Elizabeth Auman is a music historian, archivist, acquisitions specialist, fund-raiser, concert and recording producer, appraiser, librarian and musician who has worked in the Library of Congress’s Music Division for 38 years. Her focus for most of those years has been on acquisitions—especially those of special collections—multi-format materials representing the complete lives and works of those whose materials they are. She has worked with many of the major figures in American music.
During her tenure at the Library, she has been instrumental in building a world-class music collection there; has been acquisitions and archival consultant to numerous private collections; has acted as a trusted advisor to the families and Estates of many noted composers, arrangers, orchestrators, and performers. She is a noted specialist in American musical theater (Grammy producer nominations for two restored Gershwin shows), American art song (Grammy producer nomination for Ned Rorem’s Evidence of Things Not Seen), the Romantic era (particularly Brahms and Liszt), and the Renaissance (Italian and English vocal/chamber music and their interrelationships).
She has been on the faculty of The Catholic University of America. She is also a free-lance consultant on and appraiser of performing arts-related archives. In her spare time, she loves to read, garden, play with her cats, and spend time on her property near Green River, Utah.
Richard Lalli is Professor of Music (Adjunct) at Yale University, where he is the Artistic Director of the Yale Baroque Opera Project and the conductor of the Yale Collegium Musicum. At Yale he also coordinates the Shen Musical Theater Curriculum, a program he has developed over the past four years that brings professionals in musical theater composition, lyric- and book-writing, and performance to teach in the Music and Theater Studies Departments, as well as in the Yale School of Drama.Mr. Lalli appears around the world as a singer. He has given solo recitals at Wigmore Hall, the Spoleto Festival USA, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, Merkin and Weill Halls in New York, Salle Cortot, and the United States Embassy in Paris. He has been particularly active in the performance of chamber music, appearing with the Boston Camerata, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Folger Consort, and the new-music ensemble Sequitur. During the coming season he tours with Peter Serkin and the Brentano String Quartet.
In recent seasons Lalli has premiered works of countless American composers, including Ricky Ian Gordon, Richard Pearson Thomas, Daron Hagen, and most recently, Ned Rorem. His recording of Yehudi Wyner’s The Mirror was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2005.
With pianist Gary Chapman, Lalli has recorded four discs of popular songs. The two have appeared at festivals around the world, and also in intimate spaces such as the Players’ Club, the Carlyle, the Park Plaza, and The Whitney Museum of American Art.
Mr. Lalli was awarded the Sidonie Mishimin Clauss Prize in 2007 for excellence in teaching in the Humanities at Yale University, and
He has recently been named the eleventh Master of Jonathan Edwards College at Yale University.
German-born Andreas Klein enjoys two career paths: as an internationally acclaimed pianist and as a sought after audio producer/recording engineer. As soloist he has appeared with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Radio Symphony, Stuttgart Radio Symphony, Halle Symphony, Houston Symphony and orchestras in Knoxville, Evansville, Green Bay and toured with the Lucerne Festival Strings and the Salzburg Chamber Soloists throughout the US and Mexico. He has presented recitals at the world’s most prestigious venues: London’s Wigmore Hall, Berlin’s Philharmonic Hall, New York’s Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center, Mechanics Hall, MA, and in Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Houston, Seattle, Cleveland, Rome, Milan, Bern, Leipzig, Dresden, Damascus, and Yerevan.
Andreas Klein is heard frequently on National Public Radio’s Performance Today, on numerous syndicated and local radio programs including three times as featured guest live on WGBH Boston and KUHF Houston. To attract and introduce television audiences to classical music, he created a series of short works by composers such as Chopin, Debussy and Stravinsky called Intermezzo with Andreas Klein, which was seen on PBS television stations nationwide. His teachers include Claudio Arrau, Nikita Magaloff, and John Perry. He holds a post-graduate diploma degree from Juilliard and a DMA from Rice University. www.AndreasKlein.com
As audio engineer and producer for classical music since 1987, he held positions of “Director for Audio Recordings” at the Brevard Music Festival, NC, and at the Peninsula Music Festival, WI, where he recorded for NPR affiliate radio station numerous orchestral concerts, some with soloists such as Joshua Bell, Midori, Lynn Harrell, Andre Watts and many more. Andreas Klein has produced, recorded, edited, and mastered his own piano CD, published by Eroica Classical. Most recently he became audio consultant for the new Performing Arts Center at Adelphi University in Garden City, NY, and produced a CD for the St. Petersburg String Quartet in Ohio. For more details, please see www.ultimoproductions.com.
