“Music director Mila Henry on the piano and her band...couldn’t have been bettered..."
BROADWAY WORLD
“…a stalwart contributor to the contemporary opera scene.”
OPERA ITHACA
“Music director Mila Henry on the piano and her band...couldn’t have been bettered..."
BROADWAY WORLD
“…a stalwart contributor to the contemporary opera scene.”
OPERA ITHACA
Conductor, Pianist, and Music Director Mila Henry maintains an active and versatile career, leading works spanning rock musicals to folk operas to reimagined classics. Comfortable leading from both piano and podium, she prefers not to separate styles, but to blur boundaries.
Fall 2024 Highlights
Music Director/Pianist for the C&V "Six Scenes" workshop with AOP, and Lindsay Rider's YES, AND... at Merkin Hall (contracting a 9-piece all-women band!); Touring with The Opera Cowgirls to Amarillo; Conducting Pierrot with City Lyric Opera; Co-MD for She Breathes Fire with the WHY Collective; MD/Pianist for Simone de Beauvoir at the Museum with Amanda+James; Coaching for BMP Next Gen; Kaatsbaan residency with performer John Kelly; Concertizing with Cutting Edge Concerts at Symphony Space, Up Until Now at National Sawdust and counter codex's RITUAL at The Cell; MD/Pianist for final rehearsals for Eat the Document at PROTOTYPE.
Summer 2024 Highlights
Conducting the West Coast Premiere of Magdalene (14 women composers, poetry by Marie Howe) at CalArts REDCAT with Beth Morrison Projects; Conducting The New Moon at College Light Opera Company; Traveling to the Berkshires with The Opera Cowgirls; Conducting Welcome to the Madness (Leanna Kirchoff and Rachel Peters; World Premiere) at Opera Steamboat.
Spring 2024 Highlights
Serving as Music Director/Pianist for the latest workshop of Eat the Document (Glover, Rourke) at Baryshnikov Arts Center; Playing on Tiergarten with Death of Classical; More Music Director/Piano work for Exagoge (Finberg, Einhorn; World Premiere) with Untitled Theater Company No. 61 at La MaMa; Leading two thesis labs for NYU's Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program; Performing at The Green Room 42 with The Opera Cowgirls; Playing on First Glimpse with AOP's Composers & the Voice program.
