OrphicMix is a collaboration between poet Sharon Israel and composer Robert Cucinotta.
Sharon Israel's debut chapbook Voice Lesson was published in 2017 by Post Traumatic Press. She was an early recipient of Brooklyn College’s Leonard B. Hecht Poetry Explication Award, was nominated for “Best of the Net” in 2016 and won Four Lines’ 2020 winter poetry challenge. Sharon’s work has most recently appeared in Flatbush Review and in the Orchard Lea Press Anthology Close Up: Poems on Cancer, Grief, Hope and Healing. Sharon hosts the radio show and podcast, Planet Poet-Words in Space, on WIOX 91.3 FM in the Catskills and streaming on WIOXradio.org. All podcast episodes are available on Google, Spotify and Apple. Visit Sharon's website Sharonisraelpoet.com or click on https://linktr.ee/sharonisraelpoet for more information.
American composer Robert Cucinotta gained early recognition for his percussion and electronic works after NY Philharmonic percussionist Morris “Arnie” Lang published his Beasts, for baritone, guitar and percussion (1973), Triangulation, for timpani and electronic tape (1974), and The sky is waiting… for solo drum set (1976). He cites Edgard Varèse, Charles Ives, Elliott Carter, Luciano Berio, early music and rock including Frank Zappa and early Grateful Dead among his influences. His MASQUE: the Tempest was premiered at the 2015 Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice by mezzo-soprano Maria Todaro, bass-baritone Bradley Smoak and pianist Doug Martin.