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CONCERT: Magnificat & More ... |
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Saturday, June 11, 2005, 8:00 p.m.
Royce Hall, UCLA
With UCLA Chorale and the
American Youth Symphony
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Soprano
Erin Wood “has dramatic soprano potential written all over
her” according to John von Rhein of the Chicago Tribune. “Wood
unleashed a volcanic outpouring of sound that was thrilling to
behold… The voice is steady, alluring and true”.
It is easy to see why Ms. Wood is in demand with the nation’s
top opera houses.
Ms. Wood is a graduate of the Lyric
Opera of Chicago’s
prestigious Center for American Artists .In the fall of 2002,
Wood was asked to step in for an ailing Deborah Voigt as
Sieglinde/Die Walküre with Lyric Opera to fantastic
success. With Lyric Opera, Wood has also been seen as Lisa/The
Queen of Spades, Berta/Il Barbiere di Siviglia, First Nursemaid/Street
Scene, Mrs. Gleaton/Susannah, Ortlinde/Die Walküre,
Lady-in waiting/ Macbeth and was a featured artist in the
company’s first-ever free concert at Grant Park. She
has been featured with the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago (singing
Wagner’s “Träume”), Opera Grand Rapids
(as Lisa/The Queen of Spades), Music Academy of the West
(as Lady Billows/Albert Herring), Opera Pacific (as Mary/Der
fliegende Hollaender), the Grant Park and Ravinia Music Festivals,
Palm Springs Opera in the Park, as well as the Milwaukee
and Lake Forest Symphonies. Ms. Wood has been seen in recital
in Chicago for the Dame Myra Hess Foundation and in New York
with the Marilyn Horne Foundation.
Ms. Wood feels fortunate to have
worked with some of today’s
most sought after conductors- including Sir Andrew Davis,
Julius Rudel, John DeMain, Randall Behr, Robert Lyall, Asher
Fisch, Richard Buckley, Daniel Beckwith, Victor DeRenzi,
Bruno Bartoletti, David Alan Miller and Andreas Delfs. Last
season, Erin was given the opportunity to sing the final
dress rehearsal of Cavalleria Rusticana under the baton of
Maestro Marco Armiliato for the San Francisco Opera when
Andrea Gruber was indisposed.
She received her Bachelors and Masters degrees from UCLA
where she is now completing her doctoral dissertation. Before
becoming a soprano she sang mezzo leads in many UCLA Opera
productions and choral works; previously with Maestro Neuen,
Ms. Wood was soloist for Elijah, The Passion According to
St. John and the Durufle Requiem.
Ms. Wood is a winner of the 2000
George London/Kirsten Flagstad Award from the George London
Foundation. Other awards include
the Rose M. Grundman Prize from the Union League Civic and
Arts Foundation, the Edith Newfield Prize from Chicago’s
Musician’s Club of Women, Third Prize in the Metropolitan
Central Region Finals, Palm Springs Opera Guild First Prize
Winner and Lee Schaenen Foundation and Liberace Foundation
scholarships.
Highlights of the 2004-2005 season
include Beethoven’s
Ninth Symphony with Pacific Symphony, and engagements with
the Metropolitan Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago, including
Aida and their 50th Anniversary Ring Cycle.
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Mezzo
Soprano Cynthia Jansen is
Praised equally for her "lively dramatic range" (Financial
Times) and her "beautifully even, fluid voice" (Columbus
Dispatch), mezzo-soprano Cynthia Jansen is quickly making her
mark on the operatic stage in roles ranging from sultry leading
ladies to scene-stealing supporting characters, and on the
concert stage in repertoire ranging from Handel's Messiah to
Verdi's Requiem.
In the 2004-05 season, Ms. Jansen
will make her European concert debut with the Helsinki
Philharmonic and Lisbon's
Gulbenkian Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Lawrence
Foster in Berstein's Symphony No. 1 "Jeremiah".
She will also be featured as Carmen with the New West Symphony
and as the alto soloist in Verdi's Requiem with the Angeles
Chorale. Her engagements in the 2003-04 season included Nicklausse
in Les Contes d'Hoffmann with Tulsa Opera, Handel's Messiah
with the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Carlotta in Die Schweigsame
Frau with Long Beach Opera, and the Duenna in a workshop
of David DiChiera's Cyrano de Bergerac with Opera Pacific.
Recent operatic engagements have
included the title role in La Périchole with Long Beach Opera, her debut as
Carmen with Mobile Opera, Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream
with England's Aldeburgh Festival, Maddalena in Rigoletto
with Opera Columbus, Nicklausse in Les Contes d'Hoffmann
with Fort Worth Opera, Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana with
the Columbus Symphony, the Page in Salome with the Savonlinna
Festival in Finland, and the Third Maid in Elektra with Long
Beach Opera. Recent concert engagements have included excerpts
from Carmen with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Dvorák's
Stabat Mater with the Pacific Chorale, Beethoven's Symphony
No. 9 with the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra, Beethoven's
Missa Solemnis with the Angeles Chorale, Handel's Messiah
with the Fresno Philharmonic, and Verdi's Requiem with the
Modesto Symphony, Redlands Symphony, and Angeles Chorale.
Ms. Jansen is a former member of
the prestigious Los Angeles Opera Resident Artist Program,
where she performed the roles
of Tisbe in La Cenerentola, Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro,
Siébel in Faust, and the High Priestess in Aida. She
was also featured in the Peter Hemmings Farewell Gala singing
Octavian in the final trio and duet of Der Rosenkavalier
with Carol Vaness and Gwendolyn Bradley. She has made subsequent
appearances with Los Angeles Opera as Second Lady in Die
Zauberflöte and Antonia's Mother in Les Contes d'Hoffmann.
A native of Southern California, Ms. Jansen earned her Bachelor
and Master degrees in music from the University of Southern
California. She received additional training in San Francisco
Opera's Merola Opera Program where she performed Maddalena
in Rigoletto, and as a member of Glimmerglass Opera's Young
American Artist Program where she created the role of the
Elderly Woman in Robert Beaser's Food of Love. This production
of Food of Love was televised nationally on PBS and is one
of three operas comprising Central Park. In 2000 Ms. Jansen
was a national semi-finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National
Council Auditions and a finalist in the Loren L. Zachary
Society National Vocal Competition. |
Tenor
Daniel Tae Suk was raised in very musical atmosphere in Los Angeles. His father was an opera singer and his mother was a classical pianist. Daniel did not take singing seriously until rather late. He went to Italy when he was 23 years old and was accepted into Conservatory of Music at Mantova, Italy with full scholarship. He trained there as a baritone. During his final year of school he met the celebrated tenor Gastone Limarilli who had studied with the famous voice teacher Arturo Melocchi. Daniel then began his study to raise his vocal range to that of a tenor.
Mr. Suk made his debut as a tenor at various opera houses in Northern Italy in 1998 singing Tosca, Carmen, La Traviata, Rigoletto, Isola al Cina, Il Tabbaro, Don Giovanni, and many concerts. In 1999 he toured Italy under the auspices of the Lions Club and joined Teatro di Verona and L’Opera Laboratorio di Veneto as a resident artist. In 2004 Daniel toured California with the Welsh Chorale, directed by Grammy and Emmy winning composer Michael J. Lewis. Daniel was a winner of the Verona Opera competition, Opera Reading Club competition, Italian Cultural Association singing competition, and the Bel Canto Scholarship Competition.
Daniel was acclaimed as one of the most beautiful voices of out time by baritone Giorgio Zancanaro, Soprano Ghena Dimitrova and various critics in Italy . He is a true bel canto singer with a strong foundation in Italian tradition and culture.
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Bass
In Joon Jang is
a native of Korea, received a Bachelor of Music in piano performance at Kye-Myung
University in Korea. He earned his Master of Music in voice
degree in 1999 at UCLA, where he is currently completing a D.
M. A. program. With Opera UCLA, he has sung the roles of Mr.
Director and Presto in Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tiresias, Simone
in Gianni Schicchi, Olin Blitch in Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah,
Nardo in Mozart’s
La Finta Giardiniera and the title role of Don Giovanni at Royce
Hall. He has also sung the role of Bonzo in Puccini’s Madama
Butterfly with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl
and Schaunard in the student matinee performances of La Boheme
with the Los Angeles Opera. Mr. Jang was first place winner in
the Loren L. Zachary Society National Vocal Competition, the Metrolopitan
Opera National Council Western Regional Auditions 2002 and Licia
Albanese-Puccini Foundation Vocal Competetion. He joined the San
Francisco Opera’s Merola Program in 2002.
In April 2003, he was a finalist for
the Metropolitan Opera National Council in the Grand Final
Auditions in New York City. His oratorio credits include Bach’s
Magnificat, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, Beethoven’s Symphony #9,
Haydn’s Third Mass (The Imperial), Mozart’s Requiem, Handel’s
Messiah and Puccini’s Messa de Gloria. Mr.
Jang’s most recent appearance was in June 2004 in Mendelssohn’s Elijah
where he sang the title role to great acclaim. “ In Joon Jang, an impressive
baritone of seemingly fathomelss talent and tone, whose voice filled Royce Hall
with passion and persuasion”. |
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