Among the Multitude
Michael Kelly, Baritone; Shannon McGinnis, Piano
Selections from an anthology of commissioned songs released by New Music Shelf.
SPONSORED BY: Kathleen Roland-Silverstein
singer
Kathleen Roland-Silverstein, mezzo soprano; Lynn Vartan, percussion
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.
Katie North Peck, soprano; Kathleen Haddock, piano
An Afternoon of Romantic Music
Soprano Katie North Peck and pianist Kathleen Haddock will perform works of Faure, Schumann, Schubert, Bellini, Richard Strauss, Catalini, and Johann Strauss.
Soprano Katie Peck is a Skaneateles graduate who attended Queen’s University in Kingston, ON, Canada. While majoring in Political Science, she studied voice as an elective where she
was first introduced to opera music. A classically trained pianist who once studied with Kathleen Haddock, she now focuses her music training on voice. She began training with Marcus and Kathleen after the birth of her two children. Since then she has grown her opera
repertoire to include arias from composers such as Bellini, Puccini, Mozart, Massenet, Handel, Bizet, Verdi and more. In addition to singing, Katie owns a small business, She Rents Vintage,
where she is lucky to have another creative outlet. She spends her free time playing with her kids and cooking.
Kathleen Haddock currently works as a part time professor at Syracuse University as a vocal coach and instructor of piano and voice/piano ensemble classes.She earned her Masters in Piano Performance from Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University in Maryland and a second Masters in Vocal Coaching and Collaborative Arts from Boston University. She was music director of the Belmont Opera studio and remained as a staff accompanist at BU. For several years. She went on to become faculty at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia, then moved to Europe for 10 years with her husband where she was active in German opera houses as accompanist and coach as well as performing recitals and concerts with singers and instrumentalists.
