Lowell Liebermann
Lowell Liebermann is one of America’s most frequently performed and recorded composers. Orchestras worldwide have played Liebermann's works, as have distinguished artists including Sir James Galway, Steven Isserlis, Susan Graham, Charles Dutoit, James Levine, Andrew Litton, Msistislav Rostropovich and many others. His compositions have been released on compact disc by more than 40 labels. His Piano Concerto No.2, Op.36, recorded by Stephen Hough and the BBC Scottish Symphony with the composer conducting, received a GRAMMY nomination for “Best Contemporary Classical Composition.” Liebermann has written two operas, both premiered to great audience and critical acclaim: The Picture of Dorian Gray, commissioned and premiered by the Monte-Carlo Opera, and Miss Lonelyhearts, with a libretto by J. D. McClatchy after Nathanael West’s novel, commissioned by the Juilliard School to celebrate its 100^th anniversary. He has served as composer-in-residence for many organizations, including the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Sapporo's Pacific Music Festival and the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. He was the first composer to win the Composers' Invitational Award of the Van Cliburn Piano Competition for his Three Impromptus, Op.68. Liebermann maintains an active performing schedule as pianist and conductor. He has collaborated with distinguished artists such as flautists Sir James Galway and Jeffrey Khaner, violinists Ida Kavafian and Chantal Juillet, cellist Andres Diaz, and singers Robert White and Carole Farley in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, London’s Wigmore Hall and the Berlin Philharmonie. In 2012 he joined the faculty of the Mannes College for Music, where he is founder and conductor of MACE, the Mannes American Composers Ensemble.

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Sara Jakubiak
American soprano Sara Jakubiak has been praised by The New York Times for her "plush-voiced, impressive soprano" and by Opera News as a “talented, highly musical singer.” With her career rapidly expanding in North America and now Europe, she will debut at English National Opera as Marie in Wozzeck, Semperoper Dresden as Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus, Penderecki’s Polish Requiem in Caracas and Lyric Opera of Chicago in La bohème.  Past repertory includes Dede in Bernstein's A Quiet Place, Cathy in Hermann's Wuthering Heights, Beatrice in Heggie's Three Decembers, Euridyce in Glass's Orphée, Fiora in Montemezzi's L'amore dei tre re, Mozart heroines Fiordiligi, Countess and Donna Elvira, and Strauss' Daphne. Jakubiak is a gradute of Yale and Cleveland Institute of Music, and was an apprentice artist for The Santa Fe Opera.

Lowell Liebermann
Lowell Liebermann is one of America’s most frequently performed and recorded composers. Orchestras worldwide have played Liebermann's works, as have distinguished artists including Sir James Galway, Steven Isserlis, Susan Graham, Charles Dutoit, James Levine, Andrew Litton, Msistislav Rostropovich and many others. His compositions have been released on compact disc by more than 40 labels. His Piano Concerto No.2, Op.36, recorded by Stephen Hough and the BBC Scottish Symphony with the composer conducting, received a GRAMMY nomination for “Best Contemporary Classical Composition.” Liebermann has written two operas, both premiered to great audience and critical acclaim: The Picture of Dorian Gray, commissioned and premiered by the Monte-Carlo Opera, and Miss Lonelyhearts, with a libretto by J. D. McClatchy after Nathanael West’s novel, commissioned by the Juilliard School to celebrate its 100^th anniversary. He has served as composer-in-residence for many organizations, including the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Sapporo's Pacific Music Festival and the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. He was the first composer to win the Composers' Invitational Award of the Van Cliburn Piano Competition for his Three Impromptus, Op.68. Liebermann maintains an active performing schedule as pianist and conductor. He has collaborated with distinguished artists such as flautists Sir James Galway and Jeffrey Khaner, violinists Ida Kavafian and Chantal Juillet, cellist Andres Diaz, and singers Robert White and Carole Farley in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, London’s Wigmore Hall and the Berlin Philharmonie. In 2012 he joined the faculty of the Mannes College for Music, where he is founder and conductor of MACE, the Mannes American Composers Ensemble.