Lisa Scola Prosek


Lisa Scola Prosek is a San Francisco Bay Area-based composer and librettist. Among her compositions are two oratorios and seven operas.

Life and career

Scola Prosek was born in New Jersey and raised in Rome. She graduated from Princeton University, where she studied with Milton Babbitt, Edward Cone, Lukas Foss, and Gaetano Giani-Luporini. She was commissioned by San Francisco’s Thick House Theater for her operas Daughter of the Red Tzar, Belfagor and Sail the Blue Aegean. Her first operatic composition was Satyricon which premiered in 2002.
She is the recipient of several commissions, grants and awards, including from the Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund, the LEF Foundation, Meet The Composer, Theatre Bay Area, The Hewlett Foundation, the Zellerbach Foundation, and The American Composers Forum.
In addition to her work as a composer, she is principal pianist and General Manager of the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra.

Works

Chamber operas