Lisa Scola Prosek

Lisa Scola Prosek (born March 25, 1958) is a San Francisco Bay Area-based composer and librettist. Among her compositions are two oratorios and seven operas.

Life and career

Scola Prosek was born in New Jersey and raised in Rome. She graduated from Princeton University, where she studied with Milton Babbitt, Edward Cone, Lukas Foss, and Gaetano Giani Luporini.[1] She was commissioned by San Francisco’s Thick House Theater for her operas Daughter of the Red Tzar,[2][3] Belfagor and Sail the Blue Aegean. Her first operatic composition was Satyricon which premiered in 2002.

She is the recipient of several commissions, grants and awards, including from the Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund,[4] the LEF Foundation, Meet The Composer, Theatre Bay Area, The Hewlett Foundation, the Zellerbach Foundation, and The American Composers Forum.

In addition to her work as a composer, she is principal pianist and General Manager of the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra.[5]

Works

Chamber operas
  • The Lariat (2014). Based on The Lariat, a novella by Jaime de Angulo. The first public workshop performance took place at San Francisco's Un-Scripted Theatre in June 2014.[6]
  • Daughter of the Red Tzar (2012). Commissioned for Thick House Theater and produced with Art Space Development Corporation and First Look Sonoma.[7][8]
  • Dieci Giorni (2010). Premiered at Thick House in San Francisco and was written in collaboration with composer Erling Wold based on Boccaccio’s Decameron.
  • Trap Door (2008). A Chamber video opera. Commissioned by The Lab/Art group. Residency at The Lab, 16th Street, San Francisco. In English, based on one soldierʼs experiences in Iraq. Directed by Jim Cave, video sets by Jakub Kalousek.[9]
  • Belfagor (2007). Based on Machiavelliʼs Belfagor. Thick House Theater, San Francisco. Performed as a Video-Opera with chamber orchestra, Martha Stoddard, conducting. Directed By Jim Cave.
  • I Quaderni di Leonardo (2006). Opera in Italian, text by the composer, with chamber orchestra, Thick House Theater, San Francisco. Videography by Jakub Kalousek. Jim Cave, Director.
  • Satyricon (2002)

Choral works and song cycles

References
  1. Cooke, Michael. "Classical Composers Database". Retrieved 15 June 2013.
  2. Roensch, Greg. "Daughter of the Red Tzar". The Potrero View. Archived from the original on 20 September 2012. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
  3. Freymann-Weyr, Jeffery. "Classical KDFC Radio Interview with Lisa Scola Prosek". Classical KDFC. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
  4. "Lisa Scola Prosek Biography". Instant Encore. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
  5. "SFCCO Staff". Retrieved 12 June 2013.
  6. San Francisco International Arts Festival. The Lariat Archived 2014-10-13 at the Wayback Machine
  7. Kosman, Joshua (27 August 2012). "Daughter of the Red Tzar' review". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
  8. Bullock, Ken. "Daughter of the Red Tzar". The Berkeley Daily Planet. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
  9. Avila, Robert. "San Francisco Bay Guardian Review". San Francisco Bay Guardian. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
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