RP NEWS
My songs will soon be available via the Directory of Contemporary Musical Theatre Writers. More information to come soon!
American Opera Projects presents First Glimpse, a concert that is the culmination of my (and others') season-long Composers and the Voice fellowship. Featuring work by Sidney Marquez Boquiren, Mikael Karlsson, Robert Paterson, Ronnie Reshef, Zach Redler, Sara Cooper, and me
Sung by Andrea Arias Martin, Amy Shoremount-Obra, Rebecca Ringle, Brandon Snook, Jorell Williams, and Justin Hopkins
Music Directors Jeanne-Minette Cilliers, Mila Henry, and Kelly Horsted.
Sunday May 20 & Monday May 21, 2012 - 8:00PM
South Oxford Space, 138 South Oxford Street in Brooklyn
$15 General Admission, $10 Students/Seniors w/ valid ID
Find out more and purchase tickets here.
And to ensure that more composers and librettists can benefit from this wonderful program in the future, visit AOP's Kickstarter campaign here.
I am the recipient of an ASCAPlus Award. Not too shabby.
I am one of a handful of lucky composers and librettists selected for this season's Composers and the Voice Program with American Opera Projects. Among many great facets of this intensive fellowship, I get to be mentored by John Corigliano. You can read all about our first meeting here.
I've arranged a song for up-and-coming singer/songwriter Shaina Taub's EP, What Otters Do, which is now available for download/sale!
And don't forget to truck on down to my Facebook fan page to get up-to-the-minute updates! And now you can subscribe to my YouTube channel as well.
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Andrea Arias-Martin sang the world premiere of How to Be a Woman: Postscript, my setting of Caitlin Moran's brilliant text, in a special
Women's Month installation of the Composer's Voice Concert Series, a collaborative effort between Vox Novus, the Remarkable Theater Brigade, and Jan
Hus Church, on Sunday, March 25 at 1:00 at the Jan Hus Church.
On Friday, March 16th at 8 p.m., an excerpt from Mermaid in the Jar was part of Opera on Tap's New Brew series at Barbes in Brooklyn.
On Monday, February 6th at 8:30 p.m., I had my very own concert at Cornelia Street Cafe!
RACHEL PETERS: ALL OVER THE PLACE
Additional lyrics by Susan Bernfield, Michael R. Jackson, Jon Kern, Robert Maddock, and Royce Vavrek
Featuring Christopher Berg, Lynsey Buckelew, Sarah Corey, Molly Hager, Lauren Worsham Jarrow, Joelle Lurie, Colter McCorkindale, John-Andrew Morrison, Brandon Snook, Laura Stelman Jaeger, and Jorell Williams
.
The NYPL Performing Arts Library at Lincoln Center featured a brand new song of mine, Santa Ain't Black, in a holiday concert on
Sunday, December 11th at 2:30 p.m. John-Andrew Morrison was the incomparable interpreter.
Michael R. Jackson revived his fantastic GOOD CLEAN MUSIC: ANOTHER MICHAEL R. JACKSON SONG THING, which included our Swim with Sharks, at the Laurie Beechman Theatre on October 16th at 6:00 p.m.
On September 26th , Lorinda Lisitza and Jana Zielonka premiered my new song, Moon and Planet, on the Songbook @LPA: Broadway's Future series at New York Performing Arts Library.
Part of my adaptation of this wonderful story by Arthur Phillips was included in another installment of Opera Grows in Brooklyn at Galapagos Art
Space on September 18th at 7:00 p.m., courtesy of Opera on Tap and American Opera Projects.
Featuring Lynsey Buckelew, Laura Stelman Jaeger, Michael Vannoni, and Jorell Williams.
Sam Pinkleton directed, and Chris Berg was music director.
Two of my favorite things, Jack's Vocabulary and the New Georges Trunk Show, were together at last at the Cornelia Street Cafe,
Wednesday, September 7th at 6 p.m.
Featuring Lynsey Buckelew, Karla Faggard, Frank Galgano, Anthony Gomez, James Sasser, Alex de Suze, and Steve Uliana.
Music Direction by Scott Ethier
Swim with Sharks was recently the spotlighted (spotlit?) song on this musical theatre blog.
Another scene from Canon I premiered in the Blue Room Arts Collective's Party Time! concert at The Duplex on June 28th at 9:30 p.m.
The one and only Michael R. Jackson and I unveiled a new song, Swim with Sharks, in his concert, GOOD CLEAN MUSIC:
ANOTHER MICHAEL R. JACKSON SONG THING, at the Laurie Beechman Theatre on June 27th, directed by Emma Griffin.
American Opera Projects included the New York premiere of Jack's Vocabulary in its Make Music NY event on June 21st at 5:00 at Fort Greene Park.
Featuring Matt Castle, Karla Faggard, Frank Galgano, Anthony Gomez, Lauren Marcus, and Alex de Suze
Music Direction by Scott Ethier
Tiny Feats of Cowardice returned to Cornelia Street Cafe for a one-night engagement on May 27th at 6:00.
On May 22nd soprano Eleanor Taylor premiered a scene from Canon I, my new piece for soprano, piano, electric guitar, and photocopier, in Two Sides Sounding's concert at Tenri Cultural Institute with Colter McCorkindale quasi-classically shredding.
On Sunday, April 17th at another New Georges Trunk Show at Cornelia Street Cafe, Susan Bernfield and I presented our mini-epic cabaret song, Sans Itinerary, along with Elizabeth Cherry, Karis Danish, and Jenny Donoghue.
Opera On Tap presented Prairie Dogs as part of Opera Grows in Brooklyn Ladies' Night on Sunday, March 27th at Galapagos Artspace
Christopher Berg, Music Director; David Gordon, Stage Director
Featuring Daniel Gundlach, George Kasarjian, Sara Kelly, Delea Shand, David Schmidt, and Krista Wozniak
We got a great review in a podcast on IndieOpera.com. Check it out!
Susan Bernfield's Stretch (a fantasia) has been published by Playscripts, Inc. To get your copy and license the show click here.
Write Left had a reading as part of New Georges' TRUNK SHOW at Cornelia Street Café on Friday, February 11th
Directed by Heidi Handelsman
Music Direction by Scott Ethier
Featuring Sarah Corey, Suzanne Ishee, and James Sasser
My new song cycle, Jack’s Vocabulary, premiered at the Hartt School of Music’s SPASM concert on February 5th.
American Opera Projects presents First Glimpse, a concert that is the culmination of my (and others') season-long Composers and the Voice fellowship. Featuring work by Sidney Marquez Boquiren, Mikael Karlsson, Robert Paterson, Ronnie Reshef, Zach Redler, Sara Cooper, and me
Sung by Andrea Arias Martin, Amy Shoremount-Obra, Rebecca Ringle, Brandon Snook, Jorell Williams, and Justin Hopkins
Music Directors Jeanne-Minette Cilliers, Mila Henry, and Kelly Horsted.
Sunday May 20 & Monday May 21, 2012 - 8:00PM
South Oxford Space, 138 South Oxford Street in Brooklyn
$15 General Admission, $10 Students/Seniors w/ valid ID
Find out more and purchase tickets here.
And to ensure that more composers and librettists can benefit from this wonderful program in the future, visit AOP's Kickstarter campaign here.
I am the recipient of an ASCAPlus Award. Not too shabby.
I am one of a handful of lucky composers and librettists selected for this season's Composers and the Voice Program with American Opera Projects. Among many great facets of this intensive fellowship, I get to be mentored by John Corigliano. You can read all about our first meeting here.
I've arranged a song for up-and-coming singer/songwriter Shaina Taub's EP, What Otters Do, which is now available for download/sale!
And don't forget to truck on down to my Facebook fan page to get up-to-the-minute updates! And now you can subscribe to my YouTube channel as well.
*******************************************
Andrea Arias-Martin sang the world premiere of How to Be a Woman: Postscript, my setting of Caitlin Moran's brilliant text, in a special
Women's Month installation of the Composer's Voice Concert Series, a collaborative effort between Vox Novus, the Remarkable Theater Brigade, and Jan
Hus Church, on Sunday, March 25 at 1:00 at the Jan Hus Church.
On Friday, March 16th at 8 p.m., an excerpt from Mermaid in the Jar was part of Opera on Tap's New Brew series at Barbes in Brooklyn.
On Monday, February 6th at 8:30 p.m., I had my very own concert at Cornelia Street Cafe!
RACHEL PETERS: ALL OVER THE PLACE
Additional lyrics by Susan Bernfield, Michael R. Jackson, Jon Kern, Robert Maddock, and Royce Vavrek
Featuring Christopher Berg, Lynsey Buckelew, Sarah Corey, Molly Hager, Lauren Worsham Jarrow, Joelle Lurie, Colter McCorkindale, John-Andrew Morrison, Brandon Snook, Laura Stelman Jaeger, and Jorell Williams
.
The NYPL Performing Arts Library at Lincoln Center featured a brand new song of mine, Santa Ain't Black, in a holiday concert on
Sunday, December 11th at 2:30 p.m. John-Andrew Morrison was the incomparable interpreter.
Michael R. Jackson revived his fantastic GOOD CLEAN MUSIC: ANOTHER MICHAEL R. JACKSON SONG THING, which included our Swim with Sharks, at the Laurie Beechman Theatre on October 16th at 6:00 p.m.
On September 26th , Lorinda Lisitza and Jana Zielonka premiered my new song, Moon and Planet, on the Songbook @LPA: Broadway's Future series at New York Performing Arts Library.
Part of my adaptation of this wonderful story by Arthur Phillips was included in another installment of Opera Grows in Brooklyn at Galapagos Art
Space on September 18th at 7:00 p.m., courtesy of Opera on Tap and American Opera Projects.
Featuring Lynsey Buckelew, Laura Stelman Jaeger, Michael Vannoni, and Jorell Williams.
Sam Pinkleton directed, and Chris Berg was music director.
Two of my favorite things, Jack's Vocabulary and the New Georges Trunk Show, were together at last at the Cornelia Street Cafe,
Wednesday, September 7th at 6 p.m.
Featuring Lynsey Buckelew, Karla Faggard, Frank Galgano, Anthony Gomez, James Sasser, Alex de Suze, and Steve Uliana.
Music Direction by Scott Ethier
Swim with Sharks was recently the spotlighted (spotlit?) song on this musical theatre blog.
Another scene from Canon I premiered in the Blue Room Arts Collective's Party Time! concert at The Duplex on June 28th at 9:30 p.m.
The one and only Michael R. Jackson and I unveiled a new song, Swim with Sharks, in his concert, GOOD CLEAN MUSIC:
ANOTHER MICHAEL R. JACKSON SONG THING, at the Laurie Beechman Theatre on June 27th, directed by Emma Griffin.
American Opera Projects included the New York premiere of Jack's Vocabulary in its Make Music NY event on June 21st at 5:00 at Fort Greene Park.
Featuring Matt Castle, Karla Faggard, Frank Galgano, Anthony Gomez, Lauren Marcus, and Alex de Suze
Music Direction by Scott Ethier
Tiny Feats of Cowardice returned to Cornelia Street Cafe for a one-night engagement on May 27th at 6:00.
On May 22nd soprano Eleanor Taylor premiered a scene from Canon I, my new piece for soprano, piano, electric guitar, and photocopier, in Two Sides Sounding's concert at Tenri Cultural Institute with Colter McCorkindale quasi-classically shredding.
On Sunday, April 17th at another New Georges Trunk Show at Cornelia Street Cafe, Susan Bernfield and I presented our mini-epic cabaret song, Sans Itinerary, along with Elizabeth Cherry, Karis Danish, and Jenny Donoghue.
Opera On Tap presented Prairie Dogs as part of Opera Grows in Brooklyn Ladies' Night on Sunday, March 27th at Galapagos Artspace
Christopher Berg, Music Director; David Gordon, Stage Director
Featuring Daniel Gundlach, George Kasarjian, Sara Kelly, Delea Shand, David Schmidt, and Krista Wozniak
We got a great review in a podcast on IndieOpera.com. Check it out!
Susan Bernfield's Stretch (a fantasia) has been published by Playscripts, Inc. To get your copy and license the show click here.
Write Left had a reading as part of New Georges' TRUNK SHOW at Cornelia Street Café on Friday, February 11th
Directed by Heidi Handelsman
Music Direction by Scott Ethier
Featuring Sarah Corey, Suzanne Ishee, and James Sasser
My new song cycle, Jack’s Vocabulary, premiered at the Hartt School of Music’s SPASM concert on February 5th.
