The Creators

The music of New York City based composer, James Barry has been described as “immediately engaging and distinctly American,” “an emotional rollercoaster,” and “truly moving.” A recipient of the 2001 Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters his opera, orchestra, ballet, dance, theater, and chamber music scores are heard across the US each season. James has been the recipient of numerous awards, prizes, and commissions including: the 2001 Charles Ives Scholarship, ASCAP, Meet The Composer, the American Music Center, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Dayton Ballet’s New Music for New Dance, Opera On Tap, the Holyoke Civic Symphony, the Chicago Ensemble, Auros Group for New Music, the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra’s Fresh Ink, the SCI/ASCAP Student Composition Commission, The Commission Project, CASE Arts Group, and CelloSpeak among others. Spring 2013 will see the premiere of SMASHED: The Carrie Nation Story, a new one-act comic opera with librettist Timothy Braun commissioned by Opera On Tap. Recent activities and commissions include a repeat performance of Snapshot by David Kidwell and the Holyoke Civic Symphony, October 2011; a new work for the Brandon High School Orchestra’s 45th Anniversary, premiered February 2012; and Two Songs for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s play Porcelain & Pink were included on the Xoregos Performing Company’s production One Act Gems, including shows at The Muse (Brooklyn) and the Producer’s Club (Times Square) spring 2012. EXPANSION, an orchestral work for ballet, was premiered on the Dayton Ballet’s New Music for New Dance project in March 2011, choreographed by Cydney Spohn; SUCKER, presented on American Opera Projects, Opera Grows in Brooklyn showcase at Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY; the premiere of Afterglow, a new concert band work, at Kutztown University; an arrangement of Always On My Mind for soprano Cameron Russell, OPERA ELVIS: A Lament for the King, produced by Opera on Tap & Anti Social Music at City Winery (NYC); expanding circles a new cello choir piece, commissioned by Cellospeak; performances of short stories by saxophonists Jeremy Justeson & Stacy Maugans, including the 2010 North American Saxophone Alliance Conference; incidental and dance music for the Xoregos Performing Company’s (NYC) production of Shipwrecked, a play by Adam Kraar. Orchestra and band versions of Snapshot, continue to be programmed each year since its premiere by the Tallahassee Symphony Youth Orchestra, conducted by Alex Jimènez: The Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, Holyoke Civic Symphony, Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra, Sacramento Youth Symphony, Tennessee Tech University Orchestra, Northeastern University Concert Band, Florida State University Symphonic Band, and the Kutztown University Concert Band among others.

Timothy Braun

Timothy Braun is an American writer. His plays have been presented at The Asylum, The Bowery Poetry Club, Ensemble Studio Theater, The Flea, “The Hot Spot” (Athens, Greece), The Howl Festival, Hyde Park Theater, The Loft, The Ohio, La Mama, Ontological-Hysteric Theater, The Neighborhood Playhouse, Riverside Theater (Ireland), Salvage Vanguard, Seattle Fringe, Theatre X, The Vern Riffe Center, The Re/MIx Festival, The California institute of the Arts, and site-specific spaces across the United States. The New York Times, Huffingtonpost, Daily Kos, Audience, The Columbia Review,Euphon, FlatmanCROOKED, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, Northville Review, The Oregon Literary Review,Paper Wall, Playscripts Inc., Quay Journal of the Arts,Smith, and Word Riot, among others, have published Braun’s work. Braun has been awarded fellowships and residencies at the Anderson Center for the Interdisciplinary Studies, Blue Mountain Center for the Arts and Humanities, The Djreassi Residency, Edward F. Albee Foundation,HERE Arts Center in New York City, MacDowell Colony, Prairie Center for the Arts, Madroño Ranch, Robert MacNamara Foundation, Osage Arts Community, Santa Fe Art Institute, and the Ucross Foundation. The Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, John Anson Kittredge Fund, Puffin Foundation, and a Dorothy Norton Clay Foundation at the Mary Anderson Center for the Arts have supported his work. www.timothybraun.com