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CANTO PRIMO

Claire Fedoruk

Elissa Johnston

Anna Schubert

CANTO SECONDO

Hayden Eberhart

Bethanie Peregrine

Andrea Zomorodian

ALTO PRIMO

Shawn Kirchner

Niké St. Clair

Michele Hemmings

ALTO SECONDO

Callista Ho man-Campbell

Michael Lichtenauer

Adriana Manfredi

TENOR PRIMO

Matthew Brown

Luc Kleiner

Adrien Redford

TENOR SECONDO

Jon Lee Keenan

Brett McDermid

Shuo Zhai

BASSO

Scott Gra

James Hayden

Chung Uk Lee

TOURING PRODUCTION STAFF

Jean Davidson,

President & CEO

Andrew Brown,

Chief Operating O cer

Jenny Wong,

Associate Conductor

Susie McDermid,

Tour Manager

Pamela Salling,

Stage Manager

David Rakita,

Production Assistant

GRANT GERSHON,

conductor

Hailed for his adventurous and bold artistic

leadership and for eliciting technically precise

and expressive performances from musicians,

Grant Gershon is currently in his th season

as the Kiki & David Gindler Artistic Director

of the Los Angeles Master Chorale. During his

tenure, Gershon has led more than

perfor-

mances at Walt Disney Concert Hall. A fervent

champion of new music, he has led world-pre-

miere performances of major works by John

Adams, Esa-Pekka Salonen, David Lang, Louis

Andriessen, Christopher Rouse, Steve Reich,

Morten Lauridsen, Ricky Ian Gordon, Gabrie-

la Lena Frank, Shawn Kirchner, Ellen Reid, and

Chinary Ung, among many others. Gershon is

also the Resident Conductor of Los Angeles Op-

era. He made his debut with the company with

Verdi’s

La traviata

and has subsequently

conducted Catán’s

Il Postino

and

Florencia en el

Amazonas

, Puccini’s

Madama Butter y

, Bizet’s

Carmen

and

e Pearl Fishers,

Bernstein’s

Won-

derful Town

, and O enbach’s

e Tales of Ho -

mann

. He will conduct the West Coast premiere

of Philip Glass’s

Satyagraha

with the company

this fall. In November

, he conducted the

world premiere of Adams’s

Girls of the Golden

West

for San Francisco Opera with director Pe-

ter Sellars. In New York, Gershon has appeared

at Carnegie Hall and at Trinity Wall Street, as

well as on the

Great Performers

series at Lincoln

Center. Other major appearances include per-

formances at the Ravinia, Aspen, Edinburgh,

Helsinki, Salzburg, and Vienna Festivals. He has

worked closely with numerous conductors, in-

cluding Claudio Abbado, Pierre Boulez, James

Conlon, Gustavo Dudamel, LorinMaazel, Zubin

Mehta, Simon Rattle, and his mentor, Esa-Pekka

Salonen. His discography includes two Gram-

my-nominated recordings—Sondheim’s

Swee-

ney Todd

and Ligeti’s

Grand Macabre

—six com-

mercial recordings with the LAMC, and two

live performance albums. He has also led the

LAMC in performances for several major lm

soundtracks, including

Star Wars: e Last Jedi

at the request of composer John Williams.

PETER SELLARS,

director

Peter Sellars has gained international renown

for his groundbreaking and transformative in-

terpretations of artistic masterpieces and for

collaborative projects with an extraordinary

range of creative artists. He has staged operas at

the Canadian Opera Company, Dutch National

Opera, English National Opera, Lyric Opera of

Chicago, Paris National Opera, and the Salzburg

Festival, among others. He has collaborated

on the creation of many works with compos-

er John Adams, including

Nixon in China

Death of Klingho er

El Niño

Doctor Atomic

Flowering Tree

, and

e Gospel According to the

Other Mary

. Inspired by the compositions of

Kaija Saariaho, Sellars has guided the creation

of productions of her work that have expanded

the repertoire of modern opera. Recent projects

include a production of Mozart’s

La clemenza di

Tito

at the Salzburg Festival, a concert staging of

Janáček’s

e Cunning Little Vixen

with the Ber-

lin Philharmonic, and the premiere of the latest

Adams/Sellars collaboration,

Girls of the Golden

West

, at San Francisco Opera. Earlier this sum-

mer Sellars created a new production of

Doctor

Atomic

for Santa Fe Opera. Sellars has led sev-

eral major arts festivals, including the

and

Los Angeles Festivals,

Adelaide Arts

Festival, and

Ojai Music Festival. In

he was artistic director of New Crowned Hope,

a month-long festival in Vienna for which he in-

vited artists from diverse cultural backgrounds

to create new works of music, theater, dance,

lm, visual arts, and architecture in celebration

of Mozart’s

th anniversary. Sellars is a Dis-

tinguished Professor in UCLA’s Department of

World Arts and Cultures and a resident cura-

tor of the Telluride Film Festival, and he was a

mentor for the Rolex Arts Initiative. His honors

include a MacArthur Fellowship, the Erasmus

Prize for contributions to European culture, and

the Gish Prize, and he is a member of the Amer-

ican Academy of Arts and Sciences. In

, he

was awarded the Polar Music Prize and named

Artist of the Year by

Musical America

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