Three operas-in-progress by Jirí Kaderábek,
Todd Goodman, and Louis Karchin' Jane Eyre, under CCO’s Development Series, will be presented along with the World
Premiere of Oration by Danish
composer Line Tjørnhøj. Conductor/Music Director is Sarah
Jobin.
July 24th 'JANE EYRE' cast includes Marcy Richardson as Jane Eyre, Scott
Joiner, Karen Joilcouer, Jami Leonard, Sharon Harms, and Mark Wilson. Sarah Mayers
is Stage Director; Michael Fennelly is Music Director.
The Center for Contemporary Opera (CCO), founded in 1982 and
recognized as a leading proponent of new opera, announces its July 20-27 season
in NYC’s Cell Theater, 338 West 23rd St. All performances are at 8 PM.
July 20-24, 8 PM – Operas-in-progress
July 26 & 27, 8 PM– world premiere of “Oration”
Cell Theater, 338 West 23 Street, NYC
Tickets: $20 for Operas-in-Progress; $30 for world premiere of
“Oration” Reservations: www.brownpapertickets.com or
1.800.838.3006
Schedule:
July 20: Kafka’s Women by Jirí Kaderábek (Development Series)
July 23: Night of the Living Dead by Todd
Goodman (Development Series)
July 24: Jane Eyre by Louis Karchin (Development Series)
July 26 & 27: Oration by Line Tjørnhøj (World
Premiere)
Louis Karchin, American composer, conductor and professor of music at NYU, has
composed over 60 works including chamber music, symphonic
works, and opera. His music has been
recognized the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National
Endowment for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, as well as
commissions from the Serge Koussevitzky, Fromm, and Barlow Foundations.
Jirí Kaderábek, born 1978, is one of the most sought-after Czech
composers of his generation. His music
has been commissioned and performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Czech Radio
Symphony Orchestra, Prague Philharmonia, New Juilliard Ensemble, Slovak
Philharmonic Choir, and many others.
He is recipient of numerous awards, including Shipley Arts Festival Composition
Competition in Great Britain, Zenith Composers Competition in The Netherlands,
Czech Radio Composition Competition, Dean of the Music Faculty of the Academy
of Performing Arts in Prague Award, was finalist of the Musica Nova
International Composition Competition, and a nomination for the Gideon Klein
Award, all within the past few years.
Todd Goodman, born in 1977 in Pennsylvania, received his training
at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Duquesne U. in Pittsburgh, Kent State
University, Aspen, and at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris. His principal composition teachers have been
Pulitzer prize winning composer George Tsontakis, David Stock, Frank Wiley, and
Richard Toensing. Currently resident
composer for the Lincoln Park P.A. Center in Pennsylvania, Goodman has also
composed several works for winds, including a Concerto for piccolo and
Orchestra and Concerto for Bass Clarinet and Orchestra.
Line Tjørnhøj describes her chamber opera Oration as “a speech for humanity…..Oration gives a unique description of the human experience and the love
and hate, hope and despair, suffering and joy we see in our lifetimes.”
A native of Denmark, Ms. Tjørnhøj is a composer, sound-artist, and
performer. Since 1995 she has composed
for theater, dance, musicals, and radio and TV presentations. Her work with voices and sounds crosses the
borders of style, tradition , expression and aesthetics, and her many interests
include working in the areas of jazz, ethnic music, Bulgarian womens’ voices,
and throat singers. A member of the
Danish Composers Society, her works include Antigone,
performed in NY in 1996; I sing the body electric, performed by
Den Anden Opera in Copenhagen; and Anorexia
Sacra (for 6 voices, doublebass and liveprocessed stagesounds ), also
performed in Copenhagen.
