He’s the principal cellist in the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, but Jeffrey Krieger is widely known in new music circles as an electric cellist. For some 20 years now he’s played the electrified instrument and collaborated extensively with a wide range of composers in the creation of multimedia performance works involving computer and videos. A 1993 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts made possible extensive touring in the USA, and in 1996 he received the State of Connecticut Commission on the Arts Artist Fellowship for work in multi-media. _______________________________________________________________ Where...

As a trombonist and composer Monique Buzzarté has performed in traditional orchestras and chamber music settings and collaborated in the most advanced realms of new compositional and experimental techniques.  Based in New York, she was dubbed a “Soloist Champion” by Meet the Composer in 2008 for her long advocacy of contemporary works.  Since 1983, her project New Music from Women: Trombone has commissioned works by Kristin Norderval, Leslie Wildman, Susan Botti, Pauline Oliveros, Alice Shields and Sorrel Hayes, among others.  A former vice president of the International Alliance...

Cellist Eric Edberg trained at the North Carolina School of the Arts, the Juilliard School, SUNY Stony Brook, and Florida State University and is a faculty member at the DePauw University School of Music in Greencastle, Indiana. He writes a marvelous blog about whatever musical matters are on his mind and sometimes they also involve being gay. That caught My Big Gay Eye and I reached out to him by email. Little did I know we’d met almost 20 years ago through a mutual dear friend, Mary Ellen Cohn.  Eric told me that when came out, Mary Ellen sent him a copy of my production, “Gay...

A Brooklyn resident and Texas native, Corey Dargel is a 32 year-old composer and singer.  His music has appeared on NPR and even merited a Tweet from Rachel Maddow. After catching a performance of Dargel at Here in Manhattan, Alex Ross wrote: “Gaunt in appearance and impish in spirit, he sings in a plaintive, innocent-sounding voice, his texts zigzagging between raw confession and cerebral absurdity.” What are you working on these days? I have a new album “Someone Will Take Care of Me” coming out in the spring, so a lot of time lately has been devoted to recording-studio work. I’m...

Pianist Theresa L. Bogard has been a specialist in women composers, performing works of Louis Talma, Margaret Bonds, Ruth Crawford Seeger, and Mrs. H. H. A. Beach among many others. Her 1998 disc of music by Talma received the Gay & Lesbian American Music Award for Best Classical Performance.  A faculty member at the University of Wyoming, Bogard earned her D.M.A. at the University of Colorado and also studied at the Eastman School and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in Australia.  In 1989, she was a top-prize winner in the International Mozart Fortepiano Competition in Bruges, Belgium. What...

Gerald Busby (photo by Mia Hanson) Gerald Busby, a native of Texas, graduate of Yale, and protégé of Virgil Thomson, made his professional debut as a composer with a commission from Paul Taylor for the dance RUNES. The work has had nearly 1,000 performances around the world since its Paris premiere and was featured on the PBS series, Great Performances, Dance in America, and recorded on Nonesuch. Other significant collaborations include operas with librettist Craig Lucas and the score to Robert Altman’s film 3 WOMEN. In addition to his more than two hundred concert works in all genres, Busby...