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Magnificat (World Premiere)
with soloists Khori Dastoor & Juliana Gondek
Flos Campi, by Vaughan Williams
with Paul Coletti, viola soloist
Nänie by Brahms
How Lovely are Thy Dwellings from Brahms Requiem
Combined Angeles Chorale & UCLA Chorale
Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra
Donald Neuen, Conductor
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Paul Coletti has performed over 1500 solo and chamber music concerts in the continents of Europe, North and South America, Asia, and Australia. He has performed at the Sydney Opera house, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Berlin Philharmonie, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center , Il Teatro Colon, and Suntory Hall.
His discography includes over 30 CD's and have won International awards and prizes. Chief among them is Hyperion's much honored ' English Music for Viola'. Released on CD and DVD, Coletti's 'The Last Typhoon' has reached No.1 in the Japan charts. He has directed music videos and collaborated with Star Trek's Leonard Nimoy. His compositions have been heard worldwide and are published by Oxford University Press. On the podium Coletti has conducted the New Japan Philharmonic in Tokyo. As a television personality Coletti is producer of 'The Viola Show' and is a frequent guest on Classical Arts, CNN, and NHK. His radio appearances are heard regularly throughout the world, including the BBC, and National Public Radio. Paul Coletti has been featured in articles in the Strad and Strings. Paul Coletti, born in Edinburgh to Italian parents, has lived in the USA for over 20 years. He studied at the International Menuhin Music Academy with Alberto Lysy, Sandor Vegh and Lord Yehudi Menuhin, and continued at the Banff Center and the Juilliard School in New York with Dorothy Delay and Felix Galimir. He was appointed Head of Strings at the University of Washington at age 25. He has given Master classes on 5 continents. Many of his students have international careers as soloists, professors, orchestra principals, and President of the American Viola Society. After 14 years living in Manhattan, Mr Coletti moved to Los Angeles where he is a teacher at the Colburn School and also Head of Chamber Music at the University of California, UCLA |
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Soprano Juliana Gondek, a native of Pasadena, California, has an international operatic, symphonic, chamber, recital, and recording career, noteworthy for her interpretations of Mozart, Baroque, bel canto, and contemporary repertoire. She has performed with conductors such as Herbert von Karajan, Leonard Bernstein, James Levine, Carlos Kleiber, and Robert Shaw, in leading roles at the Metropolitan Opera, Netherlands Opera, Scottish Opera, San Francisco, Houston, New York City, Dallas, Seattle, Miami, St. Louis, Utah, and Baltimore Operas. She has sung at the Edinburgh Festival, Göttingen and Halle Handel Festivals, Antibe's Bel Canto Festival, Pacific Music Festival (Sapporo, Japan), Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival, and the Avignon, Marlboro, Caramoor, Newport, Bowdoin, and Bard Festivals.
She has created starring roles in several world-premiere operas, such as: "Ela" in David Carlson's Dreamkeepers, the triple role of "Dianne Feinstein/Harvey's Mama/Hooker" in Stewart Wallace/Michael Korie's Harvey Milk, the title role in Stewart Wallace/Michael Korie's Hopper's Wife, "Sabina" in David Diamond's The Noblest Game, and "Gertrude Stein" in Jonathan Sheffer's Blood on the Dining Room Floor. She has also performed the leading soprano roles in Leonard Bernstein's A Quiet Place and Bright Sheng's The Song of Majnun, and is a frequent soloist with major North American and European orchestras. |
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Soprano Khori Dastoor is currently pursuing doctoral studies at UCLA after graduating with honors from the New England Conservatory of Music. Ms. Dastoor made her professional debut with Boston’s Publick Theatre as Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance, and made her international concert debut performing as the featured soloist with the Presidential Philharmonic Orchestra in Ankara, Turkey.
Next season, Ms. Dastoor will join Opera San Jose as resident artist where she will perform the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor, Pamina in Die Zauberflote, Sophie in Werther, and Gilda in Rigoletto.
Khori has performed leading rôles for the community programs division of the Los Angeles Opera for four seasons, and recently performed the rôle of “Sophie de Palma” in the critically acclaimed revival of Terrence McNally’s Master Class at the Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara. Other favorite rôles include the title rôle in Lakmé, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Suor Genovieffa in Suor Angelica, and Maria in West Side Story.
A champion of new music, Ms. Dastoor created the rôle of La Novia in the world premiere of Lorca: Child of the Moon at the Freud Playhouse and also recently originated the title rôle in the world premiere of The Tree at the Los Angeles Theatre Center. She will also appear as the lead soloist in the world premiere of Paul Chihara’s Magnificat with the Angeles Choral and Debut Orchestra the June in Royce Hall.
She recently performed as Gretel in a production of Humperdinck’s masterpiece Hansel und Gretel with the California Philharmonic and appeared in recital with the Rio Hondo Symphony, Los Angeles Mozart Orchestra Chamber Series, and the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble.
Additional recent engagements include a performance of Handel’s Messiah with the Angeles Chorale and the American Youth Symphony, the rôle of Miss Wordsworth in Albert Herring at the Aspen Music Festival under the baton of Maestro Robert Spano of the Atlanta Symphony,as well as an appearance on KMOZART”S “Sundays Live” Chamber Series broadcast from Bing Theatre at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Upcoming engagements include an appearance as Gabrielle in Offenbach’s La vie Parisienne with Lake George Opera, as well as a spring recital with mezzo-soprano Suzanna Guzmàn.
Khori was this season’s third place winner at the Western Region Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and has won the Carol Burnett Award, the Pasadena Opera Guild Vocal Competition, the Glendale Symphony Orchestra Young Artists Competition, the Pasadena Fine Arts Club competition, and is a recipient of merit awards from Aspen Opera Theatre, the Opera Buffs of Los Angeles, the Royal Academy of Music in London, the National Association of Teachers of Singing, the Young Musicians Foundation, the Palm Springs Opera Guild, the Elaine Krown Klein Scholars Foundation, and the Gluck Foundation. |
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