CrossSound 2009 "Refugium" Production Team

CrossSound Director
Dr. Jocelyn Clark (Juneau)

Jocelyn Clark grew up in Juneau attending the Sitka Fine Arts Camp and performing oboe with the Juneau Symphony under Mel Flood. A founder, director, and producer of CrossSound and CrossSound Radio since 1999, Jocelyn also founded the East Asian zither ensemble IIIZ+ (www.threezeeplus.com) in 2001 with Korean-German percussionist/composer Il-Ryun Chung. She is also a member of the AsianArt Ensemble 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. Her writing on music in Alaska will appear in Oct. 2009 in the forthcoming book "Alaska at 50: Past, Present, Future" from the UAA Press, and her chapter on contemporary Korean sanjo ("scattered melodies") will appear in the book "Sanjo" published by the National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts in Sept. 2009. A winner of the Alaska "40 Under 40" award in 2009, Jocelyn has served on the Alaska State Council on the Arts since 2004 and on the Juneau World Affairs Council since 2005. Jocelyn is currently working for part of the year as an Assistant Professor at Pai Chai University in Korea where she also peforms as a kayagûm soloist. Recordings can be found on the Wergo Label (works of Klaus Stahmer) and Schott (works of Volker Blumenthaler).

Refugium Conductor
Matthew Burtner (Anchorage)

Matthew Burtner(b.1970) grew up on the North Slope and in Naknek. He studied philosophy, composition, saxophone and computer music at St. Johns College, Tulane University (BFA Summa Cum Laude 1993), Iannis Xenakis's UPIC Studios (1993-94), the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University (MM 1997), and Stanford University's CCRMA (DMA 2002). He has been composer-in-residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, and the IUA/Phonos Institute in Barcelona. His original computer music research is presented regularly at international conferences, and has been published by journals such as "Organized Sound," the "Journal of New Music Research" and the "Leonardo Music Journal." Matthew Burtner's music has been described as "shimmering, pulsating and thunderous" by the Norwegian Fremover, and The Wire has called it "some of the most eerily effective electroacoustic music I've heard." His work regularly combines instrumental ensembles, computer technology, interactive acoustics and multimedia. First prize winner in the Musica Nova International Electroacoustic Music Competition, Burtner's music has also received honors and awards from Meet the Composer, ASCAP, the American Music Center, the Luigi Russolo International Computer Music Competition, the Gaudeamus International Young Composers Competition, the Hultgren International Cello Biennial, Darmstadt, Prix d'Ete, SCI, and others. His music has been commissioned for performers such as the Spectri Sonori Ensemble, Noise Ensemble, MiN Ensemble, Phyllis Bryn Julson and Mark Markham, the Peabody Trio, Ascolto, Ensemble Noise, CrossSound 2008 guest soprano Haleh Abghari and others. His commercial recordings include "Incantations" on the German DACO label (DACO 102), "Portals of Distortion," on Innova Records (Innova 526), and "Arctic Contrasts," on the Norwegian Euridice label (EUCD 012-2000). Matthew Burtner is currently Assistant Professor of composition and computer music at the University of Virginia where he is Associate Director of the VCCM Computer Music Center.

UnitedBerlin Management
Dr. Oliver Schneller (Germany)

Oliver Schneller (b. 1966 in Cologne) grew up in Africa, Europe and Asia and studied in Germany and the USA. After completing a MA in political science and musicology at the University of Bonn he worked for the Goethe Institute in Kathmandu, Nepal (1990-91) on a project to support and sustain local forms of traditional musical practice. In 1994 he moved to the USA, first studying composition at the New England Conservatory in Boston, then at Columbia University New York as a student of Tristan Murail, where he received his doctoral degree in composition (2002) with a thesis on music and space. At the City University of New York he developed and expanded the CUNY Computer Music Studio. From 2000-01 he lived in Paris as a participant of the cursus annuel de composition et d'informatique at IRCAM/Centre Pompidou. As an assistant to Tristan Murail he taught composition and computer music at Columbia, and organized the "Lachenmann in New York" Festival in 2001. Throughout his studies, masterclasses with Salvatore Sciarrino, Jonathan Harvey, Brian Ferneyhough, George Benjamin and Vinko Globokar provided important orientations.

Recently, Oliver Schneller was awarded a fellowship at the German Academy Villa Massimo in Rome for 2006-07.

As a saxophonist, Schneller performed with ensembles such as the George Russell Big Band, the Gustav Mahler Youth Symphony under Seiji Ozawa, and with the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra as a soloist in Tan Dun's Red Forcast. He's also worked with various jazz and improvisation ensembles in Cologne, Amsterdam, Boston and New York.

In Berlin Oliver Schneller taught a seminar on "Acoustics and Psychoacoustics for Composers" at the University of the Arts (UdK) and continued his interest in intercultural music projects. In 2004 he was the artistic director of the "Tracing Migrations" Festival, featuring the works of contemporary composers from Arab countries. In 2005 he was the curator of a project on Eastern and Western concepts of musical beauty at Berlin's House of World Cultures involving composers Toshio Hosokawa and Helmut Lachenmann. Currently he is a guest lecturer and "mentor" with the GLOBAL INTERPLAY project of Musik der Jahrhunderte Stuttgart. Current compositional projects include a work for orchestra and electronics commissioned by the SWR, a work for piano and live-generated video Å® , and a new piece for the Ensemble Recherche.

UnitedBerlin Founder and Director
Andreas Bräutigam (Germany)

Andreas Bräutigam studied at the "Franz Liszt" conservatory in Weimar, majoring in violin; he has worked as a violinist in orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin; he is the founder and director since 1989 of the Ensemble UnitedBerlin. More information at www.unitedberlin.de and www.tangopunkt.de

Editor
Liz Dodd (Juneau)

Liz Dodd, website, grants, and program text editor, is a lifelong Juneauite, an editor 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."

Stage Design
Akiko Nishijima Rotch (Juneau)

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 in 2001. She moved to Juneau in August 2008.

Recent designs include: "Battles of Fire and Water" (‘09) Directed by Laurie McCants (Perseverance Theatre); *"The Threepenny Opera" (‘09) (Columbia University MFA Thesis project); "Il trittico" (Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica, and Gianni Schicchi) (‘08) Directed by Roald Simonson, Conducted by Todd Hunt (Opera To Go); *"Ghost" (‘08), *"Bus Stop" (‘08), *:"Danger of Tobacco" (‘07), *"The Bear" (‘07), *"CCLIT" (‘07), Directed by Henning Hegland; "Measure for Measure" (‘07), Directed by Douglas C. Wager (NYU production); **"Fires" (‘05), **"The Killer" (‘02), **"Medea" (‘01), **Directed by Gisela Cardenas.

More information at: www.akikonishijima.com

Assistant Project Manager
Terry Lynn LeCompte (New York)

Terry Lynn LeCompte is an actor/singer and director in NYC. A member of the Actors Equity Association, she mostly performs in musical theater, cabarets and church groups. She has had the privilege of directing Perseverance Theatre's STAR Production, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, this summer. Terry Lynn is thrilled to be on the team for Refugium - Crossound 2009, and very happy to be able to extend her time here in Alaska, just a little.

Director of Advertising and Outreach
Nancy Hemenway (Juneau)

Nancy Hemenway was born and raised in Minnesota and currently resides in Juneau. A graduate of UAS, she works for the State.

Program Assistant
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.

Sound / Recording
Albert MacDonnell/Steve Wild (Juneau)

Albert McDonnell never thought he'd have a career as a sound engineer. When he came to Juneau in 1985 he was a musician and then became a fisherman. He played bass guitar early on with the Port du Nord Playboys, and later with Salsa Borealis and The Bobb Family Band. Now, after 13 years of working in a very small space, he's moved to the new Juneau Arts & Culture Center into a studio he's called "Studio A."

Photographer
Dave DePew (Juneau)

Graphic Design [program booklet]
Amy Carroll (Juneau)

A 1989 graduate of Northern Arizona University in Graphic Design, Amy is a publication specialist for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.

Graphic Design [design, poster, web]
Jocelyn Clark (Juneau)

Print Production
Capital Copy (Juneau)

Advertising Intern
Abby Hemenway (Juneau)

Advertising Intern
Jonas Pecena (Juneau)