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Musicians in the Bach, Three Cantatas
concerts
November 20-21, 2010
Trevor Stephenson, harpsichordist
and artistic director of the Madison Bach Musicians received a DMA
in Historical Performance of 18th-C. Music from Cornell University.
With his colleague, Norman Sheppard, he has rebuilt and customized
a series of historical keyboard instruments ranging from Italian
Renaissance harpsichords to Victorian pianos. He has released twelve
recordings on the Light & Shadow label, and tours throughout
the United States as performer and lecturer. His harpsichord was
made in 1997 by Norman Sheppard of Madison; it is modeled on a late
17th-C. Dutch instrument by Couchet.
Soprano:
Rachel Edie Warrick joined the Madison Bach Musicians in 2006. Rachel
has been a soloist throughout the Midwest in Handel's Messiah and
Alexander's Feast, Bach's B Minor Mass, Magnificat, and St. Matthew
Passion, Mozart's Vespers, and Respighi's Laud to the Nativity.
In the Madison area, Rachel has performed with Opera for the Young
and Madison Opera. Rachel holds Vocal Performance degrees with honors
from the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music and the University
of Michigan. Rachel is a private voice instructor in Madison, where
she lives with her husband, Jay and daughter, Clara.
Praised by the Chicago Sun-Times for her
“glowing, pure line,” soprano Amy Conn is in demand
as an intelligent and communicative artist. Recent performances
include Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610, Mozart’s Mass
in C Minor, Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri, Purcell’s
King Arthur, Bach’s Mass in B Minor, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater,
and Haydn’s Creation. In 2010 she was a finalist in the NY
Oratorio Society’s 34th Annual Competition and was a winner
of Milwaukee’s Bel Canto Chorus Artist’s Competition.
Also in 2010, Amy covered the role of Isifile in Cavalli’s
Giasone with Chicago Opera Theater.
Alto:
Consuelo Sañudo has sung with Sequentia,
Weser Renaissance, Las Huelgas Ensemble, and Bonnen, as well as
performing solo stage work (title role, Arianna by Alexander Goehr,
Speranza in L'Orfeo by Monteverdi) and oratorio in Germany. She
has sung at the Moscow Alternativa and at the Frank Zappa Festival
(Brussels Radio). She performs with the Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble,
Madison Bach Musicians and Cecilia Singers. In 2009 she sang the
premiere of David Dies' opera Hills like White Elephants. She has
just finished a series of solo recitals in Madison.
Jessica Lee Timman, mezzo-soprano, is an active performer and teacher
based in Madison, Wisconsin. She has performed numerous principal
roles, supporting roles and chorus work in over 25 operatic productions
with The Florentine Opera, Madison Opera, Opera for the Young, Music
by the Lake, Stoughton Opera, Milwaukee Opera Theatre, and UW Opera.
Jessica earned a DMA and MM in Voice Performance from the University
of Wisconsin-Madison and a BME in Choral Education from the University
of Wisconsin- Eau Claire.
Tenor:
Peter Gruett is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin where
he studied voice with James Doing. He is an active soloist and ensemble
singer in the Madison area where, in addition to the Madison Bach
Musicians, he has been featured with the UW – Madrigal Singers,
the choir of the First Unitarian Society of Madison and the Festival
Choir of Madison.
George Abbott graduated with a double major
of a BA in Music and a BS in Math from the University of North Texas.
He has 18 years of choral experience starting with the Children's
Chorus of San Antonio at age nine. After graduating from UNT, he
taught middle school math in Dallas ISD for one year before attending
Texas A&M to get his MS in Chemical Engineering. Other choral
groups he has been in include the Texas All-State Choir, Canticum
Novum and Chamber Choir of Denton TX. He studied voice under Richard
Croft in his final two years at UNT.
Bass:
Nathan Krueger holds degrees from the University
of Wisconsin Oshkosh, the University of New Mexico and is currently
finishing a Doctorate at the University of Arizona. Mr. Krueger
served on the Voice faculty at UW Oshkosh, and is currently a member
of the Milwaukee Florentine Opera and Chicago Lyric Opera Supplementary
choruses. Mr. Krueger has sung with the Santa Fe Opera, Santa Fe
Desert Chorale, Arizona Opera Chorus, the Tucson Chamber Artists,
Arizona Opera, L'opera Piccola in Chicago, Opera Southwest, and
Chicago Chamber Opera.
As a performer, Jerry (Chiwei) Hui is at
home with both early and contemporary music. Currently the director
of “Eliza's Toyes”, a Madison-based vocal sextet specializing
in early music, Mr. Hui has also performed extensively on the West
Coast with groups such as the Albany Consort and San Francisco Renaissance
Voices. He conducts and sings new and rare works; recent performances
include Peter Maxwell Davies' theatrical Eight Songs for a Mad King.
An award-winning composer, his music has been performed in the United
States, Germany, France, Indonesia and Hong Kong.
Baroque Violin:
Kangwon Lee Kim is a versatile violinist
with repertoire ranging from baroque to 21st century using both
baroque and modern violins. She has given solo and chamber recitals
throughout the U.S. and in Korea, Canada, Puerto Rico, Switzerland,
and Norway. Dr. Kim has recorded for the Deutsche Harmonia Mundi
and CRI labels. She has performed with the Smithsonian Chamber Players
and Concerto Soloists Chamber Orchestra and collaborated with world-renowned
musicians Menahem Pressler and Laurence Lesser. Dr. Kim earned her
Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
and holds degrees from the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music,
the Manhattan School of Music, and Temple University.
Violinist Edith Hines performs frequently
on both Baroque and modern versions of her instrument in such groups
as the Bach Collegium Fort Wayne, violin/keyboard duo Ensemble SDG,
Madison Bach Musicians, Madison Symphony Orchestra, and Wisconsin
Chamber Orchestra. She is adjunct instructor of violin and viola
at Ripon College and directs an early music ensemble through the
University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Continuing Studies.
Edith has studied modern violin with David Updegraff, Donald Weilerstein,
and David Perry and has had coaching in historical performance from
Julie Andrijeski, Robert Mealy, and others.
Baroque Viola:
Marika Fischer Hoyt concertizes extensively
on both modern and baroque viola. In addition to her work with the
Madison Bach Musicians, she plays principal viola with the period-instrument
Bach Collegium of Fort Wayne, IN. On modern viola, she is a member
of the Madison Symphony Orchestra, and a founding member of the
critically-acclaimed Ancora String Quartet. Marika earned her B.A.
from Smith College and her M.M. from Indiana University. She also
studied several years at the Mannes College of Music in New York
and at the Musikhochschule in Hamburg, Germany.
Christine Liu is a recent graduate from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison where
she earned a Doctorate in Musical Arts with a minor in business.
She holds a Masters
degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and a Bachelors
degree from
UW-Madison. Her teachers include Sally Chisholm, Felicia Moye, Jodi
Levitz, Vartan
Manoogian, and Darcy Drexler. Enjoying both chamber and orchestral
playing, she
has played with several orchestras including Monterey Symphony,
Vallejo Symphony
and Madison Symphony. She currently works for the Wisconsin Chamber
Orchestra as
Personnel Manager and Orchestra Librarian.
Baroque Cello:
Anton TenWolde (cello) was born in the Netherlands
where he studied with Sylvain van Amerongen, cellist with the The
Hague Philharmonic Orchestra (Residentie Orkest). While earning
his degree in Applied Physics at the Delft University of Technology
in the Netherlands, Anton performed with Ton Koopman, and toured
with the Netherlands Student Chamber Orchestra and the Netherlands
Student Baroque Orchestra. In 1973 he moved to Madison, Wisconsin,
where he worked for 28 years as a Research Physicist and Project
Leader at the Forest Products Laboratory. For many years he played
principal cello with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra. He is a founding
member of the Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble, and is a member of Con
Vivo! a Madison chamber music group, and regularly performs with
the Fort Wayne Bach Collegium.
Double Bass:
Rose Gear began her double bass studies at
the age of 12, and has since performed with Madison Symphony Orchestra,
Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, and UW-Madison Chamber Orchestra in
addition to appearances with Madison Bach Musicians. Her teachers
include Rosemary Poetzel, Ross Gilliland, Mark Urness, and Laura
Snyder. In 2005 Rose performed with Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra
during their Eastern European tour to Austria, Hungary, and the
Czeck Republic. Rose also enjoys guest appearances as a tango bassist
with Quinteto Yzafa, a local tango ensemble.
Recorder:
With BM and MM in flute from Indiana University
and Diploma in recorder from The Royal Conservatory of The Hague,
Lisette Kielson has performed to acclaim in both the United States
and Europe. Artistic director of L'Ensemble Portique, Lisette has
signed with Centaur Records and will release CDs of Bach and Boismortier
this year. Lisette directs the Collegium Musicum at Bradley University,
teaches on the faculty of the Whitewater Early Music Festival, and
leads workshops throughout the country. She serves as President
and board member of the American Recorder Society.
Hailed as “distinguished” by
the Chicago Tribune, Patrick O'Malley has performed across the US
and Europe. He is on the faculty of the Music Institute of Chicago
and is a registered Suzuki Method recorder teacher. Patrick runs
a private studio and teaches remote students via video conference
at PatrickRecorder.com. He earned a Master of Music degree in recorder
from Indiana University, studying with Eva Legêne. Under a
Netherlands Fulbright Fellowship, he studied with Han Tol at the
Rotterdam Conservatory.
Viola da Gamba:
Russell Wagner began his studies in early
music performance with Ben Bechtel at the College Conservatory of
Music in Cincinnati. He is a frequent performer in Chicago’s
early music community including appearances with The Newberry Consort,
Bella Voce, the Catacoustic Consort (Cincinnati), Spirit of Gambo,
a Chicago Consort of Viols, and Chicago Early Music Consort. Wagner
is a leading restorer of cellos in this country, working from his
studio, Chicago Celloworks.
Phillip W. Serna performs on viols with Ars
Antigua, Duo fantaisie en Echo, the Newberry Consort, the Spirit
of Gambo, et al. Appearing across the country as a pedagogue and
recitalist, Phillip performs works old and new, including concerti
with various orchestras. Phillip is the music director of Viols
in Our Schools, Early Music America’s Outreach Award recipient
of 2010. Additionally, he is instructor of double bass and viol
at Valparaiso University. Phillip holds a Bachelors degree from
the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and Master and Doctoral
degrees from Northwestern University.
Roster of Performers in the St.
Matthew Passion
April 2008
Conductor: Ching-Chun Lai
Evangelist: Stephen Noon
Jesus: Samus Haddad
Mimmi Fulmer, soprano
Choir I
Soprano
Rachel Edie Warrick
Emily Whelan
Alto
Consuelo Sañudo
Bridget Duffy
Tenor
Peter Gruett
Jim Nichols
Bass
Matthew Tintes
Scott Johnson
Orchestra I
Baroque Violin I
Kangwon Kim
Brandi Berry
Baroque Violin II
Eleanor Bartsch
Rolf Wulfsberg
Baroque Viola
Marika Fischer Hoyt
Christine Liu
Baroque Cello
Anton TenWolde
Bass
Ross Gilliland
Baroque Oboe
Stanley King
Curtis Foster
Baroque Flute
Janet Hathaway
Rebecca Meier Rao
Baroque Bassoon
Julia Marion
Organ continuo
Trevor Stephenson
Choir II
Soprano
Emily Fink
Kristin Schwecke
Alto
Lon Ellenberger
Jessica Lee Timman
Tenor
Bruce Gladstone
Ryan Veillet
Bass
Paul Rowe
Codrut Birsan
Orchestra II
Baroque Violin I
Edith Hines
Wendy Adams
Baroque Violin II
Rachel Hauser
Jakob Hansen
Baroque Viola
Katrin Talbot
Nick Jeffrey
Baroque Cello & Viola da gamba
Eric Miller
Bass
Nils Berg-Olsen
Baroque Oboe
Ivar Lunde
Ellen Rider
Baroque Flute
Beth Bryngelson
Janna Stauffer
Harpsichord continuo
Max Yount
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Trevor Stephenson,
harpsichordist and artistic director of the Madison Bach Musicians
received a DMA in Historical Performance of 18th-C. Music from Cornell
University. With his colleague, Norman Sheppard, he has rebuilt
and customized a series of historical keyboard instruments ranging
from Italian Renaissance harpsichords to Victorian pianos. He has
released twelve recordings on the Light & Shadow label, and
tours throughout the United States as performer and lecturer. His
harpsichord was made in 1997 by Norman Sheppard of Madison; it is
modeled on a late 17th-C. Dutch instrument by Couchet.
Kangwon Lee Kim is a versatile violinist with
repertoire ranging from baroque to 21st century using both baroque
and modern violins. She has given solo and chamber recitals throughout
the U.S. and in Korea, Canada, Puerto Rico, Switzerland, and Norway.
Dr. Kim has recorded for the Deutsche Harmonia Mundi and CRI labels,
and live recordings of her performances have been heard on National
Public Radio, WFLN in Philadelphia, and Wisconsin Public Radio.
She has performed with the Smithsonian Chamber Players and Concerto
Soloists Chamber Orchestra and collaborated with world-renowned
musicians including Menahem Pressler and Laurence Lesser.
Dr. Kim earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University
of Wisconsin-Madison. She holds degrees from the Oberlin College
Conservatory of Music, the Manhattan School of Music, and Temple
University. From 2006 to 2008, Dr. Kim was an assistant professor
in violin and chamber music at Biola University in California. During
the summer, Dr. Kim teaches at Credo summer chamber music festival
at Oberlin College.
Edith Hines recently received the DMA degree in
violin performance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where
she held a Paul Collins Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship.
She performs frequently around Madison on baroque and modern violins,
in such groups as the Madison Bach Musicians, Wisconsin Baroque
Ensemble, Madison Symphony Orchestra, and Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra.
An active chamber musician, she has participated in the Norfolk,
Yellow Barn, and Ravinia festivals and has toured the U. S. and
Japan with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Edith has studied modern
violin with David Updegraff, Donald Weilerstein, and David Perry,
and has had coaching in historical performance from Julie Andrijeski,
Robert Mealy, John Chappell Stowe, and others.
Eleanor Bartsch began her violin studies at the
age of four with Ellen Kim as a part of the Northern Lights Suzuki
School in St. Paul, MN. Continuing her studies with Young Nam Kim,
Eleanor was a winner of the Minnesota Youth Symphonies Concerto
Competition. She has participated in masterclasses with Robert Mann
of the Juilliard School and Joseph Silverstein, among others. Eleanor
attended the Aspen Music Festival this past summer, studying with
Paul Kantor of the Cleveland Institute of Music, and David Perry
of the University of Wisconsin.
This season, Eleanor will perform four of Mozart’s violin
and fortepiano sonatas in a collaboration with Trevor Stephenson
of the Madison Bach Musicians. In addition to the M.B.M, Eleanor
frequently performs with the University of Wisconsin Contemporary
Chamber Ensemble. An avid chamber musician, she is a member of the
Perlman Piano Trio, and enjoys playing with her string quartet.
She recently began her first season as a member of the Madison Symphony
Orchestra. Eleanor is currently a student at the University of Wisconsin
School of Music under the tutelage of David Perry.
Edmond Chan, born in Corpus Christi, attended
The University of North Texas where he received his Bachelor of
Science in Biochemistry. Edmond started playing violin at age 3
and has performed with various orchestras and ensembles in Colorado,
Illinois, Pennsylvania, Texas, Vermont, Wisconsin and Germany. Edmond
was the first prize winner in the strings division at the Corpus
Christi Young Artists Preparatory Competition and also received
third prize in the piano division while in high school. As an exchange
student in Germany Edmond was a member of the Schleswig-Holstein
Kammer Orchester and studied violin in Hamburg with Stefan Maus.
During his college career, Edmond was a member of the UNT Symphony
Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra, Opera Orchestra and Baroque Orchestra.
He was also a soloist and lead violinist with the UNT Baroque Orchestra.
Edmond has participated in master classes held by Gregory Fulkerson,
Andrew Jennings, Henry Ruben, Fredel Lack, Stephen Clapp, Emlyn
Ngai and Bruce Dickey and has recently performed at the Boston Early
Music Festival, Madison Early Music Festival and is a member of
the Madison Bach Musicians and the Philadelphia baroque orchestra,
Tempesta di Mare. While at UNT Edmond was under the tutelage of
Julia Bushkova and Cynthia Roberts. He is currently a student of
David Douglass.
Rolf Wulfsberg, violin, is a member of the Madison
Symphony Orchestra and also performs Scandinavian folk music on
violin and Hardanger fiddle. A freelance music engraver, he is presently
working on the preparation of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: The Complete
Works, published by The Packard Humanities Institute.
Marika Fischer Hoyt concertizes extensively on
both modern and baroque viola. She’s a member of the Madison
Symphony Orchestra, and the violist and manager of the Ancora String
Quartet. On baroque viola, Marika performs with the Madison Bach
Musicians, The Bach Collegium of Fort Wayne, IN and the Wisconsin
Baroque Ensemble. Before moving to Madison in 1999 Marika played
with many orchestras and chamber ensembles around the country, including
the Richmond, VA, Charleston, WV and Des Moines, IA Symphonies.
Marika graduated Cum Laude from Smith College with a B.A. in Music,
and earned her M.Mus. in Viola Performance at Indiana University.
Her musical training also includes years at the Hochschule für
Musik in Hamburg, Germany, the Mannes College of Music in New York
City, and Indiana's Early Music Institute, where she studied with
Stanley Ritchie. Marika spent five summers at the Yellow Barn Chamber
Music Festival in Putney, VT, being coached by faculty from New
England Conservatory, and three summers (so far) at the Madison
Early Music Festival, studying with David Douglass and Julie Andrijeski.
A firm believer that musicians should be as diverse as possible,
Christine Liu is currently pursuing a Doctorate
in Musical Arts in viola performance with a minor in business at
the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She holds a Masters degree
in viola from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and a Bachelors
degree in violin performance from UW-Madison.
In 2002, Ms. Liu moved to Shanghai, China for one year where she
taught general music to grades 1-10 at the SMIC Private School.
Upon returning to the United States, she joined forces with the
dark side and began pursuing the viola. She has performed for such
artists as Pamela Frank, Robert Mann, the Brentano Quartet, and
Pinchas Zucherman. Enjoying both chamber and orchestral playing,
she has been a member of several orchestras including the Vallejo
Symphony, Monterey Symphony, and Madison Symphony Orchestra. Her
teachers include Sally Chisholm, Felicia Moye, Jodi Levitz, Vartan
Manoogian, and Darcy Drexler.
Anton Tenwolde (cello) was born in the Netherlands,
where he studied with Sylvain van Amerongen, cellist with the The
Hague Philharmonic Orchestra (Residentie Orkest). While earning
his degree in Applied Physics at the Delft University of Technology
in the Netherlands, Anton performed with Ton Koopman, and toured
with the Netherlands Student Chamber Orchestra and the Netherlands
Student Baroque Orchestra. In 1973 he moved to Madison, Wisconsin,
where he worked for 28 years as a Research Physicist and Project
Leader at the Forest Products Laboratory. For many years he played
principal cello with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra. He is a founding
member of the Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble, and is a member of Con
Vivo! a Madison chamber music group.
Ross Gilliland is a member of
the Madison Symphony Orchestra, and serves as principal bass in
the UW Chamber Orchestra. Ross performs chamber music regularly
with faculty at UW-Madison, with the Madison-based ensemble Con
Vivo, and has appeared annually for four years at the Token Creek
Chamber Music Festival. He has degrees in physics and music from
UW-Madison. Ross spends his Summers entertaining America's youth
in his ska band.
Rose Gear began her doublebass studies at the
age of 12, and has since performed with Madison Symphony Orchestra,
Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, and UW-Madison Chamber Orchestra in
addition to apperarences with Madison Bach Musicians. Her teachers
include Rosemary Poetzel, Ross Gilliland, Mark Urness, and Laura
Snyder. In 2005 Rose performed with Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra
during their Eastern European tour to Austria, Hungary, and the
Czeck Republic. Rose also enjoys guest appearences as a tango bassist
with Quinteto Yzafa, a local tango ensemble.
Julia Marion recently graduated with a Bachelor
of Music in bassoon performance from the University of Wisconsin
at Madison where she studied with Marc Vallon. Julia’s interest
in period bassoons has led her to play in a variety of chamber ensembles
and orchestras including the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute,
where she studied with Micheal McCraw, and the Jeune Orchestre Atlantique
in Saintes, France, where she performed Romantic period orchestral
works on a nineteenth century bassoon. For her modern bassoon playing,
Julia was recently named a co-winner of the 2008 Irving Shain Woodwind/Piano
Duo Competition and this summer was invited to participate as a
Young Artist in the Manchester Music Festival of Manchester, Vermont.
Julia is fascinated by the challenges and opportunities period instruments
pose to the modern bassoonist and plans to pursue a career in modern
and period instruments in the future.
Mimmi Fulmer performs repertoire ranging from
early music to premieres of works written for her. She has been
featured soloist at festivals around the nation, including Aspen
and Bang on a Can, and in concerts at the Kennedy Center, CAMI Hall,
and the Walker Art Center. Her solo CD of 20th-century music, "About
Time" (Centaur Records), was called "a gratifying testimony
to…composers in America" by Opera News online, and "a
spectacular show" by American Record Guide. She can also be
heard on the CRI label in works of Edward Cone, the Innova label
in works of Hans Sturm, and the Centaur label in music by Joseph
Dubiel.
She is Professor of Voice and Associate Director of Opera at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison, where her work has been recognized
with both the Vilas Associate and Chancellor's Awards. In 2005,
she premiered a one-woman, multi-media opera, “Mirror Story”
at the University of Michigan. She recently appeared as guest soloist
with the Beloit College Masterworks Chorus and gave a recital and
master class at UW-Green Bay. Upcoming performances include concerts
with the Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble and the Madison Bach Musicians,
an international conference at Princeton University on the music
of Edward Cone, and the release in 2008 of her CD with flutist Leone
Buyse, “American Voices”.
Consuelo Sanudo, mezzo-soprano,
lived and performed in Germany for 9 years.
Highlights include the title role of Arianna, an opera by Alexander
Goehr at its German premiere, the Young Singer/Octavian in Liebe
Tod Kaiserwalzer by Ju(umlaut) rgen Schirrmacher, a theater piece
for two singers, an actor and a video camera, and concerts in Europe
as a concert and oratorio soloist as well as Lieder recitals.
She has sung with Sequentia, Las Huelgas Ensemble, Karta(umlaut)user
Kantorei and BONNEN, with which she went on tour in Russia through
the Goethe Institut, and her most recent recording was for Volker
Staub's Suarogate, for solo vocal quartet and instruments.
After returning to the USA she has continued to perform: Reflections
on the French Baroque, a program with music of Delalande, Monteclair,
Satie, Hahn and others, at the Austin Music Festival, and regular
engagements as a soloist in the Madison area.
Matthew Tintes, Bass-baritone, recently completed
his Master of Music degree at the University of Wisconsin- Madison,
receiving his Master’s in Vocal Performance, with an emphasis
in Opera. Tintes originally hails from Fargo, North Dakota. He received
his degree in Vocal Music Education from North Dakota State University,
and proceeded to teach Junior High and High School choir. At UW
Madison, Tintes sang the role of Leporello in “Don Giovanni”,
Arkel in “Pelleas et Melisande” and Don Pasquale in
“Don Pasquale”. Tintes currently teaches voice at Beloit
College and teaches voice in and around Madison. In 2009, Tintes
will be singing with Madison’s “Opera for the Young”,
touring Wisconsin and educating kids about Opera and music.
Baritone Samus Haddad, a New York native, is very
happy to join his first performance with the Madison Bach Musicians.
He recently finished his masters degree in opera performance at
UW-Madison under the tutelage of Paul Rowe, and is now a professor
of voice at St. Norbert college in De Pere, WI. He spent the summer
as an apprentice artist with the Central City Opera company in Colorado,
and is looking forward to working with Sarasota Opera in Florida
this coming spring. Most recent credits include Elder Bat McLean
(Susannah - Central City), The Ferryman (Curlew River - Central
City), Dr. Malatesta (Don Pasquale - UW Madison), Golaud (Pelleas
et Melisande - UW Madison), and John Brooke (Little Women - Stoughton
Opera). He would like to thank Shauna for all of her incredible
love and support.
Rachel Edie Warrick joined the Madison Bach Musicians
in 2006. Rachel has been a soloist throughout the Midwest in Handel's
Messiah and Alexander's Feast, Bach's B Minor Mass and Magnificat,
Mozart's Vespers, and Respighi's Laud to the Nativity. She has an
avid interest in early music, and has been a faculty member at the
Madison Early Music Festival, a member of the early music ensemble
Vox, and a scholarship recipient at the Baroque Vocal Programme
in Vancouver, BC. Favorite roles include Rosina in Rossini’s
The Barber of Seville, Cherubino in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro,
and La Ciesca in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi. She has toured with
Opera for the Young and Motor City Lyric Opera. Rachel holds Vocal
Performance degrees with honors from the Lawrence University Conservatory
of Music and the University of Michigan. Rachel is a private voice
instructor in Madison, where she lives with her husband, Jay and
daughter, Clara.
Joseph Testa is both a singer and conductor. He
has sung professionally with two-time Emmy nominee Conspirare (based
in Austin, TX), and is currently the Artistic Director/Conductor
for Capital Choral Musicians which he founded in 2008. Testa graduated
from the University of Arizona ('94) with a DMA in Choral Conducting,
Voice and Theory and has studied with Edwin Fissinger, Frank Pooler,
Maurice Skones and Kenneth Jennings.
Bridget Duffy, a senior at UW-Madison, is a mezzo-soprano
studying voice with Professor Mimmi Fulmer as part of her Choral
& General Music Education degree. Bridget's theatrical experiences
include Carousel (Julie Jordan), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
(Milly), Mame (Agnes Gooch), Up the Down Staircase (Sylvia Barrett,
Bea Schachter), Oliver!, Inherit the Wind. Bridget is the choir
director and pianist The Crossing Campus Ministry and is a member
of the UW Concert Choir, Madrigal Singers, and Women's Chorus. In
college she has been in the choruses of UW Opera’s L’enfant
et les sortileges, Pelléas et Mélisande, and Don Giovanni.
In addition to her accompanying work as an organist and pianist,
she has performed as an alto soloist with the Madison Bach Musicians
and in Handel's "Messiah" at St. Paul's in Madison.
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