
Nina Robinson has danced professionally with The Florida Ballet Theatre and The Los Angeles Chamber Ballet. Ms. Robinson has also taught ballet at the Baltimore Cultural Arts Centre to children and adults.
Ms. Robinson currently manages The Russian Ballet Theatre of Delaware and performed in their production of Romeo and Juliet. Nina choreographed and danced in the first of a series of ballet performances with local musician Paul Woznicki.
George Christie has been playing guitar since his teenage years and performing in the New York area (where he was born) and Delaware Valley areas since the 1960's. He has disciplined his fingers with years of formal classical and jazz guitar study, in Delaware, Philadelphia, New York City and Illinois. Notable instructors have included Dennis Sandole and John Abercrombie. Not to be outdone by nimble digits alone, he has also exercised his vocal cords with singing studies in Illinois and Delaware. His guitar playing activities have spanned the ranges of the Jr. Wells Blues Band in Chicago, to backing up the poet Allen Ginsberg at Northern Illinois University; from the 1982 New Music America in Chicago to First Night Wilmington; from the Delaware Classical Guitar Trio to cabaret jazz; from accompanying choral groups to jazz-rock fusion. And just to make sure he wasn't getting typecast, while working on a masters in music and computer science, created a computer music realization of the discourses of Dionysus from Euripides' The Bacchae (in iambic trimeter, of course), based on musical materials from Aristoxenus' Greater Perfect System of modal scales. 2400 year old music was re-created. He continues this interest as a member of the International Computer Music Association. He has participated in a multitude of obscure studio recordings and film tracks, as well as composing equally obscure works for various instrumental, chorus, dance and performance ensembles. A song co-written with Uranus and released on vinyl, was covered by Foetus and the Chrome Cranks and released on a PCP Co. CD, "Vice Squad Dick," distributed by Matador Records. George has been associated with Opera Delaware since 1992, first appearing as a supernumerary, then continuing on as a member of the chorus for opera and holiday productions at Wilmington's Grand Opera House. He sang with the Jubilieren chorus at New York City's Carnegie Hall in May, 1996.
In order to pay for all the guitar strings, solid agate picks and guitar and vocal cords he uses, George works for the Medical Center of Delaware as a computer systems analyst, helping to cure the sick and lonely computers of our health care systems.
James E. Duffy plays alto and tenor saxes as well as drums and percussion,in styles ranging from blues and rock-and roll. He has had a musical relationship with Woz that spans three decades, including many performances with the Melting Planet Band. He played alto sax with the Cecil Taylor Ensemble at Antioch College in Ohio, performing Cecil's original works along with Jimmy Lyons, Andrew Cyrille, Bobby Zankle, and John Lurie. Duffy toured the Northwest playing drums with the proto-grunge power trio Amoeba, doing one-nighters in Montana, Idaho, Washington, and British Columbia. In addition to writing and recording in his home studio, Duffy currently plays tenor sax in Blues clubs in the Philadelphia/Wilmington/Baltimore/Washington region with the Nite Caps, and has appeared regularly with other electric blues bands including Lisa Jack and The Reputations, Mr.Blue, and Anna King's Dirty Works.
Jimmy studied composition and arranging at New England Conservatory and Berklee. He has played with Woz and the Melting Planet Band since 1978. Performances include live and recorded concerts for WXPN and Philadelphia TV. He also assisted Woz with custom robots for auditions and performances on Saturday Night Live in late 1979 and the early 1980's. He has performed with: Steve Guyger, Paul Butterfield, Bo Diddley, Rockett 88, John Herald Band, Sin City Band, and LeRoy Hawkes and the Hipnotics. Jimmy is a piano tuner and restorer, and has done work for the Philadelphia Orchestra, Temple University, Penn Ballet, the Mann Music Center, and WHYY Radio.
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