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Pamela

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About Me

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    Or you can just listen here:


    I'm a "classical" musician (singer, composer, contemporary music performer). I specialize in new music/contemporary music, and I completed my Master's degree at The Peabody Conservatory of The Johns Hopkins University in vocal performance. Aside from my music, I have studied several foreign languages, including French, German, Russian, Italian and Korean. I've also been studying acting for over fifteen years, training in a variety of techniques, everything from classical theather to improvisation. I love studying science and medicine, physics, astro physics, psychoacoustics, history, literature, social theory and ethics, and learning about pretty much anything. These days I find myself at a lot of lectures on global affairs. I used to paint (I love working with oils and ink and I used to get paid to do portraits) and I used to do a lot of creative writing, but not so much these days.

    Now that I've finished my Master's degree, I want to travel the world, do great things, change the world for the better, move mountains, feel, live, grow, and experience. I'm thinking about going back to school, getting my PhD. I dream of finding a way in which I can combine my performing skills with my academic knowledge for the better of the world. If you know of a way I can do this, please tell me...
    Constantly restless, I am an unbound spirit. I like to travel alone. I like to feel free.

    News and Upcoming Performances
    May 4th-13th 2008: Pamela has been invited to participate in the Britten-Pears Programme New Music, New Media at the Aldeburgh Music Festival in England! She will be working with composers on new works incorporating electroacoustic music techniques and a variety of other media formats. A performance will take place on May 13th in Aldeburgh, and works written on this program will be selected to be showcased in the 2008 Aldeburgh Festival digital performance day, Faster Than Sound in June, 2008.

    June 1st-14th 2008: Pamela has been invited to perform at the Hot Springs Music Festival in Arkansas. She will be performing as a soloist in Haydn's Creation and will be featured in several other concerts and events throughout the duration of the festival

    June 18th, 2008: Pamela will be premiering a new work by composer Tristan Perich at Issue Project Room in NYC. The new work, untitled (Bernadette Mayer) is for five voices and electronics on fifteen channels. The show starts at 8 pm.

    July 8th-27th, 2008: Pamela has been accepted to the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary art in North Adams, MA. Details on performances to come.

    November/December 2008: Pamela will be performing in the premier of Anthony Gatto's new opera The Making of Americans based on the novel of the same name by Gertrude Stein, with a libretto by Jay Scheib. Workshop performances will take place at M.I.T. in Boston in November, and the official premier will be the week of December 12th at the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis, MN. Please check the website for details!
    Congratulations! Pamela has been selected by the faculty and Dean of The Peabody Conservatory to receive the Phyllis Bryn-Julson Prize for Commitment to and Performance of 20th/21st Century Music! She will be recognized as an award recipient at the Peabody Honors Convocation on May 16th, 2007.


    More Congratulations! Pamela recently received a generous grant from the Peabody Career Development Fund!
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    My Interests

    Singing, acting, studying, traveling, writing, music, composition, European literature, reading, art, painting, astro physics, medical anthropology, psychoacoustics, immunology, ethnomusicology, international relations, mathematics, new music, nyc, opera, cooking, indie/foreign films

    I'd like to meet:

    People who want to hire me. Not just in music. I have a great education and a plethora of skills and I need work. Other than that: physics nerds, people who can teach me things, people who speak languages I'm learning so I can practice, people involved in international relations, people involved in mathematics, medical research, and psychoacoustics. Oh, and people who like my music, of course.

    'Why are you going to hell?' at QuizGalaxy.com

    How did they KNOW???

    Music:

    Fiona Apple, Elliot Smith, Yoav, Mahler, Rautavaara, Bang on a Can, Lukas Ligeti, Gyorgy Ligeti, Kodaly, Berg, Steve Reich, Busoni, Crumb, Bartok, Webern, Alarm Will Sound, Audrey Chen voice-cello improv, David Lang, Richard Horner, Stravinsky, Part, Golijov, Cage, weird 20th/21st century music, anything experimental and new, early 90's grunge rock, industrial and 80's music when I'm at clubs, Coldplay, The Killers, The Sex Pistols, The Ramones, old school punk rock, old school rock, Prodigy, Counting Crows, Train, Nirvana, Rage Against the Machine, Beastie Boys, Regina Spektor, Rachael Yamagata

    Movies:

    Goodbye Lenin, Mahler, Jan Svankmajer's Faust, Donnie Darko, The Decalogues, The Third Miracle, Farenheit 9/11, The Royal Tannenbaums, American History X, Stigmata, Dogma, Contact, 13 Conversations About One Thing, Magnolia, Requiem for a Dream, The Seventh Seal, The Dreamers, Igby Goes Down, 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould, The Constant Gardener, Ararat

    Television:

    I haven't watched TV in a long time. Its kind of nice. I think that if your life must stop at a certain time every week to watch a TV show, you are probably not worth my time.

    Books:

    The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky) The Tin Drum (Gunter Grass) Doktor Faustus (Thomas Mann) Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov) Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce) Faust (Johann W. von Goethe) Alma Mahler Gropius Werfel, the Diaries (Alma Mahler) The Republic (Plato) Zero (Charles Seife) Prozac Nation (Elizabeth Wertzel) Les Miserables (Victor Hugo) The Master and Margueritta (Bulgakov) Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Jonathan Safran Foer. I also like plays: Three Sisters (Chekov) Les Liasons Dangereus (Christopher Hampton) Galileo (Bertolt Brecht) I read compulsively.

    Heroes:

    My great grandmother, Alinda Burnham Couper. She got her masters degree at a time when women were not thought worthy of education, she traveled to europe, studied with Nadia Boulanger in France, and studied ancient music maniscripts all over the world. My great grandfather, Walter James Couper. He was a professor at Yale and worked under FDR on several important government projects. He was an economics genius. And my grandfather, Irving Pober. He came to this country with nothing and he built an empire, and he did it for his family and the people he loved, so they would never have to suffer. I will always love him.