Kaminksy’s father grew up during the Great Depression, her mother experienced the London Blitz when she was young

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York State Theater (now the David H. Koch Theater)

Babatunde Olatunji

Winneba, Ghana

Balafon

Musical tuplets

Synesthesia

Gestalt psychology

Impresario

Marionette

The High School of Music & Art (now Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & the Arts)

Edna Landau

Women composers of the 20th century: Lili Boulanger, Florence Price, Amy Beach

Kaminsky received an undergraduate degree in psychology from Oberlin College

Columbus Circle

Mirageas served as the Senior Vice President of Artists and Repertoire at Decca Records in London

Harlem Renaissance

The Fulbright Program, Peace Corps

And Trouble Came is a piece Kaminsky composed for narrator, viola, cello, and piano in 1993

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

20th century eastern European composers: Krzysztof Penderecki, Dmitri Shostakovich, Henryk Górecki

Kaminsky composed Terra Terribilis: Concerto for Three Percussionists and Orchestra in 2008 and Rising Tide for string quartet in 2012

Fry Street Quartet

Ludwig Beethoven, Leoš Janáček

Garth Lenz

As One is Kaminsky’s first opera

Kimberly Reed is a filmmaker and created films for As One

Sasha Cooke (mezzo-soprano), Kelly Markgraf (baritone) were the premiere cast for As One

St. Petersburg, Russia

Vladimir Ashkenazy

Kaminsky’s favorite place in Cincinnati is Maplewood Kitchen

Today it Rains is a new chamber opera by Kaminsky

The Rachel Maddow Show

Uber

Kaminsky’s opera Some Light Emerges participated in Cincinnati Opera and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music’s Opera Fusion: New Works workshop in 2016

Kaminsky was the Associate Director of Humanities at the 92nd Street Y

Kaminsky was in awe when she met Chick Corea

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)