Composer Robert Aldridge and Librettist Herschel Garfein
| Robert Aldridge (born:1954, Richmond,VA) has written over sixty works for orchestra, opera, music-theater, dance, string quartet, solo and chamber ensembles. His music has been performed throughout the United States, Europe and Japan. He has received numerous fellowships and awards for his music from the Guggenheim Foundation (2002), the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2000), National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Massachusetts Artist's Foundation, the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Fund, Meet the Composer, The American Symphony Orchestra League, the New Jersey Council on the Arts and the Portland Arts Council. He was commissioned by Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra to compose a clarinet concerto for David Singer, which was premiered in April and May, 2005. His tone poem, LEDA AND THE SWAN, a commission from the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, The Nashville Symphony Orchestra, The Louisville Orchestra, and the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, was premiered in January, 2003 at the New Jersey Performing Center for the Arts (NJPAC). His opera, ELMER GANTRY, based on the novel by Sinclair Lewis, with a libretto by Herschel Garfein, will be given its full stage world premiere by Nashville Opera in November, 2007. Excerpts from ELMER GANTRY were performed by New York City Opera on their 2007 VOX Festival He has been Composer-in-Residence at the Brevard Music Festival since 2006. Currently, he is Director of the John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University, where he is also an Associate Professor of Music Composition and Theory. | Herschel Garfein is active as a librettist, composer and director. His opera-in-progress Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, based on the play by Tom Stoppard (www.rgdead.com) was showcased by New York City Opera on its VOX 2006 Festival. Previously, he composed and wrote the landmark dance trilogy Mythologies (for Mark Morris), Sueños (for Mabou Mines/ Boston Musica Viva), and other music-theater pieces. Also: incidental music for Troilus and Cressida (dir. Sir Peter Hall); direction of Ullman's The Emperor of Atlantis; libretto and direction of Edison Invents. Concert works include: American Steel (The Alabama Symphony), Places to Live (Boston Classical Orchestra) and a String Quartet (Lark Quartet). Awards from: The National Institute of Opera/Musical Theater, The National Endowment for the Arts and the Sundance Institute. Mr. Garfein is on the faculty at the Steinhardt School, NYU. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Vicki Bernstein and their five-year-old twins, Lev and Hadi. | |
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