Paul Moravec
Paul Moravec, winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in Music, has composed over 100 orchestral, chamber, choral, lyric, film and electro-acoustic compositions. His music has been described as “tuneful, ebullient and wonderfully energetic” (San Francisco Chronicle), “riveting and fascinating” (NPR) and “assured, virtuosic” (The Wall Street Journal). Frequently commissioned by noted soloists, ensembles and major music institutions throughout the U.S., Moravec’s recent output has been prolific, and his 2011-2012 season featured 11 world premieres. He has received numerous awards including the Rome Prize, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation, and honors from the American Academy of Arts & Letters including the Academy’s 2012 Arts Award in Music. A graduate of both Harvard and Columbia Universities, Moravec currently serves as University Professor at Adelphi University, and from 2007-2009, he was also the artist-in-residence with the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. His music is recorded on Naxos, Dorian Records, Endeavour Classics, BMG/RCA Red Seal, BMOP/sound and Albany Records. Moravec’s music is published exclusively by Subito Music Corporation.

Mark Campbell
Mark Campbell (librettist/lyricist). Operas: Silent Night, Volpone, Later the Same Evening, Bastianello/Lucrezia, The Inspector, Rappahannock County, A Letter to East 11th Street, Three Lost Chords. Musicals: Songs from an Unmade Bed, Splendora, Chang & Eng, The Audience. Awards: Libretto for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Music, a GRAMMY nomination, three Drama Desk Award nominations, two Richard Rodgers Awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a New York Foundation for the Arts Playwriting Fellowship, an NEA, first recipient of the Kleban Foundation Award for Lyricist. Composers collaborated with: William Bolcom, Ricky Ian Gordon, Jake Heggie, Martin Hennessy, Paul Moravec, John Musto, Kevin Puts, Richard Peaslee, Michael Torke. http://www.markcampbellwords.com

Susanna Phillips
Susanna Phillips, winner of the Metropolitan Opera’s 2010 Beverly Sills Artist Award, returns to the Met in the 2012-2013 season to perform Donna Anna in Don Giovanni. Other season highlights include Phillips’ return to The Santa Fe Opera as the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro, and performances of Previn’s A Streetcar Named Desire opposite Renée Fleming at Carnegie Hall and with Lyric Opera of Chicago. In 2005, she won four of the world’s leading vocal competitions: Operalia, the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the MacAllister Awards and the George London Foundation. She is a regular on the stages of the Met, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Minnesota Opera, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, and has been seen on PBS in their live telecast of the opening of the 2011 Mostly Mozart Festival. Phillips also released her debut solo album, Paysages, in 2011 on Bridge Records.

Myra Huang
Acclaimed by Opera News as being “among the top accompanists of her generation,” and "... a colouristic tour de force…," pianist Myra Huang regularly performs in recitals and chamber music concerts around the world. Venues include Carnegie Hall, The Supreme Court for the Supreme Court Justices, the Metropolitan Museum, La Scala in Milan and the Metropolitan Opera House for the Metropolitan Opera National Council semi-finals. Huang has served on the music staffs of the Washington National Opera, New York City Opera and Opera Pacific. From 2006 until 2008, she was a member of the music staff at the Palau De Les Arts in Valencia, Spain, where she worked closely with the company’s artistic director, Lorin Maazel, and director Zubin Mehta.  She is a staff pianist for the Operalia competition, directed by Plácido Domingo and at opera houses, including La Scala in Milan, Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, the Opera House of the National Grand Theater in Beijing and Teatro Real in Madrid. Of her recent discography, her disc Winter Words with tenor Nicholas Phan was voted by Anthony Tommasini of The New York Times to be amongst the top classical recordings of 2011, along with The Boston Globe, The Bay Area Reporter, Time Out Magazine and The New Yorker. Huang has served as the head of music at New York City Opera since the 2011-2012 season.