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Feng Shui for Your New Home
CD#: 3 - Track#: 7
COMPOSER
Aaron Kernis Grawemeyer- and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Aaron Jay Kernis received the 2012 Nemmers Prize in Music from Northwestern and was recently inducted in to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has been commissioned by sopranos Renee Fleming and Dawn Upshaw, violinists Joshua Bell and Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco and Seattle Symphonies, Orpheus and Saint Paul Chamber Orchestras, BBC Proms, Disney and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Recent recordings include his Goblin Market with The New Professionals (Signum); and The Kernis Project, two discs with the Jasper Quartet (Sono Luminus). He received the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Stoeger Prize, Rome Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship and multiple GRAMMY nominations, and was composer-in-residence for the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Public Radio and American Composers Forum. He is the new music advisor for the Minnesota Orchestra and director of its Composer Institute, and he is on the composition faculty at the Yale School of Music. He has appeared as conductor in Rome, Washington, Portland and several other cities.
LYRICIST
Rodika Tchi Rodika Tchi knows how to use feng shui to create vibrant, healthy and beautiful spaces. She has been consulting for private residences, as well as businesses, for over 12 years. Rodika is the owner of TchiConsulting.com and the feng shui writer for About.com. She holds a master's degree in journalism and a bachelor's in theory of arts. Raised in Europe and educated in U.S., Tchi lives in Vancouver, BC, and consults internationally.
VOCALIST
Talise Trevigne Called the "luminous new voice of classical music," Talise Trevigne is praised for her portrayals of many leading ladies including Violetta, Mimì, Juliette, Gilda, Lucia and Manon. She garnered Britain's Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award for her portrayal of Violetta in Graham Vick's La traviata with Birmingham Opera. Recent company debuts include Gilda with Tulsa Opera and her first Micaëla with San Diego Opera. In 2012, she returned to Bel Canto at Caramoor to sing the pants role of Jemmy in Rossini's Guillaume Tell. An energetic and dedicated champion of new music, she received rave reviews when she created the role of Pip in the world premiere of Jake Heggie's Moby-Dick with The Dallas Opera. She recently reprised this role with San Diego Opera and sings Pip with San Francisco Opera (fall 2012) and Washington National Opera (spring 2014). She performed in the world premiere of Heggie's song cycle Pieces of 9/11 — Memories from Houston for Houston Grand Opera.
PIANIST
Kelly Horsted Kelly Horsted enjoys an active career as a vocal coach and accompanist. Horsted has been a music director for the Composers and the Voice series at American Opera Projects (AOP) for three seasons. Other projects with AOP have included Herschel Garfein's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead directed by Mark Morris, Tarik O’Regan’s Heart of Darkness and Paula Kimper's Patience and Sarah for the Lincoln Center Festival. He has also collaborated with Chelsea Opera, Center for Contemporary Opera, Opera Company of Brooklyn, Wintergreen Festival, New Jersey Opera Theater, Friends and Enemies of New Music, Five Words in a Line and the graduate musical theater writing program at the Tisch School. He has taught at Mannes College of Music, Hartt School of Music, Hunter College, Intermezzo and OperaWorks. His B.M. and M.M. are from the Eastman School of Music. http://www.kellyhorsted.com
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Spring 2013 Magazine Issue
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