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MUSIC: DARREN ZILLER

dzill // is a producer, dj and multi-instrumentalist based out of New York, NY.

As a versatile DJ, he has performed at underground parties in Brooklyn, NY to some of NYC's hottest bars and rooftops including: Hotel Rivington, Bleecker Hall, Leave Rochelle Out Of It, Shay & Ivy, Solas Bar NYC and various private parties. A graduate of The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, dzill was also a recipient of the Michael Iovenko Scholarship to study orchestral conducting and techniques of music in Paris, France through the European American Music Alliance.

MUSIC: BETTINA SHEPPARD

Bettina is honored to be part of LLMoves’ latest work, Plastic Ocean. Her works reflect her varied background as singer, pianist, and composer, after many years spent in dramatic and musical theatre. As a Welsh/American, her writing is multi-ethnic and demonstrates a fusion of styles and cultures. Some of her vocal works and commissions include song cycle settings of the poets Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, and Misuzu Kaneko. Stage productions include the opera, Stillwaters, TraumNovela, 365 Days/365 Plays by Pulitzer prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks, The Picture of Dorian Grey, and ballets Dream Story, and Gaia. Her works have been performed in New York City’s Lincoln Center, The Public Theatre, Carnegie Hall, City Center, and Symphony Space, as well as venues in Dallas, Boston, and Barcelona and commissioned work for the American Cathedral in Paris. Upcoming works include a more extensive setting of the poetry and life of Japanese poet Misuzu Kaneko, with translator Misa Ogasawara, and the Welsh fairy tales of The Mabinogion.

Bettina holds graduate degrees summa cum laude from both University of Virginia and CUNY and studied at The Juilliard School. She is the author of The Everything Singing Book, and is on faculty at City College CUNY. She serves as the in-house composer for New York’s Open Center. Some of her works are published by See-a-dot Music Publishing, and her CD Solus, Brythonwen is available on CD Baby.

Photography by Max Sequeria

MUSIC: ANTHONY CARRERA

Anthony Carrera is a New Jersey based world music multi instrumentalist that has fully devoted his life to his music. Anthony is a student of classical/flamenco guitar, handpan, & sitar but also consistently aims to absorb and learn as much about the different styles of music the world has to offer. While Anthony believes all styles of music should be learned in their most traditional manners to preserve to beauty of the style & pay respect to the culture from which it came, he also believes all styles of music can be blended together to create something truly beautiful and unique. While Anthony plays many different kinds of events throughout the NJ/NYC area he can most regularly be seen within the NYC subway system as an active & new member of MTA’s Arts & Designs Music Under New York Program. A few regular locations where Anthony performs include Penn Station, Grand Central, Times Square, & the World Trade Center.
http://anthonycarreramusic.com/

Photography by Pete Guither

MUSIC: CRAIG SCHLATTER

Craig Schlatter grew up on a farm outside the small town of Chatsworth, Illinois. He toured with the Sound of America Honors Chorus as a teenager and spent four years as a jazz pianist with the U.S. Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Band in Twentynine Palms, California. In 2005, Mr. Schlatter completed Spirit of the Prairie, a compilation of piano compositions and arrangements written “to convey the lonely, sometimes stark, beauty of the Prairie and the rural communities I still call home.” Music from the CD was featured on WGLT-FM’s Accousticity and the Illinois State University dance production “Now, in this Moment.”