LADYPRODUKT is an experimental electronic drag queen. Born in 2016, LADYPRODUKT uses everyday electronics such as webcams, iPhones, and Wii remotes to conjure freakish alien soundworlds that frighten, perplex, and tantalize her audience. LADYPRODUKT manipulates and is inspired by YouTube videos ranging from makeup tutorials to police bodycam footage, acting as a darkly comical mirror to the extremes of our culture. Using physical gesture and movement to extemporaneously create and control music, LADYPRODUKT plays with the relationship between music and dance. LADYPRODUKT is the evil alter ego of multi-instrumentalist, composer, and programmer Niccolo Seligmann, who is active not only in the electronic music scene in Baltimore but also in historical and traditional music communities around the world.

composer, organizer, teacher | faculty @ Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, founder and artistic director @ Evolution Contemporary Music Series & RiseBmore

Official Website:

http://jakerunestad.com


About Jake:

Award-winning composer Jake Runestad (b. 1986) is noted for his versatility and wide range of expressive capabilities with music driven by soaring melodies, driving rhythms, and lush textures. Considered “highly imaginative…with big ideas” (Baltimore Sun) and “stirring and uplifting” (Miami Herald), Jake has received commissions and performances from leading ensembles such as Seraphic Fire, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, VocalEssence, the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay, the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, the Cincinnati Vocal Arts Ensemble, Cantus (Minnesota), and the Rockford Symphony Orchestra.

Jake Runestad holds a Master’s degree in composition from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University where he studied with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Kevin Puts. He has also studied extensively with acclaimed composer Libby Larsen. Mr. Runestad currently lives in Minneapolis, MN and his music is published by Boosey & Hawkes and JR Music. Find out more at jakerunestad.com

Composer | Conductor | Teacher— Altadena, CA
Artistic & Executive Director, Pasadena Master Chorale
Artistic Director, The High Notes
Artistic Director, Los Angeles Daiku
Songwriter, "Let's Go Luna" (PBS)

Jeffrey Bernstein is founding artistic and executive director of the Pasadena Chorale and High Notes and artistic director of the Los Angeles Daiku. Between 1997 and 2008 he was director of choral music at Occidental College. Bernstein has led fourteen choir tours on four continents and traveled extensively as a guest conductor, leading choirs and orchestras in Europe, Japan and throughout the United States. An active composer, Bernstein is the songwriter for “Let’s Go Luna” on PBS Kids. He has released four albums of original piano music, and his 21st Century 23rd Psalm was released on the debut album of the Los Angeles Choral Lab. In 2017 his piece The Human Journey was awarded second place in the American Prize for choral composition. A committed educator, Bernstein holds music degrees from Harvard, Yale, and UCLA and enjoys making music with young people throughout Pasadena.

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