Bach Party is a collective of composer/performer/filmmakers consisting of Nathan Mondry, Samn Johnson, and Daniel Goldblum.  The trio met in music school at the University of Michigan and are dedicated to presenting inventive takes on the classical repertoire, flippin flicks, and doing the work of the Red Dragon.  

Hailed as “utterly original” by The New York Times, the music of David Hertzberg is swiftly garnering recognition. 
In the spring of 2020, the debut recording of his opera, The Wake World, was released on Tzadik. Lauded as “a rapturous nirvana” by the Financial Times and “astonishingly imaginative” by the BBC, the recording was included among The New York Times Best Classical Albums of 2020. This was followed shortly by the release of his chamber opera, The Rose Elf, in the fall.  Opera News named it one of the Best Albums of the Year, calling it “a kaleidoscopic, narcotic vision” that The New Yorker wrote “blooms with warmth and depth”. That same year he was awarded the Andrew Imbrie Award from The American Academy of Arts and Letters and named a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow.

Cecilia Sala, born in Milan, approached the world of classical singing as soloist soprano of the vocal quartet “Santa Tecla” of Milan’s cathedral. Together with the diploma in baroque singing at the “Accademia Internazionale della Musica” (2008, prof. Roberto Balconi) she attended various masterclasses in Italy (with Sergio Foresti, Roberta Invernizzi) and Austria (Austria Barock Akademie). Pupil of the mezzo-soprano Bianca Maria Casoni, she performed as a soloist and with chamber choirs in several music festivals such as “XXVII Festival delle Nazioni di Città di Castello“, le “Settimane Musicali di Stresa e del Lago Maggiore” and “Suoni entro le mura”. With the ensemble “Il Canto di Orfeo” she recorded music of Giacomo Carissimi and Antonio Vivaldi. In 2008 she moved to Berlin, where she studied with Birgit Wagner and Sibylle Fischer and works as a soloist. In 2012, 2013 and 2014 she gave a recital at the Mozarthaus (Mozart House) in Augsburg with the pianist Stephanie Knauer. Since 2010 she´s been an Italian language coach for operas: she already worked with the Musikfestspiele Potsdam for the baroque Opera “Calandro“ by Ristori and for the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg for Puccini’s “Tosca”. Between 2012 and 2017 she worked as Italian teacher at the „Carl Maria von Weber“ conservatory in Dresden and in 2017 she was lecturer for “Italian for the Opera” classes at the Udk Berlin. In 2018 she worked as a prompter for Sciarrino´s “Luci mie traditrici” for the Theater Lübeck. In addition to that she works as a translator for musicology, singing teacher, voice therapist and breathwork facilitator in Berlin.

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