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Philip Shorey Composer and Conductor / USA

Jessica Dueck Violin / Canada

Adrian Białek Double Bass / Poland

Stephany Claussen Harp/ USA

Sylwia A. Kapela Soprano Soloist / Poland

Spec of Dust Electronica / New Zealand

Kornelia Lisiewicz Violin / Poland

Aleksandra Dudycz Choir Director / Poland

MARZENA HORYZA FLUTE AND EUROPEAN ORCHESTRA DIRECTOR / Poland

CHRISTY JONES SOLO OPERA / USA

CASPER JAHEL INDUSTRIAL PERCUSSION / UK

CECYLIA SZCZECH HARP / POLAND

Philip Shorey

Composer and Conductor / USA

Philip Shorey, graduate of The Institute of Production and Recording in Minneapolis, is the composer and conductor of the Curse of the Vampire Orchestra featuring a theatrical statement of orchestral, choir, electronica, and industrial percussion set to the classic horror film – Nosferatu (1922). He has been a composer in Minneapolis with theatre and film since 2003 and he sees himself as an activist for healing the human heart and strides to work his compositions for that purpose. He has traveled the world extensively with his toy theatre and has gained a wide understanding of art, culture, and the human condition through his travels.

Adrian Białek

Double Bass / Poland

Adrian Białek holds a master of arts. He is a graduate of jazz music at the University of Zielona Góra. He won the 6th International Song Festival KROPKA, 7th Wroclaw Student Culture Review, a special prize for an accompanist and a distinction in the 19th National Review of Poetic Song in Olesno. He realized student practice at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theater in Tallinn (Estonia). He’s a finalist of the 55th Krakow Song Festival. Co-creates a duo Zagubieni w Intencjach.Currently teaches his own music school in Opole and studies in the jazz double bass class at the Music Academy in Krakow.

Jessica Dueck

Violin / Canada

Jessica has been studying the violin with various teachers and coaches for the past 30 years and teaching for 15. It is her joy to aid students in discovering their strengths and areas of potential, personally as well as professionally. Her students will learn to play the violin with confidence and ease through a systematic and scaffolded learning process. She teaches in person and remotely out of her home in Robbinsdale, MN, where she lives with her husband and two children.

Sylwia A. Kapela

Soprano Soloist / Poland

Sylwia A. Kapela is of the alumna of Wroclaw Academy of Music, two-time participant of the Polish National Youth Choir project, which enabled her to perform with the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, under the baton of Paul McCreesh. She gives guests performances with the NFM Choir, with which she has performed P.Glass’s Itaipu at Nikolaisal in Potsdam, Charles Lloyd’s Red Waters, Black Sky at the Jazztopad Festival and F. Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang Symphony at the Szczecin Philharmonic. In 2017, she performed the Amore Profano part from A.Scarlatti’s oratorio San Casimiro Re di Polonia at the Wratislavia Cantans Festival. Winner of the third place in 2018 year’s Stonavska Barborka International Music Competition in the Vocal Ensembles category.

Spec of Dust

Electronica / New Zealand

Speck of Dust is an electronic music producer and sound designer from New Zealand. His philosophy is to embrace the imperfections that come with being human and to use these imperfections to drive the creative process.

Stephany Claussen

Harp / USA

Twin-Cities harpist Stephanie Claussen invites audiences to explore new locales and eras through her music. Influenced by her love of fairy tales, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the world music section at her local library, she performs a unique mixture of Scottish tunes, J.S. Bach, and anything rich in medieval or French harmonies. Claussen is the 2018 US National Scottish Harp Champion and performs solo and with various ensembles throughout the Upper Midwest. She has released four albums including Soirée à Montpellier and Light so Brilliant.

Kornelia Lisiewicz

Violin / Poland

Kornelia has been playing the violin for 15 years and joined the Orchestra in 2022, bringing with her a musical background shaped mainly in chamber ensembles. She is currently studying Modern Languages and Literature, a field that mirrors her passion for culture, stories, and human expression. Music remains a constant and essential presence in her life. With each new project, she looks forward to discovering how the world of words and the world of sound can meet on stage.

Aleksandra Dudycz

Choir Director / Poland

Aleksandra Dudycz studies Musical Education, Choral Conducting and Music Theory at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław. She started her musical training at the age of 6, with piano and singing lessons in Jadwiga Szajny-Lewandowska Primary Musical School. Aleksandra took part in many projects, international conferences and workshops in Poland, for example, the Polish National Youth Choir (2017, 2018, 2019). In 2019 she went to an exchange program with Tallinn Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, powered by NAWA – Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange. She works with children, teaches music in kindergarten and creates many theatres plays for children. She works on many theatrical performances organised by the Sound Factory foundation. She conducts the Meloman Choir and works as the conductor’s assistant in the Fenix Choir in National Forum of Music in Wrocław, Poland. She’s taking part in many musical projects as a choir and small vocal ensembles soprano singer in Wrocław and different cities all over the country. She founded many social and musical activities in Wrocław, in Pan Tadeusz Museum. She’s a very energetic and active person, full of ideas for many musical activities.

MARZENA HORYZA

FLUTE AND EUROPEAN ORCHESTRA DIRECTOR / Poland

Marzena Horyza is the Director of the European Curse of the Vampire Orchestra. In education and music activities her main instrument was and still remains the flute. She is the initiator and co-organizer of the SLOT Art Festival, which has been held for almost 30 years in Poland, currently in Lubiąż. She is also the director of the SLOT Art Orchestra, for which Philip Shorey wrote his “Nosferatu” music and which had the privilege of presenting its premier performance. She has co-created music formations such as: “E-band” (pop-rock), “Cross Acoustics” (illustrative poetry), “The Origin” (Hebrew music) and “Body Moving to Soul Therapy” (acid jazz-trip hop). Currently, besides the orchestra, her main musical project is the band “Rainforest” (art-grunge-core).

CHRISTY JONES

SOLO OPERA / USA

Christy Jones, soprano, has performed at numerous venues throughout the Twin Cities, including the Minnesota Opera, Guthrie Theater, Lyric Arts, Open Window Theater, and the Chameleon Theatre Circle. Favorite roles include Marian (The Music Man), Joanna (Sweeney Todd), the Witch and the Baker’s Wife (Into the Woods – separate productions), and Olive (The 25th Annual…Spelling Bee). When she’s not onstage, Christy works as a content manager for a global publishing company, writes and publishes poetry in various journals, sings on her church’s worship team, and tackles the charming chaos of family life with her husband, Evan, her son, Toby, her furbaby, Chip, and soon, her daughter, due this spring.

CASPER JAHEL

INDUSTRIAL PERCUSSION / UK

Vocalist, composer, multidisciplinary artist. Master of arts in Fine Art Academy (PL). Created and coordinated many multimedia projects, also donated by Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in Poland. Also the founder of charities devoted to kids from pathologic families, propagating culture and art. Established the “ID” foundation to support people in all age to find their own unique identity. The winner of the “Quick Flick” Short Movie Festival in London. Author of the industrial line for Philip Shorey’s “Nosferatu – Symphony of Horror”. His personal musical language was build through artistic achievements of Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre, Björk, Peter Gabriel, Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Blixa Bargeld, Brian Hugh Warner, Robert Del Naja, Adrian Thaws, Grant Marshall, Liam Howlett, Keith Andrew Palmer, Tom Rowlands, Ed Simons, etc, as well as classical composers like Mozart, Vivaldi, Carl Orff, etc. Cooperates with artists from Europe, The Americas, South Pacific Islands. Established few music bands e.g. “Atreides Overground” and “Kaw-Tseer”. Lives in London UK.

CECYLIA SZCZECH

HARP / POLAND

Cecylia has been playing the harp for a long time, but began her adventure with the orchestra only in 2019 during the Slot Art Festival. Since then, she has been looking for opportunities to participate in similar ventures in her high school, music school and other places. Nothing can replace the atmosphere of people who create and enjoy music together. That is why she has recently been involved in various types of projects (chamber ensembles, orchestra, choir accompaniment) despite a lot of learning on her biologically-chemically profiled class. She is looking forward to meeting and playing during such an extraordinary project as Nosferatu.

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