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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
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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. |
Naomie
Kremer,
Video Animation &
Set Design
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Naomie
Kremer has had numerous solo exhibitions, including, in 2008, a
show of all video-based work at the Knoedler Gallery Project Space
in New York City. Her work is in many private, public and corporate
collections. Kremer has taught widely, including California College
of the Arts, the San Francisco Art Institute, and CSU Hayward. She
has lectured in the US and abroad, including at Oxford University
in England, and at the Syracuse University program in Florence,
Italy. Her work has been featured in numerous publications, including
Art In America, Art News, Tema Celese, and the Smithsonian Archives
of American Art Journal. In 2008, Kremer was commissioned to create
a video set for the Berkeley Opera's production of Bela Bartok's
Bluebeard's Castle.
Kremer creates moving paintings that are constructed of both the
painted canvass and projections of light and images onto the canvass
to create a multi-dimensional, sensory experience. Her large-scale,
intensely colored abstract paintings are built on childhood memories,
everyday observations and experiences, and family traditions. Her
canvases emit a sense of risky adventure that is made accessible
partly through the seductiveness of her colors and touch, and partly
by art historical references to abstract expressionism, cubism,
Italian futurism, and even Bay Area figuration. In the last few
years Kremer has been making computer animations that begin with
her finished paintings and, when finished, create a bridge through
painting and digital media.
Examples of Kremer's work can be seen online at www.naomiekremer.com |
Michael
Palmer,
Artistic Associate
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Michael 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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