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TEMPO OF RECOLLECTION Music of Erwin Schulhoff NICK SCHWARTZ-HALL, CREATOR AND DIRECTOR Nick Schwartz-Hall is a theater maker and producer working with innovative approaches to live performance and new technology. He is the Co-Artistic Director of Assemblage, an evolving collective of artists dedicated to developing the widest variety new performance employing music, theater, movement and new technologies. As line producer for the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), he has supervised the creation of lost objects, directed by Francois Girard and composed by the artists of Bang on a Can, and Shelter, a collaboration with the Ridge Theater, Bang on a Can, Trio Medieval and MusikFabrik of Köln. Also for BAM he is currently line producing Tan Dun’s The Gate with the Brooklyn Philharmonic. As production manager for the internationally-acclaimed performance company Complicite and Artistic Director Simon McBurney, he helped create The Noise of Time (with the Emerson String Quartet), The Elephant (with Tokyo’s Setagaya Public Theater), The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (with Al Pacino, for Tony Randall’s National Actor’s Theater), and Strange Poetry (with the Los Angeles Philharmonic). From 2001 -2003 he was the in-house production supervisor for the Harold Prince Organization, supervising Carol Burnett's HOLLYWOOD ARMS on Broadway, and the musicals 3HREE and BOUNCE by Stephen Sondheim. His passion for the integration of performance and technology began with The American Music Theater Festival's CrossWaves Festival in 1994, headlined by Graham Nash's World Premiere of LifeSighs, a multimedia, real-time interactive, live performance, co-produced with Silicon Graphics. Since then he has been involved as a designer or producer with companies such as Martyn Ware and Vince Clark’s The Illustrious Company (UK) and The Flying Machine and worked with theatrical creators, dancers, musicians, designers and technologists to create new work in venues ranging from Grand Central Station to the West End, Off-off Broadway to Moscow, art installations to industrials. From 1994-96 he was the General Manager of the American Music Theater Festival, developing innovative new works of music theater, and from 1997-2000 he was the Production Manager for The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival. Since 2000, in addition to working with Complicite and Harold Prince, he also has developed new work with Elizabeth Streb (ACTION HEROES), The Builders Association/moti roti (ALLADEEN), TheatreWorks Singapore (SILVER RIVER, an opera) and worked with a number of prominent Off-Broadway theater companies. His work is guided by the belief that utilizing new technology is not about imposing cutting-edge equipment on a performance, but about creating compelling content integrated appropriately with emergent techniques to communicate with audiences and facilitate the work of artists. Schwartz-Hall explores new realms of performance and time-based art made possible by computer processing, video and graphic technology, 3-D sound imaging, animatronics, wireless communication, new scenic materials, various kinds of sensors, and physical performance. Now based in Seattle, he recently designed the scenery for the World Premiere of Ariel Dorfman’s Purgatorio and video of My Name is Rachel Corrie at Seattle Repertory Theater. visit www.TempoOfRecollection.com Bios Page 1
TEMPO OF RECOLLECTION Music of Erwin Schulhoff SAINT HELENS STRING QUARTET Taking its inspiration from the exquisite rugged natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest, the Saint Helens String Quartet embraces a sense of musical adventure, exploring an often uncharted sonic territory in which contemporary classical music intersects with genres including jazz, pop, rock, folk and world music. The result: A listening experience of exquisite beauty. Like the world-renowned Kronos Quartet, the Saint Helens String Quartet brings classical training to a dynamic, cuttingedge sensibility, creating music that extends the boundaries of the ear and defines a truly American sound. Called the "Saint Helens adventurous four" by the Seattle Weekly, the group makes a practice of commissioning and performing works by northwest composers, premiering two new works at Seattle’s Benaroya Hall. They are currently the ensemble in residence at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle where they work with the composition class as they explore writing for the string quartet performing their works at the Scores of Sounds series. This season the quartet presented a two week festival of the forgotten music of Erwin Schulhoff, which included an exciting collaboration with the Seattle Repertory Theatre’s Nick Schwarz- Hall. Under his direction, the quartet performed Schulhoff’s 2 nd string quartet written in 1925, as the center piece of a theatre work called “Tempo of Recollection”. Utilizing high tech video techniques and documentary footage and music to transport the audience to 1920’s Prague, the quartet joined actors, pianists, singers and dancers to recreate Schulhoff’s night club world of pre-war Europe. The show resulted in standing ovations, and an invitation to present the work at the Seattle Symphony’s Festival of Contemporary Music in June of 2007. Last season the Saint Helens Quartet also was heard in John Adam’s “Gnarley Buttons” at the Seattle Symphony’s Made in America Festival, and at the series “Second Sundays in Snohomish” where they presented works by Gabriela Lena Frank, Ken Benshoof, Thomas Oboe Lee, and Peter Schickele. They are often guests of KUOW’s “The Beat” with Dave Beck and work with the Seattle Chamber Music Festival in it’s outreach program to Seattle area children through a series of chamber music presentations. In July 2006 they collaborated with KING FM’s Marta Zekan in a show called “Mozart, Boy Genius”. Violin Michael Jinsoo Lim* Violin Adrianna Hulscher Viola Michael Lieberman Cello Paige Stockley Lerner www.SaintHelensQuartet.com * Michael Jinsoo Lim is a guest artist of the Saint Helens String Quartet visit www.TempoOfRecollection.com Bios Page 2
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