Ines Andrade (Dancer)
Ines received her BFA in Dance/Choreography from University of Florida/New World School of the Arts. She performed, choreographed, and taught young children in Paris, Florida and the San Juans before moving to Seattle in 1999. She currently teaches movement in preschools, schools and dance centers (including American Dance Institute, Creative Dance Center and Pacific Northwest Ballet) and performs an array of ethnic dance forms, from court dances to Flamenco to Butoh. Ines has also  been a member of Seattle Early Dance (a Renaissance and Baroque dance company) since 2002. She performed in Psyche and Moon in the Bucket (2008). [Back to top]

Matthew Anderson (Guitar)
Matthew received his BFA from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, where he later served as resident guitarist for Saint James Cathedral from 1997-2007. In 2007 he formed the alternative-rock band The Endeavors with Garrett Fisher after working on Fisher's Phonograph project. [Back to top]

Greg Bagley (6-string acoustic fretted bass) [Visit website] [Search blog]
Now a freelance bassist, Greg started playing bass at age 12 and quickly came to realize that music was his true passion in life. Playing in concert and jazz bands through middle and high school helped develop early music theory and reading skills, and after playing for a number of his high-school musicals, Greg formed a great appreciation for and enjoyment of musical theater and other interdisciplinary collaborations with artists. [Back to top]

Ben Black (Vocalist) [Visit website] [Search blog]
Ben has performed as a jazz singer in varied venues across the U.S. and Europe, including jazz clubs, cabarets, theaters, and festivals. As an Origin Records recording artist, he has recorded several CDs that explore jazz, pop, and world music. Ben has honed his technical skill and experience throughout his 21-year career as a vocalist, songwriter, performer, and producer. His newest CD, Mystery and Wonder, is inspired by mysticism, meditation, and the vividness and beauty of nature. Mystery and Wonder features his own original compositions and arrangements and is scheduled for release in 2009. Ben has a deep interest in creating art that wakes people up, tells the truth, and inspires love towards ourselves and others. He played the role of Eros in Psyche in 2008, and the Chorus in Moon in the Bucket in 2008. [Back to top]

Jeremiah Cawley (Music Director, Baritone) [Search blog]
Prior to At the Hawk's Well, he has been the Music Director The Passion of Saint Thomas More (2009), Psyche (2008), and Moon in the Bucket (2008). He also sang the role of Henry VIII in the 2009 production of The Passion of Saint Thomas More. Jeremiah is a conductor, singer, and trombonist based in Seattle. He sings in the University of Washington Chamber Singers, and conducts a variety of ensembles in town. Jeremiah is from the Midwest, where he played in the Ruvidolce Brass Quintet, and the Illinois Valley Symphony Orchestra. He is currently finishing his Master of Music degree at the University of Washington, and is a student of Dr. Geoffrey Boers (conducting) and Professor Joyce Guyer (voice). [Back to top]

Ken Cerniglia (director & dramaturg) [Search Blog]
Ken has worn the dramaturg and/or director hat on Psyche, Stargazer, The Passion of Saint Thomas More, and Dream of Zeus, among other projects. By day he is dramaturg and literary manager for Disney Theatrical Group in New York City, where he has developed over twenty shows for professional, amateur and school productions, including High School Musical, The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast Jr.. Ken holds a doctorate in theatre history and criticism from the University of Washington and presents and publishes his research internationally. [Back to top]

Tori Ellison (Visual Artist, Puppets) [Visit website]
Tori created large-scale puppets, costumes, and backdrops for 2008’s Psyche and Moon in the Bucket.  She is a Seattle mixed media artist who creates prints, paintings, sculpture and installation art, deeply influenced by dance and new music.  A MacDowell Colony, Blue Mountain, Women’s Studio Workshop, and Jentel Foundation fellow, she has exhibited in 11 states and abroad, including Portland Art Museum, Bellevue Art Museum, Seattle University’s Hedreen Gallery, Seattle Art Museum Gallery, NYU’s Grey Art Gallery, New York’s PaineWebber Art Gallery, and Salt Lake Art Center. Her work is in the City of Seattle, Vulcan, Jordan Schnitzer, and Portland Art Museum collections.  She studied at Cranbrook, University of Washington sculpture department, Reed College (BA in Art/Art History), and New York’s School of Visual Arts (MFA). She has edited and written about art for the Guggenheim Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Seattle Weekly, Seattle Times, Oregonian, and Artweek. [Back to top]

Christy Fisher (Choreographer, Director) [Visit website] [Search blog]
Christy has enjoyed collaborating with Garrett for the last 15 years, presenting work at the HERE Center’s American Living Room Series (NYC), Judson Church (NYC), On the Boards Northwest New Works Festivals, On the Boards Artist Access Programs, and Centrum (Port Townsend). Christy has presented solo work at Movement Research (NYC), On the Boards, and the Seattle Art Museum. She has performed with Works/Laura Glenn Dance (Hartford/NYC) and with Haruko Nishimura/ Degenerate Art Ensemble (Seattle). Christy also produces !!Artslaunch!!, a bi-annual, interdisciplinary forum for Seattle’s visual, literary and performing artists. In 2008 Christy choreographed and co-directed the Fisher Ensemble’s productions of Psyche and Moon in the Bucket .[Back to top]

Katherine Hanson (Vocalist) [Search blog]
Katherine has been performing with the Fisher Ensemble for over 10 years, playing the Priest in Moon in the Bucket, Orestes in Dream of Zeus and the Narrator in Sally Hemings. Most recently, she played Thomas More in the ensemble’s 2007 staged productions in New York and Kansas City. She also is a founding member of the early music trio La Lira (formerly Le Nuove Musiche) and was associate director and a soloist for the 60-member Medieval Women’s Choir for many years. She has performed as a soloist with numerous groups in the Northwest, including the Seattle Peace Chorus (most recently Mozart’s Requiem), the City Cantabile Choir, the Seattle Bach Festival, Lola Tarot, and Sahlee (ecstatic dance world music). Currently, she is in graduate school at Seattle University, studying counseling and school counseling, and hopes to bring together her passions for holistic health, social/environmental justice, and music in the future. She earned her degree in Greek and Latin from Amherst College and studied music theory at University of Washington. [Back to top]

Taina Karr (Oboe, English horn)
Taina earned a degree in Oboe Performance and French Literature at Indiana University in Bloomington where she studied with Marc Lifschey and completed a Masters Degree in Oboe Performance studying with Alex Klein at the University of Washington. She began working with Garrett Fisher in 1994 and has performed in many of his productions. She played English horn on the BIS recording of The Passion of Saint Thomas More. Since then, she has made performing new music her focus. She has performed in groups including Seattle Experimental Opera, Degenerate Art Ensemble, and the Seattle Creative Orchestra. She is a member of the graphic score ensemble, Eye Music. Taina has recently been working with Eyvind Kang. In 2007 she traveled with him to Milan and Barcelona to perform his music in a chamber ensemble. Taina performs as a freelance musician on oboe, oboe d'amore, and English horn throughout the area. She has studied chamber music performance with the Ensemble Intercontemporain in Fontainebleau, France. She is a founding member of the quartet, Quatrain consisting of the oboe family, cello, harp and bass. In 2006 she earned certification in Arts Management from the University of Washington. [Back to top]

Deeji Killian (Vocalist)
has been singing for as long as she can remember and performing professionally for the last twenty years.  She has sung several mainstage roles with Seattle Opera where she has performed with such notables as Renee Fleming, Ben Heppner, Susan Graham, Jane Eaglen, and Carol Vaness.  Deeji has also appeared as a soloist with the Seattle Symphony, Seattle Lieder Society, Opera Jupiter, Kitsap Opera, Musical Experiences, 16 Visions, Lawler-Rankin Productions, Tacoma Opera, The Esoterics, Masterworks Choral Ensemble, and On the Boards.  She also performs frequently in concerts and recitals and has been a featured soloist on King FM, KUOW, and National Public Radio.  Favorite roles include Marguerite in Gounod’s Faust, Musetta in Puccini’s La Boheme, Dido in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Iphigenie in Gluck’s Iphigenie en Tauride, Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus, and Serpina in Pergolesi’s La Serva Padrona.  She also has had the privilege of debuting two principal roles in Garrett Fisher’s operas Agamemnon and Dream of Zeus, where she sang the roles of Clytemnestra and The Queen.  Also trained as a dancer and actress, Deeji teaches musical theater workshops through All Are Stars Productions, a non-profit community organization she founded with her husband, singer Bob Tangney.  Ms. Killian is also the co-founder and director of the Sparkling Choir of Love. [Back to top]

Theo Lipfert (Filmmaker) [Visit Website]
Theo directed the Short Film Moon in the bucket (2005) and edited the short film Sally Hemings Wakes (2003). [Back to top]

Maria Mannisto (Vocalist) [Search Blog]
Maria, a native of the Seattle area, has an extensive performing history as an opera singer, concert soloist, pianist, and organist. She recently received her M.M. in Voice from the University of Washington, where she studied with Jane Eaglen. Maria appeared in University of Washington productions of La finta giardiniera (Sandrina), Suor Angelica (La Zelatrice), scenes from Rigoletto (Gilda) and La traviata (Violetta), and as soprano soloist in Berio's "O King", Bach's Mass in B minor, and both Vivaldi's "Dixit Dominus" and "Gloria". In March 2008 she performed for the second time in composer Tom Baker's series of new "operatorios". She has also performed works by local composers Wayne Horvitz, Bill Smith, and Brian Cobb. Maria was named the 2007 Finlandia Foundation Performer of the Year. She directs the Finnish Choral Society of Seattle, and is the primary organist at the Finnish Lutheran Church. [Back to top]

Louise McCagg (Sculptor) [Visit website] [Search Blog]
Louise has been collaborating with Garrett Fisher since 1994 in four of his productions. A New York-based artist, Louise has been exploring methods of sculpting without mimicking the human form: she makes “face prints” of people’s faces, then shrinks the heads to the dimensions she needs. She uses masks in many forms, materials and contexts, ranging from bronze sculpture to books and postcards. For this production she used life-sized masks. Louise has shown her work regularly throughout the United States and Europe, including the A.I.R. Gallery (New York), 128 Gallery (New York), Hebrew Union College (New York), Hungarian Cultural Institute (Berlin, Germany), 2B Gallery (Budapest, Hungary), Sejong Arts Festival (Seoul, Korea), and is part of the Mills College, Yale library, and University of California (Stanford) collections. [Back to top]

Eric Mentzel (Vocalist) [Visit website]
Eric is a specialist in historically-informed performance and has enjoyed an international career as a concert soloist, working with such conductors as Andrew Parrott, Howard Arman, Paul van Nevel, and Jean Tubery. He has appeared at major festivals and premiere concert venues across Europe, including the Holland Festival, the Edinburgh Festival, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Brussels Palais de Beaux Arts, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, and the Barber Institute of Fine Arts in Birmingham; concert tours have taken him as far as Japan and Australia. He is also known for his close collaboration with the most highly regarded ensembles in the early music field, such as Sequentia, the Ferrara Ensemble, and the Huelgas Ensemble. He has appeared on more than 40 CDs for Sony, Decca, BMG, Harmonia Mundi, Arcana, Opus 111, Raumklang, Naxos, and Capriccio, and his recordings have been awarded the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik (German Grammy), the Diapason d'Or de l'Annee, and the Choc de Musique (French recording awards). In 1998 he founded Vox Resonat—an ensemble devoted to the performance of medieval and Renaissance vocal music—which has recorded two CDs for the Marc Aurel Edition label. Eric performed the role of Galileo in Stargazer (2006). [Back to top]

Dean Moore (Percussion) [Visit website] [Search Blog]
Dean is a percussionist who performs with a variety of collaborative projects, and is also a solo performer. He specializes in playing music for gongs and other resonate metals. Dean is a member of Eye Music, a group dedicated to interpreting existing graphic scores as well as composing new scores. Dean has been working with Garrett Fisher and the Fisher Ensemble since 2005. He has performed with The Aono Jikken Ensemble, most recently as part of a live foley team performing an original foley sound score for Guy Maddin’s latest silent film “Brand Upon The Brain”. Dean has performed and composed music for local dance companies and was also a founding member of Circus Contraption. [Back to top]

AC Petersen (Choreographer, Director) [Visit website] [Search blog]
Noted by the Seattle Times as "one of the most independent of Seattle's independent choreographers," A.C. Petersen has been creating dances since 1983. A.C. Petersen Dance develops, produces and presents dance/performance works, assembling an advisory team, artistic team, and performers as each project takes shape. Petersen's inspirations range from Sumo ritual (Ozeki, a collaboration with Seattle Kokon Taiko), to Japanese Tea ceremony (Chado, presented by the Northwest Asian American Theatre), to children's stories (The Girls of St. Madeleine's, with composer Garrett Fisher). Frequent collaborators include Fisher, with whom Petersen has created several works, Seattle Kokon Taiko, and lighting designer Meg Fox, who has designed lights for her work since 1990. Ms. Petersen has been awarded grants from the King County and Seattle Arts Commissions, as well as the Bossak/Heilbron Foundation. Her work has been produced and presented by On the Boards, the Northwest Asian American Theatre, the Seattle Aquarium, Bumbershoot Arts Festival, and Vacouver B.C.'s Powell Street Festival, and has been commissioned by Seattle's D-9 Dance Collective, and Seattle Kokon Taiko. [Back to top]

Kristen Ramer Liang (Vocalist) [Visit website] [Search Blog]
Kristen has been performing and teaching in the Seattle area since 2001. She is a member of the voice faculty at Music Center of the Northwest and is a certified Musikgarten instructor. In addition to teaching private voice students, Kristen develops outreach programs to bring music into local schools; most recently she was the artist-in-residence at Concord Elementary in South Park. Kristen holds a Bachelor of Arts with distinction in music from the University of Hawaii-Manoa and continues to study voice with Erich Parce. Kristen also performs regularly around town; she is a member of Seattle a cappella ensemble The Esoterics and has sung with The Fisher Ensemble in Psyche and Moon in the Bucket (2008), Bellevue Opera and Puget Sound Concert Opera. She performed with the Seattle Opera Chorus for their recent productions of Aida and The Pearl Fishers, and in November 2008 sang at NYU's Judson Chapel as The Ghost Sister in Garrett Fisher's opera Moon in the Bucket. Kristen sang with Northwest vocal trio Straw Into Gold through the release of their album Many Moons, and she occasionally reunites with the group to give workshops on vocal harmony. [Back to top]

Thom Schramm (librettist)
Thom has published poems in journals including The American Scholar, New Letters, Ploughshares, and Poetry Northwest. He wrote the words for Psyche in 2008, and co-wrote the libretto with Garrett for Stargazer, which premiered in 2006. [Back to top]

Stan Shikuma (Taiko)
Stan has been playing taiko since 1981. He performs with Seattle Kokon Taiko, directs Kaze Daiko (a taiko youth group), and serves on the Advisory Board of the North American Taiko Conference. As a taiko performer, composer and percussionist, he has worked on: new opera, live accompaniment to Japanese silent films, puppet theater, a Playstation game soundtrack, an educational CD-ROM, Butoh dance, and avant-garde performance pieces. He has also written several articles on taiko history, teaching, and performance. [Back to top]

Linda Strandberg (Vocalist)
Linda sang the role of Galileo’s daughter in Stargazer, the Daughter in The Passion of Saint Thomas More and Athena in Dream of Zeus, and was the lead vocalist in Christy Fisher’s Beam. She is assistant music director and soprano soloist at Plymouth Church, where she also directs the youth music program. She is a soloist and cantor at St. James Cathedral, where she is also assistant director of the Women of St.James Schola. She performs regularly with the Tudor Choir, records for film and video, and maintains a private voice studio. She recently appeared with the Northwest Puppet Center, PNB, Choral Arts, SABO, and the Women’s Medieval Choir. Her time outside of the musical arena is often spent creating works of art in residential gardens. [Back to top]

David Stutz (Vocalist) [Visit website] [Search Blog]
David premiered the role of King Henry VIII in the original production of The Passion of Saint Thomas More, and has worked with Garrett on numerous projects since that time. He performs regularly in the Pacific Northwest as both vocal soloist and in vocal chamber ensembles, and his forays into staged works range from medieval mystery plays to grand opera. Besides his interest in contemporary works, he is a specialist in early music and baroque opera, appearing in a highly acclaimed production of Claudio Monteverdi's L'Incoronzione di Poppea, in Francesca Caccini's La Liberazione di Ruggiero dall'Isola d'Alcina, and in Emilio de' Cavalieri's La Rappresentazione di Anima e di Corpo. [Back to top]

Esther Sugai (Indian harmonium, flute) [Visit website] [Search Blog]
Esther is a composer and flutist performing with the Fisher Ensemble; Aono Jikken Ensemble, an experimental group specializing in live performances to silent films; and Eye Music, a graphic and text score group.  She has a Masters of Music Composition degree from the University of Utah, where she studied with electronic music pioneer Vladimir Ussachevsky.  Esther has received grants from Meet The Composer and ASCAP and is a past Seattle Arts Commission Composer-in-Residence. [Back to top]

Bob Tangney (Vocalist)
Bob created the roles of Agamemnon and The King in Garrett Fisher’s operas Agamemnon and Dream of Zeus.  He won first place in the Seattle Civic Opera Association competition and has performed with Kitsap Opera, Opera Jupiter, The Pacific Northwest Chamber Chorus, and was a member of the Seattle Opera Chorus for 16 years.  He is a founding member of the Operatic Four Players and also co-founded with his wife, Deeji Killian, the Sparkling Choir of Love in 2004. [Back to top]

Anna Vinten-Johansen (Vocalist)
Anna is a singer and songwriter and has a degree in vocal music and art education. She learned medieval music with Margriet Tindermans in Seattle and Norwegian traditional  singing in Norway  under a Fulbright Scholarship. She began singing with the Fisher Ensemble in 1993. She has been a member of Seattle Experimental Opera (SEXO) and the Arnold Schoenberg Choir in Vienna and sings in the Viennese alternative folk-rock scene. She lives in Austria with her husband and two children where she performs with the band Moving Pictures. [Back to top]

Gary Zinter (Actor)
Gary was an actor in Psyche in 2008, and as an Assistant Director and Choreographer in Dream of Zeus in 2004. He has worked with a number of groups in town, including A Theatre Under The Influence, Annex, 14/48, Open Circle, Re-bar, and Theatre Babylon. In October, he produced and directed Ken Urban's Mushroom. [Back to top]