![]() In addition to the American Opera Initiative, recent accomplishments include OPERA America IDEA Resident Composer at the National Opera Center, 2021-2022 & Finalist in BMP: "Next Gen" as part of Beth Morrison Projects, 2021. Recent commissions from Ensemble Pi, Canterbury Choral Society, Brick Church & Five Boroughs Music Festival. Laura Jobin-Acosta is a multi-cultural composer/soprano with a focus on vocal music. He has conducted over 400 world premieres, including Raven Chacon’s Voiceless Mass, which won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize. He has led productions for Opera Omaha, Beth Morrison Projects, Tri-Cities Opera, PROTOTYPE, Teatro Grattacielo, Experiments in Opera, and more. In such venues as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Disney Hall, MoMA, and Park Avenue Armory, Bloom has worked with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Jacaranda, Kronos Quartet, The Crossing, Dashon Burton, David Byrne, Helga Davis, Isabel Leonard, Hila Plitmann, and Dawn Upshaw, among others. He is Co-Artistic Director of both Contemporaneous and Present Music, Artistic Director of Queer Urban Orchestra, and Principal Conductor of the orchestras at NYU. David Bloom is a conductor equally at home in orchestral repertoire, opera, and new music, leading “ferocious and focused” ( New York Times) performances lauded for their “rhythmic precision and dynamic forward motion” ( Wall Street Journal). She teaches at Columbia University and NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program and serves as a mentor to the NBO Musical Theatre Initiative in Nairobi, Kenya. ![]() She’s an alum of ALT’s Composer Librettist Development program. Worth and Fargo Moorhead Operas) Steal a Pencil for Me, with Gerald Cohen (Opera Colorado) Quamino’s Map with Errollyn Wallen, (Chicago Opera Theater) Dinner 43 with Michael Ching (Decameron Opera Coalition) and new adaptations of Fledermaus and Mozart’s Impresario for Anchorage Opera. Worth Opera, her operas include: The Knock, with Alexsandra Vrebalov for Glimmerglass Festival and Cincinnati Opera Murasaki’s Moon, with Michi Wiancko (On-Site Opera, Metropolitan Museum of Art and ALT) Embedded, with Patrick Soluri, (ALT, Ft. A three-time winner of the Frontiers Competition at Ft. She’s best known for her plays The Women of Lockerbie, produced internationally and My Lord, What a Night, produced at Ford’s Theatre and optioned for Broadway. ![]() Deborah Brevoort writes plays, musicals and operas. ![]()
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