Yang Shao '20

Yang Shao '20

Yang graduated in 2020 and currently lives in NYC. She's always loved singing, and it has been a great comfort during quarantine to cover songs that she loves with accompaniment from her digital piano. On campus she sang with VTone, an East Asian music group, and the Glee Club. She is excited to explore musical opportunities in the city once it becomes COVID-safe to do so; in the meantime, she hopes everyone can stay safe and healthy and continue enjoying and supporting the arts!

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Kemi Adegoroye '13

Kemi Adegoroye is a singer-songwriter, actress, and producer based in the DC Metro Area. Her artistic career spans multiple disciplines and genres, ranging from jazz and soul to musical theatre and pop. She performs regularly as a solo artist and as the frontwoman of DC-based jazz and soul band Terra Firma. On Valentine's Day 2020 Kemi released her first original single, The Man Who Stole the Moon, inspired by the 2010 movie Despicable Me starring Steve Carell. For the Record EP, debuting on January 29, 2021, is her first album of original music, inspired by her lifelong love of Aretha Franklin, Motown, jazz standards, and Broadway-style storytelling.

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VTone

Founded in 2011, VTone is Princeton's first and only East Asian music group. "V" stands for the Roman numeral 5 and alludes to the pentatonic scale of traditional East Asian music. With our music, we aim to intrigue, inspire, and invigorate a worldly fusion of the arts.

Every year, we explore genres ranging from ballads and J-rock to rap and K-pop. In the fall semester, VTone joins in Princeton a cappella tradition and holds an annual Fall Arch Sing to perform original a cappella arrangements, covers, and mash-ups composed by members. In our annual spring show, however, we don't limit ourselves to a cappella; that's what makes VTone unique!

As part of our commitment to building community through our love of music, VTone also performs at on-campus venues throughout the year.

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Eve Kochen Budnick '84

Opera del West is a nonprofit opera company founded by Eve Kochen Budnick ‘84 in 2006 in the metro west area outside Boston. Our mission is to be a professional opera company that performs fully staged classic and new operas in intimate settings around Boston. We also act as a stepping stone for New England based emerging artists to perform opera roles in smaller venues before being hired by larger companies. Eve Budnick is the Artistic Director and has a Masters degree from Boston University and a Graduate Diploma from New England Conservatory.

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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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Catherine Barnett '82

Catherine Barnett '82

Catherine Barnett (class of 1982) is the author of three poetry collections, HUMAN HOURS (2018 Believer Book Award in Poetry), THE GAME OF BOXES (James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets), and INTO PERFECT SPHERES SUCH HOLES ARE PIERCED. A Guggenheim fellow, she teaches at NYU, Hunter, and Barnard. She lives in NYC, where she also works as an independent editor.

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Alexandra Palocz '20

Alexandra is a 2020 graduate in computer science with a certificate in theater. She is a thinker and tinkerer, a dreamer and do-er, learning what it means to be a creative individual in collaboration with the world. She is fascinated by a myriad of topics, including world mythology, evolutionary biology, and the inner workings of computers. She likes making things, telling stories, and looking for the patterns and connections that tie us all together.

Alexandra met Ally through the production of Echoes in Glass, Alexandra's theater thesis, and afterwards they worked together on this song as part of the Final Winter Sessions, a series of duets made with the goal of recording shared moments of music, creation, and friendship as memories to carry forward.

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Lia Romeo '03

Lia Romeo’s plays have been produced off-Broadway and regionally around the country, and developed at the O’Neill Playwrights Conference, the Lark, and elsewhere. Four of her plays have been recognized by the Kilroys List. She was the winner of City Theatre’s 2019 National Short Playwriting Award, and was a 2018 Individual Artist Fellowship winner in playwriting from the New Jersey State Council for the Arts. Her plays are published by Dramatists Play Service, Playscripts, Broadway Play Publishing, and Smith & Kraus.

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Victoria Gruenberg '16

Victoria Gruenberg is a Brooklyn-based stage director. She is a member of the current SDC Observership class and the 2018 Williamstown Theatre Festival directing corps. Recent pre-pandemic credits include Lily Houghton’s Dial M for Murder (The Flea); Karina Jutzi’s All Heroes Do (Secret Theatre); and Lia Romeo’s Safe Spaces (Art House Productions). In the audio sphere, her work can be heard on Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls, Just Women's Sports, and The Daily Shine, associated with the Shine app.

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Cliff Wilson '80

Cliff Wilson '80

As an undergraduate, Cliff Wilson performed with the Footnotes and served as music director for the Triangle Club. More recently he has played with the Westminster Community Orchestra and his own small jazz combo, Clyde St. Clifford and the Omnidextrous Jazz ensemble. He also frequently plays in pit orchestras. Primarily a bassist (both acoustic and electric), Cliff is also proficient on guitar and plays a little cello, as well.

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