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Aria Music Designs, Sound and Original Composition

Aria Music Designs was set up to supply audio and music needs for live theatre, corporate events, and film production.

Aria Music Designs specializes in original music, audio reinforcement, and sound effects creation. Their knowledge includes live audio mixing, system design, studio engineering, and post production.

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Ray Nardelli and Joshua Horvath are co-owners of Aria Music Designs. 

Ray Nardelli has composed music and designed sound at Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Court Theatre, McCarter Theatre, New Victory Theatre, Hartford Stage, Arena Stage, Alley Theatre, American Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Northlight Theatre, Apple Tree Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre, Victory Gardens Theatre, Meadow Brook Theatre, Gift Theatre, Northwestern Theatre, DePaul Theatre, Notre Dame Summer Shakespeare, Shakespeare on the Green, Oak Park Festival Theatre, Dolphinback Theatre, American Girl Theatre, Skylight Opera and Wright State University Theatre.  His film credits include Stray Dogs, Pretty Ladies, and Crush.  He has been nominated five times for a Jeff Award and won for the Goodman Theatre production Electricidad.  Mr. Nardelli teaches Sound Design at DePaul University.

Joshua Horvath is a Chicago based Sound Designer/Composer/Music Producer.  His designs have been heard locally at: The Goodman, Steppenwolf, The Court, Chicago Shakespeare, Northlight, Next, Lookingglass, About Face, Timeline, and Congo Square.  Joshua's regional credits include: The Kennedy Center, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf, Kansas City Rep,  Center Theatre Group, Milwaukee Rep, Madison Rep, Milwaukee Shakespeare, Great River Shakespeare, and Illinois Shakespeare. Mr. Horvath won a Joseph Jefferson Award (Electricidad, Goodman Theatre), and has been nominated four other times. He also was nomimated for an LA weekly Award (Permanent Collection, Center Theatre Group).  Josh teaches sound design at Northwestern University, is an artistic associate of Lookingglass Theatre Company and a member of ASCAP.

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Vincent Olivieri, Sound and Original Composition

Vincent Olivieri’s off-Broadway credits include THE WATER’S EDGE, OMNIUM-GATHERUM, THE BROTHERS SIZE, THE GOD BOTHERERS, and FATAL ATTRACTION: A GREEK TRAGEDY.  NYC & regional credits include productions with Woolly Mammoth, Center Stage (Baltimore), Barrington Stage Company, Gorilla Productions, The Juilliard School, Syracuse Stage, Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati (CEA Award), Virginia Stage Company, Berkshire Theatre Festival, and Yale Repertory Theatre.  He has created designs for world-premiere productions by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Kirsten Greenidge, Charles L. Mee, Adam Rapp, Theresa Rebeck, and August Wilson.  For three years, Mr. Olivieri was the Resident Sound Designer at Actors Theatre of Louisville and the Humana Festival of New American Plays.  His work was presented as part of the Prague Quadrennial Design Exhibition in June 2007.  Mr. Olivieri is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and serves on the faculty at University of California-Irvine.

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Daniel Baker, Sound Designer

Daniel is a sound designer, composer, and audio engineer for the theater living in New York, NY. Most recently, he has been collaborating with composer, Matthew Suttor, to create scores forThe Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow  at the Atlantic Theater in NYC and Cyrano at the Weston Playhouse in Weston, Vermont. Daniel also recently designed sound for Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing with director, Evan Yionoulis, at the Huntington Theater in Boston. In November 2005, he will be working as sound engineer with the chamber ensemble, Clogs , as they tour New England with Bell Orchestre. Daniel will also be recording the musical accompaniment for Synapse Production's national tour of Animal Farm (the Puppet Musical) as well as co-designing the sound with Fitz Patton. Daniel Baker is also in production for the play, Private Lives, at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, CT.

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