meet our periclean faculty leader
EVAN MACK
Believing that opera should be theater grounded in climatic expression that delivers larger-than-life stories and music that harnesses the full athletic thrill of singing, Evan Mack has devoted much of his compositional life to opera and song.
His first major operatic composition, Angel of the Amazon, premiered in May of 2011 with Encompass New Opera Theatre at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York City and was subsequently released on CD worldwide by Albany Records.
Mack then partnered with librettist Joshua McGuire. In 2016, their American grand opera Roscoe premiered at Seagle Music Colony and received its orchestral world premiere with the Albany Symphony starring Metropolitan Opera star Deborah Voigt. Their children’s opera, Lucinda y las Floresde la Nochebuena, has been seen by almost 30,000 children. Their latest, Yeltsin in Texas!, a musical comedy, is currently in development.
Mack was named 2018 Professional of the Year by Musical America, was a composing fellow at the John Duffy Composers Institute, and a resident artist at Yaddo.
He is a senior teaching professor at Skidmore College and lives in Ticonderoga, New York, with his wife, Kristin, and two sons, Carter and Henry.