The Black Clown

A.R.T.: Crossing, Run AMOC! Festival. Deemed a “…singer of immense power and fervor…” by the LA Times and a “… charismatic, full-voiced bass-baritone…” by the New York Times, Davóne Tines commands a broad spectrum of opera and concert performance as a singer and creator. Highlights from last season include performances with the San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Symphony, Finnish National Opera, Opéra National de Paris, Orchestre National de France, BAM, Ojai Music Festival, London Symphony, and LA Philharmonic in collaborations with Kaija Saariaho, John Adams, Matt Aucoin, Caroline Shaw, and Peter Sellars. Upcoming engagements include the Teatro Real, Lincoln Center, San Francisco Symphony, Berlin Radio Orchestra, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dutch National Opera, and LA Philharmonic. Davóne is a founding core member of the American Modern Opera Company (AMOC) and the recipient of the 2018 Emerging Artists Award given by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Education/Training: AB, Harvard University (’09); Master of Music, The Juilliard School.

A.R.T.: Run AMOC! Festival. A Boston native and 2009 graduate of Harvard College, Michael Schachter is a composer, pianist, and scholar. In recent years, Michael’s music has been featured by ensembles such as the Minnesota Orchestra, the Knoxville Symphony, the Naples Philharmonic, the Ann Arbor Symphony, the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, Alarm Will Sound, the 21st Century Consort (the resident new music ensemble of the Smithsonian institution), and the New York Virtuoso Singers, in venues ranging from Carnegie Hall to the San Francisco Center for New Music. Additional highlights from current and future seasons include Were You There, a multimedia theater piece in collaboration with the American Modern Opera Company, as well as a violin concerto for the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra. His scholarly work on jazz, South Indian classical music, and music philosophy has been presented at national conferences and published in journals such as Music & Literature and Music Theory Online. He recently completed a term as the Mary F. Croushore Graduate Fellow at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities in Ann Arbor, where he lives with his wife, Allie, and his turbo charged tots, Ronan and Elliott.

A.R.T.: Run AMOC! Festival. A Boston native and 2009 graduate of Harvard College, Michael Schachter is a composer, pianist, and scholar. In recent years, Michael’s music has been featured by ensembles such as the Minnesota Orchestra, the Knoxville Symphony, the Naples Philharmonic, the Ann Arbor Symphony, the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, Alarm Will Sound, the 21st Century Consort (the resident new music ensemble of the Smithsonian institution), and the New York Virtuoso Singers, in venues ranging from Carnegie Hall to the San Francisco Center for New Music. Additional highlights from current and future seasons include Were You There, a multimedia theater piece in collaboration with the American Modern Opera Company, as well as a violin concerto for the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra. His scholarly work on jazz, South Indian classical music, and music philosophy has been presented at national conferences and published in journals such as Music & Literature and Music Theory Online. He recently completed a term as the Mary F. Croushore Graduate Fellow at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities in Ann Arbor, where he lives with his wife, Allie, and his turbo charged tots, Ronan and Elliott.

A.R.T.: Run AMOC! Festival. Work this season includes a new production of Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea at the Cincinnati Opera, Gluck’s Orfeo ed Eurydice and Matthew Aucoin’s Orphic Moment at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater, Monteverdi’s Il Ballo delle Ingrate with William Christie at Juilliard, Sondheim’s A Little Night Music at the Royal Theatre Carré in Amsterdam, Tyshawn Sorrey’s Perle Noir, starring Julia Bullock with text by Claudia Rankine, and Henze’s El Cimarrón, both at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His production of Cavalli’s La Calisto was hailed in Opera News as “one of the most elegant and imaginative shows seen in New York this season.” He co-directs and founded, with Matthew Aucoin, the American Modern Opera Company (AMOC). His productions have also been seen at the Aix-en-Provence Festival (Svadba), the Dutch National Opera (The New Prince—world premiere), La Monnaie (Les Mamelles de Tirésias), the Royal Opera House (Most of the Boys—world premiere, They Shoot Horses Don’t They), as well as on film in collaboration with the Academy Award-nominated director Mike Figgis, in nightclubs, and in the Supreme Court for a surprise birthday performance for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

(she/her) ART: Moby Dick, The Black Clown. Commissioned works on The Joffrey Ballet, Parsons Dance Company, Gibney Company. Honors: 2011 Princess Grace Award, 2004 Presidential Scholar in the Arts, 2019 IRNE nomination for Best Choreography (The Black Clown), 2004 PBS Documentary “American Talent,” Education/Training: BFA, The Juilliard School.

A.R.T.: Debut. Landon is a film composer and vocal arranger for theater, television, and film. Recent theater credits include: Crowns, McCarter Theatre Center, Long Wharf Theatre; The Christians, Steppenwolf Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage; Born For This: The BeBe Winans Story, Los Angeles, CA; Music Director: Tyler the Creator, NPR Tiny Desk Concert. Landon is currently building an Arts Center in his hometown of Fort Meade, FL to honor his mother who passed away in 2017 after a valiant battle with cancer. Love and Light to all!

A.R.T.: Debut. A director, designer, and performer based in New York City, Soto has presented works at Columbia University, The Guggenheim Museum, Kampnagel Hamburg, Pace Gallery, Palais de Tokyo, and Performa 09 and has been artist-in-residence at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York Live Arts, The Watermill Center, and Willem de Kooning Studio. Performances: Shara Nova (My Brightest Diamond) & Andrew Ondrejcak’s You Us We All, BAM Next Wave; Fifty Shades of Greige, Nowness. Design: Lucinda Childs: A Portrait (1963–2016), Royce Hall/UCLA, The Joyce Theater; Sulayman al Bassam’s The Petrol Station, ArtsEmerson, Kennedy Center. With Robert Wilson: Adam’s Passion, Einstein on the Beach, Garrincha, The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic, and Oedipus Rex. With Solange (as Associate Director and Costume Designer): Cosmic Journey/Orion’s Rise tour, Hollywood Bowl, Radio City; Scales, Chinati Foundation; Metatronia (Metatron’s Cube), Hammer Museum. Upcoming (October 2018): Mile-Long Opera (collaboration with Anne Carson, Claudia Rankine, David Lang, Ragnar Kjartarsson, and Diller & Scofidio), The High Line.

A.R.T.: Debut. John’s work includes designs for dance, theatre, music, fashion, and print. With Robert Wilson: EDDA, Det Norske Teatret Oslo, Cheek to Cheek Live! With Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga (PBS Great Performances). Opera: La Traviata, Orfeo ed Euridice, Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier; Tristan and Isolde, La Monnaie / de Munt (Brussels, upcoming in 2019). Theater (recent): Twelfth Night, Shakespeare in the Park, Delacorte Theatre. Music: Taylor Mac: A 24 Decade History of Popular Music, Solange Knowles // Cosmic Journey. Dance: Toss and Rogues (with choreographer Trisha Brown), Théâtre National de Chaillot, Paris; Available Light (with choreographer Lucinda Childs), Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles. Fashion: Givenchy S/S 2015, New York, Yeezy 3 by Kanye West, Madison Square Garden. With director Steven Klein: music videos “Chun Li” (Nicki Minaj) and “Wolves” (Kanye West).

A.R.T.: We Live in Cairo, The Black Clown. Broadway: Head Over Heels, The Band’s Visit (Tony and Drama Desk Awards), Amélie, Sunday in the Park With George, Allegiance, Gigi, Fun Home, On the Town, First Date, Follies (Tony and Drama Desk Nominations), Million Dollar Quartet. Regional: Marie, Dancing Still, 5th Avenue; Soft Power, Center Theatre Group; Candide, LA Opera; The Music Man, Little Shop of Horrors, Chess, Little Dancer, Kennedy Center. International:  Zorro, Moscow, Atlanta; Hinterm Horizont, Berlin. Opera: Silent Night, Washington National Opera; Sweeney Todd, Man of La Mancha, Portland Opera. Audio Consultant for Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Education: Yale University.

A.R.T.: Run AMOC! Festival. A Boston native and 2009 graduate of Harvard College, Michael Schachter is a composer, pianist, and scholar. In recent years, Michael’s music has been featured by ensembles such as the Minnesota Orchestra, the Knoxville Symphony, the Naples Philharmonic, the Ann Arbor Symphony, the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, Alarm Will Sound, the 21st Century Consort (the resident new music ensemble of the Smithsonian institution), and the New York Virtuoso Singers, in venues ranging from Carnegie Hall to the San Francisco Center for New Music. Additional highlights from current and future seasons include Were You There, a multimedia theater piece in collaboration with the American Modern Opera Company, as well as a violin concerto for the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra. His scholarly work on jazz, South Indian classical music, and music philosophy has been presented at national conferences and published in journals such as Music & Literature and Music Theory Online. He recently completed a term as the Mary F. Croushore Graduate Fellow at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities in Ann Arbor, where he lives with his wife, Allie, and his turbo charged tots, Ronan and Elliott.

A.R.T.: Debut. Landon is a film composer and vocal arranger for theater, television, and film. Recent theater credits include: Crowns, McCarter Theatre Center, Long Wharf Theatre; The Christians, Steppenwolf Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage; Born For This: The BeBe Winans Story, Los Angeles, CA; Music Director: Tyler the Creator, NPR Tiny Desk Concert. Landon is currently building an Arts Center in his hometown of Fort Meade, FL to honor his mother who passed away in 2017 after a valiant battle with cancer. Love and Light to all!

A.R.T.: Charlotte’s Web (Costume Design); Trans Scripts, Part I: The Women; Fingersmith; In the Body of the World; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812; Waitress; Crossing; The Heart of Robin Hood; All the Way; The Glass Menagerie; Pippin; Marie Antoinette; The Blue Flower; Cabaret; Death and the Powers; Best of Both Worlds; Donnie Darko; Julius Caesar; Copenhagen; The Communist Dracula Pageant. Broadway: Waitress, The Glass Menagerie. Regional: The Colored Museum, Huntington Theatre Company.

A.R.T.: Stage Manager: We Live in Cairo; Barber Shop Chronicles; The Black Clown; HEAR WORD! Naija Woman Talk True; Burn All Night; Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education; 1984; O.P.C.; The Shape She Makes; The Donkey Show. Assistant Stage Manager: Othello; ExtraOrdinary; Jagged Little Pill; Bedlam’s Sense & Sensibility; The Night of the Iguana; Fingersmith; RoosevElvis; Kansas City Choir Boy; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812; The Heart of Robin Hood; All the Way; The Glass Menagerie; The Lily’s Revenge; Once. Production Associate: Prometheus Bound; The Blue Flower; Cabaret. Education/​Training: Boston University College of Fine Arts (Summa cum laude).

A.R.T.: Debut. Landon is a film composer and vocal arranger for theater, television, and film. Recent theater credits include: Crowns, McCarter Theatre Center, Long Wharf Theatre; The Christians, Steppenwolf Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage; Born For This: The BeBe Winans Story, Los Angeles, CA; Music Director: Tyler the Creator, NPR Tiny Desk Concert. Landon is currently building an Arts Center in his hometown of Fort Meade, FL to honor his mother who passed away in 2017 after a valiant battle with cancer. Love and Light to all!

A.R.T.: Debut. Pianist, music director, composer, educator. Recent music direction work with Lyric Stage, Gloucester Stage, Northeastern University, and Greater Boston Stage Company, including orchestrations for world premiere musical Lobster Girl. Staff accompanist for Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Education/Training: BA, English and Music History/Theory (piano with Robert Shannon and Sanford Margolis), Oberlin College; MFA, Creative Writing, Emerson College.

A.R.T.: Debut. Trumpet player, educator, arranger, and composer. Performances with Orbert Davis, Talib Kweli, Michelle Williams, and Fantasia. John hit the ground running touring the world and has since played in most musical situations imaginable including small group jazz, big band, salsa, pit orchestra. Education/Training: Northern Illinois University. Teaching: Devoted to music education both in the classroom and privately.

A.R.T.: Debut. International Appearances: Bern Jazz Festival, International Jazz Day (Adelaide), Festival of New Trumpet. Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans winner. Education: Pursuing MM, Jazz Performance, The Juilliard School under the Artistic Leadership of Wynton Marsalis.

A.R.T.: Debut. Member: New England Conservatory’s Philharmonia, Wind Ensemble, New Music Ensemble; Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra. Performances: Pokorny Seminar; Michael Mulcahy Seminar; Southeastern Trombone Symposium. Awards: 2018 ITF Robert Marsteller Tenor Trombone Competition, Winner; 2017 International Trombone Association’s Trombone Quartet Competition (with quartet Boston Based), Winner. Education/Training: Pursuing BM, New England Conservatory ’19 with Toby Oft; Colin Williams (NY Philharmonic); Nathan Zgonc (Atlanta Symphony).

A.R.T.: Debut. Saxophonist, composer, and educator. Performances and/or recordings with Jennifer Hudson, Chance the Rapper, Martha Reeves, The Four Tops, and others. International performances in Canada, Poland, Belize, Taiwan. Album: Foundation. Endorsing artist: JodyJazz Saxophone Mouthpieces.

A.R.T.: Debut. Isaiah Johnson is a native of Brooklyn, New York. He started playing clarinet at the age of 11 and decided that he wanted to be a woodwind specialist at the age of 19 and would go on to play  several flutes, clarinets, saxophones, and oboe. He moved to Boston to attend the New England Conservatory as a graduate student and is very much enjoying the city of Boston.

A.R.T.: Debut. Performances with Thad Wilson Jazz Orchestra; Roy Gaines; Roy Hargrove, RH Factor, and the Roy Hargrove Big Band. Album (Bandleader): Overt Negritude. Training: Hamiet Bluiett, Ronnie Cuber, Gary Smulyan (baritone saxophone); Bruce Williams, Mark Gross, Steve Wilson, Vincent Herring (alto saxophone); Greg Tardy, Wayne Escoffery, Paul Carr, Lorenz Wheatley (tenor saxophone). Teaching: Conducts numerous demonstrations, clinics, and workshops internationally.

A.R.T.: Debut. Opera: Voodoo, Harlem Opera Theater, Morningside Opera, Harlem Chamber Players. Collaborations with Alicia Hall Moran, Jason Moran. Performances: Brooklyn’s National Sawdust; Beijing’s Peking University; Art Institute of Chicago; C-SPAN’s “Book TV”; Charleston’s Colour of Music Festival; Blue Note Jazz Festival; Ray Lustig’s Figments(premiere). Album: Night Triptych, Duo Noire guitar ensemble’s Women of Guitar Commissioning Project. Education: Yale School of Music, University of Chicago. Faculty: Concordia College Conservatory, Diller-Quaile School of Music.

A.R.T.: Debut. Drummer, percussionist, and composer. Performances with Claudio Roditi, Arturo O’Farrill, Oran Etkin, Jason Palmer. US and International tours (Asia, Europe, Central America). Mario integrates visual art, literature, comedy, and film into his work and does not discriminate by genre or medium. He believes in music as a means of propagating community, connecting people, and stimulating the brain and the heart. Education: New England Conservatory (studied with Billy Hart, Cecil McBee, Jason Moran).

A.R.T.: SIX, We Live in Cairo, ExtraOrdinary, The Black Clown, Jagged Little Pill (Bass alternate). Theater: Ogunquit Playhouse, North Shore Music Theater, Lyric Stage Company, Emerson College. Orchestra Performance: Plymouth Philharmonic (principal Bass), Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Emmanuel Music, Odyssey Opera, Cape Symphony, Indian Hill Symphony Orchestra. Education: MM, Classical Performance, New England Conservatory; BS, Physics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

A.R.T.: Debut. Opera (Soprano): The Violet Hour, The Life of Leontyne Price (playwright/performer), South Shore Opera Company of Chicago; Show Boat (Lady on the Levee), Porgy and Bess (Lily), Lyric Opera of Chicago; Afterword, the AACM (as) Opera (by George Lewis). Regional: Beauty and the Beast (Madame de la Grande Bouche), Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Porgy and Bess (Lily), The Court Theatre; The Nativity (Aunt Elizabeth), Goodman Theatre/Congo Square Theatre. International: Universal Studios Japan. Educational: Dead Man Walking(Sister Rose), Northwestern. Performance Art: Manifestos 2 (by Charles Gaines), RedCAT Museum. Other: Teaching Assistant, Goodman Theater/Disney Musicals. Education/Training: MA, Northwestern University.