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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! Welcome to the inaugural season of Source Song Festival! If you’re reading this, chances are, you are sitting down and getting comfortable, anticipating an upcoming recital, workshop or masterclass. Now, take a moment to look around. Notice anything? There’s something special all around you. Figure it out? Okay, I’ll tell you: you are surrounded by people who share your love, passion, or curiosity for words, for music, and their unique product when joined together: Song. Okay, so it wasn’t a celebrity sighting, but that’s still a pretty exciting thought, no? Think of all the unique experiences, viewpoints, and ideas that brought all of your new friends to this same place. This exchanging of ideas and experiences, this coming-together of people who love words, music, and collaboration is something I am passionate about, something I found at festivals around the world, but something that was missing within our own vibrant community here in Minnesota. This is why Source exists. Now, here’s the best part: every one of the artists you will see, hear, interact with during this week --whether they live in Paris or St. Paul, Burnsville or Boston—each one of them responded to my cold-call with nothing but a “YES!” What does this tell you? It tells me that there are people far more talented and experienced than myself who crave this interaction and this experience just as much as I do, it tells me people are generous beyond comprehension, and most importantly, it tells me that Source Song Festival really can fill a need, find its place, and serve our community. It is my hope you will enjoy these seven days of diverse programming we have worked so hard to create, and that you, too, will find the joy, challenges, and satisfaction that songs can bring into our lives. Thank you for being here. Thank you for being curious. Thank you for allowing Source to serve you. Thank you for coming back tomorrow and bringing a friend. With heartfelt thanks,

Mark Bilyeu, Artistic Director

Schedule of Events ALL EVENTS TAKE PLACE AT THE MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC 501 S. 2ND STREET, MINNEAPOLIS (unless otherwise noted)

Friday, August 1 2p Masterclass: Florestan Recital Project 8p RECITAL: Open Source Saturday, August 2 2p Workshop: Libby Larsen: Libby & the Law 7p RECITAL: WORDSONG @ The Loft

Antonello Hall Antonello Hall Antonello Hall Loft Literary Center*

Sunday, August 3 2p Workshop: Libby Larsen: Text, and Setting It 8p RECITAL: MNSong Final Concert

Antonello Hall Antonello Hall

Monday, August 4 12p Workshop: Maria Jette: Ecumenical Recitalist 2p Masterclass: Tyler Duncan & Erika Switzer

Minnesota Opera Center † Rm. 124

Tuesday, August 5 9a Workshop: Laura Loewen: Passionate Diction 11a Masterclass: Susan Manoff 3:30p Masterclass: Susan Manoff 8p RECITAL: Tyler Duncan & Erika Switzer

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Wednesday, August 6 2p Masterclass: François Le Roux 6:30p RECITAL: MNDuo: Music of Betinis, Hill & Thomas 8p RECITAL: Maria Jette, Adriana Zabala, Tim Lovelace

Rm. 124 Antonello Hall Antonello Hall

Thursday, August 7 9a Workshop: Dana Brown: Business Practices for Artists 6p RECITAL: MNDuo Final Concert 8p RECITAL: François Le Roux & Olivier Godin

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*Target Performance Hall @ the Open Book / 1011 S Washington Ave, Minneapolis † Jones Rehearsal Studio @ Minnesota Opera Center / 620 North First Street, Minneapolis

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Source Festival ARtists Founding Artistic Director

Associate Artistic Director

Mark Bilyeu | pianist

Clara Osowski|mezzo

Christina Baldwin|mezzo

Lara Bolton | pianist

Dana Brown | pianist

Carolyn Campfield|soprano

Abbie Betinis | composer

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Alan Dunbar| bass-baritone

Aaron Engebreth|baritone Tracey Engelman|soprano Howard Frazin|composer

Mary Jo Gothman | pianist

Roy Heilman | tenor

Edie Hill|composer

Andrew Kane|baritone

Linh Kauffman| soprano

Laura Loewen| pianist

Gail Olszewski| pianist

Ruth Palmer| pianist

Julian Ward| pianist

KrisAnn Weiss|mezzo

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for full biographies of all Source Artists, please visit our webstie at: www.sourcesongfestival.org/all-artists/

August 1, 2014 8p | Antonello Recital Hall OPEN SOURCE: AN EVENING WITH LIBBY LARSEN featuring the Florestan Recital Project: Aaron Engebreth, baritone | Alison d’Amato, piano & Tracey Engleman, soprano | Ruth Palmer, piano

Welcome & Introduction: Mark Bilyeu, Artistic Director Opening Remarks: Libby Larsen, composer Sonnets from the Portuguese I. I Thought Once how Theocritus Had Sung II. My Letters! III. With the Same Heart, I Said, I’ll Answer Thee IV. If I Leave All for Thee V. Oh, Yes! VI. How do I Love Thee?

Libby Larsen (b. 1950)

Tracey Engelman, soprano | Ruth Palmer, piano

Remarks: Libby Larsen The Peculiar Case of Dr. H.H. Holmes I. II. III. IV. V.

State My Case As a Young Man I Build My Business Thirteen Ladies and Three Who Got Away Evidence Florestan Recital Project Aaron Engebreth, baritone |Alison d’Amato, piano

Closing Remarks: Libby Larsen

Libby Larsen

Source Featured ARtists Libby Larsen, composer “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 Composer’s 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.

Aaron Engebeth, baritone Acclaimed for his “exemplary diction and rich baritone voice,” baritone Aaron Engebreth enjoys an active solo career in opera, oratorio and recital, and devote considerable time to the performance of new music. Featured in performances from Sapporo Japan's Kitara Hall and Boston's Symphony Hall to Le Theatre de la Ville in Paris, Washington's Kennedy Center and the AmBul festival of Sofia, Bulgaria, he has been a guest of the Tanglewood, Ravinia and Monadnock Music Festivals, as well as many symphony orchestas, among them Portland, San Diego, Virginia and Charlotte. As a recording artist, he is featured on two operatic recordings with the Boston Early Music Festival and Radio Bremen, each nominated for Grammy Awards for Best Operatic Recording. His 2013/14 season's performances include concerts with Newport Chamber Festival, Radius Ensemble, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, his debut at Carnegie Hall, and guest vocal recitals at Minneapolis' Antonello Hall and the University of Wisconsin.

Alison d’Amato, pianist Pianist Alison d’Amato is a dynamic and versatile musician, committed to performing and teaching in the full spectrum of solo and chamber music genres. A member of several pioneering organizations, she is Artistic Co-Director of Florestan Recital Project and Founding Faculty Artist of the Vancouver International Song Institute (VISI, www.songinstitute.ca). In 2011, she joined the faculty at Eastman School of Music as Assistant Professor of Vocal Coaching. Alison enjoys a variety of interdisciplinary projects that energize the relationships and communication inherent in music. She is a Program Director of Art Song Lab (www.artsonglab.com), an intensive workshop that presents new works in collaboration with composers, poets, and performers. In addition to traditional masterclasses in collaborative repertoire, Alison has shared classes with musicologists, English professors, singers, and instrumentalist partners. She has performed at venues across North America, including Boston’s Jordan and Symphony Halls and New York’s Weill Recital Hall. For a more complete profile, please visit www.alisondamato.com.

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. As a frequent performer in Minneapolis and St. Paul, she has received rave reviews for her operatic work. The St. Paul Pioneer Press wrote that Ms. Engleman’s “clear, powerful high notes unleash all the desired adrenalin and misty romanticism the score demands” and The Wall Street Journal has written that she sings with “crystalline purity”. Recent roles also include Papagena in The Magic Flute with Minnesota Opera, Julie in The New Moon with Music by the Lake, Kathy in The Student Prince with Skylark Opera, Ofglen in The Handmaid’s Tale, the Page in Rigoletto and the Girl in the Bed in Casanova’s Homecoming with the Minnesota Opera, and the School Teacher in Ainadamar with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.. In 2010, Ms. Engleman premiered the role of Isabella Smith in The Ladysmith Story, a contemporary opera by Minnesota composer Christopher Gable. Particularly gifted as a performer of contemporary music, Ms. Engleman has performed Two Poems from the Sung Dynasty with conductor and composer Bright Sheng with the Chicago Chamber Musicians and at the Festival of Contemporary Music at the Tanglewood Music Center. Recently, Ms. Engleman premiered Minnesota composer Libby Larsen’s new orchestral version of Sonnets from the Portuguese with the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra. Highlights from Ms. Engleman’s Oratorio performances include Orff ’s Carmina Burana with Rochester Choral Arts, Orff ’s Catulli Carmina , Poulenc’s Gloria and Vaughan Williams’ Hodie with the Milwaukee Bel Canto Chorus, numerous appearances with the Valley Chamber Chorale, the Minnesota Choral Union and Symphony and the Gorecki 3rd Symphony with the Cannon Valley Orchestra. As a member of the voice faculty at St. Olaf College, Ms. Engleman has performed the soprano solos in the Brahms Requiem, Mendelssohn’s Psalm 42 and Elijah, Barber’s Prayers of Kierkegaard, and Britten’s War Requiem with the St. Olaf Choirs and Orchestra, as well as appearing with the St. Olaf Orchestra in Alice Tully Hall in New York City singing the songs of Edvard Grieg. A frequent recitalist, Ms. Engleman has sung many Courtroom Concerts for The Schubert Club in St. Paul, been a featured recitalist for the National Association of Teachers of Singing National Convention, has been a guest recitalist at Hope College in Holland Michigan, and performed Messiaen’s Poemes Pour Mi at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis. Tracey Engleman spent two years as a Vocal Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center and was also one of ten singer/pianist teams from around the country selected to participate in the Art Song Festival at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Other Awards include 1st place and “Audience Choice” winner in the Austin Lyric Opera Young Artist Competition, Finalist in the Sun Valley Opera Competition, a Regional Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, recipient of the Minnesota NATS Artist Award, 1st place winner of the Milwaukee Bel Canto Chorus Regional Artist Competition and 1st place winner of the Kenwood Chamber Orchestra Concerto Competition. Ms. Engleman earned M.M. and D.M.A. degrees from the University of Minnesota, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Music at St. Olaf College where she teaches voice, vocal pedagogy and vocal solo literature.

Ruth Palmer, pianist Ruth Palmer has a distinguished career as pianist, vocal coach and choral conductor. As pianist for Glenda Maurice, mezzo-soprano, and an advocate of art song recital, she has performed at halls such as Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Weill Recital Hall, National Gallery of Art along with Orchestra Hall and McKnight Theater in the Twin Cities. She has played for masterclasses of Art Song greats such as Elly Ameling and Gerard Souzay; premiered works of Libby Larsen and Richard Hundley; was coach and pianist for national winners in the National Association of Teachers of Singing Artist Award, National Metropolitan Opera Auditions and Rosa Ponselle International Vocal Competition among others; and has served as Associate Conductor/Pianist of the Dale Warland Singers, pianist for the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Chorale and The Singers-MCA. Along with her private coaching studio, Ms. Palmer is Director of Music Ministries at Unity Church-Unitarian in Saint Paul MN where the Unity Singers, a 16-voice chamber choir, was chosen to perform at the 2009 National Convention of the American Choral Directors Association.

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Susan Manoff, pianist Pianist Susan Manoff was born in New York of Latvian and German descent. She studied at the Manhattan School of Music and at the University of Oregon. Intensive studies with Gwendoline Koldofsky in the art song repertoire led her to become one of the most sought-after pianists of her generation. In addition to her interest in the vocal repertoire, Susan Manoff is a passionate advocate of chamber music. She performs regularly at international festivals and is invited by major concert halls around the world such as Théâtre des ChampsÉlysées, Théâtre du Châtelet, Salle Gaveau, Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw, Carnegie Hall, Vienna Konzerthaus and Musikverein. Susan Manoff is a regular guest of France Musique. Musical curiosity and love for theatre have inspired Susan Manoff ’s involvement in the creation of numerous programmes blending music and text. Her partners have been Jean Rochefort, Fabrice Luchini and Marie-Christine Barrault and she has been directed by Hans Jürgen Syberberg and Joël Jouanneau. Susan Manoff has recorded for the labels Naïve, Decca, Virgin, Arion, Valois and Aparte. In 2007 she recorded her first CD with Sandrine Piau, entitled ‘Evocation’, and a second recording, ‘Après un Rêve’, was released in March 2011 (Naïve.) Susan Manoff ’s recent recording with long term musical partner Nemanja Radulovic is dedicated to the violin and piano sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven (Decca, 2010. Her latest album, “La Belle Excentrique” with soprano Patricia Petibon, will be released in autumn of 2014 (Deutsche Grammophon). Susan Manoff was assistant chorus director at the Bastille Opera and is presently a professor at the Conservatoire National de Musique et de Danse de Paris. In 2011, she was named Chevalier des Arts et Des Lettres by the Cultural Ministry of France.

Howard Frazin, composer Composer Howard Frazin is the co-founder and Artistic Director of WordSong. He teaches composition at the New England Conservatory of Music where he is also the director of the CPR [Composer- Performer-Repertory] Ensemble. He recently served as the Boston Classical Orchestra’s Composer-in-Residence at the Boston Arts Academy. His music has been performed throughout the U.S. and abroad, including festivals at Tanglewood, Aspen, Banff, Rockport, Monadnock, Bowdoin, and Yellow Barn. Recent commissions include from Triple Helix, A Far Cry, the Claremont Trio, the Boston Classical Orchestra, the Fromm Foundation, World-wide Concurrent Premieres, the PALS Children’s Chorus, and Andover Chamber Players. The Claremont Trio’s premiere of Mr. Frazin’s piano trio on Dallas Chamber Music’s concert series was praised by the Dallas Morning News as “... [a] genuinely touching triptych, which wastes not a note,” and the performance made Scott Cantrell’s Top 10 Performances list for 2010. Mr. Frazin’s work is published by Peters Editions.

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August 2nd, 7p: WordSong @ The Loft “Harlem” - Langston Hughes settings by Vores, Warshaw, Frazin & Schnauber

Aaron Engebreth, baritone

Alison d’Amato, pianist

This program is made possible through a 2010 collaboration with the Boston-based Wordsong and Florestan Recital Project. WordSong is a new concert format in which one text is presented in multiple, newly composed settings and is the focus of directed conversation among composers, performers, and listeners. WordSong’s goal is to reconnect musicians and audiences through shared, active artistic experiences. It is a public Howard Frazin, composer founder of conversation about intuitive musical understanding. WordSong Boston

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August 5, 2014 8p | Antonello Recital Hall TYLER DUNCAN, BARITONE ERIKA SWITZER, PIANO Five Little Songs (R. L. Stevenson) Reynaldo Hahn The Swing (1874-1947) Windy Nights My Ship and I The Stars A Good Boy Child Poems (Rabindranath Tagore) When and Why Defamation Paper Boats Sympathy The Gift Five Songs I wish you bliss (Richard Dehmel) Wings (Joseph Eichendorff) Old Spanish Song (Howard Koch) Old English Song (Anonymous) My Mistressâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Eyes (William Shakespeare)

Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)

Erich Korngold (1897-1957)

Ralph Vaughan Williams of Travel (R. L. Stevenson) Songs (1872-1958) The Vagabond Let Beauty Awake The Roadside Fire Youth and Love In Dreams The Infinite Shining Heavens Whither Must I Wander Bright is the Ring of Words I have Trod the Upward and the Downward Slope

Tyler Duncan, baritone Canadian baritone Tyler Duncan made his debut at the Spoleto Festival as Mr. Friendly in the 18th-century ballad opera Flora in the spring of 2010, returning in 2011 as the Speaker in Mozart’s The Magic Flute. Other appearances have included the role of Raymondo in Handel’s Almira with the Boston Early Music Festival, Dandini in Rossini’s La cenerentola with Pacific Opera Victoria; and Demetrius in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Princeton Festival. Issued on the CPO label is his Boston Early Music Festival recording of the title role in John Blow’s Venus and Adonis. Mr. Duncan’s concerts include Mahler’s 8th Symphony with the American Symphony Orchestra and the Toronto Symphony, Berlioz L’enfance du Christ with the Montreal Symphony; both Bach and Mendessohn’s Magnificat with the New York Philharmonic; Bach’s St Matthew Passion with the Munich Bach Choir, Montreal Symphony, and the Oregon Bach Festival; Haydn’s The Creation with the Québec, Montreal, and Winnipeg symphony orchestras; Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Calgary Philharmonic and Philharmonie der Nationen in Munich, Berlin, Stuttgart, and Frankfurt; Haydn’s The Seasons with the Calgary Philharmonic; Handel’s Messiah with Tafelmusik, the Montreal and Toronto Symphony Orchestras, Handel and Haydn Society, San Francisco’s Philharmonia Baroque, and Portland Baroque; Mozart’s Requiem with the Montreal, Toronto, and Salt Lake City Symphony Orchestras. He has also performed at Germany’s Halle Händel Festival, Verbier Festival, Vancouver Early Music Festival, Montreal Bach Festival, Oregon Bach Festival, Lanaudière Festival, Stratford Festival, Berkshire Choral Festival, and New York’s Carnegie Hall. Frequently paired with pianist Erika Switzer, Tyler Duncan has given acclaimed recitals in New York, Boston, and Paris, and throughout Canada, Germany, Sweden, France, and South Africa. Mr. Duncan has received prizes from the Naumburg, London’s Wigmore Hall, and Munich’s ARD competitions, and won the 2010 Joy in Singing competition, 2008 New York Oratorio Society Competition, 2007 Prix International Pro Musicis Award, and Bernard Diamant Prize from the Canada Council for the Arts. He holds music degrees from the University of British Columbia, Germany’s Hochschule für Musik (Augsburg), and Hochschule für Musik und Theater (Munich). He is a founding member on the faculty of the Vancouver International Song Institute. Mr. Duncan’s recordings include Bach’s St. John Passion with Portland Baroque and a DVD of Handel’s Messiah with Kent Nagano and the Montreal Symphony from CBC Television. On the ATMA label are works by Purcell and Carissimi’s Jepthe with Les Voix Baroque.

Mr. Duncan is supported, in part, by the Glenda Maurice Fund for Vocal Artistry

Erika Switzer pianist Known for her brilliant and expressive playing, Erika Switzer has been praised for her ability to match emotional playing to dramatic texts. Throughout Europe and North America, she has performed in recital with sopranos Martha Guth, Simone Osborne and Edith Wiens, mezzo-soprano Julie Boulianne, tenors Colin Balzer and James Taylor, and baritones François Le Roux, Christopher Trakas and Tyler Duncan. Ms. Switzer has appeared across Canada for Debut Atlantic and Prairie Debut, at the chamber music festivals of Montreal and Ottawa, and frequently at MusicFest Vancouver and the André Turp Recital Society series in Montreal. Her New York appearances include recitals for the Peggy Rockefeller Concert Series and the Frick Collection, as well as performances at Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall. She has also appeared at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. In France, she has performed for the Francis Poulenc Academy in Tours and in Paris at Salle Cortot for Pro Musicis. Other European performances include the New Discoveries series in Baden-Baden Festspiele, and the Winners & Masters concert series in Munich. She has also played at the Cape Classic Chamber Music Festival in South Africa. Erika Switzer is a professor at Bard College and the Bard College Conservatory of Music, a co-founder of the Vancouver International Song Institute, and a faculty member of Westminster Choir College’s CoOPERAtive Program. She is also co-creator of the podcast and Ezine “Sparks & Wiry Cries,” co-produced with soprano Martha Guth. www.sparksandwirycries.com Erika Switzer won First Prize for best pianist at the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition and the Best Pianist award at the Robert Schumann International Vocal Competition. She holds a D.M.A. degree from the Juilliard School of Music.

August 6, 2014 8p | Antonello Recital Hall MARIA JETTE, SOPRANO ADRIANA ZABALA, MEZZO-SOPRANO TIMOTHY LOVELACE, PIANO

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from Lonely Hearts (Wendy Cope) 1. A Simple Wish 4. A Serious Person 5. Reading Scheme 6. Advertisement 9. The Orange from Reaping the Whirlwind The Grave of Him I Love (Walt Whitman)

David Evan Thomas (b. 1958)

Jeffrey Van (b 1941)

The Loons (Michael Estok)

Carolyn Jennings (b. 1936) from Song Eternity Stephen Paulus Mighty Songs (John Clare) (b. 1949)

from Keillor Songs (Garrison Keillor) Unification Fatherhood Table Grace Guardian from Generalissimo The Song of Pelele from Cowboy Songs Lift Me into Heaven Slowly (Robert Creeley) Cabaret Songs Who Could Have Known? You Are a Love Song The Luckiest Womam Sai tu perchè You

Robert Aldridge (b. 1954)

Reinaldo Moya (b. 1985) Libby Larsen (b. 1950)

Dominick Argento (b. 1927)

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Soprano Maria Jette’s wide-ranging career has encompassed everything from early Baroque opera to world premieres, in the United States and abroad. Her orchestral resumé includes, among dozens, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Houston, Kansas City, Santa Rosa, Charlotte, and the sadly defunct Ex Machina Antique Music Theatre in her home base of Minneapolis-St. Paul. There, she’s often heard withVocalEssence (led by Philip Brunelle), Chamber Music Society of Minnesota, Minnesota Sinfonia The Schubert Club and Lyra Baroque Orchestra. Maria is an ecumenical recitalist: her programs range from songs of Grieg or Fauré through Edwardian parlor music and Latin American chamber music, liberally interspersed with Tin Pan Alley and the Great American Songbook. She’s performed her own productions of Seuss/Kapilow’s Green Eggs & Ham and Gertrude McFuzz for over 50,000 kids throughout the country, with pit bands, symphony orchestras, and even just piano and train whistle! This season’s activities began with the Prairie Home Companion cruise of the Mediterranean, and included Vivaldi cantatas and neglected Swedish music with the new Minnesota Vivaldi Festival (co-founded with harpsichordist Henry Lebedinsky); the US premiere of Jonathan Dove’s There Was a Child withVocalEssence; Christmas pops concerts with the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir; and music for Mother’s Day with The New Standards for Music in the Park.

Mezzo- Soprano Adriana Zabala enjoys an international career that includes opera, song, new works, concert and oratorio. She made her European debut as Mercedes in Carmen under the direction of the late Lorin Maazel in Valencia, Spain, and returned for two engagements there with Zubin Mehta. Ms. Zabala recently created the role of Sister James in the acclaimed world premiere of Doubt with Minnesota Opera, returned for engagements with the the Florentine Opera Company, was a soloist with the Jacksonville Symphony and the Florida Bach Festival, and gave recitals in Ted Mann Concert Hall and on the Salzburg International Chamber Music Series. Upcoming performances include alto soloist in Mahler’s Second Symphony with the Minnesota Orchestra, recitals in New York City and Salzburg, roles in the world premiere of Kevin Puts’ new opera, the Manchurian Candidate with Minnesota Opera, in Carly Simon’s Romulus Hunt with the Nashville Opera, and the title role in the world premiere of Robert Aldridge’s Sister Carrie with the Florentine Opera. She will also be a guest artist with Montclair State University, the Oregon Mozart Players, and will record the Mozart Requiem with the Florida Bach Festival. Within the last few seasons Ms. Zabala has been a soloist with the Virginia Symphony, the New York Festival of Song, and at the Caramoor International Music Festival with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Her recent recital appearances include the Barns at Wolf Trap, the The Kennedy Center’s Millenium Stage, The Dallas Museum of Art, and in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, premiering pianist and composer Gregg Kallor’s settings of Emily Dickinson poems, found on the compact disc Exhilaration: Dickinson and Yeats Songs. Opera News Online raved “Kallor knows how to make these words sing, and Zabala gives perfect flight to them. Singing with uncommon clarity and natural beauty, she seems to be deep inside both the poems and Kallor’s musical realizations.” An alumna of the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music & Fulbright scholar to the Mozarteum in Austria, Ms. Zabala served for five years as Artistic Director of the Atlanta based Southeastern Festival of Song. She is a proud member of the voice faculty at the University of Minnesota, where, in addition to her thriving studio, she administrates a program of collaboration between the Minnesota Opera and the University of Minnesota, and teaches several interdisciplinary courses.

Pianist and Conductor Timothy Lovelace has performed on

four continents and has been featured at Rio de Janeiro’s Sala Cecilia Meireles, Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, Washington’s Kennedy Center, New York’s Merkin Concert Hall, Chicago’s Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts and on chamber music series sponsored by the symphony orchestras of Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit, Minnesota and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. The roster of internationally-known artists with whom Lovelace has appeared includes Miriam Fried, Alban Gerhardt, Nobuko Imai, Robert Mann, Charles Neidich, Paquito D’Rivera, and Dawn Upshaw. For thirteen years, he was a staff pianist at the Ravinia Festival’s Steans Institute, where he played in the classes of Barbara Bonney, Christoph Eschenbach, Thomas Hampson, Christa Ludwig and Yo-Yo Ma, among others. A proponent of new music, Lovelace has performed the works of many living composers, and he presented the world premiere of Osvaldo Golijov’s Third World. He has recorded for the Albany, Arabesque, Blue Griffin, Boston Records, and MSR labels. Lovelace currently heads the Collaborative Piano program at the University of Minnesota. His own studies were principally with Harold Evans, Gilbert Kalish, Donna Loewy, and Frank Weinstock.

August 7, 2014 8p | Antonello Recital Hall FRANÇOIS LE ROUX, BARITONE OLIVIER GODIN, PIANO Où voulez-vous aller? (Théophile Gautier) Ma belle amie est morte (T. Gautier) L’Attente (Victor Hugo) Si vous n’avez rien à me dire (V. Hugo) L’Invitation au voyage (C. Baudelaire) Phidylé (C. Leconte de Lisle) La Vie antérieure (C. Baudelaire) Five Melodies Regards sur l’infini (Comtesse Anna de Noailles) Féerie au clair de lune (Raymond Genty) Pour une amie perdue (Edmond Borsent) Chanson au bord de la mer (Paul Fort) Fantasio (André Bellessort)

Charles Gounod (1818-1893) Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921 Henri Duparc (1848-1933) Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013)

INTERMISSION Cinq mélodies de Venise (P. Verlaine) Mandoline En sourdine Green À Clymène C’est l’extase from Fêtes galantes I (P. Verlaine) En sourdine

Gabriel. Fauré (1845-1924)

Claude Debussy (1864-1918)

Fêtes galantes II (P. Verlaine) Les ingénus Le Faune Colloque sentimental Deux poèmes d’Aragon (L. Aragon) C. Fêtes galantes Trois chansons de Don Quichotte (P. Morand) Chanson romanesque Chanson épique Chanson à boire

Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

François Le Roux baritone François Le Roux is renowned throughout the world for performances that range 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 been a guest with all the major European opera houses and symphony orchestras as well as festivals throughout the world. In the realm of opera, he was renowned 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 for Deutsche Grammophon under Claudio Abbado. As his voice deepened, he changed to the role of Golaud in this same opera, which he has been performing to great acclaim in such places as Paris, Bordeaux, and at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires. In 2007 he sang Golaud in the first-ever staged production of Pelléas et Mélisande in Moscow, which became the subject of a film by Philippe Béziat: “Pelléas et Mélisande, Le chant des aveugles,” released on DVD in 2011. Le Roux is in particular 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 in Paris.  He is Artistic Director of the Académie Francis Poulenc in Tours, dedicated to the interpretation of French Song. He received the distinguished 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. Mr. Le Roux has recorded the complete songs of Duparc and Fauré, on EMI, REM, HYPERION (Saint-Saëns songs, Séverac Songs, & Louis Durey Songs with Graham Johnson), and DECCA-Universal, all enthusiastically received, earning him the reputation as the successor to Gérard Souzay’. His most recent recordings include the Complete Songs of Edouard Lalo on Passavant, music of Henri Dutilleux with the Orchestre National De Bordeaux under Hans Graf on Sony Classics and Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortileges with the Berlin Philharmonic on EMI. Le Roux began his vocal studies with François Loup at the age of 19, and continued under Vera Rosza and Elisabeth Grümmer at the Opéra Studio, Paris. He was a winner of the Barcelona (Maria Canals) and Rio de Janeiro competitions. His first book on the interpretation of French Song - “Le Chant Intime,” co-authored with Romain Raynaldy, published by Fayard - received the 2004 René Dumesnil Award by the French National Académie des Beaux Arts. Since 2006, he has been teaching at the Académie Maurice Ravel in Saint Jean-de-Luz, and at the Orford Arts Center in Québec, two positions first held by Pierre Bernac.

Olivier Godin pianist A native of Montreal, Olivier Godin is pursuing a brilliant career as a pianist and chamber player both in Canada and abroad. He has been invited to perform in numerous international festivals such as the Francis Poulenc Academy in Tours, the International Albert-Roussel Festival in France, the Palazzetto Bru Zane Festival in Venice, as well as on France-Musique and Radio-Canada radio stations. In Canada, he has performed at the Orford, Lanaudière, Lachine, Classica and Parry Sound festivals. He has also played with a great number of singers and musicians in New York City, Paris, Venice and at the prestigious Wigmore Hall in London, during the Wigmore Hall / Kohn International Song Competition. Olivier Godin has recorded a dozen CDs, among which the complete melodies of Francis Poulenc, the complete works for two pianos of Rachmaninov, the complete melodies of Duparc, and many other albums dedicated to the works of forgotten French romantic composers such as Théodore Dubois and Émile Pessard. His recording of Musique sur l’eau et autres mélodies by Théodore Dubois with baritone Marc Boucher has been awarded five Diapasons by the French magazine Diapason. He can be heard on record or in recital with renowned lyrical artists such as sopranos Karina Gauvin, Aline Kutan, Pascale Beaudin, Hélène Guilmette, 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. and has performed the Canadian premiere of previously unreleased works by Claude Debussy and Francis Poulenc. He was appointed as a professor at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal at the age of 25, and presently holds a position as director of the Opera Studies. He is in charge of the vocal accompaniment program for pianists at the summer academy of the Orford Arts Center, where he has been a teacher since 2000. Olivier 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.

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MNSong Composers Jordan Jenkins is an undergraduate composition major at the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire. A native of Minnesota, Jordan caught the composing bug in 8th grade, when his band director gave him an old copy of the music notation software Finale, and has been composing and arranging ever since. Since attending UWEC Jordan has performed in masterclasses and private lessons with renowned composers such as Libby Larsen, Michael Daugherty, Margaret Brouwer, and Michael Colgrass. After his undergrad Jordan plans to go onto graduate school, hoping to make a career out of composing. In his free time, he enjoys running and biking, playing music, reading, and spending time with his friends and family.

Sam Krahn is a Minneapolis based guitarist, performer, composer, and teacher. He has composed works for and performed with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Duo Gelland, Nu Directions Chamber Brass, Rappel-Steinmetz Percussion Duo, Olivia Block, George Flynn, Sarah Ritch, Benjamin Cold, Lux, Contemporary Music Workshop, and many others. He has received numerous commissions to compose new works for Ed Harrison of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Maraca Concerto), Harper College (Spring Dirge), and the Anaphora Contemporary Ensemble (String Quartet No. 1). Most recently, he was invited to the 2014 MATA Festival to attend a reading of fluidity as riddle by the Uusinta Ensemble. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in music composition at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, studying with James Dillon. In Spring 2014, he was awarded a Graduate Research fellowship. He also holds a M.Mus.in music composition from Roosevelt University where he studied with Stacy Garrop and Kyong Mee Choi, and a B.Mus. in classical guitar performance from Boston University. Sam is a classically trained and experienced guitarist. He has played in numerous rock bands, classical ensembles, improvisational groups, and as a soloist. Sam also continues to create new music with his improvisation trio, Sound Collision Alliance. Liam Moore is a composer and baritone who is comfortable writing and performing all kinds of music. He feels at home anywhere between the concert hall and the bar stage, but primarily composes choral music, chamber music and art song. In addition to singing, Liam plays cello, piano, guitars and percussion. He also plays trombone very badly. Liam holds a Bachelor’s degree in music composition from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where he also studied choral conducting, piano, voice and sound design for visual and performing arts. After spending five years in Madison, he now lives in Saint Paul.Outside of Minnesota and Wisconsin, Liam’s music has been performed in New York, Washington, and also in Italy. Liam is inspired to write by many things in life, from visual art and poetry to chemistry and physics, as well as a myriad of musical influences across the board. Currently, Liam has a number of musical projects on his plate, including a cello piece following the evolution of Vincent van Gogh’s artistic style, an ever-growing list of wonderful texts to set, and a work with a colleague that explores audio-to-video translation. Paul John Rudoi, tenor vocalist and composer, has performed and recorded a wide range of music as a soloist and in various ensembles around the country, most recently in the male vocal ensemble Cantus. Since joining Cantus in 2008, he has worked with such respected artists as Bobby McFerrin and The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and has premiered new works by several composers including Mary Ellen Childs, Nico Muhly, and most recently Byron Adams.Deemed “indisputably unique, confident, and innovative” by the 2013 American Prize, Paul John Rudoi’s music stems from a deeply rooted passion for connecting innate human values and universal experiences. His award-winning compositions have been commissioned and performed by various ensembles and artists throughout North America and Europe, including Cantus, the Vancouver Chamber Singers, the British Trombone Society, The Singers: Minnesota Choral Artists, the Anglican Singers, and the National Lutheran Choir. His work has garnered grants from the Jerome Foundation, the American Composers Forum, the Minnesota State Arts Board, and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council. His music is both self-published and commercially published through Graphite Publishing and Santa Barbara Music Publishing. Paul holds a degree in vocal performance from the Hartt School in Hartford, Connecticut.

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Jared Hedges (b.1993) studies music and English literature at Bethel University (St. Paul, Minnesota). His compositions have won awards from the Oregon Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, the Music Institute of Chicago and Webster University, and his piece The Wanderers was heard on Chicago’s fine arts and classical station WFMT 98.7. This summer he will be partnering with musicologist Stephen Self on a project funded by a research grant to transcribe a fifteenth century music manuscript from the British Library. Jared is a music composition student of Jonathan Veenker.

Linda Kachelmeier (b. 1965) is a composer, conductor, and professional singer in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her music has been described as having “luscious counterpoint, deliberate dissonances, and assertive vocal interaction.” She has received grants and awards from the Jerome Foundation, the American Composers Forum, and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, including two Faith Partners Residencies in Marshall, Minnesota and Menomonie Wisconsin. Her commissions include The Rose Ensemble, Moorhead State University of Minnesota, The Rochester Aria Group, Village Church (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), and Maplewood Middle School. Her choral works have had premieres by VocalEssence, The Singers—Minnesota Choral Artists, The Mirandola Ensemble, and the Isthmus Vocal Ensemble (Madison, Wisconsin). Since 1991 she has served as the music director at First Presbyterian Church in South St. Paul, Minnesota, where she directs the adult choir, bell choirs, a youth ensemble, and children’s choir. David Philip Norris is a writer and composer from Bloomington, MN. Born into a musical family, he developed a fascination with storytelling and language, and with the intersections between text, music, and drama. A pianist by training, David is passionate about writing for the voice and using it to explore the rich facets of the human experience. He is also enthralled by history and by connecting to the past through ancient voices—John Donne, Catullus, the anonymous poets of the Carmina Burana, and most recently Beatriz de Dia. In addition to music he has written for theater, he has had work premiered by trumpeter Judson Scott, Tim Zimmerman and the King’s Brass, and soprano April Fredrick in the U.K. David earned a degree in music composition in 2004 from the University of Northwestern in Saint Paul, MN, where he studied composition with Leonard Danek, and voice with Catherine McCord Larsen. Justin Spenner is a lyric baritone, teacher and composer residing in Minneapolis. He studied with the internationally esteemed composer James Dillon at the University of Minnesota where he recently received a Masters Degree in Vocal Performance . Focusing mainly on art song, Justin has enjoyed premiers of his two song cycles Charlotte (2010) and The Joys and Woes (2013), both featuring text written by the composer. He is drawn to poetry and texts that naturally emit a musical landscape resulting in the setting of texts ranging from the classics to works written by freelance living poets. Justin is currently working on the setting of Puck’s monologues from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Mezzo-Soprano, and a setting of his brother, Richard Spenner Jr.’s, supplemental letter to Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Reviewed as “gorgeous” (Washington Post) and “stunning” (Lawrence Journal-World), the music of Timothy C. Takach is rapidly gaining momentum in the concert world. Applauded for his melodic lines and rich, intriguing harmonies, Takach has received over 80 commissions from numerous organizations including VocalEssence, the St. Olaf Band, Cantus, Pavia Winds, the University of Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, and the Miami University Men’s Glee Club. His music is regularly performed by festival and All-State choirs including Texas, Florida, Minnesota and South Carloina. “What Child is This” was featured on the 2007 Boston Pops holiday tour and “Twas in the Moon of Wintertime” was included in a 2006 worldwide Christmas radio broadcast through the European Broadcasting Union.He is a co-creator of the theatrical production of All is Calm: the Christmas Truce of 1914, by Peter Rothstein. The critically adored show has had over 100 performances since it’s premiere in 2006. Takach studied music composition at St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, where he graduated with honors. He is a full-time composer and lives in Minneapolis with his wife and two sons.

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Catherine Brown soprano | Sarah Gallaher pianist Catherine Brown, soprano, is a versatile performer whose engagements include experience as an operatic, choral, and liturgical soloist as well as a recitalist. Ms. Brown has performed full and partial roles with the University of Minnesota Duluth opera program. Some of her complete roles include Adele in Die Fledermaus and Lisetta in The World of the Moon. The scenes she has performed include Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier, Amy in Little Women, and Frasquita in Carmen. Aside from her soloistic pursuits Ms. Brown maintains a private studio of voice and piano students and has studied collaborative piano. Ms. Brown was a semi-finalist at the MN NATS Voice Competition in 2012 and 2013 and she also received a 2013 Matinee Musicale Scholarship. She earned her Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Minnesota Duluth in 2014 after studying voice with Rachel Inselman and collaborative piano with Dr. Tracy Lipke-Perry. Ms. Brown was awarded a grant for this study through the Cecilian Society of Duluth, Sarah Gallaher, a native of Saint Louis, Missouri, is a recent graduate of Northern Arizona University, where she earned her B.M. in Collaborative Piano Performance as Magna cum laude under the instruction of Dr. Frank Scott and Rita Borden. Her previous teachers include Dr. Linda Perry and Eryn Krobath. Sarah’s accompanying career began early as a young church musician and expanded at the collegiate level to include orchestral, choral, and chamber collaboration. From 2012-2014, Sarah was a piano instructor at the NAU Community Music and Dance Academy and served as Vice President of the collegiate chapter of Music Teachers National Association. Sarah has collaborated with and performed the works of contemporary composers Cody Kauhl, David Ikard, and Judith Cloud. Sarah has appeared in masterclasses with notable artists such as Jeffrey Swann, Steven Moeckel, Anne-Marie McDermott, and 2009 Van Cliburn Gold Medalists Hao Chen Zhang. She enjoys a freelance career as a teacher, church music director, and collaborative musician and will begin studies in Fall 2014 at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities in pursuit of a M.M. Collaborative Piano Performance degree.

Richard Carrick baritone | Jessica Schroeder pianist Richard Carrick is a singer, conductor, and a recent transplant to the Twin Cities. Richard is a graduate of California Polytechnic State University where he received his B.A. in Voice, and the University of Oregon where he received his M.M. in Choral Conducting. Richard’s passion lies in choral music, art song, and as a chamber music soloist. Richard has participated in the Oregon Bach Festival as a member of the conducting masterclass and as a singer. He currently sings with the Minnesota Chorale, is the Artistic Director of the Calliope Women’s Chorus, is the music director at Glendale United Methodist Church, and operates a thriving private voice studio. Richard was recently married to pianist Jessica Schroeder, who is currently completing a DMA at the University of Minnesota.

Jessica Schroeder holds a B.M. in Piano Performance from Western Washington University, a M.M. in Piano Performance from Northern Illinois University, a M.M. in Collaborative Piano from the University of Oregon, and is currently finishing her D.M.A. in Collaborative Piano from the University of Minnesota, where she studies with Dr. Timothy Lovelace. Jessica Schroeder has performed around the country, as well as Europe, and has studied with many internationally renowned pianists. She has had the opportunity to play at the La Musica Lirica International Music Festival in Novafeltria, Italy, the Franz Schubert Institute in Baden, Austria, the Vancouver International Song Institute in Vancouver, B.C., as well as Songfest in Los Angeles, California.

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Christina Christensen mezzo- soprano | Carson Rose Schneider pianist Christina Christensen, mezzo-soprano, is a Minnesota-based musician who is at home on both the concert and operatic stages. In 2013, she was selected as winner of the Minnesota Districkt Metropolitan Opera Council Auditions. Other recent awards include first place in Division 9 of Minnesota NATS and first place in the College Advanced Voice category of the Thursday Musical Young Artist Competition. Her operatic roles include Ernesto in Haydn’s Il mondo della Luna and Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus, and her roles in opera scenes include Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, Mercedes in Carmen, Isabella is L’Italiana in Algeri, and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, among others. In concert, she has been the mezzo-soprano soloist in Mozart’s Vespers, Bernstein’s Chinchester Psalms, and Vivaldi’s Gloria. She also sang as a Bakke Scholarship singer with the Duluth-Superior Symphony Orchestra from 2010-2014. Christina holds her Bachelor of Music from the University of Minnesota Duluth, where she graduated with departmental honors. Christina was awarded a grant for this study through the Cecilian Society of Duluth, Minnesota. Carson Rose Schneider is an award-winning pianist originally from New Haven, Connecticut and has performed throughout the United States and Europe. While living in Lexington, Kentucky she was a staff accompanist at Eastern Kentucky University and class piano instructor, and maintained an active freelance schedule. She has been an accompanist for the vocal music program at Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts, a counselor and accompanist at Camp Encore/Coda, and a rehearsal pianist for Gilbert and Sullivan operas. Summer festivals include the Aspen Music Festival, Killington Chamber Music Festival, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and the Tibor Varga Music Academy in Sion, Switzerland. Influential teachers are Christopher Taylor, Martha Fischer, Clifton Matthews, and Sandra Carlock. She has performed in masterclasses for Carlos Rodriguez, Robert McDonald, Gordon Back, Gilbert Kalish, and Jerome Lowenthal and coaches include Parry Karp, Paul Rowe, Martha Fischer, and Brooks Whitehouse. She holds degrees in piano performance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (MM ’11) and University of North Carolina School of the Arts (BM ’09) under Christopher Taylor and Clifton Matthews, respectively. This August she will start her DMA in collaborative piano at the University of Minnesota, under the tutelage of Timothy Lovelace.

Isabella Dawis soprano | Ann DuHammel pianist Isabella Dawis recently finished studying as a Young Artist at the SongFest art song festival in Los Angeles. In the past year, she performed as the First Spirit in The Magic Flute with the Boston Symphony Youth Orchestra at Symphony Hall, as a featured singer in the Ordway Center’s George Gershwin Broadway Songbook concert, as a soloist in the Commonwealth Lyric Theater’s Opera Gala in Boston, and as Yum-Yum in The Mikado with Skylark Opera/Mu Performing Arts. Isabella’s stage credits include the Minnesota Opera, Children’s Theatre Company, Chanhassen Dinner Theatres, and the Guthrie Theater. She won 1st place in the Thursday Musical Young Artist Competition two years in a row (College Piano and Voice), and she has also been honored by the Mondavi Center Young Artist Competition, the Schubert Club Competition, and the Classical Singer Competition. As a pianist, Isabella has appeared in concert with the Minnesota Orchestra, the Dakota Valley Symphony, and the Minneapolis Civic Orchestra. Isabella holds a B.M. summa cum laude in piano performance from the University of Minnesota, where she studied with Prof. Alexander Braginsky. She is currently pursuing a diploma in voice with Lisa Saffer at New England Conservatory, where she also serves as an accompanist. Praised for her “…profound and mystical” playing as well as her enthusiastic teaching, pianist Ann DuHamel serves as Head of Keyboard Studies at the University of Minnesota, Morris, where she coordinates and teaches solo, collaborative, and group piano, as well as piano pedagogy. She recently earned a DMA in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Iowa under the tutelage of Ksenia Nosikova. Prior to her time at UI, she was Assistant Director to Paul Wirth at the Central MN Music School. In 2013 Ann received the MTNA-PTG Performance Study scholarship to work with Lowell Liebermann on his solo piano nocturnes. In collaboration with saxophonist Preston Duncan as the duo Kairos, she commissioned and premiered a new work at the 12th Annual International Saxophone Conference in Mexico City, where her playing & teaching was described as “…a delight for the ears and the soul.” A founding member of new music group ensemble: Périphérie, she returned to Carnegie Weill Recital Hall in NYC with the ensemble under the auspices of DCINY (Distinguished Concerts International New York) in the fall of 2013. Past performances include venues in Argentina, Bulgaria, Italy, and across the U.S., including the San Francisco Festival of Contemporary Music.

Francesca Dawis soprano | Isabella Dawis pianist Francesca Dawis was most recently awarded 1st place in three different divisions—Aria, Art Song, and Musical Theater—of the NATS vocal competition (San Francisco Bay Area chapter). Her other 1st place honors include the Classical Singer/Auditions Plus Regional Competition, the NATS Minnesota competition, and the Thursday Musical Young Artist Competition. She was named a 2013 National YoungArts Honorable Mention Award Winner in the Voice category and completed an apprenticeship at the Minnesota Opera’s youth program, Project Opera, where she sang the lead role of Jennie in Weill’s Down in the Valley. In 2012, she performed an aria with the Dakota Valley Symphony as a winner of the symphony’s Young Artist Competition. Francesca also actively performs in Twin Cities theater and has appeared at theaters such as the Guthrie, The Children’s Theatre Company, and the Ordway Center for Performing Arts. Francesca just completed her freshman year at Stanford University where she studies music and psychology and serves as secretary of the Stanford Asian American Theater Project. As a violinist of the Stanford Symphony Orchestra, she sat as concertmaster for their Chinese New Year concert and as associate concertmaster for an appearance on NPR’s From the Top. Isabella and Francesca Dawis began their musical education at MacPhail fifteen years ago, and they went on to intern at the Prelude Singer-Actor Lab and perform in Honors Recitals and Concerto/Aria concerts. They have performed together in plays, concerts, and productions with the Guthrie Theater, Mu Performing Arts, Bloomington Civic Theatre, and the Music Loft Summer Playshop. With help from St. Thomas the Apostle Church, Isabella and Francesca Dawis have organized four benefit concerts and raised over $9,000 for homeless families served by Simpson Housing Services. www. dawissisters.com. For a complete biography of Isabella Dawis, please see prior entry.

Natasha Foley soprano | Jessica Schroeder pianist Natasha Lynn Foley, hailing from Anoka MN, is a recent graduate of Lawrence University receiving a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance under the study of Kenneth W. Bozeman. At Lawrence, she has had numerous solo opportunities, including appearances in area recitals, master classes, choral concerts, opera scenes, and as a chosen soloist at the 2014 Scholarship Luncheon. Her most recent performances include the role of Anna Maurrant in Kurt Weill’s opera, Street Scene, and her Senior Recital in which she sang a wide range of repertoire, from contemporary French composer Maurice Ravel, to composers such as Puccini, Schoenberg and Turina. In the fall of 2012 she furthered her studies in classical repertoire through IES Abroad in Vienna, Austria, where she studied with instructors from the Konservatorium Wien. She will be attending University of Louisville starting in the fall of 2014 as an Opera Fellow with

Jennifer Olson soprano | Olena Bratishko pianist

Jennifer Olson is in the final year of her DMA in vocal performance with Adriana Zabala at the University of Minnesota. Since moving here she was featured as the soloist in the Minnesota premiere of Frank Ticheli’s Songs of Love and Life with Craig Kirchhoff and the University of Minnesota Wind Ensemble in 2012 and appeared in the role of “Tiny” in VocalEssence’s 2013 production of Benjamin Britten’s Paul Bunyan. She recently won the NATS Artist Award Regional competition and represented the North Central Region in

Olena Bratishko holds a Master of Education degree from the Zhitomir State University of Ukraine and a Master of Music from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee(UWM). At UWM Olena studied piano performance, collaborative vocal, and collaborative instrumental piano with Judit Jaimes, Elena Abend, and Jeffrey Peterson. She played in the UWM Symphony Orchestra and UWM Chamber Orchestra. She was a collaborative pianist for the Concert Chorale, Men’s Choir of UWM, and an active participant of the Kalliope Vocal Arts Series concerts. Olena collaborated with the Dance Department of UWM on numerous projects and is currently a collaborative pianist with the Institute of Chamber Music at UWM where she performs extensively with numerous chamber groups, singers, and instrumentalists. In the Fall of 2014 she will be starting the DMA program in collaborative piano at the University of Minnesota with Timothy Lovelace.

T. Hastings Reeves bass-baritone | Seoyon MacDonald pianist Bass-baritone, T. Hastings Reeves’ recent performances include recitals of solo vocal literature at the University of Northwestern, St. Paul and Colonial Church of Edina. He was privileged to perform the role of Harasta in Leoš Janáček’s Cunning Little Vixen at the University of Minnesota’s production in Ted Mann Concert Hall this spring and is looking forward to performing at the Miami Summer Music Festival where he will be singing the role of Bartolo in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro and Sarastro in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. Having recently graduated from the University of Northwestern, St. Paul with his Bachelor’s degree in Music Performance, Mr. Reeves enjoys performing outside the structure of school. He has been a participant, finalist, and winner of many competitions in the area, such as NATS, NATS Artist Award, Schubert Club, and Thursday Musical Scholarship Competition. He is currently studying voice with Carol Eikum. Korean pianist Seoyon MacDonald enjoys an innovative and cultured musical career; one marked by her consistency of refinement and musical ingenuity. In 2012, MacDonald founded the Northwestern Trio and competed at the MTNA String Ensemble Competition, performing Brahms’ Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano, Op.114, and Muczynski’s Fantasy Trio. MacDonald’s ensemble won the state division and received runner-up at the regional competition in Lawrence, Kansas In 2010, Mrs. MacDonald won the University of Northwestern -- St. Paul concerto competition as a sophomore, playing Beethoven’s Concerto in C minor, which she later performed in concert with the University’s orchestra. Seoyon has served as a staff pianist at the MacPhail Center for Music, the Minnesota Opera Summer Outreach Camp, and First Free Evangelical Church of Maplewood, Minnesota. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance from the University of Northwestern – Saint Paul. Her instructors include Olga Petrovna, Flora Gadelevna, Barbara Rogers, and Claudia Chen.

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