Bio
HILAN WARSHAW is a filmmaker, writer, and educator based in New York City. In addition to his media work, he has a background in musical performance and theater.
Scene from The Laborer: Overtones #1.
Directing The Laborer.
Through his production company, Overtone Films LLC (founded 2009), he produces and directs videos for organizations including Carnegie Hall, the League of American Orchestras, and the Dicapo Opera Theatre, as well as independent projects. In addition to his own films, his video editing credits include PBS films such as Shadows in Paradise: Hitler's Exiles in Hollywood, In the Key of G, and the miniseries Great Conversations in Music. His writing and research credits include A Workshop for Peace, a PBS documentary about the architecture of the United Nations headquarters in New York, commissioned by the UN to mark its 50th anniversary.
He has written research articles about Wagnerian opera and the film industry that were published by McFarland Press, The Wagner Journal, and Wagner Notes, and he recently wrote film-related entries and appendices for the new Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia (forthcoming in 2013 from Cambridge University Press).
He has lectured at venues including NYU's Deutsches Haus, Hofstra University, the Wagner Society of NY, and Boston Public Library. In autumn 2011, he taught a course in Romanticism and Film at Barnard College. He has also taught video production classes at Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts.
Hilan is also an experienced librettist for works of concert music and musical theater. He has frequently collaborated with his sister, composer Dalit Warshaw, writing texts for musical pieces that have been performed by various orchestras and broadcast on WQXR-FM. His other librettos include Songs of Rebirth (music by Lera Auerbach; published by Sikorski Music Publishers); Carnival of the Animals (commissioned and premiered by the American Youth Symphony, narrated by Marni Nixon), and the full-length musical Summerset, written as a Master’s thesis at NYU.
A violinist from an early age, Hilan began studying conducting while in his teens, conducting orchestras including the New York Youth Symphony at Carnegie Hall. He has a B.F.A. and M.F.A. from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and he studied orchestral conducting at Mannes College of Music and the Aspen Music School.
Hilan lives in New York City with his wife, Katya Stanislavskaya, a musical theater writer and musical director.
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