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Paul Ayres
Abbie Betinis
Matthew Culloton
Martha Hill Duncan
Edward Eicker
Frederick Frahm
Christopher Gable
Jocelyn Hagen
Norman Mathews
Scott Robinson
Wayland Rogers
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Norman
Mathews
Norman Mathews’s
art songs were performed at The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
in Washington, DC, in 2003. His song cycle Songs of the Poet
set to Walt Whitman poems, has been recorded by Munich Opera tenor Gregory
Wiest on Capstone Records (CPS 8646) and has
been performed around the world. The cycle was also featured in a program
entitled Whitman and Music presented by The American Composers Orchestra.
His song The Last Invocation received the Recognition of Excellence
Award at the 2003 Diana Barnhart American Art Song Competition. Mathews
has also written for symphony orchestra, jazz performers, and the musical
theatre.
You Might As Well Live, Mathews’s one-person musical
play starring Karen Mason and based on the writings of Dorothy Parker,
has been performed at the Harris Theatre of Music and Dance as part
of the Chicago Humanities Festival and was seen at The New York Musical
Theatre Festival. The play was awarded a grant from the Ludwig Vogelstein
Foundation. Somebody Write Me a Song, his cabaret review written
with lyricist Patty Seyburn was performed by Debbie Gravitte, Liz Callaway,
and Peter Samuel. Lost Empires, a new musical based on the
J. B. Priestley novel, written with co-book writer Todd Lehman and lyricist
Patty Seyburn, is slated for a reading at The York Theatre in New York
City in 2006. A demo CD for Lost Empires features Tony Award-winner
Michele Pawk, John Dossett, Danny Gurwin, and Brynn O’Malley.
Mathews holds a BA in music from Hunter College and an MA in music from
New York University. His composition teachers have included Richard
Hundley, Richard Danielpour, and Charles Turner. He has won several
ASCAP awards.
For more info visit www.normanmathews.com.
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