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Creative Team
Paul Richards, Music
Paul Richards is an Associate Professor of Composition and Theory at the University of Florida. He has previously taught at Baylor University, and holds degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Arizona. He is the recipient of various national and international prizes and commissions, including the Jacksonville Symphony Fresh Ink Competition, the Truman State University/M.A.C.R.O. Composition Competition, the New Music for Sligo/IMRO Composition Award, the International Horn Society Composition Competition, Special Distinction in the ASCAP Rudolph Nissim Award, and several others. His works have been commissioned by orchestras, wind ensembles, and chamber groups, and performed at conferences, festivals, and concerts across the United States and internationally on six continents. His music is recorded on the MMC, Capstone, Mark, Summit, ERM, and Meyer Media labels, and is published by Southern Music, TrevCo Music, Jeanne, Inc., IHS Press, and Margalit Music.
Wendy Steiner, Words
Wendy Steiner holds the Richard L. Fisher Chair of English at the University of Pennsylvania and is Founding Director of the Penn Humanities Forum. Her fields are contemporary literature, visual art, and aesthetics. Recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and other honors, she has published many books, including Literature as Meaning (2005), Venus in Exile: The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-Century Art (2001), and The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in an Age of Fundamentalism (1995, listed among the New York Times "100 Best Books of 1996"). Her cultural criticism has appeared in the Nation, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, London Independent, London Review of Books, and Times Literary Supplement, and her creative nonfiction, in Parnassus, The Michigan Quarterly Review, The Southwest Review, and the LRB.
John Kindness, Artwork
John Kindness studied fine art at the old College of Art (now the University of Ulster) and worked as a graphic designer for the BBC before devoting himself full-time to art making in 1986. Since then he has held fellowships in the International Studio Program at PS1 in Queens and the British School in Rome. His exhibition, "Treasures of New York," led to solo exhibitions at the ICA in Philadelphia, the Kerlin Gallery in Dublin, the Drawing Room in New York, and Littlejohn Contemporary. His work is collected in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, British Council, Imperial War Museum, National Gallery of Ireland, Ulster Museum, and Victoria and Albert Museum. He lives in London. John Kindness's work can be seen at Slate Gallery, 136 Wythe Ave., Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
John DeLucia, Musical Concept
Trained at the Musiecklyceum in Amsterdam and the Conservatorio Antinori in Perugia, John holds an M.A. in pre-classic musicology and is an expert in early woodwinds and Renaissance and Baroque performance practice. He is a founding member of the Gramercy Baroque Ensemble, has recorded for the Nonesuch and Lyrichord labels, and has performed in the Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds and Carnegie Hall. He currently has a teaching practice in New York.
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