Moira Lo Bianco (Musical Theater Builders Instructor/Pianist)
I am thrilled to announce a new collaboration and the release of a new work. 19twelve by dīōd, features Quentin Chiappetta on electronics and myself on piano. The suite engages with Kandinsky’s painting Composition 8, translating visual elements into music.  The resulting work, shaped by the painting’s geometric figures, concentric and convergent circles, stark lines and vibrant colors, is a multi-movement form, including the following pieces: Space, Concentric Force, The O circle, A line, A floating line, The Big Triangle, Composition life, Triangles: the way out. The association between the painting and life fills the geometric figures with a spiritual and profoundly human meaning.

YOU CAN NOW LISTEN AND DOWNLOAD 19TWELVE ON BANDCAMP, APPLE MUSIC, ITUNES AND CD BABY AND PLAY 19TWELVE ON SPOTIFY

Moira + dīōd are premiering new music at Queens Museum on October 27th, 2019. Suite for a Steel Garden is an immersive multi-channel original composition scored for piano and electronics by composer duo dīōd. Using field recordings taken from the diverse neighborhoods of Queens and the sound of the piano, the piece brings the diversity of the borough to musical life. Performed around the museum’s famous Panorama of the city, audience members move through the space during the performance so that the music, just like the sound of the city, surrounds them.

Allison Altman and Kathryn Metzger

(Co-Teachers for Musical Theater Builders, and Film Makers Workshop)

Audre Lorde battles her way through her last poem, determined to finish a work women will inherit before her body writes her eulogy. 

Performed by an ensemble of 50 women and inspired by Lorde's works, LORDES asks the question: How do we feed ourselves in a world where we are meant to starve?

FEATURING
Lauren Marissa Smith as Audre Lorde 
Kathryn Metzger as Adrienne Rich 

TICKETS
Available here.

$15 General Admission / $5 Seniors
FREE tickets for students with the promo code "AUDRE” (students need to show their student ID card before entering the performance). 

Marisa Ryan

(Comedy Improv! Lead Teacher)

Congrats to Marisa Ryan, our Comedy Improv teacher for her work on the short film The Small recently selected for the Independent Television Festival, 2018.