About

Keith Torgan

Keith Torgan; singer, songwriter, guitarist, actor, storyteller and performance artist has appeared in hundreds of schools, libraries and theaters throughout the United States. Torgan was composer at the Williamstown Theater Festival, founder and songwriter for Morgan, Torgan & Teri, guest performer and writer for BMG’s Early Ears Series, and composer and lyricist for the Simply Elementary flagship program: There’s Always a Dragon To Slay. Torgan has written over a thousand songs, appeared in cabarets and universities – and newly created I Hopped Out of Bed & Jumped for Joy, Green Golly & Her Golden Flute, and Lamoon’s Funny Tales & Fairy Tunes. Torgan studied at Circle in the Square Theatre, American Academy of Dramatic Arts and State University of New York at Albany.

Barbara Siesel

Barbara Siesel, flutist, performance artist and producer, performs both in traditional venues and in experimental new media projects. Siesel has appeared as soloist in principal halls of China, Korea, Spain, Japan, Taiwan, Russia and the United States. She has made extended tours of the Far East, Spain and China including three weeks of workshops, master classes and recitals at the Central Conservatory in Beijing, and appearances in Japan and Taiwan sponsored by the Altus Flute Co., Ltd. In 1995, representing women in the arts, she appeared in solo concert at the United Nations Conference on Women in Beijing. Ms. Siesel served as soloist at Jornados de Musica del Siglo XX in Segovia, Spain, California’s Redwood Festival, the Adirondack Festival of American Music, the Derriere Guard Festival in New York City, and the Festival of the Performing Arts at Florida International University. Continuing her long-standing interest in interdisciplinary work and multimedia, Siesel was asked to create and direct an experimental interdisciplinary/ multimedia program at the New World School of the Arts in Miami, Florida. She has also been on the faculty of Colby College in Waterville Maine. Siesel received her BM and MM from the Julliard School. She was a student of the late Samuel Baron.