Michael James Oberhauser
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Behind the Scenes:

Curating, Organizing, Music Directing, Producing, and Directing Experience

New Music DC - District New Music's 2018 Conference

A two-day conference including concerts, panel discussions, presentations, and networking events for composers, performers, organizers, audience members, and anyone else interested in new music in the Washington DC metro area. Concerts included results from our call for scores or performances, our call for student scores, and a spotlight concert with performances by District5 and ambassadors for the Boulanger Initiative.
Conference Organizer
15-16 September, 2018 - Georgetown University, Washington, DC
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The Lives Left Behind - 2018 Capital Fringe Festival production

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A set of four new one-act operas that explore loss and reclamation of agency through death, dreams, and stardom. Operas by Joseph Kaz, Frances Pollock, William Kenlon, and Michael Oberhauser.
Music Director/Producer
Presented by Silver Finch Arts Collective for the 2018 Capital Fringe Festival
Directed by Corinne Hayes
14, 15, 21, 22, 26 July, 2018

Confluences - District New Music Coalition's Spring 2018 Concert Series

Featuring the ensemble-in-residence, Anacostia String Quartet
Curating, organizing, location-finding, and producing help
Presented by District New Music Coalition
4 March, 2018 - Denizen's Brewery, Silver Spring, MD
6 April, 2018 - St. George's Episcopal Church, Arlington, VA
29 April, 2018 - University of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC
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Once Upon a Bedtime​ - 2016 Capital Fringe Festival production

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The Goose Girl, by Thomas Pasatieri, with new framing material with music by Michael Oberhauser and text by Shannon Berry.
Music Director/Producer
Presented through Silver Finch Arts Collective for the 2016 Capital Fringe Festival
Directed by Nick Vargas
​7, 10, 15, 16, 24 July, 2016

Lear - ​Concert Reading

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Two-act chamber opera on a libretto adapted from Shakespeare
Music Director/Producer/Director
12 April, 2015
​The University of Maryland, College Park

A Fire in Water - 2014 Capital Fringe Festival production

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Chamber opera with libretto by Shannon Berry, co-composed by Michael Oberhauser and Terrance Johns
Music Director/Producer
Produced through Silver Finch Arts Collective for the 2014 Capital Fringe Festival
Directed by Courtney Kalbacker
10, 15, 20, 23, 26 July, 2014

A Fire in Water - Workshop production

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Chamber opera with libretto by Shannon Berry, co-composed by Michael Oberhauser and Terrance Johns
Music Director/Co-Producer
Produced through Silver Finch Arts Collective
Directed by Courtney Kalbacker
19, 20 September, 2013

Fallen Angels

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Photo copyright 2012 by Paul Gillis Photography
A trio of miniature operas by Michael Oberhauser
Music Director/Producer
Produced through Silver Finch Arts Collective for the 2012 Capital Fringe Festival
Directed by Nick Vargas
14, 15, 20, 26, 28 July, 2012

New Inspirations

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An art song recital with music by Barber, Debussy, de Falla, Jeffries, Laitman, Villa-Lobos, and featuring new music by Michael Oberhauser
Producer/Music Director
28 July, 2011

 Perceptions

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A recital of new music by Kyle Gullings, Roc Lee, and Michael Oberhauser
Producer/Music Director
4 June, 2010

Magnum Opus

A new one-act chamber opera by Michael Oberhauser
Music Director/Producer
Directed by Jay D. Brock
15 February 2009;
9, 12, 16, 18, 25 July 2009*; 
5 September 2009*
(*-with Opera Alterna)




The Women and Signor Deluso

Operas by Thomas Pasatieri
Music Director
Produced by Opera Alterna for the 2008 Capital Fringe Festival
Directed by Jay D. Brock
July 2008


 

The Frogz

Music Director
Play by Stephen Bradford Lewis
Directed by Jay D. Brock
Hartke Studio - The Catholic University of America
6, 7, 8 December, 2007


 

A Step in the Right Direction

Director/Music Director (in partnership with Lindsay Esser)
Musical Theater Revue benefitting the charity ASTEP: Artists Striving to End Poverty
Snyder Recital Hall - Ohio Northern University
May 2007