He has held positions at the University of California Los Angeles, the University of Southern California, the University of California Santa Barbara. Andrew Harleyis an English pianist specializing in instrumental chamber music and song literature.He has performed in New York City’s Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Merkin Hall in Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center and at every major venue in the Chicago area, including the Harris Theatre and Symphony Center. He serves on the faculties of the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University and Concordia University-Chicago. Kuang-Hao Huangis a highly sought-after collaborative pianist whose performances have taken him throughout North America, Europe and Asia.A former professor of music at Lawrence University's Conservatory of Music, Michaels now serves as director of vocal studies at the University of Chicago. Her compositions range from incidental music for Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and a one-act opera based on her own libretto of Euripides' The Trojan Women to A Song for Harmonica. Patrice Michaelsis a composer, creator, and soprano. Her singing has been featured on more than 25 albums on Decca, Neos, Albany and Amadis labels, plus 14 releases for Cedille Records.

This program is made possible through the generous support of the Bernstein Family Foundation. The Center is pleased to present this special event for students of Washington, D.C., area high schools and Philadelphia’s Constitution High School at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, provides welcome remarks. This world premiere performance illuminates key aspects of Justice Ginsburg’s personal and professional life through song settings of letters, remembrances, conversations, and court opinions, and conveys the important relationship between the Supreme Court and the Constitution. Composer/soprano Patrice Michaels, music director Kuang-Hao Huang, pianist Andrew Harley, members of Inscape Chamber Orchestra’s new music ensemble, and a cappella ensemble Capital Hearings give a special performance of Notorious RBG in Song, a 75-minute dramatic concert featuring THE LONG VIEW: A Portrait of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Nine Songs.

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