James Bowman is one of the world's foremost and most influential counter-tenors. His career spans opera, oratorio, contemporary music and recitals. After education at Oxford, he made his debut with Benjamin Britten in 1967, appeared at Glyndebourne in 1970, at the English National Opera in 1971 and at Covent Garden in 1972. Among his many opera engagements were the Paris Opera, La Scala, Milan, La Fenice, Venice, and the Festival of Aix-en-Provence. Bowman has made over 130 recordings with all the major record labels and with such conductors as Harnoncourt, Leonhardt, Hogwood and Pinnock. His recorded repertoire covers Baroque works and also embraces Orff's Carmina Burana, Jacques Loussier's Lumieres and Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, a work with which he has a particularly long association. James Bowman has given the world premieres of many important contemporary compositions, including works by Michael Tippett, Peter Maxwell Davies, Richard Rodney Bennett, Robin Holloway and Michael Nyman.

Composer & librettist Ari Frankel travels from opera (Lot's Daughters And Their Father) through new-age (Suzanne Ciani's Neverland) to contemporary solo piano (SHATTERED, hymns for mortal creatures). His film, electronic and orchestral scores have gained kudos in Europe and America, including The Bourges International Electroacoustic Festival and The International Film & TV Festival of New York. Frankel has explored themes from The Tibetan Book Of The Dead, T.S. Eliot, Anne Sexton, Primo Levi and many others. Among his collaborators are Muna Tseng, John Kelly, Susan Batson and William H. Macy. The Village Voice described his "emotionally charged original music" as "wonderfully poignant and plangent", The Glasgow Herald felt "true passion" and The London Times marveled at "light seeming materials build[ing] an overwhelming effect". Frankel's music has been heard in Chicago, Houston, Princeton, Los Angeles, England, France, Italy, Germany, Israel, Sweden, Holland, Japan and Poland. New York performances have included The Kitchen, Dia Center For The Arts, SummerStage at Central Park & Washington Square Church.