JOHN HALL (Director) As the resident stage
director for the UCLA Department of Music, Hall has produced more than 70
operas and musicals at UCLA. Alumni of his productions are currently
performing leading roles on Broadway, in national and international touring
companies and opera houses in Europe (Covent Garden, Deutsche OperBerlin,
and Paris Opera) and the US (the Metropolitan Opera, New York City
Opera, and Chicago Lyric). Recent productions have included the rarely
performed Kander and Ebb show Flora, the Red Menace, Leonard Bernstein's
Candide, Gertrude Stein/Virgil Thompson's Four Saints in Three Acts, and
Mozart's The Magic Flute.
As a lyricist, Hall has achieved worldwide critical acclaim. With UCLA
alum Jake Heggie, he wrote the song cycle Encountertenor, which was premiered
by Brian Asawa in London's Wigmore Hall last year and will receive
it's American premiere at Alice Tully Hall this January. With UCLA colleague
Roger Bourland, Hall has been the lyricist for two extremely successful contemporary
choral works: Hidden Legacies, a cantata about the AIDS crisis- which has
been produced over fifteen times all around the country, and has been aired
on Canadian television, and in 1994, he directed the Carnegie Hall premiere
of his commemorative cantata Flashpoint/ Stonewall.
John Hall is also the director of the UCLA Summer SongFest which brings together
talented young singers and pianists under the direction of master teachers
Martin Katz, Ruth Golden and himself.
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The "Young, energetic and talented" (LA Weekly) DANIEL GARY BUSBY (CONDUCTOR)
has had a varied career as pianist, singer, conductor, teacher, administrator
and music critic. His theatrical credits span from Stephen Schwartz‚
Godspell to Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress.
As conductor, Busby has toured Europe and South America, conducting
in Berlin, Leipzig, Budapest and Vienna, as well as Florence, Rome, Venice
and Bogot. After completing his DMA in Instrumental Conducting at UCLA,
Dr. Busby joined the faculty of the University of Southern California. He
left USC to return to UCLA, where he has a joint appointment in theater and
music departments. His students are currently performing on Broadway, in
national tours and in Europe and Asia, as well as in many local productions
here in Los Angeles.
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BILL SZOBODY (Choreography)
credits include: Calamity Jane, Sierra Repertory Theatre; Singin' In The Rain, Westchester Broadway Theatre; Crazy For You, Peninsula Players.
He also acted as Pat Birch's assistant choreographer on the Broadway National
Tour of Parade. Bill has taught dance for the past 14 years; and, has
choreographed for various dance companies in the Chicago area, where he co-directed
an educational dance program for elementary students. Bill has performed
on professional stages across the globe. On Broadway, he appeared in the
original cast of Cabaret (with Alan Cumming), Dream, and Parade. At
the Ahmanson Theatre, here in Los Angeles, he performed the role of Benoit
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