Production

CrossSound

Director
Dr. Jocelyn Clark (Juneau)

A founder, director, and producer of CrossSound since 1999, Jocelyn also founded the East Asian zither ensemble IIIZ+ in 2001 with changgu player/composer Il-Ryun Chung of Berlin. Jocelyn earned her PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations in 2005 from Harvard University where she wrote on the Korean musical genre Kayagûm Pyôngch'ang, focusing on the tension between its oral transmission/low social standing and its tenuous relationship to Chinese classical poetic texts of the High Tang. Jocelyn has served on the Alaska State Council on the Arts since 2004 and on the Juneau World Affairs Council since 2005.

Editor
Liz Dodd (Juneau)

Liz Dodd, website and program text editor, is a lifelong Juneauite, a proofreader for the Alaska State Legislature, and occasional Asst. Professor of English at University of Alaska Southeast. She owns IDTC (www.lizdodd.com), a book editing business whose completed projects to date include King Island Journals by Juan and Rie Munoz, Gumboot Determination, a History of the SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium by Peter Metcalfe, Another Culture/Another World by Fr. M. Oleksa, Allies in Wartime, the Alaska-Siberia Airway During WW II, and Folktales of the Siberian Tiger, by A. Dolitsky, and, most recently, In Sisterhood, the History of Alaska Native Sisterhood Camp 2, by K. Metcalfe. She is also co-owner, with Kim Metcalfe, of Hazy Island Books, publisher of In Sisterhood.

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Production Manager, Lighting Designer, Master Electrician, and Technical Director
Calvin Anderson (Northampton, MA)

Calvin Anderson is pleased to be back in Juneau to work with CrossSound for a 4th year. Although he left Juneau in 2005, Calvin happily returns about once a year for various productions and tours. He was last here for Opera to Go!’s production of “Arctic Magic Flute” in February 2007, as lighting designer and technical director.

Now living in Northampton, Massachusetts, Anderson works as a freelance lighting designer and stagehand. Companies with whom he has worked include Klondike Sound, Theatrix, Iron Horse Entertainment Group/ Calvin Theatre, and Port Lighting. He spent two months in Charleston, SC this past spring working with the Spoleto Festival USA.

Anderson earned his degree in Technical Theatre from Point Park University in 2003, with an emphasis in Lighting Design. While in Pittsburgh, he worked with the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Xpressions Dance Company, City Theatre, and Unseam’d Shakespeare Company.

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Program Coordinator and Production Assistant
Clara Weishahn (Portland, OR)

Clara Weishahn lives in Portland, Oregon where she is completing her theater degree in acting at Portland State University. Originally from Haines, Alaska, she served as stage manager, set designer, and board member for Juneau's Opera to Go! She has performed in “Don Pasquale,” “L’Enfant et les Sortileges,” “Mozart Reimagined,” “Oh What a Lovely War,” and “Vinegar Tom.” Clara studies voice with Angela Niederloh and is the Capital Campaign Coordinator at Portland Center Stage. Over the summer of 2007 she worked as a special assistant to Michael Kerstan and the El Cimarrón Ensemble in Germany to produce three new one-act operas on various topics by three different composers, including former Juneau resident, German composer Stefan Hakenberg’s "The Egg Musher." In the spring of 2008 she appeared as Laura in Caridad Svich's “Labyrinth of Desire” at Miracle Theater in Portland. She is thrilled to be back in Southeast Alaska, working and performing with CrossSound for a third year.

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Haines Program Director
Nancy Nash  (Haines)

Nancy Nash, a multi-instrumentalist, has spent all her adult life, happily, in Haines, Alaska. In Southeast Alaska she is known mainly as a pianist and vocal coach, but she also served as principal oboist with the Juneau Symphony under conductor Mel Flood. Nancy studied oboe with Robert Mayer, former principal oboist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Peter Christ, of the Westwood Wind Quintet, as well as voice with Artur Cavara. Hailing originally from the Midwest, Nancy holds a degree in philosophy from Gustavus Adolphus College and a BA in Music from the University of Alaska. She has taught piano privately for thirty-three years in Haines, serving also as Music Coordinator for the Episcopal Diocese of Alaska. Nancy especially enjoys working with children with special needs, coordinating music activities with physical and developmental therapy plans. Nancy has played oboe, suona, xun, and recorder with CrossSound, and serves on the CrossSound Board of Directors.

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Education Outreach Coordinator
Rick Trostel

Rick Trostel is in his ninth year conducting the Juneau Student Symphony, in his sixteenth year playing principal trumpet in the Juneau Symphony, and his twentieth year teaching music. His musical projects include private brass and piano lessons at Thrush Hill Music, a non-profit studio that he directs. He also teaches music at the public Montessori school in Juneau. Rick plays trumpet with CrossSound, Thunder Mountain Big Band, Amalga Chamber Orchestra, and in his annual trumpet recital. He is looking forward to premiering a piece by CrossSound composer Thomas Reiner in March of 2009, and conducting the Juneau Lyric Opera's performances of Mikado in April.

Artistic production staff

Music Director
Owen Underhill (Sitka)  

Owen Underhill has conducted the Turning Point Ensemble, CBC Radio Orchestra, Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, the Victoria Symphony, the Vancouver Symphony, the National Arts Centre Orchestra, and the Vancouver New Music Ensemble. He is Artistic Co-Director of the Turning Point Ensemble in Vancouver, B.C., Vice-President of the Canadian Music Centre, and serves on the faculty of the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University.

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Stage Design
Akiko Nishijima

Akiko Nishijima, Set Designer, is a native of Japan, where she worked in the New National Theatre in Tokyo as a scene painter. She started her design career in New York after earning an MFA in Design from NYU in 2007 and an MA in interior and architecture lighting design from the Parsons School of Design. She moved to Juneau in August 2008.

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Literary Currator
John Straley (Sitka)  more...

Lighting Design
Calvin Anderson  more...

Technical production staff

Technical Director
Calvin Anderson  more...

Yup'ik Language Recording
Theresa John

Assistant Professor, Department of Alaska Native and Rural Development, College of Rural and Community Development, University of Alaska Fairbanks

"I am fortunate to have been raised in a remote Yup'ik-speaking community on Nelson Island. This was the era when formal education was just being implemented into the community. Elders, grandparents, parents and prominent community members were the main educators who taught youth and adults the indigenous traditions and customs-quliraat, qanruyuutet, alerquutet and inerqutet. Oral traditional education passed down creation, raven stories and cultural values. Many Elders and community members truly believed and still believe in our creator, Ellam Yua. We are taught that Ellam Yua granted us our indigenous language, culture, history and spiritual world for us to keep and maintain."

"I am constantly reviewing video and audio recordings of traditional Yup’ik dance and music which I personally have collected and documented over 20 years. It is my personal “mission” to collect and learn as many Yup’ik songs and dances from elders before they are gone."

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Tlingit Language Coach, Slavonic Language Coach
Nora Marks Dauenhauer and
Richard Dauenhauer  more...

Slavonic Language Recording
Polina Medyulyanova   more...

Danish Language Coach
Sejer Andersen   more...

Korean Language Coach
Gôn-Yong Lee  more...

Sound / Recording
Albert MacDonnell/Steve Wild

Editor
Liz Dodd

Photographer
Dave DePew

Advertising Coordinator
Claire Badger

Advertising Coordinator
Patrice Helmar

Graphic Design
Dominik Mattner

Print Production

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