Composer Lisa Scola Prosek is currently at work on finishing two commissioned operatic works for 2012 and 2013: DAUGHTER OF THE RED TZAR, slated for its world premiere in August 2012 for Thick House, and SAIL THE BLUE AEGEAN, scheduled for its world premiere in August of 2013 for the San Francisco International Arts Festival.
Known as a "gifted Bay Area composer” (San Francisco Bay Guardian), Princeton University alumna Ms. Scola Prosek is the recipient of numerous commissions, grants and awards from the The Hewlett Foundation, the Zellerbach Foundation, the Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund, the LEF Foundation, Meet The Composer, and the American Composers Forum.
Ms. Scola Prosek serves as General Manager and principal pianist of the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra, which produces 4 concerts a year of new works for orchestra at Old First Church in San Francisco, and also teaches piano, voice and composition in Tiburon, CA.
