Sheli Nan, alias Tabachnik, (born November 23, 1950) is an American composer, performer, author, and teacher. She is known for her chamber music, opera, requiem, and oratorio.
Career
editSheli Nan's first LP, Acoustic Piano Excursions, was produced by KPFA. Nan has released 12 CDs, including her Orchestral Suite in 3 Movements: Signatures in Time and Place.[1]
Nan composed incidental music for "Cuchulain – A Tragedy for the Heroic Age" by William Butler Yeats, performed by The Bay Theater Collective at Julia Morgan Theater. She also composed "Sarah and Hagar – The Reconciliation of the Jewish Mother and the Arab Mother."[2]
Her opera Saga of the 21st-Century Girl was performed under the Berkeley Repertory Company at Osher Studio, and her work Last Stop Café was featured at the Berkeley Baroque Festival.[3][4]
She was commissioned to compose for The Albany Consort, creating Requiem for the Ancestors – Dia de los Muertos, performed in San Francisco.[5]
References
edit- ^ "Sheli Nan". www.societyofcomposers.org. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
- ^ Nan, Sheli (2003). Sarah and Hagar: the reconciliation of the Jewish mother and the Arab mother: a meditation for lyric soprano, mezzo soprano and string quartet. Contemporary vocal series. Albany, CA: PRB Productions. ISBN 978-1-56571-236-2.
- ^ "Baroque & Beyond: Sheli Nan at the Giorgi Gallery. Category: Arts Listings from The Berkeley Daily Planet". www.berkeleydailyplanet.com. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
- ^ Hendrickson, W. A.; Ward, K. B. (1975-10-27). "Atomic models for the polypeptide backbones of myohemerythrin and hemerythrin". Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 66 (4): 1349–1356. doi:10.1016/0006-291x(75)90508-2. ISSN 1090-2104. PMID 5.
- ^ Bahto, Rick (2023-04-12). "The San Francisco Bay Area NACUSA Chapter presents Serenade – Saturday, June 10 at 8 pm – Old First Concerts". Retrieved 2024-08-02.