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The Riddle, an opera by composer Tamar Muskal and librettist–stage director Daniel Kramer, will be workshopped on April 1–2 at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music in New York. The workshop is produced by American Opera Projects, with the generous support of the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation, through OPERA America.

A sensual and imaginative libretto is paired with a sound world of exotic timbres, sensual frame drums, a live beatboxer, and a powerful electronic soundtrack, performed by an exceptional group of artists, including Raehann Bryce-Davis of the Metropolitan Opera in the leading role; Hila Plitmann, two-time Grammy Award winner; Lucy Fitz Gibbon, a phenomenal soprano renowned for her work in new music; Kenny Urban, Grand Beatbox Champion; Jeremy Flowers, sound designer for Francis Ford Coppola’s latest film; tenor Patrick Dailey, equally compelling in classical-modern and gospel music; Tian Hui Ng, music director and conductor of the New England Philharmonic and the Pioneer Valley Symphony; and Shane Shanahan, percussionist and former Co-Artistic Director of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silkroad Ensemble.

December 2025: Tamar is commissioned by the Pennsylvania Chamber Orchestra – Gerardo Edelstein music director – to write a mandolin concerto for Dor Amran, dates TBA.

March 2025: Tamar received an Arts and Letters Award for composers with exceptional accomplishment from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

March, 2025: Square Off – for soprano (Lucy Fitz Gibbon), interactive kinetic sculpture by Daniel Rozin and orchestra, with libretto by Daniel Kramer will have its premiere on October 29, 2025 at Carnegie Hall-Zankel hall.

March 2025: The Riddle, an opera with a libretto by Daniel Kramer, will have its workshop produced by the American Opera Projects with grant by Opera America, date TBD. The month of March (2025) will be dedicated to record five scenes from the opera.

June, 2023: Tamar is one of eight female composers to receive the Discovery Grant from Opera America, supported by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation.

Nov, 2022: NYSCA awarded a grant to support Tamar’s new piece for soprano, interactive, kinetic sculpture by Daniel Rozin and orchestra, with libretto and stage direction by Daniel Kramer. Commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra.

The American Composers Orchestra commissions Tamar to compose a piece for soprano, interactive- kinetic sculpture by Daniel Rozin and orchestra with libretto and stage direction by Daniel Kramer to be premiered in the fall of 2026.

April, 2022: In My Heart I Am for solo piano was premiered by Benjamin Hochman at the American Academy in Berlin.

March, 2020: Two historic black and white silent films for which Tamar wrote the music were released by Kino on two collection ALICE GUY BLACHE Volume 1: The Gaumont Years and ALICE GUY BLACHE Volume 2: The Solax Years