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There will be two
ten-minute intermissions Program subject to change. 1:45 p.m., Intrada The Lyric Effect Robert Scott Dialorca Finalists, Segment One Who Goes with Fergus? Will to Wind ~ I n t e r m i s s i o n ~ Tarantella De' Miei Bollenti Spiriti Finalists, Segment Two Die Flamingos Zivanska (J
Ragan) Dariusz
Ocetek, bass baritone Voc mani sloka ~ I n t e r m i s s i o n ~ Les Pas Margo Berdeshevsky Finalists, Segment Three La Ceinture Maureen Holm Les Ombres Veillantes A W A R D S Reprise: 'Fergus' Estimated conclusion: 4:30 p.m.
PERFORMERS Flutist Patrick Dillery has a varied background
as concert soloist, recording artist, chamber music and orchestral flutist, and
teacher. He was principal flutist for the Rhein-Main Theater in Frankfurt and
featured flutist for the first European recording of 'Sunset Boulevard'. He has
featured on studio recordings in New York and appeared live on NPR and on NBC's
'Today Show' affiliate in Minneapolis, performed in solo recital and with
orchestras in Europe, Israel and the U.S., and as a featured soloist on the
American Landmark Festival and Trinity Church Concert series in New York.
Besides upcoming engagements in Great Britain and Germany, he will soon tour
Asia with his first solo CD, 'In Concert', recorded with pianist Larry David.
Originally from St. Paul, Mr. Dillery studied at the Ithaca College School of
Music and in France. He was formerly on staff with the Royal Academy of Music
and Art in New York, and maintains a private studio here. Director Kathleen Bishop
appeared most recently
as Auntie Julia in the Shoeboy Theatre Co.'s production of Hedda Gabler
at the John Houseman Theatre. She won the Globe Atlas Best Actress Award twice,
first as Pegeen Mike in Playboy of the Western World and again as
Corrinna Stroller in House of Blue Leaves for the San Diego Old Globe. As
Artistic Director of Triple T Theatre Group, she has produced and directed nine
Shakespeare plays on the outdoor stage at Lincoln Square Neighborhood Center,
and two for The American Globe Theatre's Bard-a-Thon. She has performed and
directed for Stagewrights, Inc. In New York, she has directed plays for Aurora
Stage Co., Grassroots Shakespeare, Turnip Festival '92 and '97 (Best Director),
Actroupe, Riverside Shakespeare, Theatre V and West Side Rep. On Valentine's
weekend '97, she directed 'Hearts & Daggers', an evening of sonnets and
costumed scenes from Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, etc. for p
h i l o p h o n e m a ™ at Citron 47. Ms. Bishop teaches
'Acting Shakespeare from the First Folio' for the West Side Y. Tenor Michael Marus [to be completed]. Robert Scott (poetry) was born in La Paz,
Bolivia, learned English in Australia and attended Alderson-Broaddus College in
Philippi, W.Va. on athletic scholarship, receiving a B.A. in Comparative
Literature. Bilingual and bicultural, he works as an actor and voice-over
artist, and produces short fiction, poetry and translations (Neruda, Lorca,
etc.) Renown on the New York circuit for his rapid-fire performance of long
narrative poems from his series, 'Hack Warrior' -- one of which made him a
finalist at the annual poetry slam at the Fez in '96 -- he is at his ease when
the lyric current becomes white water. Mr. Scott features today for the fourth
time with LyR. James Ragan has called Maureen Holm
(poetry/music) 'an erotic Eliot.' She originated Lyric Recovery in May '96. The
event has since appeared in semi-annual Spring and Fall sessions in New York,
three times in Paris, and in Prague, and next goes to Saratoga, Québec, Nice
and Florence. She originated p h i l o p h o n e m a ™,
an international consortium of working professionals in the language, music and
visual arts, to produce and present excellence while mentoring it on a
one-to-one basis. Ms. Holm originated in Minneapolis, spent her adolescence and
early twenties in Vienna, as a student (Germanistik, Theaterwissenschaften),
linguist (UNIDO, etc.), writer and singer before practicing commercial and
arts-related law in Manhattan and Paris (J.D. '81; LL.M. Int'l Bus. and Trade
Reg. '91). Independent since 1990, she has produced poetry collections and verse
plays, songs, translations (e.g. The Waste Land), novels and short fiction, and
writes and edits articles on literature and on the law. Publications include
Lagniappe (revisions submitted), ARTimes, Rattapallax, The Paris/Atlantic, The
Poetry Calendar, Medicinal Purposes, Salonika (centerfold), poetrycentral
(feature), pegasusdreaming (feature), etc.
Flutist Margaret Lancaster likes to play the
flute, act, and dance. Noted for her inter-disciplinary collaboration with
writers and composers, she has built a large repertoire of contemporary flute
works composed for her that employ extended techniques, movement, multi-media,
and electronics. Ms. Lancaster is a core member of Essential Music, BONK
Festival of New Music, and Three Two New Music Festival, and has appeared as a
lecturer/soloist at Dartmouth College, Princeton University, North Carolina
School of the Arts, University of South Florida, and the National Flute
Association. Her first solo CD, "Future Flute," was recently released.
She will perform at the Spoleto Festival in June. Violinist Gene Hahn is a native New Yorker and a
student at the Manhattan School of Music. He has participated in master classes
with Felix Galamir, Glenn Dicterow, and Mark Steinberg. The recipient of a full
scholarship to the Mannes College of Music Preparatory Division, Mr. Hahn won
the concerto competition there and at the LaGuardia High School of Performing
Arts, as well as the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Young Musicians
Competition. He has appeared at Alice Tully Hall, and as soloist at Carnegie's
Weill Recital Hall and at Steinway Hall, and has participated in the Manchester
and The Yellow Barn summer music festivals. Percussionist Ed Klinger
is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and producer from Queens,
New York. Besides drums and percussion he plays guitar, bass and steel pan. From
1993 to 1998 Mr. Klinger was a member of Q-South, a New York-based
alternative/Latin/rock group. The group toured the East Coast extensively in
support of three releases, gaining a strong regional following and garnering
praise from publications such as Alternative Press, Flipside, Zoom, The
Philadelphia Enquirer, and The New York Post.
Pianist Paul Winston (instrumental obbliggati
and composer, Tarantella) was born into a musical family. At 4, he interrupted a
student's lesson, exclaiming, 'If that's the Mozart C Major Sonata, then it's
wrong!' His mother studied with Harold Bauer, co-founder of the Manhattan School
of Music, and later taught for the school. His uncle was a violinist; his aunt
an opera singer. Currently on leave from Touro College, whose music department
he founded and chaired, Mr. Winston is at work on 'Staggerlee', a ballet in four
scenes based on the Black folk myth, and on 'The Heart of a Dog', an opera based
on the novella by Bulgakov. Today's Tarantella is from his fully-orchestrated
ballet, Beauty and the Beast, conceived before the animated Disney
version. Lawrence Rhodes, Artistic Director of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, has
called this piece 'the next step in the history of the evening-length ballet.'
Compositions by Mr. Winston have been in the collection of the Rutgers
University Jazz Archives since 1985. Trumpeter Richard Johnson has performed in many
solo and chamber music recitals, jazz and classical orchestras, and wind
ensembles throughout Minnesota and in New York. Equally accomplished as a
classical and jazz musician, he has opened for Maynard Ferguson and Garrison
Keillor and performed with Rolf Smedvig, the Empire Brass, and pianist Jason
Moran. Mr. Johnson teaches trumpet master classes for the North Shore Summer
Music Experience Camp and was recently guest soloist and clinician with the Two
Harbors, Minnesota High School Wind Ensemble and Jazz Band. He received a
Bachelor of Trumpet Performance with a minor in Jazz Studies from the University
of Minnesota-Duluth and is currently completing his Masters in Jazz Performance
at the Manhattan School of Music, studying with Earl Salmink, Dr. George Hitt,
Dominic Spera, and Byron Stripling. Adam Merton Cooper (poetry) writes poetry and
catchy, three-minute pop ballads for old, beat-up Alvarez guitar accompaniment.
Trained as a cartographer, he has published more maps than poems. (Note: The
producers hereby exercise their prerogative to supplement this bio.) After
winning the Special Editor's Distinction at the Spring '97 session of Lyric
Recovery in New York and then again at the Fall session, Mr. Cooper featured at
the Spring '98 sessions in New York and in Paris. Known among his peers as 'the
alchemist,' this young, classically educated poet combines originality of idea
and idiom with craft and risk to create serious work of unusual texture and
depth. More agile than any host, he can shift and induce hilarity with a style
we here term 'hapless urbanity'. His essay on playful moments of poet Jean
Garrigue appears on the e-zine, Taverner's Koans, <http://www.geocities.com/~tavkoan/garrigue.html>. Vít Horejs (Czech recitation, 'Zivanska') left
his native Prague in 1979 for a stage and screen career based in New York (Krojack,
Don't Drink the Water, Woody Allen, director). A gifted storyteller, his
book Twelve Iron Sandals and Other Czechoslovak Tales (Prentice Hall,
1985) was honored by the New York City Public Library as one of the best
children's books of that year. A second volume of his tales, Pig and Bear
(Four Winds Press/Macmillan 1989) was later translated and released in Europe.
When Mr. Horejs discovered a cache of antique marionettes in the attic of a New
York church (see, 'Worlds on a String', Time, 11/17/97), he
founded the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre to bring this traditional
(once subversive) Czech art form to U.S. audiences. He opens with Johannes's
'Dokchtor Faust' on March 23 at La MaMa E.T.C. (until April 9, Thurs-Sun at
7:30, Sun matinee at 2:30), and has directed 'The White Doe', adaptations of 'Rusalka',
'The Little Rivermaid', 'Golem', 'Hamlet', as well as several solo shows based
on Czech folk tales. Bass baritone Dariusz
Ocetek (appearing courtesy of New York Dance & Arts Innovation)
studied in Poland with Slavomir Ksiazek and performed for several years with The
Silesian Operetta Theatre, as well as with Camerata Silesia and with The
Chorzów Music Theatre. Since 1993, he has sung all along the Eastern Seaboard.
Though classically trained, Mr. Ocetek also sings folk music and shanties.
Winner of the Audience Choice Award at the 1997 Shanties Festival in Baltimore,
he returned in 1998 to win the Grand Prix. He studies with Thomas Cultice at the
Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College. Mr. Ocetek is the Artistic Director
of ‘Harmony’, the Polish-American music stage in New York. Contralto Susan Weinman grew up near Buffalo,
and came to New York as a member of the Juilliard Opera Center after studying at
the Hartt School of Music and the State University College at Fredonia. Her
concert performances have included Mendelssohn, Mahler, Bach, Beethoven, Handel,
Vivaldi, Bruckner, and Elgar. Her operatic repertoire includes roles from
'Carmen', 'Hänsel und Gretel', 'Julius Caesar', 'Tales of Hoffman' and others.
Ms. Weinman has performed with the Tanglewood Music Center, Philadelphia
Singers, Worchester Music Festival, Berkshire Choral Festival, and Liederkranz
Opera, among other groups. Cellist Tara Chambers was a member of the
Westside Trio for four years (1992-96). In 1995, the ensemble won the Artists
International and was a finalist in both the Coleman and Carmel chamber music
competitions. She received her masters degree from Manhattan School of Music in
1994, where she studied with Marion Feldman, and has since toured the U.S.,
Europe and Korea with the New York City Opera National Company, the Manhattan
Chamber Orchestra, and Ke. She performs with the Broadway shows, 'Miss Saigon'
and 'Scarlet Pimpernel' and with the Jupiter Symphony. Ms. Chambers has recorded
for RCA, Newport Classic and Koch labels. She presently studies with Gerald
Beal. Soprano Phoebe Yadon has premiered more than 150
songs, monodramas and works for solo voice, including today's 'Les Pas'. She has
been called, "the thinking man's diva," her voice described as
"secure, radiant" (Leighton Kerner, The Village Voice),
"the most pleasing, … a smooth, rounded soprano tone" (Alan Kozinn, The
New York Times), "brilliant" (New York Daily News). She
first gained wide notice, still as a teenager, with her performance of 'Vissi
D'arte' (Tosca, Puccini) on the television show, 'Fame'. Her 1990
performance in Julian Grant's 'The Skin Drum' won the National Opera
Association's first prize. She originated the rôles of Mandela's Daughter and
the Zulu Singer in C. Carter's 'No Easy Walk to Freedom' (T.W.E.E.D. New Music
Festival, NYC), sung entirely in Zulu, and of Svanhild in K. Sherman's
"Love's Company" (Lake George Opera Festival), both world premieres. She
will appear on May 2 as a soloist in Gerald Ginsburg's 'An American ŕ Paris' at
Merkin Hall, premiering several songs written expressly for her. Other
upcoming New York engagements include the title roles in Douglas Moore's 'The
Ballad of Baby Doe' (May 11-20) and Stravinsky's 'The Nightingale' (June 22-July
1), both at Raw Space. She studied at Manhattan School of Music and at Oberlin
College. Violinist Sandy Choi is a Chicagoan. She began
her studies at the age of seven; her past teachers include Myron Kartman and
Dana Mazurkevich. As an orchestral and chamber musician, she has toured Europe,
recorded on the Cedille label, performed on WFMT radio, and worked with such
distinguished composers and musicians as John Harbison, Peter Child, Martin
Pearlman and members of the Vermeer, Ying and St. Lawrence string quartets. Her
awards include the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition (Honorable Mention), the
Bertha Schenker Memorial Award, the Emerson Music Fellowship, the Phillip Loewe
Memorial Award and the MITSO Concerto Competition (1997). Ms. Choi holds SB
degrees in Music and Economics respectively from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. Margo Berdeshevsky (poetry) grew up in New York
and in France, and now divides the year between Paris and Maui. She was the
Grand Prize winner in the Borders Books/Honolulu Magazine Fiction Award contest
in 1996 and again in 2000, and twice a finalist for the Ann Stanford Award
(1998, 1999) and for the American Fiction Award (1997). Recent journal
publications include The Paris/Atlantic, Bamboo Ridge, Rattapallax and The
Contemporary Review. Angel Heirs, co-authored with Robin Lim and
hand-made in Bali, is a collection of her photographs, poems and stories. Loose
Star, Left Hand, Cupped, a poetry collection, is under contract with
Salmon Publishing (Co. Clare, Ireland) and scheduled for release in 2001. Just
completed, Two Legs (A Book of Days), a memoir that straddles France and
the Pacific, is presently circulating among New York publishers. A former
actress, Ms. Berdeshevsky was nominated for an Emmy, and has performed with the
Lincoln Center Repertory Company, Joseph Papp's Public Theatre, premiered Pinter
and Hare plays, and toured in Shakespeare productions. She has previously
featured with LyR in New York, Paris and Prague.
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