School of Music

Shelby Banks is an American soprano from New York who has performed extensively throughout the United States and abroad in operas, concerts and recitals. She is a successful entrepreneur, as well as a business and creative consultant to individuals and organizations. With more than twenty years of small business expertise in infrastructure, credit solutions, strategic planning and development, Shelby has worked for such companies as Chase, PNC Bank, Dow Jones and Bank of NY, and helps to secure over five million dollars annually in lending, sponsorships and grants for individual artists and business owners. Shelby is an Adjunct Professor with the City of New York and the host of “The Business Savvy Artist Series”. Her most recently launched business is Campbell & Carr LLC, an online cultural apothecary that offers handcrafted teas and specialty items from around the world.

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Dr. Hwansoo Kim
Associate Professor of Religious Studies,
Yale University

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Anna Luisa Petrisko (Experimental Sound Practices MFA 2014) is a Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary artist working in experimental opera, video art, body-based sculpture, and immersive media. Her work explores future and ancient ideas at a non-linear tempo, creating environments that are as much invested in the sacred as they are in technological speculation. Collaborating with many artists, she sees shared work as a way to form relationships and cultural communion. She has exhibited and performed at LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), Hammer Museum, REDCAT, LACMA, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and The Music Center. She is a MAP Fund recipient and has been an artist-in-residence at Yaddo, Coaxial Arts Foundation, and Echo Park Film Center. As a faculty member in the Art, Media, and Design department at California State University San Marcos, she teaches courses in Video Art and Sound Design.

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A five-time EMMY winner, Jeff Beal’s improvisatory method, sense of timing and sophistication have made him a favorite of directors including Ed Harris (POLLOCK and APPALOOSA), David Fincher (HOUSE OF CARDS), Oliver Stone (JFK REVISITED, THE PUTIN INTERVIEWS), and Lauren Greenfeld (THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES, GENERATION WEALTH).  Documentarians also appreciate this flexibility, and he has scored many, including BLACKFISH, THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING,  WEINER,  Al Gore’s AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL, THE BLEEDING EDGE, and BOSTON.  His dramatic scoring credits include HBO’s ROME, CARNIVÀLE, THE NEWSROOM, USA’s MONK and Netflix HOUSE OF CARDS.

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In this workshop Daniel proposes us to explore different aspects of the creative process with brass instruments by reconceptualization of the practice, enhancing sound resources and instrument reconfiguration.

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Composer Alex Shapiro is best known for her adventurous, genre-blind large ensemble electroacoustic works that seamlessly meld live and recorded sounds, and often include striking visual and physical elements. Published by her company Activist Music LLC, her works are performed and broadcast daily, and can be found on over thirty commercial releases from record labels around the world. Ms. Shapiro has served as the Symphonic & Concert writer member on the Board of Directors of ASCAP since 2014, and is a board member of the ASCAP Foundation and The Aaron Copland Fund for Music. Living on the water’s edge of Washington State's remote San Juan Island, when she's not writing Alex can be found photographing the wildlife that surrounds her, as seen on her website.

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Tim Berne was born in Syracuse, New York, United States. He has said that he had no interest in playing an instrument until he attended Lewis & Clark College in Oregon. Hearing the album Dogon A.D. (1972) by Julius Hemphill turned his attention toward jazz. He was a fan of rhythm and blues, and it seemed to him that Hemphill was playing jazz with the soulfulness of R&B. In 1974, he went to New York to find Hemphill, who gave him saxophone lessons and advice on how to manage his career. Berne started the record label Empire in 1979.

 

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