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Mila Henry is a music director, pianist and conductor, as well as the Artistic Director of The American Opera Project. Hailed “a stalwart contributor to the contemporary opera scene” (Opera Ithaca), she provides musical dramaturgy to AOP works and serves as Head of Music for their Composers & the Voice program. Outside of AOP, she maintains an active and versatile career, leading works spanning folk operas to rock musicals to multi-composer collaborations, and performing at venues such as The Apollo, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Circle in the Square (Broadway), Dutch National Opera, LA Opera, Library of Congress (with Fierce Grace), Lincoln Center and Opera Philadelphia. She is delighted to be bringing Fierce Grace to the SLC area through NOVA, given her previous visit in 2014 involved The Fry Street Quartet and Fierce collaborators Laura Kaminsky and Kimberly Reed. She is also a member of the alt-country band Opera Cowgirls.