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Composing Activism - Melissa Dunphy

Opera Uprising

Release Date: 02/09/2022

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Opera Uprising

Thank you for joining us on this journey. Now it's time to turn the page and start a new chapter.  Please keep in touch: Thank you to all the wonderful voices that have graced this podcast with your thoughts, ideas, and vision over the past couple years. Thank you to my staff of wonderful assistants who helped keep me moving along the way. Thanks to Clawson Solutions Group, () who assisted with podcast production during these two seasons. And, lastly, and most of all ... thank you to you, who's listened in, and given me, and this topic your time.  Keep in touch, great things are...

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Leaning on others, with Ellen Broen show art Leaning on others, with Ellen Broen

Opera Uprising

Ellen Broen is a certified life and entrepreneurship coach for creative business owners and industry leaders who are ready toi make breakthroughs in their lives and businesses. Ellen triple-majored and graduated with a 4.0 grade average, sang operas in Italy, performed jazz in Austraila, and lived in France. She started her own busness while getting her masters and left higher education debt-free.  Ellen is a Professional Certified Coach through the International Coach Federation with a private practice, group program, and workshop series. She's a graduate of the Accomplishment Coaching...

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Reemergence with Ann Moss show art Reemergence with Ann Moss

Opera Uprising

Soprano Ann Moss is an acclaimed recording artist and champion of contemporary vocal music who performs and collaborates with a dynamic array of living composers. Often described as a "fearless performer” of some of the most challenging music of our time, her high, flexible voice has been singled out by Opera News for “beautifully pure floated high notes” and by San Francisco Classical Voice for “powerful expression” … “clear, silvery tones and passionate sweetness." Mike Telin of Cleveland Classical writes, her “long fluid lines are exquisite.” In addition to working closely...

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Equal Pay and Change with Elizabeth Rowe show art Equal Pay and Change with Elizabeth Rowe

Opera Uprising

Elizabeth Rowe is a Leadership and High-Performance coach who brings the creativity, discipline, nuance and courage of a world-class performing artist into the coaching conversation.  Elizabeth's coaching practice helps high achievers across all industries learn to thrive in demanding work environments and successfully navigate career or personal transitions, all while remaining true to themselves.  She is also the principal flutist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a social justice advocate, and a public speaker. After her landmark equal pay in 2018 The Boston Globe honored her as...

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The Business of Opera with Elizabeth Bachman show art The Business of Opera with Elizabeth Bachman

Opera Uprising

Elizabeth Bachman is THE go-to person for advanced level training in Speaking, Presentation Skills, Sales and Leadership. With a lifetime spent perfecting the art of presenting, she helps high-level clients master a message that brings * the Funding they need, * the Allies they want and * the Recognition they deserve. A sought-after speaker and strategist in Silicon Valley – as well as nationally and internationally – Elizabeth works with leaders and influencers who need to become concise and compelling presenters. She helps them...

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Exploring the Soul with Maren Montalbano show art Exploring the Soul with Maren Montalbano

Opera Uprising

Maren Montalbano began her vocal career with the  at age seven, and has been singing ever since. A graduate of both  and , Ms. Montalbano can be heard in three GRAMMY Award-winning albums: John Adams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning work,  (2005), and Gavin Bryars’  (2018), and Lansing McLoskey’s  (2019), on which she is a featured soloist. She recorded Douglas Cuomo’s opera Arjuna’s Dilemma with Anonymous 4 members Susan Hellauer and Jacqueline Horner, which was released in 2008 to critical acclaim.  She appears on over a...

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Allyship in Opera show art Allyship in Opera

Opera Uprising

Laura Hutchinson (Pronouns: She/They) has rarely followed the path well-trod. Some would say she has taken lots of detours, but each path she has taken has led her to new experiences and new perspectives that she is able to bring along her journey. Laura has a Master of Science in Education, focused on college student personnel and has worked closely with college students for more than a decade. She has worked in corporate finance, hospitality, retail, faith-based non-profit, and higher education. These diverse experiences have led Laura to build relationships with many types of people. The...

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Community and Opera with Megan Ihnen show art Community and Opera with Megan Ihnen

Opera Uprising

Megan Ihnen is a “new music force of nature.” The act of live performance is integral to Megan’s work and her performances thrive on elaborate sound worlds and fully-developed dramatic interpretations. Through narrative and non-narrative musical storytelling, she explores the subjects of memory, nostalgia, the perception of time, and relationships. Whether through chamber music, staged recitals, opera, or large ensemble soloist work, she emphasizes the full range of vocal sounds, timbres, colors, and uses that characterize the 21st century voice. Megan is a prolific new music vocalist...

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Family and Opera with Torlef Borsting and Cass Panuska show art Family and Opera with Torlef Borsting and Cass Panuska

Opera Uprising

Cass loves singing and connecting with people, and she believes that experiencing the power of the human voice can initiate emotional catharsis, joy, transformation, inspiration, and even healing. she was fortunate to grow up in a small community where the traditions of storytelling and music-making run deep. As a child, Cass would go to ceilidhs – parties – and the live music would prompt everyone in the room to jump up and step dance or square dance, joining in the fun. Cass has kept this love of music with her as she studied classical singing and embarked on her own professional...

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Taking the Honesty Pill with Chris Still show art Taking the Honesty Pill with Chris Still

Opera Uprising

As a college student, Chris assumed that winning a job in one of the world’s great orchestras came with all the standard perks (like vacations, mortgages, and college funds for his kids). So he worked hard and sacrificed free time for years and years until he won his dream job.  And while Chris was incredibly proud and honored to play trumpet with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the high cost of living was keeping him from getting anywhere close to enjoying those perks (vacations/mortgages/college funds for his kids). Now, the high cost of living wasn’t Chris’s only problem. You see,...

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Websites: www.melissadunphy.com
www.boghouse.thehannah.org
www.gonzalescantata.com

Born in Australia and raised in an immigrant family, Melissa Dunphy herself immigrated to the United States in 2003 and has since become an award‐winning and acclaimed composer specializing in vocal, political, and theatrical music. She first came to national attention when her large‐scale work the Gonzales Cantata was featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, National Review, Fox News, and on The Rachel Maddow Show. Other notable works include the song cycle Tesla's Pigeon, which won first place in the NATS Art Song Composition Award, and choral work What do you think I fought for at Omaha Beach? which won the Simon Carrington Chamber Singers Competition and has been performed nationally by ensembles including Chanticleer and Cantus. Dunphy is the recipient of a 2020 Opera America Discovery Grant for Alice Tierney, a new opera commission by Oberlin Conservatory set to premiere in 2023. She has been composer‐in‐residence for the Immaculata Symphony Orchestra, Volti, and the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus, and her commissions include works for VOCES8, Mendelssohn Chorus, and the Kennett Symphony. Dunphy is also a Barrymore Award‐nominated theater composer and is Director of Music Composition for the O'Neill National Puppetry Conference. Dunphy has a Ph.D. in composition from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.M. from West Chester University and is on faculty at Rutgers University. She is president of the board of directors for Young Women Composers and serves on the board of Lyric Fest. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband, Matt; the Dunphys are currently the owners and developers of the Hannah Callowhill Stage, a new performance venue in Old City Philadelphia which they hope to open in 2022, and co‐hosts of the popular podcast The Boghouse about their adventures in Philadelphia colonial archaeology.


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