NEW CHAMBER MUSIC
ABHANDENGEKOMMEN
IMMIGRATION AND MOB JUSTICE IN AMERICA
COMPOSER
Frank Pesci’s compositions have been performed across North America and Europe. He has written nearly 100 works for the concert stage, including forty choral works, eleven song cycles, nearly twenty chamber and concert scores, and five operas. He lives in Cologne, Germany.
LIBRETTIST
Andrew Altenbach is a writer of poetry, short stories, and narrative nonfiction. He has conducted opera across the United States with repertoire ranging from Baroque to world premieres. As a pianist, he collaborates regularly as a chamber musician and has been on music staffs of the Santa Fe Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Chautauqua Festival, Lakes Area Music Festival, and San Francisco Opera Merola Program. For many years he was music director of the opera program at the Boston Conservatory and is currently Music Director of the Brookline Symphony.