Todd Barton is a sonic adventurer, composer, tutor and performer of abstract, freely improvised electronic music specializing in Buchla, Serge and Hordijk electronic musical instruments. For four decades he was Composer in Residence for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and also taught Music Composition and Electronic and Computer Music at Southern Oregon University.
Besides electronic music Todd has composed for the KRONOS Quartet, The Oregon Symphony, The Rogue Valley Symphony and San Jose Chamber Orchestra. His music can be heard on all major internet platforms. He widely shares his electronic music explorations, demos and tutorials via Youtube and Instagram as well as offering private online sessions for clients and students around the world.
He recently released his solo album, Below this Time Does Not Exist.
Bruce Bayard is a visual artist who also explores sound creation using analogue modular instruments, combining those sounds with video. Bayard is a self-taught artist switching from paintings to digital tools in 2000. Since then, he has created numerous performances with duos, trios and quintets with other artists in Sonoluminescence, in addition to Michael Vannice, Russ Appleyard, David Bithell, Ted Killian, Lawson Inada and Damon Honeycutt. Bayard has exhibited extensively on the west coast including one and two-person exhibits at the Hult Center, Eugene, the Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, Grants Pass Museum of Art, and the Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles.
Suzee Grilley, MFA Dance & Choreography, is a dancer, choreographer, performer and educator. She was a member of the Nikolais Dance Theatre, touring the world. She has performed and choreographed with countless ensembles, including her own dance company, and sonoluminescence. She has set her choreography on dancers at Virginia Commonwealth University, Wake Forrest University, UCLA and Loyola Marymount University. She practiced and taught the African/Brazilian Martial Art Capoeira for 15 years. She has choreographed in 3 seasons at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. She began studying and performing Taiko in 2008 and was a performer with Watsonville Taiko, Shinsho Mugen Daiko and Shinsei Daiko, all directed by Ikuyo Conant. Ms. Grilley teaches and performs Taiko in Ashland with her emerging ensemble, Elbow Room Taiko. In a parallel world, Suzee assists her husband Paul leading Yin Yoga, Anatomy, and meditation programs.
Terry Longshore is a percussionist whose genre-crossing work exhibits the artistry of the concert stage, the spontaneity of jazz, and the energy of a rock club. Based in Ashland, Oregon, he maintains an energetic career as an performer, educator, and composer. He performs internationally as a soloist and ensemble member, collaborates with artists working in diverse media, and has premiered and recorded numerous works. He also champions new solo and chamber works for percussion by commissioning, organizing, and participating in consortium commissions for works from a diverse body of composers. Longshore is a Marimba One Vibe Artist and an artist endorser for Black Swamp Percussion, Zildjian Cymbals, Vic Firth Sticks and Mallets, Remo Drumheads, Gon Bops Percussion, and Beato Bags, and is a trained HealthRHYTHMS facilitator. He serves as Professor of Music and Director of Percussion Studies at the Oregon Center for the Arts at Southern Oregon University, where he directs Left Edge Percussion and the SOU Percussion Ensemble. He holds bachelor’s degrees from California State University at Fresno (Business Administration – Computer Applications and Systems) and Sacramento (Music – Percussion Performance), and earned the master’s and doctoral degrees in contemporary music performance from the University of California, San Diego.
Michael Maag is the Repertory Lighting Designer at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Scenographer, Lighting and Projection Artist + Production Lead for Kinetic Light, a Disability Arts Ensemble.
Maag is an award-winning designer of lighting, video, and projection for theatre, dance, musicals, opera, and planetariums. He sculpts with light and shadow to create lighting environments that tell a story, believing that lighting in support of the performance is the key to unlocking audiences’ emotions. His designs have been seen on OSF’s stages for the last 25 years, as well as at theatres across the country.
He has built custom optics for projections in theaters, museums, and planetariums; he also designs and builds electronics and lighting for costumes and scenery.
His lighting and projection design for Kinetic Light’s Descent was chosen to represent the United States at the Prague Quadrennial in 2019. Recently their work Wired premiered at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and played at the Shed in NYC. Maag is passionate about bringing the perspective of a disabled artist to technical theatre and design. He has spoken at several theatre and architecture conferences on the importance of access for the disabled artist in technical theatre.
Chris Williams is a “collage performance artist.” A singer, actor, director, writer, and composer, she’s passionate about new forms and creating connection through her work. Chris has performed at regional theatres and on concert stages across the country and across the pond, including Berkeley Rep, American Opera Projects in NYC, the Grotowski Institute in Poland, the Barbican Centre in London, and many seasons with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. She draws from her work in theatre, opera, musicals, jazz, folk, cabaret, choral music, Shakespeare, and contemporary chamber music to make things that give voice to our current conditions and ancient wonder. An equally passionate educator, Chris is a voice instructor on the SOU Music faculty.
Production Crew
Cathi Romero-Molay Performing Arts Production Manager
Zack Biegel House Manager
Calido Marquez Recording Tech