New Victory Theater Announces 2018-19 LabWorks Artists

American Theater, August 21, 2018

See Tony Nominee Marin Mazzie and Other Broadway Stars Perform With Visible Ink

Playbill, May 03, 2018

Faye Chiao Premieres Opera with Boston Chamber Symphony

May 8, 2018
The world premiere of Banding Together, a new opera by Faye Chiao and Anton Dudley based on the fairy tale “The Musicians of Bremen,” will be made by the Boston Chamber Symphony, led by Music Director Avlana Eisenberg. Chiao and Dudley are artists-in-residence with the symphony. The family-friendly concert will also feature Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf and Karen LeFrak’s Ivan’s Song. This concert, on Sunday, May 13, at 4:00 pm, will take place at Temple Ohabei Shalom in Boston

Prospect Theater Company's WORLD VIEWS Presents Art-Inspired Mini-Musicals in Concert Tonight
BroadwayWorld, Jul 8, 2017
Prospect Theater Company, under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Cara Reichel and Managing Director Melissa Huber, will present WORLD VIEWS, a collection of new mini-musicals in concert, the culmination of Prospect's 2017 Musical Theater Lab. WORLD VIEWS, the company's 11th lab performance, will be presented tonight, July 8, 2017 at 8pm at The TimesCenter.

Prospect Theater Company Announces Cast of WORLD VIEWS
BroadwayWorld, Jun 29, 2017

Prospect Theater Company, under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Cara Reichel and Managing Director Melissa Huber, has announced the cast for WORLD VIEWS, a collection of new mini-musicals in concert, the culmination of Prospect's 2017 Musical Theater Lab. WORLD VIEWS, the company's 11th lab performance, will be presented on July 8, 2017 at 8pm at The TimesCenter.

Prospect Theater Company's WORLD VIEWS to Present Art-Inspired Mini-Musicals in Concert
Jun 14, 2017
BroadwayWorld
Prospect Theater Company, under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Cara Reichel and Managing Director Melissa Huber, will present WORLD VIEWS, a collection of new mini-musicals in concert, the culmination of Prospect's 2017 Musical Theater Lab. WORLD VIEWS, the company's 11th lab performance, will be presented on July 8, 2017 at 8pm at The TimesCenter.

Supporting the Work of Female Composers and Administrators at National Opera Center America
May 30, 2017
BroadwayWorld
OPERA America, the national service organization for opera and the nation's leading champion for American opera, announces a series of special initiatives to advance and highlight the work of women in opera. These programs are emblematic of OPERA America's deep commitment to achieving gender equity in the field.

Opera America Shows Support For Female Composers

May 31, 2017
David Salazar, OperaWire

OPERA America Composer Discovery Grant Press Release

May 10, 2017

Women of the Year

March 30, 2017
OPERA America Magazine, Spring 2017

Peabody alum Faye Chiao to perform Hubble-inspired work at Artscape Chiao's 'To See the Stars' among several Peabody performances at annual arts festival

July 12, 2016
To those familiar with her work, it's no surprise that Peabody Institute alum Faye Chiao (MM '07, DMA '16, Composition) will perform at this year's space-themed Artscape festival.

This is a composer who, after winning the Presser Music Award last year, chose to create a chamber work celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope, staging performances in planetariums.

‘utopia parkway’ at Single Carrot Theatre

March 28, 2015
Single Carrot's Utopia Parkway is a delightfully refreshing evening of musical ritual theatre, Mee’s lyrics are fresh and Chiao’s tunes only elevate them. One is reminded of children on the playground singing and romping around with dance-like movements, using the various levels of the set to great effect. Their rhythms are infectious and serve to heighten the feeling of ritual reenactment.

And that is, after all is said and done, what Utopia Parkway is: a ritual yearning for a better world.

Single Carrot Theater Heads Down the "Utopia Parkway"

March 31, 2015
Tim Smith, The Baltimore Sun

"The composer has crafted an effective pastiche that coverse assorted pop genres, and has provided vivid instrumentation that, especially in percussive underlining of key lines of text, evokes something of Chinese opera."

To See the Stars featured in the Spring 2015 Peabody Alumni Magazine!

Lunar Ensemble performs 'Pierrot Lunaire' and new, related works

December 10, 2012
Tim Smith, The Baltimore Sun

Buonaiuto was featured in Faye Chiao's "Moments Colores," four songs filled with lush images of nature, antiquity and absinthe and treated in an intriguing, cabaret-inflected style (waltz rhythms are deftly exploited). Buonaiuto handled the assignment, which includes some mild sprechgesang in a nod to Schoenberg, with finesse and charm. Chiao's instrumental writing, often exquisitely misty in coloring reached a Poulenc-like richness at the end.

Good Weekend for Contemporary Music Lovers in Baltimore

December 7, 2012
Tim Smith, The Balitmore Sun