Noted Brazilian composer, inventor of urban sound events and Miami favorite Livio Tragtenberg brings his audience interactive piece The Cabinet of Dr. Strange to Sleepless Night on Miami Beach. Commissioned for the São Paulo Bienal, The Cabinet of Dr. Strange is performed in a cage. Livio twice wowed Miami audiences at the Byron Carlyle Theater in 2005 with his Nervous City Orchestra.

"...a multicultural musical delight... Rarely, if ever, has South Florida's much-vaunted musical multiplicity been so joyously presented." – The Miami Herald

Livio Tragtenberg resides in São Paulo, Brazil. He began his musical activities in São Paulo in 1979. His musical research is related to new sounds and such diverse creative languages as poetry, film, theater and dance. He has collaborated with magazines, authored books related to music and arts and played many concerts in South America, North America and Europe. He has held the position of Professor of Musical Composition in the Music Department at the Campinas State University (UNICAMP) since 1989. In 1988 he received a VITAE (Rockefeller) Foundation Fellowship for the composition of Wall Street Inferno based on Joaquim de Sousa Andrade's text. In 1990 Livio received a Guggenheim Fellowship for the composition of Utopia. Since 1993 he has been composing music for large music, dance and theater projects in Berlin, Frankfurt, Bremen, Hamburg and Stuttgart, Germany. Among his recordings are: Pasoloni Suite, Hansel Und Gretel Suite, Othello, Anjos Negros and TemperaMental, a recording of an interactive theater piece performed in Brazil in 1993. Livio has authored two books Artigo Musicais and CONTRAPUNTO – Uma Arte de Compor.

See and hear more about Livio Tragtenberg at MySpace and YouTube
See his filmography at Fandango

Tigertail's 2011/2012 Season is made possible by community partners and supporters including: Aquarius Press; Arthur F. and Alice E. Adams Charitable Foundation; Biscayne Times; Books & Books; Bresaro Suites; The Children's Trust; City of Coral Gables Cultural Arts Program; City of Miami Beach Cultural Affairs Program, Cultural Arts Council; Consulate General of Brazil; Consulate General of the Netherlands; E.S. Moore Family Foundation; Florida Dance Association; Funding Arts Network; The Galler Group; Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau; John S. & James L. Knight Foundation; JPMorgan Chase; MiamiARTzine.com; Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Mayor and Board of County Commissioners; Miami-Dade County Public Library; Miami-Dade County Public Schools; Miami River Inn; National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts, supported by lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, with additional funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Community Connections Fund of the Metlife Foundation, and the Boeing Company Charitable Trust; National Endowment for the Arts; National Performance Network with major funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency), Altria, MetLife Foundation and the Nathan Cummings Foundation; Pridelines; Publix Super Markets Charities; Safe Schools South Florida; Sain-Orr Royak DeForest Steadman Foundation; The Law Office of Linda M. Smith; Sleepless Night; South Arts; State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture; The Miami Foundation; VSA Florida; Vortex Communications; WDNA & WLRN FM; Wells Fargo and our many private supporters.