Original Release Date: January 27, 2009


The Tale of Solomon Snell

Duncan Sheik is a Grammy Award and two-time Tony Award winning singer-songwriter and composer. As a solo artist, Duncan's ubiquitous hit "Barely Breathing" spent 55 weeks on the Billboard's Hot 100 Chart and propelled the sales of his Atlantic Records debut to 750,000 copies. As a composer, Sheik again found success with his musical, Spring Awakening, which earned 8 Tony Awards, including "Best Musical" and garnered accolades and A+ reviews. Spring Awakening proved influential on Broadway and the New York Times predicted "Broadway, with its often puerile sophistication and its sterile romanticism, may never be the same". Sheik is currently working on stage productions of Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho. Sheik has released two new tracks, “Photograph” and “Circling” from from his forthcoming album, Legerdemain, scheduled for a spring 2015 release. 


Tiffany Ng gives concerts for cities from the tops of towers. She is University Carillonist and Associate Professor of Carillon at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. An advocate of diversity in contemporary music, she has premiered 60+ pieces by living composers, including works for carillon and live electronics. Her concert career has taken her to fifteen countries in Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America, including the CICO Portugal Festival, the University of Chicago Rockefeller Carillon New Music Festival, Canberra International Carillon Festival, Stanford Live, the International Carillon Festival Barcelona, the Bok Tower International Carillon Festival, and the 2008 Post-Congress Festival of the World Carillon Federation. Tiffany’s research explores the carillon as an instrument of Cold War diplomacy between the Netherlands and America; other research interests include urban soundscapes and classical music in contemporary China. She holds a diploma from the Royal Carillon School “Jef Denyn” where she studied with Geert D’hollander, a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley (Musicology & New Media), a master’s degree from the Eastman School of Music where she studied with William Porter (Organ), and a bachelor’s degree from Yale University (English and Music), where she curated a museum exhibit of bells. She is former Assistant Director of the Women in Music Festival and the Contemporary Organ Music Festival in Rochester, New York, and author of the multimedia catalog of the Municipal Carillon Museum of Mechelen, Belgium.