LOS ANGELES PREMIEREFri, Feb 27

& Sat, Feb 28Freud Playhouse

8pm

RUNNING TIME: Approximately 75 minutes;

No intermission

PRE- AND POST-SHOW EVENTS: Pre-show interactive exhibit and film

screenings Fri and Sat in Freud Courtyard.

Sat Feb 28 post-show discussion moderated by David Kipen of Libros Schmibros.

CAP UCLA SPONSORS: Supported in part by the Kevin Jeske Young

Artist Fund, Henry Mancini Tribute Fund and National Endowment for the Arts. Additional

support provided by an Anonymous donor.

MEDIA SPONSOR:

Gabriel KahaneThe Ambassador

Directed by John Tiffany

Gabriel Kahane Vocals, Piano, Guitar, WurlitzerAlex Sopp Keyboards, Vocals, FlutesRob Moose Electric GuitarsCasey Foubert Electric Bass and ProgrammingTed Poor DrumsLaura Lutzke ViolinNathan Schram ViolaAndrea Lee Cello

Christine Jones Set DesignerJane Cox Lighting DesignerJoshua Higgason Video DesignerBart Fasbender Sound Effects Designer

Anchor Watch LLC Production ManagementMary-Susan Gregson Production Stage ManagerBrett Banakis Associate Set DesignerAnnie Tippe Assistant DirectorMary Ellen Stebbins Associate Lighting DesignerBrenndan McGuire Sound Engineer

MESSAGE FROM THE CENTER: Life in Los Angeles can be confounding and confronting as often as it is inspiring and culturally enthralling. We regularly exist here together in a sort of shared state of communal isolation. We, more often than not, spend a great deal of time alone in our cars, carving our own personal ant trails through this city of cities, sometimes as intrepid adventurers from east to west or north to south, sometimes as hibernators in our own particular neighborhood pockets of existence.

That drive-time isolation is perhaps why we are so prone to talk to one another about the routes we take and the time spent marking the distance between two places. Perhaps it pulls us out of the isolation and back into that state of shared existence, memory and exploration.

There’s something about this city that evokes feelings. Or as Gabriel Kahane said was part of the impetus for this work: “I wanted to know why the city made me feel so much.”

As we’ve collaborated with Gabriel and worked toward this weekend’s performances of The Ambassador, we’ve also invoked a keen sense of curiosity about our city and why it makes us feel so much, how it is reflected in the eyes of art and literature, the architecture around us and the perceptions of the people whose lives form the millions of intersecting trail lines on a map of L.A.

Looking through the lens of film and music and books, we invite you to share experiences and thoughts about Los Angeles through our interactive exhibits on site tonight. After the curtain falls on Saturday night, we’ll dive deeper into the concept of Los Angeles as literary muse as Gabriel is joined by L.A. Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne and author Richard Rayner, in a discussion titled Ten Million Aphorists in Search of a City moderated by David Kipen of iconic eastside bookstore Libros Schmibros.

Thank you to everyone who has shared music memories of L.A. through our #LAMusicMap project. Please continue to share on social media, let’s keep the conversation going.

Many Los Angeles artists have participated in our Los-Angeles centric Art in Action activities presented in conjunction with The Ambassador. Thanks to everyone who lent their creativity to this project!

FilmsEcho Park Film CenterThe Sound We See: A Los Angeles City SymphonyFilmmakers: Maya Abee, Juliette Allen, Bridgette Asturias, Andrew Becerra, Nicola Celada, Albert Celis, Brian Chavez, Kathy Choi, Danielle Dickerson, Hayley Elliot, Elena Gabbro, Cuauhtemoc Hernandez, Diana Hernandez, Marilyn Hernandez, Paola Hernandez, Anais Hinojosa, Ish Lipman, Danny Lougnaxay, Felix Martinez, James Noel, Alyssa Osorio, Emille Palamides, Ellie Parker, Chloe Reyes, Sam Ribakoff, Isabella Mae Robbins, Ashley Ruiz, Naima Sabur, Angelo Sanchez, John Stockburger, Aura Oropeza Tellez, Penelope Uribe Abee, Charles Valencia, Walter Vargas, Victoria Velasco, Bobby Villagomez, Kathryn Wilkins

OUT THE WINDOW, a program of FreewavesClean Square: by Jason Jenn and Roland Rodriguez#Lanature: by Julian Brummitt and Keelin S. ClarkTake Fountain: by Stephen van DyckGrapevine Land Scan: by Center for Land Use InterpretationJuan Fish Testimonial: by Arturo Rono-SantillanoCine(ma): by Paolo Davanzowww.out-the-window.orgwww.freewaves.org

Peter RandArtifact Los Angeles: Five Easy Stepswww.peterrandart.com

Special thanks to Joel Hurwit for the Los Angeles album art and to UCLA professor Brenda Stevenson, author of The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots who earlier this week participated in a special discussion with Gabriel Kahane about the importance of documentary storytelling and the way it metabolizes in different mediums.

And thank you, for being here with us tonight.

Commissioned by: BAM Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA Laguna Beach Music Festival

Development funded through the generous support of: Linda and Stuart Nelson

Additional supportprovided by: Jerry Kohl Ted and Mary Jo Shen Edward Helms Bronya and Andy Galef

Music from The Ambassador: Sony Masterworks

*Albums on Sale in the Freud Courtyard

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

GABRIEL KAHANEHailed by Rolling Stone as “one of the year’s very best albums”, Gabriel Kahane’s major label debut, The Ambassador (Sony Music Masterworks) is a meditation on the underbelly of Los Angeles seen through the lens of ten street addresses. Bruce Willis’ hair, detective fiction, modernist architecture, and race riots all provide fodder for this collection of songs that is as sonically varied as it is thematically focused. Gabriel was born in Venice Beach but spent his childhood on the East Coast and in Northern California. With the release of The Ambassador— produced by Kahane along with Ma! Johnson (St. Vincent), Casey Foubert (Sufjan Stevens), and Rob Moose (Bon Iver)— Gabriel turns his gaze toward his birthplace.

In December of 2014, Kahane and his band appeared at the BAM Harvey Theater in the critically-acclaimed NY premiere of the staged version of The Ambassador directed by Tony-winner John Tiffany (Once, Black Watch), and designed by Tony-winner Christine Jones (Spring Awakening, American Idiot). The Ambassador will be seen again this season at UCLA’s Freud Playhouse.

A tireless collaborator, Kahane’s recent credits include a track on this year’s Beck Song Reader (Warby Parker), an album that also features Jack White, Jarvis Cocker, Laura Marling, and Beck himself; appearances on Blake Mills’ Heigh Ho; several projects with

Sufjan Stevens; as well as performances and recordings Chris Thile of Punch Brothers, for whom Gabriel will be opening on tour throughout the U.S. this spring.

Dividing his time between the club and the concert hall, Kahane has been commissioned by, among others, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Carnegie Hall, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Kronos Quartet, and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, with whom he toured in the spring of 2013 performing Gabriel’s Guide to the 48 States, an hour-long cycle on texts from the WPA American Guide Series. He has appeared in recital with string quartet Brooklyn Rider at

Carnegie Hall, at the Library of Congress with fellow composer/performer Timo Andres, and on tour throughout North America with cellist Alisa Weilerstein.

Kahane’s musical February House received world premiere productions at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven and New York’s Public Theater in 2012; an original cast album was released on StorySound Records. Upcoming theater projects include commissions from the Public Theater in New York and Signature Theater in Arlington, VA, as well as a collaboration with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker.

He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

JOHN TIFFANY John Tiffany is Associate Director of the Royal Court Theatre. Credits include Hope and The Pass (Royal Court), Let the Right One In (Dundee Rep, Royal Court and West End. South Bank Show Sky Arts Award), The Glass Menagerie (A.R.T. & Broadway), Once (Broadway & West End. Tony Award for Best Director. Obie and Outer Critics’ Circle Award), Macbeth (also Broadway), Enquirer (co-directed with Vicky Featherstone), The Missing, Peter Pan, The House of Bernarda Alba, Transform Caithness: Hunter, Be Near Me, Nobody Will Ever Forgive Us, The Bacchae, Black Watch (Olivier Award, Best Director. Critics’ Circle award, Best Director. South Bank Show Award), Elizabeth Gordon Quinn, Home: Glasgow (National Theatre of Scorland, founding Associate Director), Jerusalem (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Las Chicas del Tres y Media Floppies (Granero Theatre, Mexico City; Edinburgh Fringe); If Destroyed True, Mercury Fur, The Straits, Helmet (Paines Plough, Associate Director); Gagarin Way, Abandonment, Among Unbroken Hearts, Passing Places (Traverse, Edinburgh). John Tiffany trained at Glasgow University gaining an MA in Theatre and Classics. From 2010-11 John was a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University.

CHRISTINE JONES Christine Jones is a Tony Award-winning set designer and the Artistic Director of the critically acclaimed Theatre for One, a

portable private performing arts space for one actor and one audience member. For director John Tiffany she designed Let the Right One In, which recently closed in London. She directed the sensational immersive nightclub dining experience Queen of the Night, which New York Magazine has called the “Hottest Nightlife Experience in town”. Her set design for American Idiot, A Punk Rock Musical directed by Michael Mayer, won the Tony Award for best set design in 2009, and in 2012, Jones made her debut at The Metropolitan Opera with her design for Rigoletto, set in 1960s Las Vegas. Her Broadway credits include Hands on a Hardbody; On a Clear Day; Spring Awakening (Tony Nomination); The Green Bird, with director Julie Taymor (Drama Desk Nomination); and Everyday Rapture, starring Sherie-Renee Scott. Jones has designed sets for Coraline, adapted from Neil Gaiman’s popular book with music by Stephen Merritt; The Book of Longing, based on the poems of Leonard Cohen, with music by Philip Glass (Lincoln Center Festival); The Onion Cellar (Elliot Norton Award); which she co-created with director Marcus Stern and The Dresden Dolls; Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare in the Park); Burn This, starring Ed Norton, Catherine Keener, Ty Burrell and Dallas Roberts (Signature Theatre); and True Love, for which she created The Zipper space, infamous for its use of car seats in the audience. Jones has designed numerous operas, including The Elephant Man (Minnesota Opera); Lucia de Lammermoor (New York City Opera); and Guilio Cesare (Houston Grand Opera). Her designs were featured in the 2008 exhibition Curtain Call: Celebrating a Century of Women Designers for Live Performance at Lincoln Center Library for Performing Arts. She has lectured at Princeton University and teaches at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

JANE COX Jane is a lighting designer based in Brooklyn. Exciting theater projects last season included Machinal (for which she was nominated for Tony and a Drama Desk award); All the Way; Dinner with Friends and Color Purple in London. In the previous season, Jane was awarded the Henry Hewes Design Award for her work on The Flick at Playwrights Horizons, as well as a Drama Desk nomination for her work on Sondheim’s Passion at CSC. Upcoming projects include Sondheim’s Allegro; Head Over Heels (a new musical by Jeff Whitty); Love and Sex at Lincoln Center, ToasT with Lemon Anderson at the Public Theater; an opera of R.U.R. at the

Prague Opera, and Hamlet in London with Benedict Cumberbatch. Opera designs include Lucia di Lammermoor at Sydney Opera House and Houston Grand Opera and Don Giovanni at New York City Opera. Jane designs regularly for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and has been a member of the Monica Bill Barnes dance company for fifteen years. She also teaches classes in light in artistic expression, theater design and collaboration at Princeton University, and has a working relationship with the Tisch Design Department at NYU.

JOSHUA HIGGASON Joshua Higgason’s recent designs include Radiolab’s Apocalyptical tour (Video and Scenic for Workhorse Design Co; WNYC); Platonov; Or the Disinherited (Video and Scenic; The Kitchen, NYC and La Jolla Playhouse); Powder Her Face (Video; New York City Opera); Ich, KurbisGeist (Video; Big Dance Theater); Sontag: Reborn (Scenic; The Builder’s Association); World Of Wires (Video and Lighting; The Kitchen, Poland tour, France tour, ICA-Boston); Bellona- Destroyer of Cities (Video; The Kitchen, France, ICA). Video Engineering for Planetarium (BAM; Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly, Bryce Dessner; Designer: Deborah Johnson for Candystations); Sufjan Stevens’ Age of Adz (Euro Tour; Designer: Candystations). He has taught interactive media workshops at Princeton, Duke, NYU, Bennington, and LIU: MFA.

BART FASBENDER Bart Fasbender’s New York credits include Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Bernard Jacobs and The Public), Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Storefront Church and Port Authority (Atlantic Theater Company); Lonely, I’m Not and Mr. and Mrs. Fitch (Second Stage Theatre); The Good Mother, Burning and Russian Transport (The New Group); The Long Shrift, The Revisionist, Ascuncion and The Aliens (Rattlestick), Apple Cove (Women’s Project); Three Changes and Drunken City (Playwrights Horizons); Graceland (LCT3); A Body of Water (Primary Stages). Regional: The Guthrie, The Old Globe, Williamstown Theatre Festival, New York Stage and Film, Barrington Stage Company, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Bay Street Theater, Center Theatre Group (Mark Taper Forum and Kirk Douglas Theatre), TheatreWorks Hartford, Virginia Shakespeare, Virginia Playwrights Theater and Two River Theater.

BRETT BANAKIS Brett J. Banakis’ upcoming projects include Big Love (Signature Theater) and OPC (American Repertory Theater). NYC: What’s It All About? (NYTW, Co-Design with Christine Jones); Titus Andronicus (Public Theater); Tamar and the River (Prospect Theater Co.); Happy Birthday, Lovers, Children, and Three Men on a Horse (TACT); And Baby Makes Seven (New Ohio); The Little Death: Vol. 1 (Ontological). Regional: As You Like It (Two River Theater), Oklahoma!, The Lion in Winter, Edith, and A Class Act (Berkshire Theatre Festival); Bashir Lazhar (Barrington Stage). As Associate Set Designer: The Last Ship, If/Then, Hands on a Hardbody, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Broadway); Rigoletto (Met Opera). Awards: Robert L. B. Tobin Director-Designer Showcase of OPERA America; “Young Designer to Watch,” LiveDesign Magazine. Education: NYU, UCLA.

BRENNDAN MCGUIRE Brenndan McGuire studied at the SOHN institute for Audio and Electronics and has been involved heavily with Live and Studio sound production since 1988. He recorded and produced over 100 records before becoming physically ill from the effects of multitrack recording in the early 2000’s, and now continues to mix for live concerts by such artists as Sufjan Stevens, Feist, Patti Smith, Lucius, Bahamas, Sam Roberts, James Vincent McMorrow and Gabriel Kahane, to name a few. Brenndan lives off-the-grid in a refurbished 1969 Airstream trailer and is a huge proponent of nano homes, doing design and fabrication of alternative housing, custom furniture and vehicles.

ANNIE TIPPE Annie Tippe is thrilled to be working with John and Gabriel on The Ambassador. Directing credits include Dave Malloy’s Ghost Quartet (The Bushwick Starr); Aaron/Marie (w. Rachel Chavkin, Under the Radar Incoming! Series; PRELUDE Festival; Ars Nova ANT Fest), I Heard Sex Noises (ANT Fest), Debutante. (Bernie Wohl Center; ANT Fest), A Quiet Sip of Coffee (Summerworks Festival & Wildside Festival, Canada), The Fall of Hotel Mudafier (SWIFT) and Dinosaur Play (HERE Arts). She was the Associate Director for the TEAM’s production of Mission Drift, Australia/Hong Kong Tour (dir. Rachel Chavkin). Williamstown Theater Directing Intern 2012, and a director for HERE Arts’ Smith & Tinker Writers Group 2013.

MARY ELLEN STEBBINS Mary Ellen Stebbins is an NYC-based lighting designer. Recent work: Columbine’s Paradise Theater (eighth blackbird--tour), The Wedding Singer (New York Film Academy), The Traveling Imaginary (Orbiting Human Circus--tour), The Seven (Columbia Stages), On the Verge (NewRep). NYC credits include work with Gotham Chamber Opera; Sightline; Atlantic Arts Foundation; Columbia Stages; Target Margin; Waterwell; Heiress; Royal Family; and Ritual Theatre. Regional credits include eighth blackbird; New Repertory Theatre; Peabody Essex Museum; Bristol Valley Theater; UCSD Dept of Music; Princeton University; and Interrobang. Mary Ellen is the Resident Lighting Designer for the Encounters Ensemble at the Peabody Essex Museum and also for Sightline Theater. Mary Ellen received the 2011 USITT Barbizon Lighting Design Award and was a 2009 Hangar Theatre Lab Company Design Fellow. She holds an MFA from Boston University and an AB from Harvard College.

ROB MOOSE Rob Moose has emerged in the last decade as one of the most sought -after instrumentalists, arrangers and producers of his generation. As violinist and guitarist, Moose has toured with Antony & the Johnsons, Sufjan Stevens, My Brightest Diamond, Beth Orton and Glen Hansard. In 2011, he joined Bon Iver, writing arrangements and recording strings for the group’s sophomore album. Highlights of that experience included sold-out concerts at Radio City Music

Hall, Wembley Arena and the Sydney Opera House, appearances on Saturday Night Live, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and the Colbert Report, a Gold record, and two Grammy wins for “Best New Artist” and “Best Alternative Album.” As violinist and violist, Moose is an active recording artist, having played on over 200 albums by artists ranging from Vampire Weekend to John Legend to Joshua Bell, as well as appearances on Grammy Award-winning albums by Arcade Fire and Loudon Wainwright III. Equally in demand as an arranger, his work has been performed or recorded by Alabama Shakes, The National, tUnE-yArDs, Interpol, St. Vincent, The Decemberists, Trey Anastasio, and Punch Brothers.

CASEY FOUBERT Casey Foubert is a producer, engineer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist currently living in Madison, Wisconsin. In addition to his work with Gabriel Kahane he has worked with Sufjan Stevens, Richard Swift, David Bazan, Damien Jurado, and many others.

ALEX SOPP Alex Sopp is the flutist of The Knights, yMusic, and NOW Ensemble, and frequently performs with the NY Philharmonic, Silk Road Ensemble, and International Contemporary Ensemble. She has recently made guest appearances with the Mariinsky Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Alex made her Carnegie Hall debut as a soloist with the NY Youth Symphony and was featured as a soloist with the NY Philharmonic under the direction of David Robertson. She has commissioned, premiered, recorded, and closely collaborated with the most exciting composers and songwriters of our time including Nico Muhly, Paul Simon, Philip Glass, Jonsí, Glen Hansard, Oswaldo Golijov, Gabriel Kahane, Ben Folds, Sufjan Stevens, The National, Björk, Dirty Projectors, Son Lux, and St. Vincent. In addition to her musical adventures, Alex is active as a visual artist and has done artwork for several albums, websites, as well as private commissions. Alex is a native of St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, and completed her education at The Juilliard School.

“The Ambassador is so much a piece in which cultural artifacts “talk” to one another, a piece in which I’ve written songs in response to books, films, and buildings, and there are many books that had a direct impact on its creation. The first four titles on this list offer a kind of genealogy of writing about Los Angeles. For many, Esther McCoy is the matriarch of L.A. architecture criticism, and one can draw a line through her work to the British architectural historian Reyner Banham and then to Mike Davis. Each has provided us at least one volume that is totemic in its impact on how we read Los Angeles.

Next comes Joan Didion, one of the great scribes of Southern California, and one of the most elegant prose stylists of the century. We Tell Ourselves... is a bit of a cheat, inasmuch as it’s a massive collection of several non-fiction books, but with a writer as significant as Didion, it seems unfair to have to choose just one.

Speaking of prose stylists, James M. Cain is, I think, unfairly neglected as a writer of direct and yet stylish sentences. Overshadowed by the rather more blunt Chandler, whom I also adore, Cain nevertheless left us with a handful of small masterpieces, foremost among them being Mildred Pierce. I’ve included Chandler’s The Long Goodbye as well, the most ambitious and autobiographical of the Marlowe detective novels, and the inspiration for the song Musso and Frank (6667 Hollywood Blvd.), featured in The Ambassador.

Finally, there’s the peculiar inclusion of the contemporary German novelist W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz. Though Sebald wrote primarily about Europe, and in particular post-war Germany’s struggle to make sense of the legacy of Nazism, his central concern as a writer seems to me to have been the question of how memory and place relate to one another, a concern that is at the heart of The Ambassador.”

- Gabriel Kahane

Photo by Josh Goleman

ARTIST BOOKSHELF

In keeping with our ongoing exploration into language and the written word, we’re asking artists on the season to share thoughts on what they’re reading and why. Gabriel Kahane shared a selection specifically related to the work you will see tonight. For more artist selections visit cap.ucla.edu/artists_bookshelf

• Piecing Together Los Angeles: An Esther McCoy Reader • - Esther McCoy• Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies - Reyner

Banham• City of Quartz - Mike Davis• The Ecology of Fear - Mike Davis• We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order to Live: Collected Non-

fiction - Joan Didion• Mildred Pierce - James M. Cain• The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler• Austerlitz - W.G. Sebal

TED POOR Upon graduating from the Eastman School of Music in 2003, drummer Ted Poor moved to New York City, where he has made a deep impression on the jazz and improvised music scene. Modern Drummer describes his playing as “adventurous, truly dynamic, and forward-thinking.” Jazz Review writes, “Ted has an uncanny ability to shape the music and a refreshingly unique, organic approach to playing the drums.” Ted has toured the world over and is a regular member of many bands, including those of Grammy award winning trumpeter Cuong Vu, guitarist Ben Monder, Todd Sickafoose, and the Respect Sextet. He leads several projects of his own including Mt. Varnum, Triggerfish, and the Ted Poor Quartet. As an in-demand sideman, Ted has appeared on dozens of recordings and has shared the stage with many world renowned artists such as Kurt Rosenwinkel, Bill Frisell, Myra Melford, Eric Revis, Kenny Werner, Chris Potter, Shara Worden, Ben Street, Aaron Parks, Maria Schneider, and Ralph Alessi. Ted is currently an Artist in Residence at the University of Washington in Seattle.

NATHAN SCHRAMNathan Schram is the violist of the Bryant Park Quartet as well as a member of the Carnegie Hall-trained ensemble Decoda. He has

been hailed by The New York Times as an “elegant soloist” with a sound “devotional with its liquid intensity.” Nathan explores other musical interests by playing with an array of adventurous ensembles such as Alarm Will Sound, ACME, New York Baroque Incorporated, Le Train Bleu, and the Wordless Orchestra. He is also a founding member of the jazz string trio Speed Bump, an ensemble devoted to improvisation and performing their own compositions. Nathan is the Founding Director of Musicambia, a New York-based initiative establishing a creative network of music conservatories within prisons and jails. In addition to their work in the U.S., Musicambia has collaborated with projects in Venezuela and Scotland.

LAURA LUTZKE Laura Lutzke enjoys a musically versatile career, with a passion for solo playing, chamber music and new ways of making music. She has performed and taught at the Caramoor, Bowdoin, and Birdfoot international music festivals. She also participates regularly in the Cervo Chamber Music festival in Italy, Saronic Chamber Music Festival in Poros, Greece, Lake Tahoe SummerFest in California, and Open Chamber Music at Prussia Cove. She is a current member of the critically-acclaimed American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME), based in New York City. She has collaborated with Gabriel Kahane, Johann Johannsson, Nico Muhly, Stars of the

Lid, A Winged Victory for the Sullen, Yann Tiersen, among others. Laura earned her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the Juilliard School as a student of Lewis Kaplan, and she has most recently completed a second Master of Music with Distinction with David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

ANDREA LEECellist Andrea Lee, who has been praised for her “elegant solo work” (New York Times) and “sublime” playing (Times Union), enjoys a busy freelance and teaching career in New York City. She makes frequent appearances with such ensembles as East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO), IRIS Orchestra, yMusic, the Knights and A Far Cry, with whom she recorded the Grammy-nominated album, Dreams and Prayers. She has participated in festivals in the U.S. and Europe, including Taos School of Music, Spoleto Festival USA, IMS Prussia Cove, Holland Music Sessions, and Banff. Her love for chamber music has led her to work closely with members of the Tokyo, Takacs, Guarneri, Borromeo, Cleveland, and Brentano Quartets, as well as collaborate in performance with members of the Borromeo, Jupiter, and Miami Quartets.

As a devoted teacher, Andrea serves on the faculties of the Chamber Music Conference of the East at Bennington College and the New York Philharmonic School Partnership Program. Her principal teachers include Richard Aaron, Yeesun Kim, and Timothy Eddy, and in masterclasses, she has received further guidance from Frans Helmerson, Janos Starker, Anner Bylsma, and Ralph Kirshbaum. She holds a BA in history with distinction from Yale University, whereupon graduating, she received the Bach Society Prize and the T. Whitney Blake Memorial Prize. She went on to earn graduate degrees in cello performance from New England Conservatory and Mannes College.

MARY SUE GREGSON Mary-Susan Gregson has stage managed over twenty-five productions for The New Victory Theater beginning with the Opening Celebration; she also opened the New 42nd season production coordinating for Lincoln Center Festival including Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Retrospective, Peony Pavilion, the Druid, Harold Pinter, Brian Friel, and Beckett Festivals. At BAM: Dance Africa 35th with John Malkovich, Sizwe Bansi is Dead, Tan Dun’s The Gate, Sufjan Steven’s BQE, and currently Gabriel Kahane’s The Ambassador. New York: 24 Hour Play Festival, New Island Festival on Governors Island, Divinamente Festival, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, The Prince & The Pauper, The Jazz Nativity, Breaking the Code, and Les Liaisons Dangereuses. For NJPAC: TD Moody Democracy of Jazz Festival, line producer for NJ Hall of Fame. Regional: Princeton Lewis Center for the Arts Dance Festivals, Montclair Peak Performances, McCarter Theatre, Yale Rep, Williamstown Theater Festival, Mass Moca, The Huntington, and the White House. Tours: Dance Theatre of Harlem, Elisa Monte, Jennifer Muller, Pilobolus and Forbidden Christmas starring Baryshnikov. St. Studios and The Duke.

The Ambassador images by Ben Cohen.

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