Martin Hennessy is best known as a composer for the voice with a growing catalogue of art song, chamber music, opera and music-theater.  He has received numerous awards and commissions and actively contributes new and exciting music to the contemporary vocal canon.  His song cycle Renascence sets the long poem that won a teenage Edna St. Vincent Millay worldwide critical attention in 1912.  It is a journey through self, other, death, re-birth, and spiritual awareness with the soprano as central narrator and the other voices as aspects of her imagination that echo, support, and ventriloquize the different chapters in her remarkable story.

Marnie Breckenridge, soprano; Eve Gigliotti, mezzo-soprano; Alex Mansoori, tenor; Joshua Jeremiah, baritone; Martin Hennessy, piano
Stage direction: Heidi Lauren Duke