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Megan Ihnen

Megan Ihnen is a mezzo-soprano on a mission to change the world through the commissioning, performance, and proliferation of new music.
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Erika Boysen Moving Sound app

5 Questions to Erika Boysen about Moving Sound (mobile app)

Interdisciplinary performers working in new music are constantly turning to new and evolving forms o...
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Megan Ihnen
Erin Busch--Photo by Matthew Genders

5 Questions to Erin Busch (Founder and Artistic Director, Young Women Composers Camp)

Leia Sofia Mendez, a 2018 alumna of the Young Women Composers Camp (YWCC), remarked that the camp, “...
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Megan Ihnen
Nathalie Joachim Fanm d'Ayiti

Nathalie Joachim’s Fanm d’Ayiti: a Complex and Multi-Faceted Celebration

On her debut solo album, Fanm d’Ayiti (New Amsterdam Records), Haitian-American composer, flut...
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Megan Ihnen
p r i s m--Photo by Larry Ho

5 Questions to the Music Critics Association of North America (MCANA)

Upon recognizing that the Music Critics Association of North America (MCANA) Award for Best New Oper...
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Megan Ihnen
New Amsterdam Co-Founders Judd Greenstein, Sarah Kirkland Snider, and William Brittelle

5 Questions to New Amsterdam Records on their 10th Anniversary

Navigating the ever-changing tides of album-based musical projects may seem like an immense risk, ev...
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Megan Ihnen
Jillian Flexner

5 Questions to Jillian Flexner (Executive Director, Fresh Squeezed Opera)

Have you seen the #5X5Challenge floating around on social media? Fresh Squeezed Opera’s Executive Di...
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Megan Ihnen
Alexa Dexa at The Slowdown

Omaha Under the Radar 2018: New Music Meets Midwestern Sensibility

A new music festival possesses a certain Midwestern sensibility to begin with, really. Smart and ter...
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Megan Ihnen
Amanda DeBoer Bartlett

5 Questions to Amanda DeBoer Bartlett (Director, Omaha Under the Radar)

Invariably as I travel around the country for different festivals and series, I hear fellow practiti...
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Megan Ihnen
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innova’s Inn-fest 2018 in Minneapolis-St. Paul: Delightfully Adventurous

Do you know those musical events in which you practically know all of the sounds you’ll hear e...
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Megan Ihnen
ONE Festival The Dharma at Big Sur

Opera Omaha’s Inaugural ONE Festival: “Flyover at Your Own Peril”

Opera Omaha just took a big step towards the national spotlight on new opera with their inaugural ON...
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Megan Ihnen
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Mazzoli and Vavrek’s Proving Up at Opera Omaha ONE Festival

A makeshift sawhorse, an oval stock tank, miniature flowers, and a collection of liquor bottles dott...
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Megan Ihnen
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5 Questions to James Darrah (Artistic Director, ONE Festival)

When it comes to the words “trailblazing” and “influential” in terms of dire...
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Megan Ihnen
Paul Pinto -- Photo courtesy of the artist

5 Questions to Paul Pinto (composer, Thomas Paine in Violence)

Thomas Paine in Violence is one of those experiences that I tell other people about when they ask, “...
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Megan Ihnen
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Sarah Maria Sun’s Exquisite Modern Lied (Mode Records)

Sarah Maria Sun & Jan Philip Schulze’s album modern lied opens with one of the things that is mo...
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Megan Ihnen
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5 Questions to Donia Jarrar (composer)

Donia Jarrar is an award-winning Palestinian-American composer, pianist, and multimedia artist whose...
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Megan Ihnen
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Bolcom’s New Opera Dinner at Eight at Minnesota Opera

Minnesota Opera’s New Works Initiatives project has a stunning track record of premiere productions,...
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Megan Ihnen
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Poems of Sheer Nothingness: Vocal Music of Aaron Helgeson

“For we who make song must remember that we sing to the ears of others. That the price of being list...
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Megan Ihnen
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Paul Moravec’s “The Shining”: World Premiere at Minnesota Opera

Stephen King crafts stories revealing that the scariest things that go bump in the night are not sup...
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Megan Ihnen

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