Tenor Glenn Seven Allen To Perform Glen Roven's Concert Arias 6/6, 6/7 In LA

Tenor Glenn Seven Allen will give two recitals of Emmy winning composer, Glen Roven's concert arias. The concerts will include a world premier performance of Roven's new Song Cycle: Songs from the Underground.

Saturday, June 6th, 2009, 7PM at Greenway Arts Alliance 544 North Fairfax Avenue Los Angeles, California 90036

Sunday, June 7 • 2pm, American Jewish University Familian Campus 15600 Mulholland Dr. Bel-Air. California 90077

TICKETS: 35.00; June 6th To purchase: laurajean@greenwayarts.org

$25/$12 student; June 7th

To purchase call: (310)440-1246

Glenn Seven Allen will make his Carnegie Hall debut next Spring singing the Concert Arias of Glen Roven. Currently starring Off Broadway in For Lovers Only, he recently sang Romeo in Gounod's Romeo et Juliette at the New York Lyric Opera. He has performed in concerts at The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center's American Songbook (Casino Paradise), Symphony Space, The NY Historical Society, Joe's Pub, Broadway High Note, and the Ars Nova Spotlight. He appeared in THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA at Lincoln Center. Previously, he originated the role of Giuseppe in pre-Broadway productions of ...PIAZZA at the Goodman and Initman Theatres. His training includes an MFA in Acting from the University of Washington's Professional Actor Training Program and a BFA in Musical Theatre from the University of Michigan. Mr. Allen is a teaching associate and artist at Collaborative Arts Project 21 (Cap21/NYU). A native Michigander, he is a life-long summer resident of Mackinac Island, and is happily married with two children. He is the proud namesake of his Grandfather, Judge Glenn Seven Allen, Jr.

Glen Roven, four-time Emmy Award winner, made his Carnegie Hall debut last year conducting his violin concerto based on the children's book The Runaway Bunny with the ASO, Glenn Close narrating, and he recorded the piece for Sony/BMI with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Brooke Shields narrating,. His new musical THE 5,000 FINGERS of Dr. T opens on Broadway next season. He began his Broadway career in 1976 as a rehearsal pianist for PIPPIN while still in high school, and at nineteen was the musical director of SUGAR BABIES.

Greenway Arts Alliance (GAA) is a nonprofit organization located on the campus of Fairfax High School, the most ethnically diverse high school in the Los Angeles Unified School District. GAA's mission is to utilize performing arts and outreach programs to create a bridge between a broad constituency of artists, students, educators and community members. GAA believes in the power of theatre to inspire and stimulate. The organization commits to passing on knowledge and experience to the next generation; it aspires for a genuine and deep engagement with its community. Through GAA's work, it seeks to offer new perspectives from which to view culture and facilitate meaningful discourse about the human experience.

Glen Roven writes about his new cycle:

I first conceived this cycle in 1992 when I moved to London. At that time London seemed almost too good to be believed: music and art was taken very, very seriously there, great theater was performed nightly, and believe it or not, Poems were on the Underground. I thought I'd set these poems to music in honor of the city I found so inviting.

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