L'Ensemble's Regular Guest Artists

Steven Espach, Designer, Stage Manager, Webmaster: is a freelance stage manager, set and lighting designer currently working the season at Foothills Theatre in Worcester, Mass. While on faculty at Bennington College he worked with Ms. Faiella on productions of The Threepenny Opera, L'Incoronazione di Poppea, George Gershwin's Blue Monday, and the world premier of the opera Under the Bam, Under the Bomb, Under the Ban-the-Bomb Tree, as well as the original production of Who's That Woman, A Sondheim Cabaret. Recently Mr. Espach has worked on productions of Porgy and Bess at New Orleans Opera; Macbeth at Foothills Theatre Company, Worcester , MA; Forever Plaid, Civil Union, The Man Who Came to Dinner, A View from the Bridge, Bells are Ringing, and Taking Steps at Oldcaslte Theatre Company, Bennington, VT; Twelfth Night and The Tempest at The John Drew Theater, East Hampton, NY.

Design credits include: lighting for Cabaret artists Andrea Marcovicci, David Staller, Margaret Whiting and Lucy Arnez; Theatrical performances of The Glass Menagerie, The All Night Strut, Nunsense, Noises Off, Amadeus, The Misanthrope, The Three Sisters, The Fantastiks, Deathtrap, South Pacific, Broadway Bound, Twelfth Night, The Tempest and Glengarry Glenn Ross.

Mr. Espach is a member of AEA (Actors' Equity Association), AGMA (American Guild of Musical Artists), The SMA (Stage Managers' Association), and USITT (United States Institute for Theatre Technology).

David Finck, Bass: is one of the most sought after musicians in New York City, maintaining an outstanding reputation in the areas of jazz, popular, Brazilian, and classical music. With a discography including more than one hundred recordings, his musical skills are continually requested by a wide range of international artists.

David has played with some of the most important artists in the music industry. Among them: Dizzy Gillespie, Phil Woods, Paquito DiRiviera, Aretha Franklin, Joe Williams, Andre Previn, The Carnegie Hall Jazz Band. He has toured with Paquito DiRiviera throughout the United States, Europe, Japan and South America. With pianist Sir Andre Previn, he has recorded and performed extensively.

He has played at many of the prestigious NYC clubs including the Cafe Carlyle with Marion McPartland and Sylvia Sims.

Bruce Williamson, Woodwind: was active in the San Francisco jazz scene until moving to New York City in the mid 1980s. In California he performed with Mark Levine, Pete & Sheila Escovedo, Bobby McFerrin, Benny Green and was a member of the experimental jazz group Rubisa Patrol with pianist Art Lande and trumpeter Mark Isham. Shortly after moving to New York he joined organist Jack McDuff's band, giving him the opportunity to meet and play with Jimmy Smith, Stanley Turrentine and George Benson. He has performed with his own groups in various New York City clubs and has been a featured soloist in Japan and Europe (most recently with the Slovakian Radio Orchestra and clarinetist Richard Stoltzman). Over the years, Bruce has performed with Gary Peacock, Fred Hersch, Dave Douglas, Tom Harrell, Jim Pepper, Paul McCandless, Toshiko Akiyoshi Orchestra and many other jazz notables. His most recent CD "Big City Magic" on Timeless Records features well-known trumpeter Randy Brecker and Bruce's compositions for jazz septet.

In New York City's theater world, he has performed in many of Julie Taymor's productions; "Juan Darien" at Lincoln Center (1996), "Lion King" at the New Amsterdam Theater (1998) and "The Green Bird" at the Cort Theater (2000). He also performs regularly with the Broadway production of "Chicago" at the Shubert Theater. In film, Bruce has been a featured soloist in many of Elliot Goldenthal's film scores; "Butcher Boy," "In Dreams," "Titus" and "Frida Kahlo". He was also featured with the American Ballet Theatre Orchestra in Goldenthal's 1997 ballet "Othello" (choreographed by Lar Lubovitch). In 1991 and 1995 Bruce was awarded Jazz Composition grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. He can be heard as a sideman on more than two-dozen recordings playing saxophones, clarinet, bass clarinet, flute, piccolo, piano and synthesizer. Bruce is presently on the music faculty at Bennington College, Vermont and has been a jazz clinician throughout the U.S. and Europe.