ABOUT
Sonaar & The Bands
IT START WITH
An Endless Passion for Music
For Discovery, for People, for Life...
With roots in both jazz and classical music, Linda Dowdell toured the world from 1988-98 as musical director of both Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project and the Mark Morris Dance Group, performing with a variety of great artists including Yo-Yo Ma. Her choral compositions have received premieres by distinguished ensembles including Schola Cantorum of Edinburgh and the Gregg Smith Singers. Recent commissions have come from Yale University’s Guild of Carillonneurs and Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra.
In 2005 Dowdell was accepted into the prestigious BMI Musical Theatre Workshop in New York and was awarded BMI’s Harrington Award for Creative Achievement in developing new work. Additionally she has received grants from Meet the Composer, New Dramatists Composer/Librettist Studio and the James Irvine Foundation.
In 2016 Dowdell co-wrote the new holiday musical Spirit of the Yule, a collaboration with artistic director Denise Winter at Key City Public Theatre in Port Townsend, WA. This ‘raucous musical odyssey’ is a unique adaptation of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol; it will be produced for its third consecutive season in December 2018. Dowdell’s most recent work as composer/lyricist is in collaboration with Port Angeles author Lisa Mantchev, adapting Mantchev’s award-winning children’s book Strictly No Elephants (Simon & Schuster) as a family-friendly musical.
Dowdell’s music has been described as ‘an eclectic vein of high jazz; she plants words with exceptional clarity and to great effect’ (Financial Times); ‘… style: elegant, free-wheeling, economical’ (The Sunday Times, London); ‘… an unflagging, unflinching, buoyant sense of rhythm’ (Boston Globe).
It never ends
Passion never die. It grows
Stay Hungry and Strong
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