John Glover, composer
Described as "an unabashedly expressive composer," (The New Yorker) John Gloverr has created music for concert, opera, dance, and theater. He has received commissions from organizations including Houston Grand Opera, New York Youth Symphony, Milwaukee Opera Theatre, American Conservatory Theater, Mirror Visions Ensemble, Del Sol String Quartet, Liuh-wen Ting, Amber Sloan Dance, String Noise, Crossman Dans(c)e, and the Five Boroughs Music Festival. John has received awards, fellowships, and grants for his music from organizations including New Music USA, Meet The Composer, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Cambodia Living Arts, Cherry Valley Artworks, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Recent projects include Guns n' Rosenkavalier, a rock-recital with baritone Andrew Wilkowske and horn quartet Genghis Barbie; Rudiments at The Yard for Amber Sloan Dance and vocalist Tomás Cruz; the multimedia work Snow, created with choreographer Jordan Morley for toy-pianist Phyllis Chen; American Gothic,
for bass-baritone Davonne Tines and Canite Quartet; and score and sound design for the immersive work HERE by choreographer Kelly Bartnik. Future projects include a new work for Del Sol String Quartet with Jesse Blumberg.
www.johnmakesnoise.com

Kelley Rourke, librettist/dramaturg
Kelley Rourke's collaborations with John Glover include the orchestral orchestral song cycle Natural Systems (New York Youth Symphony at Carnegie Hall), the rock-recital Guns 'n Rosenkavalier (various venues) and a new, evening-length piece for Jesse Blumberg and the Del Sol String Quartet. The Glimmerglass Festival commissioned Kelley to write the youth operas Odyssey (2015) and Robin Hood (2017), both with music by Ben Moore, and Wilde Tales (2016), with music by Laura Karpman. Kelley has also created fifteen contemporary English adaptations of standard and not-so-standard repertory, which have been heard at companies including English National Opera, The Glimmerglass Festival, Washington National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, The Atlanta Opera, and Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. These collaborations with dead composers have been hailed as "crackingly witty" (The Independent, London) and "remarkably well wedded to the music and versification in arias" (New York Times). She has created supertitle translations for more than 75 operas, which have been seen at opera companies across the country. Kelley is resident dramaturg for The Glimmerglass Festival and Washington National Opera.
www.kelleyrourke.com

Andrew Wilkowske, baritone
Andrew Wilkowske, widely known for his expertise in modern repertoire, created the role of Ponchel in the Pulitzer Prize- winning Silent Night (Kevin Puts/ Mark Campbell) at Minnesota Opera, with repeat performances at Opera Philadelphia, Cincinnati Opera, Lyric Opera Kansas City, and The Atlanta Opera. Other recent premieres include The Invention
 of Morel with Chicago Opera Theater, The Rivals with Skylight Music Theatre, The Grapes of Wrath with Minnesota Opera and Pittsburgh Opera, The Adventures of Pinocchio with Minnesota Opera, and The Fly with Los Angeles Opera. His performance in Verdi’s King for a Day at The Glimmerglass Festival was called "superb" by The New York Times and hailed for "impressive command to the text" by The Wall Street Journal.
With John Glover, he created the critically acclaimed rock-recital Guns n' Rosenkavalier. Other highlights include performances with Minnesota Orchestra, Buffalo Symphony, Boston Lyric Opera, Milwaukee Opera Theater, Florentine Opera, and Komische Oper Berlin. Wilkowske is featured on several recordings, including The Grapes of Wrath and the PBS telecast of Silent Night.
www.andrewwilkowske.com

Erik Pearson, projection designer and director
Erik Pearson is a Brooklyn- based director and projection designer. Recent projects include Spike Lee's Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth on Broadway/ HBO, Bill Irwin and David Shiner's Old Hats at American Conservatory Theater, the world premiere of Lucy at Milwaukee Opera Theatre, and Hamlet for Allentown Shakespeare In The Park. New York credits include Playwrights Realm/Cherry Lane Theater, SoHo Playhouse, Intar, HERE, TerraNOVA, New Dramatists, Lark, and Studio NYC. International and regional credits include The Holland International Dance Festival, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Woolly Mammoth, Two River Theater, Carolina Ballet, El Paso Opera, Ballet Met, The Magic, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, BRAVA!, Marin Theater Company, The Playwrights Center, and Nantucket Theatre Workshop. He has served on the teaching faculty at the University of California at Santa Cruz, as a guest lecturer at Yale School of Drama, and as a guest artist at Rutgers University. He currently teaches acting at New York University. Erik is a member of Wingspace Design Collective and holds an M.F.A. in directing from Yale School of Drama.
www.elpearson.com

Christopher Zemliauskas, music director for the premiere production
Christopher Zemliauskas, a member of the faculty at Ithaca College, has also served on the faculties of NYU Steinhardt and CU Boulder. At CU he conducted productions of Our Town, Albert Herring, Little Women, and Orfeo ed Euridice. At Central City Opera, Zemliauskas has conducted performances
 of Our Town, Carmen, Amadigi di Gaula, A Little Night Music, West Side Story, Susannah, Curlew River, The Prodigal Son, The Ballad of Baby Doe, Don Giovanni, La Traviata, and Cendrillon. As a co-artistic director of FusionChamber, a new music ensemble in Boulder, he has conducted performances of Pierrot Lunaire, Eight Songs for a Mad King, and Miss Donnithorne’s Maggott. An active chamber musician, Zemliauskas has played with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, the Extasis Tango Quartet, and has been Symphony Conductor for the Boulder Youth Symphony. As a resident artist coach and conductor for the Minnesota Opera he conducted several mainstage works including Madama Butterfly, Carmen, and The Magic Flute, as well as resident artist productions of The Rape of Lucretia and Der Kaiser von Atlantis.

REDSHIFT, original ensemble for the premiere production
Founded in 2007, REDSHIFT is committed to performing contemporary music wwith "dazzling technique and out- of-the-box creativity" (Lucid Culture NY). With home bases in multiple cities, the ensemble draws on vast experience performing all types of classical music - from the traditional to wildly experimental – and presents new works in traditional and nontraditional settings. REDSHIFT's appearances regularly feature commissions and world premieres from composers working in a range of styles and at varied career stages. The members of REDSHIFT (Andie Springer, violin; Jeff Anderle, clarinets; Rose Bellini, cello; Kate Campbell, piano) individually perform, teach, commission, record, and curate projects year- round. In addition to REDSHIFT, they are members of a diverse roster of ensembles and organizations including Sqwonk, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Hotel Elefant, Seattle Modern Orchestra, Transit, Splinter Reeds, KATES, and many more. They are also founders, administrators, and board members of successful organizations and festivals such as the Switchboard Music Festival, Omaha Under the Radar Festival, and the Wild Shore Festival for New Music. www.redshiftensemble

Jocelyn Dueck, workshop music director
Pianist Jocelyn Dueck is an inveterate new music interpreter on the New York City circuit, premiering operas and other works by composers Eve Beglarian, Lisa Bielawa, Tom Cipullo, Corey Dargel, John Glover, Judd Greenstein, Daron Hagen, Stephen Hartke, Gabriel Kahane and Gilda Lyons, to name a few. Jocelyn was a collaborator on the Billboard Chart-topper Five Borough Songbook, a seminal collection of songs by New York City’s most innovative composers. The New York Times called her performance of the works “solid and colorful.” Jocelyn has served on the faculties of Juilliard, the Manhattan School of Music, NYU and Mannes: The New School for Music. As a coach, Jocelyn has served on the music staffs at Glimmerglass Opera and Seattle Opera.  Jocelyn received a DMA in Accompanying and Coaching under the tutelage of Margo Garrett and Karl Paulnack at the University of Minnesota in 2004. Her dissertation focused on the unpublished song cycles of Les Six composer Louis Durey. An devotee of language study through music, Jocelyn is the founder of The Center for Language in Song.
www.jocelyndueck.com

Jenny Kampmeier, graphic and web designer
Jenny Kampmeier is a freelancer based in New York City, specializing in print and web design for non-profit organizations, orchestra production, orchestra librarianship, and jack-of-all-trades freelancing. Her clients include American Symphony Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke's, YouTube Symphony Orchestra, the Metropolitan Opera, NYsoundCircuit, Carlson and Carlson Artist Management, SigVision Photography, Two Sides Sounding, Theater THE and the Manhattan Wind Ensemble.

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