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Marc Lowenstein

Roy E. Disney Family Chair in Musical Composition

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Organizing operas in limousines and train stations, writing operas in the spirit of Bugs Bunny, singing whispering premieres, teaching young songwriters that it's really Bartok who brings the baby back, Marc Lowenstein has a rich, vibrant and eclectic career. Marc is the founding Music Director of the Industry, Los Angeles鈥 groundbreaking and widely acclaimed experimental opera company. With the Los Angeles Philharmonic he recently conducted the premiere of his and Yuval Sharon鈥檚 new performing edition of Lou Harrison鈥檚 fantastically colorful Young Caesar. Also with the Industry, he has conducted Anne LeBaron鈥檚 enormously fun Crescent City, Christopher Cerrone鈥檚 deeply moving Invisible Cities, three iterations of the new opera workshops First Take and the recent workshop production of Andy Akiho鈥檚 Galileo. He has been the Industry鈥檚 Music Director for In C by Terry Riley and Hopscotch, the mobile opera for 24 limousines which the New Yorker described as, "Awe-inspiring. One of the more complicated operatic enterprises to have been attempted since Richard Wagner staged The Ring of the Nibelung in 1876. Hopscotch triumphantly escapes the genteel, fenced-off zone where opera is supposed to reside.鈥 Marc composes music infused with a searching sense of narrative and mysticism. Focusing on larger scale works, he was one of the principal composers of Hopscotch, writing scenes for limousine interiors, an outdoor park, and an abandoned theater. He has written long form pieces based on concepts of Jewish and Buddhist meditations including this for Jodie Landau and wildUp, T鈥檚huvah for improvising Bassoon and string quartet, and a 鈥機ello concerto, T鈥檉ilat ha-Derech. He has written an opera based on the movie The Fisher King, and is at work on a family opera called Little Bear. Marc has been Music Director for several opera premieres including John King鈥檚 Cage-ian Dice Thrown, and the American premieres of George Aperghis鈥 breathtaking L鈥橭rigine des Esp猫ces, Veronika Krausas鈥 dramatic The Immortal Thoughts of Lady MacBeth, Stephen Oliver鈥檚 cross-cultural Peach Blossom Fan, and Murray Schaeffer鈥檚 Loving. He conducted on New York City Opera鈥檚 Vox opera workshop program for four years. Marc also conducts the Gurrisonic jazz orchestra and has a deep interest in cross-genre and cross-cultural musical styles, avoiding the word 鈥渕usics鈥 at all costs in favor of the more apt word 鈥渕usic.鈥 Marc has sung about twenty five opera roles including Madeline X in the premiere of Foreman/Gordon鈥檚 What to Wear (which is not only findable on youtube, but, in a postmodern sense, oddly reminiscent of Marc鈥檚 first stage role at age 13 which also was in drag). Marc has been active as a performer of contemporary vocal music singing on the Ojai festival and on the Monday Evening Concert series. He has been called 鈥渁 terrific singer鈥 (LA Times), an 鈥渁ssured conductor鈥 (New York Times) and 鈥渞aptly lyrical鈥 (New Yorker). He has recorded on Naxos, Industry Records, Innova, Poobah, Bedroom Community, Q Division, Nine Winds Music and Three Kids music. Marc is an educator at heart and loves reading and writing about the multitude of reasons and ways we love music. He holds the Roy E. Disney Family Chair in Music Composition in the Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts.