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Thomas L. Read, DMA, composer and violinist, is Professor of Music at the University of Vermont. He has composed music for a variety of media and almost entirely on commission– music for small ensembles, full orchestra, solo voice, chorus and musical theater. He has been a recipient of several Arts Council and University Stipends, and has won awards, grants and fellowships from organizations such as the American Federation of Teachers, the MacDowell Colony, The Charles Ives Institute, and the Johnson Composers Conference. Recent premieres include Enchorial Landscape for tuba and piano at the University of Arizona, Alcyone for narrator, chorus, accordion, marimbas, steel drums and synthesizer at the Barbican Centre, London, with subsequent performances at Harvard and Wesleyan Universities, and various movements of Piano Partita in New York City and at the Warebrook Music Festival. Paul Orgel gave the premiere of the complete seven–movement Partita in September, 2006. In February, 2004, a full concert of his music, presented in his honor by the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble, included the premiere of Chamber Concerto. A recording of On October Ground, performed by Philharmonica Bulgarica was released in March 2004 by ERM Media Masterworks Recordings. C.F.Peters, Tunbridge Music, Tuba Euphonium Press and the American Composers Edition publish his work. In the past he has conducted the UVM Orchestra, the Vermont Youth Orchestra, and the Royall Tyler Theatre orchestra in various productions including Man of La Mancha, West Side Story and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
As a pianist Tom Cleary has performed with artists including Clark Terry, Ernie Watts, Bill Frisell, Ellen Powell, James Harvey, Chris Vidala, Lester Bowie and Ike Willis. He has also opened for artists including Randy Weston, Etta Jones and Houston Person. He has been featured on recordings with artists including vocalist Juliet McVicker (on The Blue of Night) and trombonist Rick Davies (on the recent Siempre Salsa). As a composer he has been commissioned by groups including the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts (for whom he composed New Seasons, Alter'd Sky, a song cycle for voices and jazz quartet, in 2004). He has served as music director for shows including Cole! (UVM Theater), Tintypes (Northern Stage), and many productions at Saint Michael's Playhouse including Always: Patsy Cline and I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change.
Rachel Perlmeter is a playwright, director, curator and performer. Her writings for the stage have been developed by the Playwright's Center in Minneapolis, Soho Think Tank's Sixth Floor Series, Mabou Mines' Suite artist residency program, the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts in Burlington, and the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin, where she received a Masters' in Theatre History and Criticism and was the recipient of two Foreign Language and Area Studies grants for her interdisciplinary work on Russian theatre, a Social Sciences Research Council grant for excellence in the humanities, and a Morton Brown Scholarship. She has been a Fulbright artist and a TCG/International Theatre Institute fellow working with experimental theatres in Russia. Prior to moving to Vermont, she curated arts–education outreach programs for New York City Ballet, worked with the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and launched a series of international protest plays in South America while serving as a guest artist at the Centre for Contemporary Arts at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador. Last fall, she directed an interdisciplinary celebration of the work of Marguerite Duras at the University of Vermont, which featured her site–specific staging of Duras' rarely seen India Song. Her texts for performance include MOSCOW PLAYS, WANDERLUST, NEURASTHENIA, and her latest play, OSTENTATIOUS POVERTY, which she recently presented as a work–in–progress as part of the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival at FlynnSpace, and will continue to develop with the support of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Vermont Arts Council, and the Vermont Arts Endowment Fund of The Vermont Community Foundation.
John B. Forbes has designed lighting for the Old Globe Theatre, the San Diego Repertory Theatre, the Center Repertory Company of Walnut Creek, California, the Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara, California, Theatre Aspen in Colorado, the Riverside Shakespeare Company in New York, the Arizona Theatre Company, the Vermont Stage Company, Saint Michael's Playhouse in Colchester and Lost Nation Theatre in Montpelier. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Vermont in Burlington where he teaches Lighting Design and Stage Management in the Department of Theatre.
Kathy Marmor, Installation Artist
Bill Reed, Vocal Coach
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