August 8-13, 2016
Welcome to
Season Three
“Pursuing my musical dream took forty years, three kids and a busy career.” – Cassandra, Voice Student
Music transforms lives. So do the people who support it. Hear one student’s story at MacPhail.org/Cassandra
Minneapolis │ White Bear Lake │ Apple Valley │ Chanhassen │ Live Online
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 third annual Source Song Festival! By reading this, you have already contributed to a community of people: curious, open, thoughtful, generous, beautiful people who value what MinnPost described as a “fresh, immediate, ear-opening experience,” what the Pioneer Press called an “opportunity for intimacy,” and what we proudly call Source Song Festival.
Source exists to facilitate all of the unique experiences, viewpoints, and ideas that brought us all here together. This coming together of people who love words, music, and collaboration is something we are passionate about, something we found at festivals around the world, but something that was missing within our own vibrant community here in Minnesota. Our third season is about courage. It is about celebrating achievements and legacies of musicians who forged paths we now tread. It is about recognizing Artistry in all its forms: committed, honest and open Artistry. It is about welcoming guests from across the country and around the globe and offering them a place to share their unique insights and abilities with us. It’s about celebrating a maverick whose musical language, style, and idiom continue to be genuine, direct, and courageous. A musician whose work has impacted all who have encountered it, and who we are fortunate to claim as our own: Dominick Argento. As we go through our daily lives surrounded by words of division, acts of tragedy, anti-this, and anti-that rhetoric, it is our hope that Source can serve as a refuge: a place where new and different ideas are met with openness and thoughtful discussion, a place where the union of words and music can heal, soothe and unite. Pianist Graham Johnson writes, “I have long believed that the most intense introduction possible to an unfamiliar…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 passionate mission that you might be transported to these new places, given insight into the unfamiliar, encouraged by the commitment to artistry and inspired by the stories that are told.
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 Monday, August 8 9a Workshop: Carolyn Campfield: Performing with Courage Rm 125* 3p Masterclass: François Le Roux, baritone Rm 126* 8p RECITAL: OpenSource: Ted Mann Concert Hall A Dominick Argento Celebration Tuesday, August 9 10a Masterclass: Martin Katz, pianist 5p Workshop: Libby Larsen on Text Setting 8p RECITAL: François Le Roux & Olivier Godin
Antonello Recital Hall* Antonello Recital Hall* Antonello Recital Hall*
Wednesday, August 10 10a Masterclass: Olivier Godin, pianist Rm 126* 3:15p Workshop: Commissioning with Libby Larsen & Edie Hill Rm 126* 8p RECITAL: Music Of Our Lands American Swedish Institute Thursday, August 11 10a Grant Writing Workshop with Noah Keesecker 10a Masterclass: Arlene Shrut, pianist 7p Masterclass: Håkan Hagegård
MacPhail* Rm 126* Antonello Recital Hall*
Friday, August 12 2p Composer Panel: Hosted By David Evan Thomas 6p RECITAL: Music of MN 8p RECITAL: MNSong Composers Showcase
Rm 126* Antonello Recital Hall* Antonello Recital Hall*
Saturday, August 13 2p RECITAL: MNDuo Final Recital 8p RECITAL: Restless Searchers: Hagegård Stages Argento
Rm 317 - Landmark Center Ordway Center for Performing Arts
* Located at MacPhail Center for Music 501 S 2nd St, Minneapolis, MN 55401 Ted Mann Concert Hall: 2128 S 4th St, Minneapolis, MN 55455 American Swedish Institute: 2600 Park Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55407 Ordway Center: 345 Washington St, St Paul, MN 55102
Source festival artists Founding Artistic Director Founding Artistic Director
Festival Administrator
Mark Bilyeu pianist
Clara Osowski mezzo-soprano
Emily Riley soprano
Elizabeth Alexander composer
Lara Bolton pianist
Carolyn Campfield soprano
Jake Endres baritone
Tracey Engleman soprano
Sara Fanucchi mezzo-soprano
Jocelyn Hagen composer
Linda Tutas Haugen composer
Edie Hill composer
Franco Holder pianist
Noah Keesecker composer
Mabel Kwan pianist
For complete biographies of all Source artists, please visit our website: www.sourcesongfestival.org/all-2016-artists
Source festival artists
Mariane Lemieux-Wottrich soprano
Gail Olszewski pianist
Jessica Schroeder pianist
Carrie Henneman Shaw soprano
Timothy Takach composer
David Evan Thomas composer
David RadamĂŠs Toro director
KrisAnne Weiss mezzo-soprano
Hannah Hilst program intern
For complete biographies of all Source artists, please visit our website: www.sourcesongfestival.org/all-2016-artists
Department of Music
Numerous performance opportunities. Intimate school setting. Scholarships available for music majors and non-majors 2017 Music Scholarship Audition Days: Friday, Feb. 3 and Friday, Feb. 17 Des Moines, Iowa
www.drake.edu/music
Source Song Festival with the University of Minnesota School of Music Presents
OpenSource: A Dominick Argento Celebration August 8, 2016 8p | Ted Mann Concert Hall
Hosted by Brian Newhouse with Maria Jette, soprano | Adriana Zabala, mezzo-soprano Jesse Blumberg, baritone | Michael Slattery, tenor | Jeffrey Van, guitar Martin Katz, piano | HĂĽkan HagegĂĽrd, baritone
Letters from Composers (1968) Frederic Chopin Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Franz Schubert Johann Sebastian Bach Claude Debussy Giacomo Puccini Robert Schumann
Dominick Argento (b. 1927)
Michael Slattery, tenor | Jeffrey Van, guitar Three Meditations for Soprano (2008) The Last Invocation Silver Deep is the Heart of the Lake Maria Jette, soprano A Few Words About Chekhov (1994) Duo Solo (Olga) Solo (Anton) Duo Solo (Olga) Solo (Anton) Duo Adriana Zabala, mezzo-soprano | Jesse Blumberg, baritone | Martin Katz, piano
IN CELEBRATION OF
DOMINICK ARGENTO
Dominick Argento, considered to be America’s preeminent composer of lyric opera, was born in York, Pennsylvania in 1927. At the Peabody Conservatory, where he earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees, his teachers included Nicholas Nabokov, Henry Cowell, and Hugo Weisgall. Argento received his Ph.D. from the Eastman School of Music, where he studied with Alan Hovhaness and Howard Hanson. Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships allowed him to study in Italy with Luigi Dallapiccola and to complete his first opera, Colonel Jonathan the Saint. Following his Fulbright, Argento became music director of Hilltop Opera in Baltimore, and taught theory and composition at the Eastman School. In 1958, he joined the faculty of the Department of Music at the University of Minnesota, where he taught until 1997. He now holds the rank of Professor Emeritus. Although Argento’s instrumental works have received consistent praise, the great majority of his music is vocal, whether in operatic, choral, or solo context. This emphasis on the human voice is a facet of the powerful dramatic impulse that drives nearly all of his music, both instrumental and vocal. Music critic Heidi Waleson has described Argento’s work as “richly melodic... [his] pieces are built with wit and passion, and always with the dramatic shape and color that make them theater. They speak to the heart.” During his years at Eastman, Argento composed his opera, The Boor (1957), which has remained in the repertoire; John Rockwell of The New York Times, writing of a 1985 production, stated that “[it] taps deep currents of sentiment and passion.” Following his arrival in Minnesota, the composer accepted a number of commissions from significant organizations in his adopted state. Among these were the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, who commissioned his suite Royal Invitation (1964); and the Civic Orchestra of Minneapolis, who commissioned Variations for Orchestra [The Mask of Night] (1965). Argento’s close association with Sir Tyrone Guthrie and Douglas Campbell, directors of the Minnesota Theatre Company, led to his composing incidental music for several Guthrie productions, as well as a ballad opera, The Shoemaker’s Holiday (1967).
The 1970’s and 1980’s saw the composer working increasingly in the song cycle form, while still writing operas and orchestral music. Among his major song cycles are: Letters from Composers (1968); To Be Sung Upon the Water (1973); From the Diary of Virginia Woolf (1975); the choral I Hate and I Love (1982);The Andree Expedition (1983); and Casa Guidi (1983). His most recent song cycles, both premiered in 1996, are A Few Words About Chekhov (mezzo-soprano, baritone, and piano), given its premiere by Frederica von Stade, Håkan Hagegård, and accompanist Martin Katz at the Ordway Theater in St. Paul; Walden Pond(mixed chorus, harp, and three cellos), commissioned and premiered by the Dale Warland Singers; and Miss Manners on Music, to texts by the noted advice columnist. Since the early 1970’s the composer’s operas, which have always found success in the U.S., have been heard with increasing frequency abroad. Nearly all of them, beginning with Postcard from Morocco (1971), have had at least one European production. Among these are The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe (1976), Miss Havisham’s Wedding Night (1981), and Casanova’s Homecoming (1984); Robert Jacobson of Opera News described the latter work as “a masterpiece.” The Aspern Papers was given its premiere by Dallas Opera in November 1988 to great acclaim, was telecast on the PBS series Great Performances, and was again presented, to critical praise, by the Washington Opera in 1990. It since has been heard in Germany and in Sweden; June 1998 brought a performance at the Barbican Centre in London. Dominick Argento has examined fame and the immigrant experience in his newest opera, The Dream of Valentino, set in the early days of Hollywood. Washington Opera gave the work its premiere under the baton of Christopher Keene in January 1994, followed by its co-commissioning company, Dallas Opera, in 1995. The production featured special multi-media sets by John Conklin and costumes by the couturier Valentino. Writing of the premiere, Peter G. Davis of New York magazine stated, “What a pleasure to encounter a real opera composer, one who has studied and learned from his predecessors, loves the form, understands its conventions, has mastered them, and then lets his imagination take wing.” The Dream of Valentino received its European premiere in February 1999 in Kassel, Germany. Among other honors and awards, Dominick Argento received the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1975 for his song cycle From the Diary of Virginia Woolf. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1979, and in 1997 was honored with the title of Composer Laureate to the Minnesota Orchestra, a lifetime appointment. In honor of his 85th birthday, the University of Maryland presented a special career retrospective that included Miss Havisham’s Fire, Postcard from Morocco, and Miss Manners on Music, as well as other recitals and lectures. —August 2012 Reprinted by kind permission of Boosey & Hawkes.
CONGRATULATIONS, DOMINICK ARGENTO Governer Mark Dayton declares August 8, 2016 “Dominick Argento Day” in the state of Minnesota!
Source FEATuRED artists 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 The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Houston, Kansas City, San Luis Obispo, Santa Rosa, Charlotte, Buffalo, Grand Rapids, Austin, Marin and San Antonio Symphonies, New York Chamber Symphony, Portland Baroque Orchestra and Musica Angelica;plus Berkshires Opera, Roanoke Opera, Sacramento Opera, 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 conductor Philip Brunelle), Chamber Music Society of Minnesota, Minnesota Sinfonia The Schubert Club and Lyra Baroque Orchestra. A regular guest over many seasons at the San Luis Obispo Mozart and Oregon Bach Festivals, the Maverick Chamber Series and the Oregon Festival of American Music, she’s often heard nationally on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion. 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.
Jesse Blumberg baritone Jesse Blumberg is an artist equally at home on opera, concert, and recital stages, performing repertoire from the Renaissance and Baroque to the 20th and 21stcenturies. His 2014-2015 season included a European concert tour of Niobe, Regina di Tebe with Boston Early Music Festival, debuts with Atlanta Opera as Charlie in Jake Heggie’s Three Decembers and with Hawaii Opera Theatre as Anthony in Sweeney Todd. In 2013-2014 he debuted with Kentucky Opera as Mercutio in Roméo et Juliette and with Opera Omnia in the title role of The Return of Ulysses, and returned to Minnesota Opera as Papageno in The Magic Flute. In 2015-2016 Jesse will perform Messiah at both the National Cathedral and with American Bach Soloists, St. John Passion with Apollo’s Fire, Bach cantatas with Montreal Baroque, and The Merry Widow at Boston Lyric Opera. Jesse’s other role highlights include The Celebrant in Bernstein’s Mass at London’s Royal Festival Hall under the baton of Marin Alsop, Mr. Lockwood in Wuthering Heights at Minnesota Opera, Harlekin in Ariadne auf Naxos with Boston Lyric Opera, The Count in Le nozze di Figaro with Fargo-Moorhead Opera, and the title role in The Return of Ulysses with Opera Omnia. In 2007 he created the role of Connie Rivers in Ricky Ian Gordon’s The Grapes of Wrath at Minnesota Opera, and later made his Utah and Pittsburgh Opera debuts in the same production. The next year he gave the world premiere of Gordon’s Green Sneakers with the Miami String Quartet at the Vail Valley Music Festival, and recently performed the work’s New York premiere as part of Lincoln Center’s American Songbook series. His other premieres have included Lisa Bielawa’s The Lay of the Love and Death, Conrad Cummings’ Positions 1956, and Tom Cipullo’s Excelsior. He also works closely with several other renowned composers as a member of the Mirror Visions Ensemble. Since 2009, Jesse has enjoyed a fruitful association with Boston Early Music Festival, in concert, opera, and recording. His roles with BEMF have included Adonis in Venus and Adonis, Mercurio in L’incoronazione di Poppea, Poliferno in Niobe, Regina di Tebe, Apollo and Pluton in La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers, and Tracollo in Livietta e Tracollo. He has been a featured soloist with several other early music ensembles, including American Bach Soloists, Apollo’s Fire, Boston Baroque, Pegasus Early Music, Trinity Baroque Orchestra, Clarion Society, Seattle Baroque Orchestra, Green Mountain Project, and Pacific MusicWorks.
Adriana Zabala mezzo-soprano As the title character in the American Premiere of Dove’s The Adventures of Pinocchio at the Minnesota Opera, Adriana Zabala was praised by The Wall Street Journal as showing “tremendous stamina and boy-like flair.” The New York Times hailed her as “a vivid, fearless presence,” and the L.A. Times as “extraordinary” for her portrayal of the Barbarian Girl in the American premiere of Philip Glass’ Waiting for the Barbarianswith the Austin Lyric Opera. Ms. Zabala enjoys a vibrant and unique career that includes opera, song repertoire, new works, concert and oratorio. The 2014-15 season brought an exciting role debut as Joanna in Carly Simon’s opera Romulus Hunt with Nashville Opera and the world premiere of The Manchurian Candidate with Minnesota Opera, as well as concert appearances with the Jacksonville Symphony and the Winter Park Bach Festival for Mozart’s Requiem, the Minnesota Orchestra for Mahler’s Second Symphony,Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Quad City Symphony, and Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the Back Bay Chorale. Ms. Zabala also recently created the role of Sister James in Minnesota Opera’s world premiere of Doubt, and was seen as Cherubino in Florentine Opera’s Le nozze di Figaro. The 2015-2016 season includes returns to Arizona Opera as Paula in Catan’s Florencia en el Amazonas, the New Jersey Symphony for Handel’s Messiah, the Quad City Symphony for Mahler’sSecond Symphony, and her debut with Angels & Demons Productions as Cherubno inLe nozze di Figaro. Future seasons include the title role in Sister Carrie with Florentine Opera, Amore in L’abore di Diana and Lucy Talbot in Dinner at Eight both with Minnesota Opera. Recent highlights include Ms. Zabala’s European debut under Maestro Lorin Maazel as Mercedes in Carmen at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, Spain, her Carnegie Hall debut on a concert with pianist and composer Gregg Kallor, premiering Exhilaration, Kallor’s settings of nine Emily Dickinson poems, her critically acclaimed portrayal of the Barbarian Girl in the American Premiere of Phillip Glass’ Waiting for the Barbarians with the Austin Lyric Opera, and appearing as the alto soloist with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir with Bryn Terfel as Elijah. Ms. Zabala was born Georgia and raised in Miami, Caracas, Venezuela, and Lake Jackson, Texas. She received her undergraduate degree from Louisiana State University, was a Fulbright Scholar in Salzburg, Austria, studying German Lieder at the Mozarteum, and earned her masters degree at the University of Cincinnati CollegeConservatory of Music. Ms. Zabala was a Resident Artist for two seasons with the Minnesota Opera, where she performed the roles of Cherubino, Annina, and Rosina, among others. She spent the following season as a Young Artist with the Seattle Opera, singing the title role in La Cenerentola. Ms. Zabala is an alumna of the apprentice programs at the Berkshire Opera, the Santa Fe Opera, Operafestival di Roma, and the Wolf Trap Opera Company. She Zabala lives in Minneapolis with her husband and two daughters.
Michael Slattery tenor Michael Slattery made his unforgettable New York Philharmonic debut in November 2013, stepping in at the last minute to sing the Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings for the Philharmonic’s celebrations of Benjamin Britten’s 100th birthday. “It could not have been more triumphant,” wrote The Examiner, “Brilliantly acted, his performance was bursting with spirit as he trumpeted his arrival. He took his bows to an enthusiastic audience who welcomed him with thunderous applause.” Slattery rejoined the Philharmonic in their 2014-15 season as the tenor soloist in Handel’s Messiah. Career highlights include the title role in Bernstein’s Candide at Royal Festival Hall in London; The Very Best of Lerner & Loewe with Kelli O’Hara, Paolo Szot, and the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall; J.S. Bach’s B-minor Masswith Iván Fischer and the National Symphony Orchestra; Peter Sellars’ Tristan Project with Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Philip Glass’s Akhnaten with John Adams- both with the Los Angeles Philharmonic; the title role in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris; and the Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 at the Berlin Staatsoper. Michael Slattery’s solo recordings include The Irish Heart and Dowland in Dublin, chosen by Opera News as one of the best recordings of 2012. He has recorded an impressive number of Handel’s works: Saul with Rene Jacobs for Harmonia Mundi; Acis and Galatea, Atalanta, Samson, and Solomon with Nicholas McGegan. Recent projects have included Britten’s Curlew River and Roland Auzet’s Steve V, the world premiere Steve Jobs digital opera, with Opéra de Lyon; and Gregory Spears’s minimalist opera Paul’s Case for the Prototype Festival in New York. Slattery performed in Robert Carsen’s new production of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence last summer, and joins the production in performances around the world. Slattery is a long-time supporter of the organization Sing for Hope and resides in New York City.
Martin Katz pianist “Martin Katz must surely be considered the dean of collaborative pianists,” said the Los Angeles Times, and Musical America magazine created an award expressly for him: Accompanist of the Year. One of the world’s busiest collaborators, he has been in constant demand by the world’s most celebrated vocal soloists for more than four decades. In addition to Miss Crocetto, he has appeared and recorded regularly with Marilyn Horne, Frederica von Stade, Karita Mattila, David Daniels, Jose Carreras, Cecilia Bartoli, Kiri Te Kanawa, Kathleen Battle, Piotr Beczala, Joseph Calleja and Sylvia McNair, to name just a few. Season after season, the world’s musical capitals figure prominently in his schedule. Throughout his long career he has been fortunate to partner some of the world’s most beloved voices: Renata Tebaldi, Cesare Siepi, Katia Ricciarelli, Tatiana Troyanos, Victoria de los Angeles, Teresa Berganza, Nicolai Gedda, Regine Crespin, Grace Bumbry, Monserrat Caballe have all asked for him at the piano. Mr. Katz is a native of Los Angeles, where he began piano studies at the age of five. He attended the University of Southern California and studied the specialized field of accompanying with its pioneer teacher, Gwendolyn Koldofsky. While yet a student, he was given the unique opportunity of accompanying the classes and lessons of such luminaries as Lotte Lehmann, Jascha Heifetz, Pierre Bernac, and Gregor Piatigorsky. Following his formal education, he held the position of pianist for the US Army Chorus in Washington, D.C. for three years, before moving to New York where his international career began in earnest in 1969. Finally, the professional profile of Martin Katz is completed with his commitment to teaching. For three decades, the University of Michigan has been his home, where he has been happy to chair the School of Music’s program in collaborative piano, and play an active part in operatic productions. He has been a pivotal figure in the training of countless young artists, both singers and pianists, who are now working all over the world. The University of Michigan has recognized this important work, making him the first Arthur Schnabel Professor of Music. In addition to his work at his home school, he is a regular guest teacher at Helsinki’s Sibelius Academy, Songfest, Chicago College of Performing Arts, Canadian Operatic Arts Academy, and the New National Theatre of Tokyo. Mr. Katz’s comprehensive guide for accompanists, “The Complete Collaborator,” published by Oxford Press, is widely seen as the standard for textbooks on this subject.
Håkan Hagegård baritone While the outstanding Swedish baritone, Håkan Hagegård, was still at school, he studied singing at the Local Conservatory of his hometown. In 1967 he started to attend the class for soloists at the State College of Music in Stockholm (Royal Academy). After finishing his studies, Håkan Hagegård made his début at the Royal Opera, Stockholm in 1968 as Papageno (Die Zauberflöte). It was in the same role that he later won universal acclaim in Ingmar Bergman’s television film of Mozart’s opera. In 1970 he made his first appearance at the Drottningholm Theatre as Pacuvio in Rossini’s La Pietra del Paragone. Since 1970 Håkan Hagegård has been attached to the Royal Opera, Stockholm, and his operatic repertoire includes numerous roles, such roles as Malatesta (Don Pasquale), Guglielmo (Cosi fan tutte), Count Almaviva (La Nozze di Figaro), Figaro (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Rodrigo (Don Carlos) and Wolfram (Tannhäuser). Hagegard studied Lieder interpretation with both Erik Werba and Gerald Moore, and made his debut as a Lieder singer in Stockholm in 1970, singing Schubert’s Die Winterreise. He has since given Lieder recitals all over Europe, has appeared with the leading orchestras of his native Scandinavia and America, and in many major musical centres including London, Madrid and Salzburg. He has made several recordings, including Die Zauberflöte, and Operatic Recital, and the Philips recording of La Bohème in which he sings the role of Schaunard. Håkan Hagegård has been increasingly in demand abroad both as an opera singer and recitalist, notably in the USA, at Glyndebourne, in Spain and West Germany. He made his operatic debut in America as Malatesta in Don Pasquale at the Metropolitan Opera, New York in 1980. His 1980 engagements included his debut at the Edinburgh Festival in his own recital. In 1980 he also undertook a major World Tour under the auspices of the Swedish Government, which comprised a series of concerts and recitals throughout Europe, Israel, Australia, Hong Kong and America, and which also included a further recital at the Wigmore Hall in London. In December 1991, he created the role of Beaumarchais in the premiere of Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Jeffrey Van guitarist/composer Guitarist and composer Jeffrey Van has premiered over 50 works for guitar including Dominick Argento’s Letters from Composers, five concertos and a broad variety of chamber music. He has performed in Carnegie Hall, London’s Wigmore Hall, and the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, and as part of Duologue, with flutist Susan Morris De Jong, has premiered and recorded commissioned works from more than a dozen composers, including Stephen Paulus, Roberto Sierra, Tania Leon, Michael Daugherty, Libby Larsen and William Bolcom. He has been featured on many NPR broadcasts, made several solo and ensemble recordings and appeared on ten recordings with The Dale Warland Singers. Van has performed and taught master classes throughout the United States, and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Minnesota School of Music, where he is a lecturer in classical guitar. Former students include Sharon Isbin, John Holmquist and members of the Minneapolis Guitar Quartet. Mr. Van’s compositions include works for guitar, guitar and violin, guitar and flute, chorus, chamber ensemble, vocal solo, organ and a concerto for two guitars and chamber orchestra. His music is published by Boosey & Hawkes, Walton, Colla Voce, Mark Foster, Earthsongs, MorningStar and Hal Leonard.
Brian Newhouse host Brian Newhouse is the Managing Director of Minnesota Public Radio/American Public Media’s classical programming, including SymphonyCast, Performance Today, Pipedreams, and the national 24-hour service, Classical 24. He holds degrees in voice and English from Luther College, and has been a soloist with the Dale Warland Singers, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and an Artist-inResidence at the Oregon Bach Festival. He won a Peabody Award for writing the radio documentary “The Mississippi: River of Song.” He’s the author of the memoir, “A Crossing.” And he hosts the Friday night live broadcasts of the Minnesota Orchestra heard regionally on Classical Minnesota Public Radio. He and his family live in St. Paul.
Source Song Festival & the Alliance Française present:
FRANÇOIS LE ROUX, BARITONE OLIVIER GODIN, PIANO August 9, 2016 8p | Antonello Recital Hall
La Cigale et la fourmi Camille Saint-Saëns Rêverie (1835 – 1921) Grasselette et Maigrelette Chanson pour Hélène Fernand Halphen L’Agonie (1872 – 1917) Colloque sentimental L’Horizon chimérique, Op. 118 La mer est infinie Je me suis embarqué Diane, Séléné Vaisseaux, nous vous aurons aimés en pure perte
Gabriel Fauré (1845 – 1924)
INTERMISSION Les Hiboux Déodat de Séverac Offrande (1872 – 1921) Un Rêve Trois Ballades de François Villon, FL 126 Claude Debussy Ballade à s’amye (1864 – 1918) Ballade que Villon fit à la requête de sa mère pour prier Notre-Dame Ballade des Femmes de Paris Trois Chansons de Federico Garcia Lorca Francis Poulenc L’Enfant muet (1899 – 1963) Adelina qui se promène Chanson de l’oranger sec Poèmes intimes Amour Je veux te voir Nous baignons dans une eau tranquille Tu dors … Pour te parler
André Jolivet (1905 – 1974)
Source FEATuRED artists 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. He sang Golaud for the centenary of the opera’s premiere at the Opéra-Comique in Paris in 2002, and more recently in Paris, Vichy, Rouen, Milan (La Scala) and Toulon. In 2007 he sang Golaud in the first-ever staged production of Pelléas et Mélisande in Moscow, conducted by Marc Minkowski, directed by Olivier Py. This became the subject of a film by Philippe Béziat: “Pelléas et Mélisande, Le chant des aveugles,” released on DVD in 2011. He 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. François 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, Bonn 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. 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.
Source Song Festival & the American Swedish Institute presents
Music of Our Lands: Songs from Sweden and Minnesota August 10, 6p Happy Hour | 8p Concert
Hosted by Håkan Hagegård & Libby Larsen with Kathleen Roland-Silverstein, soprano | Clara Osowski, mezzo-soprano Alan Dunbar, baritone | Arlene Shrut, piano | Mark Bilyeu, piano
Kung Eriks Visor En visa om nar jag var lustig med Welam Welamsson En visa om mig och narren Herkules En visa till Karin nar hon hade dansat En visa till Karin ur fangelset Kung Eriks sista visa
Ture Rangström (1884 –1947)
Alan Dunbar, baritone | Mark Bilyeu, piano Sköldmön Sköldmön
Rangström Kerstin Jeppsson (b. 1948)
Kathleen Roland-Silverstein, soprano | Mark Bilyeu, piano Kyssande Vind Lars-Erik Larsson from Nio sanger (1908-1986) Han kom som en vind Lennart Fredriksson from Tre Sänger (b. 1952) Kathleen Roland-Silverstein, soprano | Arlene Shrut, piano from Klangernas sånger III. Snart ska jag förlora min mor IV Djupen ropar till djupen VI Horisontklang Alan Dunbar, baritone | Arlene Shrut, piano
Daniel Börtz (b. 1943)
The Birth Project Libby Larsen The Song Rehearsal (b. 1950) Pregnant Ultrasound Due Date Alone Mia First Miracle Superhero (Birth One) From the Start (Birth Two) Blood Moon Five Days (Birth Three) I Did It! (Birth Four) Kathleen Roland-Silverstein, soprano | Clara Osowski, mezzo-soprano Arlene Shrut, piano “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
THE VOYAGE Sunday, October 16, 2016 at 4 pm
Central Lutheran Church, Minneapolis
LIBBY LARSEN
Join VocalEssence in the premiere of Quilt Songs, a new song cycle that stitches together quilts created by local contemporary quilter Kay McCarthy, timeless poetry and the music of five prominent women composers (including our own Libby Larsen!) to celebrate the seasons of life.
TICKETS: $20, $30, $40 vocalessence.org 612-371-5656
Source FEATuRED artists Libby Larsen composer 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.
Alan Dunbar baritone Lauded for his beautiful tone and his nuanced musical and textual interpretation, baritone Alan Dunbar is a versatile performer, at home in opera, oratorio, art song, and folk and popular music. Upcoming engagements include Bartolo in Madison Opera’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, Schubert’s Winterreise with pianist Deanne Mohr, and a solo recital with pianist Gregory Martin at the 2015 International Grieg Festival. Recent performances and accolades include Owen Hart in Dead Man Walking with Madison Opera, the title role of Britten’s Noye’s Fludde at Santa Fe Opera, the world premiere of Shawn Allison’s Age of Catastrophe’s with the Spektral Quartet, Handel’s Messiah with the Santa Fe Symphony and Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, and recitals at the Ravinia Festival Steans Institute. In 2012 Alan debuted with Madison Opera as Alidoro in La Cenerentola, and covered the lead role of Prophet/King in the world premiere of Dark Sisters with Gotham Chamber Opera and Opera Philadelphia. Other opera appearances include the Composer and the cover of Mr. Scattergood in Menotti’s The Last Savage with Santa Fe Opera, Sweeney Todd in the Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Scenes, the title role in Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle at the Natchez Opera Festival, and Zaretsky in Eugene Onegin at the Tanglewood Music Festival with Renée Fleming and Peter Mattei. During his time at Indiana University, Alan sang principal roles in twelve IU Opera Theater productions, including Pandolfe in Massenet’s Cendrillon, Leporello (Don Giovanni), Dulcamara (L’elisir d’Amore), Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte), and Jules Goddard (A Wedding). In addition to opera, Alan has extensive experience on the concert stage, singing bass solos in performances of Stravinsky’s Pulcinella under Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, the Mozart Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten, and the title role of Mendelssohn’s Elijah. He has also garnered special praise for his interpretation of J. S. Bach’s Passions and sacred cantatas. In conjunction with winning the 2009 Grieg Festival Competition in Winter Park, FL, Alan made his European solo recital debut with performances at the 2009 Oslo Grieg Festival and the Troldhaugen recital series in Bergen, Norway. He has collaborated with choreographer/director Mark Morris in performances with the Mark Morris Dance Group, as well as in the Stravinsky chamber opera Renard. A strong proponent of new works, Alan continues to collaborate with established and emerging composers. He has premiered pieces by Elliot Carter, Nico Muhly, Shawn Allison, and Edwin Penhorwood. Alan holds a BA in music theory and composition from St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN, and an MM and DM in vocal performance from Indiana University, where he studied with Costanza Cuccaro. Alan was a founding member of the Minnesota-based internationally acclaimed male chamber vocal ensemble Cantus, performing for seven seasons throughout the United States and Europe. During his tenure with Cantus, he recorded ten albums and appeared as a soloist with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, at the Oregon Bach Festival, the 2002 World Choral Symposium, and the 2003 Polyphonia Festival in Normandy, France. He has also composed and arranged many pieces for the ensemble, including Alleluia Amen, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Bashana Haba’ah, and Stick to the Craythur. Alan is a member of the voice faculty at Winona State University.
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. 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.
Kathleen Roland-Silverstein soprano Kathleen Roland is a highly regarded concert soloist well known for her interpretation of the music of the 20th and 21st century. She has been a featured singer with many music festivals, including the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Britten-Pears Institute and the Tanglewood Music Festival, and has performed with many prominent conductors, including James Conlon, Kent Nagano, Reinbert de Leeuw, and Oliver Knussen. She has been a frequent soloist with the Grammy award-winning Southwest Chamber Music Society of Los Angeles, with whom she has garnered critical acclaim for her performances. In the last year, the soprano has performed in New York City, San Diego, and Australia, and international performances include concerts in Sweden, Vietnam, Cambodia and Germany. Recordings include a CD created with American composer Libby Larsen of her song cycle, Songs from Letters, from Calamity Jane to her daughter Janey, and Aura, for orchestra and soloists, by Cambodian composer Chinary Ung. Dr. Roland is a Fulbright senior scholar, and an American Scandinavian Foundation grantee (2003 and 2016). She is a member of the faculty of the Setnor School of Music at Syracuse University, and is the author of Romanser: 25 Swedish Art Song with Guide to Lyric Diction. Roland is a frequent master clinician for some of the country’s premiere young artist programs and universities, including Songfest, Tanglewood, University of Southern California and Manhattan School of Music. She is the current music reviewer for the Journal of Singing.
Mark Bilyeu pianist Described as a “superb partner” by schubert.org, pianist Mark Bilyeu has 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. A committed recitalist, his engagements have included the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Series, PianoForte Foundation in Chicago, Schubert Club of St. Paul, the Everson Museum (Syracuse NY), the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis, the Alliance Francaise, the VOICES! at St. Matthews, and the Fran Randall series in Chicago, across the Midwest with his piano-horn-voice ensemble Trio Pastiche, and internationally as part of the Stamford Chamber Music Festival (Stamford, UK). In February of 2015, along with Clara Osowski, he was the only American pianist to advance to the finals of the Das Lied International Song Competition, directed by Thomas Quasthoff and held in Berlin, Germany. He has participated in the Aspen Summer Music Festival, the l’Académie Françis Poulenc, the Baldwin-Wallace Art Song Festival, the Vancouver International Song Institute, the Roger Vignoles Mentoring Program, and Musique sur mer en Acadie in Caraquet, NB Canada where in spent a week studying with pianist Susan Manoff. He has participated in master classes given by Graham Johnson, Warren Jones, Martin Katz, Jeff Cohen, Irwin Gage, Margo Garrett, Sir Thomas Allen, Joan Rogers, and François Le Roux. An advocate for new music, Bilyeu has premiered works by David Evan Thomas, Paul John Rudoi, Kala Pierson, Eric Reda, and Jacob Tews, and was a Featured Guest Artist at Southern Illinois University- Carbondale’s ‘Outside the Box New Music Festival’ where he gave the American premiere of Brian Rosen’s “L’oiseau libre.” He has served as music director with Chicago Opera Vanguard, Chicago Folks Operetta, and ensemble113, and has been seen as pianist with Minnesota Concert Opera, VocalEssence, Silver Swan, Chicago Choral Artists, and served as Associate Keyboardist of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the training orchestra of the Chicago Symphony. A graduate of the Chicago College of Performing Arts he holds a Bachelor of Musical Arts degree with emphases in German and the Humanities. There, he studied with pianist Meng-Chieh Liu and vocal coach Dana Brown. Following graduation, he had the privilege of studying with Chicago Symphony pianist Mary Sauer. He completed a master’s degree in Vocal Coaching & Accompanying from the University of Minnesota where he studied with Norriko Kawai and Timothy Lovelace.
Clara Osowski mezzo-soprano Hailed for her artistry and “rich and radiant” voice (Urban Dial Milwaukee), Clara Osowski is an active soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States and Europe. She was a 2012 Metropolitan Opera National Council Upper-Midwest Regional Finalist, the winner of the 2014 Bel Canto Chorus Regional Artists Competition in Milwaukee, second place winner of the 2015 American Prize in Art Song, and runner-up in the 2016 Schubert Club Bruce P. Carlson Scholarship Competition. Clara’s passion for art song creation and collaboration is evident in her most recent premieres with Linda Tutas Haugen (Gjendine’s Lullaby), Paul Rudoi (Midnight Songs) and James Kallembach (Songs on Letters of John and Abigail Adams). As a recitalist, she recently completed the Vancouver International Song Institute, the International Workshop on the songs of Edvard Grieg in Bergen, Norway, and traveled to Tours, France to attend the Académie Francis Poulenc. In 2015, she was the only American to reach the finals of the Das Lied competition under the direction of Thomas Quasthoff in Berlin, Germany, and was a finalist in the 2016 Liederkranz Foundation competition. Upcoming performances in the 2016-2017 season include Dominick Argento’s A Few Words about Chekhov with the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, alto soloist in Bach’s St. John Passion, and several recital engagements across the United States. Clara is featured on numerous recordings with Consortium Carissimi (Naxos), and premiered James Kallembach’s St. John Passion, released with high acclaim on Roven Records. For more information and schedule, please visit www.claraosowski.com.
THIS IS YOUR TIME TO PERFORM Music scholarships offered for music majors and non-majors. SMUMN.EDU/MUSIC
Visit music.um
n.edu to sign up
for
the SOM e-newsle er Ostinato for
l news.
o es and scho event updat
MUSIC OF MN RECITAL Friday, August 12 | 6pm Antonello Recital Hall Hear the exceptional students of the MNDuo program perform music of local composers Elizabeth Alexander, Linda Tutas Haugen, Jocelyn Hagen, Timothy C. Takach, and Edie Hill. This free concert is followed by the culminating recital of the MNSong Composer Showcase at 8pm.
MNDuo teams Shari Feldman soprano | Christin Cooper pianist Shari Eve Feldman, soprano, is simply overjoyed to return to Minneapolis for a second season “at the Source!” Recent performances include Papagena in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte under the direction of Maestro Martin Katz, and featured soloist for the University of Delaware’s Schola Cantorum, directed by Dr. Paul Head. This spring, Shari looks forward to chorus roles in Verdi’s Falstaff with OperaDelaware and the Baltimore Concert Opera under the direction of Maestro Giovanni Reggioli, and a collaborative performance in the 2016 New Music Delaware Festival – her Maltese song debut! Shari maintains a private voice studio in Newark, Delaware, and is the Academic Advisor and Director of Recruitment for the Music Department at the University of Delaware. 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. Christin Cooper is a pianist, conductor, and music educator from Newark, DE. Christin is currently pursuing a Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting at the University of Delaware, studying conducting with Dr. Paul Head and piano with Marie-Christine Delbeau. At UD, Christin has established herself as an in-demand accompanist for university choral ensembles, soloists, and community groups while also maintaining a private piano studio. Prior to beginning her graduate studies, Christin was a music teacher and accompanist at The Harvey School in Katonah, New York. Her performance interests include all aspects of collaborative piano playing, extended piano techniques, and music of the 20th and 21st centuries. Recent performances include a solo appearance at the Smyrna Opera House (DE), a collaborative appearance in the Newark Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem, and an alumni recital at Bucknell University. Christin is a 2011 graduate of Bucknell University where she received a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education. Her former teachers include Dr. Barry Hannigan and Dr. Xun Pan. Christin is very excited to participate in this festival and visit Minneapolis for the first time!
Anika Kildegaard soprano | Ann DuHamel pianist Anika Kildegaard is a performer and educator in the Twin Cities area. She has sung with such notable groups as The Minnesota Chorale, The SPCO Chorale, VocalEssence, Magpies & Ravens, The St Paul Civic Symphony Chorus, and Silver Swan. She has performed at various events including the Twin Cities Early Music Festival, the Northern Voice Festival, College Music Society’s Great Lakes Region Conference, and the University of Minnesota, Morris Jazz Festival. In early 2016, Kildegaard premiered the new work of composer Mitch Grussing Garden of Tongues, Garden of Eyes. Kildegaard is the co-founder of Songbird Music: a community choral program that celebrates the work of local composers. Praised for the “grace and sensitivity” of her playing as well as her enthusiastic teaching, pianist Ann DuHamel serves as Head of Keyboard Studies at the University of Minnesota Morris. A fervent advocate for new music, she has enjoyed working with contemporary composers Lowell Liebermann, Joseph Dangerfield, and Edie Hill, among others. In collaboration with saxophonist Preston Duncan, she commissioned and premiered a new work at the 12th Annual International Saxophone Conference in Mexico City, where her playing and teaching was described as “…a delight for the ears and the soul.” Highlights of her career include appearances at Carnegie Weill Recital Hall in New York City with both Trio Lorca and ensemble: Périphérie. Past performances include venues in Argentina, Bulgaria, Canada, Costa Rica, Finland, Italy, Mexico, Uruguay, and across the U.S. Ann earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Iowa under the tutelage of Ksenia Nosikova. As an ardent lover of art song, Ann is thrilled to participate in Source.
Christine Killian soprano | Jenya Trubnikava pianist Christine Killian, soprano, completed a Masters of Music degree in Vocal Performance at the University of Minnesota in Spring 2015, under the tutelage of Adriana Zabala. She earned her Bachelor of Music at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. In summer 2015 Ms. Killian performed the role of la Contessa in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro in Salzburg, Austria with the FrancoAmerican Vocal Academy, reprising the role she had sung the previous spring with the University of Minnesota Opera Theatre. Other roles with the UMNOT include Rooster/Jay in Janacek’s Cunning Little Vixen, and Esmeralda in Smetana’s The Bartered Bride. In the 2014-15 school year, Christine was selected for the exclusive Minnesota Opera/UMN ECCO program, an intensive performance training partnership. Also in 2015, she won the University Concerto Competition and performed Dvorak’s Song to the Moon as a soloist with the University Symphony Orchestra. Other recent performance credits include the role of Fanchette in Mademoiselle Modiste with Skylark Opera, and professional chorus work with Minnesota Opera and Mill City Summer Opera. Additionally, Ms. Killian was a member of Mill City Summer Opera’s Studio Artist Program in 2012. Ms. Killian currently resides in the Twin Cities, where she performs and teaches voice lessons. An active performer and vocal coach in Central Minnesota, Jenya Trubnikava was born in Grodno, Belarus and moved to the United States in 2006. As a recitalist, Ms. Trubnikava has appeared with the musicians from the rosters of the Minnesota Orchestra, Minnesota Opera, National Opera and Ballet of Belarus, Zurich University of Arts, University of Minnesota, St. Cloud State University, St. Johns University and Twin Cities Voice Academy. Her recent participation list as collaborative pianist/coach includes Minnesota Opera, Mill City Summer Opera, The Museum of Russian Art, Schubert Club Courtroom Series, Classical Singer Magazine Competition Russian Seasons in Minnesota, and Minnesota Orchestra Chamber Music Series. Since 2007 she serves as the principal pianist with the St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Trubnikava has coached with and accompanied the masterclasses of many accomplished artists including Donna Brunsma; Anne Epperson; Margo Garrett; Andrea Huber; John Largess; Deen Larsen; and Rohan de Saram among others. She is also engaged as the Russian repertoire vocal coach at the Minnesota Opera Resident Artists Program. Jenya holds her undergraduate and graduate degrees in Piano Performance from Belarus State Academy of Music, with the additional postgraduate study with Martin Christ at the University of Arts in Zurich, Switzerland. She is currently pursuing her Doctoral Degree in Collaborative Piano and Coaching at the University of Minnesota with Timothy Lovelace, serves as adjunct piano professor at St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota, and is a sought-after vocal coach in the Twin Cities.
Wendy Matsutani soprano | Jessica Johnston pianist Wendy Matsutani recently graduated with an MM in Vocal Performance from the University of Minnesota. She received her BM in Vocal Performance from the University of California - Santa Barbara in 2014. Ms. Matsutani was a recent participant in the Opera Viva Program in Verona, Italy where she performed in various concerts and scenes productions as Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), amongst others. Previous roles include: Sutton/Miss Foster (Lady in the Dark), Mrs. Gleaton (Susannah), Rosita (Luisa Fernanda), and Papagena (Die Zauberflöte).
Pianist and mezzo-soprano Jessica Johnston recently received her MM in Collaborative Piano and Coaching from the University of Minnesota. Recent performance highlights include Ned Rorem’s Evidence of Things Not Seen, a solo harpsichord recital, Mozart’s Kegelstatt Trio, a solo vocal recital featuring American composers and poets, and roles in Mavra and L’enfant et les sorteleges. She was a participant in the Source Song Festival in 2015 and Songfest at Colburn in 2012. Based in the Twin Cities, she enjoys working with singers and instrumentalists as a coach and collaborator. Her research interests include diction, contemporary American art song, and the Lieder of Clara Schumann.
Briana Moynihan mezzo-soprano | Benton Schmidt pianist A native of St. Paul, mezzo-soprano Briana Moynihan recently graduated from North Dakota State University’s Challey School of Music, where she earned a Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance. Roles that she has performed include Chief Elder in Susan Kander’s The Giver (Regional Premiere), Zita in Gianni Schicchi, Hermia in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors, and Little Buttercup in H.M.S Pinafore. Briana was also a member of the NDSU Concert Choir, where she performed solos in Handel’s Messiah, Constant Lambert’s The Rio Grande, and John Corigliano’s Fern Hill. Briana is a winner and finalist of several competitions in the Midwest region, including the Thursday Musical Scholarship Competition, the Schubert Club Scholarship Competition, and Minnesota Public Radio’s Minnesota Varsity. She is also a winner of the Theodore Presser Scholarship. Briana has participated in SongFest at the Colburn School in Los Angeles, and the 2015 Source Song Festival’s MN Duo program where she collaborated with pianist Benton Schmidt. This fall Briana will begin her graduate studies at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Benton Schmidt has peen playing piano since the age of five. He has performed with members of Ensemble Intercontemporain, Orchestra Iowa, and competed in several piano competitions, with an invitation to perform in the Fargo-Moorhead Rotary Club’s Recital With a Cause for polio awareness. Schmidt began studying with Dr. Robert Groves while in his junior year of high school, and is now in his third year at the NDSU Challey School of Music working towards a degree in Piano Performance. 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 College. As the rehearsal pianist for the NDSU Opera, he has prepared singers for Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, HMS Pinafore, and an opera scenes recital program. He also enjoys playing in pit orchestras for Theatre NDSU and Trollwood Performing Arts School. As a violinist in high school, he was a member of the Fargo-Moorhead Area Youth Symphonies for two years. As a singer and accompanist, Schmidt performs with the NDSU Concert Choir, and assisted in preparations for their recent performance of Carmina Burana with the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra.
Anna Kristine Phillips soprano | Hong Liang Ng pianist Anna Kristine Phillips is a Lyric soprano from Knoxville, TN. She completed her undergraduate education with a Bachelor’s degree in vocal performance from Middle Tennessee State University, where she was also given the award for Outstanding Achievement in Voice for the 2016 school year. Anna Kristine Phillips is now pursuing a Master’s degree in Vocal Performance as a Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Kristine competed as a semifinalist in the national Orpheus competition of 2016. She has performed the role of Laurie from Aaron Coplands The Tender Land, as well as Second Lady from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte in the 2015 season at Opera Breve Young Artist Program. Anna Kristine Phillips is noted for her love of working with living composers, most recently premiering the song cycle Love’s End by Daniel L. Steele. Hong Liang Ng was born and grew up in Malaysia. He is currently pursuing Masters in Music, specializing in collaborative piano, and studying and working under Dr. Arunesh Nadgir as a graduate assistant in Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro. Other than being a graduate assistant playing regularly for various vocal and instrumental students’ lessons and recitals, Hong Liang participated in 2016 MTSU opera production “The Tender Land” as vocal coach. Hong Liang received his Bachelor of Music (Honors) degree from UCSI University, Kuala Lumpur and studied under Dr. Nicholas Ong. He has obtained his LTCL (Trinity College) diploma and has performed in various concerts as a pianist, and collaborative pianist. Hong Liang is awarded with several prizes in joining various international piano competitions and attended masterclasses with various international piano professors such as Prof. Michiko Shoji and Prof. Ja Young Jeong at the 2012 ASIA International Piano Academy & Festival with Competition.
Regina Stroncek soprano | Taylor Burkhardt pianist Regina Stroncek, soprano, is a proud graduate of the University of Minnesota, with degrees in Vocal Performance and Spanish and Portuguese Studies. She studied under the tutelage of Wendy Zaro-Mullins and Adriana Zabala, performed the operatic role of Zerlina, and sang with the University Singers. Spring 2013 she studied Spanish literature and art history in Spain. While there, Ms. Stroncek sang in concerts in Toledo and participated in the Barcelona Festival of Song with Patricia Caicedo, singing repertoire in Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalan. She is an avid recitalist with a deep-seated passion for art song, and participated in MN Duo with Taylor Burkhardt in 2015. Ms. Stroncek performs locally with ensembles MPLS-imPulse, the Minnesota Chorale, The First Readings Project, and Schola Cantorum of the Cathedral of St. Paul. Next year, Ms. Stroncek will travel to Brazil on a Fulbright grant to teach English and further explore Brazilian art song repertoire. Taylor Burkhardt collaborates with a number of vocalists and instrumentalists as a duo partner, chamber musician, rehearsal pianist, and coach. Ms. Burkhardt has given solo and collaborative performances in recital at the University of Minnesota, Source Song Festival, New York Summer Music Festival, Brevard Music Center, Wichita State University, Odyssey Chamber Music Series, and at the University of Missouri, where she held positions as pianist with the Mizzou New Music Ensemble and as a pianist with ShowMe Opera. With the New Music Ensemble,she premiered countless student works and performed under the supervision of composers David Biedenbender, Nicholas Omiccioli, and Andrew List. Ms Burkhardt is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Collaborative Piano and Coaching at the University of Minnesota. Her teachers include Timothy Lovelace, Peter Miyamoto, and Karen Larvick. Recently, she has performed in masterclasses given by Margaret McDonald, Margo Garrett, and Arlene Shrut.
Lauren Urquhart soprano | Neil Nanyi Qiang pianist Lauren Urquhart is a rising junior at the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University. She is a vocal performance major and studies with Amy Jarman. In recent master classes, she worked alongside Kathleen Kelly and Roger Vignoles. Recent performances include ensemble roles in Vanderbilt Opera Theatre productions of “Die Fledermaus,” Bernstein’s “MASS,” and Michael Ching’s “Speed Dating Tonight.” Next fall, she will debut her first opera role as Beth in the Vanderbilt Opera Theatre production of Mark Adamo’s “Little Women.”
Pianist Neil Nanyi Qiang is pursuing a diverse career as a chamber musician, vocal coach, and soloist. He has performed in many music venues across North America and his homeland, China. An alumnus of Music Academy of the West’s Collaborative Piano Program, he has appeared in music festivals such as iSING Young Artists Festival, Vancouver International Song Institute, and New Music on the Point. This summer, Mr. Qiang is invited to participate in SongFest 2016 in LA, and he currently holds the Pianist/Coach fellowship at the “ECCO” program of Minnesota Opera. An advocate of new music, Qiang is a performer and board member of Minneapolis based composer collective 113 premiering new collaborative works with piano. He is pursuing his DMA in Collaborative Piano and Coaching at the Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
MNsong composers recital Friday, August 12 | 8pm Antonello Recital Hall Come enjoy the works by the emerging composers selected by Libby Larsen for the third annual MNSong Composers Workshop. Performed by local artists, by emerging composers it doesn’t get much better than this!
SourceSong2016_Layout 1 7/29/16 4:27 PM Page 1
Opening September 30!
The Best Tribute Concerts in the Twin Cities!
Rediscover the romance and grandeur of the great American Musical Theatre classic! Johnny Cash • The Eagles Sinatra • Pink Floyd Bob Seger • Springsteen The Carpenters Neil Diamond • Power Balladz Many More!
Full listing available online
952.934.1525 ChanhassenDT.com
MNsong participants Boston area composer Marc Hoffeditz has written for various ensembles and performers, from full orchestra to a dancing violinist. Recently focusing on dramatic vocal works, his works explore numerous nostalgic undertones through various textual sources including Peter Pan and Anne Sexton. Among his varied musical inspirations, he enjoys the challenge of balancing sarcasm, pathos, and humor. Recent activities include Hartford Opera Theatre’s New in November Festival and Rhymes with Opera: Pocket Opera Workshop. Upcoming commissions include a work for the Fourth Wall Ensemble featuring Elisabeth Halliday and a brief opera about Canadian poet El Jones. Marc graduated from the Boston Conservatory and Christopher Newport University, studying with Andy Vores, Marti Epstein, Dalit Warshaw, and Christopher Cook. Lyudmila German was born in Ukraine, where she began her musical training. She continued her education in New York, where she earned a BA in music from Brooklyn College, (composition studies with Noah Creshevsky and Tania Leon), and MM and DMA degrees in composition from the Manhattan School of Music, 2003 (studies with Ursula Mamlok and Nils Vigeland). Lyudmila is a recipient of Miriam Gideon Scholarship from Brooklyn College, Meet the Composer Grant, Ivar Mikhaschoff Grant for New Music (2000), Cantate Chamber Singers award (2004) and Robert Helps Prize (2009). Recent performances include: Four Seasons for chamber orchestra, by Freisinger Chamber Orchestra in Boston, MA (2010) and Ulianovsk, Russia (2013); Red Snail on the Snow for koto and cello at Spectrum, NYC (2014); Silenced Swallow for Japanese sho at Tenri Cultural Institute, March 2015; Hues of Summer for clarinet and piano at Tenri Cultural Institute; Chernivtsy Overture for student orchestra in Chernivtsy Philharmonic Hall, Ukraine, May 2016. Lyudmila is a music director and organist at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Georgetown, CT and a theory teacher at Stamford Music and Arts Academy in CT. Previously, she worked as a church music director, piano accompanist, theory and instrumentation teacher at Long Island Conservatory of Music and Music School of Westchester.
William Kenlon (b. 1983), dually based in Washington D.C. and Boston, is a composer specializing in music for chamber, choral, and jazz ensembles. Described as “pointed and groovy” (New Music Box), Kenlon’s music has garnered praise for its “lyrical personality that is original and strong” (Boston Musical Intelligencer), and for its sophisticated tonal explorations: “solid without being dense, clear without being sparse, and ever-changing without being random” (ibid). Enjoying frequent performances across the U.S. and in Europe, Kenlon has studied with composers from a variety of traditions and backgrounds, including John Hilliard, Jason Haney, Chuck Dotas, John McDonald, and (at present) Mark Edwards Wilson; he has also taken lessons with Forrest Pierce, Gabriela Lena Frank, Stacy Garrop, and Frederic Rzewski, among others. Kenlon obtained a B.M. degree (magna cum laude) from James Madison University and an M.A. from Tufts University, and has completed studies at McGill University and at the New England Conservatory. In 2013, he was awarded the Flagship Fellowship to pursue doctoral studies at the University of Maryland, which will be his home through mid-2017.
Scott Senko is a composer in the Twin Cities. His music has been performed by various ensembles and musicians in Minnesota and Iowa. As a vocalist, Scott has sung with a number of ensembles in the Twin Cities, including: Magnum Chorum, MPLS (imPulse), Vox Nova Chorale, the Radio Choir from American Public Media, and the choir at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church. Scott is a graduate of Luther College where he studied composition with Brooke Joyce and Steve Smith and voice with Andrew Whitfield.
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. Martha Helen Schmidt is a composer and educator in the Twin Cities. She has taught piano,flute, voice and theory/composition at the elementary, secondary, and college levels. She currently teaches secondary choral music, piano, and theory in Burnsville, Minnesota. She was also the principal flutist in the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra in Arizona. Ms. Schmidt holds a BM in Theory/Composition from Lawrence University Conservatory of Music, and an MM in Theory/Composition from Ithaca College. She had the great privilege to study with one of the greatest teachers of the 20th century, Nadia Boulanger, at the Conservatoire Américain de Fontainebleau in France. Other teachers include Louise Talma, James Ming, and Pulitzer Prize winners Steven Stucky and Karel Husa. Ms. Schmidt currently has five choral octavos published by Theodore Presser. Her choral works have been performed by ensembles here and abroad including St Olaf College, Viterbo College, University of Minnesota, All-State Choir Minnesota, and Dordt College. Her octavos have been performed in various places including Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago, Basilica of St. Mary and St. Mark’s Cathedral Minneapolis, Notre Dame in Paris, St. Peters Basilica in Rome, and St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin. She collaborated with world renowned National Geographic photographer Jim Brandenburg on Earth Teach Me, an SATB choral work based on a beautiful Native American Ute text. The past six years she has found her passion in writing Art Song cycles. Her song cycle I Open and Fill with Love, is her second set of songs based on the poetry of Rumi, a 13th century Persian poet, theologian, and mystic. It was highly received at its premiere in Paris and Fontainebleau, France including a performance at the 90th Anniversary Jubilee of the Conservatoire Américain. She also has two French cycles entitled Trois Mélodies and Quatre Chansons based on the poetry of Verlaine, Laforge, Baudelaire, Apollinaire, and Valéry. Ms. Schmidt recently finished a song cycle for bass and piano called Ship of Death with poetry by D. H. Lawrence. “I love music with a lot of heart and we have just that. They are really superb.” – Philipe Entremont. “These songs are treasures! Oh my goodness, an American writing with the absolute presence of the French mélodie. How amazing. They are exquisite!” – Ruth Palmer.
Source Song Festival Presents
Restless Searchers
Håkan Hagegård Stages the Seminal Cycles of Dominick Argento August 13, 2016 8p | Ordway Center for Performing Arts David Ramadés Toro, assistant director
“I enjoy almost everything. Yet I have some restless searcher in me. Why is there not a discovery in life? Something one can lay hands on and say “This is it”? . . . What is it? And shall I die before I find it?” – Virginia Woolf From the Diary of Virginia Woolf (1974) The Diary (April, 1919) Anxiety (October, 1920) Fancy (February, 1927) Hardy’s Funeral (January, 1928) Rome (May, 1935) War (June, 1940) Parents (December, 1940) Last Entry (March, 1941)
Dominick Argento (b. 1927)
Ann Cravero, mezzo-soprano | Kate Maroney, mezzo-soprano Erika Switzer, pianist
“No one had lost courage; with such comrades one should be able to manage under, I may say, any circumstances.” -S.A. Andrée (2 October 1897) The Andrée Expedition (1980) Part One: In the Air Prologue (Frænkel) The Balloon Rises (Strindberg: Letter to Anna) Pride and Ambition (Andrée: First Journal) Dinner Aloft (Strindberg: Letter to Anna) The Unforsceen Problem (Frænkel) The Flight Aborted (Andrée: First Journal) Part Two: On the Ice Mishap with a Sledge (Strindberg: Letter to Anna) The King’s Jubilee (Andrée: First Journal) lllness and Drugs (Frænkel) Hallucinations (Andrée: First Journal) Anna’s Birthday (Strindberg: Letter to Anna) Epilogue (Frænkel) Final Words (Andrée: Second Journal) Håkan Hagegård, baritone Jesse Blumberg, baritone | Alan Dunbar, baritone Tyler Duncan, baritone | Tyler Wottrich, pianist
Notes on From the Diary of Virginia Woolf
Commissioned by Bruce Carlson, manager of the Schubert Club of St. Paul, premiered by Dame Janet Baker, mezzo-soprano and Martin Isepp, pianist on 5 January 1975, Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN. Winner of 1975 Pulitzer Prize in Music.
When I arrived at the brand-new Orchestra Hall that Sunday morning [of the premiere] I was introduced to Janet and Martin, and they asked if they should go through one song at a time and then discuss it, or sing the cycle straight through. I said I preferred having them do the entire thing first without any interruptions from me. When they finished, I was speechless, utterly flabbergasted. It was perfection. Two days before, they had never done the piece, and now I had just heard a performance that to this day has never been surpassed. Even the premiere that afternoon was not quite as good as that first run-through. Janet asked me to come up and give them my criticism. I went onstage and said, “I have nothing to tell you except that I’m a blubbering mass of gratitude and will never be able to thank you enough.” I took my leave and let them go on to rehearse the rest of the program alone. Unbeknownst to them, the engineer, who was setting balances and microphone placements to tape the recital for a later radio broadcast, was surreptiously recording the rehearsal. Janet is distinctly heard on that tape whispering to Martin as I walked offstage, “What a lovely man!” ‒ Dominick Argento (courtesy of Boosey & Hawkes)
“My memories of touring in the USA are very special to me, particularly those I have of Minneapolis. My debt to your country goes very deep and became more so when Dominick wrote The Diary of Virginia Woolf for me and Martin Isepp and I gave the first performance in your city. It was a daunting responsibility as well as a huge privilege. It is always a gift to a singer when words and music blend together as they do so wonderfully in this song cycle.” – Dame Janet Baker
Notes on the andrée expedition Commissioned by The Schubert Club of St. Paul in honor of its One Hundredth Anniversary. Premiered by Håkan Hagegård, baritone and Thomas Schuback, pianist on 15 February 1983, O’Shaughnessy Auditorium, Saint Paul, MN.
With its thirteen-Songs, The Andrée Expedition is the most ambitious of my song cycles... It was written with a specific singer in mind, the popular Swedish baritone Håkan Hagegård, and the personality of the singer determined the choice of text… The subject itself at first got my attention, not the idea of using the material for a cycle. That came later, after absorbing more of the available facts and speculating about the possibilities. Naturally the Swedish connection played a part in persuading me to find a way to make the history into a musical work. Schubert’s “Erlking”‒ which I heard Hagegård perform in a recital around this time – provided the idea of asking a single singer to impersonate the three characters who went on the expedition. The texts for Andrée and Strindberg were taken directly (and edited) from their diaries and letters. Frænkel’s journal contained only technical data about the flight - nothing I could use for song. Consequently, I took advantage of his “reticence” and invented a text that was partly gleaned from Frænkel’s two companions and partly of my own contrivance in order to express a point of view about the men and their courageous but doomed undertaking. ‒ Dominick Argento (courtesy of Boosey & Hawkes)
Source FEATuRED artists Tyler Wottrich pianist Recently appointed to the faculty at North Dakota State University, pianist Tyler Wottrich has distinguished himself as a performer and teacher of unusual versatility. An alumnus of Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble ACJW, Wottrich received the 2011 Emerson Quartet’s Ackerman Prize for chamber music and has performed with such artists as Carol Wincenc, Frank Morelli, William VerMeulen, Harry Bicket, and Andres Diaz. The growing list of composers he has worked with includes John Luther Adams, John Corigliano, Georg Friedrich Haas, Jocelyn Hagen, Richard Hundley, David Lang, Libby Larsen, Missy Mazzoli, and Bright Sheng. In summer 2015, Wottrich joined the collaborative piano faculty at the Banff Centre, one of Canada’s most prominent music festivals. Committed to his collaborations with singers, Wottrich has performed with members of the Grammy Awardwinning African-American Choral Group “Sounds of Blackness” and performed at Marilyn Horne’s “The Song Continues” at Carnegie Hall after garnering an honorable mention in the 2011 Marilyn Horne Song Competition. Wottrich has been a vocal coach at Stony Brook University, Opera North, and the Music Academy of the West. Wottrich has continued his vocal work at the Fargo-Moorhead Opera, working on their productions of Donizetti’s La Fille du Regiment and Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. In his role at NDSU, Wottrich designed a new graduate collaborative piano program and in Spring 2015 he created and directed the NDSU Chamber Music Festival, which in its inaugural season featured NDSU student pianists alongside professional string players from across the country. As a member of Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble ACJW, Wottrich performed frequently at Carnegie’s Weill and Zankel Recital Halls, the Juilliard School, and other notable NYC venues. The video of a cartoon theme mash-up Wottrich composed for Ensemble ACJW has surpassed 1.5 million views on YouTube. Wottrich began his piano studies with Gail Olszewski before studying with Lydia Artymiw at the University of Minnesota, from which he graduated summa cum laude with degrees in both music and mathematics. He completed his M.M. and D.M.A. at Stony Brook University where he studied with Gilbert Kalish.
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. 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.
Tyler Duncan baritone Canadian baritone Tyler Duncan recently performed at the Metropolitan Opera as Prince Yamadori in Puccini’s Madam Butterfly. At the Spoleto Festival he debuted as Mr. Friendly in the 18th-century ballad opera Flora, returning the next season as the Speaker in Mozart’s The Magic Flute. Other appearances have included the role of the Journalist in Berg’s Lulu and Fiorello in Rossini’s Barber of Seville, both at the Metropolitan Opera, 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.
Ann Cravero mezzo-soprano Ann Cravero, acclaimed mezzo-soprano recitalist and soloist, has been heard on stages in Italy, China, and throughout the United States including repeat performances at Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall. She has performed in master classes with Frederica von Stade and Michèle Crider, and coached with soprano Cheryl Studer. She participated, as an apprentice artist for the Des Moines Metro Opera, recitalist with Festivale Cantus Angeli in Italy, is the district winner of the National Association of Teachers of Singing Artist Award competition, and recipient of honorable mention for the Metropolitan Opera National Council District Audition. She is the recipient of the Donald Walker Vocal Scholarship for outstanding vocal achievement at the University of Iowa, and receiver of outstanding academic achievement in the field of Music Education from Bradley University, and winner of the Bradley University Piano Concerto Competition. Ann has performed lead opera roles in with the Martha-Ellen Tye Opera Theatre at the University of Iowa, the Northland Opera Theatre, and the Rome Festival Opera in Rome, Italy. Dr. Cravero is the Director of the Drake Opera Theatre collaborating with Maestro Stefano Vignati, and has directed with the City Opera Company of the Quad Cities, and a one-act opera at the University of Iowa under the tutelage of director Sally Stunkel. Highly sought after for her interpretation of New Music, Dr. Cravero has performed with the Center for New Music in Iowa City, IA, including performances of works by Scott Dunn, Geoffrey Gordon, Bernard Rands, and Raffaele Grimaldi. Cravero also coached with Stephen Paulus and soloed two performances of his work, To Be Certain of the Dawn. Ann has been featured on RAI TV in Italy and frequently broadcast on Iowa Public Radio. Dr. Cravero’s current research endeavor hopes to draw awareness to the vocal education of students on the Autistic Spectrum: Exceptional Students in the Voice Studio: Understanding and Training Students with Asperger’s Syndrome. Dr. Cravero is Associate Professor of Voice and Opera at Drake University. Her voice students-in all degree programs- are active participants and winners of the National Association of Teachers of Singing Competition, the Drake University Honors Recital and Concerto Competitions, and have been accepted into prestigious programs and Graduate Schools such as the Roosevelt University, Boston Conservatory, Bard, Westminster, AIMS in Graz, the International Lyric Academy Italy, Sing in China! Beijing, the Aspen Festival, Oberlin in Italy, Hawaii Performing Arts Festival, and FIO Americas Brazil, and the International Lyric Academy. Dr. Cravero holds the Doctor of Musical Arts and Masters of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Iowa where she studied with Stephen Swanson and Katherine Eberle, and a Bachelor of Music Education with emphasis on Piano and Voice from Bradley University. Recent performances include solo engagements with the Lyric Symphony Orchestra, CA; The Bach Festival, IL; The Alexander and Buono Festival, Italy; The Central Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra; Paulus’ ‘To Be Certain of the Dawn’ at the Overture Center, Wisconsin; and The Center for New Music, Iowa City. Ann recently released an album of duets with soprano Camelia Voin and pianist Nicholas Roth (‘Endless Noise’ Studio) in Santa Monica, CA. This summer, Dr. Cravero will be an Assistant Director for Don Giovanni in Prague under the direction of Sherrill Milnes.
Kate Maroney mezzo-soprano Recognized by the New York Times for “vibrant and colorful” singing, mezzosoprano Kate Maroney is in demand on concert, oratorio and opera stages in works that span from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Kate was featured worldwide in over 75 performances of Einstein on the Beach and made her Lincoln Center soloist debut with the American Classical Orchestra in Bach’s Mass in B-Minor. Kate has recently appeared as a soloist at LA Opera (Mazzoli’s Song From The Uproar), Oregon Bach Festival, with Musica Sacra and New York City Ballet, Anonymous 4, The Bangor Symphony, Clarion, Bach Collegium San Diego, American Symphony Orchestra at Bard SummerScape, Princeton Pro Musica, Yale Choral Artists, Sacred Music Sacred Space, Bach Vespers Holy Trinity, Ensemble Signal at the Lincoln Center Festival, Ekmeles, Mark Morris Dance Group, Vox Vocal Ensemble, St. Luke in the Fields, American Opera Projects, Berkshire Bach Society, Brooklyn Art Song Society, and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Kate sings on the recording of Julia Wolfe’s 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning and 2016 GRAMMY®-nominated work, Anthracite Fields, with the Bang On A Can All-Stars and The Choir of Trinity Wall Street under Julian Wachner. She has also worked closely with and premiered works by composers Philip Glass, Daron Hagen, Hannah Lash, Paola Prestini, Ted Hearne, Olga Bell, Lisa Bielawa, Harry Stafylakis, Christopher Cerrone, Jacob Cooper, Michael Rose, Marie Incontrera, Ola Gjeilo, and Scott Wheeler. Kate was selected as a Virginia Best Adams Fellow at the Carmel Bach Festival this season. She teaches at Mannes NEXT (The New School) and holds degrees in music from Eastman, Yale and SUNY Purchase.
With very special thanks to Rydell Financial for their generous support of both opening and closing concerts
Rydell Financial, LLC
Private Investment Banking | Financial Planning
Asset protection Wealth management Investment Call 952-884-4141 for a confidential financial discussion. 8400 Normandale Lake Boulevard, Suite 920 | Bloomington, MN 55437 952-884-4141 | www.rydellfinancial.com
Macalester College Music Department
Artistic Excellence in a Preeminent Liberal Arts Setting
Randall Bauer, Associate Professor (theory/composition) Victoria Malawey, Associate Professor and Chair (theory) Mark Mandarano, Assistant Professor and Director of Instrumental Activities Mark Mazullo, Professor (musicology and piano) Michael McGaghie, Assistant Professor and Director of Choral Activities Laura Nichols, Visiting Assistant Professor and Instructor of Voice Chuen-Fung Wong, Associate Professor (ethnomusicology) Mike Breidenbach, Director of Piping Sowah Mensah, Director of the African Music Ensemble Clea Galhano, Director of Early Music Ensemble Joan Griffith, Director of Mac Jazz Peter Hennig, Director of Jazz and Pop Combos
Picture yourself amid clarity and calm at classicalmpr.org.
thank you donors! Eric Christopher Perry, Suzanne Asher and Thomas Ducker, Rod and Deb Presser, Jessica Schroeder and Richard Carrick, Ron Rydell, Mark Bilyeu, Clara Osowski, Libby Larsen, Diane Bilyeu, Martha Guth, Gay Kearin, Simin Hickman, Kathleen & Jonathan Fenske, Saint Paul Expressive Arts Center, Dale & Ruth Warland, Glenda Maurice Fund for Vocal Artistry, Helen Slater, Winston Kaehler, Todd Lehman, Arne & Athena Kildegaard, Martha Brown, Arlo & Pam Vande Vegte, Norman Matthews, Arturo Steely, Liam Moore, Judy Rogosheske, Michael Scott, Simon Chalifoux Donations in-kind: Emily Riley, Edie Hill, Jocelyn Hagen, Timothy Takach, David Evan Thomas, Elizabeth Alexander, Linda Tutas Haugen, Wild Sound Recording, The Schubert Club, University of Minnesota, MN Opera, Gail Beske, Minneapolis/Tours Sister Cities, Ed Coughlin
Become a donor: www.sourcesongfestival.org/take-action
subscribe to the newsletter
www.sourcesongfestival.org/contact Follow Source Song Festival for updates
@sourcesongfest
#sourcesongfest
Source Song Festival
www.sourcesongfestival.org