Jack Perla resides in San Francisco. He worked on a full-length opera with librettist and playwright Rajiv Joseph, based on Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown, for Opera Theater St. Louis. His opera Jonah & the Whale received its premiere in 2014 with Los Angeles Opera, James Conlon conducting.
Discipline:
Music Composition
Jack Perla
Discipline:
Music Composition
Region: San Francisco, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1995, 2014
More:
www.jackperla.com
Studios
MacDowell
Jack Perla worked in the MacDowell studio.
Built in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed walls were intended to be soundproof. Like many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s when the program began welcoming…