About the Ensemble

Organization

Musical Traditions, Inc./The Paul Dresher Ensemble
333 Valencia Street, Suite 301
San Francisco, CA 94103-3552

Phone: 415/558-9540
Fax: 510/834-4102

Musical Traditions/The Paul Dresher Ensemble is one of the leading American companies producing new opera/music theater today and virtually the only company to mount extensive annual tours of its repertory. Our mission is to produce and tour works of experimental music theater; to commission and perform a diverse repertory of new chamber works; to collaborate with a broad range of dance and theater artists and organizations to create and perform new work; and to mount educational and family programs for diverse audiences of all ages.

Board of Directors
Paul Dresher
John Heller
Keith McMillen
Marilyn Shaw
Mary K. Austin
Dean Suzuki

Staff

Paul Dresher, Artistic Director
Michele Fromson, Development Director
Sarah Lockhart, Operations Manager

Current Institutional Funders

American Music Center Composer Assistance Program
Aaron Copland Fund for Music
BMI Foundation
Creative Work Fund
Fromm Music Foundation
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Meet the Composer, Creative Connections Program
Meet the Composer/Commissioning Music/USA 2006
Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation
The Opera Fund of Opera America
Bernard Osher Foundation
San Francisco Grants for the Arts/Hotel Tax Fund
Thendara Foundation
Zellerbach Family Foundation