Gloria Yin '18

Gloria Yin '18

Gloria Yin is a conductor, pianist, and singer from London, UK, now based in the USA. Recent conducting highlights have included a multi-media performance of Missy Mazzoli's opera Song from the Uproar in collaboration with the David Geffen School of Drama, Yale Schwarzman Center, and Yale Opera, which they co-directed with projection designer Camilla Tassi, and Sarah Kirkland Snider's Mass for the Endangered. As a champion of new music, they have conducted numerous premieres, including Calvin Van Zytfeld's chamber opera Don't Trifle with Love, Daniel Knaggs' motet O vos omnes, and Shruthi Rajasekar's horn dectet Goddess.

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Joshua Blum '02

Joshua Blum '02

“There are no limits for those that refuse to accept them” is a quote by Chuck Norris I try to live by. I believe in the hope of rainbows and starry skies, the power of children in creating better tomorrows, and the wonder that our creativity helps bring to the world.

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Jessica Roemischer '82

Jessica Roemischer '82

Jessica Roemischer is an award-winning pianist, storyteller, and visual artist. Evocatively combining music and spoken word in live, interactive events, Jessica conjures a world beyond divisions, freeing the stories that are held in the silence of our hearts. New York-born and raised, Jessica lives in Sydney, Australia.

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Zhoushu Ziporyn GS

Zhoushu Ziporyn GS

Zhoushu Ziporyn is a violinist, composer, and junior scholar, gaining award-winning recognition in all three domains. Zhoushu has been taught the traditional art of Kyōgen under master Tōjiro Yamamoto, culminating in a hired performance with the Yamamoto family themselves at the National Nō Theater of Japan. Gagaku music, shō (Japanese mouth organ) player, and zoomusicology.

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Carla Schwartz *84

Carla Schwartz *84

Filmmaker and photographer Carla Schwartz’s poems have been widely published and anthologized, including in The Practicing Poet (Diane Lockward, Ed), and in her second collection, Intimacy with the Wind, (Finishing Line, 2017). Her CB99videos youtube channel has 2,200,000+ views. Learn more at carlapoet.com, wakewiththesun.blogspot.com, or find her on YouTube, Twitter, or Instagram @cb99videos.

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Emma Watkins '18

Emma Watkins '18

Emma Watkins is a playwright, dramaturg, and performer living in Philadelphia. Her plays are inclusive, imaginative, and fundamentally feminist. She strives to give female voices the opportunity to embellish and interrogate the stories of their lives. Quite often, they sing, too. Emma has presented her plays and research in the US and in Wales, in collaboration with such organizations as McCarter Theatre Lab, PlayPenn, Chapter Arts Centre (UK), and the US-UK Fulbright Forum.

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Sam Gravitte '17

Sam Gravitte '17

He/him. Sam is currently (outside of pandemia) playing Fiyero in the Broadway company of Wicked. He most recently worked with Roger Q. Mason on a Zoom excerpt of Roger's new play The Pride of Lions for Dixon Place HOT Festival. Broadway: Wicked. Regional/Touring: Almost Famous (O/C, Old Globe), Joseph... Dreamcoat (ACT), Wicked. BA: Princeton University. He is a musician, an aspiring writer, and a burgeoning Marxist. @samgravitte

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