FMS: New Opera Explorations w/ Joshua Brown, Kervy Delcy, Anita Gonzalez

Artist Biographies

Kervy Delcy is a New York City-based Composer, Librettist, Singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Drawing inspiration from diverse musical traditions and cultures around the world, Ms. Delcy weaves together elements of classical music, musical theater, opera, and electronic music to create a unique and distinctive sound. Her compositions evoke a wide range of emotions, from contemplative and introspective to uplifting and exhilarating. Her music has been performed internationally by PHACE Ensemble, a contemporary ensemble based in Vienna. Her violin solo Weary Heart was recorded by Irvine Arditi, a British violinist, and the leader of the Arditti Quartet. In 2018, Ms. Delcy was the recipient of the ASCAP: Louis Dreyfus Warner-Chappell City College Honoring Scholarship honoring George and Ira Gershwin. For Ms. Delcy, music is her true love, an integral part of her life, and a new composition is always in development. In 2024, Ms. Delcy founded Vox Feminarum, a platform dedicated to promoting vocal works by women composers from around the world.

Joshua Brown (he/they) is a queer experience designer and opera composer whose work poeticizes the everyday. As both a sound designer and dramaturg in a past life, they approach the relationship of sound, language, body, and context from a variety of angles. They can routinely be found making inanimate objects cry, mining innate music from found/verbatim text, and double-fisting books of poetry and gossip rags in equal measure. Their work has been lovingly developed with Thompson Street Opera, Boston Opera Collaborative, the International Computer Music Conference, Fresh Inc, La Jolla Playhouse + Blindspot Collective, Charlotte New Music, New Opera West, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Strange Trace, and the Pittsburgh Opera. Joshua holds a BHA in Technical Writing & Music Technology, a Graduate Certificate in Music Composition from Carnegie Mellon, and an MS in Experience Design from Northeastern.

Anita Gonzalez (She/her) advocates for beautiful art crafted for social activism and consciousness-raising. Musicals: Kumanana (Gala Hispanic Theater), Ybor City (Latiné Musical Theater Lab), Zora on My Mind (The Woodshed), Ayanna Kelly. Plays & Librettos: Faces in the Flames (Atlanta Opera and recipient of the Opera America IDEA award) Courthouse Bells (Boston Opera Collaborative), Finding the Light (Louise Toppin and Marquita Lister), Sunset Dreams (The Vagrancy), Home of My Ancestors (HGOCo). Books: Shipping Out, Black Performance Theory, Afro-Mexico. Gonzalez is a Professor at Georgetown University and a Co-Founder of the Racial Justice Institute. She is a member of the National Theatre Conference, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab and sits on the Board of Directors of the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. Gonzalez believes the art of storytelling connects people to their cultures. Over 60,000 students have taken her massive open online courses Storytelling for Social Change and Black Performance as Social Protest.

Host or Publisher Georgetown University Dept. of Performing Arts