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Paul
Dresher,
Composer
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Paul
Dresher is an internationally active composer noted for his ability
to integrate diverse musical influences into his own coherent and
unique personal style. He pursues many forms of musical expression,
including experimental opera and music theater, chamber and orchestral
composition, live instrumental electro-acoustic music performances,
musical instrument invention, and scores for theater, dance, and
film. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2006-07, he has
received commissions from the Library of Congress, Saint Paul Chamber
Orchestra, Spoleto Festival USA, the Kronos Quartet, the San Francisco
Symphony, California EAR Unit, Zeitgeist, San Francisco Ballet,
Walker Arts Center, University of Iowa, Meet the Composer, Seattle
Chamber Players, Present Music, San Francisco Chamber Orchestra,
Chamber Music America, National Flute Association, and the American
Music Theater Festival. He has performed or had his works performed
throughout North America, Asia, and Europe at venues including New
York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic the Munich State Opera,
Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, the Festival d’Automne
in Paris, the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival,
CBC Vancouver Radio Orchestra, the Minnesota Opera, Arts Summit
Indonesia ‘95, Festival Interlink in Japan, and five New Music
America Festivals. Dresher has also worked extensively with many
choreographers including Margaret Jenkins, Brenda Way/ODC San Francisco,
Nancy Karp & Dancers, Wendy Rogers Dance Company, and Allyson
Green Dance. www.dresherensemble.org |
Paul
Dresher Ensemble
Performing live in
San Francisco, CA and Montclair, NJ |
Paul
Dresher Ensemble (PDE) commissions, performs and tours a diverse
repertory of new chamber works from diverse contemporary composers;
it produces and tours new opera/music theater compositions; it collaborates
with a broad range of dance and theater artists and organizations
to create and perform new work based in contemporary music; and
it mounts educational and family programs to introduce its repertory
to diverse audiences of all ages. Formed in 1984, the Ensemble spent
its first decade performing experimental theater/opera productions
involving Artistic Director Paul Dresher. The best known is American
Trilogy, which encompasses Slow Fire, Power Failure and Pioneer.
Created collaboratively with singer/actor/musician and writer Rinde
Eckert, tenor John Duykers, and designer/writer/songwriter Terry
Allen, The American Trilogy has received over 200 performances worldwide;
in 2005 Slow Fire was remounted for a 20th anniversary production
that continues to tour. The Ensemble has a long history of performing
live with modern dance with companies such as the Margaret Jenkins
Dance Company, ODC San Francisco, and Allyson Green Dance. |
Laura
Hazlett,
Costume Designer
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Laura
Hazlett designed costumes for MJDC's A Slipping Glimpse and for
the preview performance of Other Suns (Part One) in 2007. Ms. Hazlett's
career has spanned many decades and a variety of disciplines, including
theater, dance, and independent film. Theatre credits include Marin
Theatre Co. (Lady in the Dark, Me & My Girl, Wonderful Town,
The Women & Streetcar named Desire), Berkeley Rep (Anne Galjour's
"Huricane"), Center Rep (How the Other Half Loves, The
Women), Word For Word (Epiphanies, Sonny's Blues, Daniel Handler's
"Four Adverbs", More Stories by Tobias Wolff). Ms. Hazlett
has also designed costumed events for AT&T, Cisco Systems, Sony
and Disney. Mascot work includes costumes for KFOG, Office Max,
The Fruit Guys, Raccoon Recycling and the Rain Forest action network.
She also designed costumes for two Pro Bowls and made an American
flag the size of a football field. Her awards include a Theatre
Critics Circle award and three Dean Goodman awards. In her spare
time, Ms. Hazlett paints photo surrealism on black velvet. |
Bun-Ching
Lam,
Composer
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Born
in the Macao region of China, Bun-Ching Lam began studying piano
at the age of seven and gave her first public solo recital at fifteen.
In 1976, she received a B.A. degree in piano performance from the
Chinese University of Hong Kong. She then accepted a scholarship
from the University of California at San Diego, where she studied
composition with Bernard Rands, Robert Erickson, Roger Reynolds,
Pauline Oliveros, and earned a Ph.D. in 1981. In the same year,
she was invited to join the music faculty of the Cornish College
of the Arts in Seattle, where she taught until 1986.
A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002, she also won the
Rome Prize and was awarded first prizes at the Aspen Music Festival,
the Northwest Composer's Symposium, and the highest honor at the
Shanghai Music Competition, which was the first international composers'
contest to take place in China. She has also been a recipient of
grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts,
Meet the Composer/Reader's Digest Commissioning Program, New York
Foundation for the Arts, King County Arts Commission and Seattle
Arts Commission. She was in residence at the Rockefeller Foundation's
Bellagio Study and Conference Center and was awarded a fellowship
from the Asian Cultural Council for a three-month study trip to
Japan. she also received a Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the
American Academy of Arts and Letters. |
Alexander
V. Nichols,
Visual Designer
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Alexander
V. Nichols' design work spans from lighting, video and projections
to scenery, costumes for dance, theater, opera and installation
art. He has served as Resident Lighting Designer for the Pennsylvania
Ballet, Hartford Ballet, American Repertory Ballet, as Lighting
Supervisor for American Ballet Theatre and, for the past 23 years,
as resident Visual Designer for the Margaret Jenkins Dance Co. His
designs have been set on San Francisco Ballet, Boston Ballet, Alvin
Ailey American Dance Theater, Hubbard Street, Royal Winnipeg Ballet,
Hong Kong Ballet, Singapore Dance Theatre, ODC/SF and Pittsburgh
Ballet Theater. Collaborations with choreographers include Chrostopher
d’Amboise, Val Caniparoli, Ann Carlson, Sonya Delwaide, Marguerite
Donlon, Dominique Dumais, Joe Goode, Jean Grand-Maitre, Bill T.
Jones, Graham Lustig, Mark Morris, Matjash Mrozewski, Mikko Nissenen,
Kevin O’Day, Kirk Peterson, Stephen Petronio, Michael Smuin
and Brenda Way. Theater credits include designs for Mark Taper Forum,
American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Rep, Oregon Shakespeare
Festival, Arena Stage, Huntington Theater, Seattle Rep, National
Theater of Taiwan and the Alley Theater. Mr. Nichols created the
lights, set and video for Carrie Fisher’s current Broadway
production “Wishful Drinking”. Off-Broadway credits
include visual designs for “Los Big Names” (Gomez),
“Horizon” (Eckert) and lighting for “Bridge and
Tunnel” (Jones). Current projects include lighting and projection
for Tony Kushner’s “Tiny Kushner” at the Guthrie
Theater, structural and lighting design for the museum installation
piece “Circle of Memory”, a collaboration with Eleanor
Coppola, recently presented in Salzburg, Austria and the creation
of the video for “Origins” and “LIFE – A
Journey Through Time”, a collaboration with photographer Frans
Lanting and composer Philip Glass most recently presented at the
Inaugural Ceremony for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Switzerland. |
Michael
Palmer,
Artistic Advisor
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Palmer has lived in San Francisco since 1969.
He has worked with the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company for over thirty-five
years and has collaborated with many visual artists and composers.
His most recent collections are The Promises of Glass (New Directions,
2000), Codes Appearing (Poems 1979-1988) (New Directions, 2001),
Company of Moths (New Directions, 2005) and Active Boundaries (Selected
Essays and Talks) (New Directions, 2008). Among his awards, Palmer
has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lila Wallace – Reader’s
Digest Fund Writer’s Award, two National Endowment for the
Arts grants in poetry, the Shelley Memorial Award of the Poetry
Society of America, and in 2006, the Wallace Stevens Prize from
the Academy of American Poets. He has taught at various universities
in the United States and Europe, and his writings have been translated
into more than twenty-five languages. |
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