Pursuit of Peace & Bach Vocal Artists: The Marriage of Music and Poetry

JOHN V. SINCLAIR, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR & CONDUCTOR

88 TH SEASON

PURSUIT OF PEACE

BACH VOCAL ARTISTS: THE MARRIAGE OF MUSIC AND POETRY

PRESENTED BY THE BACH FESTIVAL SOCIETY OF WINTER PARK

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JOHN V. SINCLAIR

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AND CONDUCTOR

John V. Sinclair enjoys a national reputation as a conductor of choral masterworks while locally being known as one of the hardest-working and in demand artists of the Central Florida cultural community. In his 33rd season as Artistic Director and Conductor of the Bach Festival Society, he continues his imaginative programming, creative interpretations, and expressive conducting.

Dr. Sinclair, known as a master teacher, is Director of Music at Rollins College and holds the John M. Tiedtke Endowed Chair. As a career educator, Sinclair keeps the Society’s educational focus vital by providing a broad range of musical programs and experiences for individuals of all ages. As a conductor who is equally adept at directing choral and orchestral music, he has been referred to as Central Florida’s “resident conductor.” He has appeared as conductor for more than a thousand performances in addition to his work as clinician and lecturer throughout the United States and other countries. The Bach Festival, under his leadership, has achieved international recognition by touring in Europe, producing nationally released CDs and broadcasts, and performing with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

Dr. Sinclair holds a masters and doctoral degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Conservatory of Music. His undergraduate school, William Jewell College honored him with its most prestigious Citation for Achievement. In addition to editing and interpreting historical choral works through the Moravian Music Foundation, he has authored an anecdotal book entitled Falling Off the Podium, and Other Life Lessons. The late Wall Street Journal’s arts critic, Terry Teachout wrote, “John is a gifted conductor, a great educator, and the best of all possible colleagues.” For more than three decades, John Sinclair has shared his talent and dedication to musical excellence with the Central Florida community and beyond.

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Bach Festival Society of Winter Park Presents

PURSUIT OF PEACE

Bach Festival Choir and Orchestra

John V. Sinclair, Artistic Director and Conductor

Caitlin Mohr, soprano | Amanda Crider, mezzo-soprano

Brian Giebler, tenor | Thaddaeus Bourne, bass

Saturday, April 29, 2023 at 7:30pm | Sunday, April 30, 2023 at 3:00pm

Knowles Memorial Chapel

The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace

1. L’homme armé (The Armed Man)

2. The Call to Prayers

Imam Bassem Chaaban

3. Kyrie eleison (Lord have mercy)

4. Save me from bloody men

5. Sanctus (Holy, Holy, Holy)

6. Hymn before action

7. Charge

8. Angry flames

9. Torches

10. Agnus Dei (Lamb of God)

11. Now the guns have stopped

12. Benedictus (Blessed is he…)

13. Better is peace

PROGRAM INTERMISSION

Make Me an Instrument of Thy Peace

Sir Karl Jenkins (b. 1944)

John Rutter (b. 1945)

Ukrainian Silent Prayer Mikail Shukh (b. 1952)

Prayer for Peace (Hatikvah) from Munich

Song for Justice from Tuvayhun (Beatitudes for a Wounded World)

Munera Pacis from Illuminare

Imagine

John Williams (b. 1932)

Kim André Arnesen (b. 1980)

Elaine Hagenberg (b. 1979)

John Lennon (1940-1980) arr Maclane Schirard (b. 1995)

Please turn off cell phone and electronic devices prior to the start of this performance. The Bach Festival Society’s policies strictly prohibit photography, filming, or recording of any kind during performances without the express written permission of the Society.

The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace

SIR KARL JENKINS

1. The Armed Man

L’homme, l’homme, l’homme armé, LL’homme armé douter, dout douter. On a fait partout crier, Que chacun se Viengne armer D’un haubregon de fer.

2. The Call to Prayers (Adhaan, the Muslim call to prayer)

The armed man must be feared: Everywhere it has been decreed that every man should arm himself with a coat of iron mail.

Allah is greater. I bear witness that there is none worthy of worship except Allah. I bear Witness that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. Come to prayer. Come to Success.

3. Kyrie

Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy.

4. Save Me from Bloody Men

Be merciful unto me, O God: For man would swallow me up. He fighting daily oppresseth me, mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me. O thou most high. Defend me from them that rise up against me. Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.

5. Sanctus

Sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth, Pleni sunt Caeli et terra Gloria tua. Hosanna in excelsis.

6. Hymn Before Action

(Rudyard Kipling)

Holy Lord God of Hosts. Heaven and earth full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest.

The earth is full of anger, the seas are dark with wrath, the Nations in their harness Go up against our path: Ere yet we loose the legions – ere yet we draw the blade, Jehovah of the Thunders, Lord God of Battles, aid!

High lust and forward bearing, proud heart, rebellious brow – deaf ear and soul uncaring, we seek Thy mercy now! The sinner that forswore Thee, the fool that Passed Thee by, our times are known before Thee – Lord, grant us strength to die!

7. Charge!

(John Dryden and Jonathan Swift)

The trumpets loud Clangor Excites us to Arms, With shrill notes of anger and mortal alarms. How blest is he who for his country dies, the double double beat of the Thundering drum cries Hark! The foes come. Charge, ‘tis too late, too late to retreat. Charge – Ah.

8. Angry Flames

(Togi Sankichi, a Hiroshima survivor who died of radiation exposure in 1953)

Pushing up through smoke from a world half darkened by overhanging cloud, the shroud that mushroomed out and struck the dome of the sky, black, red, blue, dance in the air, merge, scatter glittering sparks already tower over the whole city. Quivering like seaweed the mass of flames spurts forward. Popping up in the dense smoke, crawling out wreathed in fire, countless human beings on all fours, in a heap of embers that erupt and subside, hair rent, rigid in death, there smoulders a curse.

9. Torches

(Hindu 6-century epic Sanskrit poem Mahàbhàrata)

The animals scattered in all directions screaming terrible screams. Many were burning others were burnt. All were shattered and scattered mindlessly, their eyes bulging.

Some hugged their sons, others their fathers and mothers, unable to let them go, and so they died, and so they died.

Others leapt up in their thousands, faces disfigured and were consumed by the fire. Everywhere were bodies squirming on the ground, wings, eyes and paws all burning. They breathed their last as living torches.

10. Agnus Dei

For our Lord God almighty reigns alleluia, alleluia for our Lord God almighty reigns Alleluia. Holy, holy are You Lord God almighty? Worthy is the lamb, worthy is the Lamb, you are holy, holy.

Are You Lord God almighty? Worthy is the lamb, worthy is the lamb. Amen, Alleluia

11. Now the Guns Have Stopped (Guy Wilson, Master of the Royal Armouries) Silent, so silent now, now the guns have stopped. I have survived all, I who knew I would not. But now you are not here. I shall go home alone; and must try to live life as before and hide my grief.

For you, my dearest friend, who should be with me now, not cold too soon, and in your grave, alone.

12. Benedictus

Soprano: Benedictus

Tenor: Benedictus

Alto: Qui venit in nominee Domini

Bass: Benedictus qui venit in nominee domini

Tutti: Hosanna in excelsis

Hosanna in excelsis

Hosanna in excelsis

Hosanna in excelsis

Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.

Hosanna in the highest.

13. Better Is Peace

(Alfred Lord Tennyson, Karl Jenkins, Sir Thomas Malory, Revelation 24:1)

Better is peace than always war, and better is peace than evermore war, always war, always war, better is peace than evermore war, and better and better is peace.

L’homme armé doit on douter?

Everywhere it has been decreed?

Better is peace than always war, and better is peace than evermore war, always war, always war, better is peace than evermore war, and better and better is peace.

Ring, ring, ring, ring! Ring out the thousand wars of old.

Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring happy bells across the snow.

The year is going, let him go.

Ring out the false, ring in the new, ring out old shapes of foul disease. Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.

Ring in the valiant man and free, the larger heart, the kindlier hand. Ring out the darkness of the land, ring in the Christ that is to be. The year is going; let him go.

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Ring, ring, ring, ring!

God shall wipe away all tears and there shall be no more death, Neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain.

Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord.

The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace

SIR KARL JENKINS

The Mass begins with a marching army and the beat of military drums, the orchestra gradually building to the choir’s entrance, singing the 15th century theme tune – The Armed Man. After the scene is set, the style and pace changes and we are prepared for reflection by first the Moslem Call to Prayer (Adhaan) and then the Kyrie, which pays homage to the past by quoting (in the Christe Eleison) from Palestrina’s setting of L’Homme Armé. Next, to a plainsong setting, we hear words from the Psalms asking for God’s help against our enemies. The Sanctus that follows is full of menace, and has a primeval, tribal character that adds to its power. The menace grows in the next movement as Kipling’s Hymn Before Action builds to its final devastating line “Lord grant us strength to die.”

War is now inevitable. Charge opens with a seductive paean to martial glory which is followed by the inevitable consequence – war in all its uncontrolled cacophony of destruction, then the eerie silence of the battlefield after the battle and, finally, the burial of the dead. Surely nothing can be worse than this? But think again. At the very centre of the work is Angry Flames, an excerpt from a poem about the horrors of the atom bomb attack on Hiroshima written by a poet who was there at the time and died in 1953 of leukemia brought on by exposure to radiation. But if we think that the obscenity of this mass destruction is new to our consciousness, we must reconsider as we listen, to the eerily similar passage from the ancient Indian epic The Mahàbharàta

From the horror of mass destruction the work turns to remember that one death is one too many, that each human life is sacred and unique. First the Agnus Dei, with its lyrical chorale theme, reminds us of Christ’s ultimate sacrifice and this is followed by an elegiac setting of some lines I wrote (to accompany one of the dramatic interpretations we use in the museum) about the feelings of loss and guilt that so many of the survivors of the First World War felt when they came home but their friends did not.

Even the survivors can be hurt to destruction by war. The Benedictus heals those wounds in its slow and stately affirmation of faith and leads us to the final, positive, climax of the work. This begins back where we started in the 15th century with Lancelot and Guinevere’s declaration, born of bitter experience, that peace is better than war. The menace of the ‘Armed Man’ theme returns and vies for a time with Malory’s desire for peace. But time moves on and we come to our moment of commitment. Do we want the new millennium to be like the last? Or do we join with Tennyson when he tells us to “Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace”? It may seem an impossible dream, we may not have begun too well, but the Mass ends with the affirmation from Revelations that change is possible, that sorrow, pain and death can be overcome. Dona nobis pacem.

- Guy Wilson, former Master of the Armouries

Lord Make Me an Instrument of Thy Peace

JOHN RUTTER

John Rutter perfectly captures the sense of compassion and contrast between light and darkness that is expressed in the text of this poignant setting of the well-known Christian prayer for peace formerly ascribed to St Francis of Assisi.

Text

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace; Where there is hatred Let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy; And all for thy mercy's sake. O divine Master grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; To be understood as to understand; To be loved as to love; For it is in giving that we receive; It is in pardoning that we are pardoned; And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Ukrainian Silent Prayer

MIKAIL SHUKH

God of infinite mercy and peace, we pray for the people of Ukraine who are experiencing fear, violence and death. We entrust all their families to You, and we pray that they may not yield to discouragement or despair but be heralds of hope. Blessed Virgin Mary, Our Lady of Zarvaniza, spread your maternal mantle over all people of goodwill who live in the great nation of Ukraine. We pray in this moment of crisis that people throughout the world may reach out in solidarity to our brothers and sisters in need through prayer, fasting and almsgiving. Bring peace to all troubled hearts We ask this through our Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen.

Prayer for Peace ( Hatikvah ) from Munich

JOHN WILLIAMS

The text of Hatikvah was written in 1878 by Naftali Herz Imber, a Jewish poet from a town nicknamed "The City of Poets", which at that time was in Austrian Poland, today Ukraine. His words expressed the aspiration “to return to the land of our forefathers”. Imber’s nine-stanza poem, was titled “Tikvatenu” “Our Hope”.

In 1882, Imber emigrated to Ottoman-ruled Palestine and read his poem to the pioneers of the early Jewish villages. In 1887, Shmuel Cohen, a very young (17 or 18 years old) resident of Rishon LeZion with a musical background, sang the poem by using a melody he knew from Romania after witnessing the emotional responses of the Jewish farmers who had heard the poem. Cohen's musical adaptation served as a catalyst and facilitated the poem's rapid spread throughout the Zionist communities of Palestine. Hatikva is now the national anthem of the State of Israel and symbolises for many Arab-Israelis the struggle of loyalty that comes with having to dedicate oneself to either their historical or religious identity. For the award-winning motion picture Munich, John Williams created a poignant and emotionally charged lyrical ballad. Also known as “Avner’s Theme”, the hauntingly beautiful melody is the dramatic focal point of this work for strings by the master of cinema music, John Williams. This music of intense suffering and sacrifice can be heard in the films Exodus, Schindler’s List, and Saving Private Ryan.

Text

“O while within a Jewish breast, Beats true a Jewish heart, And Jewish glances turning East, To Zion fondly dart;

O then our Hope—it is not dead, Our ancient Hope and true, To be a nation free forevermore Zion and Jerusalem at our core.”

Song for Justice from Tuvayhun (Beatitudes for a Wounded World) KIM ANDRÉ ARNESEN

Our world is wounded. All around us we see the cracks: the effects of environmental crisis, mass migrations, global pandemic, political polarization, growing income inequality, the rise of authoritarian regimes, unprecedented social change, and reticence or resignation on the part of many to do anything about any of it. And yet, our world is also a place of wondrous beauty, a beauty that surrounds us if we have eyes to see it. More than ever we need messages of hope and unity, messages that remind us of what we already know—that the world is beautiful, that people are beautiful, and if we come together, respect one another, bless one another, and open our hearts to be blessed in return—we might heal the despair, and repair the fractures that are threatening our fragile world. The texts, ancient and new, are woven into a colorful tapestry of music inspired by a variety of traditions, highlighting the universality of the human experience.

"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled"

Text

In all that we are, it is better by far to follow our star, and sing out our truth. When things can’t get worse, we hunger and thirst for the last to be first; and so we sing out our truth.

We sing for the poor. We sing for the weak. We sing for the helpless, the hopeless, the meek. We sing out the truth against hunger and hate. We sing out for justice before it’s too late!

And in all that we do for these, and for you, the whole dark night through we’re gonna sing out our truth!

Munera Pacis, from Illuminare ELAINE HAGENBERG

The fourth movement of Illuminare’s Latin text is attributed to St. Gregory, who’s given credit for developing, appropriately enough, Gregorian chant, a certain style of what is called in general terms “plainchant,” music with only one melodic line and no harmony. Chant was used for centuries in Roman Catholic liturgy and is enjoying somewhat of a resurgence today. Gregory’s musical output is just a small part of his resumé, though, what with his being a pope and saint and a prolific writer and a reviser of the liturgy, among other accomplishments.

Hagenberg’s text describes the coming of dawn; we don’t see the full sunrise. She has used the first two verses of a Gregorian hymn that celebrates the canonical hour of “lauds,” that is, “dawn.” The Christian practice of dividing the day into seven sections, each with its own set of prayers, hymns, and Scripture readings, grew out of the Jewish practice of set prayers in the Temple at Jerusalem and in synagogues. These hours were observed in monasteries and convents for centuries, with one of those hours, “matins,” actually occurring while it was still dark, perhaps as early as 2:00 am. Sometimes everyone would get up and go to the chapel to hold the service and sometimes private prayer was the rule. As our friend Wikipedia says, “Outside monasteries few rose at night to pray.”

Surely, though, no one follows that grueling and exacting schedule of the canonical hours anymore! Au very much contraire. While there are indeed very few monastic houses that follow these hours, there are some holdouts. Here’s a quotation from a monastery in, of all places, Alabama:

The sun rises, light appears and the day is born as Lauds is being sung... The time and the spirit of Lauds recalls the resurrection, the dawn of the new day, a new creation, as Christ dispels the darkness. Our Savior and all of nature rise, and so do we in this great act of praise – every sunrise an Easter

PROGRAM NOTES

On to the text itself. Many Latin words here should remind you of English ones:

Jam — means “now” or “already”

Tenuator — “tenuous” or “attenuated” can be seen here.

Rutilans — ruddy or red; as in “rosy-fingered dawn”

Coruscat — that first “gleam” or “flash” of light as the sun comes up

Miseratus — “misery” and “mercy” have the same Latin root. As the dawn of a new day breaks, the worshipers ask for a new start, a banishment of guilt and blame and the bestowment of health and spiritual blessings, and, most important, the gift of peace. But the text doesn’t end there. Hagenberg has added a lovely ending with the words of Jesus from the Gospel of John chapter 14, promising his disciples peace.

—Debi Simmons

Text

From Pope Gregory (540-604)

Ecce jam noctis tenuatur

umbra, Lux et auroræ rutilans

coruscat: Supplices rerum

Dominum canora Voce

precemur:

Ut reos culpæ miseratus, omnem Pellat angorem, tribuat salutem, Donet et nobis bona sempiternae Munera pacis.

Behold, already night and shadows taper off, Light and dawn sparkle and quiver, We humbly beg the Lord through song Our voices pray:

Though we are guilty, view us with compassion. Banish anguish, bestow health; grant us everlasting goodness Give us peace.

John 14:27

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Imagine

JOHN LENNON

People typically attempt to analyze a message, figurative vocabulary, and other aspects of a poem or music. The overall sense of this piece is the poet's text which is a declaration of hope for world peace and democracy, in which the world can be unified and happy. Any differences between individuals or countries in the world should not create a chasm dividing people, nor cause a war or major conflict. A war simply manifests itself as hatred, rage, pain, crying, terror, and trauma; but a conflict can be resolved by diplomatic or peaceful mean. Equality, unity, and differences should strongly and warmly enrich the lives of people everywhere allowing them to live peacefully. And lastly, the message is about "realizing humans as social and different creatures" in which humans cannot survive without other humans. In other words, they can be mutually beneficial, supporting one another and sharing their lives together as social beings.

Imagine went on to become a tribute to the late Beatle John Lennon following his death in 1980 and has been adapted as an anthem of hope and peace.

Text

Imagine there's no heaven, it’s easy if you try; No hell below us; above us, only sky Imagine all the people livin' for today; Imagine there's no countries, it isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for and no religion, too. Imagine all the people livin' life in peace You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us and the world will be as one. Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can; No need for greed or hunger, a brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people, sharing all the world. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will live as one.

FEATURED ARTISTS

CAITLIN MOHR , soprano

Caitlin Mohr’s "powerful and expressive" (Boston Musical Intelligencer) voice, combined with her expertise in vocal pedagogy make the east coast native a sought after performer, vocal technician, and teacher of singing. Mohr uses her vibrant soprano voice, magnetic personality, and highly qualified expertise to share rarely told stories through song.

Mohr was featured as the soprano soloist in Faure's Requiem at the 20th Anniversary Commemoration of 9/11 at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. Mohr is a regular concert soloist with the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park. Mohr was the soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah with the Messiah Choral Society of Central Florida in 2018. Her vocal, artistic, and theatrical versatility allow her to flourish in many musical genres including opera, chamber music, early music, and musical theater.

An avid performer of dynamic contemporary compositions, Mohr has premiered works by composers Erica Glenn and Paul Sayed Mohr and starred as several of America's most beloved ingénues in an Enid Symphony Orchestra program entitled A Tribute to the Music of Rodgers & Hammerstein and Andrew Lloyd Webber. In 2018, Mohr performed several Bernstein selections with the State Symphony Orchestra of Turkmenistan in Central Asia, commemorating Leonard Bernstein’s Centennial. Mohr coached professional Turkmen singers and conducted outreach workshops for the American Embassy.

As a result of her solo recital in 2015 entitled Ladies of Note, Mohr developed an affinity for works by female composers. Mohr showcased highlights of her recital program at the Celebrating Women of 2018 event in Orlando with Kristine Griffin at the piano. Her passion for this music sparked the development of her course called Women in Music, for which she curated a lecture recital of Art Songs and Spirituals of African American Women Margaret Bonds, Florence Price, and Undine Smith Moore sung by Rollins alumni. In Fall 2021, she and Kristine Griffin performed a recital called A Celebration of Women Composers featuring compositions by Barbara Strozzi, Cécile Chaminade, Alma Mahler, Libby Larsen, Rebecca Clarke, Molly Conole and Sara Bareilles.

Caitlin Mohr completed her undergraduate musical studies at Davidson College (BA), earned a MM at Longy School of Music of Bard College, and completed her DMA at the University of North Texas. She currently teaches at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida as an Assistant Professor of Music.

FEATURED ARTISTS

AMANDA CRIDER , mezzo-soprano

Mezzo-soprano Amanda Crider has been recognized for her “gleaming vocalism” (Boston Globe), “star acting” (Urban Milwaukee), and “superbly clear diction and warmly burnished timbre” (South Florida Classical ). In demand for performances of classical and contemporary opera alike, Ms. Crider created the role of Alma in Keeril Makan and Jay Scheib’s in its world premiere with the Beth Morrison Projects and later at LA Opera, about which the New York Times remarked, “Amanda Crider made a winsome, vulnerable, and when the story turns dark, wildly volatile Alma,” and San Francisco Classical Voice declared, “Crider’s performance was a tour-de-force for its sustained vocal luster, dramatic variation, and sheer amount of singing.” Performances in the 2022-23 season include Handel's Messiah with Apollo's Fire and the Helena Symphony and multiple appearances with the GRAMMY® nominated ensemble Seraphic Fire, including Haydn's Creation in performances with the Fort Worth Symphony under the baton of Robert Spano. Most recently, Crider performed as mezzo soloist In Mozart's Requiem with Amarillo Symphony, Elgin Symphony and Winter Park Bach Festival. In the 2020-21 season, she appeared with Apollo’s Fire in Allure: The Three Amandas with sopranos Amanda Forsythe and Amanda Powell. Additional recent appearances included a debut with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, soloist in Handel’s Messiah with Jacksonville Symphony and a duo recital with countertenor, Reginald Mobley.

A busy soloist and recitalist, Crider has appeared regularly with Seraphic Fire, Apollo’s Fire, the Bach Festival Society of Florida, the International Contemporary Ensemble, the Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival, the Symphony Orchestras of Eugene, Savannah, Charlotte, Syracuse, Charleston, Amarillo, Southwest Michigan and Jacksonville. She made her Carnegie Hall debut in the fall of 2007 in Messiah with the New England Symphonic Ensemble. She has performed as a soloist in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Bach’s B minor Mass, Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem and Mass in C minor, Britten’s Phaedra, Bach’s St. John Passion, Bernstein’s Jeremiah Symphony, Haydns’ Lord Nelson Mass, and Ravel’s Chansons Madécasses, and has been a featured recitalist on the Trinity Church Concerts at One Series and with Five Boroughs Music Festival.

Ms. Crider was a grant recipient from the Pittsburgh Concert Society, and a finalist in both the Joy in Singing Debut Artist Competition and the Jensen Foundation Vocal Competition. She was a finalist in the José Iturbi International Voice Competition, the Second Place Winner in the Shreveport Opera Singer of the Year Competition, Recipient of the Palm Beach Opera Vocal Competition David and Ingrid Kosowsky Award, Finalist in the Oratorio Society of New York Vocal Competition and Center for Contemporary Opera Competition, and a Recipient of a Richard F. Gold Career Grant from the Shoshana Foundation. Crider was a 2022 Alumni Enterprise Award from Music Academy of the West and is the Founder and Artistic Director of Miami’s Art Song concert series, IlluminArts.

FEATURED ARTISTS

BRIAN GIEBLER , tenor

Praised for his “lovely tone and deep expressivity” by The New York Times, GRAMMY® nominated tenor Brian Giebler radiates “shine and clarity” (Opera News) in every phrase using “his high-placed tenor with great skill” (Opera Magazine). His debut solo album a lad's love (Bridge Records, 2020) garnered high praise from significant industry publications, debuted on the Billboard charts, and earned him his first GRAMMY® Award nomination for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album.

His 2022/23 season includes a fully staged production of Craig Hella Johnson’s Considering Matthew Shepard with Music at Trinity Wall Street. Mr. Giebler will debut with the Rhode Island Philharmonic singing Handel’s Messiah and make return appearances with Santa Fe Pro Musica, Boston Early Music Festival, Baltimore Choral Society, and at Carnegie Hall with the Oratorio Society of NY in a performance of Bach’s B Minor Mass

“The sweetness of Giebler's impressive high tenor” and his "expressive and elegant phrasing" (Cleveland Classical) have been heard with The English Concert and The Clarion Choir in an international tour under Harry Bicket at the Theatre des Champs-Elysées, the Barbican, and Carnegie Hall. Last season highlights included a tour of the Ravinia and Caramoor Festivals singing Monteverdi with Apollo’s Fire, Haydn’s Creation with Santa Fe Pro Musica, and returning with Mark Morris Dance Group, this time to sing the choreographer’s iconic version of Handel’s L’Allegro, il Penseroso at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

He has performed Stravinsky with the Cleveland Orchestra under Franz Welser-Möst; Evangelist in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with Trinity Wall Street; Mozart at both Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center; and Bach Cantatas with the Grand Rapids Symphony and Handel & Haydn Society. Regularly engaged for Handel’s Messiah, he has performed the work with Music of the Baroque (available on recording), the Charlotte, Memphis, and Virginia Symphonies, as well as at Carnegie Hall with the Oratorio Society of NY and Musica Sacra. Mr. Giebler sang and recorded the role of Iff the Water Genie in Wuorinen's Haroun and the Sea of Stories with Boston Modern Orchestra Project and made his debut with Boston Early Music Festival in Germany singing in Charpentier’s

FEATURED ARTISTS

THADDAEUS BOURNE , baritone

2022 Latin GRAMMY® Award winning album vocalist Thaddaeus Bourne currently serves as Visiting Assistant Professor of Voice at the University of Florida. Praised for his rich baritone (Brooklyn Discovery), his lyrical and touching singing (Parterre Box) and his suave stage presence (Opera News), Dr. Bourne has sung over forty roles performing in the USA, Europe, and Latin America. Maintaining an exciting performance itinerary within operatic, musical theater, global jazz, and concert artist appearances, Dr. Bourne is a sought-after collaborator with numerous GRAMMY® winning artist including Sophia (Mexico's #1 children's music artist). Dr. Bourne performed at the Voice Foundation's Awards Gala honoring American singer/songwriter Jon Bon Jovi, Russian operatic baritone Vladimir Chernov, and Brazilian news anchor William Bonner. This season’s appearances include performances with the Bach Vocal Artists and Bach Festival Choir of Winter Park, the Blue Mountain Ballads for the Baroque on Beaver Island Music Festival, Dr. Malatesta in Opera MODO’s Don Pasquale, Traci Mendel’s Images for baritone and horn at Colorado State University, King Melchior in Amahl and the Night Visitors and with Encore Musical Productions of Hartford. At the University of Florida he will perform Scott Lee’s Tiger Oil Memos with the UF New Music Ensemble and joint faculty recitals with Paul Basler, Marshall Haning, and Evan Mitchell. This spring he will sing Escamillo in Bizet's Carmen at the Center for Performing Arts. His 2021-22 performances included Fauré’s Requiem, Bach’s Cantata Wahrlich, wahrlich ich sage euch, the titular role of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Händel's Messiah, a recital with pianist Tatiana Lokhina (Shoreline Music Society of Grand Rapids), the Multicultural Art Song Concert at the National Opera Center to promote positive artistic collaboration between Korean and American artists, as well as masterclasses for Saginaw Valley State University, Marshall University, the Longy School of Music at Bard College, and the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam. In the 201819 Season he soloed in the Masterson Ensemble's At Dusk concert, was bass soloist in the Mozart Requiem, Pirate King in Pirates of Penzance and Beethoven's Choral Fantasy), rouble in Tahiti (Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra), and Dandini in La Cenerentola (Opera MODO).

His previous faculty appointments include Troy University, Butler University, Earlham College, and the University of Connecticut. An accomplished flutist, Dr. Bourne completed undergraduate and graduate degrees in flute performance, embarking on his DMA in voice after training as a singer to improve his breath support. Dr. Bourne completed graduate degrees in voice at the University of Connecticut and Indiana University. His research areas include voice classification, bel canto singing beyond the western classical tradition, and expanding the traditional lens of opera for greater access, equity, and participation. He recently joined José Valentino and Silviu Ciulei in a presentation on the intersections between the bel canto vocal technique and music of the Latin and African diasporas for the Center for Arts, Migration, and Entrepreneurship’s (CAME) 2022 conference. Their research will be included as a chapter in the forthcoming CAME book published through Library Press of the University of Florida. In the summer of 2021 he joined the teaching artists of Broadway for Arts Education in their collaboration with the Shanti-Bhavan Children’s Project bringing

BACH FESTIVAL CHOIR

Ashley Ackson

Isabel Acuna, 3

Bryan Adames*, 2

Kristin Adames*, 2

Kristen Algero, 6

Katie Anderson

Stewart Anderson, 2

Morgan Anderson*, 1

Catalina Arias, 4

Liz Ausburn, 2

Meg Baldwin, 3

Barby Barbara, 3

Will Barbara, 3

Samantha Basso

Jim Beck, 10

Frederick Blanchard*

Richard Bump, 2

Michael Burridge, 22

Gayle Burton

Laurie Calhoun, 3

Sofia Cardi, 1

Julia Carpenter, 11

Christine Carter, 12

Tripp Carter*, 2

Ellen Huey Cassel, 11

George Chandler, 5

Paul W. Chilcote, 4

Maya Clausen, 2

Emily Cole

Tom Cook, 34

Vivian Cook, 3

Athalia Cope, 60

Bob Cope, 51

Michael Creighton, 1

Carl Davis, 20

Tim Delcavo, 6

Kerren Dieuveille*, 1

Mirjana Dimitrovska, 3

Jodi DiPiazza*, 1

Theresa Dulong, 13

Karen Dunscomb

Dante Duphorne, 14

Ashley Duvé, 7

Cynthia Dybas, 7

Tabitha Dybas, 3

Dana Eagles, 11

Jolie Eichler, 14

Mary Frances Emmons, 1

Jonathan Erick, 26

Bob Fields, 3

Jay Forsythe*, 1

Alice Fortunato, 2

Larry Fortunato, 7

Brad Gant, 1

Elicia Garcia, 4

Alexander Goity, 3

Minet Gregory, 8

Regunia Griggs, 22

Gregg Gronlund, 24

James Guild

Jeanné Hall, 2

Jennifer Hallenbeck, 6

Rebecca Hammac

Diane Hansen, 8

Grant Hayes, 3

Pia Hernandez*

Richard Horn

Ariel Hudak, 5

Rebecca Hull, 12

Silvia Ibañez, 6

Howard Jaffe, 3

Elisabeth Johar

Heather John, 6

Charlotte Johnson

Eltavious Johnson*

Andrea Jones, 15

Sondra Jones, 11

Beth Kassander, 6

Amanda Kinder, 5

James T. Kitchens, 3

Yen-Yen Kressel, 15

Rob Landry, 2

Wendy Landry, 2

Rachel LaQuea, 5

Juliana Lind,2

Kathleen LoPresti, 20

Leyse Lowry, 7

Julie Mathews

Cody Mathewson*, 2

Nicholas Matthews*, 1

David Mattson, 16

Carolyn Maue, 1

Elizabeth Maupin, 4

Margaret McMillen, 29

Rita Merlot, 13

Luiz Mestrinho, 4

Janice Meyer, 6

Diego Mihelic, 1

Susan Miller, 1

Aleitha Morgan, 10

Natalie Morgan, 1

Beth Nagle, 13

Jack Nagle, 13

Donald Nash, 43

John Niss, 27

Luke Noles, 6

Bill Oelfke, 32

Harry Otero-Rivera*, 3

Betsy Owens, 10

Jesus Pacheco*

William Parrish-Talk

Kirsten Paulson, 2

BACH FESTIVAL CHOIR

Isabelle Perez*

Cara Pfost Brown

Kurt Plotts, 16

Dan Preslar, 10

Veronica Prevost*, 1

Bj Price, 17

Gabriel Quijano, 4

Ale Quintana*

Anaba Reyes Ramirez*

Beverly Rich, 9

Angelina Richardson*, 1

David Romaine, 3

Mikaella Romero*

Sebastian Sanchez*

Joseph Sapora, 6

Jane Scamehorn, 7

John Maclane Schirard, 7

Amanda Schoopman, 3

Russell Scott, 8

Edward Searl

Daniel Sharp, 2

Karyll Shaw, 7

Taylor Sinclair, 7

Diana Sisley, 15

Beverly Slaughter, 47

Jodi Tassos, 47

Charles Thatcher, 1

Alexander Tiedtke, 4

Samantha Torres*, 1

Cezarina Vintilla, 18

Matt Walker, 5

William Wang*, 1

Gayle Warren, 34

Diana Webb, 8

Margaret Elise

Wendelburg*, 3

Jane White, 40

Patty White, 5

Susan Whritenour, 12

Wave Wildman*

Gwendolyn Williams, 17

Elizabeth Wright

Jack Wright, 1

Elizabeth Yantomi

Mary Lou Zobel, 5

Number denotes years of service

* Rollins College student

BACH FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA

VIOLIN I

Routa Kroumovitch Gomez*

Alvaro Gomez*

Shelley Bareham Matthews

Olga Ferroni

Julia Gessinger

Kathleen Beard

Olivia Skaja

VIOLIN II

Joni Roos

Rhonda Burnham

Victor Ferroni

Dina Fedosenko

Christina Gant

Jennie Rudberg

VIOLA

Susan Christian

Daniel Flick

Jesus Alfonzo

CELLO

Brenda Higgins

Shona McFadyen-Mungall

Maureen May

Amie Tishkoff

Jonathan Stillwell

STRING BASS

Tye Van Buren

Lee Eubank

Michael Hill

FLUTE

Katie Mess

Nicole Scott

OBOE

Sherwood Hawkins

Lora MacPherson

BASSOON

Ashley Heintzen

Rich Ervin

HORN

Kathy Thomas

Ben Lieser

Pam Titus

TRUMPET

Teresa Linn

John Copella

TROMBONE

Jeff Thomas

Aaron Lefkowitz

Alex Regazzi

TUBA

Robin Sisk

TIMPANI

Kirk Gay

PERCUSSION

Thad Anderson

Jeffrey Moore

Jeremy Katalenic

HARP

Dawn Edwards

PIANO

Kristine Griffin

* co-concertmasters

Bach Festival Society of Winter Park Presents

BACH VOCAL ARTISTS THE MARRIAGE OF MUSIC AND POETRY

John V. Sinclair, Artistic Director and Conductor

John Grau, Co-Artistic Director

Thursday, May 18, 2023 | 7:30pm

Tiedtke Concert Hall

PROGRAM

Good Night, Dear Heart

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here, Warm southern wind, Blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear heart, good night, good night.

The Burial of the Stars

On the beach at night alone, as the old mother sways her to and fro, singing her husky song, as I watch the bright stars shining, I think a thought of the clef of the universes, and of the future. A vast similitude interlocks all, all spheres, grown, ungrown, small, large, suns, moons, planets all distances of place however wide, all distances of time, all inanimate forms, all souls, all living bodies, though they be ever so different, or in different worlds, all gaseous, watery, vegetable, mineral processes, the fishes, the brutes, all nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages, all identities that have existed or may exist on this globe, or any globe, all lives and deaths, all of the past, present, future, this vast similitude spans them, and always has spann’d, and shall forever span them and compactly hold and enclose them.

Choose Something Like a Star

O Star (the fairest one in sight), we grant your loftiness the right to some obscurity of cloud - It will not do to say of night, since dark is what brings out your light. Some mystery becomes the proud. But to the wholly taciturn in your reserve is not allowed. Say something to us we can learn by heart and when alone repeat. Say something! And it says, 'I burn.' But say with what degree of heat. Talk Fahrenheit, talk Centigrade. Use language we can comprehend. Tell us what elements you blend. It gives us strangely little aid, But does tell something in the end and steadfast as Keats' Eremite, not even stooping from

Dan Forrest | Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), poet

Michael Creighton | Walt Whitman, poet

Randall Thompson | Robert Frost, poet

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Choose Something Like a Star, cont.

its sphere, it asks a little of us here. It asks of us a certain height, so when at times the mob is swayed to carry praise or blame too far, We may choose something like a star to stay our minds on and be staid.

A Song of the Road

Whatever the path may be, my dear, let us follow it far from here, Let us follow it back to Yester-Year, whatever the path may be:

Again let us dream where the land lies sunny, and live, like the bees, on our hearts' old honey, away from the world that slaves for money Come, journey the way with me.

However the road may roam, my dear, through sun or rain, through green or sere, Let us follow it back with hearts of cheer, however the road may roam: Oh, while we walk it here together, what care we for wind and weather, When there on the hills we'll smell the heather, and see the lights of home!

Whatever the path may seem, my sweet, let us take it now with willing feet, And time our steps to our hearts' glad beat, whatever the path may seem: Though the road be rough that we must follow, what care we for hill or hollow, While here in our hearts, as high as a swallow, we bear the same loved dream!

However the road may roam, my sweet, let it lead us far from mart and street, Out where the hills and the heavens meet, however the road may roam: So, hand in hand, let us go together, and care no more for the wind and weather, And reach at last those hills of heather, where gleam the lights of home.

Sure on this Shining Night

Sure on this shining night of starmade shadows round

Kindness must watch for me this side the ground

The late year lies down the north all is healed, all is health High summer holds the earth Hearts all whole

Sure on this shining night I weep for wonder

Wandering far alone of shadows on the stars.

Heart We Will Forget Him

Heart, we will forget him you and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave I will forget the light when you have done pray tell me then I, my thoughts, will dim. Haste! ‘lest while you’re lagging I may remember him!

John Maclane Schirard | Madison Julius Cawein, poet

Morten Lauridsen | James Agee, poet

Aaron Copland | Emily Dickinson, poet Melissa Attebury, mezzo-soprano

Carolina Cabin

Stephen Mumbert, bass

There’s hanging moss and holly and tall straight pine about this little cabin in the wood.

Inside a crackling fire, warm red wine, and youth and life and laughter that is good.

Outside the world is gloomy, the winds of winter cold, as down the road a wandering poet must roam. But here there’s peace and laughter and love’s old story told–where two people make a home.

As Torrents in Summer

As torrents in summer, half dried in their channels, suddenly rise, tho' the sky is still cloudless.

For rain has been falling. Far off at their fountains;

So hearts that are fainting grow full to o'erflowing, and they that behold it, marvel, and know not

That God at their fountains far off has been raining!

A Red, Red, Rose

O my luve’s like a red, red rose, that’s newly sprung in June:

O my luve’s like the melodic, that’s sweetly play’d in tune.

As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, so deep in luve am I; and I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a’ the seas gang dry. And I will luve thee still, my dear.

Sweet and Low

Sweet and low, sweet and low wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, wind of the western sea!

Over the rolling waters go, come from the dying moon, and blow, Blow him again to me, while my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps.

Sleep and rest, sleep and rest, Father will come to thee soon; Rest, rest, on mother's breast, Father will come to thee soon;

Father will come to his babe in the nest, silver sails all out of the west Under the silver moon! Sleep my little one, sleep my pretty one, sleep.

Edward Elgar | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet

James Mulholland | Robert Burns, poet

Joseph Barnby | Lord Alfred Tennyson, poet

Jean Berger | Langston Hughes, poet

Crossing the Bar

Sunset and evening star, and one clear call for me!

Jamey Ray | Lord Alfred Tennyson, poet

And may there be no moaning of the bar, when I put out to sea, but such a tide as moving seems asleep, too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep turns again home!

Twilight and evening bell, and after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, when I embark; For though from out our bourn of time and place the flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face when I have crost the bar.

Down Among the Dead Men

Ralph Vaughn-Williams | John Dyer, poet

Here's a health to the King and a lasting peace To faction an end, to wealth increase. Come, let us drink it while we have breath, For there's no drinking after death. And he that will this health deny, Down among the dead men, down among the dead men, Down, down, down, down; Down among the dead men let him lie!

Here's a health to the King and a lasting peace To faction an end, to wealth increase. Come, let us drink it while we have breath, For there's no drinking after death. And he that will this health deny, Down among the dead men, down among the dead men,

Down, down, down, down; Down among the dead men let him lie! Let charming beauty's health go round, With whom celestial joys are found. And may confusion yet pursue, That selfish woman-hating crew. And he who'd woman's health deny, Down among the dead men, down among the dead men, Down, down, down, down; Down among the dead men let him lie!

In smiling Bacchus' joys I'll roll, deny no pleasure to my soul. Let Bacchus' health round briskly move, for Bacchus is a friend to Love; And they that would this health deny, down among the dead men, down among the dead men,

Down, down, down, down; down among the dead men let him lie!

THE MARRIAGE OF MUSIC AND POETRY

Dirge for Fidele

Fear no more the heat o' the sun, nor the furious winter's rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, home art gone, and ta'en thy wages: Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust.

Fear no more the frown o' the great; thou art past the tyrant's stroke; Care no more to clothe and eat; to thee the reed is as the oak:

The sceptre, learning, physic, must all follow this, and come to dust.

Fear no more the lightning flash, nor the all-dreaded thunder-stone;

Fear not slander, censure rash; thou hast finish'd joy and moan:

Allovers young, all lovers must consign to thee, and come to dust.

No exorciser harm thee! Nor no witchcraft charm thee!

Ghost unlaid forbear thee! Nothing ill come near thee

Quiet consummation have; and renowned be thy grave!

Bitter for Sweet

Summer is gone with all its roses, its sun and perfumes and sweet flowers, It’s warm air and refreshing showers: and even Autumn closes.

Yea, Autumn's chilly self is going, and winter comes which is yet colder; Each day the hoar-frost waxes bolder and the last buds cease blowing.

Rest

O Earth lie heavily upon her eyes; seal her sweet eyes weary of watching, Earth. Lie close around her, Leave no room for mirth with its harsh laughter, nor for sound of sighs. She hath no questions, she hath no replies, hushed in and curtained with a blessed dearth of all that irked her from her hour of birth; with stillness that is almost Paradise.

Darkness more clear than noon-day holdeth her, Silence more musical than any song; Even her very heart hath ceased to stir; Until the morning of Eternity her rest shall not begin nor end, but be, and when she wakes she will not think it long.

Come to Me, My Love

Come to me in the silence of the night; Come in the speaking silence of a dream; Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright as sunlight on a stream; Come back in tears, o memory, hope, love of finished years.

Oh dream how sweet, too sweet, too bitter sweet, whose wakening should have been in Paradise, where souls brimfull of love abide and meet; Where thirsting longing eyes watch the slow door that opening, letting in, lets out no more.

Yet come to me in dreams, that I may live my very life again though cold in death: Come back to me in dreams, that I may give pulse for pulse, breath for breath: Speak low, lean low, as long ago, my love, how long ago!

Ralph Vaugh-Williams | William Shakespeare, poet

John Chorbajian | Christina Rosetti, poet

Ralph Vaughan-Williams | Christina Rosetti, poet

Norman Dello Joio | Christina Rosetti, poet

THE MARRIAGE OF MUSIC AND POETRY

The Year’s at the Spring

Amy Beach | Robert Browning, poet Anna Eschbach, soprano

The year’s at the spring, and day’s at the morn; Morning’s at seven; The hill-side’s dew-pearl’d; the lark’s on the wing; the snail’s on the thorn; God’s in His heaven – all’s right with the world!

Love’s Philosophy

The fountains mingle with the river and the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix for ever with a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine in one spirit meet and mingle. Why not I with thine?—

See the mountains kiss high heaven and the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven if it disdained its brother; and the sunlight clasps the earth and the moonbeams kiss the sea: What is all this sweet work worth if thou kiss not me?

Dirait-On

Abandon entouré d'abandon, tendresse touchant aux tendresses... C'est ton intérieur qui sans cesse se caresse, dirait-on; se caresse en soi-même, par son propre reflet éclairé. Ainsi tu inventes le theme du Narcisse exhaucé.

Falling Into Mercy

Abandon surround abandon, tenderness touching tenderness, Your oneness endlessly caresses itself so they say; self-caressing thru its own clear reflection Thus you invent the theme of Narcissus fulfilled.

Kim André Arnesen | Euan Tait, poet

To fall into mercy is to keep falling, endlessly, the one fall that cannot be stopped Since love’s depths have never been sounded. No wonder, the wonder that saints, The everyday ask for the mercy of emptiness, to be filled with mercy such as this, To be loved this way.

This Marriage

May these vows and this marriage be blessed. May it be sweet milk, this marriage, like wine and halvah. May this marriage offer fruit and shade like the date palm.

May this marriage be full of laughter, our everyday a day in paradise. May this marriage be a sign of compassion, a seal of happiness here and hereafter. May this marriage have a fair face and a good name, an omen as welcomes the moon in a clear blue sky. I am out of words to describe how spirit mingles in this marriage.

Morten Lauridsen | Rainer Maria Rilke, poet

Roger Quilter | Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet Catherine Psarakis, soprano

Eric Whitacre | Jaial al-Din Rumi, poet

THE MARRIAGE OF MUSIC AND POETRY

Double Double Toil and Trouble

Mantyjarvi

Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd Thrice and once the hedge-pig whined Harpier cries 'Tis time, 'tis time Round about the cauldron go; In the poison'd entrails throw Toad, that under cold stone Days and nights has thirty-one Swelter'd venom sleeping got Boil thou first i' the charmed pot

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble

Fillet of a fenny snake In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog

Wool of bat and tongue of dog Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting Lizard's leg and owlet's wing For a charm of powerful trouble Like a hell-broth boil and bubble

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf Witches' mummy, maw and gulf Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark

Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark Liver of blaspheming Jew Gall of goat, and slips of yew Silver'd in the moon's eclipse Nose of Turk and Tartar's lips

Finger of birth-strangled babe Ditch-deliver'd by a drab Make the gruel thick and slab: Add thereto a tiger's chaudron For the ingredients of our cauldron

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble

By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, Whoever knocks!

It was a Lover and His Lass

It was a lover and his lass, with a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino that o'er the green corn-field did pass. In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, when birds do sing, hey ding a ding a ding; Sweet lovers love the spring.

Between the acres of the rye, with a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, These pretty country folks would lie, In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding a ding; sweet lovers love the spring.

This carol they began that hour, with a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, How that a life was but a flower In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, when birds do sing, hey ding a ding a ding; Sweet lovers love the spring.

And therefore take the present time with a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, For love is crownéd with the prime In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding a ding; sweet lovers love the spring.

Jaakko

| William Shakespeare, poet

John Rutter | William Shakespeare, poet

BACH VOCAL ARTISTS

Melissa Attebury*

Jessica Beebe*

Thaddaeus Bourne*

Brian Ming Chu*

Amanda Crider

Dann Coakwell*

Brad Diamond

Meg Dudley*

Anna Eschbach*

Brian Giebler

John Grau*

Erik Gustafson*

Brandon Hendrickson*

Mary Jane Knight*

Jos Milton*

Stephen Mumbert*

Rebecca Myers

Morgan Davis Peckels*

Jacob Perry

Catherine Psarakis*

Margot Rood

Clara Rottsolk

Kunya Rowley

Angela Young Smucker*

Gabriela Estephanie Solís

Steven Soph*

Kyle Stegall

Laura Choi Stuart*

Patricia Thompson*

Joseph Trumbo*

*Artists for this concert

BACH VOCAL ARTISTS

MELLISSA ATTEBURY, alto

Praised by the New York Times as a “rich-toned alto who brought a measure of depth to her performance,” Melissa Attebury appears regularly in oratorio concerts where her skill in music of the Baroque is in particular demand. Recent appearances include Messiah, Christmas Oratorio, the St. St. John Passions, and Elijah. Venues where she has recently appeared include Carnegie Hall with conductor Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic, The Washington Chorus and The Choir of Trinity Wall Street. Ms. Attebury is featured on the Grammy-nominated Israel in Egypt with the Choir of Trinity Wall Street and as a skilled ensemble musician, appears on Julia Wolfe’s 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning work Anthracite Fields, recorded with Bang on a Can All-Stars. Melissa is the Associate Director of Music at Trinity Wall Street, is on the faculty of the Berkshire Choral Festival, and manages Trinity’s music outreach program in the public schools.

JESSICA BEEBE , soprano

Jessica Beebe interprets repertoire spanning four centuries from the Renaissance to the contemporary and has a voice that “bounced like a beam of light throughout the sanctuary” (Broad Street Review). She has performed with New York City Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and Utah Symphony. Jessica’s concert and oratorio repertoire includes major works by Monteverdi, Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Brahms, and Orff. She also performs modern works such as John Adam's El Niño, Rutter's Requiem, and Richard Einhorn's Voices of Light. She is a member of many Grammy-nominated and winning vocal ensembles, such as Clarion Society, Seraphic Fire, The Crossing, Lorelei Ensemble, and Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia. Earning her BM from the University of Delaware, her MM in Early Music from Indiana University, and a Performance Certificate from London's Royal College of Music she currently serves on the faculty at both Muhlenberg and Franklin & Marshall Colleges.

THADDAEUS BOURNE , baritone

Thaddaeus Bourne currently maintains an active performing schedule, having sung over forty roles in the US and abroad. Praised for his rich baritone, appearances include Fauré’s Requiem, Bach’s Cantata BWV 86, Mozart’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy, and Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, as well as recitals and masterclasses with the Longy School of Music at Bard College, the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam, and EIU Concert Series at the National Opera Center. An accomplished flutist, Dr. Bourne completed undergraduate and graduate degrees in flute performance embarking on his DMA in voice after training as a singer to improve his breath support. His dissertation focused on Zwischen voices and vocal faults that impact voice classification and was presented this summer at the National Association of Teachers of Singing. Dr. Bourne is on the faculty of the University of Florida.

BACH VOCAL ARTISTS

BRIAN MING CHU, baritone

Hailed by the Washington Post for his “rich, authoritative tone” and “range, agility, and expressive storytelling ability”(Monterey Herald), Brian Ming Chu has established himself onstage and in recital as a dynamic interpreter of music of the Baroque to the 21st century. An oratorio soloist with the Bethlehem Bach Choir, Brandywine Baroque, the Dryden Ensemble, The King’s Noyse, Piffaro, Portland Baroque, and the Washington Bach Consort, he has performed the title role of Mendelssohn’s Elijah, the Bach Passions, Haydn’s Creation, the Brahms, Mozart and Verdi Requiems, and Handel’s Messiah on three continents. Additional credits include Orff’s Carmina Burana, Finzi’s In terra pax, Vaughan Williams’ Dona nobis pacem, and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. On the operatic stage, he has performed with opera companies around the country, in signature roles including Marcello (La Bohème), the Count in Le nozze di Figaro, and Figaro (The Barber of Seville). Recent engagements include the title role of Anton Rubinstein's opera, The Demon, Mahler’s songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, and Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 with the Choral Arts Society of Washington at the Kennedy Center. A dedicated teacher and advocate for contemporary art song, Mr. Chu has been cited for “vocal and interpretive confidence” (Philadelphia Inquirer) with the ensemble Network for New Music, collaborating with composers such as Aaron Jay Kernis, Lori Laitman, Daniel Asia, and Steven Stucky. He has appeared in recital at Carnegie’s Weill and Merkin Halls in New York, Washington's Phillips Collection, and as a US Embassy Cultural Mr. Chu did his graduate studies at the Peabody Conservatory, and has a bachelor’s in architecture from Cornell University. He has served on the voice faculty of Muhlenberg College (PA) for 18 years.

DANN COAKWELL , tenor

Dann Coakwell has been praised as a “clear-voiced and eloquent … vivid storyteller” (The New York Times) and frequently performs the Bach’s major oratorios, including St. Matthew Passion, St. John Passion, Christmas Oratorio, and Mass in B minor. He can be heard on numerous Grammy-nominated and-winning recordings, such as Conspirare: A Company of Voices. Internationally, he has performed under Helmuth Rilling, Masaaki Suzuki, Nicholas McGegan, and Matthew Halls. His repertoire includes prominent works by Rameau, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Beethoven. Dr. Coakwell holds an Artist Diploma from the Yale School of Music/Institute of Sacred Music, a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Texas at Austin, and masters and doctorate degrees from Texas Tech University. Dr. Coakwell serves on the Ithaca College voice faculty.

BACH VOCAL ARTISTS

AMANDA CRIDER , mezzo-soprano

Amanda Crider has been recognized for her “superbly clear diction and warmly burnished timbre” (South Florida Classical Review). As a busy soloist and recitalist, Crider has appeared regularly with Seraphic Fire, Apollo’s Fire, the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park, the International Contemporary Ensemble, and the Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival. She made her Carnegie Hall debut in the fall of 2007 in Handel’s Messiah and returned the following season for Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass. She has performed in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, B minor Mass, Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, Mozart’s Requiem and Mass in C minor, Britten’s Phaedra, Bach’s St. John Passion, Bernstein’s Jeremiah Symphony, and Ravel’s Chansons Madécasses, and has been a featured recitalist on the Trinity Church Concerts at One Series and with Five Boroughs Music Festival. Ms. Crider is a grant recipient from the Pittsburgh Concert Society and the Oratorio Society of New York Vocal Competition. Crider is the Founder and Artistic Director of Miami’s Art Song concert series,

BRAD DIAMOND , tenor

Brad Diamond, known for his musicianship and style, has an active professional career in the United States and Canada, appearing regularly with Seraphic Fire and the Santa Fe Chorale. A specialist in oratorio repertoire, he has sung the Evangelist role in Bach’s St. John Passion and St. Matthew Passion with the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park and Trinity Wall Street. Dr. Diamond completed his Bachelor of Music degree from Westminster Choir College and received his master’s and doctorate degrees from the University of Cincinnati’s College Conservatory of Music. While attending Westminster, he soloed under the baton of the late Leonard Bernstein. Dr. Diamond, whose recording discography includes multiple Grammy nominations, is a Professor of Voice and Vocal Pedagogy at Samford University.

MEG DUDLEY, soprano

Hailed for her “full-toned soprano,” Meg Dudley has established herself as a versatile vocal artist in a variety of genres. She is a featured soloist with Trinity Wall Street, the Berkshire Bach Society, Paul Taylor Dance Company, Manhattan Concert, St. George Choral Society, and the renowned Bach Vespers series at Holy Trinity. Ms. Dudley’s recent solo appearances include Debussy’s Nocturnes with the Boston Symphony Orchestra; Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass with the New York City Chamber Orchestra in Carnegie Hall; Poulenc’s Gloria with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s; Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the Hudson Valley Singers; and Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the Lamont Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Dudley sings regularly with renowned vocal ensembles, including the Lorelei Ensemble, the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, New York Polyphony, the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Oregon Bach Festival, New York Virtuoso Singers, New York Choral Artists, Bard Festival Singers, Manhattan Chorale, and the Collegiate Chorale.

BACH VOCAL ARTISTS

ANNA ESCHBACH , soprano

Highly sought-after as a performer and private voice instructor in Central Florida, Anna Eschbach earned her bachelor’s degree in vocal performance from Appalachian State University and a master’s degree in vocal performance from the University of Tennessee. Born and raised in Orlando, Ms. Eschbach has performed with numerous companies throughout Florida, including the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park, Opera Orlando, the Brevard Symphony Orchestra, and the Orlando Philharmonic. Known for her performance in oratorio, guest solo appearances include Saint-Saens’ Oratorio de Noel, Mozart’s Vesperae Solennes, Poulenc’s Gloria, Rutter’s Gloria and Magnificat, and Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony, as well as Orff’s Carmina Burana. Ms. Eschbach has toured internationally in Switzerland, the UK, and Kenya. Since moving back to Orlando in 2013, Ms. Eschbach has maintained a thriving private voice studio in the Orlando area, serves on the voice faculty at Rollins College, and performs full time with the Basilica Choir of Mary, Queen of the Universe.

BRIAN GIEBLER , tenor

Praised for his “lovely tone and deep expressivity” (New York Times) Brian earned his first Grammy Award nomination for Best Classical Solo Vocal with his debut album a lad’s love in 2020. He has appeared with Music at Trinity Wall Street (Bach’s St. Mathew Passion), Apollo’s Fire, Santa Fe Pro Musica (Haydn’s Creation), and the Oratorio Society of NY (Bach’s Mass in B minor) at Carnegie Hall. He has performed Stravinsky with the Cleveland Orchestra under Franz Welser-Möst; Mozart at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center; Bach cantatas with the Handel & Haydn Society; Musica Sacra (Handel’s Messiah); and made his debut with Boston Early Music Festival in Germany singing in Charpentier’s and de Lalande’s Les Fontaines

JOHN GRAU , tenor

John Grau, a specialist of oratorio and opera from the Baroque to 20th-century music, has performed at the Boston Early Music Festival, the Ravinia Music Festival, the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park, the Boulder Bach Festival, the Colorado Bach Ensemble and Oratory Bach in Minneapolis, Minnesota. John, a strong advocate for contemporary music, received his BA from St. Olaf College, a master’s degree from Northern Arizona University, and his doctorate degree from the University of Minnesota. Having taught at the University of ColoradoBoulder and the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Dr. Grau is currently head of the voice division at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, and appears with many professional vocal ensembles.

BACH VOCAL ARTISTS

ERIK GUSTAFSON , tenor

Erik Gustafson, tenor, is highly active across the nation as an oratorio soloist and choral artist. A native of Portland, OR he received his education from Arizona State University, and currently resides in Sewanee, TN, where he is a voice instructor at Sewanee: The University of the South. Previously, he worked as a voice instructor at Fort Lewis College in Durango, CO.

Erik has collaborated on two Grammy-winning recordings with the Phoenix Chorale, as well as albums with Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Bach Collegium San Diego, Conspirare (Austin, TX), True Concord Voices and Orchestra (Tucson, AZ), Spire Chamber Ensemble (Kansas City, MO), and Sounding Light (Detroit, MI). He also currently performs with acclaimed ensembles such as Seraphic Fire (Miami, FL), Skylark Vocal Ensemble (Boston, MA), Brevitas (Salt Lake City, UT) and Kinnara (Atlanta, GA). He was a founding member of the ensembles Quadrivium (Durango, CO) and Helios (Phoenix, AZ). While living in New York City, Erik performed with the American Symphony Orchestra and the Collegiate Chorale in venues such as Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall.

As a soloist, Erik has performed with the Oregon Bach Festival, the Phoenix Symphony, Tucson Symphony, Idaho Falls Symphony, the renowned Bach Vespers series at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in New York City, Colorado Bach Ensemble, the Delaware Valley Chorale, Abendmusik (Lincoln, NE), Phoenix Opera, Bach Society Houston, West Valley Chorale (Sun City, AZ), and the Arizona Bach Festival.

BRANDON HENDRICKSON , baritone

As a performer on the concert stage, Brandon is hailed for his “mellifluous,” and “beautiful baritone.” His credits include performances at Carnegie Hall, the Piccolo Spoleto Music Festival, the Canterbury Choral Society, the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park, and the American Festival Chorus. Recently he has performed Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, Mozart’s Requiem, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, Duruflé’s Requiem, and Mahler’s 8th Symphony. An active recitalist, Hendrickson has been invited to perform in Italy, Malaysia, Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and throughout the United States. Hendrickson was in the Emmy Award Winning Production of Benjamin Britten’s Billy Budd and the American Prize in Musical Theater First Place Prize Winning production of Titanic: The Musical. Dr. Hendrickson was the recipient of an SEC Travel Grant for master classes and a recital titled “I Was There,” at the University of South Carolina. Currently, Dr. Hendrickson is an Assistant Professor of Voice at Louisiana State University.

BACH VOCAL ARTISTS

MARY JANE KNIGHT, mezzo-soprano

Considered a “renaissance woman of music,” Mary Jane Knight is noted for her warm, rich vocal tone, versatile style, soulful connection, and magnetic stage presence. As a concert soloist, she has sung with the Memphis Symphony in Bach’s B Minor Mass as well as Jennifer Higdon’s Ruminations, featured on a PBS special Articulate, and a live film score showing of Joan of Arc with the composer George Sarah. Other major works include Bach’s Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, Britten’s Ceremony of Carols, Handel’s Messiah, and a performance of Haydn’s Harmonie Messe at Carnegie Hall. A talented and diverse musician, Mary Jane is an opera and musical theater performer, director, choral conductor, pianist, organist, and a graduate of Simpson College (BM) and the University of Nebraska (MM). She currently teaches voice at Kirkwood College and maintains a private voice studio in her historic home in Iowa City.

, tenor

Jos Milton’s vigorous schedule includes a vast array of diverse programs with the Carmel Bach Festival Chorale, and he is a professional chorister with the Grammy Award-winning ensemble, Conspirare. Milton’s debut solo album, Southerly - Art Songs of the American South has garnered critical acclaim “…one of the most enthralling art song releases of the last twenty years” (Journal of Singing). A graduate of Trinity University (BM), the University of Massachusetts (MM), and the Peabody Institute of the John Hopkins University (DMA), he is a respected pedagogue who gives master classes at many universities, has presented his research to College Music Society conferences, and has been published in The journal. He currently serves as Associate Professor of Music at the University of Mississippi, where he teaches studio voice as well as various courses in vocal literature.

STEPHEN MUMBERT, baritone

Quickly gaining attention on the concert and opera stage throughout the United States and England, Stephen was recently praised for being vocally the most promising singer and for possessing an assured and stylish technique at the Aldeburgh Festival in England. Recent performances have included Amahl and the Night Visitors and Mozart’s Requiem with the Dakota Valley Symphony (which was broadcast on Twin Cities Public Television) and several appearances in Handel’s Messiah, including the Oratorio Society of Minneapolis. Mr. Mumbert is active in the Central Florida area as a voice adjunct professor for the Rollins College Department of Music and is a frequent guest soloist with the Messiah Choral Society of Orlando and the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park. Stephen earned his BA from Stetson University, his MM degree at Boston Conservatory at Berklee, and is currently working toward a doctorate at the University of Minnesota.

BACH VOCAL ARTISTS

REBECCA MYERS , soprano

Rebecca Myers, soloist, vocal chamber singer and recording artist specializes in vocal repertoire from the Medieval to scores written especially for her and has gained a reputation for her “timbral clarity and flawless pitch.” This season includes her New World Symphony debut in Carmina Burana, performances with Apollo’s Fire Baroque Orchestra in Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610, the Enlightenment Festival with Seraphic Fire, and performances with Lorelei Ensemble and the Boston Ballet.

Rebecca is a core member of the Crossing, the country’s premiere chamber choir dedicated to new music that include world premieres, commercial recordings, a Grammy-winning award (best choral performance 2018), and many Grammy nominations. Rebecca is co-artistic director and founding member of the genrebending, cutting-edge vocal ensemble, Variant 6, and will join Filament Baroque in a program of recently discovered French Baroque Music from a Ursuline Manuscript in a Louisiana abbey.

MORGAN DAVIS PECKELS , mezzo-soprano

Residing in Florida, Morgan is an educator and concert soloist and is active in many ensembles in Central Florida including the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park, the Messiah Chorale Society, the Orlando Philharmonic, the Space Coast Symphony Orchestra, and Opera Orlando. Most recently she was seen with the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park in Vivaldi’s Juditha Triumphans and Richard Einhorn’s Voices of Light where she was praised for her “hauntingly lamenting tones” and was a soloist in Bach’s B Minor Mass. On the opera stage she was most recently seen in Amahl and the Night Visitors with Opera Orlando and has an extensive background in musical theatre. Morgan earned her bachelor’s degree from Elon University and her MM from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. She is currently on the voice faculty at Rollins College in Winter Park, FL and runs a thriving private studio out of her home in Winter Springs, FL.

JACOB PERRY, tenor

Praised for his “gorgeous and stylish” interpretations of Renaissance and Baroque repertoire, Jacob Perry is a tenor based in the Washington metro area. He has been featured as a soloist with Apollo’s Fire, Les Délices, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Tempesta di Mare, Washington Bach Consort, and the Washington National Cathedral. Deeply immersed in vocal chamber music, Mr. Perry enjoys playing with Les Canards

Chantants, a soloist-ensemble based in Philadelphia of which he is the core tenor, as well as engagements with ensembles such as the Art of Early Keyboard, Cathedra, New Consort, Seraphic Fire, and TENET

Vocal Artists. As Co-Artistic Director of Bridge, a genre-defying vocal collective based in Washington, he draws on his instincts for theatricality and story-telling, as the group explores the connections between early masterpieces and ground-breaking new works. Jacob was the tenor Virginia Best Adams fellow at the 2022 Carmel Bach Festival.

BACH VOCAL ARTISTS

CATHERINE PSARAKIS , soprano

Noted for her “precise and focused coloratura”, Catherine Psarakis has appeared with the Chicago Summer Opera and the New England Conservatory production of Bernstein’s Candide. As an advocate of intimate performance through art song and chamber music, Catherine has performed in NEC’s Liederabend Series and the Boston Art Song Society. Catherine made her oratorio debut in Handel’s Messiah with the Messiah Choral Society in Orlando, FL, conducted by Dr. John Sinclair. She recently performed with the European Orchestral and Choral Association in Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle. She is a recipient of the Presser Award, and she was a first place winner of the Medici International Music Competition, the Toronto Mozart Vocal Competition, the London Classical Music Competition, and the Constantine the Great International Solo Singing Competition. She was a finalist in the Vienna Summer Music Festival Competition and the International Brahms Competition. Catherine received her BA from Rollins College on a full merit scholarship and her MM from the New England Conservatory of Music.

MARGOT ROOD , soprano

Margot Rood performs a wide range of repertoire that includes return appearances with Washington Bach Consort, Handel & Haydn Society, Seraphic Fire, True Concord, and Kinnara Ensemble. Solo appearances include Handel’s Messiah with Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Bach Collegium San Diego. Margot has been featured in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with Edinburgh’s Dunedin Consort, Bach’s Mass in B minor with the Handel and Haydn Society, and Vivaldi’s Gloria with Seraphic Fire. She has recorded with Boston Early Music and Blue Heron, whose recording of Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks Vol. 5 won the Gramophone Award for Early Music. She is a recent recipient of the St. Botolph Club Foundation's Emerging Artist Award for her work in new music as a core member of Boston’s Lorelei Ensemble, an all-female vocal ensemble dedicated to the performance of new music. She made her Carnegie Hall debut in the world premiere of Shawn Jaeger’s Letters Made with Gold. Margot holds performance degrees from the University of Michigan and McGill

CLARA ROTTSOLK , soprano

Clara Rottsolk has been lauded by The New York Times for her “clear, appealing voice and expressive conviction.” With repertoire ranging from the Renaissance to the contemporary, her appearances have taken her across the United States, the Middle East, Japan, and South America. She specializes in historically informed performance practice, singing with ensembles that include American Bach Soloists, Santa Fe Pro Musica, Colorado Bach Ensemble, Trinity Wall Street Choir, and Seraphic Fire. Clara’s Bach repertoire includes his Mass in B minor, St. Matthew Passion, St. John Passion, and the Easter, Ascension, and Christmas Oratorios along with Mozart’s Grand Mass and Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, Vaughan Williams’ Dona nobis pacem, and Richard Einhorn’s Voices of Light. She has performed at the Carmel Bach Festival, Philadelphia Bach Festival, Whidbey Island Music Festival, and Boston Early Music Festival. A native of Seattle, Ms. Rottsolk earned music degrees at Rice University and Westminster Choir College and was awarded recognition for musical excellence by the Metropolitan Opera National Council. Currently she is based in Philadelphia and teaches voice at Swarthmore, Haverford, and Bryn Mawr Colleges.

BACH VOCAL ARTISTS

KUNYA ROWLEY, tenor

Director of Music Access, Arts, and Culture at The Miami Foundation, Kunya Rowley leads focused efforts on bringing access to music for all youth in Miami. Kunya holds a Bachelor of Music from The University of Florida and is an alum of the New World School of the Arts. A 2017 recipient of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s Knight Arts Challenge Grant for his performance series Hued Songs, which explores and celebrates black history through the lens of black music and artists, he serves on the National YoungArts Foundation’s voice program. Prior to joining the Miami Foundation, his experience in overseeing key strategic technologies and marketing and sales initiatives helped develop the skills needed to successfully increase access to the arts.

ANGELA YOUNG SMUCKER , mezzo-soprano

Bringing her “robust, burnished timbre” (Chicago Classical Revue) to the stage, arts administration, and education, Angela has appeared on A Prairie Home Companion and Chicago’s WFMT and WTTW. As a classical singer, Angela has soloed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Oregon Bach Festival, Bach Collegium San Diego, Carmel Bach Festival, Newberry Consort, and Haymarket Opera Company as well as professional vocal ensembles such as Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Conspirare, Seraphic Fire, and VocalEssence Ensemble Singers. Angela serves as executive director at Chicago’s Third Coast Baroque, and along with her co-founders uses 17th- and 18th-century repertoire as a tool to explore 21st-century lives. Angela received her BM from Valparaiso University and MM from the University of Minnesota. At Stetson University and Valparaiso University, she mentors students in developing their vocal technique and the skills needed to be an entrepreneurial artist. Angela is pursuing her doctorate at Northwestern University where she is currently working on a lecturerecital on Vivaldi’s rarely heard opera Orlando furioso

GABRIELA ESTEPHANIE SOL Í S , mezzo-soprano

Noted for her “rich tone” and “seemingly effortless melismatic San Francisco Classical Voice), Gabriela Solís enjoys a varied performance career throughout the US. A committed ensemble musician and concert soloist, she has performed with Seraphic Fire, Border CrosSing, the American Bach Soloists, JSB Ensemble Stuttgart, and the Weimar Bach Cantata Academy. Concert highlights include Bach’s B Minor Mass, Copland’s In the Beginning, Brahms’ Alto Rhapsody, and Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri. She is a frequent soloist with the California Bach Society and Chora Nova in the San Francisco Bay area and has been featured at the Boston Early Music Festival Young Artist Training Program and the Amherst Early Music Festival. Gabriela received her BA from Santa Clara University, magna cum laude, and was recognized by the university for artistic growth and dedication. As a graduate of the Sacred Music Program at the University of Notre Dame, she received the program’s vocal performance award.

BACH VOCAL ARTISTS

STEVEN SOPH , tenor

A “superb vocal soloist” (The Washington Post) with “impressive clarity and color” (The New York Times), tenor Steven Soph performs concert repertoire spanning the Renaissance to modern day. In 2022, Steven debuts with the Seattle, Fort Worth, and Aiken Symphony Orchestras in Handel’s Messiah, with the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, in the Baldwin Wallace University Bach Festival as Evangelist in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, and as a member of Vancouver, B.C.’s The Leonids and Louisville’s Artefact. Steven returns to the Charlotte Bach Festival as Evangelist in Bach’s St. John Passion, to Baltimore Choral Arts to perform and record Anthony Blake Clark’s completion of Mozart’s , to Providence’s Ensemble Altera for their debut recording, to the Oregon Bach Festival St. Matthew Passion Evangelists, and to the Santa Fe Desert Chorale’s Summer Festival. Steven holds degrees from the University of North Texas and Yale School of Music where he studied at Yale’s Institute of Sacred Music with renowned tenor James Taylor.

KYLE STEGALL , tenor

Kyle Stegall has garnered praise around the world for his “lovely tone and ardent expression” (The New York Times). A specialist in music of the baroque, Kyle’s interpretations of Bach, Handel, and Charpentier are characterized by an unfailing attention to style and detail. He made his Lincoln Center debut in Bach's St. John Passion under the direction of the Bach Collegium Japan’s artistic director, Masaaki Suzuki. In demand as a symphonic soloist, his seasons often include the great masses of Mozart and Beethoven. Holding a special relationship with the music of Benjamin Britten, Kyle has twice participated as a fellow at the Aldeburgh Music Festival in Suffolk, England, and each season he curates recitals which reveal vast colors and emotional range. Mr. Stegall is a dedicated teacher of singing and maintains a private studio year-round.

LAURA CHOI STUART, soprano

Hailed as “a lyric soprano of ravishing quality” by the Boston Globe, Laura Choi Stuart appears regularly with the Washington Bach Consort and the Washington Master Chorale in addition to solo appearances with many area ensembles. She was honored for art song performances at the National Association of Teachers Singing Artist Awards and as one of the Art Song Discovery Series winners for the Vocal Arts Society. Solo highlights include Messiah and St. Matthew Passion at the Washington National Cathedral, and Bachianas Brasileiras No. with the New Orchestra of Washington. Laura has appeared with Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Boston, and Annapolis Opera. She received her training at The New England Conservatory and Dartmouth College as well as the Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Program for Singers. Laura is Head of Vocal Studies at the Washington National Cathedral, maintains a private teaching studio, and shares resources for adult recreational choral singers at The Weekly Warm-Up.

BACH VOCAL ARTISTS

PATRICIA THOMPSON , mezzo-soprano

Patricia Thompson is a much sought-after adjudicator and is active as an oratorio specialist, appearing with the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, the Louisville Choral Arts Society, the Masterworks Chorale of New Jersey, the Hale Library Concert Series, and the Bloomington Early Music Festival. A dedicated professional choral artist and a member of the international Carmel Bach Festival and the Spire Chamber Ensemble of Kansas City, she is a founding member of the award-winning Luminous Voices in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. With a special interest in jazz and cabaret singing, she performs regularly with the Thundering Cats Big Band in Manhattan, KS, and in solo cabaret shows at the Manhattan Arts Center. It’s Only Natural, is available on iTunes, Spotify, and other music platforms. Dr. Thompson holds degrees from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music (DM and MM) and St. Olaf College (BM) and is currently an Associate Professor of Music at Kansas State University.

JOSEPH TRUMBO , bass

Joseph Trumbo is a young, upcoming singer hailed for his “smooth, deep voice.” Recent and notable choral work has included performances with the Rockford Music Collaborative, the Illinois Bach Academy as a Young Artist under Dr. Andrew Megill, and as a former member of San Francisco’s elite new music ensemble, Volti. Trumbo received both a BA and BM from Oberlin College & Conservatory and an MM from the University of Illinois, where he was a recipient of the Howard A. Stotler Voice Fellowship. Joseph has been featured in the Mars Symphonic Men’s Choir as part of the Soundiron Olympus Symphonic Choral Collection and has just completed a festival in New York with dell’Arte Opera Ensemble.

JOHN V. SINCLAIR ENDOWMENT FUND FOR ARTISTIC EDUCATION

Established in 2020 in honor of Dr. John V. Sinclair’s 30th anniversary as Artistic Director, this fund will help ensure that future Artistic Directors will have sufficient resources to maintain a level of artistic excellence.

We invite all Bach Festival patrons to join the generous donors listed below to build this important resource. Contact Jane Newnum at JNewnum@BachFestivalFlorida.org for details.

GIFTS AND PLEDGES OF $20,000 AND ABOVE

Cynthia and Alex Mackinnon

The Rev. and Mrs. Eric Ravndal, III

Sally and Jack Schott

The Tiedtke Family

$10,000-$19,999

S. Blair and Diane Murphy

Bill and Sheila Oelfke

Leila Edgerton Trismen

$5,000-$9,999

Kathy Johnson Berlinsky

Brock and Sarah McClane

Gerard and Nichola Mitchell

Bosco R. and Beverly J. Slaughter

$1,000-$4,999

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Brian Ainsley and Candice Crawford

P. Andy and Autumn Ames

John D. Boulden

Michael and Mabel Burridge

Susan and Robert Christian

Dana and Diana Eagles

Alvaro and Routa Gomez

Leyse Lowry

Katie Mess

Janice and George Meyer

Beth and Jack Nagle

Donald A. Nash

Liana and Fred Pacilli

Dan and Barbara Preslar

Bj Price

Ann Morgan Saurman

Vivian Southwell

Edward and Virginia Ubels

BettyJane and Cecil Wilson, M.D.

UNDER $1,000

John Adams

Stewart Anderson

Meg Baldwin

Will and Barby Barbara

Jim Beck

Marianne Franus Beck

Mary Berglund-Bos

Bill and Becky Brown

Marcia and Michael Brown

Tim and Rhonda Burnham

Laurie Calhoun

Paul and Janet Chilcote

Tom Cook and Patricia Simmons

Grant and Peg Cornwell

Alan and Susan Davis

Daniel Flick

Alice and Larry Fortunato

Bill and Joanne Frederick

Elizabeth Gwinn and Michael Galletta

Lee and Diane Hansen

Kathleen Hartung

Sherwood Hawkins and Brenda Higgins

Amanda Kinder

Wendy and Rob Landry

Karen and Mickey Lane

Aaron Lefkowitz

Kay and Gerald Marin

Lora MacPherson

Elizabeth Maupin and Jay Yellen

David Odahowski

Bill and Sherry Orr

Maurice O’Sullivan

Liana and Fred Pacilli

Martin Phillips

Dan and Barbara Preslar

Dr. Mark and Beverly Rich in honor of our favorite conductor

Lisa and David Rosen

Joe Sapora and Carol Ducas

Dr. Daniel and Nancy Sharp

Karyll Shaw

Amanda Shoopman

Diana and Tim Sisley

Brian Solomon

Jessica Hall Speak

Matthew Swope

Jodi Tassos

Charles Thatcher

Jeff and Kathy Thomas

Susan and Michael Tucker

Jeanine Viau

Cezarina and Ray Vintilla

Kathleen Wassum-Hame

Diana Webb and T.J. Trapp

Jane R. White

Patty White

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Whritenour

Gwendolyn and Wilford Williams

The 88th Annual Bach Festival was Dedicated to the Memory of THE REV. ERIC RAVNDAL, III

The Bach Festival Society of Winter Park mourns the passing of The Rev. Eric Ravndal III who served this organization with distinction as President, Chairman of the Board, Trustee Emeritus, honorary Choir member, faithful patron, benefactor, and friend. The trademarks of his two decades of service were his wisdom, leadership, and integrity, but the staff and all the musicians will remember him for his gentle spirit. He exuded kindness and genuine love for the music and all who make it.

We are a better organization and better people for having had Eric among us these many years. To honor him we humbly and thankfully dedicate this, our 88th Festival, to his memory. We believe the Bach Festival’s “best advocate” would hope you are enjoying the program.

We request that you keep Eric’s dear wife Sarah and the entire Ravndal family on your hearts and in your prayers, and join us in celebrating the life and service of this remarkable man.

Eric Ravndal after receiving his Honorary Choir Medal from John Sinclair in 2022

CONTINUO SOCIETY

The Continuo Society recognizes patrons who have chosen to provide for the Bach Festival Society through their estate plans. These thoughtful legacy gifts will help sustain the Society’s mission for many years to come.

For more information about major and planned gift opportunities, please contact Executive Director Kathy Berlinsky at 407.691.1056 or KBerlinsky@BachFestivalFlorida.org

CONTINUO SOCIETY MEMBERS

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John W. and Linda Cone Allen

P. Andrew and Autumn Ames in honor of John M. Tiedtke

M. Elizabeth Brothers*

Dana and Diana Eagles

Paul M. Harmon

Karen and Mickey Lane in memory of Bernice and Stanley Levy

Rob and Wendy Landry

Bonnie B. and Robert M. Larsen

Leyse Lowry in honor of John V. Sinclair

Pat McKechnie

Dr. Blair and Diane Murphy

Kenneth* and Ann Hicks Murrah

The Rev.* and Mrs. Eric Ravndal, III

Drs. John and Gail Sinclair

Bosco R. and Beverly J. Slaughter

Dr. Walter Stamm

Heather and David Torre

In honor of John V. Sinclair on his 25th Anniversary

Anonymous (4)

Athalia and Robert Cope

Tim Delcavo

Michael and Aimee Rusinko Kakos

Susan D. Tucker *deceased

The Bach Festival Society of Winter Park is delighted to announce

THE ELIZABETH AND JOHN NAGLE ENDOWMENT FOR BASS SOLOISTS IN HONOR OF BASS-BARITONE KEVIN DEAS

Long-time Bach Festival Choir members Beth and Jack Nagle understand the enormous contribution a world-class soloist brings to a choral work and have established an endowment to help ensure that the Bach Festival Society will always have the resources to engage the very best talent. Income from the endowment will be used for the financial support of bass soloists singing with the Bach Festival Society. The Nagles have chosen to name their endowment in honor of bass-baritone Kevin Deas, who is featured in this afternoon’s performance of Verdi’s Requiem

“We have had the joy and privilege of singing with Kevin with the Bach Festival Choir and the Berkshire Choral Institute for over 25 years. We so admire his wonderful voice, hard work and kind heart, and are so pleased to honor and immortalize him through this gift!”

2022–2023 SEASON DONORS

The Bach Festival Society of Winter Park would like to thank the individuals and community partners below who have generously made a pledge or contribution in support of the dynamic artistic and educational programming and community engagement for the 88th Season.

BACH FESTIVAL SOCIETY VISIONARIES

$100,000 AND ABOVE

Bach Festival Choir

Orange County Government through the Arts and Cultural Affairs Program

State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Arts and Culture and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture

Beth and Jack Nagle

Rollins College

United Arts of Central Florida

J. S. BACH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL

$50,000 - $99,999

Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation

CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE

$25,000 - $49,999

Jessie Ball duPont Fund

Mr. Alex and The Hon. Cynthia Mackinnon

Richard Russell and Thomas Ouellette

Winifred J. Sharp

Templeton World Charity Foundation

Leila Edgerton Trismen

COMPOSERS CIRCLE

$15,000 - $24,999

Edyth Bush Charitable Foundation

John V. Frank

The Joe and Sarah Galloway Foundation

Ginsburg Family Foundation

Thomas P. and Patricia A. O'Donnell Foundation

Massey Services Inc.

Borron and Beppy Owen

Anonymous in honor of John Sinclair

Wayne and Robin Roberts

Sally and Jack Schott

The Tiedtke Family

Winifred Johnson

Clive Foundation

City of Winter Park

SAINT CECILIA CIRCLE

$10,000 - $14,999

Michael and Aimee Kakos

Bonnie B. and Robert M. Larsen

Chesley G. Magruder Foundation

Charles Hosmer Morse Foundation

Bosco R. and Beverly J. Slaughter

John Templeton Foundation

Welsh Charitable Trust

CHORAL CIRCLE

$7,500 - $9,999

The Rev. Eric and Sarah Ravndal III in honor of Dr. John Sinclair

PATRON’S CIRCLE

$5,000 - $7,499

Anonymous

Kathy Johnson Berlinsky

Nicki and Jeff Bromme

Charity Challenge, Inc.

Dana and Diana Eagles

Festival of Orchestras Endowment

Kathryn Grammer

Sheryl Kerr

Beverly M. King

Andrea and Philip Kobrin

Jeanette G. Leinbach

Bj Price

Kelly Price and Doug Sealey

George and Eleanor Taylor

Drs. John and Gail Sinclair

Dr. Joe and Sue Warren

Marchetta Tate Wood

ARTISTIC CIRCLE

$2,500 - $4,999

Anonymous

David and Judy Albertson

John W. and Linda Cone Allen

Andy and Autumn Ames, in honor of Alex and Deanna

Tiedtke's Wedding

Mr. And Mrs. P. Andy and Autumn Ames, In Memory of John M. Tiedtke

Ellen Arnold

Jay H. Berlinsky

M. Elizabeth Brothers

Leon and Larissa Glebov

Allan and Linda Keen in honor of Alex and Deanna

TIedtke's Wedding

Karen and Mickey Lane in memory of Jean Murphy

Karen and Mickey Lane in memory of Estera Toaxen

Karen and Mickey Lane

David R. Mattson

The Mayflower Retirement Center, Inc.

Ann Saurman

Joel H. Sharp, Jr.

Dr. Tracy Truchelut and Mr. Robert A. White

The Wideman Family in honor of Alex and Deanna Tiedtke's Wedding

THANK YOU

BENEFACTORS

$1,000 - $2,499

Anonymous (4)

Keith and Eleanor Ackermann

Tim and Sue Antonition

Richard Baldwin

Dr. Rita Bornstein

John D. Boulden

John D. Boulden in honor of Murray Forbes Somerville

Tim and Rhonda Burnham

Michael and Mabel Burridge

Tom and Kathy Cardwell

David Caudle and Gil Villalobos

Butch and Renee Charlan

O'Ann and Pat Christiansen

Robert and Athalia Cope

Alan and Susan Davis

Dr. Patsy Duphorne

Lee and Carolyn Eubank

Susan and Randolph Fields

Dr. and Mrs. Robert G. Flick

Barbara and Richard Fulton

Linda Modrak and Bill Gallo

Freddi and Jim Goodrich

David and Jackie Green, Green

Appraisal Group, Inc.

Mrs. Janice Granier Gruber

Anonymous in memory of Clifford and Marilyn Lee

Paul M. Harmon

Jack and Annis Bowen Foundation

Lars and Julie Houmann

Dr. Mimi Hull

Allen and Dana Irwin

Allen and Dana Irwin in honor of Dr. John Sinclair

Patrick J. Knipe

Ann Kurth in memory of Sylvia Kurth

Susan C. Lackman

Rob and Wendy Landry

The Lee Foundation

Leyse Lowry

Edward Manning

Jody and Craig Maughan

Elizabeth Maupin and Jay Yellen

Dr. Margaret McMillen

Jeff and Mindy Moore

Gary and Eileen Morgenthaler in honor of Alex and Deanna Tiedtke's Wedding

Jan Moss

John Niss and Lisa Mouton

William and Sheila Oelfke

Leslie King O’Neal

Dr. F. Robert and Norene Rolle

Joan Ruffier and Edward Manning

Joe Sapora and Carol Ducas

Jim and Pat Schroeder

Sara and Bill Segal

Dr. Karyll N. Shaw

Karyll Shaw in honor of Charlie and Noreen Shaw

Sidhu Family

Diana Sisley

Fred Lyndon Stone

John and Beatriz Struck

Jodi Tassos

Jodi Tassos in memory of John Tassos

Kathryn Chicone Ustler

Dr. Nancy van den Berg

Lee and Judy Van Valkenburgh

Hardy Vaughn and Betty Brady

Harold and Libby Ward

Michael and Kimberly Weathers

BettyJane and Cecil Wilson, MD

Armand and Alison Zilioli

FRIENDS

$500 - $999

Anonymous (6)

Jocelyn Amalong Oehmler

George and Leslie Andreae

David B. Baer

Donald and Rhonda Bartlett in honor of Alex and Deanna

Tiedtke's Wedding

Donald and Carol Beyer in memory of Dr. Don Beyer

Carolyn Blice

Diane G Boswell in honor of Alex and Deanna Tiedtke's Wedding

Lawrence D. Brown, M.D.

Guy and Donna Colado

Drs. Gary and Gloria Cook

Thomas Cook and Patricia Simmons

Raphael Arenas Fernandez and Family

The Honorable and Mrs. William Frederick

Alvaro and Routa Gomez

Debra Brown Hagan

Wallace H. Hall

The Mark and Lori Harris

Charitable Fund

Allison and Peter Hosbein

Nigel John and Heather

Badawi John

Bette Jore

Frank and Etta Jean Juge

Rita Lowndes

Dr. Jim Madison

Sally McHenry

Edward Meyer

Susan Miller

Lois H. Mills

Cecil and Carol Moore

D'Arcy Murphy

D'Arcy Murphy in memory of Charles E. Murphy, Natalie Murphy and Patricia Murphy

Donald A. Nash in memory of Marie D. Nash

Jane Secrist Newnum

Jane Secrist Newnum in honor of Ruby Abreu and Stephanie Rivera

Dr. and Mrs. James F. Niss

Deede Sharpe and John Parker

Gregory and Barbara Phillips

Dr. Daniel and Lesley

Podberesky

Dan and Barbara Preslar

Joy Roney

Frank Rynd

Dr. Richard Sandler

George and Joan Schiele

Taylor Sinclair

Keith McIntyre and Richard J. Skaggs

Dale Smith

Joan and Harry Travis

Donna and Keith Van Allen

Paul and Madeleine Vilmos

Frank and Karell Voelkl in honor of Alex and Deanna

Tiedtke's Wedding

Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence T. Wagers

William Walker, In honor of Peter Schreyer, Crealde's Executive Director

Katy Moss Warner

Diana Webb in memory of Sylvia Kurth

Diana Webb in memory of Dr. Donald Beyer

Diana Webb and Dr. T.J. Trapp

Craig and Jeanne Weeks

Bruce A Whisler

Gwendolyn B. and Wilford J. Williams

Mike and Gartrelle Wilson

SUPPORTERS

$250 - $499

Anonymous (2)

Judy Alper

Phil and Jennifer Anderson

Billy Aylward

Cecelia Bonifay

Claudia Breese

Kimberly and Charles T. Brumback, Jr.

Dale and Patricia Burket

Minter LN Byrd in honor of Alex and Deanna Tiedtke's Wedding

Nancy Constant Grant and Peg Cornwell

Margaret W. Cruickshank

Howard Davis

Michael Dively

Carrie Duvall

Katrina and Ray Eaton

Mary Anne Elwood

Endean Fund - Mr. Jeffrey Endean and Dr. Myrna Endean

Candice Turner Erick

Daniel Flick

Christina and Brad Gant

Penny S. Gilman

Stan and Regunia Griggs

Gregg Gronlund Family

Marty and Mike Haddad

Debbie and Larry Halye

Amine and Paula Harb in honor of Alex and Deanna

Tiedtke's Wedding

John and Marianna Hawkins in honor of Alex and Deanna

Tiedtke's Wedding

Patricia Higginbotham

Marc Himel

Dr. and Mrs. G. Wyckliffe

Hoffler

Rebecca Hull, In Memory of Norman L. Hull, Esquire, Awesome Dad!

Silvia S. Ibanez

Beth and Jack Isler

Toni Jennings

Kyle, Pat, and Mason Kanny in honor of Alex and Deanna

Tiedtke's Wedding

Kenneth and Ann Murrah

Hicks Endowment

Carol Klim

Paul and Nola Knouse in honor of Dr. John V. Sinclair

Paul and Nola Knouse

Yen-Yen Kressel

John and Ku

Dr. Mubarak Shah and Ms. Becky Lee

Gerald and Kay Marin

Carol McKelvey

Walter and Carol McKelvey

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Minderman

Ann Hicks Murrah

Mark Nevins in honor of Alex and Deanna Tiedtke's Wedding

Perry and Jane Nies

Liana and Frederick Pacilli

Nancy F. Peed

Martin Phillips

Roger D. and Rosalind Ray

Magdalena and Clemens in honor of Alex and Deanna

Tiedtke's Wedding

Bradley Roberts

Dr. Ante Rudez and Giulia Rudez

M.J. Schmid in memory of Dr. Don Beyer

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Sichler III

Tyler Simonton in memory of Susie Stone

Vivian Southwell in memory of Sylvia Kurth and Dr. Donald Beyer

Jeffrey T. Spoeri

Rene Stutzman

Jackie and Rod Sward

Dr. and Mrs. James Talcott in honor of Alex and Deanna

Tiedtke's Wedding

Amie H. Tishkoff

Beatriz Truax

Susan and Michael Tucker in memory of Dr. Donald Beyer

Susan and Michael Tucker

Barbara L. Turner

Rebecca Hull and Jeremy Udell

Drs. Jeanine Viau and Ann Gleig

THANK YOU

Cezarina and Ray Vintilla in honor of Stela and Dumitru Toaxen

Kenneth Ward

Jane R. White

William C. Schwartz Fund

Art and Louise Yergey Legacy Charitable Fund

CONTRIBUTORS

$100 - $249

Anonymous (14)

Anonymous in honor of Tim Delcavo

Rossana Abate in honor of Alex and Deanna Tiedtke's Wedding

Ruby Abreu in honor of Miguel Abreu

Millicent Adams and Michael Anthony

Giovanna Adimari in memory of Daniel B. Leonard

David Aiken

Stewart Anderson

Meg Baldwin

Mary D. Balk

Mr. and Mrs. Will and Barby Barbara

Beverly and Wayne Bargren

Jim D. Beck

Jerry Janesick and Cheryl Bollinger

Bill and Becky Brown

Brenda Bullock-Paget in memory of Tom T. Cole

Susan J. Burdette

Leslie Ann Chiarello

Anne Claiborne

Ellie Clark

Carolyn G. Coleman

Martin and Susan Collins

Francis and Giselle Conway

Terry and Paul Creighton

George Dappert and Judy Wixted

Edward and Janet Davenport

Katie and Ari in honor of Alex and Deanna Tiedtke's Wedding

Janet de Guehery

Jason Dewrell in honor of Alex and Deanna Tiedtke's Wedding

Dante Duphorne

Sharon K. Dwyer in memory of George and Marie Kramer

Sharon K. Dwyer

Hoyt and Charlene Edge

Marjorie and Harold Emmert

Mary Frances Emmons and Roger Roy

John and Nancy Engle

Elizabeth and Philip Eschbach

Carolyn M. Fennell

Anonymous

Deirdre and Shayne Floyd in memory of Dr. Donald Beyer

Larry and Alice Fortunato

Nicole Fournier

Elicia Garcia

Betsy Gardner Eckbert

Gary L. Geipel

Gail Graham

Mike and Ceil Graham

Katherine and Justin Green in honor of Alex and Deanna

Tiedtke's Wedding

Dr. Scott Greenwood and Dr. Pamela Freeman

Ben and Nancy Grzeslk

Donald and Mary Pat Guske in memory of Dr. Donald Beyer

Lawrie Platt Hall

Mr. and Mrs. John Hallenbeck

James and Nancy Hannah

Kathryn Harbaugh

Barbara Hillerman Lieske

Elizabeth Hyden

Mrs. Patricia E. Jenkins

Ann Johnson

Leslie and Sondra Jones

Sandy Jordan

William Jordan

Donna and Ed Kania

Marc and Henrietta Katzen

Richard and Martha Kessler

Felice Koscinski

Ms. Phyllis Lachman

Lancaster Family Fund

Aaron Lefkowitz

Chad LeMeur in honor of Alex and Deanna Tiedtke's Wedding

Dr. Michael and Diane Levine

Nancy P. Lewis

M.J. Lowitz

Chris Ludemann-Davis in honor of Alex and Deanna

Tiedtke's Wedding

Elisabeth J Luke

Dr. Ken and Mrs. Trisha

Margeson

Paul Massimiano

Carolyn Maue

Justin McGill

Drs. Bill and Neva Meek

Friend of the Bach Festival Choir

Congressman John L. Mica

Carolyn Minear

Karen Morin in honor of Dan and Nancy Sharp

Joseph Mundy

J. Michael Murphy

Augustus Myers in honor of Alex and Deanna Tiedtke's Wedding

Linda Naughtin

Roxanne Niles

Luke M. Noles

Thomas O’Meara

Dr. Mary Palmer

The Mary Palmer Family Foundation

M. Carmela Pantano in memory of Dr. Donald Beyer

Jolene and Justin Patrou

Oliver and Kim Peters

Dr. Calvin and Pamela Peters

Edwin and Susan Peterson

Rose E. Quinlan in memory of Dr. Donald Beyer

David Rea

Tom and Cathy Regan

Shyla Reich in honor of David Albertson

Peter Riddleberger in memory of Philip Springer

Dr. Arnetta Rodgers in honor of Rev. Katrina Jenkins

Dr. Arnetta Rodgers

Holly Rogers

Dr. Mark and Leslie Sand

Jane and Bruce Scamehorn

Denise Schabacker Barnes

Paul Schmalzer

Nancy Seaman in loving memory of Hod Seaman

Seminole Spokes, Inc.

Arthur Shevchenko

William and Dorothy Silverman

Susan Slemons

Judith Smelser

Celnah Smith in memory of my husband Leon Smith

Dennis Sobeck

Sue and Allan Solomon

Scott and Nancy Stegall in honor of Alex and Deanna

Tiedtke's Wedding

Dawn and George Sumrall

Vernon Swartsel

Patricia Torbert in memory of her husband Duke Torbert

Connie Trama in loving memory of Dr. Donald Beyer

Tamara Trimble

Edward and Virginia Ubels

Ben and Nicole Vallowe in honor of Alex and Deanna Tiedtke's Wedding

Tye Van Buren

Kim van Nymegen

Carrie and Kevin Wendelburg

Susan Whritenour

Laura M. Woodbury

Meredith Woodend

Clark and Emily Woodsby in honor of Alex and Deanna

Tiedtke's Wedding

Nicholas Yarnold

Ruth Young and Donald Rice

Mary Lou Zobel

*Donors recognized for their gifts and pledges received in support of the 2022–2023 Season prior to publication date of this program guide. We apologize for any errors or omissions.

UNITED ARTS DONORS

Collaborative Campaign for the Arts & United Arts of Central Florida Donors

United Arts of Central Florida is your arts agency uniting the community and fueling the arts. With the help of individual donors, corporations, foundations and public funding, United Arts inspires creativity, builds community and strengthens the economy in Central Florida. United Arts is proud to facilitate arts education programs for all ages and provide critical funding and comprehensive marketing for local art, science, and history organizations and individual artists. Leading one of the largest collaborative fundraising campaigns in the country and uniting the regions cornerstone arts and cultural organizations, United Arts is dedicated to ensuring the arts are for all. United Arts is deeply grateful to its donors and community partners for their investment in and support of Central Florida’s creative community and the enormous impact it has on our lives every day.

The following contributions were made to United Arts or the 2022 Collaborative Campaign for the Arts between July 1, 2021 – June 30, 2022.

www.UnitedArts.cc | 407.628.0333

Corporate and Government Donors

$100,000+ City of Orlando and Employees

Darden Restaurants, Inc. and the Darden Restaurants Foundation

Dr. Phillips Charities

Duke Energy and Duke Energy Foundation and Employees

Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation Inc.

The Massey Services Family and Team Members

National Endowment for the Arts

Orange County, Florida and Employees

Orange County Public Schools

University of Central Florida

Walt Disney World Resort and The Walt Disney Company Foundation

$50,000 – $99,999

Friends of the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra

Florida Department of State

$25,000 – $49,999

Bank of America

City of Winter Park

Edyth Bush

Charitable Foundation

Florida Blue

Frontline Insurance

Orlando Magic

$10,000 – $24,999

Arts Bridge Charity, Inc.

The Ballet Academy of Central Florida Charity Challenge, Inc.

Donors of the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts

Greater Orlando Aviation Authority

John Willis Law Firm

Lake County, Florida

Lowndes

OUC-The Reliable One and Employees

Universal Orlando Foundation

Window World

$7,500 - $9,999

ABC Fine Wine & Spirits

KPMG, LLP and Employees

Team Ten 4 Kids, Inc.

$5,000 - $7,499

Crystal Photonics, Inc.

Ernst & Young LLP

Fairwinds Credit Union Employees

Get Off the Bus, LLC

Guignard Company

In Memory of Shellie-Ann

M. Braswell

Orlando Health

Tampa-Orlando-Pinellas Jewish Foundation, Inc.

Upshot

$2,500 - $4,999

77 Trust Me Brand

Dean Mead Employees

Different Perspective

Eric Horner Interiors, Inc.

F/X Group

IATSE Local 631

Kidsville Pediatrics

MSL CPAs & Advisors

NFTorium, LLC

Orange County Arts & Cultural Affairs

RB Advisory LLC

Santa Monica Travel & Tourism

UCF College of Arts and Humanities

United Arts of Central

Florida Employees

Wayne Dictor / Dictor Financial LLC

Winter Park Publishing Company LLC

UNITED ARTS DONORS

Corporate and Government Donors (cont.)

$1,000 - $2,499

Akerman LLP

AmFund

The Balmoral Group, LLC

Charities Aid Foundation of America

The Earl and Bettie Fields Automotive Group Foundation, Inc.

G R Bridges Jewelry

$100,000+

Anonymous

Hubbard Construction Company

The Joelson Foundation

MatWorkz Pilates Studio

Nulman Mediation Services

Orchid Medical

Orlando Science Center Employees

Pineloch Management Corporation

Seay Business Solutions, LLC

Spraker West Wealth Management Inc

Urban on Plant Kitchen & Bar

Valencia College Foundation

Westminster Winter Park

The Woman’s Club of Winter Park

Individual and Family Foundation Donors

Dr. Joe and Sue Warren

John and Lisa Westlake

Fred and Jeanie Raffa

Shyla G. Reich

J. Laurence and Susan K. Costin

Ginsburg Family Foundation

The Mary Palmer Family Foundation

$50,000 - $99,999

Anonymous

The Basel-Kiene Family

John and Lee Benz

Dick and Betsy DeVos Family Foundation

Frank J. Doherty

Robert and Melissa Kohn

Harold and Rosy Mills

Frank Santos

Mr. and Mrs. Bob Yarmuth

$25,000 - $49,999

Anonymous

David and Judy Albertson

Jim and Barbara Caldwell

Tom and Kathy Cardwell

Dr. Stephen F. Heller

Lawrence Kellogg

Andrea and Philip Kobrin

Rita Lowndes

Mr. Alex and The Hon.

Cynthia Mackinnon

Dr. Ken and Mrs. Trisha

Margeson

Wayne and Robin Roberts

John and Audrey Ruggieri

Richard Russell and Thomas

Ouellette

Jim and Valeria Shapiro and The J & V Shapiro Family Fund at the Central Florida Foundation

Chuck and Margery

Pabst Steinmetz

Elaine Berol Taylor & Scott

Bevan Taylor Foundation

The Tiedtke Family

Gail and Michael Winn

Larry and Laura Zirbel

$10,000 - $24,999

Anonymous

Keith and Eleanor Ackermann

John W. and Linda Cone Allen

Colonel Christian J. Becht and Mrs. Elizabeth M. Becht

Joe and Carol Bert

Caroline Blydenburgh

Susan K. Bright and Lawrence W. Stevenson

M. Elizabeth Brothers

Chicone Family Foundation

Hillary and Jay Cohen

Valerie and Paul Collins

Elizabeth Nerius Conklin

Judy Duda

Andrea Eliscu

Jeff and June Flowers Giving Fund

Marilyn S. Goldman

Stephen H. Goldman

Charitable Foundation

Freddi and Jim Goodrich

Sheila Greenspoon

Bea Hoelle-Hawes

Sonya C. Hough

Mary F. Kelsh

Pat and Audrey Knipe

Dr. Mitch and Swantje Levin

Melody and Brendan Lynch

David and Eydie MacInnis

McIntyre and Skaggs

Charitable Trust

The Melrose FoundationGrant Gribble

Jeff and Mindy Moore

Whitney Morse

William and Kyra Muntan

Laurie Nicoletti

Paul Oppedisano

Maria Ruiz-Hays

Dr. Rick Schell and Mr. Scott Joseph

Sally and Jack Schott

Ann and Charles Simpson

Bosco R. and Beverly J. Slaughter

Diane and Robert Smedley

Ellen and Simon Snyder

Daisy and Jan Staniszkis

Rebecca and Blaine Sweatt

Marilyn Terborg

Kathryn Chicone Ustler

Hardy Vaughn and Betty Brady

Lance and Patricia Walker

Leslie Warrington Bailey

Alan Whittaker

Lori Pearson Wise and Daniel Wise

Wisne Charitable Foundation

Gary W. Young

$7,500 - $9,999

Anonymous

Debbie and Larry Cappleman

Brian Carwile

Dr. Chris Crotty and Ms. Janie Brownlee

Dykes and Lisa Simonton Everett

Barbara and Richard Fulton

Mrs. Janice Granier Gruber

Marc and Henrietta Katzen

Francille MacFarland MD

Larry Gutter and Debbie Meitin

Steven and Kathleen Miller

Blair and Diane Murphy

Rosemary O’Shea

The Rev. Eric and Sarah Ravndal III in honor of Dr. John Sinclair

Geanne and Adrian Share

UNITED ARTS DONORS

Individual and Family Foundation Donors (cont.)

$5,000 - $7,499

Anonymous

Lindsay and Dan Abt

The Bob Allen Family Foundation

John and Catherine Amein

Carlos Asse

Miguel Asse

Jim and Elli AtchisonAtchison Family Fund

Margaret Atkins

Sally Blackmun and Michael Elsberry

Kirt and Cheryl Bocox

Nicki and Jeff Bromme

Bettina Buckley

Drs. Lynn Le and Wei-Shen Chin

Francie and Wayne Dear

Susan M. DeNardis

Kristy Doyle and Bob Turner

Duane Duncan

Linda Ferrone

Susan and Randolph Fields

Sarah B. Flynn

Lillian Garcia

Dr. Matt Gay

Drs. Lloyd and Pamela Gillet

Bruce Gould

Dr. David Gurney

Don and Mary Ann Harrill

Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Herzog

Donna and Bill Hoffman

Elizabeth and Justin Horn

Jacquelyn Hughes

Dr. Diane M. Jacobs

Michael and Aimee Kakos

George A. Kalogridis and Andrew G. Hardy

Cathy Karunaratne in memory of Dr. H. B. Karunaratne

Harry and Marcie Katzen

Skip Kirst and Eric Hogan

John P. Klumph

Dr. Susan Cohn Lackman and Dr. Richard D. Knapp

Gary Lambert and Shawn Hunt

Serein Lambert

William and Barbara Lynch

Jay and Traci Madara

Meghan and Alex Mannella

Jody and Craig Maughan

Suzanne McGuire

The Munro Family

Beth and Jack Nagle

William Newkirk and Cheryl Tschanz Family Foundation

Merlin I. Olson

Mark and Jennifer O’Mara

Borron and Beppy Owen

The Andy Pargh

Endowment Fund

Christina and Gabriel Preisser

Kelly Price and Doug Sealy

Chris Ranck

John and Monica Rivers

John Daniel Ruffier

Dr. Richard Sandler

Marco J. Santoro and Kimberly Dorsett

Philip and Susan Sargent Family

Charitable Fund

Deede Sharpe and John Parker

Paula Shives

Drs. John and Gail Sinclair

Larry Slung

Andrew Snyder and Christopher Nemethy

Bryan and Marjorie Thomas

Phillip Tischer

Joan and Harry Travis

Lee and Lindsey Alley Turvey

Donna and Keith Van Allen

Paul and Madeleine Vilmos

Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence T. Wagers

Waggoner Foundation in memory of Robert Waggoner

Robert and Nancy Wahl

Ann & Bill Wallace Foundation

John Webb

Louise and Richard Weiner

Barbara Weinreich

Bill and Alice Weir

Al and Brea Weiss

Robert B. White and Linda Riley

Teresa Williams

Bickley C. Wilson

Scott H. Wilson

Dr. Vonda Wright and Peter Taglianetti

$2,500 - $4,999

Anonymous

Rita & Jeffrey Adler Foundation

Russell P. Allen

Mr. and Mrs. P. Andy and Autumn Ames, In Memory of John M. Tiedtke

Jennifer and Phil Anderson

George and Leslie Andreae

Susan and Gorden Arkin

Kim Ashby in honor of Bob and Katy Ashby

Aunt Jeanie

Andy and Phyllis Ayoob Fund

David B. Baer

Beth Barnes and John Crocitto

Jay H. Berlinsky

Kathy Johnson Berlinsky

Carol-Lynn and Frank Bevc

John and Diane Bishop

Carolyn Blice

Daniel Patrick Blumberg

Albert and Cheryl Bogdanowitsch

Dr. and Mrs. Gregory N. Boger

Cecelia Bonifay

Regine Bonneau and Elyh Saint-Hilaire

Jill and Dean Bosco

Sara R. Brady

Howard Britt

Jane and Roger Cheever

Yan Chen

O’Ann and Pat Christiansen

Bonnie and Van Church - In Loving Memory of Dorothy Martin and Rispa Church

Michael and Jennifer Coleman

Cheryl Collins, CFRE

Carol and Ted Conner

Steve Coon

Kathy K. Cressey

Dan and Jill Croom

Susan M. Curran

Alan and Susan Davis

Drs. Ronald and Nancy Davis

Curt and Carol DiPasqua

Donna Dowless

Michael Dwulit

Dana and Diana Eagles

Jennifer Clark Evins

James Farrell and Andrea Massey-Farrell

George S. Fender in honor of American military forces

Clive Frazier

Dr. and Mrs. Charles W. George

Jane and Charlie Gibbons

Leon and Larissa Glebov

Marcia Goodwin

Matthew Gorney

Kathryn Grammer

Jean Grono-Nowry and Ian Robinson

Dr. and Mrs. H.E. Gross

Barbara Grossman

Debbie and Larry Halye

Roseann Harrington

Jeffrey Hartog

UNITED ARTS DONORS

Individual and Family Foundation Donors (cont.)

Germaine Brugere Haserot Fund

Harvey Heller

Jim Helsinger and Suzanne O’Donnell

Larry Henrichs

Rob and Michael Highfill-Spradlin

Diane and Allan Horowitz

Joseph Robert House

Dr. Mimi Hull

Maen and Michelle Hussein

Mimi Hwang

Steven Igou

Mrs. Patricia E. Jenkins

Patricia A. Johnson

Myron R. Johnston Arts

Endowment Fund

Bette Jore

Frank and Etta Jean Juge

Eliza and Matt Juliano

Eva Krzewinski

Karen and Mickey Lane

Shelley Lake

Dr. Michael and Diane Levine

Margaret Lezcano and Rick Hartker

James R. Lussier and Nancy C. Jacobson

Embry J. Kidd and A. Noni Holmes-Kidd

John and Pamela Lyle

James and Sarah Martin

Paul and Sue Allison Massimiano

David R. Mattson

Judy and John Mazzotta Community Impact Fund

Deborah L. Mead

Margaret G. Miller

Ann Hicks Murrah

Steven D. Nakagawa

John Niss and Lisa Mouton

Michael A. Nocero, Jr. in memory of Mary Jo

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ott in memory of Richard David Ott

Beverly and Glenn Paulk

David and Michelle Peck

Dr. David and Darbee Percival

Celeste Pertz

Dr. Gloria Pickar

Dr. Daniel and Lesley Podberesky

Alexis C. Pugh

Bill and Joan Randolph

Richard C. Riccardi

John and Virginia Rigsby

Nicholas Riippa and Dominic Del Brocco

Dr. Cheryl Robinson

The Roper Family Foundation

Corrine K. Roy

Joan Ruffier and Edward Manning

Steve and Melanie Ruta

Joe Sapora and Carol Ducas

Ann Saurman

Eileen Schein

Winifred J. Sharp and Joel H. Sharp, Jr.

Wayne Sheffield

Robert T. Shutts

Sidhu Family

William Slot

Dew Smith

Dennis Sobeck

Dr. Stephen Summers

Jackie and Rod Sward

Winston Taitt

Leslie J. Temmen

Cynthia Tomlinson

Leila Edgerton Trismen

Dr. Jessica Vaught-Aviles and Mr. Juan Aviles

Lindsay Vermuth

Stacia L. Wake

Harold and Libby Ward

Neil and Malka Webman

Craig and Jeanne Weeks

Peter and Frances Weldon

John and Amy Wettach

Len and Marilyn Williams

Tom and Penny Yochum

Armand and Alison Zilioli

Bob and Janet Ziomek

$1,000 - $2,499

Anonymous

Anonymous in memory of Clifford and Marilyn Lee

Abernethy Pickar Family

Millicent Adams and Michael Anthony

Jeanne Bray Ailes

Theresa Aleguas

Joseph Ales, Jr. and Stephanie Curry Ales

Kay Allen

Dr. Mike and Janet Loveland Allen

Rachel C. Allen

Phil and Jennifer Anderson

Melinda Antalek

Ellen Arnold

Tony and Sharon Arroyo

Jeffrey Artzi

Sandra Asse

Maria-Elena Augustin

Tom and Lara Baker

James and Deborah Balaschak

Nathan and Lynda Balint

Richard and Nancy Banks

Donna Barley

Cathy and Carlos Barrios

Dick and Andrea Batchelor

Mr. Dave Berelsman and Mrs. Lyn Berelsman

Jane Berg

Cissy Bergman, in loving memory of Rocky Bergman

Gina Bernandini

Aaron Bert

Daniel Betancourt

Paul and Collette Beuther

Amogh Bhonde and Sukhada Gokhale

Christine Billis

Jacques D. Blais

Ann and Derek Blakeslee

Darryl and Mary Bloodworth

Lauren and Barry Bloom

Theresa and Angelo Boer

Lauren and C. Thomas Bolick IV

Dr. Rita Bornstein

John D. Boulden

Carolyn E. Bourne

Jacqueline Bozzuto

Berl and Katherine Brechner

Sherry Bremer

Marian and Edward Bromberg

Lawrence D. Brown, M.D.

Mary A. and Roger D. Brown

Randall S. Brown

Ted and Ruthanne Brown

Dr. and Mrs. William J. Brown

Paul F. Bryan

Karen G. Buchan

Christine and Hans Bucheli

Verna Buchs in memory of Dr. Andy Buchs

Dale and Patricia Burket

Tim and Rhonda Burnham

Michael and Mabel Burridge

David Buxton, MD

Kay and John Cappleman

Alexander and Melinda Cartwright

James P. Caruso and Christine S. Caruso Charitable Fund Inc

UNITED ARTS DONORS

Individual and Family Foundation Donors (cont.)

Mr. Scott Cassidy and Ms. Trish Titer

Rafael Castillo

David Caudle and Gil Villalobos

Mahesh Chaddah

Amy and Chris Chapman

Frank and Ellie Chase

Jason Chepenik

Jason Chilton

Julia Chinnock and Richard Champalbert

Dr. Jeff Cohen and Luci Belnick

Kelly Cohen

Dr. Anthony and Joan Colandrea, Jr.

Beryl R. Colbourn

Carolyn G. Coleman

Teresa Colling

Martin and Susan Collins

Judith and Richard Conk

Tracey Conner

Sharon Conway

Hal Cooper

Robert and Athalia Cope

David S. and Carol A. Cowan

Fred and Gayle Curtis

Mr. and Mrs. Noriko and Tom Davatelis

Keith M. Davenport and Jared V. Walker

Diane Davey and Dave Wiebe

Doug Davis and Jeri Weigandt

Silva Deakins in memory of my husband Jim

Debby

DEM Guys

Michelle DeVos

Mr. Duncan DeWahl and Dr. Juliet Burry

Patty and Jim DeYoung

Cara and Alex Dobrev

Jim and Gail Downing

Dr. Patsy Duphorne

Lisa Durant

Gontran and Isabelle Durocher

Sheldon Dutes

Dr. Perry and Eileen Dworkin

Bill and Jennifer Dymond

Barbara Tiffany and Jerry Eans

Ted Edwards and Nikki Seybold

Paula and Buddy Eidel

Rex and Kathy Elbert

Endean Fund - Mr. Jeffrey Endean and Dr. Myrna Endean

Catherine M. Engelman

Lee and Carolyn Eubank

Dr. Jay and Randye Falk

Dr. Adrianne Ferguson

Kerry Ferguson

Steve Fessler and Randy Lord

Laura M. Firth

Dr. and Mrs. Robert G. Flick

Nancy Ellen Flint

Steven and Melanie Forbrick

Julia L. Frey and Dr. David J. Carter

Dawn Frye

Garber/Collins Charitable Gift Fund

Rachel and Rob Gebaide

Stephanie Ghertner

Nancy and Fiona Gibbons

Jon Gibbs and Carolyn Salzmann

Suzanne E. Gilbert

Mike and Vicki Gillett

Biff and Kathy Godfrey

Neal Goldner

Eduardo Gomez Lambert

Steven W. Grant

Christopher and Pamela Greening

Dr. Scott Greenwood and Dr. Pamela Freeman

Chuck and Lisa Gregg

Christopher Grim and Melissa Queen-Grim

Barbara Grodin

Jessica and Vance Guthrie

Marty and Mike Haddad

Rob and Jacki Hale

Andrew and Monica Hand

Michael and Terri Harding

Paul M. Harmon

Dave and Nancy Harvey

Gary Heath

Marty and Jim Heekin

Sheri Heitker and Mark Dixon

Paul Helfrich and Jessica Hung

Marjorie Hill

Nathan Hill

John and Gale Hillenmeyer

Danielle Saba Hollander

Bob and Marty Hopkins

David Horgan

Mike and Kitti Hornreich

Allison and Peter Hosbein

Andrew and Kara Howell

Bonnie Hubbard

Jacqueline and Vincent Hughes

Rebecca Hull

Daniel W. Humphress and Enrique J. De La Torre

The Hurckes Foundation

Ellen S. Hurwitz

In honor of Peter Schreyer, Crealde’s Executive Director

In memory of Toeknee Caporelli

Allen and Dana Irwin

Beth and Jack Isler

Libby Jackson

Eric Jacobsen and Aoife

O’Donovan

Harvey and Janice Jacoby

David and Lisa Jasmund

Toni Jennings

Darrell and Lynda Jobman

Mark and Jessica Jones

Les Josephson

Daun and Lisa Junkerman

Hal Kantor

RK Kelley

Maureen and Mark Kennedy

Richard and Martha Kessler

Sheri Kettula and Denise Marra

Charles and Olga King

Bud Kirk

Carol Klim

Rachael Kobb

Harvey Kobrin and Faye David

Christina and George Kotsonis

Dr. Les and Mrs. Lynn Kramer

Holly M. Kreisler

The Labelle Family

Alyson and Michael Laderman

Deborah and Donald Lake

Patricia Lancaster

Linda Landman González

Rob and Wendy Landry

Paul Lartonoix

Dr. Sarah Layton

Mark and Noreen Levitt

Miriam Levy and Dennis Pope

Mark K. Lewis

Jack Lord

Jennifer Lowndes and Tim Boeth

Leyse Lowry

John MacDougall and Jame

Lee Mann

Dr. Jim Madison

Sheila Mahone

Jim and Wendy Malcolm Fund

Maria Manoso

Louise M. Manry

Kevin and Ditian Dai Martin

Hilary and Ming Marx

UNITED ARTS DONORS

Individual and Family Foundation Donors (cont.)

Kyle and Sarah Mattingly

Elizabeth Maupin and Jay Yellen

Jay and Alison McClelland

Donald R. McGee, DMD, PA

Daniel and Elizabeth McIntosh

Dr. Margaret McMillen

Scott R. McMillen

John and Rebekah McReynolds

Toby Mendelsohn

Congressman John L. Mica

Mrs. Arthur L. Miller

Ryan and Lucas Miller

Lois H. Mills

Sally Milton

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Minderman

Dr. Andrew Minear

Carolyn Minear

Clay and Kim Mitchell in memory of Lucy Lane Mitchell

Jan Moss

Mari Moye

Karla Muniz

Mr. Sumanth Neelam

Alicia and Jay Nevins

Kailey and Robert Newkirk

JoAnn Newman

Andrea and Van-Tam Nguyen

Jessica Nguyen

Donna Nickel

Walter Ronald Nock

David Oigarden

Odd-o-Ts’ Entertainment in honor of all those who keep us performing!

Dan and Dana O’Keefe

Eric O’Neal

Leslie King O’Neal

Molly O’Neill

Dr. Ron and Nina Oppenheim

Jenise Osani

Dr. and Mrs. Jonathan O. Partain

Dr. Patricia Patterson

Ronald and Carrie Patterson

Beth Pendleton

Dw Phineas Perkins

John and Anne Perry

Dr. Calvin and Pamela Peters

Peter and Nancy Pfaff

Eddie and Melanie Pipkin

Lizz and Tony Pittsley

Dave Plotkin

George Poelker and Judy Black

Carol Ann Pohl

Michael and Leslie Poole

Jennet Pozzuoli

Steven and Nancy Price

Mark Pulliam and Judy St. Peter

Patricia and Bert Ramsay

Debby Randall

Bruce and LeAnne Rapée

James and Beverly Rawlings

Roger D. and Rosalind Ray

Douglas and Carole Reece

Bill “Roto” Reuter

Mr. and Mrs. Rice

Mr. and Mrs. Mills Riddick

Patricia Rixmann

Ian D. Robinson

Lenore and Howard Roland

Dr. F. Robert and Norene Rolle

Robert and Tara Rollins

Joy Roney

Lesley and Barry Rubin

Donald Rudolf

Judy Russell

Ellen C. and Allan W. Ryan

Michael and Theresa Ryan

Joan E. Sanchez

Diane L. Sandquist

Maria Isabel Sanquírico

Rocky Santomassino

The Sanz-Guerro Family

Patty Schmidt

Frank Schornagle

Jim and Pat Schroeder

Ryan Scordato

Sara and Bill Segal

Samuel W. Seymour and Karen Patton Seymour

Rebecca Shanahan

James G. Shepp

Arthur Shevchenko

William and Dorothy Silverman

Diana Sisley

Dr. Paul Skomsky

Scott and Tina Skraban

Charlie and Becca Sloan

Brenda and Stan Smith

Keith Smith and Marc Caglia

Robert and Janan Smither

Mary and Rick Solik

Tony and Rebecca Sos

Matthew Soss

David Spiegel

Paula Stuart

Carol Studer

Rene Stuzman

Randall M. Sumner and George B. Mabry

Dr. Stella Sung

Vernon Swartsel

Thomas C. Taffinder

Jodi Tassos in memory of John Tassos

George R. and Eleanor C. Taylor

Patrick Terry

Michael Thomas

John and Nancy-Lee Thompson

Mark E. Thompson

Clinton and Renee Thompson

James William Tivy

Larry Tobin

Tamara L. Trimble

Anthea M. Turner

Jerry and Barbara Twedt

Benjamin Urrutia

Lee and Judy Van Valkenburgh

Bernie Vatter

Ms. Sterling S. Vestal

Massimo and Louise Villinger

Keith Walls

Robert Waltman

Katy Moss Warner

Tim Warzecha and Bill Neighbors

David Kevin Weaver

Todd C. Weaver

Mr. Randy Welsch

Miriam Weston

The Honorable David Wheeler

George and Cynthia White

Michael and Diane White

Trudy Wild

Jennifer Williams and James Yannucci

Jayne and John Willis

Betty Jane and Cecil Wilson, MD

Bill and Suzy Wilson

David and Diane Withee

Nancy and Jonathan Wolf

Leighton and Phyllis Yates

Michael J. Young

Edward and Phyllis Zissman

JL Zucco

The Bach Festival Society of Winter Park was founded in 1935 at Rollins College to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Johann Sebastian Bach’s birth by presenting the composer’s orchestral and choral music to the public for its “enlightenment, education, pleasure, and enjoyment.” The Society decided early on to operate in partnership with Rollins College while still maintaining its status as a fully independent non-profit organization.

Mrs. Isabelle Sprague-Smith, a former New York artist and school principal, was the president and driving force behind the Bach Festival Society from 1935 until her death in 1950. At Mrs. SpragueSmith’s death, the future of the Bach Festival Society was uncertain. Rollins President Hugh McKean asked John M. Tiedtke, the treasurer of Rollins College, a music lover and an astute businessman, to fill the opening and he agreed. Mr. Tiedtke served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees until his death in December 2004. Under his leadership, the Bach Festival Society expanded its programming to include two additional choral programs beyond the Annual Festival, top-tier visiting soloists and ensembles, and community events in Winter Park.

Following Mr. Tiedtke’s death, the Society began a period of modernization and growth. Today, the Society maintains an all-volunteer choir of over 185 singers from throughout Central Florida and a professional orchestra of nearly 50 members. We present nearly 30 ticketed performances, dozens of in-school educational programs, a high school choral festival, and several community concerts; we produce recordings, present the Young at Heart Chorale, and form high-level artistic partnerships reaching approximately 50,000 people annually.

The Bach Festival Society is the third-oldest continuously operating Bach Festival in the United States and Central Florida’s longest-running performing arts organization. We maintain a strong partnership with Rollins College and provide high-quality performance and learning opportunities to students, faculty, and staff.

Bach Festival Society of Winter Park Archives

John V. Sinclair, John M. Tiedtke, Chip Weston

Bach Festival Society of Winter Park Archives

EDUCATION AND OUTREACH

The Bach Festival Society offers music-making and educational opportunities for all ages.

The renowned Bach Festival Choir is comprised of auditioned singers, enjoying weekly rehearsals and specializes in singing choral masterworks in partnership with the Bach Festival Orchestra.

The Young at Heart Chorale is a volunteer singing group for those 55+ years young. The group has weekly rehearsals and performs outreach concerts at local community centers.

The Bach Youth choir will make their highly anticipated return this fall. Young musicians will refine their musicianship skills through weekly rehearsals and performances.

The Bach to the Future initiative provides programs for primary and secondary school students. The FreshStARTS program brings unique musical learning experiences into the schools featuring professional musicians who present a variety of musical genres. The newly formed Bach Vocal Artists offer educational outreach through open rehearsals, and/or school visits when available.

Our popular High School Honors Choral Festival provides valuable workshop/clinic feedback from collegiate choral directors recruited from across the country. This festival helps prepare high school choirs for their annual Music Performance Assessments.

The Bach Festival Society brings in world renowned visiting artists who often provide Master classes to students and patrons, giving a unique insider’s perspective of the process of fine-tuning musical excellence.

A new initiative, the Choir of Distinction, offers area high school choirs a chance to compete for this honor. The carefully selected choir will receive many benefits including choral mentorship, educational opportunities, an invitation to perform, and a trophy.

Announcing our 2023 Choir of Distinction