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Summer - Fall 2011


June 6, 2011
Vancouver International Song Institute (VISI), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
“Unabashed Lyricism”: A Tribute to Lee Hoiby
Recital with Tracy Satterfield and Lynne McMurtry, featuring songs and duets by Hoiby, Ned Rorem, and William Flanagan

June 10, 2011
(VISI)

“The Picture Window of Time: Scenes of Remembrance and Reconciliation”
Performance of Jake Heggie’s duet cycle Facing Forward/Looking Back with Gayle Shay
June 11, 2011
(VISI)
“All the World’s a Stage”: An Extraordinary Night of Song and Theater
Performances of Shakespeare texts set to music with Martha Guth, Lynne McMurtry, Tracy Satterfield, and Rhonwen Derbez.
June 15-17, 2011
VISI’s Art Song Lab
SongSparks
A series of public workshops of new song works, composed by Art Song Lab participants from across North America.
June 19, 2011
VISI’s Art Song Lab
“Playing with Fire”: World Premieres from VISI’s Art Song Lab
The world premieres of 13 new songs with performers Phoebe MacRae, Lynne McMurtry, Drake Dantzler, Gayle Shay, Laura Loewen, and Erika Switzer.
August 5-6, 2011
Maine State Ballet, Portland, ME
“The Poet’s Love”
A world premiere ballet to Schumann’s masterpiece, Dichterliebe, with original choreography by Linda MacArthur Miele.
Presented in collaboration with the Florestan Recital Project, with baritone Aaron Engebreth.
September 21, 2011
Buffalo Chamber Players, Buffalo, NY
“From Bach to Tuva”: season opener
Featuring Arvo Part’s for violin, ‘cello, and piano and Rob Deemer’s for violin, viola, and piano.
October 8, 2011
Sofia, Bulgaria
AmBul Festival
A concert of solo piano and vocal chamber music by American and Bulgarian composers, including the European premiere of Libby Larsen’s 2010 cycle The Strange Case of Dr. H. H. Holmes. With Aaron Engebreth, baritone
November 2, 2011
Buffalo Chamber Players
Buffalo, NY
“Music of Latin America”
Featuring Alberto Ginastera’s Pampeana No. 2 for ‘cello and piano and Astor Piazolla’s Piano Trio for violin, ‘cello, and piano.

 

Winter - Spring 2012


January 13, 2012
Harvard Musical Association
Cambridge, MA

 

Program of art songs by Boston composers
Including John Alden Carpenter, Arthur Foote, and many others--from the Harvard University archives. With Sarah Pelletier, soprano; Aaron Engebreth, baritone.
January 14, 2012
American Century Music
(Scott Parkman, artistic director)
Newburyport, MA
Chamber music concert
Featuring Arthur Foote’s Piano Trio No. 2, Converse Sonata for ‘Cello and Piano, and John Alden Carpenter’s Gitanjali song cycle. With Rafael Popper-Kaiser, ‘cello; Gabriela Diaz, violin; Aaron Engebreth, baritone.
March 4, 2012
Opera in Concert
Toronto, ON
Pianist and Music Director for Giuseppe Verdi’s OBERTO
Featuring bass-baritone Giles Tomkins, soprano Joni Henson, mezzo-soprano Michele Bogdanowicz, and tenor Romulo Delgado.
March 30, 2012
SUNY Fredonia, NY
Guest artist on faculty recital.
Songs by American composers including Lee Hoiby, Leonard Bernstein, John Musto, and David Sisco. With Lynne McMurtry, mezzo-soprano; Alex Hurd, baritone; Angela Haas, soprano. 
April 29, 2012
Friends of Vienna series
Buffalo, NY
Recital with Janz Castelo, violist.
May 30, 2012
Buffalo Chamber Players
Buffalo, NY
Season finale
Featuring Johannes Brahms’s Quintet for Piano and Strings.

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