Alan currently has four other operas in development and set the text for a Christmas oratorio, Yosef and the Counseling Angel with composer Cole Thomason-Redus.

This year, Alan's play Concerto premieres with the Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma along with two opera workshops, Hypatia, with music by Afarin Monsouri and Minute to Midnight with Dante De Silva. Alan's first opera, Death of Ivan Ilych with music by John Young which co-premiered in 2021 with Opera Orlando and Thompson Street Opera Company in Chicago. Composer Harrie Janssen selected four of the islands to. This is Alan's second opera with Nathan Hall with Unbound premiering in Denver in 2021. This is the story of fifty remote islands around the world where fantasy and reality go hand in hand. His works have been performed in 13 countries and 21 US States, and he lives in Denver.Īlan Olejniczak is a San Francisco based opera librettist and playwright. The atlas contains maps of 50 islands chosen by the author with accompanying descriptions of their natural and human histories, often written in a subjective, impressionistic style. Born on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall, as a child Judith Schalansky could. Atlas of Remote Islands Visit Charles Veley’s Most Traveled People website Beth Simmons lives in Boston and teaches elementary school. He is a former Fulbright Fellow to Iceland, a McKnight Visiting Composer, and he holds his Doctorate in Musical Arts (DMA) from CU Boulder. Schalansky takes you to some of the most isolated places on Earth in her Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot on and Never Will. Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands : Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will. Nathan’s drive for making site-specific work is tied to his passions for travel and cultural exchange. There is an emotional resonance present in all of Nathan’s works, from his traditional classical pieces for chamber ensembles to experimental electronic pieces, sound sculptures, and multimedia projects. Nathan Hall uses music as an artistic medium to explore a variety of fields including science, nature, the fine arts, history, and sexuality.

Atlas of remote islands