ESCAPE TO CREATE artist in residence to present a special program at South Walton Coastal Branch Library Jan 23
Composer Greg Mackender’s audio/video and lecture presentation
Tuesday, January 23rd at 10am- Coastal Branch Friends of Coastal Branch Library
Music and theater take center stage on Tuesday, January 23rd at 10am with composer Greg Mackender’s audio/video and lecture presentation at South Walton Coastal Branch Library.
Mackender’s presentation will be of special interest to lovers of music, visual arts, theatre and sound production. Coffee, juice, and muffins will be available.
An early adaptor to digital audio and use of the computer as a tool for sound designers and composers, multi-instrumentalist Mackender has composed and designed for well over 250 professional theater productions in the Kansas City and St. Louis region. He is Assistant Teaching Professor, Sound Design Department of Theatre at University of Missouri-Kansas City, teaches at the Film Department at the Kansas City Art Institute, is currently composer-in-residence with Seaside’s nationally recognized arts residency Escape To Create.
A founding member of the Kansas City Actors Theatre, Mackender has composed for over 15 plays in their ten-year history, including Talley’s Folly, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Picnic, and The Mousetrap. He was resident composer for the Missouri Repertory Theatre (now Kansas City Repertory Theatre) from 1995-2000, where he composed music for The Deputy, Royal Hunt of the Sun, Treasure Island, Emperor Jones, Whispers of the Mind, The Road to Mecca and The Imaginary Invalid, to name a few. He has been composer for over thirty seasons for the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival, performing his music live with a small ensemble.
Contemporary and new work includes My Name is Asher Lev and Grounded at the Unicorn Theatre. His most recent award was for his work in the Shakespeare Festival St. Louis production of Antony and Cleopatra, receiving ‘Outstanding Sound Design in a Play’ at the St. Louis Theatre Circle awards.
Composer Greg Mackender’s audio/video and lecture presentation
Tuesday, January 23rd at 10am- Coastal Branch Friends of Coastal Branch Library
Music and theater take center stage on Tuesday, January 23rd at 10am with composer Greg Mackender’s audio/video and lecture presentation at South Walton Coastal Branch Library.
Mackender’s presentation will be of special interest to lovers of music, visual arts, theatre and sound production. Coffee, juice, and muffins will be available.
An early adaptor to digital audio and use of the computer as a tool for sound designers and composers, multi-instrumentalist Mackender has composed and designed for well over 250 professional theater productions in the Kansas City and St. Louis region. He is Assistant Teaching Professor, Sound Design Department of Theatre at University of Missouri-Kansas City, teaches at the Film Department at the Kansas City Art Institute, is currently composer-in-residence with Seaside’s nationally recognized arts residency Escape To Create.
A founding member of the Kansas City Actors Theatre, Mackender has composed for over 15 plays in their ten-year history, including Talley’s Folly, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Picnic, and The Mousetrap. He was resident composer for the Missouri Repertory Theatre (now Kansas City Repertory Theatre) from 1995-2000, where he composed music for The Deputy, Royal Hunt of the Sun, Treasure Island, Emperor Jones, Whispers of the Mind, The Road to Mecca and The Imaginary Invalid, to name a few. He has been composer for over thirty seasons for the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival, performing his music live with a small ensemble.
Contemporary and new work includes My Name is Asher Lev and Grounded at the Unicorn Theatre. His most recent award was for his work in the Shakespeare Festival St. Louis production of Antony and Cleopatra, receiving ‘Outstanding Sound Design in a Play’ at the St. Louis Theatre Circle awards.