Lisa DeSpain

Composer & Jazz Pianist, Lisa DeSpain
THAT HELLBOUND TRAIN
World Premiere, April 2026 - Stephanie Rhodes Russell, Conductor at UNT
2018 Opera America Discovery Grant
2020 NEA - Challenge America Award

Other Operas - Available at ECS Publications 
SONG OF THE NIGHTINGALE
On Site Opera/Brookfield Arts and Culture, 2023
STAGGERWING
Opera Kansas, Winner of the 2020 Zepick Modern Opera Commission
NO LADIES IN THE LADIES BOOK
Utah Opera, Winner of the Golden Spike 150 Commission, 2019
MEN I'M NOT MARRIED TO
Commissioned by Baldwin Wallace/Cleveland Opera Theatre

Arranger of Choral Educational works including HAMILTON, IN THE HEIGHTS, and Green Day's AMERICAN IDIOT.