Du Yun & International Contemporary Ensemble Program

NYU SKIRBALL ACADEMIC NYU SKIRBALL ADVISORY COUNCIL STAFF Sheril Antonio Senior Associate Dean, Strategic Initiatives, NYU Tisch

Jay Wegman Director

Ulrich Baer University Professor

Amy Coombs Operations Director

Mary Bitel Associate Arts Professor, Open Arts, NYU Tisch

Stephanie Armitage Administrative Coordinator

Una Chaudhuri Dean for the Humanities and Vice Dean for Interdisciplinary Initiatives, College of Arts & Sciences

J M de Leon, Ph.D. Assistant Director, Engagement

Seán Curran Chairperson; Arts Professor, Dance, NYU Tisch Anna Deavere Smith University Professor Michael Dinwiddie Associate Professor, NYU Gallatin Georgina Dopico Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, NYU Karen Finley Arts Professor, Art & Public Policy, NYU Tisch Faye Ginsburg David B. Kriser Professor, Anthropology, NYU Arts & Science Lynn Gumpert Director, NYU Grey Art Gallery Sylvaine Guyot Professor of French Literature, Thought, and Culture, NYU Arts & Science Susan Hilferty Arts Professor; Chairperson, Design for Stage & Film, NYU Tisch André Lepecki Professor; Chairperson, Performance Studies, NYU Tisch Julie Malnig Associate Professor, NYU Gallatin Judith Graves Miller Professor of French and Collegiate Professor Rubén Polendo Chairperson; Arts Professor, Drama, NYU Tisch Karen Shimakawa Associate Professor, Performance Studies; Academic Associate Dean, NYU Tisch Catharine Stimpson University Professor Julia Wolfe Professor of Music Composition; Artistic Director of Music Composition, NYU Steinhardt Brandon Woolf Clinical Associate Professor; Director, Program in Dramatic Literature, NYU Arts & Science Hentyle Yapp Assistant Professor, Art & Public Policy, NYU Tisch 8

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Clifford Billings Ticket Operation Specialist Lou DiLeo Lighting Supervisor Brian Emens Theater Technician George Faya Theater Technician Angie Golightly Theater Technician Vincent Iaropoli Assistant Director, Finance Jenny Liao Front of House Manager Ronni Mandell Director of Marketing, NYU Campus Services Andres Mendez NYU Box Office Manager Melissa Negro Senior Marketing Manager Kimberly Olstad Director of Development Don Short Audio/Rigging Supervisor Zachary Spitzer Production Manager Ian Tabatchnick Operations Manager Helene Davis Public Relations Press Representative

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NYU SKIRBALL SPRING SEASON 2022

CREDITS

WHAT’S ON NEXT

WHAT’S ON

Pan Pan Theatre (Ireland) Cascando North American Premiere June 21-July 3

Elevator Repair Service (USA) Seagull World Premiere July 12-31

Accompany Samuel Beckett’s curious figures into an uncertain future. Attired in dark cloaks and given headphones, audiences are guided through Greenwich Village on this rhythmic, immersive, group walk. Featuring the melodic voices of Irish actors Andrew Bennett and Daniel Reardon, Beckett’s 1963 radio play Cascando is transformed into an absorbing immersive experience in which the audience is part of the spectacle. Pan Pan Theatre brings visceral energy to Beckett’s 1963 radio play, which poetically pits words against music. With Direction

by Gavin Quinn and Sound Design and music by Jimmy Eadie, Cascando is a deeply riveting yet broken tale of a man hopelessly trying to finish a story.

They triumphantly tackled Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and Shakespeare with their celebrated productions of The Sound and the Fury, Gatz, and Measure for Measure. Now in their newest project, Elevator Repair Service takes on The Seagull, Anton Chekhov’s classic drama of artists in life and love. Blurring the line between the play itself and an informal chat with the audience, ERS’s venturous approach to the text twists truth into lies and fact into fiction as actors become characters who become actors who become characters. All the while, the play remains a permanently modern exploration of the conflicting pursuits of art, love, and happiness.

Projection Technician A COCKROACH’S TARANTELLA (2010) Du Yun Voice, Sound Design Josh Modney violin Pauline Harris violin Hannah Levinson viola Mariel Roberts cello Kamna Gupta conductor ZOLLE (2005) Du Yun The Wander Woman Ghost (Narrator/Voice)* Satomi Matsuzaki The Same Wander Woman Ghost (Voice/Narrator)* eddy kwon The Land-Watcher Ziad Nehme The Land-Watcher (Recorded Tenor) Alice Jones flute Ryan Muncy saxophone Nathan Davis percussion Josh Modney violin Hannah Levinson viola Mariel Roberts cello *Kamna Gupta conductor

The Narrator and the Female Voice are of the same character

A version of this production was originated and produced at the Lucerne Theatre.

Du Yun would like to thank Lydia Steier, Lars Gebhardt, Ina Karr, Shayna Dunkleman and Ross Karre for their help in realizing this version together.

SCAN TO PURCHASE TICKETS.

A Cockroach’s Tarantella | Run Time: 20 min Fervent of Life (Film) | Run Time: 9.3 min Premiere Screening Zolle | Run Time: 55 min A Cockroach’s Tarantella & Zolle by Du Yun presented under license from G. Schirmer Inc. and Associated Music Publishers, copyright owners.

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NYU SKIRBALL SPRING SEASON 2022

CREDITS

WHAT’S ON NEXT

WHAT’S ON

Pan Pan Theatre (Ireland) Cascando North American Premiere June 21-July 3

Elevator Repair Service (USA) Seagull World Premiere July 12-31

Accompany Samuel Beckett’s curious figures into an uncertain future. Attired in dark cloaks and given headphones, audiences are guided through Greenwich Village on this rhythmic, immersive, group walk. Featuring the melodic voices of Irish actors Andrew Bennett and Daniel Reardon, Beckett’s 1963 radio play Cascando is transformed into an absorbing immersive experience in which the audience is part of the spectacle. Pan Pan Theatre brings visceral energy to Beckett’s 1963 radio play, which poetically pits words against music. With Direction

by Gavin Quinn and Sound Design and music by Jimmy Eadie, Cascando is a deeply riveting yet broken tale of a man hopelessly trying to finish a story.

They triumphantly tackled Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and Shakespeare with their celebrated productions of The Sound and the Fury, Gatz, and Measure for Measure. Now in their newest project, Elevator Repair Service takes on The Seagull, Anton Chekhov’s classic drama of artists in life and love. Blurring the line between the play itself and an informal chat with the audience, ERS’s venturous approach to the text twists truth into lies and fact into fiction as actors become characters who become actors who become characters. All the while, the play remains a permanently modern exploration of the conflicting pursuits of art, love, and happiness.

Projection Technician A COCKROACH’S TARANTELLA (2010) Du Yun Voice, Sound Design Josh Modney violin Pauline Harris violin Hannah Levinson viola Mariel Roberts cello Kamna Gupta conductor ZOLLE (2005) Du Yun The Wander Woman Ghost (Narrator/Voice)* Satomi Matsuzaki The Same Wander Woman Ghost (Voice/Narrator)* eddy kwon The Land-Watcher Ziad Nehme The Land-Watcher (Recorded Tenor) Alice Jones flute Ryan Muncy saxophone Nathan Davis percussion Josh Modney violin Hannah Levinson viola Mariel Roberts cello *Kamna Gupta conductor

The Narrator and the Female Voice are of the same character

A version of this production was originated and produced at the Lucerne Theatre.

Du Yun would like to thank Lydia Steier, Lars Gebhardt, Ina Karr, Shayna Dunkleman and Ross Karre for their help in realizing this version together.

SCAN TO PURCHASE TICKETS.

A Cockroach’s Tarantella | Run Time: 20 min Fervent of Life (Film) | Run Time: 9.3 min Premiere Screening Zolle | Run Time: 55 min A Cockroach’s Tarantella & Zolle by Du Yun presented under license from G. Schirmer Inc. and Associated Music Publishers, copyright owners.

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MEMBERS ARE FRIENDS ... ABOUT NYU SKIRBALL WITH BENEFITS As a NYU Skirball member, you gain access to innovative artists and academics, game-changers and thought-leaders, and more importantly, support programs that promote a broad range of cutting-edge performing arts and discourse.

FRIEND • $75 Benefits include: • Up to 50% off one ticket per show • Advance notice of upcoming events • Exclusive pre-sale tickets • Subscription to NYU Skirball’s e-newsletter • Personalized NYU Skirball Member card • Member offers at local Greenwich Village restaurants (Fully tax-deductible) SIDEKICK • $125 All of the benefits Friend Members receive plus: • Up to 50% off two tickets per show • Complimentary NYU Skirball tote bag • Complimentary ticket exchanges (savings of $5 per ticket) • VIP reserved seating for select NYU Skirball humanities events ($118 tax-deductible) COMRADE • $250 All of the benefits Sidekick Members receive, plus: • Up to 50% off of four tickets per show • Waived ticketing fees (savings of up to $6 per ticket) • Exclusive access and invitations to meet artists • Invitations to private dress rehearsals ($243 tax-deductible)

NYU Skirball holds close James Baldwin’s dictum that “artists are here to disturb the peace.” Our mission is to present adventuresome, transdisciplinary work that entertains yet upends, inspires yet frustrates, and confirms yet confounds. We proudly embrace artists who defamiliarize the familiar, productions that blur aesthetic boundaries, and thought-leaders who are courageous, outrageous, and mind-blowing. We are NYU’s largest classroom. We want to feed your head

NYU SKIRBALL FUNDING NYU Skirball’s programs are made possible with support from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and by Howard Gilman Foundation, Collins Building Services, Consolidated Edison, Harkness Foundation for Dance, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and Marta Heflin Foundation, as well as our valued donors through memberships, commissioning fund, and Stage Pass Fund support.

SOUL MATE • $2500 All of the Bosom Buddy Members benefits, plus: • Four free tickets per Skirball Presents production • Four passes to all NYU Skirball humanities event receptions • Ability to secure premium house seats ($1345 tax-deductible)

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WHO’S WHO

Zolle, an opera-theatre narrative of a dead woman, wanders through the shadowy space between memory and reality, tracing the lines of her identity through the land she once walked: an immigrant in death as in life.

Du Yun, born and raised in Shanghai, China, and based in New York City, works at the intersection of opera, orchestral, theatre, cabaret, musical, oral tradition, public performances, electronics, visual arts, and noise.

Her work is championed by some of today’s finest performing groups and organizations around the world.

Known for her “relentless originality and unflinching social conscience” (The New Yorker), Du Yun’s opera, Angel’s Bone, won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Music. She was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Classical Composition for her work Air Glow. Her collaborative opera Sweet Land with Raven Chacon was the 2021 Best New Opera by the North America Critics Association. channelduyun.com

In 2004, I wrote my first chamber opera, Zolle, which was a story about the afterlife. As I was finishing Zolle, I fabricated another piece that would serve as a life-before fable. At this time, I was living in a government subsidized student apartment. When I would take breaks from my work, particularly in the early hours, I would talk to the many cockroaches that shared my residence.

A Cockroach’s Tarantella was meant to score for a string quartet and a narrator as a stand-alone piece at a later time as well as a prelude to Zolle. Both stories are steeped in humankind’s ubiquitous fascination with regression, the conflict of belonging and alienation, and the resurrection archetype.

Some scientific facts: The female cockroach species mate once in their lives, and then continue to produce ootheca, or egg cases, of thirty to forty eggs at two to three day intervals under temperature of 20 degrees Centigrade. The average cockroach lifespan is 6 months to a year. Female cockroaches can reproduce for years without needing a mate, producing dozens of generations of all-female descendants, a team of scientists has found. Parthenogenesis is a form of asexual reproduction, allowing young insects to spawn from unfertilized eggs.

— Du Yun

BESTIE • $500 All of the benefits Comrade Members receive, plus: • One free ticket per Skirball Presents production • Invitations to opening night parties • Private backstage tour ($236 tax-deductible) BOSOM BUDDY • $1000 All of the Bestie Members benefits, plus: • Two free tickets per Skirball Presents production • Two complimentary drinks at the Lobby Café per Skirball Presents production • Enhanced pre-sale, prior to Member pre-sale • Dedicated patron line for personalized customer service • Invitations to patron night receptions ($335 tax-deductible)

PROGRAM NOTES

SCAN TO BECOME A MEMBER OR MAKE A DONATION. THANK YOU.

Satomi Matsuzaki joined the band Deerhoof as a bassist and singer within a week of moving to the United States from Japan in 1995, and with no prior experience playing in a band, went on tour only a week later. Deerhoof performs “experimental pop mired in a pure punk sense of adventure” (Portland Mercury), making “some of the most difficult and unclassifiable noise of the mid-’90s before unexpectedly rising to international prominence as one of indie rock’s most renowned and influential groups ... too ‘pop’ for ‘noise,’ and too ‘noise’ for ‘pop’” (Los Angeles Philharmonic).

Roscha A. Säidow, is a director and multidisciplinary artist working in the fields of Theatre / Opera / Text / Music / Modern Puppeteering / Videoart / Performance / Design / Teaching. She studied Theater Directing at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin, won the Vontobel-Prize for her Production „Heroes“ (Palmetshofer) in 2011, and worked at State Theaters in Germany (e.g. Schauspiel Frankfurt, Theater Dortmund, Theater Mannheim, and Schauspiel Leipzig). With her profound specialization in modern puppet theatre and the interest in interdisciplinary approaches her projects are a kaleidoscope of forms.

Säidow is founding member of the independent Puppet Theater Company Retrofuturisten, whose works were shown at national and international Festivals. Co-productions with the Goethe-Institute and foreign Artist Groups brought Säidow to Indonesia, Jordan and South-Africa. eddy kwon (b. 1989) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Lenapehoking. Her practice connects composition, performance, improvisation, dance, and ceremony to explore transformation and transgression, ritual practice as a tool to queer ancestral lineage, and the use of mythology to connect, obscure, and reveal. As a composer-performer and improviser, she is inspired

by Korean folk timbres and inflections, textures and movement from natural environments, and American experimentalism as shaped by the AACM. Her work as a choreographer and movement artist embodies an expressive release and reclamation of colonialism’s spiritual imprints, connecting to both Japanese Butoh and a lineage of queer/trans practitioners of Korean shamanic ritual. www.eddykwon.net

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MEMBERS ARE FRIENDS ... ABOUT NYU SKIRBALL WITH BENEFITS As a NYU Skirball member, you gain access to innovative artists and academics, game-changers and thought-leaders, and more importantly, support programs that promote a broad range of cutting-edge performing arts and discourse.

FRIEND • $75 Benefits include: • Up to 50% off one ticket per show • Advance notice of upcoming events • Exclusive pre-sale tickets • Subscription to NYU Skirball’s e-newsletter • Personalized NYU Skirball Member card • Member offers at local Greenwich Village restaurants (Fully tax-deductible) SIDEKICK • $125 All of the benefits Friend Members receive plus: • Up to 50% off two tickets per show • Complimentary NYU Skirball tote bag • Complimentary ticket exchanges (savings of $5 per ticket) • VIP reserved seating for select NYU Skirball humanities events ($118 tax-deductible) COMRADE • $250 All of the benefits Sidekick Members receive, plus: • Up to 50% off of four tickets per show • Waived ticketing fees (savings of up to $6 per ticket) • Exclusive access and invitations to meet artists • Invitations to private dress rehearsals ($243 tax-deductible)

NYU Skirball holds close James Baldwin’s dictum that “artists are here to disturb the peace.” Our mission is to present adventuresome, transdisciplinary work that entertains yet upends, inspires yet frustrates, and confirms yet confounds. We proudly embrace artists who defamiliarize the familiar, productions that blur aesthetic boundaries, and thought-leaders who are courageous, outrageous, and mind-blowing. We are NYU’s largest classroom. We want to feed your head

NYU SKIRBALL FUNDING NYU Skirball’s programs are made possible with support from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and by Howard Gilman Foundation, Collins Building Services, Consolidated Edison, Harkness Foundation for Dance, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and Marta Heflin Foundation, as well as our valued donors through memberships, commissioning fund, and Stage Pass Fund support.

SOUL MATE • $2500 All of the Bosom Buddy Members benefits, plus: • Four free tickets per Skirball Presents production • Four passes to all NYU Skirball humanities event receptions • Ability to secure premium house seats ($1345 tax-deductible)

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WHO’S WHO

Zolle, an opera-theatre narrative of a dead woman, wanders through the shadowy space between memory and reality, tracing the lines of her identity through the land she once walked: an immigrant in death as in life.

Du Yun, born and raised in Shanghai, China, and based in New York City, works at the intersection of opera, orchestral, theatre, cabaret, musical, oral tradition, public performances, electronics, visual arts, and noise.

Her work is championed by some of today’s finest performing groups and organizations around the world.

Known for her “relentless originality and unflinching social conscience” (The New Yorker), Du Yun’s opera, Angel’s Bone, won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Music. She was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Classical Composition for her work Air Glow. Her collaborative opera Sweet Land with Raven Chacon was the 2021 Best New Opera by the North America Critics Association. channelduyun.com

In 2004, I wrote my first chamber opera, Zolle, which was a story about the afterlife. As I was finishing Zolle, I fabricated another piece that would serve as a life-before fable. At this time, I was living in a government subsidized student apartment. When I would take breaks from my work, particularly in the early hours, I would talk to the many cockroaches that shared my residence.

A Cockroach’s Tarantella was meant to score for a string quartet and a narrator as a stand-alone piece at a later time as well as a prelude to Zolle. Both stories are steeped in humankind’s ubiquitous fascination with regression, the conflict of belonging and alienation, and the resurrection archetype.

Some scientific facts: The female cockroach species mate once in their lives, and then continue to produce ootheca, or egg cases, of thirty to forty eggs at two to three day intervals under temperature of 20 degrees Centigrade. The average cockroach lifespan is 6 months to a year. Female cockroaches can reproduce for years without needing a mate, producing dozens of generations of all-female descendants, a team of scientists has found. Parthenogenesis is a form of asexual reproduction, allowing young insects to spawn from unfertilized eggs.

— Du Yun

BESTIE • $500 All of the benefits Comrade Members receive, plus: • One free ticket per Skirball Presents production • Invitations to opening night parties • Private backstage tour ($236 tax-deductible) BOSOM BUDDY • $1000 All of the Bestie Members benefits, plus: • Two free tickets per Skirball Presents production • Two complimentary drinks at the Lobby Café per Skirball Presents production • Enhanced pre-sale, prior to Member pre-sale • Dedicated patron line for personalized customer service • Invitations to patron night receptions ($335 tax-deductible)

PROGRAM NOTES

SCAN TO BECOME A MEMBER OR MAKE A DONATION. THANK YOU.

Satomi Matsuzaki joined the band Deerhoof as a bassist and singer within a week of moving to the United States from Japan in 1995, and with no prior experience playing in a band, went on tour only a week later. Deerhoof performs “experimental pop mired in a pure punk sense of adventure” (Portland Mercury), making “some of the most difficult and unclassifiable noise of the mid-’90s before unexpectedly rising to international prominence as one of indie rock’s most renowned and influential groups ... too ‘pop’ for ‘noise,’ and too ‘noise’ for ‘pop’” (Los Angeles Philharmonic).

Roscha A. Säidow, is a director and multidisciplinary artist working in the fields of Theatre / Opera / Text / Music / Modern Puppeteering / Videoart / Performance / Design / Teaching. She studied Theater Directing at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin, won the Vontobel-Prize for her Production „Heroes“ (Palmetshofer) in 2011, and worked at State Theaters in Germany (e.g. Schauspiel Frankfurt, Theater Dortmund, Theater Mannheim, and Schauspiel Leipzig). With her profound specialization in modern puppet theatre and the interest in interdisciplinary approaches her projects are a kaleidoscope of forms.

Säidow is founding member of the independent Puppet Theater Company Retrofuturisten, whose works were shown at national and international Festivals. Co-productions with the Goethe-Institute and foreign Artist Groups brought Säidow to Indonesia, Jordan and South-Africa. eddy kwon (b. 1989) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Lenapehoking. Her practice connects composition, performance, improvisation, dance, and ceremony to explore transformation and transgression, ritual practice as a tool to queer ancestral lineage, and the use of mythology to connect, obscure, and reveal. As a composer-performer and improviser, she is inspired

by Korean folk timbres and inflections, textures and movement from natural environments, and American experimentalism as shaped by the AACM. Her work as a choreographer and movement artist embodies an expressive release and reclamation of colonialism’s spiritual imprints, connecting to both Japanese Butoh and a lineage of queer/trans practitioners of Korean shamanic ritual. www.eddykwon.net

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Nicholas Houfek is a NYC-based lighting designer working in music, dance, and theater. Selected projects include: Claire Chase’s Density Project (The Kitchen), Natalie Merchant, Ojai Music Festival, Silk Road Ensemble, Tyshawn Sorey’s Perle Noire directed

by Peter Sellars, Anohni’s She Who Saw Beautiful Things at The Kitchen, Suzanne Farrin’s La Dolce Morte at the Metropolitan Museum of Art directed by Doug Fitch, and George Lewis’ Soundlines featuring Steve Schick and directed by Jim Findlay. Houfek has designed for the Martha Graham Dance Company, Cedar Lake Contemporary Dance, and Ian Spencer Bell Dance. He is an ensemble member of the International Contemporary Ensemble and a graduate of Boston University. nicholashoufek.com

INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE With a commitment to cultivating a more curious and engaged society through music, the International Contemporary Ensemble — as a commissioner and performer at the highest level — amplifies creators whose work propels and challenges how music is made and experienced. The Ensemble’s 35 members are featured as soloists, chamber musicians, commissioners, and collaborators with the foremost musical artists of our time. Works by emerging composers have anchored the Ensemble’s programming since its founding in 2001 and the group’s recordings and digital platforms highlight the many voices that weave music’s present. Described as “America’s foremost new-music group” (The New Yorker), the Ensemble has become a leading force in new music throughout the last 20 years, having premiered over 1,000 works and having been a vehicle for the workshop and performance of thousands of works by student composers across the U.S. The Ensemble’s composer-collaborators — many who were unknown at the time of their first Ensemble collaboration — have fundamentally shaped its creative ethos and have continued to highly visible and influential careers, including MacArthur Fellow Tyshawn Sorey; long-time Ensemble collaborator, founding member, and 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winner Du Yun; and the Ensemble’s founder, 2012 MacArthur Fellow, and firstever flutist to win Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Prize, Claire Chase. Learn more at www.iceorg.org.

STAFF Jennifer Kessler Executive Director George Lewis Artistic Director Ross Karre Executive Producer eddy kwon Director of Individual Giving Ryan Muncy Director of Institutional Giving* Maciej Lewandowski Technical Director & Audio Engineer Keisha Husain Business and Finance Manager Bridgid Bergin Director of Production & Communications Isabel Crespo Pardo Production & Communications Coordinator Isabel Frye Video Editor & Media Archive Coordinator Jacob Greenberg Director of Recordings** Levy Lorenzo Sound Engineer** Joshua Rubin Program Director of LUIGI and Emeritus Co-Artistic Director**

Roscha Saidow

Kamna Gupta is an American Prize-winning conductor experienced in operatic, orchestral, and choral repertoires. In 2022, she will join the roster of LA Opera as cover conductor for the West Coast premiere of In Our Daughter’s Eyes (Du Yun/McQuillen), a coproduction with Beth Morrison Projects and Trinity Church Wall Street. She will cover the premiere of the work at Prototype Festival. She will also serve as cover conductor for Trinity Church Wall Street’s production of Considering Matthew Shepard. Equally at home in opera and with orchestras, Gupta has worked on new, standard, and early repertories with orchestras in Germany, Russia, and the Czech Republic. kamnagupta.com

* Ensemble musician ** Part-Time Artist Staff

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Nicholas Houfek is a NYC-based lighting designer working in music, dance, and theater. Selected projects include: Claire Chase’s Density Project (The Kitchen), Natalie Merchant, Ojai Music Festival, Silk Road Ensemble, Tyshawn Sorey’s Perle Noire directed

by Peter Sellars, Anohni’s She Who Saw Beautiful Things at The Kitchen, Suzanne Farrin’s La Dolce Morte at the Metropolitan Museum of Art directed by Doug Fitch, and George Lewis’ Soundlines featuring Steve Schick and directed by Jim Findlay. Houfek has designed for the Martha Graham Dance Company, Cedar Lake Contemporary Dance, and Ian Spencer Bell Dance. He is an ensemble member of the International Contemporary Ensemble and a graduate of Boston University. nicholashoufek.com

INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE With a commitment to cultivating a more curious and engaged society through music, the International Contemporary Ensemble — as a commissioner and performer at the highest level — amplifies creators whose work propels and challenges how music is made and experienced. The Ensemble’s 35 members are featured as soloists, chamber musicians, commissioners, and collaborators with the foremost musical artists of our time. Works by emerging composers have anchored the Ensemble’s programming since its founding in 2001 and the group’s recordings and digital platforms highlight the many voices that weave music’s present. Described as “America’s foremost new-music group” (The New Yorker), the Ensemble has become a leading force in new music throughout the last 20 years, having premiered over 1,000 works and having been a vehicle for the workshop and performance of thousands of works by student composers across the U.S. The Ensemble’s composer-collaborators — many who were unknown at the time of their first Ensemble collaboration — have fundamentally shaped its creative ethos and have continued to highly visible and influential careers, including MacArthur Fellow Tyshawn Sorey; long-time Ensemble collaborator, founding member, and 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winner Du Yun; and the Ensemble’s founder, 2012 MacArthur Fellow, and firstever flutist to win Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Prize, Claire Chase. Learn more at www.iceorg.org.

STAFF Jennifer Kessler Executive Director George Lewis Artistic Director Ross Karre Executive Producer eddy kwon Director of Individual Giving Ryan Muncy Director of Institutional Giving* Maciej Lewandowski Technical Director & Audio Engineer Keisha Husain Business and Finance Manager Bridgid Bergin Director of Production & Communications Isabel Crespo Pardo Production & Communications Coordinator Isabel Frye Video Editor & Media Archive Coordinator Jacob Greenberg Director of Recordings** Levy Lorenzo Sound Engineer** Joshua Rubin Program Director of LUIGI and Emeritus Co-Artistic Director**

Roscha Saidow

Kamna Gupta is an American Prize-winning conductor experienced in operatic, orchestral, and choral repertoires. In 2022, she will join the roster of LA Opera as cover conductor for the West Coast premiere of In Our Daughter’s Eyes (Du Yun/McQuillen), a coproduction with Beth Morrison Projects and Trinity Church Wall Street. She will cover the premiere of the work at Prototype Festival. She will also serve as cover conductor for Trinity Church Wall Street’s production of Considering Matthew Shepard. Equally at home in opera and with orchestras, Gupta has worked on new, standard, and early repertories with orchestras in Germany, Russia, and the Czech Republic. kamnagupta.com

* Ensemble musician ** Part-Time Artist Staff

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NYU SKIRBALL ACADEMIC NYU SKIRBALL ADVISORY COUNCIL STAFF Sheril Antonio Senior Associate Dean, Strategic Initiatives, NYU Tisch

Jay Wegman Director

Ulrich Baer University Professor

Amy Coombs Operations Director

Mary Bitel Associate Arts Professor, Open Arts, NYU Tisch

Stephanie Armitage Administrative Coordinator

Una Chaudhuri Dean for the Humanities and Vice Dean for Interdisciplinary Initiatives, College of Arts & Sciences

J M de Leon, Ph.D. Assistant Director, Engagement

Seán Curran Chairperson; Arts Professor, Dance, NYU Tisch Anna Deavere Smith University Professor Michael Dinwiddie Associate Professor, NYU Gallatin Georgina Dopico Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, NYU Karen Finley Arts Professor, Art & Public Policy, NYU Tisch Faye Ginsburg David B. Kriser Professor, Anthropology, NYU Arts & Science Lynn Gumpert Director, NYU Grey Art Gallery Sylvaine Guyot Professor of French Literature, Thought, and Culture, NYU Arts & Science Susan Hilferty Arts Professor; Chairperson, Design for Stage & Film, NYU Tisch André Lepecki Professor; Chairperson, Performance Studies, NYU Tisch Julie Malnig Associate Professor, NYU Gallatin Judith Graves Miller Professor of French and Collegiate Professor Rubén Polendo Chairperson; Arts Professor, Drama, NYU Tisch Karen Shimakawa Associate Professor, Performance Studies; Academic Associate Dean, NYU Tisch Catharine Stimpson University Professor Julia Wolfe Professor of Music Composition; Artistic Director of Music Composition, NYU Steinhardt Brandon Woolf Clinical Associate Professor; Director, Program in Dramatic Literature, NYU Arts & Science Hentyle Yapp Assistant Professor, Art & Public Policy, NYU Tisch 8

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Clifford Billings Ticket Operation Specialist Lou DiLeo Lighting Supervisor Brian Emens Theater Technician George Faya Theater Technician Angie Golightly Theater Technician Vincent Iaropoli Assistant Director, Finance Jenny Liao Front of House Manager Ronni Mandell Director of Marketing, NYU Campus Services Andres Mendez NYU Box Office Manager Melissa Negro Senior Marketing Manager Kimberly Olstad Director of Development Don Short Audio/Rigging Supervisor Zachary Spitzer Production Manager

Ian Tabatchnick Operations Manager Helene Davis Public Relations Press Representative

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