full concert choir; and a Nelson. He has mixed festivals including SXSW, collaborative project with Wild Up and Zola Jesus Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Calgary Stampede, for the Ecstatic Music Festival. Past collaborative Herzberg, and Luminato. A native of Toronto, works include orchestral arrangements for the Goodhue lives in Austin, TX. There he plays bands Lower Dens and WRAY and electronic guitar in a hip-hop cover band called Classic artists Oneohtrix Point Never and Son Lux. Hiphop Live, operates a farm in his backyard, Amid the Minotaurs, a piece commissioned and teaches live audio, does yoga, and loves his cat premiered by Roomful of Teeth, was featured Leonardo Trouserpants the 3rd. on the group’s Grammy- winning debut album. Along with composers Judd Greenstein and WILLIAM KNAPP (production manager) has Sarah Kirkland Snider, he co-founded and co- worked in the New York art and performance artistic directs New Amsterdam. worlds since 1984. He has mounted performances in over 40 countries with VALENTINA MIGOULIA (associate lighting MacArthur fellow artists Martha Clarke, Merce designer) is a Brooklyn-based lighting installation Cunningham, Richard Foreman, Mimi Lien, artist who occasionally does lighting design. , Michael Moschen, Lynn Previous theatrical tour credits as lighting director Nottage, Elizabeth Streb, Twyla Tharp, Jennifer include Man in A Case and In Paris. Tipton, and Shen Wei. As well he has worked with Robert Wilson, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Robert MOE SHAHROOZ (video engineer) is a video Whitman, , Emanuel Gat, artist based in New York City. He specializes in Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, and Justin Peck. He has projection design, video operation, animation, facilitated collaboration between these live artists and interactive video design. His work has been and fine artists such as Robert Gober, Olafur showcased in over 100 venues across the world Eliasson, Robert Rauschenberg, Charles Long, including Lincoln Center, Grand Central Station, Christopher Wool, , Terry Winters, Teatro Nacional D. Maria II (Lisbon, Portugal), Catherine Yass, Christian Marclay, Ernesto Neto, and the Stanislavsky Ballet and Opera (Moscow, , Ruby Sterling, Gabriel Orozco, Russia). He holds a master’s degree from NYU’s Jackie Matisse Monnier, and Richard Hamilton. Interactive Telecommunications Program. Recent clients and collaborators include PBS, Adidas, WILLIAM BRITTELLE (associate music director) and Christian Dior. is a North Carolina-born, Brooklyn-based composer of genre-fluid electro-acoustic music. RYAN GOHSMAN (stage manager) is a New Brittelle’s compositions have been presented York City-based stage manager specializing in at venues across the world, including the the development and production of new plays, , Kennedy Center, Teatro Colón music-theater, and opera. International: Du in Buenos Aires, Metropolitan Museum, Da Yun and Royce Vavrek’s Angel’s Bone (New Camera in Houston, Seattle’s Town Hall, Ecstatic Vision Arts Festival—Hong Kong, Beth Morrison Music Festival in New York, the Kahserne in Projects), Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh’s Switzerland, Gothenburg Symphony Chamber The Last Hotel (international tour: Royal Opera Series in Sweden, Freemantle Arts Center in House—London, Edinburgh International Festival, Perth, and the in Minneapolis. Dublin Theatre Festival, St. Ann’s Warehouse— His music has been commissioned by the Seattle NYC, filmed for Sky Arts TV); ’s Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Baltimore (consultant, National Theatre— Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, Walker Art London). New York: Here Lies Love (The Public); Center, Liquid Music Series, Alabama Symphony, Bess Wohl and Michael Friedman’s Pretty Filthy Who’s Who

(Civilians); Suzan Lori-Park’s The Death of the ARKTYPE / THOMAS O. KRIEGSMANN Last Black Man…, and Martha Clarke’s Chéri (producer) is a management and production (Signature); The Debate Society’s The Light company specializing in new work development Years, Anne Washburn’s Antlia Pneumatica, and touring. Over the past 14 years ArKtype’s Lisa D’Amour’s Detroit, Jordan Harrison’s Maple work has grown to encompass renowned artists and Vine, Gunnar Madsen, Joy Gregory, and from 30 different countries, multiple genres, and John Langs’ The Shaggs…, Bathsheba Doran’s commercial and non-profit support structures Kin, and Amy Herzog’s After the Revolution resulting in new work for a variety of spaces. (Playwrights Horizons); The Bengson’s Hundred His acclaimed work as producer has been seen Days, and Amy Herzog’s Mary Jane (New York worldwide in the production, development Theatre Workshop); David Lang and Marc Dion’s and touring of emerging ensembles. His work anatomy theater, Kamala Sankaram and Susan includes projects with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Peter Yankowitz’s Thumbprint, and Mohammed Brook, Victoria Thiérrée-Chaplin, Yael Farber, Fairouz’s Sumeida’s Song (PROTOTYPE Festival, Daniel Fish, Annie-B Parson & Paul Lazar, Beth Morrison Projects). He has also collaborated John , Lisa Peterson, Kaneza with NBC/Universal, Barrington Stage, Ars Nova, Schaal, Peter Sellars, Tony Taccone, and Julie HERE, Westport Country Playhouse, and Atlantic Taymor. For three seasons he produced the Theatre Company. Ringling International Arts Festival in Sarasota, FL in partnership with Baryshnikov Arts Center, HEATHER ENGLANDER’s (assistant stage was director of programming for Spiegelworld’s manager) experience includes, on Broadway: South Street Seaport seasons, and most recently Amazing Grace, Finding Neverland, IF/ served as director of programs at New York Live THEN. National tours: Fun Home, IF/THEN. Arts. He recently premiered Sam Green and Off-Broadway/regional: Oklahoma! (St. Ann’s Kronos Quartet’s A Thousand Thoughts, John Warehouse), Summer and Smoke (Classic Stage Cameron Mitchell’s The Origin of Love Tour, Company/Transport Group), ’s nora chipaumire’s #PUNK100%POP*N!GGA, Peter Pan (Bard SummerScape), Bedlam’s Sense Byron Au Yong and Aaron Jafferis’ Trigger and Sensibility (ART, Cambridge, MA), Doctor (in communities nationwide in recognition Faustus (Classic Stage Company), Dying For of the 10th anniversary of the Tech It (), Amazing Grace massacre), Kaneza Schaal and Christopher (Bank of America Theater, Chicago), Much Ado Myers’ CARTOGRAPHY, Big Dance Theater and About Nothing (Shakespeare in the Park/The Mikhail Baryshnikov’s Man in a Case, the US Public), IF/THEN (National Theater, DC), ArKtype premiere of Nalaga’at Deaf-Blind Theater’s Not presents FEAST (Under the Radar ’14), Far From by Bread Alone, Freedom Theatre of Jenin’s The Heaven (Playwright’s Horizons), Killers and Siege, and Shara Worden/Andrew Ondrejcak’s Other Family (Rattlestick Playwright’s Theater), YOU US WE ALL (BAM, 2015). Ongoing Talley’s Folly (Roundabout at the Laura Pels), collaborations include John Cameron Mitchell, GIANT, Into the Woods, Love’s Labor’s Lost 600 HIGHWAYMEN, Big Dance Theater, Scott (Shakespeare in the Park/The Public), The Bad Shepherd, Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra, Josh Guys by Alena Smith (Second Stage Uptown). Fox, Ashley Fure, Brent Green, Rude Mechs, Education: Barnard College. Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, nora chipaumire, Adrien M. & Claire B., and Compagnia T.P.O. arktype.org.