Bio
HILAN WARSHAW is a multidisciplinary artist with a wide-ranging creative background. In addition to working as a filmmaker and video editor, he is an experienced classical musician, poet, librettist, and author of critical articles about film and the arts. He has a B.F.A. and M.F.A. from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Scene from The Laborer: Music-Cinema #1.
Directing The Laborer.
Through his production company, Overtone Films, LLC (founded 2010), Hilan is currently producing and directing Music-Cinema, an innovative series of short films inspired by pieces of classical music. He also directed and wrote the short documentary SHARE: A Gift of Life (2008). In addition, his video editing credits include the PBS documentaries Shadows in Paradise: Hitler's Exiles in Hollywood, In the Key of G, and Great Conversations in Music (mini-series), and Web videos for Carnegie Hall and Rethink Autism. He also co-wrote and researched 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 is on the Video Arts faculty at Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts.
His published writing includes a research article examining the relationship between film and Wagnerian opera, recently published in an anthology from McFarland Press. He has lectured about this topic at Hofstra University, and is currently writing a related article for The Wagner Journal. He has also written program notes and articles for Carnegie Hall.
As a librettist, he has frequently collaborated with his sister, composer Dalit Warshaw, writing texts for works 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. Before attending NYU for film, he studied 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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