Heart/Beat: Works of 20th and 21st Century American Composers For Voice and Percussion
Program:
The Bells, three songs for soprano and percussion, op. 42 by George N. Gianopoulos (b. 1984)
Are your fingers long enough for female voice and double bass and looping pedal by Timo Andres (b. 1985)
In the Fire of Conflict for marimba, crotales, electronics by Christos Hatzis
Rescue Me
I Call Your Name
Letters from Composers for soprano and marimba by Dominick Argento (b. 1927)
Frederic Chopin to a friend
W.A. Mozart to his father
Franz Schubert to a friend
J.S. Bach to the Town Council
Claude Debussy to a friend
Giacomo Puccini to a friend
Robert Schumann to his fiancee
The Night with the Green Sky, for soprano and marimba by Christopher Cerrone (b. 1984)
Kathleen Roland-Silverstein
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. She has performed with many prominent conductors, including James Conlon, Kent Nagano, Reinbert de Leeuw, and Oliver Knussen, and with the Grammy award-winning Southwest Chamber Music Society of Los Angeles. Recent performances include concerts in Sweden, Finland, Vietnam, Cambodia and Germany. Roland-Silverstein has recorded the works of American composer Libby Larsen and Cambodian composer Chinary Ung, and will be recording “Bridge of Song/Bro av Sånger” in 2019 with Finnish pianist Collin Hansen and violinist Frida Backman.
Lynn Vartan
Percussionist Lynn Vartan is an international performer and educator who is an advocate for diversity in music. As a new music percussionist Lynn has worked with Michael Colgrass, Vinny Golia, Arthur Jarvinen, Ursula Oppens, Joan Tower, Glen Velez, Xtet, James Newton, Chinary Ung, the Hilliard Ensemble, the Tambuco Percussion Ensemble and Grammy Award-winning Southwest Chamber Music, and is known for her dynamic athleticism and exciting energy on stage. She has commissioned and/or performed countless new works for percussion by composers such as Donald Crockett, William Kraft, Steve Hoey, Veronika Krausas, Erica Muhl, Arthur Jarvinen, Sean Heim, Jeff Holmes, Keith Bradshaw and Shaun Naidoo. As a recital soloist, Lynn has been featured on the Los Angeles Philharmonic Green Umbrella Series, the Different Trains Series, at universities in residence all over the United States and on the Music at the Court series in Pasadena, California, where she produced her own solo percussion concerts. As a concerto soloist Lynn has performed with various orchestras including the Hubei Opera and Dance Company of Wuhan, China, the Sierra Wind Symphony, the Helena Symphony, The Orchestra of Southern Utah, Southwest Chamber Music, The Helena Symphony, as well as premiering new concertos by both American and Chinese composers.
