Who We Are
Who We Are
Claire Stadtmueller, concept creator, composer, Woman, has performed as a soloist at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, in Europe, for the American Wagner Society in Chicago, and performed the role of Tosca under the legendary Maestro La Selva in NYC’s Central Park. Her CD Sweet Peace is a collection of international songs that celebrate peace and express the tragedy of war. sweetpeacemusic.com
Claire has served on the voice faculties of several universities, and her protégée performed at Carnegie Recital Hall at age 15. Claire holds degrees in vocal performance from New England Conservatory of Music and the University of Rhode Island, and has continued her training with international basso Dimitri Kavrakos.
Twelve piece chamber orchestra, chorus, soloists. All of the musicians performing in The End of Tyranny defied Tyranny,
exercised their right to bodily autonomy, at great loss of income and artistic opportunity.
Featured are:
Jeffrey Ellenberger, Assistant Conductor, Violin, studied conducting with Kynan Johns and received his Masters Degree in conducting from Rutgers University. Other notable teachers have included David Gilbert and George Manahan at the Manhattan School of Music, where he has a bachelor’s degree in violin performance. Jens Nygaard and Geoffrey Gilbert were also important influences in his musical development.
He is an associate conductor at the Bar Harbor Music Festival since 1995, conducted the New York Mandolin Orchestra from 2006 to 2020, and was the Assistant Conductor of the Rutgers University Orchestra and the Hawthorne Symphony.
Jeffrey’s guest conducting credits include the Erick Hawkins Dance and the Actor’s Conservatory Theater production of “Fiddler on the Roof” and in 2018 he conducted the premiere of “Captain Filthy Fred” at La MaMa Theater in New York City.
Andrew Tarek Russell, Globalist, began singing at the age of ten when he starred in Amahl and the Night Visitors. Since then, he has continued singing onstage in productions of Carnival, L’il Abner, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, 42nd St, Hair, Blood Pudding, Grove St Wannabes, and Bonnie & Clyde.
He has also sung in church choirs, cabaret nightclubs and rock venues; and has performed non-singing roles in productions of Exit the King, Electra, Grapes of Wrath, The Tempest, and Retzach.
Brittany Cusack, Karen, is an Irish-American Dramatic Soprano. Recent and upcoming engagements include Karen in The End of Tyranny, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Ella in The Blocklist, Musetta in La Bohème, Gioconda in La Gioconda, Maliella in I Gioielli della Madonna, Adriana in Adriana Lecouvreur, Senta in Der Fliegende Holländer, High Priestess in Aida and Contessa in Le Nozze di Figaro.
Past engagements include Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte, Rossweisse in Die Walküre at Lincoln Center, Ortlinde in Die Walküre, Witch in Hansel and Gretel, Freia in Das Rheingold and Dorothée in Cendrillon at the National Opera Center.
Gerard Reuter, oboe, has enjoyed a varied and distinguished career as chamber musician and soloist, touring the United States, Europe, India and Africa. He is a founding member of An Die Musik, of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and of Chelsea Chamber Ensemble, as well as being a member of the Dorian Wind Quintet. His guest appearances at music festivals in the United States have included Caramoor, Marlboro, LaJolla, Round Top and the Chamber Music Festival of the Library of Congress; in Europe, the Flanders and Dartington festivals, as well as the International Musicians’ Seminar at Prussia Cove.
As a soloist, in New York he has appeared with the Jupiter Symphony, the Soviet Emigré Orchestra, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Philharmonia Virtuoso and in Washington, DC with the National Chamber Orchestra.