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Our Haven
CD#: 2 - Track#: 2
COMPOSER
Gene Murray Gene Murray earned a music education degree and an M.A. from West Texas State University. He taught instrumental music, vocal music and other subjects during his 45 year teaching career. Mila Gibson, artistic director of Amarillo Opera, asked him to sing the role of Simone in Gianni Schicchi, and he became a part of that organization for 15 years. He performed major roles, secondary roles, chorus, dance and participated with the stage crew. He directed five operas and made costumes for 10 operas. During that time, he became composer-in-residence, composing outreach operas to take to rural areas of Texas, introducing opera to communities which had never heard an opera. Amarillo Opera performed nine of his operas, ending with Wage of Sin which was filmed and presented on several PBS channels. He retired to Dallas, TX, and plays cello in a community orchestra and cello ensemble.
LYRICIST
Dana Morris Dana Morris is a sixth-generation Texas livestock producer who writes poetry and lyrics as a hobby, and has previously collaborated with Gene Murray, her first cousin, as his lyricist. She received the Editor's Choice Award presented by the National Library of Poetry, as well as an Award of Recognition from the Poets Society. Morris is has retired as a medical office manager after a successful career that spanned 38 years in a rural setting, which treated everything from rattlesnake bites to obstetrics. She volunteered with the county youth livestock board for 10 years and is currently a "CASA" (Court Appointed Special Advocate) volunteer for abused and neglected children. She continues to reside in Childress County, TX, where she maintains a small ranching operation and admires spectacular morning sunrises and glorious sunsets!
VOCALIST
Leah Edwards Leah Edwards has enjoyed a range of performing experiences encompassing theater and opera. Upon receiving her master’s degree from the Juilliard School, Edwards found a niche in the new music scene, allowing her to originate leading roles, participate in world-premiere recordings and make her Carnegie Hall debut. She has appeared with The Santa Fe Opera, Gotham Chamber Opera, Richard Tucker Foundation, American Modern Ensemble and has had the honor of singing the national anthem at the Pentagon. She has joined several casts with the Encores! series and made her Broadway debut as a member of the company of Master Class. Edwards has a B.M. from The Eastman School of Music, where she studied to be a concert pianist.
PIANIST
David Holkeboer David Holkeboer maintains a coaching studio in New York City and collaborates with singers in recitals. Holkeboer has worked with the Chamber Opera Theatre of New York, the First American Music Theatre Festival in Philadelphia, the O’Neill Theatre Center in Connecticut, the Israel Vocal Arts Institute and Florentine Opera (Milwaukee, WI). For the past several years, he has been the pianist for the Art Song Competition of the Liederkranz Foundation and a member of the faculty duo VocePiano at the Diller-Quaille School of Music. He has collaborated in performances with Ariel Bybee, Phillip Cokorinos, Susan Dunn, Faith Esham, Scott Hendricks, Ruby Hinds, James McCracken, Erika Sunnegårdh and Sandra Warfield. He studied with John Wustman and received an M.M. from the University of Illinois.
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