Artistic Personnel

Since 2001, Dave Schroeder’s main musical focus has been leading the eclectic ensemble, Combo Nuvo, (www.combonuvo.com) where he displays his skills on multiple woodwinds and composition. With Combo Nuvo, Schroeder has performed with a variety of international orchestras from the Costa Rica National Symphony to the United Arab Emirates Philharmonic in Abu Dhabi. He has also performed with a wide array of artists including Teo Macero, Larry Coryell, Airto Moreira, Lee Konitz, Don Friedman, Kenny Werner, Gil Goldstein, and Lenny Pickett. Schroeder has produced a variety of arts programs including the NYU Jazz Master Class DVD Series, the Barnes & Noble Jazz Interview Series and he is currently producing a series for television called Jazz From Greenwich Village. As director of Jazz Studies at New York University, Schroeder has developed an inspired and internationally recognized program of study whose students and faculty can be found performing around the globe on any given day.

Allan Greene was born in 1955, the Year of the Sheep in the Chinese calendar. Some claim that this means he has a special sensitivity to art and beauty, which might explain how he ended up working with dancers. Of course, 1955 was also the year that President Eisenhower suffered a coronary thrombosis and Elvis Presley made his first TV appearance. That might explain his special sensitivity to classical music. But enough about me. What do you think of artist bios, anyway? How many guest appearances in The Nutcracker or on Law and Order do we really need to know about? Here’s something interesting: I worked with Agnes de Mille when was setting Fall River Legend on Dance Theater of Harlem. After she died, I was hired to help some of her legendary dancers and her personal assistants from her Broadway years reconstruct lost choreography from the 40’s and 50’s. It was something of a mess, being that Ms. de Mille’s way of creating dances was, one might say, highly intuitive. And I worked as an architect for a few years, but ended up pigeonholed as a computer maven, which was not where I wanted to be, so I went back to being a musician. Years later after my first son was placed in a New York City schools program for kids with Asperger’s Syndrome, and then my second son was, too, did I suspect that acorn doesn’t fall far from tree. Which is why for my entire life as a composer I’ve been trying to compose music that reflects in sound my jumbled experiences. I hope you enjoy the results.

Growing up in a musical family outside of Boston, Peter learned to love classical masterpieces from his mother’s piano and movie musicals from his father’s Betamax machine. On his tenth birthday, shortly after beginning the saxophone, his grandfather introduced him to jazz and he never looked back. Boston’s rich jazz tradition afforded him access to the tutelage of saxophone giants like Joe Viola, Jerry Bergonzi, and Antonio Hart, and also allowed him to come of age with the current generation of jazz leaders who came to study at Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory. After attending Berklee in the mid-1990′s, Peter embarked on a unique path that has melded a career in the nonprofit, government, and legal world with his passion for jazz. Earning a degree in political science from Drew University, Peter then served in Americorps in Paterson, New Jersey, where he founded a community jazz program that emphasized instrumental and improvisation education for young people from low-income households. Peter earned his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania and was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar, working as a judicial clerk and freelancing on federal civil rights cases. During this time he continued to work on behalf of the arts and music community, serving as a board member at the Sedgwick Cultural Center and helping to coordinate a “jazz for teens” program in Philadelphia’s Mount Airy neighborhood. He also began a long musical association with Philadelphia guitar legend Steve Giordano, recording three albums as a member of Giordano’s ensemble: Sea Dreams (2004), Utopia (2006), and Timeline (2008). As Peter’s teaching and performing practice grew, he moved to New York City in 2008 where he combined his musicianship with his legal training and fundraising experience, working closely with numerous jazz artists to navigate the world of grant-writing and project management. He now works as a Program Officer at New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), running artist education and grant programs, as well as international exchanges for musicians. In the summer of 2010, he co-led a jazz cultural diplomacy tour to Latvia with trumpet great Brian Lynch. The trip was co-sponsored by the U.S. State Department, NYFA, and NYU Jazz where Peter is earning a Master’s in Jazz Performance. He continues to live, work, and teach jazz in New York City.

Avner Finberg is an Israeli-American composer and violinist. He had performances of his music by Meitar ensemble, ensemble mise-en, The Mannes Orchestra, Manhattan School of Music Philharmonic, ensemble Platupus Wien, American Opera Projects, and he represented Israel at the ISCM New Music Days 2013 in Vienna, Austria. He is a doctoral candidate at Manhattan School of Music. He studied violin at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and played in the Israel Philharmonic and Shleswig-Holstein Music Festival in Germany. He will present his first opera, “A Spritzer from Hell”, on April 23rd, 2015 at Manhattan School of Music. Website: www.avnerfinbergmusic.com

Marlon Cherry is a multi-instrumentalist/composer who performs and creates for various music projects, dance, film, and theater. He is a staff accompanist at The Paul Taylor School and Barnard College and has worked with choreographers/dancers, Amy Marshall, Caitlin Trainor, Wendy Perron, Gus Solomons Jr., and Bill Irwin, performance artist, Penny Arcade, directors, Jonathan Demme, Abel Ferrara, & Spike Lee. His first two solo releases, “Life After Theatre” and “Pete” were reissued in 2017 on the OSR Tapes label as a single compilation cd and his releases”Elsewhere” and “Ancient Sound, Modern Dance” are available on iTunes, Spotify, and cdbaby.

Dr. Youngmi Ha is a faculty in Music Theory and Composition program at New York University since 2000. She has served as a composition program advisor, co-founder/music director of NYU’s summer program IMPACT, and president of non-profit organization TheArtsandMore, Inc.where promotes and researches all arts through educational programs. She earned her MA and Ph.D in music composition from New York University and her music has been widely performed in the States as well as Korea and she has three CDs published. Currently, she has been focusing on working with dancers, video artists and literature including children’s books.

Shem Guibbory started to play as a substitute in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra at the age of 21, sitting on the last stand of the 1st violin section for a performance of Strauss’ Die Frau Ohne Schattenwith Karl Böhm conducting.  Since then, he has been privileged to be a part of hundreds of amazing performances. Throughout his career, Mr. Guibbory has explored ways in which music combines with other disciplines.  This exploration is influenced by opera, no doubt, as well as by his early training at CalArts where the intrinsic unity between all the arts is viewed as a fundamental. With Director Margaret Booker and playwright Robert Schenkkan he has created a new music/theater work A Night at the Alhambra Café (2010) and is currently developing another work entitled Accidental Heroes. Mr. Guibbory’s personal recording credits include solo and chamber music on ECM, Gramavision, Opus 1, DG, Albany, Bridge, MSR Classics and CRI.  He has performed as a soloist with a number of fine orchestras including the New York Philharmonic.  For over three decades he has served as a faculty member of the Chamber Music Conference and Composers’ Forum of the East, serving as their Music Director for nine consecutive seasons.  Some other credits include a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship to Bellagio and two ASCAP-CMA Adventurous Programming Awards.  He is also proud to serve the professional musicians’ community as a Board member of the Recording Musicians’ Association (RMA), NY Chapter.  During his career at the Met, some outstanding highlights that carved themselves into his ear include Fidelio with John Vickers and Eva Marton, conducted by Klaus Tennstedt; Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen with James Levine (especially the Deutsche Grammophon recording of Götterdämmerung); La Gioconda, Un Ballo in Maschera and Lohengrin conducted by Giuseppe Patané; Cosí fan Tutte and Der Rosenkavalier with Kiri Te Kanawa, Kathleen Battle and James Levine; Neeme Järvi conducting some of his first performances after leaving Estonia – Boris Godunov, Khovanschina and Eugene Onegin; Puccini and Verdi with the amazing Nello Santi; and close to three decades wherein it seemed that either Pavarotti or Domingo astonished everyone at least once a week!  More recent memorable performances include Pélleas et Mélisande with Simon Rattle, Die Walküre with Donald Runnicles, Rodelinda with Harry Bicket, Tristan und Isolde with Daniel Barenboim and Parsifal with Daniele Gatti. Shem Guibbory started to play as a substitute in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra at the age of 21, sitting on the last stand of the 1st violin section for a performance of Strauss’ Die Frau Ohne Schattenwith Karl Böhm conducting.  Since then, he has been privileged to be a part of hundreds of amazing performances. Throughout his career, Mr. Guibbory has explored ways in which music combines with other disciplines.  This exploration is influenced by opera, no doubt, as well as by his early training at CalArts where the intrinsic unity between all the arts is viewed as a fundamental. With Director Margaret Booker and playwright Robert Schenkkan he has created a new music/theater work A Night at the Alhambra Café (2010) and is currently developing another work entitled Accidental Heroes. Mr. Guibbory’s personal recording credits include solo and chamber music on ECM, Gramavision, Opus 1, DG, Albany, Bridge, MSR Classics and CRI.  He has performed as a soloist with a number of fine orchestras including the New York Philharmonic.  For over three decades he has served as a faculty member of the Chamber Music Conference and Composers’ Forum of the East, serving as their Music Director for nine consecutive seasons.  Some other credits include a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship to Bellagio and two ASCAP-CMA Adventurous Programming Awards.  He is also proud to serve the professional musicians’ community as a Board member of the Recording Musicians’ Association (RMA), NY Chapter.  During his career at the Met, some outstanding highlights that carved themselves into his ear include Fidelio with John Vickers and Eva Marton, conducted by Klaus Tennstedt; Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen with James Levine (especially the Deutsche Grammophon recording of Götterdämmerung); La Gioconda, Un Ballo in Maschera and Lohengrin conducted by Giuseppe Patané; Cosí fan Tutte and Der Rosenkavalier with Kiri Te Kanawa, Kathleen Battle and James Levine; Neeme Järvi conducting some of his first performances after leaving Estonia – Boris Godunov, Khovanschina and Eugene Onegin; Puccini and Verdi with the amazing Nello Santi; and close to three decades wherein it seemed that either Pavarotti or Domingo astonished everyone at least once a week!  More recent memorable performances include Pélleas et Mélisande with Simon Rattle, Die Walküre with Donald Runnicles, Rodelinda with Harry Bicket, Tristan und Isolde with Daniel Barenboim and Parsifal with Daniele Gatti.

Stanislav Fridman was born in Kiev, Ukraine, where he began his piano and music composition studies. In 2000, Stanislav immigrated to Israel where he graduated with honors from The Conservatory of Petah Tikwa. During his studies in Israel, Stanislav was a recipient of The Cultural Foundation America-Israel scholarship for eight years in a row. Stanislav has appeared in many solo recitals, chamber music performances and presented his own works in many cities in Israel, such as Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, Raanana and Petah Tikva. Stanislav has received his Bachelor degree from Mannes College of Music in New York, where he is also currently pursuing his Masters degree. Stanislav is very active in the New York City music scene, and has appeared in many concerts as a chamber musician, as well as the principle orchestral pianist of the Mannes Orchestra in major venues such as Stern Auditorium and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Skirball Center at NYU, Center for Jewish History and Mannes College Concert Hall. Stanislav’s latest composition “Nostalgia and Forthcoming” for solo piano was recorded at Patrych Recording Studios and is now a part of the CD Musical Journeys – Through the Jewish Diaspora (2015). Stanislav has maintained a private studio for many years in Israel and New York and is now currently on the faculty of the 92nd Street Y School of Music.

Composer and pianist Jonathan Howard Katz is gaining increasing recognition for the unique immediacy and expressive depth of his music, which speaks to audiences and performers alike. Harnessing this intuitive grasp of communication, combined with a rigorous technical command, he has developed a strong artistic voice that is recognizable through a diverse body of work. Current projects include a commission from pianists Ursula Oppens and Jerome Lowenthal for a new four-hand work, plus new works with Periapsis Music and Dance. The spring of 2018 saw the premiere of his first string quartet, commissioned by choreographer Sarah Berges, with Sarah Berges Dance and the Mivos Quartet, and the premiere of Epoch, with choreographer Erin Dillon and Periapsis Music and Dance, supported by a commissioning grant from the O’Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation. Recent seasons featured premiere performances of Europa, a solo piano work commissioned by Winston Choi with a grant from New Music USA, in Chicago, New York, Orléans (France), Tallahassee, and Bloomington (Indiana); a debut performance at Jacob’s Pillow Dance; and numerous performances in New York. Additional commissions have included the Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundation, Concert Artists Guild, and others. Dr. Katz’s music has been performed by the Da Capo Chamber Players, Cygnus Ensemble, Ensemble Pi, Alia Musica Pittsburgh, pianist Daria Rabotkina, violinists Ari Streisfeld and Caroline Chin, flutist Linda Wetherill, tenors Chris Lysack and Nils Neubert, soprano Mary Mackenzie, and others. In February 2014, he conducted the premiere of his chamber ballet Laid upon the children on the Music of Now Marathon at Symphony Space, and in January 2015 he presented Trace at the Festival of New Music at Florida State University. One of Dr. Katz’s major artistic interests has been developing collaborations with choreographers and dancers in which the music is equal to the movement in importance and intricacy, and to date he has composed over a dozen works for dance in collaboration with nine choreographers. Recent collaborators include Seán Curran, Manuel Vignoulle, Katarzyna Skarpetowska, and Periapsis Music and Dance’s residents Erin Dillon and Hannah Weber. He is the artistic director and cofounder of Periapsis Music and Dance, curates the Periapsis Open Series in New York City, has taught music workshops and classes at the Peridance Capezio Center, and served as an adjunct teacher in the dance department at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Dr. Katz holds degrees in piano performance from Indiana University, New England Conservatory, and Northwestern University. It was during his time in the Doctor of Music program at Northwestern that he returned to composition after a hiatus of over a decade, and recognition came immediately. He advanced in multiple international competitions, winning the Robert Helps Prize in 2010 for his song cycle Talking of Michelangelo. In 2011, he became one of the last people to receive the coveted Jacob K. Javits Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Education, which funded his composition studies in New York for four years and was worth over $150,000. Dr. Katz studied composition primarily with Jason Eckardt and Tania León at the CUNY Graduate Center. His principal piano teachers were Ursula Oppens, Gabriel Chodos, and Edward Auer. For more information, please visit jonathanhowardkatz.com.

Pianist Eunbi Kim (pronounced OOn-bee, like book) is creating new ways of experiencing concert music as a performer, speaker, and arts advocate. Through these avenues, Kim shapes the concert experience on and off the stage by seeking interdisciplinary collaborations, commissioning new works, and mentoring the next generation. Her adventurous performances are characterized by their vividly personal themes ranging from dreams to mental illness to familial memories to finding meaning within life. For her efforts, Kim has received international recognition on television and in print, including from the BBC, I Care If You Listen, the Houston Chronicle, The Japan Times, and NHK Television. In 2017, she released her debut album, A House of Many Rooms: New Concert Music by Fred Hersch on Albany Records. The album features a collection of premiere recordings of relatively unknown contemporary classical works by the luminary jazz composer. The album was celebrated as “superb” by textura Magazine and by Mainly Piano as “an impressive debut [of] skill, heart, and technique”. Always looking to create innovative new work, Kim collaborates regularly with some of today’s leading composers. She has subsequently become one of contemporary music’s most sought after performers, having performed Daniel Bernard Roumain’s (DBR) dedicated work “It Feels Like a Mountain, Chasing Me,” over 50 times across the United States, including its premiere at The Kennedy Center. Other performances of her unconventional and immersive performance concepts have been presented at The Kennedy Center, 92nd Street Y, Asia Society Texas Center, le poisson rouge, Korean Cultural Center NY, the PianoForte Foundation, Georgetown University, Bennington College, and many more. Kim is most known as the creator, performer, and producer of Murakami Music, a music-theater work inspired by the novels of Haruki Murakami. Murakami Music enjoyed multiple sold-out performances, garnering national and international press, and enjoyed a featured appearance within an official NHK documentary on the acclaimed author. As a result of the critical and commercial success of the production, Kim is recognized as an expert on Murakami’s use of music in his novels, regularly receiving invitations to speak at numerous media outlets, universities, and academic journals, including Pace University, NHK, Hazlitt, TV Tokyo, and many more. After being one of only 50 artists selected for the New York Foundation for the Arts’ 2012 “Artist as Entrepreneur” program, Kim has developed equal focus to creating impact off the stage. In 2018, Kim launched bespoken alongside co-founder Gina Izzo. bespoken is a music mentorship program providing mentorship, workshops, and strategies to elevate the visibility of women in the classical, contemporary, and jazz industries. The program provides female musicians with the necessary tools and leadership skills to create rewarding careers, develop their creative and artistic visions, while helping them navigate challenges they may face in the industry. Outside bespoken, Kim is often recognized for her advocacy and entrepreneurial leadership. She is invited to be a speaker, mentor, and coach at organizations and institutions, including the Chamber Music America National Conference, the Asian-American Arts Alliance, the Manhattan School of Music, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and New Music Gathering. Her 2017 TEDx talk, “Performing Through Fear,” discusses conquering performance anxiety through learning to trust. Originally from Maryland, Eunbi Kim is based in New York City. She holds a Master of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music, where she also held a coveted fellowship in the institution’s Center for Music Entrepreneurship. She is grateful to her former and current teachers, Elena Arseniev and Anthony de Mare respectively

A passionate and creative performer, Kate Amrine is a prominent trumpet player balancing a multifaceted career from developing new repertoire and curating concerts to freelancing with many different groups in the New York City area. Recent performances include Vivaldi’s Double Trumpet concerto, a 10 week off broadway run of Alice by Heart, and premiering new pieces for trumpet and clarinet with her newest group Spark Duo. She is extremely dedicated to commissioning and performing new music, premiering over 30 pieces both as a soloist and a chamber musician. Kate also frequently performs on Broadway and in other regional musical theater productions both in and outside of the NYC area. As an educator, Kate enjoys teaching private trumpet lessons in her own studio and serves as an Adjunct Instructor at New York University.

Cellist Jessica Wang is an active performer with a wide array of musical interests and experience, spanning classical orchestras to rock & jazz bands to Broadway pits. With various ensembles, she has performed at many distinguished venues including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, NJPAC, the Santa Barbara Bowl, the Naumburg Bandshell, Feinstein’s/54 Below and NBC Studios. In 2017-2018, Jessica toured the country on the first national Broadway tour of An American in Paris, performing in 24 different cities. She has also performed in the Off-Broadway productions of We’re Only Alive for A Short Amount of Time at the Public Theater and Pericles at the Theatre for a New Audience. TV appearances include Mozart in the Jungle and Saturday Night Live with musical guest, Shawn Mendes. Jessica holds a B.A. in psychology from Harvard College and an M.M. in cello performance from The Juilliard School.

TENTH INTERVENTION, under the direction of Dorian Wallace and Hajnal Pivnick, is a troupe of traditional and contemporary musicians based in New York City committed to presenting established repertoire alongside new compositions in alternative settings, employing unique delivery, and challenging the standard expectation of the classical music concert. The primary goal of TENTH INTERVENTION is to expand and stretch the concept of the classical concert. We bring together genres of music within the classical realm and present them to familiar and new audiences. Dorian Wallace is a composer, pianist, internet personality, writer, and teacher. He has a broad musical palette, composing for traditional small and large ensembles, free improvisation, jazz, electronic and rock. He is Co-Artistic Director/Founder of TENTH INTERVENTION and Trystero as well as Artistic Director of Dorian Wallace and His Big Band. Wallace plays piano and keyboard in jam band, Ammo Cake. Wallace is currently Host/Creator/Writer for Impulse Control, a web series/blog that introduces a world of artists, entertainers, and interesting folks famous in their niche. Hajnal Karman Pivnick, violinist from Memphis, Tennessee, graduated with university honors from Carnegie Mellon University School of Music with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music, studying with Andrés Cárdenes, and received her Master’s in Music from the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary, with Eszter Perényi. She has participated in festivals in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, as well as throughout the United States. She has performed under the batons of Zoltan Kocsis, Jeanne Lamon, Michael Stern, Sir Andrew Davis, Michael Gilbert and Peter Oundjian with numerous ensembles, including the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, IRIS Orchestra, Liszt Academy of Music Orchestra, Opera Theater of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon Baroque Ensemble, and the Hungarian New Music Chamber Ensemble. Hajnal is a member of the violin faculty at the Interlochen Arts Camp, where she teaches privately and coaches chamber ensembles.

DORIAN WALLACE is a composer, pianist, teacher, and activist whose work often explores socio-political issues such as class consciousness, the unconscious experience, and is highly critical of authoritarianism, capitalism, dogmatism, censorship, and oppression. He is the co-founding artistic director of progressive and socially conscious new music collective TENTH INTERVENTION and bandleader of the improvisational septendectet The Free Sound Ahn-somble, both based in New York City. He has collaborated with artists such as Nicholas Finch, NouLou Chamber Players, Paul Pinto, Charlotte Mundy, Pamela Z, Frank London, Experiments In Opera, Ensemble Interactivo de La Habana – EIH, Composers Concordance, Periapsis Music and Dance, Robert Ashley, Seneca Black, Matt Marks, RIOULT Dance, Alison Cook Beatty Dance, Kensaku Shinohara, and John Sanborn. Mr. Wallace’s work (individually and collectively) has been presented as a featured artist at National Sawdust, NPR’s Science Friday, Rubin Museum of Art, The Greene Space at WNYC & WQXR, Pompidou Centre, Palais Jacques Coeur, The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Casa de las Américas La Habana, Cuba, Americas Society, New Music USA, Lower Manhattan Community Council, the Earle Brown Music Foundation, the Johnstone Fund for New Music, the Puffin Foundation, Caveat, New Music Gathering, Universidad de Costa Rica, Interlochen Public Radio, New York University’s Precarious Sounds // Sounding Sanctuary conference, and the 2018-19 Composer-in-residence with Exploring the Metropolis. He works extensively as a dance accompanist at Martha Graham Dance Company, Barnard College of Columbia University, Juilliard, Doug Varone and Dancers, and Interlochen Center for the Arts. He is a teaching artist with The Mark Morris Dance Accompaniment Training Program. Having recently completed his studies in music therapy at Montclair State University, Mr. Wallace will begin an internship at Mount Sinai Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine this fall. www.dorianwallace.com

Hajnal Pivnick is a member of TENTH INTERVENTION. Hajnal has performed in MAHWAY: Spring Eternal 2019 with Alison Cook Beatty Dance.

Lynn Bechtold is a member of TENTH INTERVENTION. Lynn has performed in MAHWAY: Spring Eternal 2019 with Alison Cook Beatty Dance.

Carrie Frey is a member of TENTH INTERVENTION. Carrie has performed in MAHWAY: Spring Eternal 2019 with Alison Cook Beatty Dance.

Sam Bae is a member of TENTH INTERVENTION. Sam has performed in MAHWAY: Spring Eternal 2019 and TOUCHED BY FIRE with Alison Cook Beatty Dance.

Borah Hahn is a member of TENTH INTERVENTION. Borah has performed in MAHWAY: Spring Eternal 2019 with Alison Cook Beatty Dance.

Mioi Takeda is a member of TENTH INTERVENTION. Mioi has performed in MAHWAY: Spring Eternal 2019 with Alison Cook Beatty Dance.

Ellery Traford is a member of TENTH INTERVENTION. Ellery has performed in MAHWAY: Spring Eternal 2019 with Alison Cook Beatty Dance.

Nicolle Bennett is a photographer, educator and arts administrator specializing in dance, event and documentary photography. A trained modern dancer, her images seek to capture authentic moments and movement, revolving around interactions between people and their environments. She holds an M.A. from New York University, and is a National Art Strategies fellow interested in the intersections between art and social change. Her photographs have been shown in Soho Photo Gallery, Cornell University, See.Me gallery and Times Square.

Lucas Chilczuk was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and immigrated to the United States shortly after high school. He attended Pasadena City College and California State University, Los Angeles, where he ultimately received a degree in art history. Although Lucas was introduced to photography by his grandfather, an amateur Ukrainian photographer living in Argentina, it was during college that Lucas really honed his skills. Under the direction of Esteban Ignatczyk—a photographer for the Latin Music Industry—Lucas learned the ways of the studio. Lucas’ first independent series, entitled “Beautiful Junk,” celebrates the Mojave desert, ghost towns, and abandoned modes of transportation. This series, which uses the technique known as “painting with light,” harks back to Lucas’ longtime fascination with aviation. In Argentina, Lucas’ family lived near an airbase, and family friends working on the base would often allow him to join them on short flights. “Beautiful Junk” was exhibited at three galleries in Los Angeles, California. More recently, Lucas’ work focuses on dancers, a subject he took interest in while his wife, an art historian, was writing a doctoral dissertation on Renaissance dance and painting. Whereas in California Lucas saw the landscape refracted through the lens of vehicular transportation, the urban fabric of New York increasingly became for him a landscape defined by corporeal movement. Lucas maintains equal interest in critically acclaimed companies, emerging companies, and freelance dancers—unsung heroes who tirelessly give themselves to an art that courses through the veins of New York City. When not running from studios to rehearsals, Lucas can be found walking his dog Layla through Fort Tryon Park or exploring the streets of Rome, a city he holds very close to his heart. To see Lucas’s work visit www.lucasch.com or www.facebook.com/LucaschPhoto

Website: http://tristanpope.com. Currently I focus on shooting high fashion and dance. I love combining industry standards with the motion and energy of a professional dancer, be it a ballerina or contemporary. It brings me back to my theatre major days where I was more comfortable in the green room than in a classroom. I am convinced that the model world is backwards. The strength and beauty of the dancers I have worked with is out of this world. The energy alone they bring to a shoot is more than I could ever ask for. They really prove what I have always believed; that beauty is inside, passion, character, and hard work! This all equates to natural beauty, something overlooked too much in a Photoshop imbued world. Photography to me is about capturing a moment in time filled with the emotion and character of the person in front of me. People often ask me “Is it fun to shoot pretty girls” and I always wince. That is not what photography is for me. Male, Female, young and old, it is so much about capturing an expression, a breadth of air, rather than just a pretty face. Working with people open to themselves and working to get them to open to me and an open space that is both scary and exhilarating, is why I shoot, it is why I am a photographer and director. It is that interaction that makes it fun. It is that hour of makeup and first look where I am more interested in getting to know you as much as possible to really be able to capture that moment, on that day, of who you are, that excites me. It is challenging and invigorating.

Craig Feder, a graduate of Princeton University with a degree in Sociology, also began his interest in dance photography there as the photographer for their Expressions dance company. He has studied film and photography at UC Berkeley, NYU, and at the International Center of Photography. For ten years he worked at Wilhelmina Models, NY doing editorial style portraits for model portfolios. While working as a publicist for the Joyce Theatre early in his career he had the chance to photograph many rehearsals and performances by world class dance companies, which led to his creation of the Urban Dance Photo Project. His photographic style is directly related to his interest in Sociology and Documentary Film. His portraits capture the inherent personality of his subjects by using a spontaneous style that gives the subject the freedom to be themselves. To this end, he prefers to utilize natural settings, exploiting aspects of natural light as much as possible. In the spring of 2012 his street photography was featured in the exhibition: “The New Yorker Exhibition” at the Istanbul Fotograf Muzesi, Turkey’s first museum dedicated solely to photography. Craig has also taught Digital Photography at the Montclair School of Adult Education in NJ. Craig is very excited to be working with a group of dancers who bring such a high level of skill and passion their work. Website: federfotography.zenfolio.com

A former New York City native, Marc Safran is a photographer and ophthalmologist living in Syracuse, NY. Outside his main gig, Safran spends much of his free time at his studio at the Delavan Center in the Armory section of Syracuse. His interests are diverse, but he is most drawn to shooting images of people — from portraiture to figure and dance. He has had works published by Cornell University and is a chief photographer for AMS Modeling Agency. Safran studied with Lois Greenfield in NYC and Allen Birnbach in Rejkevik, Iceland where he became enamored with dance and figure imagery. His contacts lead to a collaboration with Alison Cook Beatty Dance, with whom he has had a growing and productive relationship. His images can be found at www.marcsafan.com

A television editor by day, and photographer by night, Jerry M Guerrero hails from Los Angeles, Ca, where he attended Cal State University, Northridge. There, he earned his BA in Cinema and Television Arts. A few years after, he relocated to New York City for a new opportunity in television, all the while honing his skills in video and photography. His photography comprises mainly with his travels around the world and new places he discovers in the states.His video work entails personal projects ranging from short films to video profiles on local artists. In the end, his interest is rooted in the ever present pursuit of discovering the human experience though the lens of a camera. Some of his work can be seen at theilluminatedgaze.tumblr.com

I originally studied Fine Arts/Photography at Bolton College of Art & Design in the UK, before working mainly in promotional and editorial photography for the entertainment industry for many years. I am now working as a freelance photographer based in Forest Hills, New York and my main focus of interest is now in Performing Arts; Dance, Burlesque, Music and Theatre. I also have an ongoing personal project of documenting the people and places of New York City to give the viewer my perspective of life here in the Metropolis, most of which can be found here at www.russhaydn.com I am always looking to collaborate with creative people, particularly in the performing arts / dance arena. If you would like to work with me on a project or have something in mind, please contact me, it would be great to hear from you. My Dance, Burlesque, Music & Theatre work can be found here: Russell Haydn Photography (Performing Arts) My other social gallery listings can also be found here: About Me: Russell Haydn

ELLEN MAYNARD is a Brooklyn-based artist who specializes in the intersection of dance and film. She received a BFA in dance and video art from The Ohio State University. Her dance films have been shown at the Brooklyn Museum, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, and festivals including the International 60 Seconds Dance Film Festival, the 9th International Screendance Festival, the Third Coast Dance Film Festival, and Dance Film Association screenings. Ellen spends her summers as a videographer at the Bates Dance Festival.

Zoe Alexandra, a New York city born artist, has been designing and making clothing since 1997. She refined her craft at the Rudolf Steiner Waldorf School where she developed multiple hand crafting skills. She designed an abundance of costumes for the Antioch Area Theater, and in 2006, she worked at the San Francisco Mime Troupe as assistant to the costume designer. When she arrived back in NY she found Tango and began to design dance-wear. A dancer herself, Zoe’s talent is supported by her understanding of movement, character development and mise en scene.

Christine Darch designs for choreographers Julia Adam, Marc Brew, Val Caniparoli, Robert Dekkers, Jodie Gates, Edwaard Liang, Jae Man Joo, James Kudelka, Matthew Neenan, David Palmer, Gina Patterson, Brian Reeder, Dwight Rhoden, Amy Seiwert, and Merian Soto. She has been commissioned by Ballet Arizona, Ballet Memphis, Atlanta Ballet, Axis, Cincinnati Ballet, Colorado Ballet, Complexions, Diablo Ballet, Kansas City Ballet, Houston Ballet, Imagery, Israel Ballet, Madco, NCDT, Oregon Ballet Theater, Pennsylvania Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, Post:ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Smuin Ballet, and the Washington Ballet. New projects include a world premiere for Dwight Rhoden for Ballet Nice Méditerranée, a world premiere for Matthew Neenan with Ballet X, Imagery’s Sketch four series, and the debut of Julia Adam’s new company with The Boathouse Project in Inverness, CA. This is her first collaboration with Alison Cook Beatty Dance.

Adrienne Perry (Costume Designer) favorite design credits include: Pressing Matters (MBL Productions) and The Seagull, Julius Caesar (Atlantic Theater Acting School), Floyd Collins (STAGEright). She has assisted costume designer Christine Darch for Complexions, BalletX, Pennsylvania Ballet, and San Francisco Ballet. In 2011 she worked with Denise Vale and the Martha Graham Dance Company to create a new costume design for Steps In The Street, which was set on dancers in the Western Washington University Dance Department. She assisted on Dance Nation (Playwrights Horizons) and Fires In the Mirror (Signature Theater Company). She is an alum of the Juilliard School Professional Intern Program.

Ali Taghavi is a native of Iran and was raised and educated in England. Upon earning a degree in fashion and textiles from the University of Brighton, he relocated to New York, which he has called home for more than 20 years. His career as a design director spans numerous top brands, including Oscar de la Renta, Elie Tahari, and Jeffrey Banks, among others. In particular, his expertise in knitwear has allowed him to create successful knitwear collections for DKNY, Tommy Hilfiger, Express, and Nautica, among others. Thanks to his broad experience in both women’s and men’s fashions, Taghavi has also developed lasting relationships with mills, suppliers, and global garment manufacturers over the years.

Avery Lincoln (Principle Lighting Designer and Sound Engineer) is thrilled to be back in Milford for her third season with the Alison Cook Beatty Dance Company. Originally from Arizona, she graduated with a BA from University of California Davis in 2013. Some of her favorite credits include ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead’, ‘Dogs of War’, and ‘Frame 313’. Please visit averylincoln.com for more information.

Rachel Lewallen is a performance artist, writer, musician, audiovisual & lighting technician, fish monger, and production manager living in Providence, Rhode Island. She graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2013 with a B.A. in Performance Studies and is a SITI Company Viewpoints/Suzuki Method trained actor & director. Her work (currently under moniker, RRLEW) can be found largely undocumented throughout the east-coast underground. While stationed as the Production Manager for AS220’s Black Box Theatre during its 2016 Modern Movements Festival, Rachel had the immense pleasure of working with the Alison Cook Beatty Dance. It is with great joy that she re-joins the company to provide technical/production support for its performance series in Milford, Connecticut in August of 2016.

Zach a native of Beattie Kansas and received his MFA in Lighting Design from Ohio University. Zach’s Recent work includes Designing Company with the St. Bart’s Players. Zach Assisted Thom Weaver on Tom Stoppard’s US premiere of The Hard Problem. Assisted Michael Lincoln on Beth Henley’s World Premiere of Laugh. Zach has worked for the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts(PCPA) as their summer Assistant Lighting Designer. While attending PCPA Zach assisted Jennifer “Z” Zarnow and Michael Frohling. (My Fair Lady, Man of La Mancha, and Peter and the Starcatcher). Zach’s work has been seen at Ohio University in Athens OH. (The Penelopiad, bobrauschenbergamerica, Blood Knot, Crooked) The Monomoy Theatre in Chatham MA. (Kiss Me Kate, Blood Knot, 12th Night, The Man Who Came to Dinner). Seagle Music Colony (Roscoe, The Music Man, Elixir of Love The Most Happy Fella), Shawnee State University in Portsmouth OH (Evita and Of Thee I Sing). Zach would like to thank his parents for pushing and supporting him throughout his life.

TONY MARQUES is a freelance lighting designer and stage manager and has mainly worked in the field of dance. He has recently completed a 26 city, 9-week tour of China with “Rock the Ballet / The Bad Boys of Dance.” Since 2018 he has designed several ballets for ABT stars, Diana Vishneva, and Marcelo Gomes. He has also designed two world premieres productions for Ardani Artists’, “Solo for Two”, starring Ivan Vasiliev and Natalia Osipova, and “Ardani at Twenty Five”. He has also designed New York Seasons for Locomotive Dance Co., Elisa Monte Dance, Youth America Grand Prix Ballet, Rebecca Kelly Ballet, Nai-Ni Chen Dance, C. Eule Dance, and Thomas/Ortiz Dance.

Ellen Colcord is a painter and multimedia artist who has been actively collaborating with international music and dance programs for over twenty years. Recently, Colcord’s collaborations have included the NYU Faculty Dance Program at the Frederick Lowe Theatre, Greenwich Village, Equus Projects at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the New York Drawing Center, NYU Jazz Festival at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, and Brooklyn Go at the Brooklyn Museum. This spring, Colcord was sponsored by the Instituto Guatemalteco Americano to present a three-week collage and painting workshops throughout the country. While in Guatemala, she also lectured on the Business of Art for the New York Foundation for the Arts’ Bootcamp. Colcord attended the prestigious Accademia di Belle Art in Urbino, Italy, Yale University and holds a Master’s of Art from New York University. She is currently a resident artist with Chashama at the Brooklyn Army Terminal.

Daniel G. Cook, PhD, served as a teacher and administrator in the Connecticut Public School System, including the position of the Assistant Superintendent in Stamford, CT. He currently serves as an education and financial consultant to Connecticut school systems. In addition to interests in sustainable gardening, Dan is a skilled carpenter and craftsman, with a lifetime of work spanning educational, municipal, armed services, and private projects.