Geary, Jason

Jason Geary is Distinguished Professor of Music and Dean of Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. He has also …

André, Naomi

Dr. Naomi André is Professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and the Residential College at the University of Michigan. She received her B.A. from Barnard College and M.A. and Ph.D. (Music: Musicology) from Harvard University. Her research focuses on opera and issues surrounding gender, voice, and race in […]

Ruth, Sebastian

Sebastian Ruth is a musician, educator, and organizer whose work explores new roles for music making in contemporary society. Sebastian is the Founder and Artistic Director of Community MusicWorks, a community based organization that builds cohesive urban community through music education and performance in Providence, Rhode Island. CMW’s programming includes a full season of chamber music […]

Brown, Wayne

On January 1, 2014, Wayne S. Brown was named President and CEO of Michigan Opera Theatre. Mr. Brown had been director of Music and Opera for the National Endowment for the Arts since 1997, where he managed NEA grants for music and opera projects and directed the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowships, the nation’s highest honor […]

Harvey, Raymond

Music Director, Moores Opera Center Associate Professor of Conducting, University of Houston Music Director Emeritus, Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra Raymond Harvey (Music Director of the Moores Opera Center) was born in New York City, and received his MM in choral conducting from Oberlin College and his DMA in orchestral conducting from Yale University. He served as […]

Okoye, Nkeiru

Hailed as “sublime” by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Nkeiru Okoye’s genre-bending compositions reflect a dizzying range of influences — Gilbert & Sullivan, the Gershwins, Sondheim, Copland, gospel, jazz, and Schoenberg. Okoye writes in both the opera/theatre and symphonic mediums; and her works have been performed on five continents. A musical storyteller, researcher, and historian, Okoye’s […]