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La Tour
CD#: 1 - Track#: 9
COMPOSER
Howard Shore Howard Shore is among today’s most respected, honored and active composers and music conductors. His work with Peter Jackson on The Lord of the Rings earned him three Academy Awards, four GRAMMYs and three Golden Globes. Shore was one of the original creators of Saturday Night Live, serving as music director from 1975 to 1980. He has scored 13 films by David Cronenberg, including The Fly, Dead Ringers, Naked Lunch, A Dangerous Method and Cosmopolis. He has collaborated with Martin Scorsese on Hugo, The Departed, The Aviator, Gangs of New York and After Hours. Other films include Ed Wood, The Silence of the Lambs and Mrs. Doubtfire. His opera, The Fly, had its world premiere in 2008 in Paris and its U.S. premiere at Los Angeles Opera. He is an Officier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la France and the recipient of the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award in Canada.
LYRICIST
Elizabeth Cotnoir
VOCALIST
Jennifer Aylmer American soprano Jennifer Aylmer is honored to be among the artists contributing to OPERA America's Songbook. She has sung numerous world premieres, including her 2005 Metropolitan Opera debut in An American Tragedy and Houston Grand Opera's Little Women. She has been featured soloist with New York Festival of Song, the Marilyn Horne Foundation and gave her New York recital debut at Alice Tully Hall in 2001. Aylmer joined the voice faculty at both the Seagle Music Colony and at Carnegie Mellon's School of Music in 2012.
PIANIST
Timothy Long In the coming season, Timothy Long will be conducting Hansel and Gretel at Stony Brook Opera, Die Zauberflöte for Utah Opera, Dream Seminar/Drömseminarium for the Companion Star Ensemble in Stockholm and will be touring with the International Sejong Soloists and Gil Shaham as a harpsichordist for Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. Previous engagements have included the Maryland Opera Studio, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Colorado, New York City Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, the Juilliard School, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, the Oregon Bach Festival and the Théâtre Municipal de Castres. As a pianist he has performed at Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Chicago’s Dame Myra Hess Concert Series, Alice Tully Hall, Jordan Hall, the Caramoor Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, the Oregon Bach Festival and on numerous recital series. Long teaches at SUNY-Stony Brook and the Aspen Music Festival and is a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation and Thlopthlocco Tribal Town.
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