LISA BIELAWA Keyboard
Lisa is a 2009 Rome Prize winner in Musical Composition . She began touring with the Philip Glass Ensemble in 1992 , and in 1997 co-founded the MATA Festival . She was appointed Artistic Director of the San Francisco Girls Chorus in 2013 . Recent highlights of her music include premieres of Rondolette by the string quartet Brooklyn Rider and pianist Bruce Levingston and Double Duet by the Washington Saxophone Quartet ; and performances of Graffiti dell ’ amante by Bielawa with the Chicago Chamber Musicians in Chicago and with Brooklyn Rider in New York , Harrisburg , and Rome . Her work Chance Encounter , a project of Creative Capital , was premiered by soprano Susan Narucki and The Knights in Lower Manhattan ’ s Seward Park . Lisa is currently at work on Airfield Broadcasts , a massive one hour work for more than 600 musicians which will be premiered on the tarmac of the former Tempelhof Airport in Berlin ( May 2013 ) and at Crissy Field in San Francisco ( October 2013 ). www . lisabielawa . net .
DAN BORA Live Sound Mix
As producer , engineer , and sound designer of albums , film scores , and live sound , Dan has worked with Marina Abramović , Antony , Philip Glass , Howard Shore , Nico Mühly , and groups such as Alarm Will Sound , Kronos Quartet , The Magnetic Fields , and Matmos . His credits include Academy Award winning Fog of War , the Academy Award nominated The Illusionist , Notes on a Scandal , The Reader , Woody Allen ’ s , Cassandra ’ s Dream , as well as the revival of Robert Wilson ’ s Einstein on the Beach , and the Life and Death of Marina Abramovic . Dan ’ s live mixing and sound design have been praised as “ deft ”, “ provocative and even poignant ” ( The New York Times ).
HAI-TING CHINN Mezzo-soprano
Hai-Ting performs in a wide range of styles and venues , from Purcell to Pierrot Lunaire , Cherubino to The King & I , J . S . Bach to P . D . Q . Bach . She recently featured in the revival and tour of Phillip Glass ’ Einstein on the Beach . She has performed with New York City Opera , The Wooster Group , OperaOmnia , the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra , Israel Philharmonic , Orchestra of St . Luke ’ s , and the Waverly Consort ; and on the stages of Carnegie Hall , the Mann Center in Philadelphia , the Edinburgh Festival , the Verbier Festival , and London ’ s West End . She has premiered new works by Tarik O ’ Regan , Du Yun , Conrad Cummings , Stefan Weisman , Yoav Gal , and Matt Schickele . Hai-Ting is an Artist in Residence at HERE theatre in New York City , where she is developing Science Fair , a staged solo show of science set to music .
JON GIBSON Woodwind
Jon is a composer , multi-wind instrumentalist and visual artist who has been active in new music for over 40 years . He has been a member of the Philip Glass Ensemble since its beginnings and has performed with Glass in other configurations including solo / duet concerts featuring the music of both Gibson and Glass . He has performed in every performance of Einstein on the Beach . Gibson ’ s own output includes music for solo instruments , various ensembles , dance , music theatre , video , film and opera . He has performed and collaborated with a host of musicians , choreographers and artists including Merce Cunningham , Nancy Topf , Nina Winthrop , Ralph Gibson , Lucinda Childs , JoAnne Akalitis , Harold Budd , David Behrman , LaMonte Young , Steve Reich , Elisabetta Vittoni and Thomas Buckner . Gibson ’ s music can be heard on the Tzadik , Orange Mountain Music , New Tone , Point Music , New World , Lovely Music , EarRational and Einstein Records labels .