Performance this Saturday!
For the first time ever the Aaron Copland School of Music will be presenting a performance of 17th century Venetian opera scenes as part of the newly created Baroque Opera Workshop at Queens College. Co-directors Christa Patton and David Ronis, and vocal specialist Ellen Hargis will be leading the workshop with staged versions of scenes from Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria (1640) and L’Incoronazione di Poppea (1643) by Claudio Monteverdi, as well as La Calisto (1651) by Francesco Cavalli. The workshop is part of the Institute for 17th Century Music and includes a Baroque string ensemble lead by Dongmyung Ahn which will be performing works by Biagio Marini and Dario Castello.
The performance will take place June 26 at Le Frak Hall at the Aaron Copland School of Music at 1:00 p.m. Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for seniors, $10 for students. Queens College C.U.N.Y. 65-30 Kissena Blvd. Flushing NY. (Tel) 718-997-3800
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The Institute for 17th Century Music at Queens College offers a one-week, intensive training program for singers, continuo players, and string players in Baroque opera culminating in a performance of 17th century opera scenes.
Daily classes include:
• Ornamentation and baroque style based on sources
• Daily coachings and masterclasses
• Instrumental and vocal technique
• Baroque Gesture and stagecraft for singers
• Improvisation in accompaniment for instrumentalists
• Baroque string technique
Faculty:
Ellen Hargis – Vocal style coach &Baroque Gesture
Dongmyung Ahn – String technique & repertoire coach
Christa Patton – Music Director & Baroque harp
David Ronis – Stage Director
Masterclasses:
Arthur Haas – Keyboard technique
Robert Mealy – Baroque string technique
Patrick O’Brien – Lute technique
Gary Thor Wedow – Special lecture-masterclass: “Verdi to Monteverdi and unbroken tradition: a retrospective look at the early Baroque through 18th and 19th century sources."
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Faculty Bios
As a baroque violin student of Stanley Ritchie at Indiana University, DONGMYUNG AHN performed with the New York Collegium, Apollo’s Fire, and the Bach Ensemble under Joshua Rifkin. Since moving to New York, she has also performed with Concert Royal, Early Music New York, St. Matthew Passion at BAM, the Clarion Music Society, Sinfonia and Opera Omnia She has served as concertmaster for the Greenwich Music Festival’s Greenwich Music Festival’s productions of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Handel’s Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, and Monteverdi’s Il Ritorno d’Ullise. In December of 2008, she was heard playing rebec for The Play of Daniel at the Cloisters. Currently, Dongmyung is pursuing a PhD in musicology at the Graduate Center, CUNY.
ARTHUR HASS is one of the most sought after performers and teachers of Baroque music in the United States today. He received the top prize in the Paris International Harpsichord Competition in 1975 and then stayed in France for a number of years as an active member of the growing European early music scene. He is a member of the Aulos Ensemble one of America’s premier period instrument ensembles whose recordings of Bach, Vivaldi, and Rameau have won critical acclaim in the press. His solo CDs include the Pièces de Clavecin of Jean-Henry D’Anglebert, Suites de Clavecin of Forqueray, music by Purcell and his contemporaries, and a newly released recording of Pièces de Clavecin of Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre and François Couperin. Annual summer workshop and festival appearances include the International Baroque Institute at Longy, and the Amherst Early Music Festival, where he has served as artistic director of the Baroque Academy since 2002. Mr. Haas is professor of harpsichord and early music at Stony Brook University and is also on the faculty at the Mannes College of Music, as well as Juilliard’s new historical performance program.
Soprano ELLEN HARGIS is one of America’s premier early music singers, specializing in repertoire ranging from ballads to opera and oratorio. She has performed with many of the foremost period music conductors of the world including Andrew Parrott, Gustav Leonhardt, Paul Goodwin, Jane Glover, Paul Hillier and Harry Bicket to name a few. She has also performed with many well know ensembles such as the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Teatro Lirico, Tragicomedia, Fretwork, and Mark Morris Dance Group, and has become regular performer with Chicago's Music of the Baroque, and the American Bach Soloists among others. She has appeared at many of the world's leading festivals including the Utrecht Festival (Holland), Festival Vancouver, and Tanglewood, the Berkeley Festival. She has been featured in successive seasons of the Boston Early Music Festival, most recently where she has sung Aeglé in Lully's Thésée which was recorded for CPO and nominated respectively for 2007 and 2006 Grammys.
Ellen Hargis has a longstanding musical partnership with the great lutenist Paul O'Dette with whom she records and tours regularly. Two duo recordings, released in 2005 on the Noyse Productions label: "The Power Of Love" and "A Christmas Album" have been met with critical acclaim. Ms Hargis can also be heard on Harmonia Mundi, and several recordings for BMG Classics, Vanguard Classics, Virgin Classics, Erato, Dorian Classics and Berlin Classics. Her recording of Tristan et Iseult with The Boston Camerata was winner of the Grand Prix du Disque.
Ellen Hargis teaches voice at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, and for The Music Institute of Chicago, and is Artist-in-Residence with the Newberry Consort at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University. Ms. Hargis teaches the annual Vancouver Baroque Vocal Programme: The Compleat Singer each August.
CHRISTA PATTON, an early harp specialist with a particular focus on the repertoire of the early 17th century, has participated in the early opera productions of Monteverdi’s “Ulisse”, “Poppea”, and “L’Orfeo” with the New York City Opera, Opera Vivente, Wolf Trap Opera, Tafelmusik, and Opera Atelier, and in Luigi Rossi’s “Orfeo” with the Toronto Consort. In addition, Christa has appeared as a guest with Apollo’s Fire, Newberry Consort, The King’s Noyse, Blue Heron, Seattle Baroque Orchestra, La Nef, and ARTEK. Also an early wind specialist, Christa is a member of Piffaro the Renaissance Band and has toured throughout the Americas, Europe and Japan with Ex Umbris and New York's Ensemble for Early Music. A former Fulbright scholar, Christa studied the Italian baroque harp at the Civica Scuola di Musica in Milan, Italy with historical harp specialist, Mara Galassi. She can be heard on the Dorian, Lyrachord, and Helicon labels.
DAVID RONIS, has performed over 50 operatic roles with companies in Europe, Asia, and the US. He has appeared as soloist with Musica Sacra, L’Opera Français de New York, the Milwaukee and New Haven Symphonies, and sung early music with Pomerium, Concert Royal, Early Music New York, and on the Music Before 1800 series. He is the director of the Queens College Opera Studio, where his production of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo won first prize in the 2009 National Opera Association Opera Production Competition. He also teaches voice at Hofstra University and Wagner College.
Conductor GARY THOR WEDOW has established an enviable reputation for dramatically exciting and historically informed performances. Returning to New York City Opera for Don Giovanni this season, Mr. Wedow made his NYCO debut conducting Carmen in 1998, following it with Le nozze di Figaro, Patience and Handel’s Xerxes. Recent engagements include Iphigénie en Tauride and Giulio Cesare for Seattle Opera, the St. Matthew Passion for the Berkshire Choral Festival, Il ritorno d’Ulisse at Wolf Trap and the premiere of The Loathly Lady in Philadelphia.
Other assignments this season included Ariodante for the Juilliard Opera Center, Messiah with the Seattle Symphony, Barbiere di Siviglia for Florida Grand Opera, Le nozze di Figaro for Pittsburgh Opera and Zaide for Wolf Trap Opera. Formerly Associate Conductor of Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society, he is a frequent collaborator of counter tenor and Lawrence Lipnik, with whom he has edited several early operas, including Cavalli’s La Calisto and Giasone. Mr. Wedow studied with the renowned piano virtuoso Jorge Bolet and is currently a faculty member of the Juilliard School.
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DATE & TIME:
June 20-26, 2010
PLACE:
Aaron Copland School of Music
Queens College – CUNY
65-30 Kissena Blvd.
Queens
TUITION:Singers ~ $650* Strings and continuo instruments ~ $550* Auditors ~ $35 per day Housing (on-campus double room occupancy) ~ $300 * Scholarships may be availableMore infoMap with nearby restaurants
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Application Deadline: April 25, 2010
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