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17 unusual facts about Brooklyn Academy of Music


Aden Young

After a 2005 debut season at the Sydney Theatre Company, the production was invited to the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York.

Diana al-Hadid

Next Wave Festival, curated by Dan Cameron, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY, September 15 – December 19, 2009

Donyale Werle

Werle's studio and home is in Brooklyn, New York, where she lives with her husband Paul Jepson, a stagehand at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

In the Company of Actors

In The Company of Actors is a documentary featuring an ensemble of Australia's finest Actors, Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Justine Clarke and Aden Young as they prepare a production of Hedda Gabler from rehearsals at Sydney Theatre Company to opening night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in New York.

Joseph Horowitz

His tenure as Artistic Advisor and, subsequently, Executive Director of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (1992–1997) attracted national attention for its radical departure from traditional functions and templates.

Kimo Williams

In October 2013 a new commission by Williams for the string quartet ETHEL will be premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Naomi Beckwith

Beckwith has also been the BAMart project coordinator at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and a guest blogger for Art21.

Nina Winthrop

Winthrop formed her company in 1991 and her work has been presented at numerous venues including Brooklyn Academy of Music, Danspace Project, Joyce SoHo, The Flea Theater, Mabou Mines' Toronada Theater at PS 122 and Movement Research at The Judson Church.

Nosebleed section

At the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Lichtenstein Theater, the Gallery section is known locally as "nosebleed central".

Peggy O'Brien

Peggy O'Brien PhD is the CEO of The Great Teaching Project, a board member of the Association of American Colleges and Universities and SAGE Publications, and a resident consultant at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Petros Klampanis

He currently leads a group that makes regular appearances in New York venues including the Cornelia Street Cafe, DROM, Barbes, BAM, Rockwood Music Hall in addition to performing worldwide.

Phil Kline

Kline's compositions have been performed at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Miller Theatre, the Whitney Museum, MASS MoCA, the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum, Philadelphia's Kimmel Center, and London's Barbican Centre.

Polly Frame

A graduate of Bristol University and the Old Vic Theatre there, Ms. Frame is currently appearing in a modernized version of William Shakespere's Macbeth that was a hit on the West End of London that recently made an appearance in the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City in 2008.

Shark Island Productions

In the Company of Actors features an ensemble of actors as they prepare to perform the Sydney Theatre Company's production of Hedda Gabler at the prestigious Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York.

Simone Kermes

Kermes has performed at many important theatres and concert halls internationally, including the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, the Staatsoper Stuttgart, the Bonn Opera House, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden.

Sunny Ozell

Ozell met Stewart in early 2008 when he appeared in a production of Macbeth at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Tomu Uchida

In April 2008 the cinematheque at the Brooklyn Academy of Music presented the first comprehensive retrospective of the long overlooked Japanese director in the United States.


Asher Edelman

Edelman has served on many Boards of Trustees of art and educational institutions including past Chairman of the Board of Brooklyn Academy of Music, Vice Chairman of American Ballet Theatre, Vice Chairman of the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater, Chairman of the Karole Armitage Dance Group, board member of the Prix de Lausanne, Gotham Chamber Opera, and many others.

Barbara Stoler Miller

Miller’s enthusiasm for responsible popularization was demonstrated in the pride she took in her role as advisor to the director Peter Brooks in his production of the Mahabharata, which was mounted at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1978 and televised on the Public Broadcasting Service, an event that was seen as watershed in American popular awareness of Indian culture.

Bora Yoon

As a performer, Yoon has toured her experimental soundwork internationally, presenting her works at Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the KBS/Nam June Paik Museum in Seoul, Patravadi Theatre in Bangkok, the Melbourne International Arts Festival, the Guggenheim Museum, Tonic, Roselee Goldberg’s PERFORMA Arts Biennial, John Zorn’s Stone, the annual Pop!

Constance DeJong

In 2006 she wrote the text for SuperVision, a collaboration with The Builder's Association which premiered at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in New York.

Cultural Institutions Group

From 1952 to 1967, an additional five organizations would begin to receive regular city support (Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1952; Queens Botanical Garden, 1962; New York Hall of Science, 1965; Wave Hill, 1965; Staten Island Historical Society, 1967).

Echo Eggebrecht

Eggebrecht has held solo exhibitions at Horton Gallery, New York; Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York; Ter Caemer Meert Contemporary, Kortijk, Belgium; Sixtyseven, New York and Sixspace in Los Angeles as well as group exhibitions at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; ICA; Nicole Klagsburn; and White Box in New York; Groeflin Maag Gallery in Basel, Switzerland; Poets on Painters at the Ulrich Museum.

Harmonie Club

Later, this building was refurbished and had an annex added, both of which were designed by Herts and Tallant, architects of the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Coram Library at Bates College.

John Jesurun

His work has been produced and presented by numerous venues including La Mama, the Kitchen, Dance Theater Workshop, the Walker Arts Center, On the Boards, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Wexner Center, Kampnagel Theater, Prater Theater, National Theatre of Mexico, Mickery Theater, Theater am Turm, Granada Festival, Eurokaz Zagreb, Bogota International Festival, Vienna Festival,Kyoto Performing Arts Center and Spoleto USA.

Leonard Lopate

He has also appeared in a similar capacity at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Queens College, Brooklyn College, the New York Public Library, the Brooklyn Public Library, the Alliance Française, and The New School; and he has created a series of discussions on literature for the writers’ organization, PEN International.

Mevlevi Order

They performed in France, for Pope Paul VI, and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and other venues in the United States and Canada - under the direction of the late Mevlevi Shaikh Suleyman Hayati Dede.

Paul Pyant

As one of the creative members of the Sam Mendes "Bridge Project", he designed the lighting for As You Like It and The Tempest, which played in repertory at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and The Old Vic in 2010.

Suzanne Bocanegra

Her work "Bodycast, an Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra Starring Frances McDormand" was presented as part of the 2013 Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

William Bolcom

Its premiere at the Stuttgart Opera in 1984 was followed by performances in Ann Arbor, Chicago's Grant Park, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, St. Louis, Carnegie Hall, and London's Royal Festival Hall, the latter performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Leonard Slatkin.