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SOURCE: noun [s urs] : someone or something that provides what is wanted or needed : the cause of something : a person, book, etc., that gives information : A GENERATIVE FORCE Greetings!
Welcome to the fourth 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. We are trying a new thing this year, and have built the festival around the theme "At the Headwaters." We love Song and we love Minnesota, and we wanted to celebrate Minnesota's greatest natural resources: our water and our artists.
Because Source is a generative force, we open the festival with a concert featuring world premieres by Minnesotans Libby Larsen, David Evan Thomas and Jonathan Posthuma. It doesn't get more generative than that! Even though Minnesota contains 680 miles of the mighty Mississippi River, its origins reach north into Canada. As we acknowledge this headwater, we also celebrate Canada's 150th Birthday in an all-Canadian bash, and Source favorites François Le Roux and Olivier Godin return to offer a French perspective on water. The MNSong Showcase is the intersection of 'generative' and 'Minnesota artists,' as the top recitalists in our state offer music by composers from across the country, selected to study here at our headwaters. To close our festival, we ask if there is a more iconic work about water than Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin. We couldn't think of any, so English pianist Julius Drake and Minnesota-native tenor Even LeRoy Johnson will offer this groundbreaking work as the capstone to an incredible week of Song. As we go through our daily lives surrounded by words of division, acts of tragedy, antithis, and anti-that rhetoric, it is our hope that Source can serve as a refuge. It is our unending mission that Source is a place where new and different ideas are met with openness and thoughtful discussion, a place where we celebrate our ever-expanding community, and a place where you are inspired by a commitment to artistry. 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 Co-Director
Schedule of Events Monday, August 7 9a Workshop: Peter Jacobson: Artistic Freedom 3p Workshop: Patricia Zurlow: The Business of Creativity 3p Masterclass: Olivier Godin, pianist 8p RECITAL: OpenSource: At the Headwaters Tuesday, August 8 10a Masterclass: Stephen Swanson, baritone 5p Workshop: Libby Larsen on Text Setting 8p RECITAL: Canada @ 150 with Erika Switzer, Mireille Asselin, Tyler Duncan & Clara Osowski
Rm 216^ Rm 216^ Sundin Music Hall Sundin Music Hall Rm 126* Rm 127* Antonello Recital Hall*
Wednesday, August 9 10a Masterclass: Arlene Shrut, pianist Rm 126* 12p Composer Panel: Hosted by Elizabeth Alexander Rm 127* 3:15p Workshop: Libby Larsen on Commissioning Rm 127* 8p RECITAL: Watercolors Antonello Recital Hall* with François Le Roux & Olivier Godin Thursday, August 10 10a Masterclass: François Le Roux, baritone 1p Workshop: Grant Writing with Noah Keesecker 3p Masterclass: Julius Drake, pianist 7p RECITAL: Music of MN 8:30p RECITAL: MNSong Composers Showcase
Rm 126* Rm 108* Antonello Recital Hall* Antonello Recital Hall* Antonello Recital Hall*
Friday, August 11 12p Workshop: Alexander Technique & Artistry Rm 126* 8p RECITAL: Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin Antonello Recital Hall* with Evan LeRoy Johnson & Julius Drake Saturday, August Landmark Center Rm 317 2p RECITAL: MNDuo Final Recital *MacPhail Center for Music 501 S 2nd St Minneapolis, MN 55401
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in 2 0 1 8 MORE Workshops | Masterclasses | Recitals Join us August 11th, 2017 for the 2018 festival announcement!
Source festival artists Founding Artistic Director Founding Artistic Director
Festival Administrator
Mark Bilyeu pianist
Clara Osowski mezzo-soprano
Emily Riley soprano
Elizabeth Alexander composer
Alyssa Anderson mezzo-soprano
Abbie Betinis composer
Ann DuHamel pianist
Tracey Engleman soprano
Sonja Grimes pianist
Jocelyn Hagen composer
Edie Hill composer
Peter Jacobson Alexander technician
Linda Kachelmeier composer
Linh Kauffman soprano
Noah Keesecker composer
For complete biographies of all Source artists, please visit our website: www.sourcesongfestival.org/2017-artists
Source festival artists
Erik Krohg baritone
Matthew McCright pianist
Reinaldo Moya composer
Jennifer Olson soprano
Gail Olszewski pianist
Roderick Phipps-Kettlewell pianist
Carson Rose Schneider pianist
Jessica Schroeder pianist
Riley Svatos soprano
Sonja Thompson pianist
KrisAnne Weiss mezzo-soprano
Patricia Zurlow lawyer
For complete biographies of all Source artists, please visit our website: www.sourcesongfestival.org/2017-artists
Source Song Festival with generous support from VocalEssence presents
OpenSource: At the Headwaters An Evening of World Premieres August 7, 2017 8p | Sundin Music Hall
with Maria Jette & Mary Wilson, sopranos | Clara Osowski, mezzo-soprano Jacob Christopher, tenor | Alan Dunbar & Tyler Duncan, baritones Mark Bilyeu, Mary Jo Gothmann, Erika Switzer & Arlene Shrut, piano PROGRAM The Voices of the City (2017)* Introduction Pleasure seekers, silken clad We are the vendors of beauty We are the toilers in the realm of night Chorus and Conclusion
Jonathan Posthuma (b. 1989)
Maria Jette, soprano | Mary Jo Gothmann, piano
Pharaoh Songs (2017) My love is one and only, without peer If I could just be the washerman Ho, what she's done to me —that girl I love you through the daytimes My love is back When I hold my love close Alan Dunbar, baritone | Mark Bilyeu, piano
*winner of the 2017 Maria Jette Premiere Competition
Libby Larsen (b. 1950)
To Joy (2017)
Part I Promise (John Keats) Infant Joy (William Blake) Grace (Jean Ingelow) Air (Alfred, Lord Tennyson) Ode (Keats)
David Evan Thomas (b. 1958)
Part II Alarm (Alexander Pope) Questions (Job 38) Scherzetto (John Florio) Carol (15th-century English) Part III Song (Henry Charles Beeching) Pæan (Isaiah 52) Responsory (John Donne) Hymn (John Ellerton) Envoy (Thomas Moore)
Mary Wilson, soprano | Clara Osowski, mezzo-soprano Jacob Christopher, tenor | Tyler Duncan, baritone Erika Switzer & Arlene Shrut, piano
About the World Premieres Posthuma: The Voices of the City
“The Voices of the City” is a setting of a poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850 – 1919), who grew up in Wisconsin before marrying and moving to Connecticut, where her and her husband hosted several artists and literary friends that shared their interest in mystic philosophies and spiritualism. Though her words evoke her own experience in a rapidly industrialized America, they remain a burning testimony for our contemporary American culture. Her poem, “The Voices of the City” (1910) is through-composed in several parts, the first conjuring up the “voices” of the city, whose “broken strains” form the remaining sections of the cycle. First are the “pleasure seekers, silken clad,” who spend their evenings absorbed in pleasure. These privileged, beautiful people, appear innocent, but their lifestyle is unsustainable – bringing the churning circle of fifths (representing time) to an abrupt crash. The second part explores the voices of the less fortunate: the “vendors of beauty” who sell their bodies and the “race victims” who are mistreated by the those whose “Purpose of Being” has “gone wrong” and turned the torch of progress into a fire brand of destruction. The third section is a long, almost funereal, procession of the “toilers in the realm of night,” who work to keep society inching forward, but whose labor never seems to bring the dawn. The cycle ends with a chorus, in which all of the various “voices” are added to the harmonic tapestry of the city. Some are joyful, some are wholesome, some are hopeful, and after all have joined, the “medley” of “broken strains” fades away, “in changing time and ever-changing keys.” Though written over one hundred years ago, our society still faces many of these same issues, which like Wilcox, we pray will someday find justice. Until that day: “God pity us; God pity the world." “The Voices of the City” was composed in June 2017 for Source Song Festival's Maria Jette Premiere Competion.
Larsen: Pharaoh Songs
In 2003, browsing the shelves of poetry at one of my favorite book stores, I came across a volume of ancient Egyptian love poems, translated into English by John L. Foster. I took the book off the shelf and opened it. As it happens, though not nearly as often as I wish it would, the poems literally sang off the page. Some were sensual, some were quite funny, all of them were as relevant to today as they were to 1300 BC when they were created. I knew that I wanted to work with these poems as much and as often as I could. An opportunity presented itself in a commission from Lotte Lehmann Foundation, for which I set 'I love you through the daytimes'. Ever since then, I’ve been hungry to make a grouping of them. Pharaoh Songs, for bass/baritone and piano, sets five more of the poems. I created a loose, fantasized narrative which exists solely in the mind of the lover. Desire, fantasy, tension, frustration, reunion and fulfillment are projected on the object of the lover’s desire. My thanks to Mark Bilyeu and Clara Osowski for giving me the opportunity to create Pharaoh Songs, and to Alan Dunbar for his willingness to travel back in time (way back) to inhabit the poems and become love-lorn in ancient Egypt.
Thomas: To Joy
The Oxford English Dictionary, affectionately called “the OED” by its devotees, is the standard reference for anyone interested in the English language and its evolution over time. The model for a miscellany for four singers with piano duet is naturally Brahms’s Liebeslieder Walzer. In creating my set of “Joyous lieder,” I surveyed the OED’s capacious entry on Joy, first published in 1901, following its over one hundred citations to their respective sources and choosing fourteen that range over five centuries. There are nine poets (one anonymous), two Biblical authors, excerpts from a sermon, and a dictionary entry. Eight of the texts are secular, six sacred. This “OED to Joy” is better approached as a ramble than a joyride. Part I suggests that beauty is a door into joy. As Jean Ingelow suggests, “joy is the grace we say to God.” But beauty is finite, and Part I closes ambiguously. Part II begins in chaos, questions the whole endeavor, and concludes with a macaronic carol in which English and Latin collide. Part III begins atop a hill with a rapturous boy on a bike. John Donne whips his congregation into a frenzy, reminding them that joy is “the nearest representation of heaven itself to this world.” Thomas Moore brings us home with a text Robert Schumann chose to end his oratorio Paradise and the Peri. To Joy was commissioned for the 2017 Source Song Festival by Nell Slater in remembrance of M.R.S. and K.McK.S. Writers frequently are told: write what you know. But it’s rare that a commissioner simply says “write whatever you want.” Elie Wiesel was once asked whether he leaned more toward hope or despair. “When I am despairing, I choose hope,” Wiesel replied. “When I am terribly hopeful, I lean toward despair.” In uneasy times, the same approach may apply to joy. In this work, I choose joy.
MUSIC OF MN RECITAL Thursday, August 10 | 7pm Antonello Recital Hall Hear the exceptional students of the MNDuo program perform music of local composers, Abbie Betinis, Reinaldo Moya, Jocelyn Hagen, Linda Kachelmeier, and Edie Hill. This FREE concert is followed by the culminating recital of the MNSong Composer Showcase at 8:30pm.
Source FEATuRED artists Libby Larsen composer “Music exists in an infinity of sound. I think of all music as existing in the substance of the air itself. It is the composer’s task to order and make sense of sound, in time and space, to communicate something about being alive through music.” – Libby Larsen Libby Larsen (b. 24 December 1950, Wilmington, Delaware) is one of America’s most performed living composers. She has created a catalogue of over 400 works spanning virtually every genre from intimate vocal and chamber music to massive orchestral works and over twelve operas. Grammy Award winning and widely recorded, including over fifty CD’s of her work, she is constantly sought after for commissions and premieres by major artists, ensembles, and orchestras around the world, and has established a permanent place for her works in the concert repertory. As a vigorous, articulate advocate for the music and musicians of our time, in 1973 Larsen co-founded the Minnesota Composers Forum, now the American Composers Forum, which has become an invaluable aid for composers in a transitional time for American arts. A former holder of the Papamarkou Chair at John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress, Larsen has also held residencies with the Minnesota Orchestra, the Charlotte Symphony and the Colorado Symphony.
David Evan Thomas composer The music of David Evan Thomas has been praised for its eloquence, power and craft. A two-time McKnight Foundation Fellow, he has also received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the American Guild of Organists. Thomas has received commissions from the Minnesota Orchestra, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, The Schubert Club and the American Composers Forum. Thomas’s music is published by ECS, Augsburg Fortress and MorningStar, and has been performed by the Minnesota Orchestra, London’s Westminster Cathedral Choir and the trio of Gil Shaham, Truls Mørk and Yefim Bronfman. He has served as composer-in-residence with Westminster Presbyterian Church (MN), the Cathedral of Saint Paul, and from '97-'05, The Schubert Club. Born in Rochester, New York in 1958, David Evan Thomas graduated with honors from the “Prep” Department of the Eastman School of Music, and received degrees from Northwestern University, Eastman and the University of Minnesota. His teachers have included Dominick Argento, Samuel Adler & Alan Stout, with further study at the Aspen Festival and with David Diamond at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Thomas lives in Minneapolis, where he is also active as a program annotator, choral singer, pianist and conductor.
Jonathan Posthuma composer Jonathan Posthuma (b. 1989) is a freelance composer and musician living in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He recently received his Masters in Music Composition from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, where he studied with Stephen Dembski and Laura Schwendinger. His orchestral work, Fili di Perle received 3rd Prize in the Karol Szymanowski International Composers Competition in Katowice, Poland. Other recent large ensemble works include An Isthmus Aubade, dedicated to Scott Teeple and the UW-Madison Wind Ensemble, and Concerto Grosso No. 1 for strings, percussion, and piano, commissioned and premiered by the Madison Area Youth Orchestra and Clocks in Motion. Among his other awards are 2011 BMI Student Composer Award for Five Studies for Piano: Two Pencils and a Hymnbook and an award for sound design from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival for his incidental music for The Glass Menagerie. Jonathan sings in two auditioned choirs, and a few of his choral works have received premieres by these ensembles, including two composed for VocalEssence as part of their ReMix program, designed for emerging composers of choral music, which were premiered at the ACDA National Festival in March 2017.
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, Austin, 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 and the Oregon Festival of American Music, she was often heard nationally over the last 20+ years of Garrison Keillor’s 'A Prairie Home Companion.' 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! Last season’s activities included Graun’s Der Tod Jesu with Lyra Baroque (Simon Carrington, conductor) in St. Paul, a program of mostly melancholy British folk song settings with Raymond Johnston at the Cathedral of St. Mark in Minneapolis; music of Martin Luther’s contemporaries with the Grand Rapids Symphony; and her Valentine’s Day (singing) debut with beloved Twin Cities burlesque troupe, Le Cirque Rouge. With collaborator Dan Chouinard, she performed everything from Norwegian art songs and Beethoven’s Scottish folksong arrangements to X-rated barroom ballads on the latest Prairie Home Companion cruise of Scotland and Norway (June); and later this month, she’ll sing Argento’s Elizabethan Songs at both the Festival of the Lakes (MN) and the Maverick Concerts (NY).
Mary Jo Gothmann pianist Pianist Mary Jo Gothmann enjoys a varied career as a chamber musician, soloist, opera coach and organist. Her recent chamber music engagements have included performances with the Chamber Music Society of Minnesota, Minnesota Orchestra Sommerfest, Hill House Players, Bakken Trio, Music at Trinity, Colonial Chamber Music Series, Lakes Area Music Festival, and the Taos Chamber Music Group. Mary Jo is the founder and Artistic Director of the JOYA Chamber Music Series at Zion Lutheran Church in Anoka. Mary Jo is the pianist for VocalEssence and performs frequently with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Minnesota Orchestra. She has performed with EOS Orchestra in New York City, and as a piano soloist with the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra and the St. Paul Civic Orchestra. She has worked for some of the most prestigious opera companies in the United States including the Metropolitan Opera, Santa Fe Opera, and Minnesota Opera and has performed recitals with singers from the Metropolitan Opera as well as with instrumentalists from many of the country's major symphony orchestras. Mary Jo is a graduate of the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Program, University of Minnesota, New England Conservatory and St. Olaf College.
Alan Dunbar bass-baritone Baritone Alan Dunbar is a versatile performer, lauded for his beautiful tone and his nuanced musical and textual interpretation. He was heard most recently as Papageno in Madison Opera’s production of The Magic Flute, and as the bass soloist in Bach’s St. John Passion with Voices of Ascension. Past performances and accolades include a staged version of Dominick Argento’s The Andrée Expedition at the Ordway with the MN Source Song Festival, numerous productions with Madison Opera (including Schaunard in La Bohème, Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia, and Owen Hart in Dead Man Walking), Barber’s Dover Beach at the Apollo Music Festival, the title role of Britten’s Noye’s Fludde at Santa Fe Opera, Handel’s Messiah with the Santa Fe Symphony and Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, and recitals at the Ravinia Festival Steans Institute. Alan has performed with Madison Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Gotham Chamber Opera, Opera Philadelphia, and at the Natchez Opera Festival. In 2009 Alan made his European solo recital debut at the Oslo Grieg Festival, performed as bass soloist in Stravinsky’s Pulcinella under Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos at the Tanglewood Music Festival, and won the grand prize at the 2009 Grieg Festival in Winter Park, FL.
Alan Dunbar (cont'd)
He also sang the role of Zaretsky in Eugene Onegin at the Tanglewood Music Festival with Renée Fleming and Peter Mattei, and has collaborated with choreographer/director Mark Morris in performances with the Mark Morris Dance Group, as well as in the Stravinsky chamber opera Renard. 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. Alan was a founding member of the Minnesota-based internationally acclaimed male chamber vocal ensemble Cantus, and sang throughout North America and Europe with the ensemble from 1998-2004. He currently serves as Assistant Professor of Voice at Winona State University.
Mark Bilyeu pianist Described as “superb partner,”(schubert.org) pianist Mark Bilyeu passionately engages in music as a committed performer, inspiring teacher and enterprising curator. He was the only American finalist in the 2015 Das Lied Song Competition, and maintains an active performing schedule. He has served as faculty at Viterbo University and was the Visiting Artist in Vocal Coaching and Collaborative Piano at the University of Northern Iowa. Bilyeu has performed at such venues as the Grand Théâtre de Tours (France), the Schubert Club of St. Paul, the Everson Museum (New York), PianoForte Foundation, and the Belle Sylvester Recital Series of New York. He has been heard via live radio broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio with soprano Lori Phillips, and on WFMT via the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series. He holds degrees from the Chicago College of Performing Arts and the University of Minnesota, studying with Timothy Lovelace and Chicago Symphony Orchestra pianist Mary Sauer. He has studied at the Aspen Summer Music Festival, Britten-Pears, Vancouver International Song Institute and l’Academie Françis Poulenc. Additional studies with Malcolm Martineau, Roger Vignoles and Susan Manoff. Upcoming recording projects include “The Transmodernist Troubadour,” a recording of music by Australian composer Nicholas Vines with baritone Aaron Engebreth on the Navonna label and a Winterreise recording on Leaf Records with tenor Jon Valender.
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. In May 2016 Arlene was honored for her twenty-five years of service as a faculty member of The Juilliard School. In the spring of 2017 she launched the Sustainable Symphony, a new performance project that celebrates the piano as an orchestral substitute. 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, and many others. The Sorel Organization presented Arlene with its first Sorel Legacy Medallion, an award that honors the work of female artists whose careers reflect lifetime achievement in music through performance, training, or service. As an educator, Arlene currently serves on the Senior Coaching Faculty of The Juilliard School's Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts as well as 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. In 2003, Classical Singer magazine named Arlene the inaugural “Coach of the Year.” In August 2015, Arlene joined the artist faculty at Source Song Festival and was featured pianist and teacher again in 2016. 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 entrepreneurship. Arlene joined the faculty at Bassi Brugnatelli Symposium in Robbiate, Italy, in June 2017. 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. Arlene continues to develop ground-breaking performance and educational projects that are moving and sustainable for our times.
Erika Switzer piano Erika Switzer is an internationally active pianist, teacher, and arts administrator. She enjoys long-term partnerships with several notable vocalists, including soprano Martha Guth, mezzo-soprano Hai-Ting Chinn, tenor Colin Balzer, and baritone Tyler Duncan. Erika Switzer has been heard on the stages of New York’s Weill Recital Hall (Carnegie) and Frick Collection, at the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society and the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC, as well as all across Canada at festivals including Vancouver’s Music on Main, Montreal’s André Turp Society and Ottawa’s ChamberFest. During her seven-year sojourn to Germany, she presented recitals at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden and the Winners & Masters series in Munich, and she won numerous awards, including pianist prizes at the Robert Schumann, Hugo Wolf, and Wigmore Hall International Song Competitions. Erika Switzer is on the music faculty at Bard College and the Vocal Arts Programs of the Bard Conservatory of Music. As co-creator of Sparks & Wiry Cries, she contributes to the future of art song performance through publication of The Art Song Magazine, presentation of recitals in New York City (Casement Fund Song Series), and the commission of new works. Learn more at sparksandwirycries.org.
Mary Wilson soprano Soprano Mary Wilson is acknowledged as one of today's most exciting artists, with Opera News heralding her first solo recording, Mary Wilson Sings Handel, as one of their “Best of the Year.” Cultivating a wide-ranging career singing chamber music, oratorio and operatic repertoire, her “bright soprano seems to know no terrors, wrapping itself seductively around every phrase.” (Dallas Morning News) Receiving consistent critical acclaim from coast to coast, “she proves why many in the opera world are heralding her as an emerging star. She is simply amazing, with a voice that induces goose bumps and a stage presence that is mesmerizing. She literally stole the spotlight...” (Arizona Daily Star) In consistent high demand on the concert stage, she has recently appeared with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Detroit Symphony, and at Carnegie Hall and the Hollywood Bowl. She has frequently worked with conductors Jeffrey Thomas, Nicholas McGegan, Bernard Labadie, Martin Pearlman, Martin Haselböck, Robert Moody, JoAnn Falletta, Anton Armstrong, and Leonard Slatkin. With the IRIS Chamber Orchestra, she sang the World Premiere of the song cycle Songs Old and New written especially for her by Ned Rorem. She was named an Emerging Artist by Symphony Magazine in the publication’s first ever presentation of promising classical soloists on the rise. An accomplished pianist, Ms. Wilson holds vocal performance degrees from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, and Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. She is an Assistant Professor of Voice at the University of Memphis, and resides in Memphis, Tennessee, with her husband, son, and two dogs.
Jacob Christopher tenor Born and raised in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, Jacob Christopher, tenor, has delighted audiences with his unique combination of vocal and dramatic skills in performances ranging from art song to opera. Jacob began his professional career in Chicago where he sang with Music of the Baroque, Wicker Park Choral Singers, and as a chorister with the Lyric Opera of Chicago from 2010-2012. He premiered numerous art songs through Singers on New Ground, performed at Chicago’s iconic Green Mill Jazz Lounge, and has sung backup vocals for Ben Folds (with the Minnesota Orchestra) and for The Judds (The Oprah Winfrey Show). Jacob was a founding member of the New York City-based Manhattan Chorale under the direction of Dr. Craig Arnold. Other New York City appearances include Ragtime at Lincoln Center; Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame (NYC workshop, Paper Mill Playhouse, Studio Cast Recording); the award-winning production of The Christians (Off-Broadway debut); and, in 2016, made his Carnegie Hall debut accompanied by the New York City Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Richard Bjella. Jacob is currently a member of Cantus, an eight-member men's vocal chamber ensemble based in Minneapolis.
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. Select opera credits include Ruth, (Pirates of Penzance), Venus (Venus and Adonis), Zita (Gianni Schicchi), Mother (Amahl and the Night Visitors), Dorabella (Cosi fan tutte), and Cavalier Ramiro (La finta giardiniera). 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, and recently named the runner-up in the 2016 Schubert Club Bruce P. Carlson Scholarship Competition. In 2017, Clara was the winner of the Houston Saengerbund Competition and became the first ever American prize winner when she placed second at Thomas Quasthoff's International Das Lied Competition in Heidelberg, Germny. Clara received her Bachelor of Musical Arts degree with emphasis in Voice from North Dakota State University in 2008, and Master of Arts Degree in Voice from the University of Iowa in 2010. Clara’s passion for contemporary music is exhibited in the song-cycles she has premiered by numerous composers with the Center for New Music at the University of Iowa, and her most recent collaborations with Linda Kachelmeier, Jeremy Walker, Linda Tutas Huagen, Paul Rudoi and James Kallembach. 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. She was also featured in the 2014 Baldwin-Wallace Art Song Festival, in Berea, Ohio. Numerous festivals have introduced Clara to a number of international artists and art-song masters, including Graham Johnson, Bernarda Fink, Felicity Lott, Francois Le Roux, Julius Drake, Irwin Gage, and Richard Stokes. In addition to her solo work, she participates in a number of ensembles, including Consortium Carissimi, Lumina Women’s Ensemble, the Rose Ensemble and Seraphic Fire. For more information, visit www.claraosowski.com.
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 engagements with the American Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, Montreal Symphony, 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; Handel’s Messiah with Tafelmusik, the Montreal and Toronto Symphony Orchestras, Handel and Haydn Society, San Francisco’s Philharmonia Baroque, and Portland Baroque. He has also performed at Germany’s Halle Händel Festival, Verbier Festival, Vancouver Early Music Festival, Montreal Bach Festival, Oregon Bach 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.
Stephen Swanson, baritone Stephen Swanson is a concert and opera singer, a teacher of singing, and opera stage director. He earned degrees from North Park College and Northwestern University and served a two-year American Guild of Musical Artists apprenticeship with the Wolf Trap Company. After an internship at the International Opera Studio of the Zurich Opera, Swanson sang in opera houses in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands for nineteen years. In 1994 he joined the voice faculty at The University of Iowa School of Music. Throughout his career Swanson has performed with many renowned conductors, including concerts under Sir Georg Solti, Rafael Frübeck de Burgos, Margaret Hillis, and Vance George; and operas under Giuseppe Patanè, Nello Santi and Ferdinand Leitner. An extremely versatile performer, he sings works from the Baroque to the avant-garde as well as standard baritone concert repertoire, such as Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, and his signature piece, Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. In 2013 he added the 101st opera/operetta/musical role to his repertoire. Since moving to Iowa Swanson has become an active recitalist. Expanding on the opportunity to collaborate with the many excellent musicians on the faculty of The University of Iowa, he has prepared and performed theme-based recitals since 1995. Two examples of these, Was my brother in the battle? Songs of War and Animal Songs: Bestiaries in English, French, and German have been released on CD by Albany Records.
MNsong composers recital Thursday, August 10 | 8:30pm 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!
Source Song Festival presents:
Happy Birthday, eh! Songs from Canada August 8, 2017 8p | Antonello Recital Hall
Erika Switzer pianist with
Mireille Asselin, soprano | Tyler Duncan, baritone Clara Osowski, mezzo-soprano
from Evocations (1966) Loon cry, night call Mireille Asselin, soprano
Harry Somers (1925-1999)
The Confession Stone (1968) O my boy: Jesus, my first and only son Don't pay attention to the old men in the temple Jesus, did you know that Lazarus is back There's a supper in Jerusalem tonight Cold and icy in my bed Bring me those needles, Martha Everything is black O my boy: Jesus Clara Osowski, mezzo-soprano
Robert Fleming (1921-1976)
from Les clartés de la nuit (1972) Thème sentimental La Belle Morte Les Corbeaux Soir d’hiver Mireille Asselin, soprano
Jacques Hétu (1938-2010)
from Spring Rhapsody (1958) Jean Coulthard Ecstasy (1908-2000) Clara Osowski, mezzo-soprano INTERMISSION
Peter Quince at the Clavier (2008) I. Just as my fingers on these keys II. In green water clear, warm Susanna lay III. Soon with a noise like tambourines IV. Beauty is momentary in the mind Tyler Duncan, baritone from Folk Songs of Eastern Canada (1967) She's like the swallow I'll give my love an apple Mireille Asselin, soprano
Andrew Staniland (b.1977)
Godfrey Ridout (1918-1984)
Allister MacGillivray (arr. Greer) from Canadian Water Music (b. 1948 | b. 1954) Song for the Mira Jocelyn Morlock from Perruqueries (b. 1969) Bobby Hull Le vieux piano Claude Léveillé (1932-2011) from Canadian Water Music Wade Helmsworth (arr. Greer) The Log Driver's Waltz (1916-2002) Mireille Asselin soprano Mireille Asselin is a Canadian soprano in the midst of an exciting career. In December of 2015 she created excitement by jumping in as Adele for opening night of Die Fledermaus at the Metropolitan Opera under the baton of James Levine. The critics raved that she "stole the show" with her "crystalline voice" and "abundant charm", hailing it as one of New York's "most enchanting performances of 2015." 2016-17 marks Mireille's fourth season at the Met, where she debuted as Poussette in Manon in March '15. This year she covers Jemmy in Guillaume Tell and Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Mireille also returns to Opera Atelier and the Royal Opera of the Palace of Versailles singing the role of Créuse in Charpentier's Medée. She made her Minnesota Orchestra debut in the Messiah, and with the Handel and Haydn Society singing Iris in Semele. As a respected interpreter of early music Mireille appears regularly with Opera Atelier in Toronto and at the Boston Early Music Festival where her most recent productions have included Licio Silla, Alcina, Euridice in Orfeo and the title role in Acis and Galatea. She made her European opera debut in Persée at Versailles in 2014. She has been a member of the Canadian Opera Company’s Ensemble Studio from 2011-2013 and has also appeared with Ash Lawn Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, and the Glimmerglass Festival. Mireille is an accomplished concert singer and recitalist and has appeared with many of North America's major orchestras and festivals. She is also an acknowledged champion of contemporary music and has participated in a number of premieres and workshops of new works. In 2013, her debut album Ash Roses was released on the Centrediscs label to great acclaim. In April 2011, she made her Carnegie Hall debut singing Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem and returned to Carnegie in January of 2012 to give a recital in the Song Continues series. Mireille has also done film work, starring as Pamina in the feature film Magic Flute Diaries. Ms. Asselin obtained her Master of Music from Yale University’s prestigious Opera Program in 2010. Prior to her studies at Yale, she completed a Bachelor of Music at the Glenn Gould School of The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto (2007).
For complete profiles of Erika Switzer, Tyler Duncan & Clara Osowski, please refer to the August 7th program.
Source Song Festival presents:
Watercolors a French Recital August 9, 2017 8p | Antonello Recital Hall
François Le Roux, baritone Olivier Godin, pianist L’Île inconnue (Gautier) Hector Berlioz (1803 – 1869) Venise (A. de Musset) Charles Gounod (1818 – 1893) Lamento (Gautier) Pauline Viardot (1821 – 1910) Les Matelots (Gautier) Chant d'automne (Baudelaire) Les Berceaux (Sully Prudhomme)
Gabriel Fauré (1845 – 1924)
Invitation au voyage (Baudelaire)
Henri Duparc (1848 – 1933)
INTERMISSION Trois mélodies sur des poèmes de Verlaine, FL 126 La Mer est plus belle Le son du cor s’afflige L’échelonnement des haies
Claude Debussy (1864 – 1918)
Sarabande (R. Chalupt) Jardin mouillé (de Régnier)
Albert Roussel (1869 – 1937)
Les Grands vents venus d'outre-mer (de Régnier) Maurice Ravel (1875 – 1937)
La Grenouillère (Apollinaire) F.P. 96 Le Bestiaire (Apollinaire) F.P. 15a La Puce* Le Serpent* La Colombe* Le Dromadaire La Chèvre du Thibet La Sauterelle Le Dauphin L’Écrevisse La Carpe
Francis Poulenc (1899 – 1963)
F. Poulenc
*denotes unpublished works
Trois Poèmes galants : K. 166 Sonnet à une lunaticque (Mellin de Saint-Gellais) Épitre imprécatoire (Germain Colin-Bucher) Sonnet à Madeleine repentie (Pierre Le Moyne)
André Jolivet (1905 – 1974)
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 OpéraComique 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. He is vocal teacher at the Paris National Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique et de Danse, and has been nominated for the "Classical Music Victories" in the category Opera Singer of the Year.
Source FEATuRED artists 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, Ste-Pétronille, 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 about twenty CDs, among which the complete melodies of Fauré, Poulenc, Dutilleux, Duparc, and the complete works for two pianos of Rachmaninov. Many of his recordings have been nominated or awarded an Opus Prize from the Conseil québécois de la musique. His recording of Musique sur l’eau et autres mélodies by Théodore Dubois with baritone Marc Boucher has been awarded five Diapasons by the French magazine Diapason and the complete songs by Dutilleux (Passavant Music) has won the Orphée d'Or for the best recording initiative in France. He can be heard on record or in recital with renowned lyrical artists such as sopranos Karina Gauvin, Aline Kutan, Pascale Beaudin, Hélène Guilmette, mezzo-sopranos Julie Boulianne, Michèle Losier and Nora Sourouzian, contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux, tenors Pascal Charbonneau, Antonio Figueroa, and baritones François Le Roux, Wolfgang Holzmair, Marc Boucher, and Russell Braun. He was appointed as a professor at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal at the age of 25, and presently holds a position as director of the Opera Studies. He also works with promising young singers from McGill University. He is in charge of the vocal accompaniment program for pianists at the Domaine Forget International Music and Dance Academy.
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Source Song Festival presents
Die schöne Müllerin by Franz Schubert
on texts of Wilhelm Müller August 11, 2017 8p Antonello Recital Hall
Die schöne Müllerin D. 795
Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Das Wandern Wohin? Halt! Danksagung an den Bach Am Feierabend Der Neugierige Ungeduld Morgengruß Des Müllers Blumen Tränenregen Mein! Pause Mit dem grünen Lautenbande Der Jäger Eifersucht und Stolz Die liebe Farbe Die böse Farbe Trockne Blumen Der Müller und der Bach Des Baches Wiegenlied Evan LeRoy Johnson, tenor Julius Drake, pianist
About Die schöne Müllerin
I
n Franz Schubert’s first song cycle to words by the Prussian poet Wilhelm Müller, we find conjoined two powerful forces—music and myth—at maximum intensity. If the beauty of this music has long been recognized, the full extent of its mythic dimension, its confrontation with what is inexplicable in existence, has not. Because the human mind cannot plumb the mysteries of life, death, creation, Nature, the soul, evil, and desire entirely by factual-scientific means, we tell stories in which archetypal figures play archetypal roles. When we read myth, we feel a shock of recognition, impelled not by the surface trappings of the story but by its underlying psychological verity. The greatest creative geniuses routinely traffic in myth which they make modern, fashioned both to be in accord with their own time and place and to endure beyond it. Sophocles’s Oedipus, Cervantes’s Don Quixote, Don Juan, Hamlet and Othello (and many other characters in Shakespeare) are just such mythical beings—and so too is Müller’s and Schubert’s miller lad. This story of blighted youth is especially rich: it tells what happens when idealistic, immature notions of love taken from fiction are blasted by the grittier actualities of sex, when body meets body not on the printed page but in real life. Like Don Quixote, the young protagonist of this story has read the wrong books and tried to live by them, and he too, like Cervantes’s gaunt knight, is done to death by unwelcome knowledge. And yet, the miller lad, who dies a disillusioned death by his own hand, is an unforgettable mythic embodiment of a universal experience. What adult does not remember the moment when adolescent imaginings gave way to sexual knowledge, and we too, in company with all of humanity, left the Garden of Eden? -Susan Youens liner notes: Die schöne Müllerin Sono Luminus, 2007
Source FEATuRED artists Julius Drake pianist The pianist Julius Drake lives in London and enjoys an international reputation as one of the finest instrumentalists in his field, collaborating with many of the world’s leading artists, both in recital and on disc. He appears regularly at all the major music centres: the Aldeburgh, Edinburgh, Munich, Schubertiade, and Salzburg Music Festivals; Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Centre New York; the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and Philarmonie Berlin; the Châtalet and Musée de Louvre Paris; La Scala Milan and Teatro de la Zarzuela Madrid; Musikverein and Konzerthaus Vienna; and Wigmore Hall and BBC Proms London. Director of the Perth International Chamber Music Festival in Australia from 2000 – 2003, Julius Drake was also musical director of Deborah Warner’s staging of Janáček’s Diary of One Who Vanished, touring to Munich, London, Dublin, Amsterdam and New York. Since 2009 he was been Artistic Director of the Machynlleth Festival in Wales. Julius Drake’s passionate interest in song has led to invitations to devise song series for the Wigmore Hall, London, the BBC and the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. A series of song recitals – Julius Drake and Friends – in the historic Middle Temple Hall in London, has featured recitals with many outstanding vocal artists including Sir Thomas Allen, Olaf Bär, Iestyn Davies, Sergei Leiferkus, Dame Felicity Lott, Simon Keenlyside, Christoph Prégardien, and Sir Willard White. Julius Drake is frequently invited to perform at international chamber music festivals – most recently, Kuhmo in Finland; Delft in the Netherlands; Oxford in England; and West Cork in Ireland – while his instrumental duo with Nicholas Daniel has been described in The Independent newspaper as ‘one of the most satisfying in British chamber music: vital, thoughtful and confirmed in musical integrity of the highest order’. Julius Drake’s many recordings include a widely acclaimed series with Gerald Finley for Hyperion, for which the Barber Songs, Schumann Heine Lieder and Britten Songs and Proverbs have won the 2007, 2009 and 2011 Gramophone Awards; award winning recordings with Ian Bostridge for EMI; several recitals for the Wigmore Live label, with among others Alice Coote, Joyce Didonato, Lorraine Hunt Liebersen, Christopher Maltman and Matthew Polenzani; and recordings of Tchaikovsky and Mahler with Christianne Stotijn for Onyx and English song with Bejun Mehta for Harmonia Mundi. Julius Drake is now embarked on a major project to record the complete songs of Franz Liszt for Hyperion: the second disc in the series, with Angelika Kirchschlager, won the BBC Music Magazine Award for 2012. Julius Drake is also a committed teacher and is invited to give master classes worldwide, recently in Aldeburgh, Brussels, Cincinatti, Toronto, Utrecht, and annually at the Schubert Institute in Baden bei Wien. He holds a Professorship at Graz University for Music and the Performing Arts in Austria, where he has a class for song pianists. Concerts in the coming seasons include recitals in his series, ‘Julius Drake and Friends’ at the historic Middle Temple Hall in London with Christine Rice, Iestyn Davies, Simon Keenlyside and Ian Bostridge as well as concerts at the Barbican, London and Teatro Zarzuelas, Madrid with Danielle De Niese, at Carnegie Hall, New York and Wigmore Hall, London with Alice Coote, in Florence, Vienna, Schwezingen and Wiesbaden with Gerald Finley, Madrid and Amsterdam with Sarah Connolly and London and the Schubertiade Festival with Christoph Prégardien.
Evan LeRoy Johnson tenor American tenor Evan LeRoy Johnson is quickly gaining attention for his “ardently full voice tenor” (Philadelphia Magazine) and is currently a graduate student at the Curtis Institute of Music where he studies with Marlena Malas and Mikael Eliasen. In the 2016 – 2017 season, Mr. Johnson made a highly-acclaimed European debut at the Norwegian National Opera in Calixto Bieto’s fully-staged production of Britten’s War Requiem conducted by Lothar Koenigs. He will also make his German debut and role debut at Oldenburgisches Staatstheater as Don José in a new production of Carmen and sing Verdi’s Messa da Requiem with the Columbus Symphony, as well as perform in recital with pianist Mikael Eliasen at Union College. At Curtis, he will be seen at the Male Chorus in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia. Last season, he was heard as Flamand in Capriccio at Opera Philadelphia and returned to the Opera Theater of Saint Louis as a Gerdine Young Artist singing Malcolm in Macbeth, as well as his first performances as Tamino in Die Zauberflöte at the Chautauqua Institute. Previously, he studied at the University of Kentucky with Cynthia Lawrence and was Apprentice Artist at Central City Opera. At the Curtis Institute, he has been seen in La bohème (Rodolfo), Iolanta (Count Vaudémont), and Gianni Schicchi (Rinuccio). In 2015, he received the Barbara and Stanley Richman Memorial Award from the Opera Theater of Saint Louis. Future seasons will see him at the Glyndebourne Festival, Zurich Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, and Bayerische Staatsoper.
Source Song Festival Board of Directors
Jon Lewis, President Dawn Johnson, Treasurer Mark Bilyeu, Artistic Co-Director Clara Osowski, Artistic Co-Director
Scott Rehovsky, At-Large Jessica Schroeder, At-Large Angela Skrowaczewski, At-Large Adriana Zabala, At-Large
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MNDuo teams Elias Berezin baritone | Andrew Anderson pianist A California native, baritone Elias Berezin is a passionate musician dedicated to improving his craft. Following a 2016 graduation from UC Irvine with a Bachelor of Music, summa cum laude, Berezin moved to Los Angeles where he has steeped himself in the dizzying density of the city’s thriving music scene. Experiences on the operatic stage include covering the role of Mercutio with Center Stage Opera and appearing in Pasadena City College’s Rosy in Westerbeck, a heavily adapted version of Die Fledermaus, singing the music of Alfred. At UCI, Berezin sang Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas, which he also performed at the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival; Bob in William Grant Still’s Highway 1, U.S.A.; and served as bass soloist in Schubert’s Mass in G Major. Summer experiences include two seasons at Songfest and a visit to the Franco-American Vocal Academy, singing Le fauteuil and L’arbre in Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges. Born in California, Andrew Anderson is a pianist deeply invested in the performance of contemporary music. Enrolled at the Orange County School of the Arts from until graduation in 2013, he is currently completing a B.M. in piano performance at the University of California, Irvine, studying under Nina Scolnik. Here, he has collaborated with a variety of talented musicians; notable examples include the premiering of several works of student composers with UCI’s ICIT graduate program, and serving as repetiteur for the Claire Trevor School of the Arts’ performances of Dido and Aeneas and the west coast premiere of Rorem’s Our Town. Andrew has also received master classes from Russell Guyver and the late Edmund Battersby, for whom he performed Messiaen’s Regard de la Vierge. Next year, Andrew will pursue a Masters in collaborative keyboard at CalArts, where he will study with Vicky Ray.
Roxy Callan soprano | Eric Petterson pianist Soprano Roxy Callan, originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, is a Master's student in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy at Westminster Choir College studying with Laura Brooks Rice. Recent performances include Micaëla from Peter Brooks’ The Tragedy of Carmen and Sandrina from Mozart’s La finta giardiniera, both with the Baldwin Wallace University Opera Theater. She has sung in masterclasses with Jane Eaglen, David Cangelosi, Barbara Paver and Martin Katz. In 2015 Roxy won the Baldwin Wallace University Concerto Competition singing Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915, which she performed with orchestra in April of 2016. Roxy participated in the CoOPERAtive Young Artist's Program in the summer of 2016. She also took part in the CoOPERAtive winter production, performing the role of Annina in Verdi's La Traviata. Eric Petterson, pianist, has enjoyed a diversified musical life. He recently earned a B.M. in piano performance from Marywood University in Scranton, PA, under the tutelage of Thomas Hrynkiw and Dr. Rick Hoffenberg, where he was the University’s only two-time concerto competition winner. He has been the pianist and musical director for professional theatre, community theatre, and opera productions in Pennsylvania. In addition to his engagements with piano, he has sung in numerous choral ensembles and has served as a cantor at St. Mary's Byzantine Church in Mahanoy City, PA since 2008. He currently resides in Princeton where he pursues a Master’s Degree in Piano Accompanying/Coaching at Westminster Choir College under the tutelage of Dr. JJ Penna.
Anna Christofaro soprano | Jared Miller pianist Anna Christofaro has been praised for her vocal agility and natural stage presence. She recently appeared as the soprano soloist in Benjamin Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb, Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610, Vivaldi's Gloria, Mozart's Regina Coeli and Bach's Cantata BWV 51, "Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen," as well as many other Bach Cantatas. Anna sings with the Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble, Conspirare, based in Austin, TX, as well as the Vocal Essence Ensemble Signers, South Dakota Chorale, Minnesota Chorale, The Rose Ensemble, Oratory Bach (Minneapolis), Vox Humana (Dallas), and Consortium Carissimi (St. Paul). Her operatic appearances include the role Maguellone in Viardot's Cendrillon, 1st Lady in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Serpina in Pergolesi's La Serva Perdona, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Gianetta in The Gondoliers and Nella in Gianni Schicchi to name a few. In 2011 and 2007, Anna won first place in the Thursday Musical Young Artist Competition. In addition, she won first place in the Minnesota State NATS Competition in 2007 and won second place in 2006. Anna holds a Bachelor of Music degree from St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN and a Master of Music degree from the University of North Texas. She currently lives in Minneapolis, MN. Born in San Diego, Jared Miller discovered his passion for Collaboration while participating in his high school choral ensembles. He recently graduated from St. Olaf College in Northfield Minnesota with a B.A. in Music and an Asian Studies concentration. While there, he worked extensively with the vocal department, playing for weekly lessons, 20-30 juries a semester, and typically 4 recitals a semester. Jared was hired as the pianist by the Lyric Opera department to play for an original work, Fabrizio’s Comet, and has served as pianist and vocal coach for the past two years for Marschner’s Der Vampyr, and Strauss’ Die Fledermaus. He also worked as pianist and vocal coach for the 2015 Spring Theater show, Big Fish. While at Olaf, Jared was also very active with the Choral Ensembles, serving as pianist for three of the six Choirs at St. Olaf. Jared has a particular passion for Hispanic composers. In the Fall, he will be attending the University of Minnesota to receive his Master’s Degree in Collaborative Piano, where he will be working with Dr. Timothy Lovelace
Shari Feldman soprano | Christin Cooper pianist Shari Eve Feldman, soprano, simply cannot get enough of art song, especially when it comes directly from “the Source!” This spring, Shari looks forward to singing with OperaDelaware chorus in a performance of Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle, competing in the 2017 Annapolis Opera Competition semifinals, and to performing a solo recital as part of the Cathedral Choir School of Delaware’s Pro Series. Her programming of multilingual and multicultural art song highlights the importance of immigration, integration, and diversity as foundations of our country’s identity. Shari is the Academic Advisor and Admissions Program Coordinator for the Music Department at the University of Delaware and maintains a private voice studio in Newark, Delaware. She graduated from the University of Delaware with a B.A. in Music (2010) and an M.M. in Vocal Performance (2012). She currently studies with Dr. Noël Archambeault. A native of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Christin Cooper is a multifaceted pianist, educator, and choral musician. She has performed extensively throughout the midAtlantic region and around the world. An experienced collaborator, Christin has appeared with the Newark Symphony Chorus and can be seen accompanying the University of Delaware Concert Choir and Children’s Choirs. Christin is passionate about the performance of new music and works by female composers. She has recently completed a Master of Music degree in Piano Performance at the University of Delaware, and is thrilled to be returning to Minneapolis for a second year at Source!
Harrison Hintzsche baritone | Nola Strand pianist Harrison Hintzsche is a baritone based in the Twin Cities. He has appeared as a soloist with the Augsburg College Masterworks Chorale as well as with the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers, who he sings regularly with. Harrison attended St. Olaf College, graduating cum laude with a degree in Vocal Performance. While at St. Olaf, Harrison sang with the St. Olaf Choir and sang the roles of "Lord Collins" in Der Vampyr, "Sid" in Albert Herring, and "Maximillian" in Candide in the Lyric Theater program. He has worked with notable musicians such as Håkan Hagegård, Roger Vignoles, Francisco Araiza, and Patricia Caicedo. Other educational credits include the Sankt Goar International Music Festival and Academy in Sankt Goar, Germany, Source Song Festival in Minneapolis, and SongFest in Los Angeles. Praised for her sensitive and imaginative playing, Nola Strand is highly sought-after as a recital pianist and vocal coach in the DFW area. She completed her Master of Music degree at the University of North Texas, where she was the recipient of the Martha Massena Collaborative Piano Scholarship. While at UNT Nola was the pianist for French and Graduate Diction classes, and regularly played for voice auditions and juries. She studied basso continuo, organ, harpsichord, and fortepiano performance as part of an Early Music related field. Nola has participated in masterclasses with Graham Johnson, Isabel Bayrakdarian, Kenneth Griffiths, Alexander Rom, Jake Heggie, Ellen Rissinger, and Mary Dibbern. She is a founding member and past president of North Texas Collaborative Pianists, a network created to serve the local musical community. NTCP organizes masterclasses and recitals featuring collaborative repertoire.
Sarah Howes soprano | Rebecca Heyn pianist Sarah Howes was born and raised in Glenwood, MN. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in both vocal and piano performance from the University of Minnesota, Morris. She then went on to earn her Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music Conservatory. She has performed on both the operatic and musical theater stages. Some of her roles include Adina (L’elisir d’amore), Adele, (Der Fledermaus), Mimi (La Boheme), Pamina (The Magic Flute), Zaide (Zaide), Lisette (La Rondine), Mabel (The Pirates of Penzance), Laurey (Oklahoma), Belle (The Fantasticks), & Maria (Sound of Music). She spent the summer of 2006 with the Austrian American Mozart Academy in Salzburg, Austria. In 2008 she helped form Westminster Opera in Westminster, MD. Currently she is in her first year of her Doctoral degree at the University of Minnesota in the studio of Adrianna Zabala. She is also teaching as an adjunct voice faculty member at the University of Minnesota, Morris, along with a private studio. Rebecca Heyn is an eloquent and proficient pianist who is passionate about the art of music through her teaching and performance. Earning her Master’s degree in Piano Accompanying and Chamber Music (Northern Arizona University) and her Bachelor’s degree in Piano Performance (University of MN-Morris) Rebecca subsequently went on to join faculties at the Talent Education Suzuki School (Norwalk, CT), Saint Joseph’s School of Music (Saint Paul) and MacPhail Center for Music (Minneapolis). Rebecca has collaborated on stage for Thursday Musical, Studio Z, and The Minnesota History Center. She is a frequent adjudicator for Minnesota Music Teachers Association and the Saint Paul Piano Teachers Association. Her discography includes Broken Sweets and For Now the Winter has Passed (Dr. Chris Granias). Requests for her accompanying prowess span all ages, genres, and instruments.
Sarah Kim mezzo-soprano | Margaret Hinchliffe pianist Sarah Kim (Mezzo Soprano) has currently earned a Master´s degree in classical voice at Manhattan School of Music. She has performed as Cherubino and Marcellina in Mozart´s Le Nozze di Figaro, Zita in Puccini´s Gianni Schichi, 3rd lady in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. She has received various awards from 2nd edition National Artists Competition, East Coast International Competition and 3rd edition of the New York International Music Concours. She has also participated in the Miami Summer program (2016), Spring Role Preparation of Martina Arroyo (2017), New York Lyric Opera (2017).
Margaret (Maggie) Hinchliffe studies piano at the Blair School of Music in Nashville, T.N. with Professor Amy Dorfman. She has particular interest in collaborative piano studies and spent this past summer in Austria as a lieder pianist for the American Institute of Musical Studies. Other summer studies include Oberlin Conservatory, Carnegie Mellon University, and Kutztown University. Maggie has also worked with the Nashville Ballet as a class pianist. She has competed and performed with various organizations including Honors Recitals for NJMEA, the Cape Vincent Chopin Festival, and performed at Carnegie Hall with the Piano Teachers Society of America and the New York Youth Symphony. Maggie plans to pursue a graduate degree in collaborative studies.
Margaret Matejcek soprano | Irina Stene pianist Margaret Matejcek is an emerging soprano living and working in the Twin Cities area. She has appeared at venues such as the Orpheum, Orchestra Hall, and various basilicas and churches. She recently performed excerpts from Postcard from Morocco as Lady with Hat and Bihter in Aski-Memnu in Ted Mann Hall, and a full concert production of Dido and Aenaeas as the 2nd Woman/Attendant at the McPhail School of Music. Upcoming performances include Suor Genevieffa in Suor Angelica at the end of March. This past summer, she was selected to participate in the international “Opera Viva!” vocal program in Verona, Italy, where she frequently performed whilst receiving intensive language, performance, and technique study. Awards include third place at the MN-NATS competition in 2015 following two consecutive first place wins in 2011 and 2012. She is currently in her third year of study with Dr. Jean del Santo for her BFA in Vocal Performance at the University of Minnesota. Born in a little military town on the border of Russia and Finland, pianist Irina Stene was accepted to a public school and public music school at age of 6. By 14, she moved away from her family to Arkhangelsk to study piano performance at the music academy, where she was accepted on a full scholarship. There, she completed a bachelor degree as a piano performer, concertmaster, and a piano teacher. She continued her education at the Petrozavodsk State Conservatoire, full scholarship, and in 2003, graduated as a piano performer, concertmaster, and piano instructor, earning a Master's degree. She has served as staff accompanist/pianist at a music school in Saint-Petersburg, Russia working with children's groups and maintaining a private piano studio. In 2011, she moved to Saint Cloud, MN. Since her arrival, Stene has collaborated with Saint Cloud State University, and St. John's University/St. Ben's College. Stene is currently a Graduate Assistant at the University of Minnesota, working towards her D.M.A Collaborative piano/ Voice Coaching degree with Tim Lovelace.
MNsong participants Gala Flagello is a composer, horn player, and co-founder and Festival Director of Connecticut Summmerfest, Inc. She has studied composition privately with Larry Alan Smith, Gilda Lyons, Ken Steen, and Robert Carl. Gala has written many recital commissions for groups as well as individuals, taking a special interest in ensembles with unique instrumentation requests. She has attended Wintergreen Summer Music Academy, Atlantic Music Festival, and was the 2016 Composer in Residence at the Unitarian Society of Hartford. Gala holds a Bachelor of Music in Composition degree from The Hartt School in West Hartford, CT.
Ryan Johnston is a St. Paul based composer. One of his main interests is writing chamber music. He strives to create beautiful things no matter the complexity and to reach out to audiences. His music is influenced by many things including nature, everyday experiences, and french classical music. He attended JCI where his music was played by the Artaria String Quartet. He is currently a senior at the University of Minnesota. He studies music composition with Edie Hill. When not writing music, Ryan enjoys reading, playing piano, and taking long walks in the Twin Cities area.
Kevin J. Kelly is a Los Angeles-based composer and Professor of Music at Los Angeles City College. He completed his bachelor's degree in composition at West Chester University, where his principal teachers were Robert Maggio and Larry Nelson. He was awarded a Ph.D. in composition from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied with Jay Reise, James Primosch, Anna Weesner, and Ingrid Arauco. He also studied with Samuel Adler, Philip Lasser, Narcis Bonet and Michel Merlet while participating in the European Musical Alliance summer composition program in Paris, France. Dr. Kelly’s recent works have been performed by the Mivos Quartet, Richard Valitutto, gnarwhallaby, Alan Dunbar, Lara Bolton, and Eva Ingolf in the U.S., Europe, and South America. His song cycle Sierra Sketches was a winner of the 2014 ACFLA composition competition. Other awards and scholarships include a prize in the National Guild of Community Schools for the Arts' Young Composers Competition, recognition as a regional winner in the 1999 SCI/ASCAP Student Composition Competition, the William Penn Fellowship from the University of Pennsylvania and the Theodore Presser Scholarship from West Chester University. Dr. Kelly lives in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles with his wife Sara and daughter Maisie. Kelly Krebs is a Twin Cities-based composer who loves writing for the voice—both solo and choral works. His song-cycle Not Waving, But Drowning, on poems by Stevie Smith, was recently premiered by members of the music faculty at Hamline University in St. Paul, where Krebs serves as Assistant Dean in the College of Liberal Arts, managing the day-to-day operations of The Creative Writing Programs. Krebs holds a B.A. in Music and Speech Communication from the University of Minnesota–Morris, where he studied voice with Ken Hodgson and Janet Ahern and composition with Clyde Johnson. Subsequently he pursued graduate studies in composition with Claude Baker at the University of Louisville (where he also earned an M.Ed. in College Personnel Services). After a 20-year hiatus, Krebs returned to composing in 2015, studying with Janika Vandervelde at Hamline University. A long-time choral singer, he has sung in such ensembles as the Bach Society of Minnesota and the Bach Society of Louisville, and is currently a member of the choir at St. Mark's Cathedral in Minneapolis.
Kyle Lewis is a composer currently finishing undergraduate degrees in Music Composition and Music Theory at the University of Georgia. He has studied regularly with Cody Brookshire, Natalie Williams, Peter Van Zandt Lane, and Adam Roberts. His music has been played by Rote Hünd Musik, Duo Damiana, and Stuart Gerber of Bent Frequency. He works and performs in a collaborative project called Guy Did Ail (@GuyDidAil on social media) with visual artist Gunnar Tarsa that explores the balance between predictability and possibility in aleatoric art. Outside of the new music world, he fronts a punkish, metal-type band called We by the Sea. Lately, he’s been interested in extended notational systems and how they interact with performers’ cognition of the music, patient pacing, aleatory, subtleties in otherwise homogenous sounds, variety in scale of works, small ideas as art, humor, and framing art from everyday moments. Jason Mulligan is an internationally performed composer who is dedicated to creating works that connect the western classical tradition with the culture of modern American society. His music has been performed at various institutions including Southern Methodist University, Idyllwild Arts Academy, Sam Houston State University, Opera America: The National Opera Center, and the International Clarinet Association Clarinetfest to name a few. Highlights of the 2016-2017 season include performances on the Winter Heat New Music Festival in Miami and the New Music on the Bayou Festival, collaborations with the New American Voices Concert Series, and the creation of a new work for soprano, Alissa Roca, and the Meadows Wind Ensemble. Jason is also an active collaborative pianist and has participated in numerous projects recently ranging from recording a film score to serving as the rehearsal pianist for a new chamber opera as part of the Cohen New Works Festival. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Miami and master’s degree from Peabody Conservatory where he studied with Scott Stinson and Kevin Puts respectively. Dawn Sonntag’s music, which includes art song, works for choir, orchestra, and wind ensemble, chamber music, film music, and music for ballet, has been performed across the U.S. and in Germany, France, and Norway. Scenes from her opera, Verlorene Heimat, which premiered at Hiram College in 2014, have been performed by the Hartford Opera Theater, the Cleveland Opera Theater, and Contempopera Cleveland. She received Mississippi State University’s 2015 Criss Foundation commission and was MTNA - Ohio’s 2010 Distinguished Composer of the Year. Sonntag has been a resident composer at the Visby International Centre for Composers in Visby, Sweden and for the New Music series at the Dana School of Music at Youngstown State University. She is also active as a vocalist and pianist and received the Inge Pitler prize for lied performance both as a vocalist and as a pianist in Heidelberg, Germany. Sonntag studied composition with Alex Lubet at the University of Minnesota and in Paris, France, under the auspices of the European American Musical Alliance. Currently she is Associate Professor of Music at Hiram College. Live recordings and a list of her works can be found at her website, www.dawnsonntag.com.
Robert Strobel (b. 1988) undertakes the task of modestly composing fresh and expressive art music for our time. In late 2016, he received special mention in the Alfred Schnittke International Composers’ Forum & Competition after having had his piece performed in the concerts. His music has been broadcast twice on WPRB Princeton in Marvin Rosen’s 25-hour new music marathon, and once on Hawaii Public Radio, in the program “Singing and Other Sins.” Recently, his music was featured at the 2017 SCI VI conference, the 2017 Tutti Festival, and the 2017 New Music Festival at University of Nebraska-Kearney. Some things that were provided to him through the University of Missouri, Mizzou New Music Initiative include being a winner in the Missouri Orchestra Composer’s Project, and being commissioned a work for some of the St. Louis Symphony Strings. Recently, he earned a Doctor of Music degree in composition at Florida State University. Robert also has degrees from the University of Missouri-Columbia (MM Composition), where he studied with W. Thomas McKenney, and the University of Northern Colorado (BM Composition and Oboe Performance, MM Oboe Performance), where he studied with Robert Ehle, Paul Elwood, and John McLaird.
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ource Song Festival began over the Atlantic Ocean. The brainchild of Mark Bilyeu and Clara Osowski, they returned to Minnesota from a summer of international song festivals inspired to create opportunities for those as passionate about words, music and community as they are. Since the inagural season in 2014, Source has continued to grow and develop, offering a joyful and supportive space for students, professionals and audience memebers alike to engage in the fusion of words and music: Song. Source has big plans for our fifth season in 2018. Your support is necessary and advances our mission to deliver fresh and innovative concerts, recitals and masterclasses, and supports the creation of new works. Thank You!
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