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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 second annual Source Song Festival! By reading this, you have self-selected into a community of people: curious, open, thoughtful, generous, beautiful people who value what the Pioneer Press called an “opportunity for intimacy,” and what we call Source Song Festival. Source exists to facilitate all of 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. In our second season, our community expands: welcoming students from across the country, and artists from around the globe. We celebrate the heroes of our local song community, and explore the music of France and Russia with our guest artists. As we go through our daily lives, surrounded by words of division, extremism, anti-this, and anti-that, it is my hope that Source can serve as a refuge: a place where new ideas are met with openness and thoughtful discussion. In the introduction to The Spanish Song Companion pianist Graham Johnson writes, “I have long believed that the most intense introduction possible to an unfamiliar European country, short of going to live there, is the study and enjoyment of its song…Armed with a more complete understanding based partly on musical instinct and partly on research, we find an ability to forgive, tolerate and ultimately enjoy the ‘otherness’ of people whose languages and ways of life are new.” It is our mission that in joining us for our five days of programming, you might be transported to these new places -- whether it’s the plains of Nebraska, the paysage choisi of France, or the Siberian landscape -- and that you will find the joy, challenges, and satisfaction 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 @ THE MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC 501 S. 2ND STREET, MINNEAPOLIS
Monday, August 3 2p Masterclass: Ruth Palmer “In Search of Artistry” Antonello Hall 4:30p Workshop: Libby Larsen “Collaborating” Antonello Hall 8p RECITAL: Open Source “Music of Larsen & Paulus” Antonello Hall Tuesday, August 4 10a Masterclass: Olivier Godin, piano 2p Masterclass: François Le Roux, baryton 8p RECITAL: “Virgil Thomson in Words & Song”
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Wednesday, August 5 10a Workshop: Grant Writing with Eleanor Savage Rm. 124 10a Workshop: Carolyn Campfield “Performing with Courage” Rm. 126 3:30p Masterclass: Arlene Shrut “Song As Storytelling” Antonello Hall 4:30p Workshop: John Nuechterlein “Supporting Composers” Rm. 126 8p RECITAL: François Le Roux & Olivier Godin Antonello Hall Thursday, August 6 9a Workshop: Libby Larsen “Text Setting” 1p Masterclass: Anton Belov, baritone 3:30p Composer Panel Hosted by David Evan Thomas 3:30p Workshop: Laura Loewen: Passionate Diction 6:15p RECITAL: MNDuo “Music from MN” 8p RECITAL: MNSong Final Concert Friday, August 7 10a Masterclass: Arlene Shrut “Frame Your Song” 12:30p Workshop: Alison d’Amato “In the Works” 6:15p RECITAL: MNDuo Final Concert 8p RECITAL: Anton Belov & Arlene Shrut
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Source Festival ARtists Founding Artistic Director Founding Artistic Director
Mark Bilyeu | pianist
Lara Bolton | pianist
Clara Osowski|mezzo
Kenneth Abdo|attorney
Elizabeth Alexander composer
Michael Dennis Browne Carolyn Campfield|soprano Alan Dunbar| bass-baritone poet
Ann Du Hamel|pianist
Sara Fanucchi|mezzo
Edie Hill|composer
Laura Loewen| pianist
John Nuechterlein | ACF
Gail Olszewski| pianist
Ruth Palmer| pianist
Stanley Rothrock | pianist
Paul Rudoi|composer
Eleanor Savage Jerome Foundation
Jessica Schroeder| pianist
Justin Staebell|bass-baritone
Riley Svatos|soprano
Timothy Takach composer
David Evan Thomas composer
Peter Tuff|baritone
Jeffrey Van | composer
David Walton| tenor
Julian Ward| pianist
KrisAnne Weiss|mezzo
for full biographies of all Source Artists, please visit our webstie at: www.sourcesongfestival.org/all-artists/
August 3, 2015 8p | Antonello Recital Hall OPEN SOURCE: MUSIC OF LARSEN & PAULUS Welcome & Introduction: Mark Bilyeu, Artistic Director Opening Remarks: Libby Larsen, composer Stephen Paulus A Heartland Portrait (1949-2014) I. Flying at Night II. At Midnight III. An August Night IV. Porch Swing in September V. A Summer Night Clara Osowski, mezzo-soprano | Mark Bilyeu, piano My Antonia Libby Larsen (b. 1950) I. Landscape- From the Train II. Antonia III. Landscape II - Winter IV. The Hired Girls V. Landscape III - Prairie Spring VI. Antonia in the Field... VII. Landscape IV - Sunset Tracey Engleman, soprano | Robert Ainsley, piano Bittersuite I. For a Good Dog II. The Middle III. Time Marches On IV. Old Men
INTERMISSION
Florestan Recital Project Aaron Engebreth, baritone |Alison d’Amato, piano Remarks: Michael Dennis Browne, poet All My Pretty Ones I. In a tree at dawn, to listen to birds II. And the birds arrive III. Purple finch IV. Feeder V. Little life VI. The bird inside VII. Night bird VIII. All my pretty ones Maria Jette, soprano | Timothy Lovelace, piano
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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.
Stephen Paulus, composer Stephen Paulus was a prolific American composer of classical music. He wrote over 600 works for chorus, opera, orchestra, chamber ensemble, solo voice, concert band, piano, and organ, receiving premieres and performances throughout the world as well as a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Classical Composition in 2015. His musical style has been described by The New York Times as “lush and extravagant,” and critics from the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer Opera News, and many others have praised his work. The New Yorker described him as a “bright, lyrical inventor whose music pulsates with a driving, kinetic energy.” He was a recipient of both NEA and Guggenheim Fellowships. Born August 24, 1949 in Summit New Jersey, Paulus lived most of his life in Saint Paul, Minnesota where he earned his doctorate in music composition from the University of Minnesota in 1978. Paulus was a passionate advocate for the works and careers of his colleagues, co-founding the Minnesota Composers Forum in 1973, now known as the American Composers Forum, the largest composer service organization in the U.S. He also served as the Symphony and Concert Representative on the board of ASCAP from 1990 until 2014. His music has been commissioned, recorded and performed by various performers such as The New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Opera Theater of Saint Louis, Washington Opera, Los Angeles Master Chorale, The Dale Warland Singers, VocalEssence, Doc Severinsen, Thomas Hampson, Leo Kottke, Robert McDuffie, William Preucil, and Deborah Voight. Stephen Paulus passed away in October, 2014 from complications of a stroke, but his music continues to be frequently performed and described by critics as rugged, angular, lyrical, lean, rhythmically aggressive, original, often gorgeous, moving, and uniquely American. The New Yorker characterizes his music as having “impeccable technique and well-honed audience appeal.”, while The New York Times says “Mr. Paulus often finds melodic patterns that are fresh and familiar at the same time....His scoring is invariably expert and xceptionally imaginative in textures and use of instruments.
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. Tracey Engleman has performed operatic roles with the Minnesota Opera, Minnesota Concert Opera, Skylark Opera, Music by the Lake, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. She has also performed chamber music with Zeitgeist, the Chicago Chamber Musicians, the Tanglewood Music Center and the Boston Symphony. Oratorio and concert engagements include performances as a soloist 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. Ms. Engleman has performed in recital at Orchestra Hall, Hope College, at the National Association of Teachers of Singing National Convention, and as part of the Schubert Club Courtroom Concert Series. An alumni of the Tanglewood Music Center and the Art Song Festival of Cleveland, Ms. Engleman’s awards include Regional Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera Competition, 1st Place and “Audience Choice” winner in the Austin Lyric Opera Young Artist Competition, Finalist in the Sun Valley Opera Competition, recipient of the Minnesota NATS Artist Award, and winner of the Milwaukee Bel Canto Chorus Regional Artist Competition. Ms. Engleman earned M.M. and D.M.A. degrees from the University of Minnesota, and is on the voice faculty at St. Olaf College.
Robert Ainsley, pianist
Robert Ainsley began his musical career at the age of eleven, studying the piano and violin at DurhamSchool, in England. He became a Licentiate of Trinity College of Music, London, in solo piano performance at age 17 and won the National Schools’ Chamber Music Competition twice. Subsequently, Mr. Ainsley was awarded the organ scholarship to St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge. In 1999, he graduated with a degree in Mathematics, and later that year became the senior organ scholar at Christ Church, Greenwich, Connecticut. During his time on the East Coast, he also served as assistant conductor and accompanist of the New Haven Chorale and Greenwich Choral Society, and completed a Master’s degree in solo piano performance at Mannes College of Music. After serving as Maestro Joseph Colaneri’s assistant in the opera department for a year at Mannes College of Music, Mr. Ainsley joined the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program as a coach and pianist. His two years in the program culminated in his acting as assistant conductor and pianist for Wagner’s Die Walküre with Maestro Valery Gergiev and Plácido Domingo. Mr. Ainsley went on to become Co-founder and Principal Conductor of the Greenwich Music Festival in Connecticut, and in 2006, was appointed the Associate Music Director and Chorus Master for Portland Opera. In addition to remaining active as a recitalist and accompanist, he now serves as the Head of Music and Chorus Master of Minnesota Opera, and the Head of Music Staff and Chorus Master at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis.
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.
Maria Jette, soprano 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! For more info-- including her two recordings with pianist Dan Chouinard-- 2011’s In Our Little Paradise: Lyrics of PG Wodehouse, and the brand new The Siren’s Song: Wodehouse and Kern on Broadway-please visit www.mariajette.com.
Timothy Lovelace, pianist 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 YoYo 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.
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 devotes considerable time to the performance of new music. Along with his 2014 Carnegie Hall debut, he has been 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, and 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. In demand has a frequent recording artist, he is featured on two Grammy-Award nominated albums with Boston Early Music Festival and Radio Bremen. He has also recorded the world premiere release of Six Early Songs of Samuel Barber, and Libby Larsen’s The Peculiar Case of Dr. H.H.Holmes, both for Florestan Records, and began a multi-disc project in 2009 recording The Complete Songs of Daniel Pinkham with the Florestan Recital Project on the same label. He has served on the music faculty of the Boston Conservatory and is the Artistic Co-Director of the Florestan Recital Project.
Mark Bilyeu, pianist Lauded as a “superb partner” by schubert.org, pianist Mark Bilyeu has proven himself a talented and versatile musician. With a passion for words, engagement, and collaboration, the Chicago native is in-demand as a recital partner, and his dedication to Song has resulted in the Source Song Festival. He has been seen on stages throughout the Midwest, across the country, and around the globe. Bilyeu has been invted to study at music festivals around the world to study with such icons as Roger Vignoles, Graham Johnson, Sir Thomas Allen, François Le Roux, Warren Jones, Susan Manoff, and Martin Katz. He holds a Bachelor of Musical Arts Degree from the Chicago College of Performing Arts and a Masters degree in Vocal Coaching & Accompanying from the University of Minnesota. His primary teachers have included Norriko Kawai, Timothy Lovelace, and Chicago Symphony pianist Mary Sauer. Bilyeu will begin his facutly appointment at Viterbo University in the fall of 2015. Please visit www.markbilyeu.com for a complete profile.
Clara Osowski, mezzo-soprano Hailed for her artistry and “rich and radiant” voice (Urban Dial Milwaukee), Clara Osowski is an active interpreter of oratorio and art song throughout the United States. She was a 2012 Metropolitan Opera National Council Upper-Midwest Regional Finalist, runner-up in the 2012 Schubert Club Bruce P. Carlson Scholarship Competition, and was named the winner of the 2014 Bel Canto Chorus Regional Artists Competition in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Highlights in the 2015-2016 season include Jeffrey Van’s Reaping the Whirlwind: The Harvest of War with the Oratorio Society of Minnesota, Dominick Argento’s Casa Guidi with the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, and an east coast recital tour of German Lieder. Clara received her Bachelor of Musical Arts degree with emphasis in Voice from North Dakota State University, and Master of Arts Degree in Voice from the University of Iowa. Schedule and more information can be found at claraosowski.com Together, the work of Osowski and Bilyeu has taken taken them across the country and around the world, with recitals throughout the Midwest, including the Schubert Club of St. Paul, an engagement at the Everson Museum of Syracuse and the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis. They have been invited to study at the Vancouver International Song Institute, the Baldwin Wallace Art Song Festival, and l’Academie Francis Poulenc in Tours, France. In September of 2014, they were one of only twenty teams selected world-wide to compete in the International Vocal Competition’s inaugural Lied Duo Competition in s’Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, and in February of 2015, they were the only Americans to advance to the finals of the Das Lied International Song Competition, directed by Thomas Quasthoff and held in Berlin, Germany. They are looking forward to presenting an evening of music by Minnesota-native Celius Dougherty at the Schubert Club as part of their Live at the Museum Series, and are currently preparing an east coast recital tour of German Lieder.
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J-Term
a winter weekend intensive
January 15, 16 & 17, 2016
WEEKEND INCLUDES:
pianist Dana Brown & soprano Rebecca Simone Schorch in a weekend of English songs: Art Songs & Musical Theater!
-private voice lesson with Rebecca Schorch -masterclass “Cross Over for the Classical Singer” -masterclass on English Art Song & Diction by Dana Brown -Workshop “Beyond Talent: Business Practices for Musicians” -Culminating Recital for all participants
To apply: please visit www.sourcesongfestival.org/j-term
August 6th | 8pm Antonello Hall
Riley Svatos
David Walton
lian Ward Sara Fanucci | Ju Bolton Experience Minnesota’s Peter Tuff | Lara top performers as they ock r th o R y le n ta offer music by the S
KrisAnne Weiss
Justin Staebell
Gail Olszewski
Alan Dunbar
composers selected by Libby Larsen to participate in Source’s MNSong program.
Ann DuHammel er Jessica Schroed
August 4, 2015 8p | Antonello Recital Hall
VIRGIL THOMSON IN WORDS & SONG a partnership between Florestan Recital Project Aaron Engebreth, baritone | Alison d’Amato, piano & Source Song Festival Clara Osowski, mezzo-soprano | Mark Bilyeu, piano Part I: Youth A Son of Kansas City, A Soldier of the War, A Student of Harvard Words Song: At the Spring Words Song: Three Songs of Solomon Thou That Dwellest Return, O Shulamite! I Am My Beloved’s Words Song: Four Old English Songs Remember Adam’s Fall Consider, Lord The Bell Doth Toll John Peele Words Song : If Thou A Reason Dost Desire to Know Words Song: Five Songs of William Blake The Divine Image Tiger! Tiger! The Land of Dreams The Little Black Boy And did those feet
Part II: Paris & Gertrude Stein Words Song : Preciosilla Words Song : Susie Asado Words Song : Portrait of F.B. Words Song : Pigeons on the Grass, Alas Words Song : Le Singe et le Leopard INTERMISSION Words Song : What is it? Words Song :The Yongly Bongly Bo Words Dirge Words Two by Marianne Moore English Usage My Crow Pluto Words Song :The Cat (Duet) Part III: After the Herald Tribune & Words of Wisdon from an Experienced Musician Words Song : Mostly About Love Love Song Down at the Docks Let’s Take a Walk A Prayer to St. Catherine Words Song : Collected Poems (Duet)
August 5, 2015 8p | Antonello Recital Hall FRANÇOIS LE ROUX, BARYTON OLIVIER GODIN, PIANO Guitare (V. Hugo) L’Esclave T. Gautier) Viens! (A. Lamartine)
Eduard Lalo (1823-1892)
La Bonne Chanson Op. 61 (P. Verlaine) Une sainte en son auréole Puisque l’aube grandit La lune blanche luit dans les bois J’allais par ches chemins perfides J’ai presque peur, en vérité Avant que tu ne t’en ailles Donc, ce sera par un clair jour d’été N’est-ce pas? L’hiver a cessé
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
INTERMISSION Deux Sonnets de Jean Cassou Il n’y avait que des troncs déchirés J’ai rêvé que je vous portais entre mes bras
Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013)
Histoires naturelles (J. Renard) Le Paon Le Grillon Le Cygne Le Martin-pêcheur La Pintade
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Chansons gaillardes La Maîtresse volage Chanson à boire Madrigal Invocation aux Parques Couplets bachiques L’Offrande La Belle Jeunesse Sérénade
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
François Le Roux baryton
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 Domaine Forget. 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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August 7, 2015 8p | Antonello Recital Hall
A TREASURY OF RUSSIAN ART SONG with ANTON BELOV, BARITONE ARLENE SHRUT, PIANO with Charles Asch, cello
Dedicated in Memory of Nico Castel (1931-2015) 7:15 pre-concert lecture by Maria Zavialova, curator of The Museum of Russian Art «Musical Portraiture: Russian Composers in 19th-Century Russian Art»
RUSSIAN BEL CANTO Горные вершины (The Mountaintops) Море (Sea)
Alexander Varlamov (1801-1848)
Внутренняя музыка (The Inner Music)
Alexander Gurilev (1803-1858) Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857)
Я помню чудное мгновенье (I recall a marvelous moment) THE MIGHTY FIVE Приди ко мне (Come to Me) Я вас любил Op. 33 No. 3 (I Love you Once) Пленившись розой соловей Op. 2 No. 2 (The Nightingale and the Rose) Блоха (Mephistopheles’ Song of the Flea)
Mily Balakirev (1837-1910) César Cui (1835-1918) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
THE CONSERVATORY SCHOOL Ночь Op. 44 No. 1 (Night) Клубится волною Op. 34 No. 9 (The Turbulent River Koohrang is Rolling with Waves) Нет, только тот кто знал Op. 6 No. 6 (None, but a Lonely Heart) Бьётся серце Op. 17 No. 9 (My Restless Heart is Beating) INTERMISSION
Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894) Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Sergey Taneyev (1856-1915)
LATE ROMANTICISM Ландыш Op. 33 No. 2 (Lily of the Valley)
Anton Arensky (1861-1906) Alexander Glazunov (1865–1936)
Charles Asch, cello
Восточный романс Op. 27 No. 2 (An Eastern Romance) Сновидение Op. 60 No. 4 (A Dream) Степью иду я унылою Op. 5 No. 1 (Over the Steppe)
Alexander Grechaninov (1864-1956)
Вмолчаньи ночи тайной Op. 4 No. 3 (In the Silence of the Mysterious Night) Она как полдень хороша (She is Beautiful as Noonday) Арион Op. 34 No.5 (Arion) Как король шёл на войну (When the King Went Forth to War)
Sergey Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Fyodor Kenemann (Theo Könemann—1873-1937)
Заклинание (The Invocation)
Yuri Shaporin (1887-1966)
Могу ль забыть Op. 32 No. 5 (How can I Forget that Sweet Moment) Зимний вечер Op. 13 No. 1 (A Winter Evening) Anton Belov, baritone
Nikolai Medtner (1880-1951)
The voice of baritone Anton Belov was described as mellifluous by the New York Times and that of an emerging star by the Philadelphia Inquirer. He earned praise from critics and audiences alike for his portrayals of Count di Luna (Il Trovatore), Escamillo (Carmen), Eugene Onegin, Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor), Don Giovanni, Germont (La Traviata) and Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro). Dr. Belov performed throughout the country appearing with Boston Lyric Opera, Portland Opera, Opera Delaware as well as Boston Baroque, Opera Orchestra of New York, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (at Carnegie Hall), and the Oregon Symphony, among many others. Dr. Belov is the firstplace winner of eight vocal competitions including the George London Competition, the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, and Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (Eastern Region). Mr. Belov performed recitals throughout the United States including Carnegie Recital Hall, the Kennedy Center and the Smithsonian Institution. A native of Moscow, Anton Belov holds a Master of Music Degree from The Juilliard School and the Doctorate of Musical Arts from Boston University. A recognized authority on Russian vocal repertoire, Dr. Belov is the author of several works on the subject and the proprietor of www.RussianArtSong.com, and his latest publication Anthology of Russian Romantic Art Song is now available. He is the co-director of the vocal program at the Atlantic Music Festival in Waterville, Maine. He lives near Portland, Oregon where he holds the post of an assistant professor of music at Linfield College.
Arlene Shrut, pianist
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. As a performer, Arlene has collaborated with Renée Fleming, Thomas Hampson, Angela Meade, Isabel Leonard, Carla Rae Cook, Michael Fabiano, Anton Belov, Alissa Deeter, and Takaoki Onishi. (Ms. Shrut’s biography is continued on the following page)
Arlene Shrut, cont’d 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 many of Arlene’s professional activities focus on collaborations with singers, she is in demand with instrumentalists as well, featuring engagements such as her NYC debut with the Yoav Chamber Ensemble, touring with the Grand’Arte Trio, and as a finalist in the Munich International Competition in the violin-piano duo category with Julie Rosenfeld of the Colorado String Quartet, as well as winning the outstanding pianist award at the Music Academy of the West. In January 2014 Arlene teamed with pianist Anna Shelest in a 4-hand version of the Brahms Requiem with Voices of Ascension, under the baton of Dennis Keene, featuring soloists Martha Guth and Richard Zeller. Arlene has recorded for Dorian, Albany, Summit, Centaur, and Orion labels. Her discography includes works from the classical canon and recording premieres by contemporary composers. As an educator, Arlene currently serves on the Senior Coaching Faculty of The Juilliard School’s Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts as well an the Vocal-Piano Recital Faculty at Manhattan School of Music. While on the faculty of the Aspen Music Festival, she taught classes and coached productions centering on Mozart and German operas. Arlene also coached for Wagner’s Ring Cycle for Arizona Opera. Arlene also served as head of the Accompanying Department at Syracuse University and on the Evening Division Faculties of The Juilliard School and Mannes College. Festivals that have recently featured Arlene 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 and in NJ, Resonanz Festival, and Songest in Malibu. She is currently head coach and pianist at Atlantic Music Festival and presents masterclasses across the country in subjects ranging from audition techniques to musical collaboration and entrepeneurship. As a musical visionary, Arlene has been at the forefront of music’s changing landscape to advance training, generate opportunities, and create innovative solutions to promote classical music. As Founder and Artistic Director of New Triad for Collaborative Arts (2003-2014), Arlene created a curriculum dedicated to developing skills including visual engagement, comfort speaking with audiences, and individuality in performance. New Triad’s Opera Master Class Series was recently presented at National Opera Association Conventions and at The University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Her new training program, Complete Classical Performer, provides singers and instrumentalists with the skills needed to excel in today’s musical climate. Arlene continues to develop ground-breaking performance and educational projects that are moving and sustainable for our times. Find out more by visiting ArleneShrut.com.
Charles Asch, cellist Charles Asch is completing his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Minnesota, focusing on rigorous technical curriculum for the violoncello. He performs chamber music programs in the Twin Cities, as well as modern music premieres. He has private teaching studios at Schmitt Music locations in Brooklyn Center and Edina, as well as at Mount Cavalry Academy of Music. Charles completed his master’s degree at Juilliard, where his cello studies were with Richard Aaron and Fred Sherry.
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MNSong Composers Michael Betz (b. 1992) is a composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist based in Minneapolis, MN. His compositions are not limited to the concert stage and have appeared in a variety of media, including Android apps and the YouTube series Chadtronic. Comfortable in both the jazz and classical idioms, he maintains an active performance schedule as a solo and collaborative pianist in northern Iowa and southern Minnesota. He enjoyed a full 4 years as a percussionist in the St. Olaf Band and Orchestra, and looks forward to singing second bass with Magnum Chorum in their upcoming 25th anniversary season. In July 2013, Betz traveled to Paris to take part in the EAMA program, a continuation of Nadia Boulanger’s pedagogy, where he studied composition with David Conte. Two of his chamber works received Finalist designation in the 2014 and 2015 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards. In May 2015, he had commissioned works premiered by both the St. Olaf Orchestra and the St. Olaf Band. He is currently producing an album of electronic music, due for release in Fall 2015. Betz holds a BM in Theory and Composition from St. Olaf College, where he studied with Timothy Mahr and Justin Merritt. Rachel DeVore Fogarty is a composer based in New York City. Her works have been performed by ensembles in the U.S. and internationally, including St. Olaf ’s College, Oklahoma State University, the University of Kentucky, the Russian female choir Making Waves, the Young New Yorker’s Chorus Women’s Ensemble, the Mohorjan Academic Choir of Carinthia, and the 2013 ACDA National H.S. Women’s Honor Choir. Her work Song of the Shepherd won the 2014 American Composer’s Forum Welcome Christmas contest and was premiered by VocalEssence this past December in Minneapolis, MN. In April 2013, the Oak Ridge Symphony premiered Spoon River, Ms. Fogarty’s song cycle for soprano soloist with orchestra. It was performed again in spring of 2014 with the Bryan Symphony. She received both her M.M. in Composition and B.M. in Piano from Belmont University.
Jordan Jenkins is a composer based in the Minnesota/Wisconsin area. Originally from Apple Valley, MN, Jordan’s first forays into music consisted of playing songs on his plastic guitar and picking at notes at the piano. He caught the composing bug in the 8th grade when his band director gave him an old copy of Finale and has been writing ever since. Jordan just recently completed his undergraduate degree in composition at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, where he studied with Chia-Yu Hsu, and next fall will be pursuing his master’s in composition at Roosevelt University in Chicago. Jordan’s music has been read and performed by groups such as the Ciompi Quartet, the Zeitgeist Ensemble, and the UWEC Symphony Orchestra. He has performed in masterclasses with composers such as David Ludwig, Anna Clyne, Anthony Cheung, Michael Daugherty, and Libby Larsen, with whom he has also studied privately. Jordan’s music has been performed on numerous recitals and concerts and he has participated in summer festivals such as the Atlantic Music Festival and last year’s Source Song Festival. In his free time, Jordan enjoys reading books, watching Netflix, spending time with his friends and family, and just generally lounging around, preferably with his cat Pipsqueak.
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Kevin J. Kelly is a Los Angeles-based composer, singer-songwriter and multiinstrumentalist. Dr. Kelly was born July 6, 1978 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. He completed his bachelor’s degree in composition at West Chester University, where his principal teachers were Robert Maggio and Larry Nelson. He was awarded a Ph.D. in composition from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied with Jay Reise, James Primosch, Anna Weesner, and Ingrid Arauco. He has also studied with Samuel Adler, Philip Lasser, Narcis Bonet and Michel Merlet while participating in the summer composition program at La Schola Cantorum in Paris, France. Among Dr. Kelly’s awards and scholarships are: winner of 2014 ACF-LA Composition Competition; selection for 15-minutes of fame performances in New York City and Brazil; a prize in the National Guild of Community Schools for the Arts’ Young Composers Competition; recognition as a regional winner in the 1999 SCI/ASCAP Student Composition Competition; the William Penn Fellowship from the University of Pennsylvania; and the Theodore Presser Scholarship from West Chester University. He is currently on the faculty of Los Angeles City College. Norman Mathews’ Rossetti Songs, to Christina Rossetti poetry for mezzo-soprano, piano, flute, and cello, was recorded by Navona Records (NV5827). His art songs have been performed at the Kennedy Center. Ye Are Many—They Are Few, Cantata for a Just World, for four singers and piano, received a Puffin Foundation grant and premiered at The Chicago Cultural Center in May 2014. Sonnet No. 61 for mixed choir, piano, and oboe obbligato won the American Composers’ Forum VocalEssence Award. As composer-in-residence at Shorter University, Mathews was commissioned to write a chamber opera, Flights of the Heart, which was performed by faculty members on a concert devoted to his music. Songs of the Poet, to Walt Whitman poetry, premiered in Germany by Munich Opera’s Gregory Wiest, who recorded the work for Capstone Records (CPS 8646). The cycle was featured on an American Composers Orchestra program, “Whitman and Music.” Mathews’ one-woman musical play about Dorothy Parker, You Might as Well Live, has been performed by Michele Pawk (Tony Award) and Broadway star Karen Mason (Drama-Desk Award). He is currently writing the libretto and music for an opera based on the Giovanni Verga story La Lupa. Mathews earned a B.A. in music from Hunter College and an M.A. Degree in music from New York University. www.normanmathews.com Jessica Rudman is a Connecticut-based composer and teacher, who writes music that unifies extended techniques with clear melodic development and narrative structures to create a unique and personal emotional expression. Her works have been performed by groups such as the International Contemporary Ensemble, the Cadillac Moon Ensemble, The Omaha Symphony’s Chamber Orchestra, the Yakima Symphony Orchestra, and the Hartford Independent Chamber Orchestra. She has received awards from SCI/ASCAP, Boston Metro Opera, the College Music Society, the International Alliance for Women in Music, and others. Dr. Rudman has served on the faculty at Baruch College, Central Connecticut State University, and the Hartt School. She is currently the Director of the Young Composers Program and the Chair of the Composition/Musicianship/Theory Department of the Hartt School Community Division. Dr. Rudman has also been highly involved in arts administration and is on the board of the Women Composers Festival of Hartford. She holds degrees from the CUNY Graduate Center, The Hartt School, and the University of Virginia. More information about Ms. Rudman and her work can be found at her website, http://www.jessicarudman.com. Roger C. Towler’s musical history shows him wearing several musical hats: teacher, singer, conductor and composer. He directed choirs and bands in MN schools for nearly 40 years. As a semi-professional baritone, he sang many of the classic roles in oratorios and requiems, plus these song cycles: Winterreise, Songs of Travel, Dichterliebe and his own I Play Flute. Recently in a recital of his works he premiered I Play Flute, Peonies, The Duel, and Footprints in the Sand. Recent choir premieres include: Shepherds Awake!, Crosses, Sing Alleluia and the exciting When Music Sounds, with full orchestra. His Minnesota, We Honor Thee is a favorite of many school students around the state. He studied composition at the University of Minnesota with Paul Fetler and Judith Zaimont, plus Scott Miller at SCSU. His interesting compositions for voice and choir earned him the Composition Award from the Central MN Arts Board. For four decades Towler performed Music Theater both as a singer and conductor. He still adjudicates vocal contests for the State High School League, plus directing three choirs. He with his wife, Sue, co-authored several poems for his compositions. They live on the Mississippi River in Sauk Rapids and enjoy trying to spoil their grandchildren.
MNDuo Teams Anne Agresta-Dugan soprano | John Gilmour pianist Soprano, Anne Agresta Dugan is active in Oratorio, Recital and in Opera and select credits include; Handel’s Messiah, the Vivaldi-Gloria, Poulenc -Gloria, Haydn’s Mass in Time of War, Bach’s Magnificat and B Minor Mass, Rutter’s Mass of the Children, Puccini Credo and Charpentier Te Deum, Orff-Carmina Burana, Marie-La Fille Du Regiment, Papagena- Die Zauberflöte, Elvira-L’Italiana in Algeri, Kathleen -The Poor Solider, Cunidgonde-Candide. Ms. Dugan holds a B.M. in Voice and Music Ed. from the Crane School of Music and an M.A. in Theatre from SUNY Albany. In addition she has trained with American Singers’ Opera Project in New York. She has been a church cantor and soloist for over 20 years. A passionate teacher, she maintains a successful private voice studio and is a teaching artist with Sister Cities Girlchoir, an El Sistema choir program in Philadelphia. Ms. Dugan keeps a busy performing schedule as well and in January of 2012 made her Carnegie Hall debut with Aoede Consort. Currently, she resides in Philadelphia with her husband and three children. Ms. Dugan studies with Harold Evans. Pianist John Gilmour completed his undergraduate degree in Music Theory at Temple University. An avid player of art song, he has appeared with singers in recital throughout the greater Philadelphia area. In 2014 he attended the Vancouver International Song Institute, where he performed in masterclasses with Martin Katz. He is a founding staff member of Sister Cities Girlchoir, the girl empowerment choral academy in Philadelphia and Camden, New Jersey. John will begin work on a masters degree in Collaborative Piano this Fall at the University of California, Irvine, where he has been awarded a Graduate Opportunity Fellowship to study with Nina Scolnik. He currently studies with Susan Nowicki.
Shari Feldman soprano | Irina Stene pianist Shari Feldman 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. Recent chamber performances include soloist in the 2015 New Music Delaware Festival and guest recitalist for the Washington Piano Society. Shari competed in the 2015 National Association for Teachers of Singing Regional Auditions and, as a finalist, was invited to compete in the national-round auditions. She is a member of the OperaDelaware chorus and of the guest chorus for the Delaware Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Feldman is the Academic Advisor and Recruitment Coordinator for the Music Department at the University of Delaware and is an adjunct voice faculty member at Washington College. She graduated from the University of Delaware with a Bachelor’s of Arts in Music (2010) and a Master’s of Music in Vocal Performance (2012). She currently studies with Dr. Noël Archambeault.
Born in a little military town on the border of Russia and Finland, pianist Irina Stene was accepted to a public school and public music school at the age of 6. By 14, she moved away from her family to Arkhangelsk to study piano performance at the music academy, where she was accepted on a full scholarship. There, she completed a bachelor degree as a piano performer, concertmaster, and piano teacher. She continued her education at the Petrozavodsk State Conservatoire, and in 2003, graduated as a performer, concertmaster, and piano instructor, earning a Master’s degree. She has served as staff accompanist/pianist at a music school in Saint Petersburg, Russia working with children’s groups and maintaining a private piano studio. In 2011, she moved with her family to Saint Cloud, MN. Since her arrival, Stene has worked at Saint Cloud State University, and St. John’s University/St. Ben’s College. Stene was recently accepted to the University of Minnesota for a D.M.A in Collaborative Piano/ Vocal Coaching, where she will study with Timothy Lovelace in the fall.
Anika Kildegaard soprano | Jessica Johnston pianist Anika Kildegaard is a conductor, singer, and educator in the Twin Cities area. She graduated from the University of Morris, Minnesota with degrees in Vocal Performance and Piano Accompanying. During her time at UMM she performed two solo recitals and a lecture recital, and presented at the College Music Society Conference in Dayton, Ohio. She currently works for The Schubert Club’s Project CHEER teaching piano and voice lessons to students whose families would not otherwise be able to prioritize music education. Anika is on the board of directors at Chanson Voice and Music Academy where she teaches voice lessons and directs the Lyrebird Youth Choir for middle-school singers. Anika sings with VocalEssence, Magpies and Ravens, and the SPCO Chorale, and appeared on A Prairie Home Companion in 2011.
Pianist, organist, and mezzo-soprano Jessica Johnston received her BA in Music in 2014 and is currently pursuing a MM in Collaborative Piano and Coaching at the University of Minnesota – studying with Dr. Timothy Lovelace. She has enjoyed varied performance opportunities on all her instruments including the main roles in Mavra and L’enfant et les sorteleges at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, accompanying and singing with Lumina Cantorum at the WMEA convention in Madison, WI, and playing in the TCAGO’s 2010 and 2014 Members’ Recitals. In 2012, she participated in Songfest at Colburn – studying with Margo Garrett, Martin Katz, Libby Larsen, and William Bolcom. She enjoys working with singers and pianists as a coach and collaborator and specializes in diction, text interpretation, and contemporary American art song.
Madeline Miskie soprano | Frank Chu pianist Madeline Miskie recently completed her Doctorate of Musical Arts in Vocal Performance at the University of Maryland, where she was the recipient of the Dean’s Music Fellowship. She also holds a Master of Music from the Maryland Opera Studio and a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from the Eastman School of Music. On the professional operatic stage, Madeline has performed with the Harrisburg Opera, Mercury Opera Rochester, The Berkshire Opera, and the Annapolis Opera’s Outreach program. On the concert stage, she can be seen performing regularly as a part of Songscape Duo with pianist Frank Chu. In the DC Metro area Madeline has performed as a cantor and guest soloist at several area churches including: Clarendon United Methodist Church (Arlington, VA), St. Francis Episcopal Church (Potomac, MD), Christ Lutheran Church (DC), St. Francis Catholic Church (Derwood, MD), St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church (DC) and St. Peter’s Catholic Church (Capitol Hill). Classically trained Canadian pianist Frank Chu, is sought after as both performer and music educator, currently making his home in Washington, DC. Since coming to the piano at the age of eighteen and stepping onto the concert stage, Frank has established himself as a dynamic and versatile artist, known for his creative programming of repertoire for solo piano, art song and chamber music. He can be seen on stage in Canada, New Zealand and the USA and on CBC Radio and WCLV Cleveland. Frank has been described as an “expressive, sensitive and individual pianist” who displays “much musicality, interpretative insights and control of touch and tone.” Stemming from his passion for chamber music and art song in August 2014, after completing his Master of Music in Collaborative Piano from the University of Maryland, Frank formed Songscape Duo with soprano, Madeline Miskie. He is also the founding member of the Ricordanza Trio and the Founding and Artistic Director of the Ricordanza Summer Chamber Music Festival (Victoria, BC). Frank also holds a Master of Music in Solo Piano Performance, a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance and a Performance Diploma.
Briana Moynihan mezzo-soprano | Benton Schmidt pianist A native of St. Paul, mezzo-soprano Briana Moynihan is finishing her last year with the North Dakota State University Challey School of Music, where she is earning a Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance. Roles that she has performed with include Chief Elder in Susan Kander’s The Giver (Regional Premiere), Zita in Gianni Schicchi, Hermia in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and this fall she will be performing the Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors. She is a frequent soloist in Handel’s Messiah, performed in Minneapolis and Fargo as part of the NDSU Baroque Festival. Briana is a winner and finalist of several competitions in the Midwest region, including the Thursday Musical Scholarship Competition (2nd Place-Advanced Voice), the Schubert Club Scholarship Competition (Honorable Mention-Intermediate Voice), and Minnesota Public Radio’s Minnesota Varsity (Featured Round Artist). She is also a winner of the Theodore Presser Scholarship. Briana is currently an instructor of voice at the NDSU Music Academy, where she has the opportunity to share her love of vocal music with members of the Fargo-Moorhead community. Benton Schmidt has been playing the piano since the age of 5. While in middle school, he picked up the French Horn and electric bass in band. As a violinist in high school, he was a member of the Fargo Moorhead Area Youth Symphonies for two years. He competed in several piano competitions during high school, and also performed in the Fargo-Moorhead Rotary Club’s Recital With a Cause for polio awareness. Benton began studying piano with Dr. Robert Groves while in his junior year of high school, and started his piano performance degree at NDSU in the Fall of 2013. He is a recipient of the Bill Euren Fellowship award, a four-year full tuition scholarship. He teaches at the NDSU Music Academy while also maintaining a private studio and accompanying for vocalists and instrumentalists at NDSU and Concordia. An opera enthusiast, Benton recently was the rehearsal pianist for NDSU Opera’s 2014 production of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He also enjoys playing in pit orchestras for Theatre NDSU and Trollwood Performing Arts School.
Regina Stroncek soprano | Taylor Burkhardt pianist Regina Stroncek, soprano, is a recent graduate of the University of Minnesota, earning a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance and a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish and Portuguese Studies. Ms. Stroncek was a semi-finalist at the MN NATS Voice Competition in 2011 and 2013. At the U of M she sang with the University Singers, and the complete role of Zerlina in Don Giovanni. In Spring 2013 she studied Spanish literature and art history at the Fundación de Ortega y Gasset in Toledo, Spain. While there, Ms. Stroncek sang in concerts in Toledo and participated in the Barcelona Festival of Song with Patricia Caicedo. Recently, Ms. Stroncek sang as a Bridesmaid in the U of M’s production of Le nozze di Figaro, organized a recital juxtaposing Spanish songs and art, and performed with the festival chamber chorus MPLS-imPulse.
Taylor Burkhardt collaborates with a number of vocalists and instrumentalists as a duo partner, chamber musician, rehearsal pianist, and coach. She has given solo and collaborative performances at the New York Summer Music Festival, Brevard Music Center, Wichita State University, Odyssey Chamber Music Series, the Mizzou International Composers Festival, and the University of Missouri-Columbia, and also performed Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” with the Jefferson City High School Symphonic Band in 2008. Her teachers include Dr. Peter Miyamoto and Karen Larvick, and she coached with Erika Eckert, Marianne Gedigian, and Benjamin Sung at Brevard Music Center in addition to studies with Elisabeth Pridonoff, Donna Lee, and Deloise Lima. She has also performed in the master classes of Sergei Babayan and Melvin Chen and accompanied master classes given by Frank Morelli, Timothy Jones, Caroline Worra, and others. In fall 2015 she will begin the DMA in Collaborative Piano and Coaching at the University of Minnesota studying with Dr. Timothy Lovelace
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