Beth Morrison

BETH MORRISON PROJECTS

Beth Morrison Projects (BMP) identifies and supports the work of emerging and established composers and their multi-media collaborators through the commission, development, production and touring of their works, which take the form of music-theatre, opera-theatre, chamber music, song-cycle, dance, theatre, film, mixed media work, and new forms waiting to be discovered.

Noted as a composers’ producer that “is a big underground force on the New York scene, developing events that transcend styles and genres (The New Yorker),” to date the company has commissioned, developed, and produced more than eighteen premiere opera and other music-theatre pieces that have been performed around the globe. Current and upcoming projects include works by composers Eve Beglarian, Philip Glass, Michael Gordon, David Lang, David T. Little, Keeril Makan, Missy Mazzoli, Nico Muhly, Tod Machover, Paola Prestini, Kamala Sankaram, Erik Sanko, Ted Hearne, Zhou Long, and more, with directors Annie Dorsen, Diane Paulus, Yuval Sharon, and Robert Woodruff. Projects have been performed in numerous premier venues around the world including Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Kitchen, Performance Space 122, Lincoln Center, The Walker Art center, The Barbican, The Salle Garnier in Monte Carlo, The Beijing Music Festival, The New York Musical Theater Festival, The Estates National Theater of Prague, and the Seoul Performing Arts Festival.
BMP has garnered support from the Map fund, Department of Cultural Affairs, The New York State Council for the Arts, Bel Geddes Foundation, Puffin Foundation, The Goldman Foundation, the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust, The Barbara Bell Cumming Foundation, and the Trust for Mutual Understanding, and has received critical acclaim for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Time Out New York, The New York Observer, Variety, National Public Radio, and New York Magazine.


Anne Ricci
Co-founder/Executive and Artistic Director

OPERA ON TAP

OPERA ON TAP-OOT’s mission is to bring opera to new audiences by performing in bars, rock concert halls, and other alternative spaces and at the same time promote young professional singers and instrumentalists in their artistic development. At Opera on Tap the artist is given an opportunity to communicate the joy and exuberance they feel in the music by getting away from the stuffy atmosphere of the concert hall or educational institution. Performers are allowed to let their hair down, wear jeans, drink beer and try out new repertoire. Providing the artist and the audience with "room to breathe" draws in new listeners who respond to the honesty and energy of the performances. Born in the backroom of a Brooklyn divebar in 2005, Opera on Tap has gained national press recognition, several performance residencies across the city, and regional Chapters in New Orleans, Chicago, Ann Arbor, MI, and most recently Atlanta. In addition to 21c Liederabend, OOT hosts a new music concert series called New Brew at Barbes in Brooklyn the first Friday of every other month and quarterly co-produces the critically acclaimed Opera Grows in Brooklyn in collaboration with longtime partners American Opera Projects.


Paola Prestini
Co-founder/Executive and Artistic Director

VISIONINTOART

VISIONINTOART is a multimedia production company that creates interdisciplinary works stemming from new music. VIA believes that collaboration sustains artistic innovation. Since Prestini co-founded the company in 1999 at the Julliard School, VIA has created and performed over fifty original works. VIA's works have been seen at Lincoln Center, Joe’s Pub, Symphony Space, and the Whitney Museum. VIA's works have toured to colleges and universities in the US, and to international festivals such as Apertif in Concerto at Teatro Manzoni, Etna Fest in Italy, and BEMUS in Belgrade, Serbia. Support for VIA comes from the Cary Trust for New Music, the Trust for Mutual Understanding, the New York State Council on the Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, American Music Center, ASCAP, the BMI Fund, the Kenan Institute, Nathan Cummings Foundation, National Video Resources, and the Council on Foundations and individual donors.