Martin Hennessy

Martin Hennessy is a prizewinning composer of opera, art song and theater music. Awards include the Pellicciotti Opera Composition Prize, Meet the Composer, the American Music Center, New Dramatists and commissions from The Estate Project for Artists with AIDS. Devoted to building a bridge between American musical theater and opera, listeners often describe his music as a breath of fresh air. His opera theatre works An Incident in Sutton Square and The Woman in Penthouse A with librettist Stephen Kitsakos premiered in 2020. Other works have been performed by Urban Arias, SongFest, Harvard B...