Warren Ashworth is a licensed architect known particularly for restaurant design in New York and Chicago. He is a professor of design and of architectural history at the New York School of Interior Design with a special passion for American wood-framed architecture, of which Ambleside is a glowing example. He is also the editor of a biannual scholarly journal of design and material culture called Nineteenth Century published by the Victorian Society in America. He has worked framing entire houses in Connecticut; restoring historic houses in New York; and making a timber-framed hut with nineteenth-century tools. www.WarrenAshworthArchitect.com
Susan Kander is a composer whose music has been heard across the United States and in Europe, China, Australia, and South Africa. Her 2020 “searing sung drama” (Washington Post) dwb (driving while black), written with librettist/soprano Roberta Gumbel, has had numerous productions; the original cast album was released in 2021 on Albany Records. She and Ms. Gumbel are currently at work on a new opera. Her chamber music has been hailed as “lovely and evanescent” (San Francisco Chronicle) and “eloquent…wrenchingly powerful” (Gramophone). Born in Kansas City, she studied music at Harvard University, then side-stepped into fifteen years as a playwright before coming home to composition in the 1990s. In 2015, she interrupted a busy career to “re-arrange the furniture in her mind” by going back to graduate school at SUNY Purchase, earning her MM in composition. Subito Music Corp. is her music publisher. She is a Fellow of the MacDowell Colony. www.susankander.net
Warren Ashworth is a licensed architect known particularly for restaurant design in New York and Chicago. He is a professor of design and of architectural history at the New York School of Interior Design with a special passion for American wood-framed architecture, of which Ambleside is a glowing example. He is also the editor of a biannual scholarly journal of design and material culture called Nineteenth Century published by the Victorian Society in America. He has worked framing entire houses in Connecticut; restoring historic houses in New York; and making a timber-framed hut with nineteenth-century tools. www.WarrenAshworthArchitect.com
Susan Kander is a composer whose music has been heard across the United States and in Europe, China, Australia, and South Africa. Her 2020 “searing sung drama” (Washington Post) dwb (driving while black), written with librettist/soprano Roberta Gumbel, has had numerous productions; the original cast album was released in 2021 on Albany Records. She and Ms. Gumbel are currently at work on a new opera. Her chamber music has been hailed as “lovely and evanescent” (San Francisco Chronicle) and “eloquent…wrenchingly powerful” (Gramophone). Born in Kansas City, she studied music at Harvard University, then side-stepped into fifteen years as a playwright before coming home to composition in the 1990s. In 2015, she interrupted a busy career to “re-arrange the furniture in her mind” by going back to graduate school at SUNY Purchase, earning her MM in composition. Subito Music Corp. is her music publisher. She is a Fellow of the MacDowell Colony. www.susankander.net