JUAN TRIGOS
COMPOSER & CONDUCTOR
Juan Trigos is a very active conductor and composer, creator of the concept Abstract Folklore. In his musical production are clearly distinguished two fundamental aspects: vocal music (opera and sacred) and instrumental music with a notable predilection for the concertante forms. His works has been performed worldwide. Among the most significant latest commissions his Symphony N.3 “Ofrenda a los muertos” for the Houston Symphony Orchestra (2013).
JUAN TRIGOS SYNISTER
PLAYWRIGHT (LIBRETTIST)
Creator of the aesthetic literary style Hemofiction. Literature of search which reflects on the bleeding of the consciousness in multiple mirrors, where it contemplates with horror the thousand faces of personal infantilism, process which endures desolation and anguish, indispensable symptoms on the road to individuation, path of ascension towards human. The works which have given him fame include La Llorona, La Leyenda de Don Juan Manuel, La Diabólica Santa de la Tijeras, Callejón de las ratas, Mamá es loca o está poseída, La Culpa.
LUIS MARTÍN SOLÍS
STAGE DIRECTOR
Internationally renowned, he has directed plays of Shakespeare, Maeterlinck, Golding, Suzanne van Louhizen, Luis Buñuel, Ibarguengoitia, Octavio Paz, among the others. He directed operas by Donizetti, Rossini and Vivaldi. He also directed contemporary operas as well as La muerte pies ligeros, Paso del norte and El conejo y el coyote by Victor Rasgado, the last one performed in the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washingtong D.C.
LUCIANO TRIGOS
PAINTER (SCENE & COSTUMES)
Following the tradition of the Mexican Muralism, Luciano Trigos recently realized “El Gigante”, a 753 sqft mural commissioned by the “Don Quijote Iconographic Museum” of Guanajuato (Mexico). He’s paintings are product of lateral, germane vision. Plastic cells are born, they grow and reproduce inside original, abstract form and at the same time, follow a kind of autonomous development.
AMY SHEFFER
PRIMANCIANITA (MEZZOSOPRANO)
Since 2006 has been guest soloist in several Festival, Summer Programs and Theaters in Europe and United States, as well as, Bel Canto Institute (Florence, Italy), Opera in the Ozarks, Inspiration Point (AR), University of Wisconsin-Madison Opera, Le Chiavi Institute, Texas Music Festival (Houston, TX), University of Houston Moores Opera Center (Houston,TX). Among the others concert programs and opera productions, Rossini's "La Donna Del Lago" and "Guillaume Tell", Bach's "Cantata 106", Mozart's "The Magic Flute", Puccini's "Gianni Schicchi" and "Suor Angelica", Offenbach''s "Les Contes d'Hoffmann", Floyd 's "Cold Sassy Tree", Menotti's "The Consul".
CÉSAR TORRUELLA
JUANSONRISA (BARITONE)
Originally from Puerto Rico, he sang as a guest soloist in Austria, Puerto Rico and the United States giving concerts and opera performances. His repertoire includes Schubert's Mass N.2 in G Major, Beethoven's Symphony N.9 and "Choral Fantasy" Op.80, Bach's "Magnificat", Puccini's "Tosca", Rossini's "Il Barbiere di Siviglia", Donizetti's "L'elisir d'amore", Offenbach's "Les Contes d’Hoffmann", Verdi's "Falstaff", Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro" and "Cosí fan tutte", Floyd's "Cold Sassy Tree", Ravel's "L'heure Espagnole", Ullmann's "Der Kaiser von Atlantis", F. Morreno Torroba's "Luisa Fernanda", Britten's "Albert Herring", Rota's "Il cappello di Paglia di Firenze", Poulenc's "Les Dialogues des Carmelites" and the world premier of Rafael Hernández's" Cofresí".
DANIELA D'INGIULLO
SIAMESE I (SOPRANO)
She has been guest soloist in various theaters and festivals in Europe, United States, Mexico and Costa Rica collaborating, among the most important commitments, with Icarus Ensemble, Eastman Broad Band Ensemble, the Symphony Orchestras of Puebla, Aguascalientes and Guanajuato, Heredia, respectively. She has specialized in XXth-XIth Centuries Music, especially in Juan Trigos' music by whom she sang the opera "DeCachetitoRaspado", Cantata N.2 and N.3 “Phos Hilaron” (N.3 also recorded for Quindecim). Last April 2015, in Mexico, with the Boca del Río Philharmonic Orchestra, she premiered his "Nezahualcoyotl Icuicahuan" for soprano and orchestra with texts in Nahuatl language by the Aztec poet Nezahualcoyotl.
ESTEBAN CORDERO
SIAMESE II (TENOR)
Puerto Rican tenor Esteban Cordero is in the early stages of a promising career. Mr. Cordero appeared as a soloist with the Israel Chamber Orchestra and the Coro Nacional de Puerto Rico, and is a frequent guest soloist of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico. He has been invited twice to participate in the prestigious International Summer Opera Institute in Tel Aviv and the Prelude to Performance summer program. His roles include Don Ramiro (La Cenerentola), Nemorino (Lʼelisir dʼamore), Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi), Rodolfo (La Boheme), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Javier (Luisa Fernanda), Spalanzani/ Nathanael (Contes d'Hoffman) Count Vaudemont (Iolanta) and the tenor solo in Carmina Burana.
ZEITGEIST CHORUS
DEANNA JOSEPH DIRECTOR
Director of Choral Activities at Georgia State University. Dr. Joseph’s research in the area of 19th century choral-orchestral performance-practice has led to invited presentations on the topic at several division conferences of the American Choral Director’s Association and at the national convention for the National Collegiate Choral Organization. She holds conducting degrees from the Eastman School of Music, where she was awarded the Walter Hagen Conducting Prize. For this production she will conduct her Zeitgeist Chorus of eight selected singer: Megan Brunning and Wanda Yang Temko (Sopranos), Avery Leigh Draut and Samantha Puckett (Altos), Richard Clement and James Moonsuk Kang (Tenors), Stephen W McCluskey and Evan Tyor(Basses).
