Kevin Lay is the composer of We Met in Moscow.  Largely self-taught, he studied composition at the University of Akron School of Music with Roger Zahab.  Kevin is a certified teacher of Deep Listening, a composer’s sound practice developed by Pauline Oliveros.  Pauline described Deep Listening as “a way of listening in every possible way to everything possible, to hear no matter what you are doing.”  Kevin has worked on several large-scale theatre works: the first, orchestrating a farce called A Day in the life of Bob Newhire in 1998, and Starboy (as librettist) in 2004.  Kevin had the pleasure of singing chorus for Peter Sellars (the director) in 3 classic operas in the Chicago area in the 1980s.  Kevin takes voice lessons from Gabrielle Juliette Widman and conducting lessons from Jason Sabino and Pat Vandehey.