Frank J. Oteri, Composer Advocate & Founding Editor
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Frank J. Oteri is the Composer Advocate at the American Music Center and the founding editor of its web magazine NewMusicBox, which has been online since May of 1999. An outspoken crusader for new music and the breaking down of barriers between genres, Frank has written for publications including BBC Music, Chamber Music, Ear Magazine, Stagebill/Playbill, Symphony, Time Out New York and the Revised New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, has been a frequent radio and pre-concert speaker, and has served as the host for ASCAP's Thru The Walls showcase, Meet The Composer's The Works in Minneapolis, and the 21st Century Schizoid Music series at the Cornelia Street Café. Frank holds a B.A. and a M.A. (in Ethnomusicology) from Columbia University where he served as Classical Music Director and World Music Director for WKCR-FM.
Frank's own musical compositions, which reconcile structural concepts from minimalism and serialism and frequently explore microtonality, span operas and chamber music, solo keyboard works and original bluegrass/old-timey songs for his band The String Messengers. His music has been programmed in venues ranging from Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall, the Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art and the Theatre Royal in Bath, England to Galapagos, the Knitting Factory, the Sidewalk Café and the Bethlehem Musikfest (PA), and has been performed by sopranos Gilda Lyons and Cybele Paschke, tenors Rob Frankenberry and Harlan DeBell, keyboardists Sarah Cahill, Trudy Chan, Jenny Lin, Guy Livingston, Rebecca Pechefsky, guitarists Dominic Frasca and David Starobin, the Magellan String Quartet, Sylvan Winds, Pentasonic Winds, the PRISM Saxophone Quartet, and the rock band Capital M, among others. MACHUNAS, Oteri's "performance oratorio in four colors" based on the life of Fluxus-founder George Maciunas created in collaboration with painter/performance artist Lucio Pozzi, was staged at the Contemporary Arts Centre in Vilnius, Lithuania as part of the International Christopher Summer Festival in a production conducted by Donatas Katkus (August 20-21, 2005).
Molly Sheridan, Managing Editor, NewMusicBox
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Molly Sheridan is the managing editor of NewMusicBox.org and the director of CounterstreamRadio.org. She is also the host of Carnegie Hall's Sound Insights podcasts. Her writing appears in publications such as TimeOut, The Washington Post, and on her ArtsJournal blog, Mind the Gap.
Prior to joining the AMC staff, Sheridan worked for the American Symphony Orchestra League, where she was associate editor of Symphony magazine and the League's webmaster. She attended the Honors Tutorial College at Ohio University, earning a bachelor's in journalism with a specialization in violin performance and French in 1999. During her college years, she managed marketing and development for the university's performing arts series, edited Southeast Ohio magazine, and played professionally with a number of orchestras in the region.
Alexandra Gardner, Associate Editor, NewMusicBox
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Alexandra Gardner is the associate editor for NewMusicBox.org and technical producer CounterstreamRadio.org. An active audio producer and engineer, she has provided production, consulting and training services for organizations and individuals, and most recently worked for National Public Radio, on programs such as All Things Considered and Performance Today.
Alex's compositions have been featured at festivals and venues around the world, including performances at the Aspen Music Festival, Warsaw Autumn Festival, MATA Festival of New Music, Centro de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, CrossSound Music Festival, Look and Listen Festival, Conservatory of Amsterdam, Beijing Modern Festival, Mobtown Modern, The Library of Congress, and The Kennedy Center. Her music has been commissioned and performed by ensembles and musicians such as Seattle Chamber Players, Percussions de Barcelona, SOLI Chamber Ensemble, bass clarinetist Harry Sparnaay, saxophonist Brian Sacawa, ETHEL, pianist Kathleen Supové, and Ne(x)tworks. She has been a composer-in-residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, and The MacDowell Colony. From 2002-2004 she was a visiting composer at the IUA/Phonos Foundation in Barcelona, Spain. Her most recent CD entitled Luminoso is released by Innova Recordings. Alexandra attended the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University (M.M.) and Vassar College (B.A.).
For more information, visit www.alexandragardner.net
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