HARAWI
An American Modern Opera Company (AMOC*) production, HARAWI is a collaboration between soprano Julia Bullock, dancers/choreographers Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber, director Zack Winokur, and lighting designer John Torres.
HARAWI features Olivier Messiaen’s Harawi for soprano and piano, a deeply personal yet transcendentally intergalactic meditation on love, loss, death, life, and renewal. In addition to Julia Bullock and Conor Hanick's performance of this sweeping work, Messiaen’s music takes on a newly physicalized and theatrical dimension through the choreographic work of Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber. Moving from duet to quartet, this production breaks open Messiaen’s cycle and interrogates the questions inherent in the piece’s appropriative exoticism.
Photos by Daniel Dittus, Elb Philharmonie
TAKT Trio
In collaboration with violinist Austin Wulliman and horn-player David Byrd-Marrow, we mark the centenary of György Ligeti’s birth with a program anchored by the composer’s Trio for horn, violin, and piano. Our aims are two-fold: first, reexamine Ligeti’s masterpiece; second, build on its legacy — in the manner that Ligeti’s Trio extends from Brahms’ — by commissioning new trios by Marcos Balter and Hilda Paredes.
American Modern Opera Company (AMOC)
AMOC’s mission is to develop and produce a body of discipline-colliding work, to combine traditional and experimental artistic processes, and to maintain enduring creative relationships between its members. Founded by Artistic Directors Zack Winokur and Matthew Aucoin, AMOC is made up of some of the most adventurous singers, dancers, and instrumentalists at work today in the fields of contemporary and classical music and dance.