2018 Source Song Festival Program Book

AN Westminster Hall Minneapolis, MN August 5–11, 2018

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROUS SUPPORT!

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We are grateful to the following members of the SongCircle.

Your support empowers and inspires a new generation of musicians, supports continued artistic excellence, and sustains Source Song Festival.

For information on giving, please visit www.sourcesongfestival.org/take-action

Franz Schubert Circle ($1,000+)

Martha Brown Dorothy J. Horns and James P. Richardson Family Foundation Debra & Rod Presser Ron Rydell Arturo Steely Nell Slater

Francis Poulenc Circle ($500 - $999) Anonymous (1) Jennifer Anderson Richard Carrick & Jessica Schroeder Dawn Johnson The Lebowski Urban Achiever Fund Jon & Lisa Lewis

Samuel Barber Circle ($100-499)

Suzanne Asher Barbara Brown Craig Carnahan Roger & Wallys Conhaim Juliana Hall Patricia King Kelly Krebs

Yunyue Liu Ruth Palmer Lance Presser Justin Miedema Brian Newhouse Paul Riedesel John Nuechterlein Judy Rogosheske & George Funk Joseph Osowski Emma Small Sheila Otte Stephen & Marilyn Swanson Sonja Thompson

Supporters Anonymous (2) Michael Hawes Jeanne & David Cornish Harrison Hintzsche Ann DuHamel Eric McEnaney Samuel Grace Sandra & Rick Penning Angela Grundstad Jonathan Posthuma Linda Tutas Haugen Adam Reinwald William Haugen Miriam Sahouani Mary Schaffer

Martha Schmidt Charles & Carrie Shaw Kathleen Silverstein Paul & Pat Solstad Regina Stroncek John Toren Alexandra Wigley

SOURCE: noun [s urs] : someone or something that provides what is wanted or needed : the cause of something : a person, book, etc., that gives information : A GENERATIVE FORCE Greetings, and welcome to the fifth annual Source Song Festival. These first five years of Source Song Festival, which have passed by quickly, have provided us with many foundational moments.

• The opening concert of each festival has become a hallmark, exclusively featuring music by Minnesotans. OpenSource has featured premieres by Dominick Argento, David Evan Thomas, and Carol Barnett, and, on August 1st, 2014, our inaugural OpenSource brought you an evening with Libby Larsen. Beyond her music, Libby was our first advocate in all things Minnesota and Song and continues to be our source of energy, curiosity, and pride.

• We have been fortunate to be folded into the vibrant cultural community that has its roots in the Walker Arts Center, Center Opera, VocalEssence, The Schubert Club, the American Composers Forum, and many others. As we celebrated Dominick Argento Day on August 8th, 2016, we were able to celebrate those who support a tradition of artistry unique to Minnesota. And, in true Minnesota fashion, our Pulitzer Prize winning composer received glory beyond his artistic triumphs: a free bus pass.

• In January 2018, we brought you songSLAM: a brand new initiative to support new music creation, enhanced by collaboration. In partnership with Sparks and Wiry Cries, this event, electric with energy, fostered the premiere of twelve new songs. In addition to these, Source Song Festival has presented twenty premieres, including our 2018 Source SongBook. Source is a generative force.

• April 3rd, 2014 was the day our inbox received its first student gift: Liam Moore’s application.

Liam was the first student to apply to our educational program and is featured as a SongBook composer this evening. Since that first application, we have welcomed 25 singers, 28 pianists, and 27 composers to Minnesota. Our first year was for Minnesota-based students, but since then we have welcomed student-artists from across the country, some returning for a fourth season. Hi, Shari!

• On May 13th, 2016, we took our training wheels off and became our own 501(c)3 - non profit.

We are now growing through organizational firsts: eagerly welcoming volunteers, endlessly adoring our board of directors, and gratefully expanding our support system. Last year, the Star Tribune wrote, “Source quickly has established itself as a major fixture in the Twin Cities classical calendar, purveying international standards of excellence.” A source provides what is wanted or needed. We wanted to offer this international excellence. We did not know how much we needed this support until these people wanted to help.

Looking back, these past five years you have allowed us to give our community these international standards of excellence in song. What we did not expect were the gifts you have given us: the unfailing artistry of our local colleagues, the inspiring creativity of the students, the physical support of growing audiences, the emotional support of our friends and families, and the financial support of our generous donors who believe in Source.

Thank you for being our source. Here’s to another five.

-C&M

Schedule of public Events Monday, August 6 9a Masterclass: Jeff Cohen pianist 2p Masterclass: Franรงois Le Roux baritone 3p Workshop: Patricia Zurlo - Legal Issues for Composers 8p RECITAL: OpenSource: Source @ 5

Chapel Westminster Hall Meisel Room Westminster Hall

Tuesday, August 7 10a Masterclass: Arlene Shrut pianist 2:30p Workshop: Grant Writing with Noah Keesecker (free) 5p Workshop: Text Setting with Libby Larsen 8p RECITAL: Poets, Painters, & Premieres with Franรงois Le Roux & Jeff Cohen

Chapel Meisel Room Meisel Room Westminster Hall

Wednesday, August 8 10a Composer Panel: Hosted by David Evan Thomas 2p Masterclass: Spencer Myer pianist 8p RECITAL: Consider the Source with David Portillo & Olivier Godin

Meisel Room Westminster Hall Westminster Hall

Thursday, August 9 1p Workshop: Libby Larsen on Commissioning 3p Masterclass: Olivier Godin pianist 8p RECITAL: Into the Beautiful with Martha Guth & Spencer Myer

Meisel Room Westminster Hall Westminster Hall

Friday, August 10 2p Masterclass: Martha Guth soprano 7p RECITAL: MNDuo Music of Minnesota with MNDuo Performers 8:30p RECITAL: MNSong Composer Showcase with Libby Larsen & MNSong Composers Saturday, August 11 12p RECITAL: MNDuo Final Recital

Chapel Westminster Hall Westminster Hall

Westminster Hall

Westminster Hall, Chapel & Meisel Room are located on the first floor of the Westminster Presbyterian Church campus.

1200 Marquette Avenue | Minneapolis, MN 55403 Parking is off Alice Rainville Place (13th St) between Nicollet Mall and Marquette Ave.

very special thanks to the LEAD SPONSOR:

for the donation of this beautiful Seiler Piano for use during our festival 408 Snelling Ave South | St Paul, MN | 55105 https://www.wellspianos.com/

SOURCE SONG FESTIVAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS Jon Lewis, President Dawn Johnson, Treasurer Alexandra Wigley, Secretary Amy Gort, At-Large Kelly Krebs, At-Large Justin Miedema, At-Large Scott Rehovsky, At-Large Marg Walker, At-Large

Source festival artists Founding Artistic Director

Founding Artistic Director

Festival Administrator

Mark Bilyeu pianist

Clara Osowski mezzo-soprano

Emily Riley soprano

Carolyn Campfield soprano

Riley Cardona soprano

Catherine Dalton composer

Ann DuHamel pianist

Tracey Engleman soprano

Mary Jo Gothmann pianist

Jocelyn Hagen composer

Linda Tutas Haugen composer

Edie Hill composer

For complete biographies of Source artists, please visit our website: www.sourcesongfestival.org/2018-artists

Source festival artists

Joseph Hubbard bass

Maria Jette soprano

Linda Kachelmeier composer

Linh Kauffman soprano

Noah Keesecker composer

Matthew McCright pianist

Ruth Palmer pianist

Liz Pearse soprano

Nicholas Phillips pianist

David Evan Thomas composer

Bryon Wilson pianist

Patricia Zurlo lawyer

For complete biographies of Source artists, please visit our website: www.sourcesongfestival.org/2018-artists

Source Song Festival presents

OpenSource: Source @ 5 An Evening of World Premieres August 6, 2018 8p | Westminster Hall with Tracey Engleman, soprano | Clara Osowski, mezzo-soprano Jacob Christopher, tenor | Alan Dunbar, baritone Mark Bilyeu & Mary Jo Gothmann, pianists

SOURCE SONGBOOK Whiteout (Robert Hedin) Evensong (Norita Dittburner-Jax) Primordial Drink (M. Wright) Lonely (Freya Manfred)

2017 Alumni Kelly Krebs Ryan Johnston 2016 Alumni Scott Senko Martha Helen Schmidt

A Purple Ravelling (Athena Kildegaard) The River Runs Near

2015 Alumni Michael Betz Roger Towler

Winter and Construction (Marie Loom) In Normandie (Richard Meacock) Mantra (Sierra DeMulder)

2014 Alumni Liam Moore Justin Spenner Tim Takach

INTERMISSION

Two Songs Last One Up (Koza) Stand Clear (Koza) Jacob Christopher tenor | Mark Bilyeu pianist

Chris Koza

Longing for Home Carol Barnett Jerusalem (Judah Halevi, trans. Robert Mezey) Mother (Bea Exner Liu) Voyager Dust (Mohja Kahf ) Letter to Marianne Moore (Eugene McCarthy) Dancing Toward the Promised Land (Alla RenĂŠe Bozarth)

Clara Osowski, mezzo-soprano | Alan Dunbar, baritone Mary Jo Gothmann pianist

About the World Premieres

Source SongBook

To celebrate Source Song Festival's fifth season and the fifth season of the MNSong Composer Institute, Source commissioned nine composer alumni who are based in Minnesota to each create a song that spoke to their experience of living in the land of 10,000 lakes. For some, this meant collaborating with a local poet, for others, it meant depicting historical events, and for others it meant ruminating on our two distinct seasons: winter and road construction.

This first SongBook celebrates the creation of song in Minnesota. Source is thrilled to showcase our MNSong alumni in this exciting way. We are committed to instigating, fostering, and celebrating the long legacy of Minnesota's exceptional composers who value text and who set it extraordinarily well. Thank you, composers, for your passion, your enthusiasm and your contributions to our first SongBook!

Songs by Chris Koza

After our 2018 songSLAM, Source Song Festival approached Chris Koza to do what he does: write more songs. These songs display another Minnesotan voice and highight the unique product which results when the roles of composer and poet intersect. from the composer: These songs were inspired by the notion of an individual who is living in their own imaginative musical-state while the rest of the world churns forth ad nauseam. There are many ways to perceive and consider the senses. With music, even the rote and mundane have a chance to be recontextualized as rich with inspiration and possibility.

Barnett: Longing for Home I am delighted at the opportunity to contribute LONGING FOR HOME for Source Song Festival’s fifth season. My search for texts yielded five wonderful poems dealing with homecoming – the enduring wish to return to a place remembered with love and longing, as well as the uncertainty, the impossibility of doing so.

Judah Halevi (c. 1075 – 1141) was a physician, poet and philosopher, and is considered one of the greatest Hebrew poets, celebrated both for his religious and secular poems, many of which appear in present-day liturgy. Bea Exner Liu was born and raised in Northfield, Minnesota, and graduated from Carleton College. She moved to China in 1935 to teach English, and while there, she married a Chinese classmate from Carleton and witnessed the Japanese invasion of China during the years 1935 to 1945. The eventuality of a Communist takeover finally brought Liu and her family back to Minnesota. Mohja Kahf is a Syrian-American poet, novelist, and professor. In 1971, Kahf and her family moved to the United States. She grew up in a devout Muslim household. She graduated from Douglass College in 1988, and later received her Ph.D. in comparative literature from Rutgers. Since 1995, she has taught at the University of Arkansas. Eugene Joseph McCarthy (1916-2005) was an American politician, poet, and long-time Congressman from Minnesota. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1949 to 1959, and the United States Senate from 1959 to 1971. He took up writing poetry in the 1960s, and his increased political prominence led to increased interest in his published works. "If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency,"he wrote in 1968. Alla Reneé Bozarth, poet and prose writer, therapist, and Episcopal priest, was among the first eleven women ordained as Episcopal priests in 1974 in Philadelphia.

Thank You to the Donors Who Made "Longing for Home" Possible Chinese Heritage Foundation Grants Fund of The Minneapolis Foundation Steve & Shari Lear Anonymous (5) Jon & Lisa Lewis Philip & Carolyn Brunelle Lee Mauk Claire Givens & Andrew Dipper Michael McCarthy Mina Fisher John Nuechterlein Judith Fletcher James Peter Lea Foli Judy & David Ranheim Catherine Furry Janice Robbins Rosemary Good Leslie Shank John Haugen Elizabeth Gale Sharpe Eric Heukeshoven Scott Tucker Maria Jette Laura Krider and Mary Laurie John Woodward

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A COMPETITION FOR NEW ART SONG

Source FEATuRED artists Source SongBook Composers

for complete biographies of these composers, please visit www.sourcesongfestival.org/SongBook

Michael Betz

Scott Senko

Web: michaelbetzmusic.com

Web: soundcloud.com/scott-senko

2015 Work: "Indra's Ear"

2016 Work: "Awakened"

Ryan Johnston

Justin Spenner

Web: soundcloud.com/ryanjohnston24

Web: barispen.com

Kelly Krebs

Timothy C. Takach

2017 Work: "A Math Problem from the Real World"

2017 Work: "Alice in Wonderland Songs"

2014 Work: "...And sweet Puck"

2014 Work: "Departures"

Web: soundcloud.com/kellykrebs

Web: timothyctakach.com

Liam Moore

Roger Towler

2014 Work: "Four Love Songs"

2015 Work: "I Play Flute"

Martha Helen Schmidt 2016 Work: "Ship of Death"

Web: marthahelenschmidt.com

Chris Koza performer / composer

Chris Koza is a musician, composer, and performer living and working in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Koza's storytelling and observations are thoughtfully navigated by melodies that migrate through the seasons and burrow through the earth.

Koza has headlined the legendary First Avenue Mainroom, but he’s rocked all of Minneapolis’ famous venues—including the Varsity Theatre, The Fitzgerald, the Fine Line, and the Cedar Cultural Center. Although he has six solo albums and a film score under his belt, Koza does plenty of writing and performing with his band Rogue Valley. A Minnesota State Arts Board Arts on Tour recipient, Koza regularly plays and guest lectures at the Institute of Production and Recording (IPR) in Minneapolis.

Source audiences may have seen Koza hosting our first SongSlam competition at IceHouse in Minneapolis last January. Source is grateful to him for continuing to perform as we counted the votes that night, as well as being an entertaining host. Please visit chriskoza.com for more information.

Carol Barnett composer Carol Barnett creates audacious and engaging music, both for traditional instrumentation and for cross-pollinations such as a mass accompanied by a bluegrass band or a duet for steel pan and organ. A force in the Minnesota music scene since 1970, her work has been funded by multiple regional and national organizations, and published through major houses. She is the recipient of numerous honors and awards throughout her career as a composer.

Barnett is a charter member of the American Composers Forum and a graduate of the University of Minnesota (BA and MA degrees in Music, Theory and Composition). She was composer in residence with the Dale Warland Singers from 1992 to 2001, and taught composition at Augsburg College from 2000 to 2015.

Please visit CarolBarnett.net for more information.

Mark Bilyeu pianist

The co-founder and artistic director of Source Song Festival, pianist Mark Bilyeu passionately engages in music as a committed performer, inspiring teacher and enterprising curator. He was the only American finalist in the 2015 Das Lied Song Competition, and maintains an active performing schedule, premiering works by Libby Larsen, Paul John Rudoi, Eric Reda, and Jacob Tewes. He has served as faculty at Viterbo University, the Up North Vocal Institute, and was recently the Visiting Artist in Vocal Coaching and Collaborative Piano at the University of Northern Iowa.

Bilyeu has performed at such venues as the Grand Théâtre de Tours (France), the Schubert Club of St. Paul, the Everson Museum (New York), PianoForte Foundation, and the Belle Sylvester Recital Series of New York. He has been heard via live radio broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio with soprano Lori Phillips, and on WFMT via the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series with Clara Osowski.

Bilyeu holds degrees from the Chicago College of Performing Arts and the University of Minnesota, studying with Timothy Lovelace and Chicago Symphony Orchestra pianist Mary Sauer. He has studied at the Aspen Summer Music Festival, Britten-Pears, Vancouver International Song Institute and l’Academie Françis Poulenc, and was a 2018 NATS Intern. Additional studies with Malcolm Martineau, Roger Vignoles and Susan Manoff.

He is heard on the Bridge, Navonna, and Leaf Records labels, including The Transmodernist Troubadour, a recording of music by Australian composer Nicholas Vines with baritone Aaron Engebreth, and a Winterreise recording on Leaf Records with tenor Jon Valender due for release in 2018. Please visit markbilyeu.com for more information.

Jacob Christopher tenor

A native of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, Jacob Christopher has delighted audiences with his unique combination of vocal and dramatic skills in performance styles ranging from art song to country western to opera.

Jacob began his professional career in Chicago where he sang with Music of the Baroque, Wicker Park Choral Singers, and as a chorister with the Lyric Opera of Chicago from 2010-2012. He has been a featured soloist at renowned halls around the country and overseas and has premiered numerous art songs through Singers on New Ground in Chicago and Source Song Festival in Minneapolis. Jacob has also enjoyed singing backup vocals for Ben Folds (with the Minnesota Orchestra) and for The Judds (The Oprah Winfrey Show).

In 2013, Jacob moved to New York and was a founding member of the full-time professional choral ensemble Manhattan Chorale, under the direction of Dr. Craig Arnold. While in New York, he also appeared in Ragtime at Lincoln Center; Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame (NYC workshop, Paper Mill Playhouse, Studio Cast Recording); the award-winning production of The Christians (Off-Broadway debut); and, in 2016, made his Carnegie Hall debut with the New York City Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Richard Bjella. Jacob is currently an Artistic Director and member of Cantus, an eight-member vocal chamber ensemble based in Minneapolis that performs extensively around the United States and abroad.

Alan Dunbar bass-baritone

Baritone Alan Dunbar is a versatile performer, lauded for his beautiful tone and his nuanced musical and textual interpretation. He was heard recently as the baritone soloist in the world premiere of Justin Merritt’s oratorio The Path, as Papageno in Madison Opera’s production of The Magic Flute, and as the bass soloist in Bach’s St. John Passion with Voices of Ascension. Past performances include Dominick Argento’s The Andrée Expedition at the Ordway with the MN Source Song Festival, numerous productions with Madison Opera (including Schaunard in La Bohème, Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia, and Owen Hart in Dead Man Walking), Barber’s Dover Beach and Othmar Schoeck’s Notturno at the Apollo Music Festival, the title role in Britten’s Noye’s Fludde at Santa Fe Opera, Handel’s Messiah with the Santa Fe Symphony and Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, and recitals at the Ravinia Festival Steans Institute.

Dunbar made his European solo recital debut at the Oslo Grieg Festival after winning the grand prize at the 2009 Grieg Festival Competition in Winter Park, FL. As a Vocal Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Festival, he performed as bass soloist in Stravinsky’s Pulcinella under Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, sang the role of Zaretsky in Eugene Onegin with Renée Fleming and Peter Mattei, performed in the Stravinsky chamber opera Renard. and collaborated with choreographer/director Mark Morris in performances with the Mark Morris Dance Group.

Dunbar holds a BA in music theory and composition from St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN, and an MM and DM in vocal performance from Indiana University. He was a founding member of the Minnesota-based internationally acclaimed male chamber vocal ensemble Cantus and sang throughout North America and Europe with the ensemble from 1998-2004. Dunbar currently serves as Assistant Professor of Voice at Winona State University.

Please visit alan-dunbar.com for more information.

Tracey Engleman soprano

With a voice the Boston Globe called “extraordinary in range, tonal quality, musicianship and dramatic effect,” soprano Tracey Engleman has gained a reputation for excellence in opera, recital, and concert. A recipient of the prestigious McKnight Artist Fellowship for Musicians, Engleman has performed operatic roles with the Minnesota Opera, Minnesota Concert Opera, Skylark Opera, Music by the Lake, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. A particularly gifted performer of 20th century and contemporary music, Engleman has performed chamber music with Zeitgeist, the Chicago Chamber Musicians, the Tanglewood Music Center, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and frequently premieres works by living composers.

Her CD Lift Me into Heaven Slowly featuring song cycles by Libby Larsen was released by Innova Records in 2017. Engleman‘s oratorio and concert engagements include solo performances with the Minnesota Orchestra, the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee Bel Canto Chorus, the Valley Chamber Chorale, Minnesota Choral Union, the Cannon Valley Orchestra, and the Rochester Choral Arts. As a proponent of art song and as a frequent recitalist, Engleman has performed in recital at Orchestra Hall, Hope College, at the National Association of Teachers of Singing National Convention, Source Song Festival, and as part of the Schubert Club Courtroom Concert Series. An alumna of the Tanglewood Music Center and the Art Song Festival of Cleveland, Engleman’s awards include Regional Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera Competition, First Place and “Audience Choice” winner in the Austin Lyric Opera Young Artist Competition, Finalist in the Sun Valley Opera Competition, and winner of the Minnesota NATS Artist Award, and the Milwaukee Bel Canto Chorus Regional Artist Competition.

Engleman earned B.M. degrees from St. Olaf College and M.M. and D.M.A. degrees from the University of Minnesota. Engleman serves as Assistant Professor of Music at St. Olaf College. Please visit traceyengleman.com for more information.

Mary Jo Gothmann pianist

Pianist Mary Jo Gothmann enjoys a varied career as a chamber musician, soloist, opera coach, and organist. Her recent chamber music engagements have included performances with the Chamber Music Society of Minnesota, Minnesota Orchestra Sommerfest, Hill House Players, Bakken Trio, Music at Trinity, Colonial Chamber Music Series, Lakes Area Music Festival, and the Taos Chamber Music Group.

Gothmann is the founder and Artistic Director of the JOYA Chamber Music Series at Zion Lutheran Church in Anoka. Gothmann is the pianist for VocalEssence and performs frequently with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra. She has performed with EOS Orchestra in New York City, and as a piano soloist with the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra and the St. Paul Civic Orchestra.

Gothmann has worked for some of the most prestigious opera companies in the United States, including the Metropolitan Opera, Santa Fe Opera, and Minnesota Opera, and has performed recitals with singers from the Metropolitan Opera as well as with instrumentalists from many of the country's major symphony orchestras.

Gothmann is a graduate of the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Program, University of Minnesota, New England Conservatory, and St. Olaf College.

Clara Osowski mezzo-soprano Hailed for her artistry and “rich and radiant” voice (Urban Dial Milwaukee), Mezzo-soprano Clara Osowski, who sings "from inside the music with unaffected purity and sincerity" (UK Telegraph), is an active soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States and Europe. Recognized for her excellence in Minnesota, Clara was a recipient of the prestigious 2018-2019 McKnight Artist Fellowships for Musicians administered by MacPhail Center for Music.

In international competition with pianist Tyler Wottrich, Clara has won second place at Thomas Quasthoff’s Das Lied, fourth place and the Richard Tauber Prize for the best interpretation of Schubert Lieder at the Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation Song Competition, and most recently the Radio-Canada People’s Choice Award and third place in the song division at the 2018 Concours Musical International de Montréal.

Active also as an educator, Clara has enjoyed giving masterclasses and convocations at several universities, including Syracuse University, Muhlenberg College, Concordia College (Moorhead), and North Dakota State University. She was also the guest artist in residence at Indiana State University's 50th Contemporary Music Festival celebrating the music of Libby Larsen. Clara will be on faculty at Aspen Music Festival's Professional Choral Institute in partnership with Seraphic Fire in August of 2018. Clara currently studies voice with Emma Small of Minneapolis. Please visit claraosowski.com for more information.

Arlene Shrut pianist & MNDuo Mentor

Collaborative pianist and coach Arlene Shrut is heralded as both a steward for the artistic traditions of classical music as well as a visionary for its future. Hailed

by The New York Times as a “strong and sensitive pianist,” she performs with the elite performers of today while training the musicians of tomorrow. In January 2018, Shrut was appointed to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro School of Music Artist Faculty. Having served in the past as head coach and pianist for the Atlantic Music Festival, she has been chosen to chair the new Collaborative Piano Program beginning in summer 2018. Shrut has also been selected to serve as the Collaborative Piano Master Teacher at the 2018 NATS Intern Program in Boulder, Colorado.

In the spring of 2017, Shrut launched a new performance project that celebrates the piano as an orchestral substitute. The Sorel Organization presented her with its first Sorel Legacy Medallion, which supported the premiere performance of the Requiem of Solace: Brahms’ Human Requiem at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

As a performer, Shrut has collaborated with Renée Fleming, Thomas Hampson, Angela Meade, Isabel Leonard, Carla Rae Cook, Michael Fabiano, Anton Belov, Alissa Deeter, and Takaoki Onishi. She regularly serves as official pianist and judge for international opera competitions sponsored by The Gerda Lissner Foundation, The Licia Albanese Puccini Foundation, The Giulio Gari Foundation, The Loren Zachary Society, The Marcello Giordani Foundation, and the Fritz and Lavinia Jensen Foundation.

While on the faculty of the Aspen Music Festival, Shrut taught classes and coached productions featuring Mozart and German operas. She also served as head of the Accompanying Department at Syracuse University and on the Evening Division Faculties of The Juilliard School and Mannes College and in May 2016, Shrut was honored for her twenty-five years of service as a faculty member of The Juilliard School. In 2003, Classical Singer magazine named Shrut its inaugural “Coach of the Year.”

Shrut has been on the artist faculty at Source Song Festival as a featured pianist and teacher since 2015. Other festivals that have recently featured Shrut as pianist, vocal coach, and teacher for collaborative pianists include the Vancouver International Song Institute, Opera Experience Southeast, Greensboro Light Opera and Song, Operafest on Martha's Vineyard, Resonanz Festival in New Jersey, and Songfest in Malibu.

A musical visionary, Shrut has been at the forefront of music's changing landscape, serving as Founder and Artistic Director of New Triad for Collaborative Arts (2003-14), which advanced training, generated opportunities, and created innovative solutions to promote classical music. Shrut continues to develop groundbreaking performance and educational projects that are moving and sustainable for our times. Please visit ArleneShrut.com for more information.

MUSIC OF MN RECITAL Friday, August 10 | 7pm Westminster Hall Hear the exceptional students of the MNDuo program perform music of local composers: Catherine Dalton, Jocelyn Hagen, Edie Hill, Linda Tutas Haugen, David Evan Thomas, and Linda Kachelmeier.

This FREE concert is followed by the culminating recital of the MNSong Composer Showcase at 8:30pm.

IS FOR MUSIC The University of Minnesota School of Music offers Bachelor of Music degrees in Performance, Music Education, Music Therapy, & Bachelor of Arts degrees with an Applied or Academic Emphasis.

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Source Song Festival presents

François Le Roux baritone Jeff Cohen pianist August 7, 2018 8p |Westminster Hall

Commémorations:

Composers, Painters, Premieres If thou art sleeping, maiden (Longfellow) Maid of Athens (Lord Byron) Beware (Longfellow)

Charles Gounod (1818 – 1893)

Reflets (Maeterlinck) Lili Boulanger Le Retour (G. Delaquys) (1864 – 1918) Le Promenoir des deux amants (Tristan L’Hermite) Auprès de cette grotte Crois mon conseil, chère Climène Je tremble

Berceuse pour "La Tragédie de la mort" (Peter)* L’Horloge (Baudelaire)* Il était unefeuille - Hommage to Noël Lee (Desnos)*

Claude Debussy (1893 – 1918)

C. Debussy Noël Lee (1924 – 2013) Jeff Cohen (b. 1957)

INTERMISSION Mélodies passagères (Rilke) Puisque tout passe Un cygne Tombeau dans un parc Le clocher chante Départ

Samuel Barber (1910 – 1981)

*AMERICAN PREMIERE

Le Travail du peintre (Eluard) Pablo Picasso Marc Chagall Georges Braque Juan Gris Paul Klee Joan Miro Jacques Villon

Francis Poulenc (1899 – 1963)

Paroles peintes (Eluard)*

Phillippe Hersent (b. 1938)

*AMERICAN PREMIERE

François Le Roux baritone François Le Roux is world-renowned for performances from baroque through contemporary music, from French art song to the major roles of the operatic stage. Since his debut with Lyon Opera, he has performed in all major European opera houses and symphony orchestras as well as festivals throughout the world.

In opera, Le Roux is known as “the greatest Pelléas of his generation in Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande.” He performed Pelléas more than a hundred times on the foremost opera stages of the world and recorded it under Claudio Abbado.

As his voice deepened, Le Roux moved to the role of Golaud in this opera, which he has performed in Paris, Bordeaux, Buenos Aires, Vichy, Rouen, Milan (La Scala) and Toulon. In 2007 he sang Golaud in the first-ever staged production of Pelléas in Moscow, the subject of a film by Philippe Béziat: Pelléas et Mélisande, Le chant des aveugles, released in 2011.

He has sung regularly at Paris Opera, including the title role of Don Giovanni, which brought him the French critics' Prix de la Révélation de l'année. Le Roux is renowned for his portrayals of Mozart’s leading baritone roles, as well as certain roles in Italian opera (Dandini, Malatesta, Marcello), and baroque opera (Monteverdi’s Orfeo and Ulisse, Campra's Tancrède, and Pollux in Rameau's Castor et Pollux). He is equally at home in contemporary opera, including the title role of Henze's Der Prinz von Homburg, and the world premieres of Birtwistle's Gawain, Von Bose's Die Leiden des jungen Werthers, David Lang's Modern Painters, and Thilloy’s Jour des Meurtres.

Le Roux has performed with major symphony orchestras throughout the world and is in demand internationally for recitals and masterclasses on the interpretation of French Song. From 1997-2002 he was artistic director of the French Song Concert Season of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. He is Artistic Director of the Académie Francis Poulenc in Tours, dedicated to the interpretation of French Song. Le Roux received the honor of “Chevalier” in the French National Order of Les Arts et Lettres in 1996, and was chosen as “Musical Personality of 1997” by the French Critics Union.

Le Roux has recorded many operas and French Songs. He received the Charles Cros Academy Award 1999 for his world-premiere recording of Albert Roussel’s orchestrated Songs. A DVD of Offenbach’s La Grande Duchesse de Gérolstein, conducted by Marc Minkowski, won the “Grand Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros 2005” and “Diapason d'or 2005.”

Le Roux began his vocal studies with François Loup at the age of 19, continuing under Vera Rosza and Elisabeth Grümmer at the Opéra Studio, Paris. He won the Barcelona and Rio de Janeiro competitions. Le Roux’s first book on the interpretation of French Song - Le Chant Intime, co-authored with Romain Raynaldy, - received the 2004 René Dumesnil Award by the French National Académie des Beaux Arts. Since 2006, Le Roux has been teaching at the Académie Maurice Ravel in Saint Jean-de-Luz, and at the Orford Arts Center in Québec.

Please visit FrancoisLeRoux.net for more information

Jeff Cohen pianist Jeff Cohen studied at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore with Lillian Freundlich before moving to France to study piano and chamber music at the Conservatoire National de Paris with Reine Gianoli and Geneviève Joy. He continued his studies with Leon Fleisher and Peter Feuchtwanger.

As a pianist, Cohen has collaborated with numerous singers and instrumentalists, such as Roberto Alagna, John Aler, June Anderson, Cecilia Bartoli, Jane Birkin, Dale Duesing, Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, Angela Gheorghiu, Ivry Gitlis, Ida Haendel, Sumi Jo, Steve Lacy, Noël Lee, Ute Lemper, François Le Roux, Dame Felicity Lott, and Mady Mesplé.

Cohen has made a number of recordings, including a live recital at La Scala with Angela Gheorghiu, various compilations of French mélodie with François Le Roux, music of Kurt Weill and cabaret songs with Ute Lemper, and two-piano works with Noel Lee. He has assisted conductors Sir George Solti, Christopher Hogwood, John Nelson, and Michel Plasson on recordings with Decca and EMI. Last November, Cohen was musical director and pianist in the Opéra Français de New York production of Debussy and Poe. He appeared as pianist in Peter Brook’s Impressionsde Pelléas, as well as Roman Polanski’s staging of the play Masterclass in Paris. He conducted Giorgio Strehler’s production of Der Dreigroschenoper and assisted MyungWhung Chung on Otello at the opening season of the Paris Bastille Opera.

French television aired Jeff d’orchestre over several years, a show written and presented by Cohen, which introduced music to children. He has also composed original music for feature films, plays, and dance pieces.

Cohen resides in Paris and is currently professor of mélodie and Lied at the Conservatoire National. In June 2006, Jeff he was awarded the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.

Please visit jeffcohen.weebly.com for more information.

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Source Song Festival presents

David Portillo tenor Olivier Godin pianist August 8, 2018 8p |Westminster Hall

Consider the Source Dichterliebe Op. 40 Robert Schumann (Heine) (1810-1856)

Im wunderschönen Monat Mai Aus meinen Tränen sprießen Die Rose, die Lilie, die Taube, die Sonne Wenn ich in deine Augen seh Ich will meine Seele tauchen Im Rhein, im heiligen Strome Ich grolle nicht Und wüßten's die Blumen, die kleinen Das ist ein Flöten und Geigen Hör' ich das Liedchen klingen Ein Jüngling liebt ein Mädchen Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen Ich hab' im Traum geweinet Allnächtlich im Traume Aus alten Märchen winkt es Die alten, bösen Lieder

INTERMISSION

Tre Sonetti di Petrarca Pace non trovo Benedetto sia il giorno I vidi in terra angelici costumi

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

Deux Mélodie de Guillaume Apollinaire Francis Poulenc Montparnasse (1899-1963) Hyde Park Bleuet (Apollinaire) 1904 (from Quatre poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire) La Rosa y el Sauce Pampamapa

Carlos Guastavino (1912-2000)

Notes from Performer David Portillo Tonight’s program is appropriately named “Consider the Source” in celebration of Source Song Festival’s Fifth Anniversary, and in reverence to three incredible poets and composers who purposefully created art in order to change their world forever. In our current political environment where sources are constantly devalued, journalism is condemned, and literature is criticized, our program will highlight the work of forward-thinkers of their time.

Each composer represented tonight left a deep footprint on 19th and 20th century music, and each is celebrated for their art song repertory. Our sources for text are awe-inspiring - Heinrich Heine, Francesco Petrarca, and Guillaume Apollinaire. Each were extremely influential in journalism, linguistics, religion, philosophy, politics, artistic criticism, and, of course, poetry.

Robert Schumann's Dichterliebe is from Heinrch Heine’s Lyrisches Intermezzo, and narrates a lover scorned, struggling with loss, and seeking closure. Schumann’s music - like the poetry - alternated from sensitive and dream-like to authoritative and resentful. Heinrich Heine was less known in Germany for his lyrical romantic poetry than for his political and religious criticism during the French Revolution. His works were met with opposition, censored, and mostly banned. He was outcast from his home country, disinherited from his family wealth, and left to die in destitution. The legacy of his literary work, however, is remembered as a source of social relevance and change. His 1823 quote, "Where books are burned, in the end, people will also be burned,” serves as as a foreboding reminder of the damage involved in silencing culture, study, science, and criticism.

Franz Liszt’s extreme popularity as a virtuoso pianist permeates into his compositions. He was, skilled, handsome, charismatic: a true DIVO. Audiences experienced a frenzy Heine coined, “Lisztomania.” The Tre Sonetti di Petrarca are showpieces for all involved, and come from the father of Humanism, the man who invented the modern Italian language, and, along with Dante, began the Renaissance: Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374).

Guillaume Apollinaire is the pen name of the son of Polish immigrants to France, and creator of the Surrealist movement. His poems entitled Calligram (also set by Poulenc) were visual art pieces, crafted into shapes of the subject. Francis Poulenc was constantly drawn to Apollinaire’s craft and imagery. Montparnasse and Hyde Park are snap-shots of locations in Paris and London. 1904 describes Carnaval in Strassbourg and has all the marks of modern bohemian observation - theater, fashion, and food.

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Notes fom the Performer (cont'd) Bleuet, with its political statement by both composer and author, is my personal favorite Poulenc song. Written in 1917 just after his returned from war, having suffered a head wound, Apollinaire wrote a love letter to a young soldier lamenting the innocence lost in war. Poulenc set this poem in 1939, as Hitler entered Poland, just before French soldiers began to enlist in what eventually became World War II. This song is filled with sweetness and portrays a calm pleading to understand the pain of loss and need for peace. The most shocking musical gesture comes at the end with a descent, almost like falling ash after a battle, during “Oh douceur d’autre fois” (“Oh sweetness of the past”). The final interval in the piano sends a chill with the beginning declamation of the French national anthem, La Marseillaise.

The final two songs, composed in a folk style by Carlos Guastavino are placed on the program for aesthetic enjoyment. Pampamapa is a ‘huella’ dance tune that has breaks of sung text about a visitor to a ‘new land’ who begs for patience and acceptance. The final words of both verses say, “At your footprint my earth, having watched all night.

I will give you my dreams, give me your calm.”

I am fond of this final song for its hope in finding a peaceful ‘home.’ This means a lot to me, having moved to Minneapolis in the last year. I am excited to build a long-time home here with a community of artists, musicians, and creators. I’m so grateful for the opportunity to perform a recital in Minneapolis for the first time, and I look forward to many more. Today’s recital program is the culmination of centuries of inspired thought and ideas set to words and music. Thank you for being present to support not only the performers, but the community of vocalists, pianists, composers, authors, and donors constantly striving to create. We consider them the Source for change.

-D.P.

David Portillo tenor Praised by Opera News for “high notes with ease, singing with a luxuriant warm glow that seduced the ear as he bounded about the stage with abandon,” American tenor David Portillo is one of the leading artists of his generation. This season, Portillo made role debuts at the Metropolitan Opera, first as Eduardo in Thomas Adès’ North American premiere of The Exterminating Angel, followed by Camille de Rosillon in The Merry Widow. In Europe, Mr. Portillo had two house debuts - at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Count Libenskof in Il viaggio a Reims and the Bayerische Staatsoper as Pasquale in Orlando Paladino. He also performed Count Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia with Houston Grand Opera and Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni for his debut with Dallas Opera. Orchestral highlights include Mozart’s Requiem with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl.

Last season, Portillo made his Australian debut singing Ferrando in Così fan tutte with Opera Australia. Other roles included as Jacquino in Fidelio with the Metropolitan Opera, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte with Oper Frankfurt, Pedrillo in Die Entführung aus dem Serail with Dutch National Opera, Don Ramiro in La Cenerentola with San Diego Opera, and Dr. Richardson in the world-premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves at Opera Philadelphia. Concert performances included an international tour of Handel’s Ariodante in the role of Lurcanio. In Japan, Portillo performed Count Almaviva with Ensemble Kanazawa.

When Portillo made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Count Almaviva, in the 2015/16 season, the New York Times said that he, “displayed a warm, nuanced tone.” That season, Portillo returned to Lyric Opera of Chicago as Andres in Wozzeck, and to Palm Beach Opera as Ernesto in Don Pasquale. Portillo also returned to the Glyndebourne Festival as David in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.

With orchestras, Portillo has been the tenor soloist in Verdi’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Phoenix Symphony, Elmhurst Symphony, and Colorado Music Festival. He has performed Handel’s Messiah with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Kansas City Symphony, and Richmond Symphony. He performed a recital with Steven Blier as part of the Schwabacher Recital Series, where the San Francisco Chronicle said that his “tenor rang out clearly and brightly, his diction was exemplary, and he moved with easy assurance from the 17th century to the 20th.”

An alumnus of the Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago, Merola Opera Program at San Francisco Opera, and Wolf Trap Opera, Portillo has added to his repertoire the Chevalier de la Force in Dialogues of the Carmelites, Nadir in Les pêcheurs de perles, Fenton in Falstaff, Alfredo in La traviata, the title role in Albert Herring, and Sam Kaplan in Street Scene. Please visit davidportillotenor.com for more information.

Olivier Godin pianist

A native of Montreal, Olivier Godin is pursuing a brilliant career as a pianist and chamber player in Canada and abroad. He has performed in numerous international festivals, including the Francis Poulenc Academy in Tours, the International AlbertRoussel Festival in France, and the Palazzetto Bru Zane Festival in Venice, as well as on France-Musique and Radio-Canada radio stations. In Canada, Godin has performed at the Orford, Lanaudière, Lachine, Classica, and Parry Sound festivals.

He has also played with many singers and musicians in New York City, Paris, Venice, Bonn, and at the prestigious Wigmore Hall in London, during the Wigmore Hall/ Kohn International Song Competition.

Godin’s recordings include the complete melodies of Francis Poulenc, the complete works for two pianos of Rachmaninov, the complete melodies of Duparc, and several dedicated to the works of forgotten French romantic composers such as Théodore Dubois and Émile Pessard. Many have been nominated or awarded an Opus Prize from the Conseil québécois de la musique. His recording of Musique sur l’eau et autres mélodies by Théodore Dubois with baritone Marc Boucher won five Diapason awards by the French magazine Diapason.

Godin’s vocal collaborators include sopranos Karina Gauvin, Aline Kutan, Pascale Beaudin, Hélène Guilmette, and Julie Fuchs; mezzo-sopranos Julie Boulianne and Nora Sourouzian; contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux; tenor Antonio Figueroa; and baritones François Le Roux, Marc Boucher, and Gordon Bintner. As a repetiteur he has worked with numerous conductors, including Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Jean-Marie Zeitouni, Raffi Armenian, Agnès Grossmann, Jean-Claude Malgoire, Franz-Paul Decker, and Charles Dutoit. He is frequently invited as an adjudicator for competitions.

In concert, Godin has performed the Canadian premiere of previously unreleased works by Claude Debussy and Francis Poulenc. Godin has also performed in Germany with actress Isabel Karajan and at the Paris Théâtre du Châtelet with singer Diane Dufresne and musicians from the Paris Opera Orchestra. As an organist, Godin can often be heard at the Mary-Queen-of-the-World basilica cathedral in Montreal, where he assists the principal organist, Hélène Dugal. He has performed in many recitals as an organist in Québec and France.

Godin was appointed as a professor at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal at the age of 25 and presently serves as director of the Opera Studies. He also works with young singers from McGill University and the Atelier lyrique of the Opéra de Montréal. He runs the vocal accompaniment program for pianists at the Domaine Forget International Music and Dance Academy. Prior to this, he taught at the Orford Arts Center Summer Academy for fourteen years. Godin was awarded the Prix avec grande distinction by the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal in solo performance and chamber music, where he studied and worked with renowned pianist Raoul Sosa. He has also studied organ with Jean Le Buis. Please visit oliviergodin.com for more information.

MNsong composers recital Friday, August 10 | 8:30pm Westminster Hall Come enjoy the works by the emerging composers selected by Libby Larsen for the fifth annual MNSong Composers Workshop.

Performed by local artists, by emerging composers.

It doesn’t get much better than this!

Source Song Festival presents

Martha Guth soprano Spencer Myer pianist August 9, 2018 8p |Westminster Hall

Into the Beautiful Luis LlorĂŠns Torres Madrugada Muerta Agua Maldita Vida Criolla

Roberto Sierra (b. 1953)

Emily Dickinson

Love's stricken 'why' (from Poems of Love and the Rain) Wild Nights Eden Bind me - I still can sing (from Chanting to Paradise) Heart, we will forget him As imperceptibly as grief

Ned Rorem (b. 1923) Ernst Bacon (1898-1990) Ernst Bacon Libby Larsen (b. 1950) Robert Baksa (b. 1938) Tom Cipullo (b.1956)

Uvavnuk

The Great Sea

Leslie Uyeda (b. 1953) INTERMISSION

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Wasting the Night Scott Wheeler Thurs (1964) Recuerdo I shall forget you Time does not bring relief Betrothal

Bob Dylan A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

Annonymous

arr. Andrew Staniland (b. 1977)

Execution Songs (based on the ballad: The Maid Freed from the Gallows)

Andrew Staniland

Martha Guth soprano Soprano Martha Guth brings consummate musicianship and a distinctive tonal palette to a wide range of musical periods and styles. A much sought after concert soloist, her repertoire includes Mozart’s C Minor Mass (New York’s Sacred Music in a Sacred Space in St. Ignatius Loyola Cathedral and Columbus, Ohio’s ProMusic Chamber Orchestra), Orff’s Carmina Burana (West Michigan, Mobile, Lima Symphonies, Florida Orchestra), the Brahms Requiem (Washington, D.C.’s Cathedral Choral Society, New York’s Voices of Ascension, Calvin College), Britten’s Spring Symphony (Choral Society of Durham), Händel’s Messiah (Santa Fe Symphony, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Christ Church Cathedral in Lexington, Kentucky), Mendelssohn’s Elijah (Columbia Pro Cantare and Gloriae Dei Cantores), Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 (Evansville Philharmonic) and Symphony No. 4 (Flagstaff Symphony), Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 (Fort Wayne Philharmonic) and Missa solemnis (Bachakademie Stuttgart), Mozart’s Exsultate, jubilate (Hamilton Philharmonic) and Concert Arias (Bad Reichenhaller Philharmonie), Berlioz’s Les nuits d’été (Canadian Opera Company orchestra), Haydn’s Die Schöpfung (New Mexico Symphony), and Poulenc’s Stabat Mater (Spokane Symphony). Naxos recently issued her recording of Roberto Sierra’s Beyond the Silence of Sorrow with Maximiano Valdés conducting the Puerto Rico Symphony, nominated for 2016 Latin Grammy Award. Guth has also collaborated with John Nelson, Helmuth Rilling, Richard Bradshaw, Seiji Ozwa and Robert Spano at Tanglewood, and been guest soloist with many other orchestras, including the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic, and Toronto Symphony.

A persuasive actress, Guth has performed Frau Fluth in the Boston Midsummer Opera’s production of Nicolai’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro (Countess) and Don Giovanni (Donna Anna) at Opera Lyra Ottawa, Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (Pamina) and Die Entführungaus dem Serail (Konstanze) in Göggingen, Germany, the title role of Händel’s Alcina in Lucca, Italy, Lauretta in Bizet’s Dr. Miracle and Norina in Don Pasquale with the Santa Fe Opera, and Alyce in Tom Cipullo’s Glory Denied at New York’s Chelsea Opera. She has also performed with the opera companies of Graz (Austria) and Palma de Mallorca (Spain).

A model collaborator, Guth is noted for her passionate devotion to recital and chamber repertoire, earning First Prize at the 2007 Wigmore Hall International Song Competition in London. She has given recitals at London’s Wigmore Hall and Leeds Lieder Festival with pianist Graham Johnson; in New York with Dalton Baldwin and Malcolm Martineau; and at both the Vancouver International Song Institute and Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival with Erika Switzer. Guth also curates the Casement Fund Song Series in New York City. Her recitals have been broadcast on the CBC Radio/Radio Canada, BBC Radio, and WDR (Germany). Her recordings include Schubert songs with fortepianist Penelope Crawford, John Fritz-Roger’s Magna Mysteria, Brahms’ Liebeslieder Waltzes, and The Five Borough Song Book. (artist bio continued on the next page)

Martha

Guth (cont'd)

Guth was raised in Vancouver, British Columbia. She holds an undergraduate degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, a Master’s from the Cincinnati College/Conservatory of Music, and a post-graduate degree from the Hochschule für Musik in Augsburg/Nürnberg, where she studied with Edith Wiens. Please visit marthaguth.com for more information.

Guth, with her colleague Erika Switzer, produces the online magazine Sparks and Wiry Cries (sparksandwirycries. com), which features live and recorded performances and discussions with singers, pianists, and composers. Sparks and Wiry Cries started the SongSlam concept, which Source was delighted to present last January at IceHouse in Minneapolis.

Spencer Myer pianist Lauded for “superb playing” and “poised, alert musicianship” by the Boston Globe, and labeled “definitely a man to watch” by London’s The Independent, American pianist Spencer Myer is one of the most respected and sought-after artists today.

Myer’s current season includes debuts with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra, the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra, the Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra, and the Longmont Symphony Orchestra, as well as return engagements with the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra and Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra, and a seventh tour of South Africa. This summer he returns to Wisconsin’s Peninsula Music Festival. Myer’s solo recitals and chamber music collaborations take him throughout the United States, including a debut with cellist Adrian Daurov at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Spencer Myer’s orchestral, recital and chamber music performances have been heard all over the world. He has been soloist with many orchestras, including the Cleveland Orchestra, the Cape Town Orchestra, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, the Phoenix Symphony, the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony, Mexico’s Orquesta Filarmónica de Jalisco, and Beijing’s China National Symphony Orchestra.

Myer’s has appeared in recitals in New York City’s Weill Recital Hall, Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center, and London’s Wigmore Hall, and many of his performances have been broadcast throughout the United States. An in-demand chamber musician, he has appeared the past five summers at the Lev Aronson Legacy Festival in Dallas with cellists Lynn Harrell, Ralph Kirshbaum, Amit Peled and Brian Thornton, and has enjoyed a recurring partnership with the Miami String Quartet at the Kent/Blossom Music Festival. Other artistic partners include clarinetist David Shifrin, sopranos Nicole Cabell, Martha Guth, and Erin Wall, the Jupiter and Pacifica string quartets and the Dorian Wind Quintet.

Myer’s career was launched with three important prizes: First Prize in the 2004 UNISA International Piano Competition in South Africa, the 2006 Christel DeHaan Classical Fellowship from the American Pianists Association, and the Gold Medal from the 2008 New Orleans International Piano Competition. He is also a laureate of the 2007 William Kapell, 2005 Cleveland and 2005 Busoni International Piano Competitions. He enjoys an esteemed reputation as a vocal collaborator since winning the 2000 Marilyn Horne Foundation Competition. Mr. Myer was a member of Astral Artists’ performance roster from 2003-2010.

An enthusiastic supporter of the education of young musicians, Spencer Myer has served as a guest faculty at the Oberlin and Baldwin-Wallace Conservatories of Music, and in the fall of 2015, he was appointed Artist-Teacher of Piano and Collaborative Piano at Boston’s Longy School of Music of Bard College.

Spencer Myer’s debut CD for harmonia mundi usa - solo music of Busoni, Copland, Debussy and Kohs - was released in the fall of 2007 to critical acclaim by Fanfare and Gramophone magazines. Mr. Myer’s most recent recordings — Piano Rags of William Bolcom and the Brahms Cello Sonatas with Brian Thornton — were released in 2017 on the Steinway & Sons label.

Spencer Myer is a Steinway Artist. Please visit spencermyer.com for more information.

50TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT Past – Present – Future Sun, Oct 7, 2018 at 4 PM Ordway Concert Hall, Saint Paul

Roll out the red carpet and stroll down memory lane as we celebrate the people and songs that made VocalEssence what it is today. Opening just as we did 50 years ago with Aaron Copland’s In the Beginning with acclaimed mezzo-soprano Clara Osowski. Join us! Tickets start at $20.

SINGLE TICKETS AVAILABLE STARTING MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 2018 612-371-5656 | vocalessence.org

Source Song Festival presents

MNDuo Artists in Concert August 10, 2018 7p | Westminster Hall

Music of Minnesota Turning into April (Bushnell)

Catherine Dalton

Olivia Shurke soprano | John Carson pianist To My Daughter, After a Fight (Evans)

Jocelyn Hagen

Froya Olson soprano | Jordan Buchholtz pianist The Flower of the Field (Isaiah 40:6-8)

Stephanie Thorpe soprano | Alex Woods pianist Gjendine’s Lullaby (Trad. Norwegian)

Jocelyn Hagen

Linda Tutas Haugen

Shari Feldman soprano | Daniel Carunchio pianist The Book of Hungers from Between the Limbs (Prefontaine)

Edie Hill

Bethany Battafarano soprano | Jiwon Lee pianist I Give Voice to My Mother (Kildegaard) Linda Kachelmeier III. Song

IV. Hands Motomi Tanaka soprano | Yunyue Liu pianist The Wings of the Morning (Psalm 139)

David Evan Thomas

Pie-Han Chao soprano | Tong Cheng pianist CONCERT ORDER TO BE ANNOUNCED AT 7PM

Macalester College Music Department

Artistic Excellence in a Preeminent Liberal Arts Setting

Randall Bauer, Associate Professor (theory/composition) Victoria Malawey, Associate Professor Mark Mandarano, Associate Professor and Director of Instrumental Activities Mark Mazullo, Professor (musicology and piano) Michael McGaghie, Assistant Professor and Director of Choral Activities Laura Nichols, Visiting Assistant Professor and Instructor of Voice Chuen-Fung Wong, Associate Professor and Chair (ethnomusicology) Mike Breidenbach, Director of Piping Sowah Mensah, Director of the African Music Ensemble Clea Galhano, Director of Early Music Ensemble Joan Griffith, Director of Mac Jazz Shelley Hanson, Director of Wind Ensemble Peter Hennig, Director of Jazz and Pop Combos

Source Song Festival with generous support from Rydell Financial, LLC presents

MNSong Composer Showcase August 10, 2018 8:30p |Westminster Hall

A Concert of Music by Composers of the MNSong Institute Libby Larsen, composer mentor Hard Stones (DeSiro) II. Lockdown IV. After the Bombing

Griffin Candey

Linh Kauffman soprano | Bryon Wilson piano

Ryokan Songs (Ryokan) Seamus Hubbard Flynn Yes, I’m truly a dunce Caged Birds To a Visitor We meet only to part The plants and flowers

Tracey Engleman soprano | Ruth Palmer piano

The Way of Things (Lao-Tzu) 1. As For the Way 4. The Subtlety of All Things 7. Emptiness is Usefulness 8. Balance is the Way 11. A Long Life

Riley Cardona soprano | Ann DuHamel piano

Jason Squinobal

Unceasing Light (Shanks) Sonnet 29 (Shakespeare) Sonnet to a Stilton Cheese (G.K. Chesterton)

Martha Helen Schmidt

Joseph Hubbard baritone | Nicholas Phillips piano

Canciónes de desamor (Castillo) Por un instante Que queden sin rocío las flores bellas Prefiero mil veces

Steven Serpa

Maria Jette soprano | Mary Jo Gothmann piano Survive Joseph Stutzman

Liz Pearse soprano | Matthew McCright piano

CONCERT ORDER TO BE ANNOUNCED AT 8:30PM

Libby Larsen composer & head of MNSong Program Music exists in an infinity of sound. I think of all music as existing in the substance of the air itself. It is the composer’s task to order and make sense of sound, in time and space, to communicate something about being alive through music.

— Libby Larsen Libby Larsen (b. 24 December 1950, Wilmington, Delaware) is one of America’s most performed living composers. She has created a catalogue of over 400 works spanning virtually every genre from intimate vocal and chamber music to massive orchestral works and over twelve operas. Grammy Award winning and widely recorded, including over fifty CDs of her work, she is constantly sought after for commissions and premieres by major artists, ensembles, and orchestras around the world, and has established a permanent place for her works in the concert repertory.

As a vigorous, articulate advocate for the music and musicians of our time, in 1973 Larsen co-founded the Minnesota Composers Forum, now the American Composers Forum, which has become an invaluable aid for composers in a transitional time for American arts. A former holder of the Papamarkou Chair at John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress, Larsen has also held residencies with the Minnesota Orchestra, the Charlotte Symphony, and the Colorado Symphony.

Please visit libbylarsen.com for more information.

MNDuo teams Bethany Battafarano soprano | Jiwon Lee pianist

Bethany Battafarano, soprano, finds her niche in early, choral, and contemporary classical music. She has performed with The Rose Ensemble, Minnesota Chorale, Apollo Master Chorale, Oratory Bach Ensemble, First Readings Project, and The Singers – Minnesota Choral Artists. With The Rose Ensemble, Battafarano celebrated the release of her first CD, Christmas in Baroque Malta, and she toured Spain, France, Germany, and across the United States.

In 2017, Battafarano co-founded the professional chamber choir Border CrosSing, for which she sings and is Deputy Director. Battafarano is co-founder of the chamber treble ensemble Artemis, which performs contemporary classical music and experimental improvisation. Artemis recently completed a commission by French artist Laure Prouvost, the Walker Art Center, and Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center in New York. Battafarano is co-founder of a new trio (tentatively “BETH”), which collaborates with Twin Cities composer, Victoria Malawey, on music for soprano, violin, and double bass. Battafarano holds a BA in Music, Anthropology, and Psychology from Macalester College.

Pianist Jiwon Lee has extensive experience both as a soloist and collaborative artist.

A native of Korea, Lee’s accomplishments include winning the International Piano Workshop competition in Varna, Bulgaria, with multiple performance of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23. She was also the first-place winner in the Daegu Metropolitan Office of Education music competition and received the Bronze prize in the 11th National Music Contest in Seoul, Korea. Lee earned the Master of Music and Bachelor of Music degrees in Piano Performance at the Keimyung University in Korea, and a Master of Music degree in Collaborative Piano and Chamber Music from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts, where she studied under Elena Abend and Judit Jaimes. While at UWM, Lee was a pianist for the Leonard Sorkin International Institute of Chamber Music and held a teaching assistant position. Lee participated in both the Collaborative Institute Program in Minnesota and the 21st Piano Symposium hosted by the Piano Society of Korea. She has performed in masterclasses with Vladimir Shakin, Joseph Banowetz, and Adam Wodnicki. Lee will start her doctorate program in Collaborative Piano with Dr. Timothy Lovelace this fall at the University of Minnesota.

Pei-Han Chao soprano | Tong Cheng pianist Pei-Han Chao, a native of Taipei, Taiwan, holds a Five-Year College Diploma of Music from the National Taiwan Academy of Arts (the forerunner of the National Taiwan University of Arts), a Master's degree in Vocal Performance from the National Taipei University of Education, a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the Boston Conservatory, and a Graduate Performance Diploma in Vocal Performance from the Boston Conservatory. Her performances at the Conservatory included the role of Chocholka in The Cunning Little Vixen, and opera scenes from Iolanta, Don Giovanni, Elisir d'Amore, and others. Chao lives in Minneapolis, where she is pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Vocal Performance at the University of Minnesota.

Tong Cheng is a piano soloist and accompanist, and has been awarded many prizes in China. He began his music education at the age of eight and has performed in Liaoning, Beijing, Guangdong, Shanghai and Hong Kong. He has been granted numerous college scholarships, including the National Scholarship of China. He currently is a graduate assistant in the University of Minnesota, pursuing his DMA degree in collaborative piano and coaching. Tong is interested in spreading his passion for classical music.

MNDuo teams Shari Feldman soprano | Daniel Carunchio pianist Shari Eve Feldman, soprano, is passionate about all things musical, including, but hardly limited to, chamber music literature, performance practice, avant garde repertoire, contemporary and classical opera, and Semitic song literature. Her passion for exploring culture through language and poetry has resulted in a body of song repertoire in English, Yiddish, Ladino, Hebrew, Russian, Maltese, and Swedish in addition to the standard French, German, and Italian canon. Feldman has been part of a young artist MNDuo team with the Source Song Festival for the past three years and is thrilled to return! When not singing, Feldman is the Academic Advisor and Music Admissions Program Coordinator for the Department of Music at the University of Delaware. A proud "Blue Hen," Feldman earned her both B.A. in Music and M.M. in Vocal Performance from the University of Delaware in 2010 and 2012 respectively.

Daniel J. Carunchio received his B.M.A. degree in Piano Pedagogy, and a dual M.F.A. in Piano Performance and Music Theory from Temple University. Since then he has stayed as an adjunct instructor in the Music Studies program, where he teaches courses to both music majors and non-music majors. Carunchio is an active pianist, lecturer and music educator. In Wilmington, Delaware he maintains a flourishing piano studio, and is an active accompanist. In 2017, he was awarded an Emerging Artists Fellowship in Music by the Delaware Division of the Arts.

Besides being a devoted pianist, Carunchio considers himself an "eternal student."

His passion for learning has recently brought him to Paris to study counterpoint at the European American Music Alliance (EAMA), and to play for illustrious pianists such as Charles Abramovic, Imogen Cooper, and Emile Naoumoff.

Froya Olson soprano | Jordan Buchholtz pianist Froya Olson is a soprano based in the Twin Cities. Before graduating with a Bachelor of Music from Lawrence University in 2017, she appeared in National Opera Association award-winning productions of The Tender Land, The Beggar’s Opera, and Hydrogen Jukebox under direction of Copeland Woodruff. Her visually artistic junior and senior recitals sensitively explored themes of women and the moon, and the kaleidoscopic navigation of identity. Outside of Lawrence University, Olson has played the role of Governess in Britten’s Turn of the Screw, Drusilla in Lâ incoronazione di Poppea, and Zweite Knabe in Die Zauberflöte.

In 2016, Olson won first place at the Wisconsin NATS competition. This year Olson has been chosen as a finalist in the Minnesota Grieg Society competition, where she intends to proudly display her heritage.

Jordan Buchholtz is a pianist, collaborator, and teacher. She regularly works and performs with both vocalists and instrumentalists as well as local chamber ensembles. For the past five years Buchholtz lived in Kansas City and was the pianist for the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Wind Symphony and opera department.

Along with her studies, she was the faculty pianist for Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, KS. Buchholtz also wrote concert reviews for Kansas City’s Online Journal for the Arts at KCMetropolis.org and played with local groups, including the Kansas City Women’s Chorus. Recent engagements include playing and conducting You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown for JCCC’s theater department, serving as the Opera Coach Fellow at the Atlantic Music Festival for a scenes program and a full production of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas.

Upcoming projects include playing for the University of Minnesota’s fall production of Britten’s Albert Herring.This fall, Buchholtz begins her DMA at the University of Minnesota in collaborative piano. She earned a MM in Piano Performance as well as an Artist Certificate at UMKC’s Conservatory of Music and Dance and a BA in Music from Luther College. Buchholtz is also the new organist and pianist at the Norwegian Lutheran Memorial Church in Minneapolis.

MNDuo teams Olivia Schurke soprano | John Carson pianist Olivia Schurke is a soprano from Maplewood, Minnesota. In May, she graduated from St. Olaf College with a BM degree in Vocal Performance. Schurke has competed in various competitions around the Twin Cities. In 2017, she won first place in the Thursday Musical Young Artist Competition and has been a finalist in the Schubert Club Competition for three consecutive years. Schurke’s agile soprano voice has been said to possesses a rich, bell-like tone with mezzo qualities. Last fall, she appeared as Mad Margaret in St. Olaf Lyric Theater's production of Ruddigore.

In the fall of 2016, Schurke played Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus. In addition to her solo work, Schurke flourishes in choral settings. During her time at St. Olaf, she sang with the St. Olaf Choir and worked at the Colonial Church of Edina Choir as a choral scholar. Schurke is now based in the Twin Cities where she will continue her vocal studies in preparation for graduate school.

John Carson is a pianist from Northfield, MN. He recently graduated from St. Olaf and holds a BM degree in Piano Performance with a collaborative emphasis. At St. Olaf, Carson was highly involved in the Lyric Theater Department productions as an accompanist and coach. Some of these productions include Don Giovanni, Die Fledermaus, and Ruddigore. In addition to his collaborative work, Carson is also an accomplished solo pianist and singer. He was a three year member of the St. Olaf Choir and is an alumnus of the St. Thomas Choir in Manhattan, New York. After his time at St. Olaf, Carson will take a gap year before graduate school, where he will pursue his passion for opera, conducting, and composition.

Motomi Tanaka soprano | Yunyue Liu pianist Motomi Tanaka, a soprano from Yokohama, Japan, embraces a broad range of repertoire from early to contemporary music. Her interest in art songs and contemporary works has led her to participate in a number of master classes and music festivals, including Songfest, VISI, and Atlantic Music Festival. An active recitalist, Tanaka has recently given full performances in New York and at the former Sonoda House Concert Hall in Tokyo. She is a member of the Nikolai Kachanov Singers, the artists-in-residence at the Nicholas Roerich Museum. Tanaka directs a choir, teaches piano/voice at Hamilton Madison House Music School, and is one of the soprano leaders at the Park Avenue Christian Church in New York City. Tanaka holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History from Keio University, a Master of Music from Musashino Academia Musicae, and a Professional Studies Certificate from Manhattan School of Music.

Pianist Yunyue Liu, a native of Shanghai, is emerging as a gifted collaborative artist. She performs frequently in the Twin Cities area, including performances in The Baroque Room and The Landmark Center as part of the Twin Cities Early Music Festival Series. Liu’s international appearances include a recently sold out performance of Schubert's Winterreise at Shanghai Concert Hall as part of an Afternoon Concert series with her frequent recital partner, baritone Lu Zang. She has also participated in the Franz-Schubert-Institute in Austria, Oberlin in Italy Opera Festival in Arezzo, Italy, and the Hot Springs Music Festival in Arkansas.

Liu holds degrees from Shanghai Normal University, Lynn Conservatory of Music, and University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Shortly after graduating from University of Minnesota with her doctorate in Collaborative Piano in 2017, Liu was appointed Executive Director of the Bach Society of Minnesota.

MNDuo teams Stephanie Thorpe soprano | Alexander Woods pianist Stephanie R. Thorpe, soprano, is a member of the voice faculty in the Department of Music at Minnesota State University, Mankato where she teaches classical, musical theatre, and contemporary vocal genres. Prior to her faculty appointment, she performed full-time in Las Vegas, Nevada for many years. Thorpe is a member of Thursday Musical, a performing arts organization in the Twin Cities. She continues to be active in opera/oratorio, musical theatre, contemporary music, and recital. Thorpe received a Doctor of Musical Arts in Vocal Performance from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and also hold degrees from the University of Iowa and Briar Cliff University. Thorpe is certified in Contemporary Commercial Vocal Pedagogy and holds a Vocology Certificate from the National Center for Voice and Speech under the tutelage of Dr. Ingo Titze and Dr. Katherine Verdolini Abbott.

Alexander Woods holds bachelor’s degrees in music and religious studies from Pomona College, where he studied piano performance with Genevieve Lee and Ming Tsu. He enjoys solo and collaborative repertoire, with interests in contemporary music, jazz, and popular styles. Woods is grateful to be the recipient of several grants and prizes that funded summer study at Brevard Music Festival (NC), Adamant Music School (VT), the Collaborative Piano Institute (MN), InterHarmony International Festival (Milan), and Borromeo Music Festival in Altdorf, Switzerland. His interests include music theory, composition, ethnomusicology, and Islamic studies. Performance highlights include recitals featuring works of D. Scarlatti, J.S. Bach, Haydn, Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn, R. Schumann, Brahms, Liszt, Chaminade, Debussy, Ravel, Britten, Ives, Copland, Dutilleux, Rzewski, Bolcom, and Tom Flaherty; and a tour of Southern California as a pianist with the Pomona College Glee Club. This year, Woods will begin a M.M. program in collaborative piano at the University of Minnesota.

MNsong participants Griffin Candey (b. 1988) is an American composer whose work vocalists praise for its "prosody that showcases both the words and the singers," its "intuitive rhythm," and its "lyricism and emotional depth."

Candey currently serves as Composer-in-Residence at Cleveland Opera Theater in conjunction with their adaptation of Federico Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba (January 2020, bilingual libretto by Caridad Svich). Candey's first opera, Sweets

by Kate — described as "hilarious and moving" and "a piece with charming and elaborate complexity" — was chosen for the 2017 line-up of Fort Worth Opera's Frontiers Festival. This comic work, commissioned by the Midwest Institute of Opera, subsequently saw productions at Boston University, Marble City Opera, and at the historic Stonewall Inn with NYC's OperaRox Productions. More recently, his comic opera Follow Suit — a two-hander romp, with libretto by Knoxville's Emily Anderson — premiered at Marble City Opera to sold out audiences.

2019 and 2020 will see several premieres across the Unites States — cycles for the Seen/Heard Trio, for Brooke Larimer and the BEO String Quartet, for Detroit’s Juxtatonal, for soprano Alex Nowakowski, and one for Ann Moss commemorating the anniversary of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.

Seamus Hubbard Flynn (b. 1999) grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota, and is currently pursuing a B.A. in Music at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where he studies composition with Eric Nathan and Wang Lu. In Minnesota, he studied with Abbie Betinis and Edie Hill. From 2016 to 2017, Flynn co-led NextNotes Lab, a high school student-run composer ensemble affiliated with the American Composers Forum. Flynn has also had his music performed by the professional ensembles Zeitgeist and YarnWire. During summers, Flynn has studied at the Atlantic Music Festival, the Rocky Ridge Young Artist Seminar, and the Junior Composers Studio. In addition to composing, playing, and listening to music, Flynn enjoys riding his bicycle and learning about topics ranging from social justice to outer space.

Martha Helen Schmidt is a composer and educator in the Twin Cities currently teaching secondary choral music, piano, and theory in Burnsville, Minnesota.

Schmidt holds a BM in Theory/Composition from Lawrence University Conservatory of Music and an MM in Theory/Composition from Ithaca College. She had the great privilege to study with one of the most revered teachers of the 20th century, Nadia Boulanger, at the Conservatoire Américain de Fontainebleau in France. Other teachers include Louise Talma, James Ming, and Pulitzer Prize winners Steven Stucky and Karel Husa. Schmidt currently has five choral octavos published by Theodore Presser. She recently collaborated with world renowned National Geographic photographer Jim Brandenburg on Earth Teach Me, an SATB choral work based on a beautiful Native American Ute text.

Schmidt found her passion in writing Art Song songs and cycles. Her song cycle I Open and Fill with Love, her second set of songs based on the poetry of Rumi, a 13th century Persian poet, theologian, and mystic was highly received at its premiere in Paris and Fontainebleau, France, including a performance at the 90th Anniversary Jubilee of the Conservatoire Américain.

Schmidt also has two French cycles, Trois Mélodies and Quatre Chansons, based on the poetry of Verlaine and other French poets. Schmidt recently finished her cycle Ship of Death for bass and piano with poetry by D. H. Lawrence, which premiered at Source Song Festival in 2016. Her piece Too much light was premiered earlier this summer at the Vancouver Art Song Lab. She considers herself fortunate to live in a state so rich in the Arts!

MNsong participants Recent years have seen composer Steven Serpa working with ensembles and opera companies around the country. His An Invocation, for oboe and string orchestra, was premiered by the Austin Symphony Orchestra and performed on the TreeFalls new music series in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Theater critics have praised Serna's one-act opera Thyrsis & Amaranth as a "truly beautiful, magnificent little story jammed full of thought and feeling and meaning" with “gorgeous music and wrenching lyrics.” Since its premiere, it has been produced by opera companies in Austin, Cincinnati, Halifax, Hartford, St. Louis, and recently at Syracuse University.

Serna's upcoming projects include james (book of ruth), an oratorio tackling HIV stigma being premiered this December in Los Angeles by the Chorosynthesis Singers, and Urlicht Fantasy for the Hartford Independent Chamber Orchestra. Originally from Rhode Island, Serna has earned degrees in vocal performance, early music performance, and composition. He has studied with composers Tom Cipullo in New York, Larry Alan Smith and Stephen Gryč at the Hartt School, and with Donald Grantham and Dan Welcher at the Butler School of Music of the University of Texas at Austin, where Serna is currently a doctoral candidate in composition.

Jason Squinobal is the Director of Instrumental Music at Virginia Wesleyan University, in Norfolk VA. At VWU Squinobal directs both the string ensemble and jazz ensemble, which gives him the opportunity to compose and arrange the majority of the repertoire the ensembles perform each semester. Squinobal earned his PhD in Ethnomusicology in April 2009 from the University of Pittsburgh. During his time at the University of Pittsburgh, he studied with eminent composer Eric Moe and creative musicologist Akin Euba.

While earning a Bachelors of Music Education at Berklee College of Music, Squinobal studied jazz improvisation and composition with saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi. Because of these experiences, Squinobal incorporates musical elements of traditional cultures into his compositions. From 2012 until 2015, he was the director of Jazz Studies at the University of Minnesota, Morris. While at UMM, Squinobal’s jazz ensemble performed his original compositions at the North American Saxophone Alliance conference in Minot, ND and at the Minnesota Music Educators annual conference in Minneapolis, MN. The ensemble also toured England where the band performed in Manchester, Bristol, and London. Most recently, Squinobal has been composing Art Songs, and is particularly interested in the structure, form, and themes connecting songs within cycles.

Joseph Stutzman holds a Bachelor's of Music Education degree from Adrian College and a Master's degree in Composition from Westminster Choir College. During his time in academia he received the Senior Award for Excellence in Music Education '15, and The Julianne and Bill Phillips Endowed Composition Award '16.

Stutzman's recent works include A Solution of Love for brass quintet, oboe, and audience participation performed by New York Summer Music Festival faculty, The Sophist's Soliloquy for trumpet and piano, which won an award from the University of Toledo Young Composers Contest, and, most recently, Not Alone for four singers, two pianists, and planted audience members.

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