Career
Compositions by Karpman have been commissioned by Tonya Pinkins, Los Angeles Opera, American Composers Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, The Juilliard Choral Union, Pacific Serenades, and percussionist Evelyn Glennie. They have been performed internationally.
Karpman's theater catalog includes three musicals for Los Angeles’s "A Noise Within" theater company, as well as underscores for dozens of classic plays. Among her media music credits are Steven Spielberg's Emmy-winning, 20-hour TV miniseries, "Taken"; and PBS's series "The Living Edens" (for which she received nine Emmy nominations). She has scored numerous films, television programs and video games (including music for "Halo 3" and her award-winning score for "Everquest II"). Karpman received an Annie Award nomination for "A Monkey's Tale", a short film commissioned by the Chinese Government, which later premiered in the US and was performed by the Detroit Symphony.
Karpman’s score for "Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz" premiered at Carnegie Hall on March 16, 2009 with performances by Jessye Norman, Cassandra Wilson, The Roots, and the Orchestra of St. Luke's conducted by George Manahan. With Langston Hughes's epic poem for a libretto, Karpman's work exhibited an eclectic musical mix. Using Hughes' own voice at the core of the work, this musical includes passages from Louis Armstrong, Big Maybelle, Pigmeat Markham and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, integrated with projected images by Rico Gatson and additional archival video, as well as Hughes's own poetry. Annie Dorsen directed.
Later, Karpman created "The 110 Project", a work commissioned by the L.A. Opera as a paean to the city's first freeway, I-110, which turned 70 in 2009.
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