Chancellor: Provost: College of Arts & Communication Dean: Associate Dean:
Director: Development Director/Assistant Director Technical Director: Audience Services Manager: Marketing Director: Coordinator of Education & Outreach: Office Manager:
Richard Telfer Beverly Kopper Mark McPhail Robert Mertens
Ken Kohberger Keir R. Johnson J.D. David Nees Michael Morrissey Leslie LaMuro Shannon Dozoryst Malinda Hunter
Mission Statement Young Auditorium serves as a presenting organization for the performing arts and as an educational and cultural center enriching the lives of the campus and regional communities. Vision Statement Young Auditorium: Artstanding in Creativity, Artstanding in Collaboration, Artstanding in Education, Artstanding in its Field. Non-Profit Status Young Auditorium is a non-profit organization under Section 115 of the Internal Revenue Code. A Note To Our Patrons: • Latecomers will be seated at the first convenient interval at the discretion of the audience services staff. • Patrons are requested to turn off pagers, cellular telephones, and hourly signaling watches during the performances. • Photography or video/audio recording of the performance is strictly prohibited. • No smoking or food allowed in the theater. Only beverages purchased in the reusable cups available in the lobby will be allowed. • Personal hearing enhancement devices are available at the gift shop. • No state tax revenue supported the printing of this program. Ordering Tickets UW-Whitewater Ticket Services Voice & TTY: 262-472-2222 Fax: 262-472-1329
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2013 • 7:30 PM
Cultural Affairs, Contemporary Issues & The Diversity Forum Present
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Christopher..................................................................................................................................Jason Currie C.J. ............................................................................................................................................. Tyler Houston Thadd.........................................................................................................................................Tod Macofsky Tootsie........................................................................................................................................ Mario Mosley Mikey........................................................................................................................................... Sacha Sacket Anson............................................................................................................................................Drew Tablak
it gets better is performed without an intermission. GMCLA Executive Director.................................................................................... Christopher Verdugo GMCLA Artistic Director........................................................................................................... Joe Nadeau Creative Producer................................................................................................................. Jimmy Nguyen Multimedia/Video...........................................................................................Ben Jehoshua/Image Line It Gets Better Project Executive Director................................................................................ Ted Farley Outreach Coordinator...............................................................................................................Jason Currie Tour & Outreach Manager................................................................................................Brianne Pergola Music clearances..................................................................................................................... David Wagner SPECIAL THANKS Sarah Wolter, Rafael Agustin, Top Shelf Vocal Ensemble The members of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles Dan Savage and the It Gets Better Project Team Video contributors to the It Gets Better Project Performers appear with the cooperation of Theatre Authority West, Inc. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS to all of our KICKSTARTER supporters! PRODUCERS Daniel Fisher Matthew Jenner Jimmy Nguyen Lisa Chiya
Douglas Hutchinson
CONTRIBUTORS Michael Graham
Alan Kenney
Ronald Triche
How are you helping to change your community? #makeitbetter We would love to hear from you! #itgetsbettertou
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SONGS
“It Gets Better?” Sacha Sacket
“Smile”
Charles Chaplin, Geoffrey Parsons, James Phillips Bourne Music Company
“What Doesn’t Kill You (Stronger)”
Jorgen Elofsson, Alexandra Tamposi, David Gamson, Gregory Kurstin BMG Gold Songs Kurstin Music c/o EMI Entertainment World Inc Perfect Storm Music Group Son/ATV Music Publishing Universal Music Careers
“Song for Jamey” Sacha Sacket
“At Seventeen”
Janis Ian EMI Blackwood Music Inc
“All the Pretty Boys” Sacha Sacket
“If I Could Turn Back Time” Diane Warren Realsongs
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“Crazy”
Thomas Callaway, Gian Piero Reverberi, Gian Franco Reverberi, Brian Burton Chrysalis Music Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp
“It Is Well With My Soul” Horatio Spafford, Philip Bliss
“Beautiful”
Linda Perry Stuck in the Throat & Sony / ATV Harmony
“Smalltown Boy”
Steven Bronski, Lawrence Cole, James Somerville Universal Polygram International
“You Have More Friends Than You Know” Mervyn Warren, Jeff Marx Commissioned by Hancher at the University of Iowa
“Over the Rainbow”
E.Y. Harburg, Harold Arlen EMI Feist Catalog Inc
“45 Degrees” Eric Himan
WHO’S WHO Jason Currie, Christopher Jason moved from Atlanta, GA to New York to study opera at The Juilliard School. After receiving his Bachelor of Music he began to take himself a little less seriously and headed to LA where he began studying at The Groundlings Improv School. There Jason formed the improv team Jetson Lounge and the sketch group Fred For Nothing. Jason’s credits include the film Naked Boys Singing!, TV’s Zeke and Luther and The Young and the Restless. www.JasonCurrie.com @JasonWCurrie Tyler Houston, C.J. Tyler was born on Cape Cod and grew up in both New England and the Midwest. He began performing at an early age and at 18 won the First Place Classical Singer Award at the Cleveland Institute of Music. After studying vocal performance at the CIM conservatory he moved to Los Angeles. He has performed in a variety of theatrical and operatic productions: as Jesus in Godspell, Gaston in La Traviata, and Pippin in Pippin. Tyler is also a recording artist and released his first two Holiday Singles in December 2012, produced by a Grammy winning team. His first major record is slated for release in late 2013. www.tyler-houston.com Tod Macofsky, Thadd Tod is a native of Los Angeles and has been performing there for over 25 years. After studying theatre directing at UCLA, he began doing cruise ship production shows. Tod’s claim to fame is as the original Bris boy in the hit review Naked Boys Singing! at the Celebration Theatre in
Hollywood for which he won an LA Weekly Award for Best Musical Ensemble. He has been a proud member of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles for 12 years and of the spin-off five-man a cappella group ’N Pynk. Tod is the co-writer and one-half of the comic cabaret duo Mack & Poppy. Recently, Tod played a shot, frozen and decapitated dead body on the ABC-TV show Castle. Mario Mosley, Tootsie Mario attended the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and has performed throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. He’s recorded and performed as a background vocalist for many artists, including Kelly Clarkson. Film credits include Dreamgirls, Walk Hard and BASEketball. Television credits include MADtv, Dance Your Ass Off (Seasons 1 & 2) Malcolm & Eddie, Hype, The Parkers and iCarly. His stage credits include Michael Jackson’s Sisterella, Wedding Band, Play On! and the role of Clopin in Notre Dame De Paris. He also originated the role of L. Ron Hoover in the world-premiere of multi-award nominated, Frank Zappa’s… Joe’s Garage. Mario is also a choreographer whose credits include World Music Awards, Nickelodeon, Castle as well as several commercials and live shows. Recently he was featured as a guest host on the Fox hit Hell’s Kitchen, a guest expert on Season 3 of RuPaul’s Drag U, wrapped shooting of the feature film The Famous Joe Project (Ryan), and the shorts Adults Only (Roberto) and Oxygen (Captain Thomas). Sacha Sacket, Mikey D. Sacha is a songwriter in his own right and penned 3 of the songs in it gets better. He has taken his artistry far afield touring relentlessly with concerts Young Auditorium
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at hundreds of colleges and music venues while garnering airplay on 150+ independent, college and NPR stations. Openly gay from the start of his career, he has performed at numerous pride festivals, university GLBT groups, and high school GSAs. Being bullied himself as a kid, he strives to empower and support gay youth through his music and art. In 2011 he released 35 full-length songs, all produced, written, and performed by him. He is continuing this prolific trend with an onslaught of photo, video, and music projects to be unveiled intermittently over the course of 2014 and beyond. Drew Tablak, Anson Drew’s critically acclaimed vocal ability and performance versatility has given him the privilege to perform all over the world. As a graduate of Azusa Pacific University with a degree in Voice Performance, he has had the honor of being guest soloist for the Long Beach Pops Symphony Orchestra, The Premier Chorale of Los Angeles, The Pacific Symphony, The Orange County Symphony and The Golden State Pops. In 2005 he soloed at Carnegie Hall and in 2012 had a guest spot on an episode of Glee. An accomplished a cappella singer and clinician, he has worked with all three winners of The Sing Off, Claude McKnight of Take 6 and a cappella guru, Tony Huerta. Working for Disney Entertainment he has performed in various shows, recording studios and live concerts. He was the soloist at the groundbreaking ceremony for Disneyland Shanghai and was recently privileged to be the soloist for the Disney Candlelight Processional. He currently works in the world famous Dapper Dans, The Mad T Party, and the illustrious Voices of Liberty. Drew is currently in preproduction for his solo holiday record to be released this fall. www.DrewTablak.com 6
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Liesel Reinhart, Writer/ Director Liesel is the co-artistic director of L.A. based Speak Theater Arts and Chair of the Department of Communication Studies at Mt. San Antonio College. She is co-writer of the nationally touring work N*GGER WETB*CK CH*NK and collaborated with Speak Theater Arts to create and direct ArmeniaMania and Woke Up In America. She is also a longtime Board Member of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles. Her last artistic collaboration with GMCLA was 2009’s music-infused world premiere staging of Tectonic Theater Company’s Laramie Project: Ten Years Later; an Epilogue. She is currently in workshop development of an original musical collaboration entitled Limbo. Liesel received the 2013 Stanback-Stroud award From the State of California Academic Senate for her work with diversity in higher education. She is pleased to donate her time directing this project in memory of Mike Donnelly, Marty Harris, and Ray St. Jean. Her blog for Huffington Post Gay Voices is www. huffingtonpost.com/liesel-reinhart. Morten Kier, Music Director/Arranger Morten is a platinum award-winning singer and songwriter out of Copenhagen, Denmark who tours both in the US and abroad. He performs solo (voice and piano), with the vocal group m-pact, and as a lead singer of the band Gårsdagens Lys (The Light of Yesterday). He also works as a producer for other artists, performs as a soloist or background vocalist on animated movies, album productions, and TV, does vocal workshops with Ørehænger, and writes arrangements and handbooks for singers. Morten is the proud owner of the record label, Gule Plader, on which he released his
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first debut album “Fra en ny altan” (“From A New Balcony”) in 2008. The album release was followed by more than 120 home concerts in Northern Europe, a band tour, and several national TV performances. For seven years, Morten was a member of the internationally acclaimed vocal group Basix, whose debut album “The Grass” (2001) went platinum. He also has a Masters in Vocal Performance from The Royal Academy of Music. Since July 2010, Morten has lived in Hollywood, where he is producing new solo work and serving as the musical director for multiple musical theater productions. Billy Thompson, Accompanist Billy has served as composer, musical director, accompanist, and performer for the stage for over fifteen years. His first full length musical Invasion! earned him the 2007 LA Weekly Theatre Awards for Best Original Score and Best Musical Direction. He has provided source music and scoring for film, soloed as a promotional pianist for Miramax, and performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Desert Symphony Orchestras. He has held faculty and faculty assistant positions at USC, AMDA-LA, and The Strasberg Institute, and is a Composer-in-Residence with the San Diego Opera Words & Music outreach program. Billy holds a BM in Composition from USC and an MFA in Musical Theatre from SDSU. Bill Bowersock, Show Producer Bill has been a singing member of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles since 1993. For most of the last 20 years he has been their Concert Producer. A performer from the age of eight, Bill sang with the nationally known group The Establishment. He has produced film and worked as a composer in both film and television. As a songwriter, he has earned two Top-40 hits, a gold single and a platinum album. In his spare time, Bill is a realtor in Los Angeles.
Billy Rugh, Choreographer Billy has worked as a dancer/ choreographer for 15 years; having danced in national tours, industrials, Europe, and the Bahamas. He is the founder & Artistic Director of Creative Planet School of the Arts, a non-profit, K-8 academic and arts magnet for at-risk youth in L.A. (cpsoa.org); his students frequently appear in GMCLA productions. As Artistic Director of CPSOA, Billy has served on the Congressional Arts Committee Advisory Council for Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, been awarded the David Chow Humanitarian Award and partnered with the Phil Simon Clinic in Tanzania, Africa, to create social theatre between the students of CPSOA and AIDS orphans in Arusha. Kristie Roldan, Lighting Designer Kristie has designed for many theatre, opera, and dance companies including: the Geffen Playhouse, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Speak Theater Arts. Her
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lighting credits also include web broadcast, television specials, and DVD projects for artists such as Rihanna, Ben Harper, and John Legend. Her theatrical designs have been seen on tour both nationally and internationally. Kristie’s most recent theatrical work includes: N*W*C with Speak Theater Arts, All Hail the Queen with Lesli Margherita, and Some Girl(s) at the Geffen Playhouse. Steven T. Seagle, Set Designer Steven is the co-artistic director of LAbased Speak Theater Arts and partner in Man of Action Studios, creators of Cartoon Network’s Ben 10 and Generator Rex. Steve is the author of many acclaimed graphic novels including it’s a bird, Solstice, and Kafka. Steve is also is the co-writer and set designer of the nationally touring N*GGER WETB*CK CH*NK and also collaborated with the Speak Theater Arts team to create, direct, and design ArmeniaMania. Phil Hayman, Costume Designer Phil was born and raised in Lincoln, NE, and then relocated to Los Angeles in 1980 to study at UCLA. He received a BA in Design in 1985 and an MFA in Costume Design in 1987. Since then he has worked steadily in the motion picture and television field as a costume supervisor. He has worked on shows such as The West Wing, ER and True Blood. He is currently working on the television series Sons of Anarchy for F/X and Southland for TNT. He joined GMCLA as a singing member in 2006 and has designed costumes for Chorus productions since 2007. He is proud to be a part of this production and happy to be able to share his work with you. Coming from a mid-sized Midwestern town where he was routinely harassed as a youth, Philip proves the adage that “It Does Get Better”. Curtis William Foreman, Hair & Makeup Designer As a native of Southern Louisiana, Curtis has cultivated a 22 year career steeped in creativity for makeup and hair design. 8
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Finishing hair school at the age of 18, he moved to New Orleans where he specialized in wig/hair & makeup theatrical design eventually yielding phenomenal success as national trainer and platform artist. In 2003, he moved to Los Angeles where he joined GMCLA and became a featured soloist, also hair/ wig/makeup artist for the chorus. Today, Curtis remains an artistic force in Southern California as a freelance professional in special effects for makeup and wig/hair design. Rob Siminoski, Technical Director Rob’s first foray into theatre was at the age of 5 in a community theatre production of Fiddler on the Roof. He was one of 64 students from across the nation chosen to participate in The Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Summer Seminar for High School Seniors. He won a Sacramento Regional Theatre Award for his portrayal of Dogberry in El Dorado High School’s production of Much Ado About Nothing. Rob studied Drama at San Francisco State University where he directed Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia, Bryony Lavery’s Frozen, and The Tempest. He is currently a sound designer for The Groundlings Theatre and a Stage Manager at Universal Studios Hollywood where he manages Waterworld: A Live Sea Spectacular, The Special Effects Stage, and the late Terminator 2:3D. Rob is thrilled to be a part of the it gets better team and looks forward to a long and healthy run. He would like to thank his parents and his mentor, Paul Tomei, for their guidance and support. Jeff Marx, Lyricist/Composer Jeff won a Tony Award and a Grammy nomination for co-writing Avenue Q. He is a proud member of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles since 2007. Mervyn Warren, Lyricist/Composer Mervyn is a five-time Grammy-Award winner and 10-time Grammy nominee who
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has composed underscore and produced/ arranged/ written songs and lyrics for films such as The Wedding Planner, The Preacher’s Wife, A Raisin In The Sun (2008), Living Out Loud, A Walk To Remember, and Sister Act 2. An original member of the vocal sensation Take 6, he has produced/arranged/ written numerous records for Quincy Jones, Whitney Houston, Queen Latifah, Barbra Streisand, David Foster, Boyz II Men, Michael Bublé, Donna Summer, Chicago, Faith Hill, and many more. In 2010 he coproduced We Are The World 25 For Haiti and recently completed both underscore and songs for the musical film Joyful Noise, starring Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton. Daniel R. Fisher, Producer Daniel is an American banker/lawyer living in London as CEO of the European subsidiaries of Wilmington Trust. As a gay man who has been out and proud for over 30 years, he has experienced and witnessed first-hand the difficult but extraordinary evolution of acceptance, understanding and support for the LGBT community globally. In recognition of the work still to be done to support our current and future generations of LGBT youth in living proud and safe lives in a tolerant world, he is extremely honored to serve as a Producer of the GMCLA’s it gets better. He dedicates his participation in loving memory of his proud gay brother and wonderful man, the late Scott Laurus Fisher. Matthew Jenner, Producer Matthew is one of it gets better’s Kickstarter superstars who helped fund this project in memory of Matthew Shepard. Jimmy Nguyen, Creative Producer Jimmy is a prominent entertainment and digital media lawyer, equal rights advocate, media commentator, and motivational speaker. In law, he is a partner at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP. At his website www. JimmyWin.com Jimmy comments about politics, culture and life, while encouraging
everyone to SHINE. SPEAK. WIN. He also contributes to the Huffington Post, Advocate.com, FWDNation.com, and HelloGiggles.com. Jimmy was named to a 2012 Huffington Post list of the “Most Influential LGBT Asian Icons” and to Advocate Magazine’s 2010 “Forty Under 40” list of leading LGBT persons. Jimmy is cofounder of the American Readers Theater Association. He is thrilled to help bring it gets better to the stage. Dr. Joe Nadeau, GMCLA Artistic Director Joe Nadeau grew up in Bangor, Maine and in 1993 graduated from the University of Maine with a Bachelor of Music Degree in Music Education. In 1998, Joe became the artistic director and conductor of Heartland Men’s Chorus in Kansas City. During his fifteen years with HMC, Joe led the chorus in four international GALA festivals, performances (by invitation) at national Chorus America and American
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Choral Director’s (ACDA) conferences, a European Tour, and multiple collaborative performances with other GALA Choruses. Joe has Master’s and Doctoral degrees in choral conducting and regularly serves as guest speaker, presenter, clinician, and conductor for regional, state, and national conferences and music festivals. He has taught at every educational level from pre-K through college. Christopher Verdugo, GMCLA Executive Director Christopher was introduced to the gay choral movement at the early age of 18 when he joined the Gay Men’s Chorus of South Florida. Three years later he was made Artistic Director of Paragon Productions, producing theatrical productions for cruise lines and hotels throughout the world. Upon moving to Los Angeles in 2003, he continued his nonprofit career with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, developing their Southwest region major donor and event departments. In 2006, Chris became the Deputy Director of Development for Equality California (EQCA) before going out on his own in early 2009 with Chris Verdugo Presents, a fundraising and event consulting firm that worked with such notable nonprofit organizations as Human Rights Campaign, GLAAD, Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles and EQCA, among others. In July 2011, he formally joined GMCLA as Director of Development and Marketing and recently assumed the role of Executive Director. The It Gets Better Project™ was founded in September 2010, when the first It Gets Better video was uploaded to YouTube, igniting a worldwide phenomenon. That video offered a desperately needed message of hope to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender 10
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(LGBT) youth. It urged them to tough it out through the bullying and other challenges that confronted them in their teenage years, and described the positive future they could experience as adults. It told them that no matter how difficult things may be today, “it gets better.” Today, the mission of the It Gets Better Project is to communicate to LGBT youth around the world that it gets better, and to help effect the changes necessary to make it so. The team at the It Gets Better Project is thrilled to collaborate with the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles in bringing the It Gets Better message to the stage. AT&T In 1979, AT&T, then PacBell, made a contribution to the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles (GMCLA) which allowed the organization to incorporate and begin its rich tradition of bringing musical excellence to the Los Angeles community. Then and now, AT&T is proud to support GMCLA and the musical talent and education they enrich our community with. In 2010, AT&T supported GMCLA’s Alive Music Project – AMP – the unique education program which reaches thousands of students at L.A.-area schools and colleges. Today, AT&T is especially proud to support GMCLA’s it gets better – The Theater Tour. This moving and innovative tour will bring the experience and message of the online It Gets Better Project™ to new communities and audiences by blending music, theater, and multimedia into a new work for the stage. AT&T’s history of supporting GMCLA and other LGBT organizations is longstanding and reflects our commitment to serving and celebrating diverse communities. We celebrate GMCLA and wish them much success with the it gets better Tour and their 35th musical season.
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2013 • 7:30 PM
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Somebody to Love (Queen) Africa (Toto) Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You (Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons) I Have Nothing (Whitney Houston) Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen) Im Herbst (Johannes Brahms) Take On Me (A-ha) ---INTERMISSION--God Only Knows (Brian Wilson/The Beach Boys) Sister Rosetta (Allison Krause and Robert Plant) Hide and Seek (Imogen Heap) Jolene (Dolly Parton) Quartette - Ausgewahlte (Robert Schumann) Kiss From a Rose (Seal) Judas (Lady Gaga) Thriller (Michael Jackson)
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THE BRAMBLETT MEMORIAL CHAMBER SERIES The Bramblett Memorial Chamber Series was created in 1998 to honor the memory of our dear friend and colleague Jerry Earl Bramblett who served on the music department faculty from 1973-1994, the year he passed away. He was a vital force in the Music Department, not only throughout his many performances, but also in the musical excellence he expected from this students and from the department in general. As a solo pianist and chamber music collaborator, he presented over 300 recitals on campus, as well as throughout Wisconsin and elsewhere in the U.S. A dedicated teacher, he was greatly respected by his students. To those of us who knew and heard Jerry perform, it was when he was performing in the chamber music setting that his true genius as an artist was realized. With Jerry’s dedication and artistry as our inspiration, the series seeks to actively promote and bring high-level chamber music to the campus to enrich the cultural environment of the University and the community. Former chancellor Greenhill wrote: “He was a vigorous performer, teacher and scholar whose energies and musicianship provided a model of professionalism for his students.” BR AMBLET T CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES DONORS 12-13 Samaritan John & Sandra Heyer Advocate Robert & Marion Burrows Ed & Kay Drexler Ann Bramblett Fowler David & Kathy Granum H. Gaylon & Hannah Greenhill Richard & Kathy Haven Frank Hanson & Linda Kimball Geraldine & Robert Jennings Milo & Joan Jones Carole Scharinger
Richard & Ruth Schauer Betty Schoonover Chuck & Barb Taylor Dean & Shirley Taylor Richard & Veronica Telfer Karen Wilberg Donor Dennis & Margaret Rohrs Friend Lynn & Cheryl Binnie Rollin & Nancy Cooper M. Virginia Epps
Rick & Jeanine Fassl Frank & Carolyn Ferriano Glenn & Christine Hayes Mary Godfrey Ken Kohberger Richard & Judy Owens Gordon & Helen Parks Susan & Thomas Stanley Miles A. & Nancy Stejskal Carleen & Arthur VanderKoy Robert Wright & Elizabeth AsherLowell & Maureen Youngs
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ABOUT GENGHIS BARBIE GENGHIS BARBIE, the leading post post-feminist feminist all-female horn experience, is the most innovative and energizing chamber ensemble of its generation and beyond. With a combined 24 years of conservatory training, Genghis Barbie delivers to you a visceral and unadulterated musical adventure. Performing arrangements of pop music from the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s, 00’s and today, they are the most versatile and expansive group on NYC’s classical/pop/rock/jazz/ indie/alternative/punk/electro-acoustic scene. Genghis Barbie was incepted in a unique moment of ingenuity when Freedom Barbie, Cosmic Barbie, Velvet Barbie and Attila the Horn converged and vowed to create distinctive, interactive and personal performances. In May 2012, they premiered a new concerto for four horns, commissioned by the New
York Youth Symphony, in Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall. Genghis Barbie also appeared as Contributing Artists at the 2011 International Horn Society Symposium in San Francisco, performed Schumann’s Konzertstuck with the Southern Methodist University Wind Ensemble, and were featured guests at the 2012 International Women’s Brass Conference. As educators, they have toured numerous universities, presenting workshops, masterclasses and lectures on musical entrepreneurship. They have released four studio albums: the self-titled debut album, Genghis Barbie: Home for the Holidays, Genghis Baby: Songs for Noa, and most recently, Genghis Barbie: Amp It Up! Genghis Barbie is sponsored by Siegfried’s Call, and performs and records exclusively on Dieter Otto horns.
GENGHIS BARBIE BIOGR APHIES Praised by the New York Times for her “consistently beautiful horn playing”, Alana Vegter, aka Freedom Barbie, is a graduate of The Juilliard School in New York where she currently resides and actively performs. Alana was most recently a fellow of The Academy—A Program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and the Weill Music Institute. To this end, Vegter continues to regularly perform chamber music at Carnegie Hall. Her two-year fellowship was chronicled in a full length New York Times article in June of 2009. Highlights from her fellowship include the Carnegie Hall premiere of the Ligeti Horn Trio and a professional concert residency at The Niemeyer Cultural Center in Asturias, Spain. Vegter received her Bachelors of Music from DePaul University in the studio of Jon Boen and her Masters of Music from the Juilliard School under the tutelage of Julie Landsman. She concertizes worldwide in both chamber and orchestral settings, and performs regularly with her woodwind quintet, Sospiro Winds, The Jupiter 14
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Chamber Players, and The Metropolis Ensemble. In addition, she has played with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, The Orchestra of St. Luke’s, The Knights Chamber Orchestra, International Contemporary Ensemble, and CityMusic Cleveland. She has performed in both orchestral and chamber music settings with the Spoleto Festival USA, Pacific Music Festival (Japan), Chamber Music Northwest (Portland, Oregon), Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany), The Verbier Festival Orchestra, The Juilliard Orchestra, and The Aspen Music Festival. Rachel Drehmann, aka Attila the Horn, earned a Bachelor of Music from the University of Minnesota studying with Wayne Lu and Charles Kavalovski, as well as a Masters of Music from Manhattan School with Jerome Ashby. Rachel has performed as Principal horn of the National Symphony of the Dominican Republic and with the Santo Domingo Music Festival Orchestra. She performed Ligeti’s Horn Trio at the Hungararian
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Cultural Institute in 2008 and was the solo horn in Shakespeare in the Park’s Euripides’ ‘The Bacchae’ in 2009. She is a member of Tilt Creative Brass Band, Banda de Los Muertos, Chamber Orchestra of New York and a former member of the indie rock band A Whisper In The Noise. As a soloist, Rachel has performed Strauss’ Horn Concerto No. 1 with the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra, and through the IHS Meir Rimon Commissioning Fund, commissioned and premiered a piece by John Clark. As an active NYC freelancer, she has performed with orchestras such as American Symphony Orchestra, Albany Symphony, Northeast Pennsylvania Philharmonic, The Knights, Metropolis Ensemble and subbed on numerous Broadway shows. Most recently, she is working with Ann Ellsworth performing a series of Baroque concertos for two soprano horns. Along with her busy performing schedule, she also enjoys managing NYC’s Salchow & Sons Bowmaking shop. Leelanee Sterrett, aka Cosmic Barbie, is a Northern Michigan native and grew up in a musically enthusiastic family. After attending Interlochen Arts Academy, she earned degrees from the University of WisconsinMadison, as a student of Douglas Hill, and the Yale School of Music, with William Purvis. In June 2013, Leelanee joined the New York Philharmonic as Assistant Principal and Utility Horn. She has also been a member of the New New Haven Symphony and the La Crosse and Fox Valley Symphonies in Wisconsin, and has spent summers at the Tanglewood Music Center, the Pacific and Sarasota Music festivals, and the National Orchestral Institute. From 2010 to 2012, Leelanee was a fellow of The Academy—a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and the Weill Music Institute in partnership with the New York City Department of Education. During her time as a fellow, Leelanee performed regularly on the stages of Carnegie Hall and at venues such as (Le) Poisson Rouge and
The Greene Space, but also in numerous public school auditoriums and community centers throughout the five boroughs. She also worked closely with elementary school students in Queens, bringing professionallevel performance and pedagogy to young audiences beyond the traditional concert hall. Leelanee enjoys life in Brooklyn with her husband Joe, an electric bassist, tuba player and all-around rockstar. Laura Weiner, aka Alpine Barbie, is an enthusiastic performer, teacher, and artistic ambassador committed to sharing her music with any and all. As the horn player for The Academy/ Ensemble ACJW, she performs regularly at Carnegie Hall, the Juilliard School, and neighborhood locales all across New York City. She was a featured soloist in Messaien’s Des canyons aux étoiles... last season at Zankel Hall for which she received rave reviews. Laura has performed with musical groups as diverse as the New World Symphony, Argento Chamber Ensemble, and Madison Bach Musicians. She has been a member of the LaCrosse and Beloit symphony orchestras in Wisconsin, and has been awarded fellowships at the Norfolk Chamber Festival, Colorado College Summer Festival, Texas Music Festival, and American Institute of Musical Studies in Austria. She received her bachelor’s degree summa cum laude from Northwestern University and her master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison on a University Fellowship. Her principal teachers include Gail Williams, Douglas Hill, Daniel Grabois, and William Barnewitz. Laura is also a teaching artist at a high school in Queens and performs with the New York Philharmonic Teaching Artists as part of their School Partnership Program. In her free time, she climbs mountains (obviously) and practices Tae Kwon Do.
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