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A semi-private reading of the opera will take place at the Blue Building (222 E 46th St.), NYC. November 10 at 7pm.
To attend, please email wolf@underwolf.com.
Creative team
Noah K (composer) is a composer and saxophonist from Topanga, CA. His music has been performed at venues including Le Poisson Rouge, National Sawdust, The Stone and Seiji Ozawa Hall, among others, by ensembles including the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, JACK Quartet, SO Percussion, Contemporaneous and more. As a jazz musician, his band The Noah Kaplan Quartet has released three critically acclaimed albums for the iconic Swiss Jazz label HatHut Records, Descendants (2011), Cluster Swerve (2017) and Out Of The Hole (2020).
K co-leads the band Dollshot with his wife, Rosie. His song cycle, Lalande, written for the group, has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, WNYC’s New Sounds, and performed live in studio on WNYC’s Soundcheck, hosted by John Schaefer. He has scored for documentary and other new media projects, and collaborated with filmmaker Matt Mahurin and writer Hampton Fancher.
K received a PhD and an MFA in Music Composition from Princeton University where he was recipient of the Harold W. Dodds Honorific Fellowship as well as the Naumburg and Mark Nelson doctoral fellowships. He holds a B.M. with Honors in Jazz Performance from the New England Conservatory. He has received composition fellowships from Tanglewood and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra among others and has been Visiting Professor and Adjunct Professor at NYU’s Gallatin School, where he co-founded the 4th Wave Music Intensive.
Hampton Fancher (librettist) is a screenwriter, director, and former actor. He was born to a Mexican mother and an American father in East Los Angeles, California in 1938. Among his many credits, he wrote the screenplays for Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049, as well as The Mighty Quinn and The Minus Man, the latter of which he also directed. Described by Forbes as a “creative genius” and the Los Angeles Times as a “world-class raconteur,” Fancher was recently the subject of the highly praised documentary Escapes, directed by Michael Almereyda.
Mark DeChiazza (director) is a director whose multifaceted practice encompasses filmmaking, choreography, scenic and media design, and installation. His work has presented in national and international venues including Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lincoln Center, John F. Kennedy Center of the Arts, Guthrie Theater, Singapore International Festival of Arts, Prototype Festival, and Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art.
In 2019, with composer Shara Nova he co-created the massive outdoor music-performance work Look Around, with Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, featuring over 600 performers from over 30 local groups. Ocean Body, a 4-screen film and music installation he co-created with performers Helga Davis and Shara Nova, is currently exhibiting nationally at museums and galleries.
Rosie K (creative team) is a vocalist, sound designer and producer. In 2010, she co-founded Underwolf, a record label and production company which develops works for new media and live events. With Underwolf, she has directed the creation of albums and music videos and organized and curated an annual Summer Fest held at their pop-up space in Los Angeles, The Outhaus. She is currently working on the re-release of the 60’s pop art short film Beach Parking.
Recent performance highlights are Du Yun’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Angel’s Bone (Beth Morrison Projects) in Hong Kong and Beijing, and Noah K and Hampton Fancher’s The Fall of Zalam in Brooklyn, NY. Frequent collaborators include director Matt Mahurin (Tom Waits, U2); filmmaker Nesa Azimi; and designer/director Pablo Delcan. She writes and records with her band, Dollshot, whose album Lalande was released in 2019.