LISA MATHEWS has been a Teaching Artist with Wolf Trap’s Institute of Early Learning Through the Arts since 2013, providing classroom residencies in music and creative drama in Maryland, DC and Virginia schools. She also worked with Young Audiences/Arts for Learning between 2008 - 2024, earning their Artist of the Year Award in 2010.
Roots
"Roots" encompasses our yearning for our heart's home. “This piece was commissioned by us and was to premiere at our November 22nd concert. Special thanks to Mark Van Nostrand and emergency funding from the Maryland State Arts Council for making this virtual choir possible.
Medium: Virtual Choir
Year: 2020
Full Circle Dance Company is a multiracial ensemble dedicated to presenting diverse stories, tackling real-world issues, and creating physically and emotionally powerful performances for a broad audience. In addition to performing frequently throughout Maryland, Washington DC, and Virginia, Full Circle has performed in Connecticut, New York, Ohio, Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee. Taking on important issues faced by our communities, Full Circle's choreography reflects diverse approaches and perspectives—inviting audiences to see and understand challenges in new ways.
See more information about György Kurtág Eight Duos for Violin and Cimbalom, Op. 4
Recorded live in concert at Luzerne Music Center (NY), June 29, 2018.
Piazzolla Tango Etudes at BlackRock Center for the Arts
Interview and performance at BlackRock Center for the Arts in Germantown, MD.
LeClair Sonata for Two Violins, Op. 3 No. 5
Versatile violinist Madeleine Jansen, hailing from Mount Airy, Maryland, has been praised by the San Francisco Classical Voice for her interpretation of composers from Dvorak to Brubeck. Her multi-faceted career as a performer and educator has brought her around the United States and abroad, where she has appeared in a diverse array of venues ranging from prisons to the world’s most prestigious concert halls.
National Players is America’s longest-running touring theatre company and the signature outreach program of
Olney Theatre Center, a Helen Hayes Award-winner and one of two state-designated theatres in Maryland. This distinctive ensemble stimulates imagination and critical thinking by producing classic plays and literary adaptations in invigorating ways for audiences of all ages. National Players serves all corners of Maryland and the country, and the ensemble performs for a diversity of audiences from students to the general public, the elderly, and the incarcerated.