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COMPOSER
Kevin Puts Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Silent Night, Kevin Puts has been hailed as one of the most important composers of his generation. His work has been commissioned and performed by leading orchestras in the U.S. and abroad, including the New York Philharmonic; the Tonhalle Orchestër (Zurich); the Boston Pops; the symphony orchestras of Baltimore, Cincinnati, Detroit, Atlanta, Colorado, Houston, Fort Worth, Utah, Saint Louis; the Minnesota Orchestra, which commissioned his Sinfonia Concertante; and by leading chamber ensembles such as the Mirò Quartet, the Eroica Trio, eighth blackbird, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Puts has received awards and grants from the American Academy in Rome, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, BMI and ASCAP. Since 2006, he has been a member of the composition department at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, MD. A native of Saint Louis, MO, Puts received his bachelor’s degree and D.M.A.from the Eastman School of Music, and his master’s degree from Yale University. http://www.kevinputs.com
LYRICIST
Mark Campbell Mark Campbell (librettist/lyricist). Operas: Silent Night, Volpone, Later the Same Evening, Bastianello/Lucrezia, The Inspector, Rappahannock County, A Letter to East 11th Street, Three Lost Chords. Musicals: Songs from an Unmade Bed, Splendora, Chang & Eng, The Audience. Awards: Libretto for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Music, a GRAMMY nomination, three Drama Desk Award nominations, two Richard Rodgers Awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a New York Foundation for the Arts Playwriting Fellowship, an NEA, first recipient of the Kleban Foundation Award for Lyricist. Composers collaborated with: William Bolcom, Ricky Ian Gordon, Jake Heggie, Martin Hennessy, Paul Moravec, John Musto, Kevin Puts, Richard Peaslee, Michael Torke. http://www.markcampbellwords.com
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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