WHITNEY GEORGE’s music traverses the affective terrain between tragedy and ecstasy, fragility and strength, bringing together romantically delicate intimacy and the spectacular darkness of the macabre. Haunted by ghosts and/of love, George’s operas, staged multimedia works, and chamber music coloristically explore the mysteries of irrationality, nightmare, and memory, sonically seeking lost objects and hidden subjects. Given George’s theatrical inclinations and preoccupation with the tragic, she has turned again and again to opera and multi-media works as both a composer and conductor. George is the artistic director and conductor of The Curiosity Cabinet, a chamber orchestra formed in 2009.

She holds an undergraduate degree from the California Institute of the Arts, a master’s degree from Brooklyn College, and DMA from the CUNY Graduate Center. In addition to her composing and conducting, George teaches at the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music, works at the Hitchcock Institute of American Studies, and is on the composition faculty for Face the Music.