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Randall Eng
Joined October, 2000
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Introduction:
Randall Eng's operas include "Florida" (Lyric Opera Cleveland, New York City Opera's VOX Festival) and "Henry's Wife" (Center for Contemporary Opera, American Opera Projects).
Biography:
Hailed as "one of the most brilliant young composers of his generation" (New Music Connoisseur), Randall Eng has devoted his career to mining the territory between opera, music-theatre, and jazz. His opera "Florida" was produced by the Apprentice Program at Lyric Opera Cleveland in July 2006, and was previously heard on New York City Opera's "Vox" festival and the Public Theater's "New Work Now!" festival.
His opera "Henry's Wife" received its first full piano-vocal reading in March 2009 at the Center for Contemporary Opera. Previous workshops of "Henry's Wife" have taken place at American Opera Projects and Tapestry New Opera Works. Other theatrical works include "Castor & Pollux" (Eugene O'Neill National Music Theatre Conference), "Usher, Falling" (Opera Vindaloo Festival), and the video opera "The Woman in the Green Coat" (Edinburgh Fringe Festival).
His non-theatrical commissions include "Flowing, in 2" for Albany Symphony Orchestra's Dogs of Desire, "Cocktails" for Mirror Visions Ensemble, "i carry your heart" for baritone Marcus DeLoach, and a new work for Sequitur. His song cycle "Florida", based on material originally written for the opera, was awarded Third Prize in the American Composers Forum ArtSong Competition. Randall has been awarded grants and residencies from the American Music Center, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the Ucross Foundation, the Millay Colony for the Arts, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Bang on a Can Summer Institute, and the John Duffy Composers Institute at the Virginia Arts Festival. He has participated in composer-librettist workshops at American Opera Projects, the Eugene O'Neill National Music Theatre Conference, New Dramatists, Tapestry New Opera Works, and Raw Impressions Music Theatre.
He is a graduate of Harvard University, Cambridge University, and New York University, and has studied with Anthony Davis, Mark Adamo, and Wadada Leo Smith. He currently teaches in the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at NYU. A former "Jeopardy!" champion, he lives in New York City with his wife Katie and daughter Olive.
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