The Artists has also been a vocal coach and Visiting Artist Professor of Music at the Moores School of Music. While at Houston Ballet, Ms. Ciscon has performed as soloist in the world premieres of Stanton Welch’s Nosotros, Class and The Core , Justin Peck’s Reflections (world premiere of Sufjan Stevens music), Garrett Smith’s Reveal , James Kudelka’s Passion , Ben Stevenson’s Eclipse , and Trey McIntyre’s Bound , among others. She has also been featured as soloist in many works, including Stanton Welch’s Sons de L’âme, Tu Tu and Vi et animo , William Forsythe’s Artifact Suite , Mark Morris’s Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes , Jerome Robbins’s The Concert (Or the Perils of Everybody), and George Balanchine’s Rubies, Ballet Imperial, and The Four Temperaments. DENISE TARRANT Violin, Come In Denise Tarrant studied at the University of Houston with Fredell Lack; Rice University with Sergiu Luca; Royal College of Music in London with Dona Lee Croft; and Trinity College of Music with Bela Katona. Ms. Tarrant began her professional career as the violinist in the Midland-Odessa (Texas) Symphony at the age of 16. She began her tenure with the Houston Ballet Orchestra in 1986 and was promoted to concertmaster in 1988. Ms. Tarrant has been featured as a violin soloist in several Houston Ballet productions including Stanton Welch’s Maninyas, Clear and the world premiere of Tapestry (Mozart Violin Concerto No. 5 ); world premiere of Jorma Elo’s ONE/ end/ONE (Mozart Violin Concerto No. 4 ); Natalie Weir’s Steppenwolf ; Mark Morris’ Pacific ; world premiere Edwaard Liang’s Mumuration (Ezio Bosso, Violin Concerto No. 1 ); world premiere of Jacquelyn Long’s Illuminate (Oliver Davis, Frontiers ) and world premiere of Jindallae Bernard’s Parodie de l’histoire du ballet (Camille Saint-Saëns, Introduction et Rondo capriccioso Op.28 for Violin and Orchestra ). She has enjoyed an extensive career with Houston Grand Opera Orchestra, becoming concertmaster under the baton of Maestro Patrick Summers in 1999. Ms. Tarrant has also performed
ASZURE BARTON Choreographer, Come In
in Europe and toured to Japan with the Houston Symphony.
Canadian-American Aszure Barton is a choreographer, director, and innovator who has been creating dances since her days as a student at Canada’s National Ballet School. In the early 2000s, she founded Aszure Barton & Artists in order to create an autonomous, interdisciplinary, and collaborative platform for process-centered creation, resulting in choreography that the US National Endowment for the Arts has equated to “watching the physical unfurling of the human psyche.” Over 30+ years, Aszure has worked with celebrated artists and companies including Mikhail Baryshnikov, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, Bayerisches Staatsballett, English National Ballet, Teatro alla Scala, Nederlands Dans Theater, Sydney Dance Company, The National Ballet of Canada, Martha Graham Dance Company, Grand Théâtre de Genève, and Limón Dance Company, among others. She recently premiered a new work ( Mere Mortals ) at San Francisco Ballet in collaboration with British electronic music producer/DJ Floating Points and mixed media artists Hamill Industries, and she is also the current Resident Artist at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. Throughout her career, she has received accolades including a Bessie Award for her work BUSK as well as the prestigious Canadian Arts & Letters Award. She was the first Martha Duffy Resident Artist at the Baryshnikov Arts Center and is an ambassador of contemporary dance in Canada. Aszure’s latest artistic venture is a creative partnership with acclaimed composer and trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire. KATHERINE BURKWALL-CISCON Celesta, Come In Chicago native Katherine Ciscon received her bachelor’s degree in piano from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, and a double master’s degree in both piano performance and collaborative arts from the University of Houston Moores School of Music. She was named Principal Pianist of Houston Ballet in 1995 and
SILAS FARLEY Choreographer, Four Loves Silas Farley is a ballet teacher and
choreographer. He currently serves as the Armstrong Artist in Residence in Ballet in the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University (SMU). Farley is a former dancer with New York City Ballet and former Dean of the Trudl Zipper Dance Institute at The Colburn School in Los Angeles, CA. Farley has taught for the School of American Ballet, New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Houston Ballet, The Washington Ballet, The School at Jacob’s Pillow, the Peabody Conservatory, the Hartt School, Slovak National Ballet, and the Kennedy Center. He has choreographed for the School of American Ballet, The School at Jacob’s Pillow, the New York Choreographic Institute, Columbia Ballet Collaborative at Columbia University, Works & Process at the Guggenheim, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Houston Ballet, The Washington Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, and New York City Ballet. Farley was an inaugural Jerome Robbins Dance Division Research Fellow at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Farley has served as a Scholar in Residence at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. He has written for Dance Magazine and Dance Inde x and lectured at the Museum of Modern Art. Farley is the writer and host of the New York City Ballet podcast, Hear the Dance . Mr. Farley serves on the Board of The George Balanchine Foundation.
KYLE WERNER Composer, Four Loves
Kyle Werner is a NYC-based composer who creates new works for listeners and performers of classical music. His works have been featured by The Washington Ballet, Wolf Trap, MarqueeTV, Guggenheim Works & Process Digital Commissions, Windscape, the Chicago Chamber Musicians, Grand Rapids Symphony, mezzo-soprano Raehann Bryce-Davis, guitarist Jordan Dodson,
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