Cornelia Street Cafe Presents THE LIFE I'M LEADING: MUSIC OF DANIEL FELSENFELD Tonight

Cornelia Street Café presents CCi's Serial Underground featuring The Life I'm Leading: Music of Daniel Felsenfeld including several premieres tonight, June 2nd at 6pm. Guest Artists include flutists Meerenai Shim (California based), Jessica Schmitz and Sarah Carrier, pianists Blair McMillen and Mila Henry, cellist Rose Bellini, soprano Marcy Richardson and violist Stephanie Griffin.

Program:

1. WORLD PREMIERE of the entire Raw Footage (for soprano, harpsichord, cello, flute and narrator) (texts: Robert Coover)
Marcy Richardson, soprano; Mila Henry, harpsichord, Jessica Schmitz, flute and Rose Bellini, cello

2. NEW YORK PREMIERE of O I LIKE the LIFE that I'm LEADING (for flute and piano) Sarah Carrier, flute; Blair McMillen, piano

3. The Light-(for soprano and piano)
Marcy Richardson, soprano; Mila Henry, piano

4. NEW YORK PREMIERE of To Committee: A Self-Parody-(for flute, cello piano) Meerenai Shim, flute; Rose Bellini, piano; Blair McMillen, piano

5. NEW YORK PREMIERE of Hooked to the Silver Screen-(for solo viola) Stephanie Griffin, viola

The concert takes place on Sunday, June 2, 2013 at 6pm (doors open: 5:45) at Cornelia St. Café, 29 Cornelia Street, New York, NY 10014. Admission: $20 at the door; includes a $10 food/drink credit; cash only. Reservations Recommended: 212-989-9319. Visit www.corneliastreetcafe.com for more information.

About The Life I'm Leading: Music of Daniel Felsenfeld

This concert is a set of reactions. To music I love; to words that moved me. Everything here started somewhere else. On the page, on a record, in the ether.

Raw Footage (for soprano, harpsichord, cello, flute and narrator)-A song cycle based on Robert Coover's astonishing book Lucky Pierre, which is a fantasia cast from the perspective of an aging pornographic actor's hearkening back. His directors are all female, and it is from those voices that I've culled the texts to Raw Footage. I am grateful to Bob for allowing and supporting this venture-it is a rare and precious pleasure to work with the filthy words of one of my favorite authors. World Premiere

O I LIKE the LIFE that I'm LEADING (for flute and piano)-Joe Frank used to do a radio program called Work In Progress, and in college tapes of these broadcasts literally changed my life. I wanted to be part of them, somehow, and so I took one portion of his program The Road to Hell-he chants these plangent words over a vague samba beat-and made it my own. New York Premiere

The Light-(for soprano and piano) This is an aria from my "road oratorio" Revolutions of Ruin, with a text by Rick Moody (taken from the opening chapter of his masterpiece novel The Diviners). This is the "Los Angeles" portion of my larger piece, and again, an honor to have the support of another of my favorite writers.

To Committee: A Self-Parody-(for flute, cello and piano) So much in an artist's life is determined by committees, by panels whose judgments matter but ought not to-fights are fixed; the house always wins; moderate notions win over more daring work to satisfy strong personalities; talent can not be the determining factor; everything is unfair. I needed to address the stress, strain, and overwhelming sadness this can cause even the most dedicated among us, ergo this work: part self-deprecation, part raw confessional, one of my "deep psych" pieces. From the opening moments-the "Brooklyn Ekphrasis," as strange panegyric to "nature"-this work begins life as a mockery of itself (fast and furious, almost too fast an furious) but ends with a plea, a furtive but loud plea. In the middle movement, "How One Becomes Lonely" (the title of an essay by Arnold Schoenberg, who certainly knew about loneliness) the flute and cello pause for a while, allowing the piano to sink the listener into a quiet maelstrom of trembling, a sad texture. When they resume, they sing, but their loveliness, like all things, must perish. The last movement allows a mocking and somewhat churlish awakening, a dawning, a call to worship at the proper altar for a musician: that of Dionysus, (who probably never had to turn in an application or submit his work to the dull rigors of a competition; for this, we admire him, and hope he heeds my call). New York Premiere

Hooked to the Silver Screen-(for solo viola) David Bowie has taught me a lot, and since I like to react to work that moves me by making my own response, this solo viola piece, a nod to his song "Life on Mars" takes his material and bends it to my own will. It is not a variation or arrangement-it is a rekindling, a retelling, an embroidery. New York Premiere

Daniel Felsenfeld, Composer: Daniel Felsenfeld has been commissioned and performed by Simone Dinnerstein, Opera On Tap, Metropolis Ensemble (with Nicole Atkins), Meerenai Shim, Two Sense (Lisa Moore and Ashley Bathgate), ASCAP, San Jose Opera, ETHEL, Great Noise Ensemble, American Opera Projects, the Da Capo Chamber

Players, Transit, Redshift, Nadia Sirota, Blair McMillen, Two Sides Sounding, Kristin Elgersma, Eleanor Taylor and Jen Devore, Holly Chatham, Momenta Quartet, Nouvelle Ensemble Moderne, Cornelius Dufallo, Stephianie Mortimore, Mellissa Hughes, Corey Dargel, Jenny Lin, New York City Opera (VOX), ACME, Redshift, New Gallery Consert Series, Gabriella Diaz, Jody Redhage, Caroline Worra, New England Conservatory Philharmonic in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Galapagos Art Space, The Kimmell Center, Jordan Hall, the Kitchen, Miller Theatre, Stanford University, Harvard University, The Stone, Brown University, Le Poisson Rouge, City Winery, and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. as part of the BEAT Festival, MATA Festival, Make Music New York, 21c Liederabend, Opera Grows in Brooklyn, New Brew, Serial Underground, and John Wesley Harding's Cabinet of Wonders. Future projects include pieces for Sequitur (based on unpublished writings of David Foster Wallace), an opera based on the life of Dr. Kinsey for Opera on Tap, Kathy Supove, Michael Zegarski, Great Noise, Ashley Bathgate and Ensemble 212, Vocallective, Cadillac Moon Ensemble and Vision Into Art.

Collaborations: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust, a musical resetting of David Bowie's lyrics performed by ACME with singers Corey Dargel and Mellissa Hughes; On Murder: Considered as One of the Fine Arts, a song cycle with lyrics by the writer Wesley Stace to accompany the release of his novel Charles Jessold Considered as a Murderer (additional work with Stace in his guise as singer John Wesley Harding include the theme to his popular touring variety show, "John Wesley Harding's Cabinet's of Wonders"); and the ASCAP commission A Genuine Willingness to Help Out, a evening-length project with writers, including Rick Moody, Jonathan Lethem, Stephen Elliot, Fiona Mazel, Rosanne Cash, Amanda Palmer, Stew, and Lydia Lunch, among many others. This piece will mark the debut for Felsenfeld's own ensemble, the FelsenPhilharmonic. Song Cycle Raw Footage, written to commemorate the retirement of writer Robert Coover from Brown University (with texts from his novel Lucky Pierre) as part of the The Cabinet of Unusual Practices V, sung by Marcy Richardson. Opera The Bloody Chamber, workshopped though American Opera Projects, was performed at Galapagos Art Space by Opera on Tap as part of their Opera Grows in Brooklyn Series His monodrama Nora, In The Great Outdoors, written for soprano Caroline Worra with playwright Will Eno will be performed this Spring with American Opera Projects, the first part of a trilogy. Commercially available works include: Pianist Andrew Russo's Dirty Little Secrets and Mix Tape (Endeavor Classics); Pianist Jenny Lin's American Insomniac (Koch). You. Have. No. Idea., a forthcoming CD devoted to Felsenfeld's chamber music, played by Redshift, will be available on Naxos in 2013. His piece The Cohen Variations will be available on a Sony release in 2013, played by pianist Simone Dinnerstein.

When rapper Jay-Z performed in Carnegie Hall, along with Alicia Keys and Nas, backed by a full orchestra, Felsenfeld was asked to do all of the orchestrations and arrangements. He also collaborated with The Roots (offering music on their latest record Undun, appearing with them and the Metropolis Ensemble on the Jimmy Fallon Show) and ?uestlove with Keren Ann and David Murray. He also wrote arrangements for

ShuffleCulture, a show at the Brooklyn Academy Of Music with ?uestlove, Sasha Grey, Deerhoof, Reggie Watts and the Metropolis Ensemble.

Residencies include Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, The Hermitage, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts.

Felsenfeld is also an accomplished essayist, annotator, and author, with eight books to his name as well as articles for the New York Times, Listen, Playbill, Time Out New York, Symphony Magazine, Strings Magazine, New Music Box, and Early Music Magazine; program notes for the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Philadelphia Orchestra, Miller Theatre, Wigmore Hall, and Carnegie Hall; liner notes for Naxos, Bridge, Koch, EMI, Sony, and Adjustable Music. He served as curator for The Score in the Opinionator Section of the New York Times, as well as for Music After, a marathon concert on 9.11.11 he co- produced with Eleonor Sandresky. He teaches at City College of New York (CUNY) as well as serving as a teaching artist at the New York Philharmonic's Very Young Composers program, and lives in Brooklyn with his wife and baby daughter.

Marcy Richardson, Soprano: Hailed for her "best all-around performance" in Handel's Ariodante for her portrayal of Dalinda (Opera News) and described as a "great Handel singer" (Philadelphia Inquirer) and "delicious lyric coloratura," (CentralJersey.com) soprano Marcy Richardson is a true stage animal with a passion for baroque, sophisticated musical theater, and contemporary music. Upcoming performances include a benefit concert for Best Buddies New York (Elaine Kwon and Friends) at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall, a reprise of Scarlatti's Arianna with Musica Nuova at Le Poisson Rouge in New York, the Bach Magnificat with Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity, and the premiere of Jonathan Dawe's Così Faran Tutti (Fiordiligi) at the Italian Academy at Columbia University. This past year, she made her Lincoln Center debut at Alice Tully and Avery Fisher Hall as the soprano soloist in the Faure Requiem and Mozart Vesparae solennes de Confessore with MidAmerica

Productions, was featured in "NYFOS Next: Joseph Thalken and Friends" with the New York Festival of Song, sang Diana in La Calisto with Vertical Player Repertory, created the role of Ani King George in Gordon Beeferman and Charlotte Jackson's The Enchanted Organ, a burlesque opera that satirizes the
porn industry, Holiday Pops with the Princeton Symphony, From Paris to Berlin to New York (Gala Concert) with Toledo Opera, A Poulenc Cabaret with OperaMission, as well as Five Eliot Landscapes (Thomas Adés) and Bonsai Journal (Mohammed Fairouz) with the Mimesis Ensemble.

Meerenai Shim, Flutist: Milky Way or Galaxy are translations of the traditional Korean word that is also the first name of flutist Meerenai Shim. Pronounced "me- ren-ay," the unusual name befits this unique performer and teacher.

Straddling the classical, pop, and experimental worlds, flutist Meerenai Shim is the ultimate indie music curator and performer. Her current project is "The Art of Noise," an album of chamber music for flute, cello, piano, percussion, and programmed Gameboy that will be released in April 2013 and will feature compositions written for Meerenai by Daniel Felsenfeld, Janice Misurell-Mitchell and Matthew Joseph

Payne. Meerenai's 2011 debut album, "Sometimes the City is Silent," is a diverse collection of new and old works. Audiophilia.com calls it "an eclectic mix that never flags the listener's interests and beguiles the ear with the most musical phrasing and sparkling tone."

Meerenai is a member of the new flute and percussion group, A/B Duo, with percussionist Chris Jones. She is also a freelance musician in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Meerenai's journey of relearning how to play the flute as an adult and overcoming a performing related injury, makes her a special and gifted teacher to professional musicians as well as young students with learning disabilities. Since 2005, she has been studying the Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais Method and Body Mapping and became a Licensed Andover Educator in 2012. She now teaches the course What Every Musician Needs to Know About the Body in private lessons as well as in masterclasses and workshops. Her experience with observing and studying movement helps her students play well and avoid injury. Meerenai's book, Scale Studies for Beginner and Intermediate Flutists, has been praised by flute pedagogues worldwide.

Meerenai counts among her most influential flute teachers Linda Lukas, Mary Stolper, Liisa Ruoho and Alexa Still. She studied orchestral conducting at the Aspen Music Festival and Eastern Music Festival, with teachers such as Paul Vermel, Murry Sidlin, and Sheldon Morgenstern. Meerenai earned the Bachelor of Music degree in Flute Performance from DePaul University in Chicago and the Master of Music degree in Flute Performance from San Francisco State University. She resides in Campbell, California with her husband Dave and dog Lucy.

Jessica Schmitz, Flutist: Described as "graceful and athletic" by the New York Times and an "intrepid entrepreneurial player" by New York Magazine, Jessica Schmitz has collaborated internationally across a wide spectrum of musical arts as a flutist, curator, producer, and educator.

Uniquely dedicated to the creation and future of contemporary music, Jessica leads a multi-faceted career embracing the new 21st century paradigm of the Renaissance artist. Jessica's main goal in working in the arts is to bring contemporary music to international audiences in ways never before experienced-whether it be by performing and commissioning new works, or teaching new and young audiences about the music of today.

As a performer, Jessica is Co-Director and piccoloist of Asphalt Orchestra, a NYC-based street band hailed by the New York Times as a "coolly brilliant band on crack." In her work with Asphalt Orchestra, Jessica creates and performs work reaching a broad, mobile audience: recent collaborations include those with Yoko Ono, David Byrne, TED, VH1 Save the Music, Stew & Heidi Rodewald, Goran Bregovic, Annie Clark, and Lincoln Center. Jessica also performs as a soloist and chamber musician with the Bang on a Can All-Stars (recently recording for Rock Band videogame), Alarm Will Sound, Signal Ensemble, Wordless Music, Sequitur, and SO Percussion at venues including Carnegie Hall, The Barbican, Lincoln Center, and Ojai Music Festival. As a winner of the Artists International Competition, Jessica gave her New York debut recital at Weill Hall, Carnegie Hall in spring of 2007. She has also won the Chicago Flute Competition, Cincinnati Symposium Competition, Yamaha Young Performing Artists Competition, and the Lillian Fuchs Chamber Competition.

As an active curator and producer, Jessica has collaborated with several international organizations to bring experimental music to the masses. In this capacity, she has worked with Warsaw Autumn, Wordless Music, Lincoln Center, MATA, Juilliard, Polish Cultural Institute, Goethe Institute, Unsound Festival, New York University, Chelsea Art Museum, The Drawing Center, The Tank, Electronic Music Foundation, and the Romanian Cultural Institute.

Jessica is a summa cum laude graduate of the Manhattan School of Music and New York University. Equally at home in the classroom, she has taught group and private lessons at New York University, Manhattan School of Music's Educational Outreach department, and Illinois' The Children's House, and has maintained a private studio since 1999.

Dedicated to community outreach, Jessica is an adoptions volunteer with the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), a fundraiser for the Alzheimer's Association, and was a September 11th respite volunteer with the Red Cross and Salvation Army.

Sarah Carrier, Flutist: Flutist Sarah Carrier has received praise from The New York Times for combining "thoughtful musicality with virtuosity in her alternately energetic and delicate account of a flute line laden with light multiphonics and unusual timbres." (Kozinn) She has performed in venues as varied as Walt Disney Hall, Sydney Opera House, Merkin Hall, the Orange County Performing Arts Center, Le Poisson Rouge, the Tank, and Issue Project Room and can be heard on Centaur Records on composer Sunny Knable's album American Variations.

Ms. Carrier is a founding member of Syzygy New Music Collective, hailed as "one of 2009 most promising groups" by Sequenza21. As a member of Syzygy she has made numerous appearances on television and radio. She is also a member of the Parhelion Trio. Through the Composer's Voice "15 Minutes of Fame" series, the trio has over 60 pieces dedicated to them. From a recent

Parhelion concert Seth Gilman of The Examiner writes "Ms. Carrier's clear tone and articulation, and effortless cantabile utilized the full dynamic range of the flute while instilling a sense of drama."

While a graduate student at NYU Steinhardt, she commissioned the work Kill Switch for flute, cello, percussion, and laptop by Izzi Ramkissoon, which was premiered at her M.M. degree recital and has since been performed in venues throughout New York City. Also during her studies at NYU, she performed Luminosity for C Flute, Alto Flute, and Electronics by David Taddie as a Featured Soloist of the NYU New Music Soloists Concert, resulting in an invitation to perform at the "Cross Currents" Electro-Acoustic Music Festival at Penn State University, as well as the NYU Music Technology Open House. In the summer of 2010, she was a participant of the Institute and Festival for Contemporary Performance at Mannes. Ms. Carrier is a winner of numerous competitions such as the National Flute Association Masterclass Competition, Bob Cole Conservatory Scholarship Competition, and La Primavera Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition. She is also a recipient of the CSULB Dean's List Award, University of Oregon Graduate Teaching Fellowship, and New York University Graduate Scholarship. Sarah Carrier holds an M.M. in Flute Performance from New York University under the tutelage of Robert Dick. She earned her B.M. in Flute Performance at the Bob Cole Conservatory at California State University, Long Beach studying with John Barcellona. She has also performed for flutists Jill Felber, William Bennett, Denis Bouriakov, Louise di Tullio, Rena Urso, Paula Robison, Ransom Wilson, Keith Underwood, and Bart Feller. She is currently in the D.M.A. program at C.U.N.Y. Graduate Center where she continues her studies with Robert Dick.

Rose Bellini, Cellist: Cellist Rose Bellini is an avid performer of a wide variety of music, especially contemporary and experimental music. She regularly performs with classical music ensembles, modern dance companies, bands, and chamber and orchestral groups from New York City to San Francisco.

A member of REDSHIFT and Hotel Elefant, Rose has also recently appeared with the Wordless Music Orchestra, Ensemble Signal, FLUX Quartet, Orchestra of St. Luke's, East Village Opera Company, Phoenix Ensemble, folk and rock bands, and in venues from Le Poisson Rouge to Carnegie Hall.

Rose frequently collaborates with living composers from around the world and often premieres new works for cello and for chamber ensemble. A graduate of Indiana University-Bloomington, her primary teachers were Emilio Colón and Janos Starker.

As an arts entrepreneur, Rose has established herself as a resourceful fundraiser and leader in the music and arts community working as Director of Development for the International Contemporary Ensemble
(ICE) and Assistant Director of Development for Orchestra of St. Luke's. Rose also serves on the board of the Switchboard Music Festival.

Mila Henry, Piano/Harpsichord: Mila Henry is a New York-based pianist who specializes in contemporary opera, musical theater, and chamber music.

She is Resident Music Director with American Opera Projects (AOP) in Brooklyn, NY, where she has delighted audiences in accompanying new vocal works in the most operatic, and un- operatic, of settings. Often exploring pieces hot off the press, she has played for countless readings, song presentations, and workshop performances, and music directs for their nationally recognized Composers & the Voice workshop series with conductor Steven Osgood.

A sought-after collaborator, Mila has worked with OPERA America, Beth Morrison Projects (BMP), HERE, Gotham Chamber Opera, American Lyric Theater, Center City Opera Theater, Random Access Music, and Opera on Tap. She has teamed with emerging and established composers alike, including Libby Larsen, Anthony Davis, Mark Adamo, Conrad Cummings, Missy Mazzoli, Mohammed Fairouz, Tarik O'Regan, Paola Prestini, Douglas Cuomo, Daniel Felsenfeld, Gilda Lyons, Jack Perla, Stefan Weisman, Gregory Spears, and Herschel Garfein.

Equally at home with musical theater, Mila music directed Scheme of the Super Bullies! for the New York Children's Theater Festival and the Off-Off Broadway production of Once/Twice. She played for The Musical Theater Performance Project at Broadway Dance Center (under the direction of Joshua Bergasse), and is a regular pianist for McDonald/Selznick Associates, The Players Theatre, and Classic Stage Company. Cabaret performances have taken her to The Metropolitan Room, Don't Tell Mama, and The Duplex.

She served on the staff of Manhattan School of Music and Barnard College from 2008-11 as pianist and vocal coach, and Interlochen Arts Camp from 2006-10, where she accompanied the World Youth Honors Choir, Festival Choir, and Operetta Program for five summers under the direction of Dr. David Fryling.

Current projects include assisting as répétiteur for Lera Auerbach's a cappella opera The Blind with AOP and Lincoln Center Festival in July 2013; a residency at The Watermill Center for Kamala Sankaram's music- theater work Thumbprint with BMP in June 2013; the chamber music series Atmospheric Shift: Music of the Elements and urban cantata Brooklyn-Queens Expressway with new music ensemble Two Sides Sounding; and Nkeiru Okoye's folk opera HARRIET TUBMAN: When I Crossed That Line To Freedom with AOP.

Notable performances: New York Premiere of Later The Same Evening (Musto/Campbell; Albany Records 2009); OPERA America New Works Sampler with Love/Hate (Perla/Bailis) and New Works Forum with Heart of Darkness (O'Regan/Phillips); The Scarlet Ibis (Weisman/Cote) with HERE's HARP program; Philip Glass's In the Penal Colony with the String Orchestra of Brooklyn; and John Wesley Harding's Cabinet of Unspeakable Wonders at Brown University, honoring the author Robert Coover. Mila has appeared in the PROTOTYPE, Make Music New York, BEAT, and Philadelphia Fringe festivals, and at Lincoln Center, Merkin Concert Hall, St. Mark's in the Bowery, Brooklyn Public Library, Dixon Place, Greenwich House Music School, The Norwood Club, barbès, Freddy's, the Brooklyn Lyceum, and Galapagos Art Space.

Mila grew up outside Philadelphia, and holds degrees from the Manhattan School of Music and Elizabethtown College. She lives in Brooklyn, and past musical adventures have covered percussion (8 years) and ukulele.

Blair McMillen, Pianist: Blair McMillen has established himself as one of the most versatile and sought-after pianists today. The New York Times has called his playing "lustrous," "riveting," and "brilliant... prodigiously accomplished and exciting." Known for imaginative and daring programming, he plays a repertoire that spans from late-medieval keyboard manuscripts to the 21st- century.

Recent appearances include Carnegie Hall, the American Symphony Orchestra, Bang on a Can's 25th anniversary marathon, Miller Theatre's "Piano Revolution," Albany

Symphony/Dogs of Desire, the Moscow Conservatory, the Metropolitan Museum, and CalArts. Performance highlights from recent seasons include the Prokofiev Concerto #1 at the Bard Music Festival, Walter Piston's Concertino in Carnegie Hall, nearly a dozen performances of John Cage's landmark Sonatas and Interludes, and numerous appearances with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.

Dedicated to new and groundbreaking projects, Blair McMillen is committed to performing the music of today. Known for adventurous and imaginative programming, he has premiered hundreds of solo and chamber works. He consistently works with both established and emerging composers in commissioning new works for the piano. He is the pianist for the Naumburg Award-winning Da Capo Chamber Players, the American Modern Ensemble, Perspectives Ensemble, and the six-piano super-group Grand Band. Blair McMillen co-founded (and co-directs) the Rite of Summer Music Festival on Governors Island, an outdoor alt-classical festival that kicks off its third season in July 2013.

Blair McMillen holds degrees from Oberlin College, Manhattan School of Music, and the Juilliard School. A self-taught jazz pianist, he is regularly involved in improvisation projects ranging from the straight-ahead to the avant-garde. He resides in New York City and serves on the piano faculty at Bard College and Conservatory .

Stephanie Griffin, Violist: Acclaimed by The New York Times for her "fiery, full- throttle performance" and described as "enthralling" by the Los Angeles Times, violist Stephanie Griffin has performed internationally as a soloist, chamber and avant- jazz musician. As a soloist, she has worked closely with

numerous composers, among them Tony Prabowo; Kee Yong Chong; Matthew Greenbaum; Arthur Kampela; and Tristan Murail. Ms. Griffin performs regularly with Continuum, the Argento Chamber Ensemble; Carl Maguire's Floriculture; Gordon Beeferman's Other Life Forms; Adam Rudolph's Go Organic Orchestra; and the Princeton Symphony, where she serves as principal violist. She is also viola faculty at Brooklyn College and the former curator of contemporary music at Galapagos Art Space. Ms. Griffin has recorded for Firehouse 12, Aeon, Albany, Koch, Arte Nova, Centaur and Siam Records. She studied viola with William Gordon, Paul DeClerck, Wayne Brooks and Samuel Rhodes and holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from The Juilliard School.

Photo Credit: Thomas Struth