Michael Chorney is an American saxophone and guitar player, composer, arranger, and music producer. His bands include Feast or Famine, So-Called Jazz Quintet, So-Called Jazz Sextet, ViperHouse, Magic City, Orchid, 7 Deadly Sins, the Michael Chorney Sextet, and Hollar General (previously Dollar General). Chorney produced

Anaïs Mitchell Anaïs Mitchell (; born March 26, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and playwright. Mitchell has released eight studio albums, including ''Hadestown (album), Hadestown'' (2010), ''Young Man in America'' (2012),Hymns for the Exiled ''Hymns for the Exiled'' is the second studio album by American folksinger Anaïs Mitchell, released in 2004 on Waterbug Records. It was recorded at The Gristmill in Bristol, Vermont Bristol is a town in Addison County, Vermont, United Sta ...

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The Brightness ''The Brightness'' is the third studio album by American folksinger Anaïs Mitchell, released February 13, 2007, on Righteous Babe Records. It was recorded at The Bristmill in Bristol, Vermont and produced by Michael Chorney. In December 20 ...

''. Mitchell's 2010 folk opera, ''

Hadestown ''Hadestown'' is a musical with music, lyrics, and a book by Anaïs Mitchell. It tells a version of the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Eurydice, a young girl looking for something to eat, goes to work in a hellish industrial vers ...

'', was the result of a collaboration between Mitchell and Chorney. Chorney's orchestral arrangements featured bassist

Todd Sickafoose Todd Sickafoose is an American jazz and rock musician, composer, and producer/engineer from San Francisco, California. He is best known for playing acoustic bass and keyboards with Ani DiFranco but has also led his own group, Todd Sickafoose's ...

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, Josh Roseman, Tanya Kalmanovich, Marika Hughes, and his own guitar playing. Guests singers included

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, Greg Brown, and

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. ''The Guardian'', in their five star review of the ''Hadestown'' album, declared Chorney the star of the show for scoring "Mitchell's songs to wondrous effect: the New Orleans jazz of Way Down Hadestown, the grumbling lament of Why We Build the Wall, the sweet and tumbling melody of Wedding Song." Chorney received a Tony Award for Best Orchestrations for his work on ''

'' with Todd Sickafoose after it opened on Broadway in 2019. Chorney developed a prepared-guitar style that involves manipulating the strings to alter the tone and timbre of the instrument. He is considered to be one of Vermont's most prolific and innovative musicians. His composition “Shabaz" is featured in the documentary '' Randy Parsons: American Luthier.''

Discography

* ''Vermont Avenue'' (1993) * ''Viperhouse'' (1995) (with viperHouse) * ''Shed'' (1997) (with viperHouse) * ''Ottawa'' (1997) (with viperHouse) * ''Lap Hen'' (1999) (with viperHouse) * ''Tribute to Mingus'' (1999) (with viperHouse) * ''Orchid'' (2002) * "Songs and Music of

Paul Bowles Paul Frederic Bowles (; December 30, 1910November 18, 1999) was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator. He became associated with the Moroccan city of Tangier, where he settled in 1947 and lived for 52 years to the end of his ...

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Hymns for the Exiled ''Hymns for the Exiled'' is the second studio album by American folksinger Anaïs Mitchell, released in 2004 on Waterbug Records. It was recorded at The Gristmill in Bristol, Vermont Bristol is a town in Addison County, Vermont, United Sta ...

'' (2004) * ''Mother Tongue'' (2006) * ''Glossolalia'' (2007) * ''

'' (2007) * ''Songs in Secret Ink'' (2008) * ''Seth Eames and Michael Chorney – It Disappears'' (2009) * ''Oom Pah of the Ghost Parade'' (2010) * ''Wonder'' (2010) * ''

'' (2010) * '' Young Man in America'' (2012) *''Dispensation of the Ordinary'' (July 2012) * Adrian Roye & the Exiles "Reclaimed" (July 2013) * ''Shameless Light'' (December 2015)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chorney, Michael Living people American jazz composers American acoustic guitarists American male guitarists American jazz baritone saxophonists 21st-century American saxophonists American male jazz composers 21st-century American male musicians Year of birth missing (living people) Tony Award winners