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Down to the Twigs & Seeds
CD#: 3 - Track#: 4
COMPOSER
Jack Perla Jack Perla was recently commissioned by Opera Theatre Saint Louis to create a new opera about Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown with librettist James Fenton. He has been commissioned twice by Houston Grand Opera for their multi-year East + West project. Perla’s comic opera, Love/Hate, premiered in April 2012 in San Francisco, in a co-production with the Opera Center of San Francisco Opera and ODC Theater. Commissions for 2012-2013 include a new work for pianist Lisa Moore and cellist Ashley Bathgate (Bang on a Can All Stars), a one act opera entitled Belongings for Seattle Opera and a new concerto for the Oakland Youth Orchestra. Perla has received awards from the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition, American Composers Forum, Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund, American Music Center, Meet the Composer, Civic Orchestra of Chicago and MacDowell Colony. He is the 1997 recipient of the Thelonious Monk Institute Jazz Composers Award.
LYRICIST
James Fenton James Fenton was educated at the Durham Choristers’ School, Repton and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize for Poetry. He has worked as a political and literary journalist on the New Statesman; was a freelance reporter in Indo-China; spent a year in Germany working for The Guardian; was theater critic for The Sunday Times for five years; chief book reviewer for The Times from 1984 to 1986; South East Asian correspondent for The Independent from 1986 to 1988 and a columnist for them until 1995. He is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. Fenton was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1983, he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford from 1994 to 1999 and was awarded the Queen’s Medal for poetry in 2007.
VOCALIST
Sara Jakubiak American soprano Sara Jakubiak has been praised by The New York Times for her "plush-voiced, impressive soprano" and by Opera News as a “talented, highly musical singer.” With her career rapidly expanding in North America and now Europe, she will debut at English National Opera as Marie in Wozzeck, Semperoper Dresden as Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus, Penderecki’s Polish Requiem in Caracas and Lyric Opera of Chicago in La bohème. Past repertory includes Dede in Bernstein's A Quiet Place, Cathy in Hermann's Wuthering Heights, Beatrice in Heggie's Three Decembers, Euridyce in Glass's Orphée, Fiora in Montemezzi's L'amore dei tre re, Mozart heroines Fiordiligi, Countess and Donna Elvira, and Strauss' Daphne. Jakubiak is a gradute of Yale and Cleveland Institute of Music, and was an apprentice artist for The Santa Fe Opera.
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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