​OPERAROX CONCERT ARTISTS - Composers

Dana Kaufman

• Upcoming: workshop of her Opera Kardashian with Frost Opera Theater in Spring 2018, Hang Down Your Head will be released by Ravello Records on "Shadow Etchings: New Music for Flute"
• Most Recently: featured at
  venues/festivals including New York Opera Fest, soundSCAPE Festival, Jordan Hall, Opera
  on Tap Chicago, Centro Musica Contemporanea di Milano, and Boston New Music Festival
• Awards: Fulbright Student Research Fellow, ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, the American Prize
• Education: M.M. at New England Conservatory, D.M.A. Candidate at Frost School of Music 
  

Paula Kimper

• active in New York City for 35 years as a composer of opera, theater, dance, film and song
• ​Highlights: her first opera, and the first lesbian opera ever written,  Patience & Sarah (1998), ran in 2016 at the Players Theatre in Greenwich Village, and in 2015 at the LGBT Center
• Other Operas: The Captivation of Eunice Williams (2004), The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2007), Truth, an American Opera about Sojourner Truth (2012)

J.L. Marlor

• ​Most Recently: 45/140 , a grotesque anti-ode to our Cheeto in Chief using exclusively the words disseminated through his Twitter
• Awards: Stoop Adesso prize for her opera, ISKRA, about the coal protests of the turn of the century; first recipient of the Da Camera Singers Young Composers Competition
• Upcoming: a queer Carmen adaptation featuring experimental new music fused with a riot-grrl punk grit

David von Kampen

• Awards: six-time Downbeat Award winner, three-time winner of the Vancouver Chamber Choir Young Composers Competition, MTNA Distinguished Composer of the Year, ASCAP Young Jazz Composer award, winner of the San Francisco Choral Artists New Voices Project, winner of the National Band Association’s Young Jazz Composers Competition, Honorable Mention in the New York Youth Symphony First Music Commissions
• Most Recently: over 50 choral and instrumental compositions and arrangements published