AOP alum George Lam named Chautauqua Opera Company's newest Composer-in-Residence
Chautauqua Opera Company appoints AOP alumnus, George Lam, as its new Composer-in-Residence.
American Opera Projects and Chautauqua Opera are proud to announce George Lam as the upcoming composer-in-residence for Chautauqua Opera's 2018 season. This is our third year of a multi-year collaboration with Chautauqua Opera that invites one alumnus from AOP's Composers & the Voice Fellowship program to Chautauqua Institution for the summer and includes three commissions which are premiered by Chautauqua Opera each season.
To learn more about the Composer-in-Residence program and this year's composer, please visit http://chq.org/opera-about/composer-in-residence-program.
In July/August 2016, American Opera Projects and Chautauqua Opera launched a multi-year Composer-in-Residence initiative. Each summer one alumni of AOP's Composers & the Voice Fellowship will be invited to be in residence for Chautauqua Opera's entire 8-week season. The Composer-in-Residence will be a prominent public face for the Chautauqua Opera, speaking passionately about the company's season, and exploring the role of a composer in today's society.
AOP will commission three pieces from the Composer-in-Residence-- 2 for voice and piano, and 1 for voice and orchestra-- which will be premiered during Chautauqua Opera's season, by members of its Young Artist Program, and then be presented in AOP's subsequent New York City season. With texts drawn from and inspired by lecturers and speakers at the Chautauqua Institution, these new works will first appear on the "Artsongs in the Afternoon" recital series and the Opera Highlights concert with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra.
“When an audience knows the creator, they become immediately invested in his or her creations,” Steven Osgood said. “This is the kind of relationship I see being forged throughout the opera community nationwide, and I look forward to sharing it with CHQ.
About the Chautauqua Opera Company
Founded in 1929, The Chautauqua Opera Company is North America's oldest continuously operating summer opera company and 4th oldest opera company after the Metropolitan Opera, Cincinnati Opera and San Francisco Opera. The Chautauqua Opera Company offers more than 40 operatic events each season, including fully staged productions in Chautauqua Institution's 4000-seat Amphitheater and in the historic 1,300-seat Norton Hall, Concerts with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, weekly recitals, Music Theater Revues, Opera Scenes programs, and operatic revues for young audiences. Chautauqua Opera productions feature internationally recognized guest artists as well as promising young singers from our Young Artist Program.
About American Opera Projects
At the forefront of the contemporary opera movement for a quarter-century, AOP creates, develops and presents opera and music theatre projects collaborating with young, rising and established artists in the field. AOP has been a producer on over 30 world premieres, including Kaminsky/Reed/Campbell's As One (BAM 2014), Lera Auerbach's The Blind (Lincoln Center Festival 2013), Davis/Pelsue’s Hagoromo (BAM 2015 Next Wave Festival), a dance opera starring Wendy Whelan and Jock Soto, and Paterson/Cote’s Three Way (Nashville Opera and BAM 2017). www.aopopera.org
AOP Contact: Matt Gray, AOP Producing Director, 718-398-4024, mgray@operaprojects.org