Team Tutti is a community, with each member serving in a variety of roles. A cellist might be an educational leader. A soprano might spearhead fundraising initiatives. All members of our community are essential and dedicated to our mission, providing their expertise and experience wherever they can.
Team TUTTI
ERIC MAHL
Co-founder of Tutti Productions, conductor Eric Mahl has solidified his place as one of the most exciting conductors of his generation. Known for his clarity, contagious energy and passion, he is the Music Director with the Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra, the Northport Symphony Orchestra, and the Western Connecticut Youth Orchestra. In addition, he is the faculty/festival ensemble conductor at the Charles Ives Music Festival and principal guest conductor with the Geneva Light Opera Company.
Sarah Joyce CoOPER
Co-founder of Tutti Productions, Sarah Joyce Cooper is an award winning soprano known for her “passionate power” (Parterre Box) and “meltingly beautiful” (Opera News) singing. Recent highlights include her debut with Seattle Opera as Minnie Tate in the world premiere of Tazewell Thompson’s Jubilee; soloist Carnegie Hall appearances in Mozart’s Requiem and Vesperae solennes de confessore; and the title role in James Kallembach’s American Jezebel:The Trial of Anne Hutchinson, a world premiere performance commissioned by Harvard University.
Laurie Kenagy
Our financial advisor, Laurie Kenagy, has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Master of Business Administration degree from Duke University. Laurie has professional experience in technology marketing, investment banking, administration and arts management, as well as extensive volunteer experience with numerous non-profit organizations. She has spent the last fifteen years working with organizations focused on the arts and music, as the Executive Director of the Western Connecticut Youth Orchestra and a member of the organization’s Board of Directors, as Coordinator of the Wilton Conservatory of Music, and currently as Executive Director of the Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra based in Ridgefield, CT. In her current role, Laurie has emphasized collaboration with other arts organizations and cultural non-profits and has focused on and expanding the role of the orchestra in the community and society as a whole.
Tamra grace Jones
Bio coming soon!
Paul Frucht
Our Artistic Advisor, Paul Frucht, is an American composer hailed for his “individual voice” and “poignant utterance” by Gramophone Magazine and “sense of lyricism, driving pulse, and great urgency” (WQXR).” His music has been commissioned and performed by numerous orchestras and ensembles including the Buffalo Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra, Sun Valley Music Festival, American Composers Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, Time For Three, Carpe Diem String Quartet, Geneva Music Festival, Princeton Music Festival, Knoxville Symphony Merchant and Gould Concertmaster Series, and Buffalo Chamber Music Society. Additionally, his music has been heard frequently on SiriusXM’s “Symphony Hall” with Martin Goldsmith.
Marshall Hughes
Tutti Productions Advisor Marshall Hughes is nationally recognized for his exceptional work as a director, actor, educator, and performer. A legend in the Boston arts community, Hughes is most known for his work with Opera unMet and Roxbury Repertory Theater, companies he founded that have remained an integral part of the city’s artistic and cultural fabric for decades. Opera unMet has performed fully staged and orchestrated productions at some of Boston’s most well-known venues, including Jordan Hall, the Hatch Shell, First Night, and Symphony Hall, where Hughes produced and directed sold-out performances of Porgy and Bess to critical acclaim with an internationally-renowned cast. At Roxbury Repertory Theater, which Hughes co-founded with Boston theater giant Robbie McCauley, he directed dozens of performances, including the award-winning productions, A Glass Menagerie and A Soldier’s Story.