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The University of Arizona
Opera Theater
Charles Roe
artistic director
American Art Song
U A V o i c e F a c u l t y S h o w c as e
A Tu c s o n D e s e r t S o n g F e s t i va l R e c i t a l
&
The Arizona
Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Cockrell
music director & conductor
PRESENT:
La Clemenza di Tito
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
*Friday, April 12, 7:30 p.m.
*Sunday, April 14, 3:00 p.m.
Crowder Hall, $15, 12, 10
*Please note change:
There will be only two opera performances.
The previously advertised Thursday and Saturday
performances have been cancelled.
Box Office: 621-1162
On-line ticket sales: tickets.arizona.edu
MusiCall: 621-2998 www.music.arizona.edu
Mozart’s penultimate opera is a final exploration of opera seria,
in which he beguiles the listener with beautiful arias and
ensembles that tell a politically charged tale of sedition
and uncommon forgiveness.
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Faye
Robinson
soprano
Kristin Dauphinais
mezzo-soprano
Grayson Hirst
tenor
Charles Roe
with
Paula Fan, piano
Rex Woods, piano
Daniel Katzen, horn
baritone
Monday, February 11, 2013 Crowder Hall, 7:30 p.m.
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T ucson D esert S on g F est i va l
American Art Song – Voice Faculty Showcase
Faye Robinson, soprano
Kristin Dauphinais, mezzo-soprano
Grayson Hirst, tenor
Charles Roe, baritone
with
Paula Fan & Rex Woods, piano
Daniel Katzen, horn
Monday, February 11, 2013
Crowder Hall
7:30 p.m.
PROGRAM
Three Songs......................................................................................John Duke
Richard Cory
Miniver Cheevy
Luke Havergal
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He can also be heard on the soundtracks of more than two dozen
motion pictures, including E.T., Nixon, Pearl Harbor, Twister and Jumanji.
Prof. Katzen concertizes on a customized horn made for him in 1980
by Dan Rauch.
Dr. Paula Fan has performed as soloist and chamber musician
on five continents. She made her London debut in 1977 and her
New York debut in 1978. In 1980 she joined members of Beijing’s
Central Philharmonic Orchestra for the first concert of Western
chamber music since the Cultural Revolution. In 1981, as the first
ever accompanist-coach invited by the Chinese Ministry of Culture,
she organized and accompanied the first “Liederabend” to be
presented in many years.
Dr. Fan has recorded fifteen albums and has broadcast for the BBC,
National Public Radio, Radio Television China and other international
stations. She has coached and accompanied singers from the world’s
leading opera houses, and, as a specialist in wind chamber music, she
has performed with many of today’s leading clarinetists at numerous
international festivals. Dr. Fan is pianist with the Tucson Symphony
Orchestra. A University of Arizona alumna, Dr. Fan is on the faculty
at the School of Music, and holds the distinguished title of Regents’
professor.
INTERMISSION
Pianist Rex Woods has performed in the United States, Canada,
Mexico, France, China and Australia, but is best known to regional
audiences for his frequent artistic performances as both a soloist and
chamber musician. Mr. Woods received his musical education at
Brigham Young University, the University of Arizona, the University of
Southern California, and the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau.
He was awarded the Otto Guth Memorial Award from the San Francisco
Opera Center for excellence in vocal coaching and was the recipient of
the Premier Prix de Fontainebleau in chamber music. Mr. Woods holds
the degree of Juris Doctor from Arizona State University. He has served
on the faculties of the University of Texas at Austin and the Interlochen
Center for the Arts. Since 1988, he has taught at the University of Arizona
and is currently serving as the director of the University of Arizona
School of Music. Recent credits include nationwide performances
with flutist Brian Luce. Their recording, Music of the Superpowers,
is available on the Albany label. He may also be heard in Summit
label recordings as a member of The Bruch Trio along with
clarinetist Jerry Kirkbride, and violist Jessie Levine.
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Charles Roe, baritone
Rex Woods, piano
Love After 1950........................................................................... Libby Larson
Boy’s Lips
Blond Men
Big Sister Says, 1967
The Empty Song
I Make Magic
Kristin Dauphinais, mezzo-soprano
Paula Fan, piano
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Cum Laude. A recording of Mr. Hirst’s New York operatic debut
as Tonio in La Fille du Régiment was recently released on the Adagio
Classics label. Mr. Hirst is a scholarship alumnus of UCLA, the Music
Academy of the West, the Metropolitan Opera Studio, the Aspen Music
Festival School and The Juilliard School where he was a protégé of the
renowned Jennie Tourel.
CHARLES ROE, baritone, director of the University of Arizona Opera
Theater, holds the Amelia Rieman Endowed Chair in Opera. Mr. Roe has
performed leading roles with New York City Opera, Arizona Opera,
Michigan Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Kentucky Opera, Toledo Opera,
Connecticut Opera, San Antonio Opera, Utah Opera, Opera Pacific,
Mississippi Opera, Cleveland Opera, Sacramento Opera, Lake George
Opera, Art Park Opera and the Caramoor Festival. He has also appeared
as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra,
Detroit Symphony, Toledo Symphony, Flint Symphony, Wichita
Symphony, New Mexico Symphony, Grand Rapids Symphony, Des
Moines Symphony, Duluth Symphony and the Tucson Symphony.
Professor Roe serves as chairman of the vocal area at the University
of Arizona, where he has been on the faculty since 1989. Previously
he served on the faculties of the University of Southern California,
Eastern Michigan University and Texas Tech University. Professor Roe
is a graduate of Baldwin-Wallace College (BM) and the University
of Illinois (MM), where he graduated with honors. Students who
have studied with Mr. Roe are now appearing with the Metropolitan
Opera, New York City Opera and in many prestigious opera houses
in Europe.
Daniel Katzen joined the University of Arizona School of Music
faculty in 2008 after 29 years as second horn of the Boston Symphony
Orchestra. His studies and performance career have taken him to 25 U.S.
states and 22 foreign countries on five continents to perform more than
5,000 concerts. He can be heard live at his annual UA solo and chamber
recitals, various appearances around the United States and on his
dozens of CDs with the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops Orchestras,
Empire Brass and other ensembles. His Bach cello suite solo CDs will
soon be released. Prof. Katzen has been a faculty member or instructor
at Boston University College of Fine Arts, New England Conservatory,
Tanglewood Music Center in the East, and California Institute for the
Arts and University of California at Irvine School of Music in the West.
His previous orchestral affiliations include fourth horn with the San
Diego Symphony, second horn in both the Grant Park (Chicago)
Symphony and Phoenix Symphony, and extra horn with the Munich,
Los Angeles and Rochester Philharmonics and the Chicago Symphony.
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Aesops’s Fables..........................................................................Anthony Plog
The Tortoise and the hare
The Mouse and the Lion
The Wind and the Sun
The Dove and the Ant
The Mule
Grayson Hirst, narrator
Daniel Katzen, horn
Paula Fan, piano
Give Me Jesus........................................................................ arr. Mark Hayes
My Soul’s Been Anchored in de Lord....................... arr. Florence B. Price
Balm in Gilead......................................................arr. Jacqueline B. Hairston
Oh, Didn’t it Rain............................................................... arr. H.T. Burleigh
Faye Robinson, soprano
Rex Woods, piano
Two quartets from “Candide”........................................ Leonard Bernstein
Life is Absolute Perfection
Let Our Garden Grow
Faye Robinson
Kristin Dauphinais
Grayson Hirst
Charles Roe
Rex Woods
This recital is being recorded for future broadcast.
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About the Artists
work includes Mozart’s Coronation Mass and Requiem, Mendelssohn’s St.
Paul, Haydn’s The Creation, and Handel’s Messiah. On the operatic stage,
her recent roles include Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Hänsel in Hänsel und
Gretel, Mrs. McLean in Susanna, Zweite Dame in Die Zauberflöte, the title
role in Handel’s Xerxes and the role of Ottone in the American
professional première of Vivaldi’s Ottone in Villa for the 2007 Arizona
Vivaldi Festival. Ms. Dauphinais holds a BFA in musical theatre
performance from Western Michigan University and MM and DMA
degrees in vocal performance from Arizona State University. She has
served on the voice faculty of the American Institute of Musical Studies
(AIMS) in Graz, Austria and currently serves on the voice faculty of the
University of Arizona and the faculty of the Saarburger SerenadenInternational Chamber Music Festival in Saarburg, Germany.
Faye Robinson’s spectacular rise to operatic stardom has been
highlighted by performances in the major musical centers of Europe and
the United States. She has sung leading roles with the opera companies of
Vienna, Paris, Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Cologne, Munich, Duesseldorf,
Madrid, Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires), New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia,
San Diego, and the New York City Opera. Equally renowned as a
concert artist, Miss Robinson has sung with virtually every major orchestra
including the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Los
Angeles Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, the National Symphony,
the Symphony Orchestras of Boston, Chicago, Houston and Toronto,
as well as the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam and the BBC
Symphony Orchestra in London, among others. She is also a frequent
guest at music festivals around the world.
Miss Robinson has recorded Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with the
Boston Symphony under Seiji Ozawa (Philips) and also with the
Frankfurt Radio Orchestra under Eliahu Inbal (Denon); Tippett’s
Mask of Time with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Andrew Davis
(EMI); Tippett’s Symphony No. 3 with the Bournemouth Symphony
under Richard Hickox (Chandos); the world premiere recording
of Tippett’s Byzantium with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and
Sir Georg Solti (Decca); Tippett’s A Child of our Time with Richard
Hickox conducting (Virgin); Schoenberg’s String Quartet No. 2
(chamber orchestra version) with the Stockholm Chamber Orchestra
and Esa-Pekka Salonen (Sony Classical); and her first solo-recording
Remembering Marian Anderson on the d’Note label.
Mezzo-soprano KRISTIN DAUPHINAIS is highly regarded for her
artistry and versatility. She has worked in a variety of genres including
musical theatre, opera, concert, oratorio, chamber music and solo
recitals. Her performing career has taken her throughout the United
States as well as internationally with orchestras such as Orchestra
Sinfonica Nova Amadeus in Rome and Florence, Orchestra Accademia
Vivaldiana in Venice, Australia’s Royal Melbourne Philharmonic and
The Canberra Choral Society, and in 2012 and 2013 she will sing on
an orchestral concert tour in China. Recent concert performances for
Dr. Dauphinais include Manuel de Falla’s Siete canciones populares
Españolas and El amor brujo with the Tucson Symphony, El sombrero de
tres picos and El amor brujo with the Phoenix Symphony, Alban Berg’s
Sieben Frühe Lieder with the Arizona Symphony Orchestra, El amor brujo
with the Catalina Chamber Orchestra, Mozart’s Exultate, jubilate with
the Apperson Strings and again with the Cadillac Symphony Orchestra,
and Easy to Love, a review of Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers and Jerome
Kern with the Sacramento Choral Society and Orchestra. Other solo
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The distinguished American tenor GRAYSON HIRST has performed
with leading American orchestras from Alaska to Puerto Rico, among
them the Atlanta, Baltimore, Dallas, Detroit, National, San Francisco
and St. Louis Symphonies, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the
New York Chamber Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the
New York Philharmonic. Hirst launched his operatic career with a
prestigious New York debut at Carnegie Hall singing the stratospheric
role of Tonio in the American Opera Society’s revival of Donizetti’s
La Fille du Régiment with Beverly Sills. His highly acclaimed New York
City Opera debut as Peter Quint in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw took
place soon after. He went on to appear in more than 70 leading roles
with numerous opera companies throughout the United States, among
them the Boston, Connecticut, Cincinnati, Mississippi, Washington,
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Rhode Island, San Diego, Toledo and Virginia
Opera Companies, the San Antonio Symphony Opera Festival,
Birmingham Civic Opera, the Opera Company of Jacksonville, Houston
Grand Opera, Michigan Opera Theater and the San Francisco Spring
Opera Theater, to name but a few. Concert, opera and recital
appearances in China, Canada, Great Britain, Switzerland, France,
Portugal, Italy, Mexico and Brazil have brought international recognition
to the California-born tenor. Grayson Hirst’s national opera telecasts
and music festival appearances have included PBS, NBC, CBS, NPR,
Artpark, Newport, Aspen, Caramoor, Lindsborg, Kalamazoo, Flagstaff,
Alaska, Colorado, Wolf Trap, Saratoga, Marlboro, Brattleboro, Madeira,
Sedona and Bard. Grammy Award nominee Grayson Hirst has recorded
opera and oratorio for Disque VDE Gallo and for CRI, Schubert’s Die
schöne Müllerin for Leonarda Records and Janáček’s The Diary of One
Who Vanished for Arabesque Records, a disc of unknown songs by
Dvořák for Spectrum Records, Handel’s opera Acis and Galatea and the
Heinrich Schütz Matthäus-Passion for Newport Classic Recordings, and
Benjamin Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op. 31, for Vox
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