Each January, acclaimed mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne and the Marilyn Horne Foundation bring The Song Continues…, an annual celebration of the song recital, to Carnegie Hall with master classes led by renowned artists from the vocal music world as well as recitals by Marilyn Horne Foundation vocalists. Presented by Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute in partnership with the Marilyn Horne Foundation from January 19–22, 2010, The Song Continues…2010 brings together voice and piano students with musical educators for six public events celebrating the art of vocal performance, including master classes led this year by Marilyn Horne, James Levine, Warren Jones.The Marilyn Horne Foundation’s annual recital—this year entitled Dames at “C”—closes this four-day festival on Friday, January 22 at 7:30 p.m. in Zankel Hall. Featured artists include special guest soprano Kristin Chenoweth, and sopranos Keri Alkema, Elaine Alvarez, Amanda Majeski, and Jennifer Zetlan; and pianists Warren Jones, Michael Baitzer, Tamara Sanikidze, and David Shimoni. Ms. Horne will host the event. The program will include songs by Berlioz, Debussy, Stefano Donaudy, Reynaldo Hahn, Jake Heggie, Respighi, and Rachmaninoff. See below for additional program information.
As announced earlier this year, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute has agreed to take the core programs of the Marilyn Horne Foundation under its banner, beginning in July 2010. With Ms. Horne serving as Artistic Advisor, The Weill Music Institute (WMI) will continue to present The Song Continues… annual vocal celebration under its professional programs, as well as the Foundation’s “On Wings of Song” series as part of WMI’s Neighborhood Concert Series beginning in the 2010–2011 season. For over 15 years, the Marilyn Horne Foundation has fulfilled its mission and successfully built awareness for the art of the vocal recital throughout the United States. Carnegie Hall embraces this philosophy and has incorporated the tenets of the Marilyn Horne Foundation into its programming extending its commitment to the art of the vocal recital.
“My heart, my experience, and my soul have been focused on preserving the art of the vocal recital,” said Ms. Horne. “I cannot begin to express my gratitude to Clive Gillinson and the staff at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute for their commitment to continuing the core programs of my Foundation. I look forward to continuing to work with the young artists that help keep this great literature alive.”
THE SONG CONTINUES...2010
Master Classes
This year, The Song Continues… master classes will be led by Metropolitan Opera Music Director James Levine on Tuesday, January 19 at 7:30 p.m. in Zankel Hall, by pianist Warren Jones on Wednesday, January 20 at 7:30 p.m. and by Marilyn Horne on Thursday, January 21 at 7:30 p.m. both in Weill Recital Hall. Participants include 17 vocal students from leading music schools, including The Juilliard School, Curtis Institute for Music, Oberlin Conservatory, Oklahoma University, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and Manhattan School of Music. Each participant was selected through a rigorous audition process.
Duo-Recitals
Duo recitals by Foundation vocalists will be given in Weill Recital Hall by soprano Nadine Sierra with pianist Jerome Tan, and baritone Edward Parks with pianist In Sun Suh on Tuesday, January 19 at 5:30 p.m. (songs by Braga, Bridge, Liszt, Rodrigo, and Villa-Lobos with guest artists Joao Kouyoumdjian, guitar, and Mary Hammann, viola); and, the following evening, by mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, baritone Kelly Markgraf, and pianist Steven Blier on Wednesday, January 20 at 5:30 p.m. (songs by Ives, Mahler, R. Strauss, and Zemlinsky on texts from Des Knaben Wunderhorn as well as songs by Kern and Weill).
A Career Resource Session
On Thursday, January 21 at 11:00 a.m. in Carnegie Hall’s Kaplan Space, participants will have an opportunity to explore different aspects of a vocal career through discussion and break out sessions with leading professionals in the field, including: Michael Benchetrit, Vice President/Artist Manager at Columbia Artists; Jeremy Geffen, Director of Artistic Planning at Carnegie Hall; Sarah Johnson, Director of The Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall; and Diane Zola, Artistic Administrator at the Houston Grand Opera. This session will be followed by a lunch discussion with Marilyn Horne and other special guests.
About Professional Training Workshops
Professional Training Workshops presented by The Weill Music Institute are designed for artists between the ages of 18 to 35 and offer a unique opportunity for young musicians to explore performance and rehearsal practices, as well as specialized repertoire with some of today’s leading artists. Workshops include master classes and sessions of intensive performance preparation for emerging professional musicians, led by artists from many different musical styles and backgrounds. Most workshops feature at least one element that is accessible to the public in the form of a concert or open master class. Travel and housing for participants traveling from outside of New York City is arranged and paid for by Carnegie Hall. The workshops are tuition-free for participants and open for observation by auditors. Additional information and online applications are available at carnegiehall.org/workshops.
During the 2009–2010 season, WMI presents four Professional Training Workshops. In addition to The Song Continues…, jazz trumpeter/composer Dave Douglas will focus on creative composition and improvisation (February 7–12, 2010); the Kronos Quartet will lead a workshop as part of its Perspectives series on expanding the repertoire for string quartets with guest artist Wu Man (March 14–21, 2010); and pianist Leon Fleisher will lead a New York workshop focusing on Brahms Chamber Music with guest artists Yo-Yo Ma and Pamela Frank (May 3–9, 2010). Mr. Fleisher also led a similar workshop in October 2009 at Suntory Hall, bringing his experience and passion for teaching to Tokyo in partnership with The Weill Music Institute.
About the Workshop Leaders
Celebrated mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne was the only living artist selected by Harold Schoenberg for his New York Times list of the nine “all-time, all-star singers in the Met’s 100 years.” Throughout the course of her career, Ms. Horne has performed on the world’s greatest opera stages, in recital at the most celebrated venues, and in performance with all the major symphony orchestras. In the 2009–2010 season, Ms. Horne will offer master classes for the first time at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, MD and at St. Joseph College in Hartford, CT. She will return to the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the University of Oklahoma at Norman, and the Manhattan School of Music for long- term residencies. Ms. Horne was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in October 2009 and was honored in Washington, DC as the 2009 recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Opera Honors. Born in Bradford, Pennsylvania, Marilyn Horne began her musical studies with her father and first sang in public at the age of two. At the age of twenty she made her operatic debut with the Los Angeles Guild Opera and, at that same age, dubbed the voice of Carmen in the highly successful film of Carmen Jones starring Dorothy Dandridge as Carmen. In 1960, she made her debut in Berg's Wozzeck with the San Francisco Opera, followed by her Lyric Opera of Chicago debut in 1961. In September of 1999, Miss Horne fulfilled a personal goal of singing in all of the 50 states with an engagement in Laramie, Wyoming. In celebration of her birthday in January of 1994, Miss Horne launched the Marilyn Horne Foundation, dedicated to the art of the vocal recital and presentation of young singers in recital throughout the United States. Since its inception, the Foundation has introduced over 65,000 students to the vocal recital and classical song with education programs along with full recital appearances in 29 states.
Since his June 5, 1971 debut at the Metropolitan Opera with Tosca, Music Director James Levine has developed a relationship with the company that is unparalleled in its history and unique in the musical world today. He conducted the first-ever Met performances of Mozart's Idomeneo and La Clemenza di Tito, Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex, Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani, I Lombardi and Stiffelio, Weill's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Schoenberg's Erwartung and Moses und Aron, Berg's Lulu, Rossini's La Cenerentola and Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini, as well as the world premieres of John Corigliano's The Ghosts of Versailles and John Harbison's The Great Gatsby. All told, he has led nearly 2,500 performances of 85 different operas at The Met. Maestro Levine inaugurated the "Metropolitan Opera Presents" television series for PBS in 1977, founded the Met’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program in 1980, returned Wagner's complete Der Ring des Nibelungen to the repertoire in 1989 (in the first integral cycles in over 35 years there), and has reinstated recitals and concerts with Met artists at the opera house. Expanding on that tradition, he and the MET Orchestra began touring in concert in 1991, and since then have performed around the world as well as in its own subscription series at Carnegie Hall. This season, in addition to the new Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Mr. Levine conducts the new production of Tosca, which opened the season and returns to the repertory in April, as well as revivals of Lulu, Der Rosenkavalier and Simon Boccanegra. He conducts three of this season’s The Met: Live in HD transmissions into movie theaters around the world: Les Contes d’Hoffmann on December 19, Der Rosenkavalier on January 9, and Simon Boccanegra on February 6. Mr. Levine is also currently in his fifth season as music director for the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Warren Jones has recently been named as "Collaborative Pianist of the Year" for 2010 by the publication Musical America. He performs with many of today’s best-known artists, including Stephanie Blythe, Denyce Graves, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Anthony Dean Griffey, Joseph Alessi, and Richard “Yongjae” O’Neill. Mr. Jones is the principal pianist for the exciting California-based chamber music group Camerata Pacifica. Mr. Jones has often been a guest artist at Carnegie Hall and in Lincoln Center's "Great Performers Series," as well as the festivals of Tanglewood, Ravinia, and Caramoor. His international travels have taken him to recitals at the Salzburg Festival, Milan's Teatro alla Scala, the Maggio Musicale Festival in Florence, and Opéra Bastille, Wigmore Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, the Konzerthaus in Vienna, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, the Cultural Centre in Hong Kong and theatres throughout Scandinavia and Korea. In addition to performances with the Borromeo and Brentano Quartets, he has been heard at the New York Philharmonic in the Sextet of Ernst von Dohnanyi, and been invited to participate regularly in the annual Marilyn Horne Foundation gala festivities at Carnegie Hall, both as performer and Master Class teacher. In the summer of 2009, he conducted sold-out, critically-acclaimed performances of Mascagni's L'amico Fritz with the Merola Opera Program at San Francisco Opera. Mr. Jones' discography includes more than 25 recordings. He is a member of the faculty at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City and at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara. For ten years, Mr. Jones was Assistant Conductor at the Metropolitan Opera and for three seasons served in the same capacity at San Francisco Opera.
The Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall
The Weill Music Institute creates broad-reaching music education and community programs that play a central role in Carnegie Hall’s commitment to making great music accessible to as wide an audience as possible. Woven into the fabric of the Carnegie Hall concert season, these programs occur at Carnegie Hall as well as in schools and throughout neighborhoods, providing musical opportunities for everyone, from preschoolers to adults, new listeners to emerging professionals. With access to the world’s greatest artists and latest technologies, The Weill Music Institute is uniquely positioned to inspire the next generation of music lovers, to nurture tomorrow’s musical talent, and to shape the evolution of musical learning itself. The Weill Music Institute’s school and community programs annually serve over 115,000 children, students, teachers, parents, young music professionals, and adults in the New York metropolitan area and across the US, as well as 65,000 people around the world through its online and distance learning initiatives.
For more information, please visit: carnegiehall.org/exploreandlearn.
The Marilyn Horne Foundation
The Marilyn Horne Foundation was founded in 1993 by world renowned mezzo-soprano, Marilyn Horne, to revitalize the vocal recital in the USA through the presentation of recitals and related educational activities by gifted young artists. Since its inception, the Foundation has presented 114 emerging artists, and has reached over 132,000 people, including over 65,000 students, in 29 states, plus millions nationwide via radio and webcast. For further information, contact Barbara Hocher at bhocher@marilynhornefdn.org.
Program Information
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 5:30 p.m.
Weill Recital Hall
THE SONG CONTINUES…
Nadine Sierra, Soprano
Jerome Tan, Piano
Edward Parks, Baritone
In Sun Suh, Piano
Joao Kouyoumdjian, Guitar
Mary Hammann, Viola
Duo Recital
A program of The Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall in partnership with The Marilyn Horne Foundation
Professional Training Workshops are made possible, in part, by Mr. and Mrs. Nicola Bulgari and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.
Tickets: $5
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
Zankel Hall
THE SONG CONTINUES…
Participating Artists:
Lori Guilbeau, Soprano (Manhattan School of Music)
Celia Zambon, Soprano (Oklahoma University)
Julia Dawson, Mezzo-Soprano (Oberlin Conservatory)
Cecelia Hall, Mezzo-Soprano (The Juilliard School)
Paul Scholten, Baritone (University of Cincinnati College – Conservatory of Music)
Lio Kuokman, Piano (Curtis Institute of Music)
Adam Nielsen, Piano (SUNY Stony Brook)
Alternates:
Dominick Rodriguez, Tenor (Oberlin Conservatory)
Matthew Valverde, Tenor (Eastman School of Music)
James Levine Master Class
A program of The Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall in partnership with The Marilyn Horne Foundation
Professional Training Workshops are made possible, in part, by Mr. and Mrs. Nicola Bulgari and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.
Tickets: $20
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 5:30 p.m.
Weill Recital Hall
THE SONG CONTINUES…
Sasha Cooke, Mezzo-Soprano
Kelly Markgraf, Baritone
Steven Blier, Piano
Duo Recital
A program of The Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall in partnership with The Marilyn Horne Foundation
Professional Training Workshops are made possible, in part, by Mr. and Mrs. Nicola Bulgari and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.
Tickets: $5
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
Weill Recital Hall
THE SONG CONTINUES…
Participating Artists:
Julia Cramer, Soprano (University of Houston)
Tharanga Goonetilleke, Soprano (The Juilliard School)
Haeran Hong, Soprano (The Juilliard School)
Derrel Acon, Bass-Baritone (Lawrence University)
In Sun Suh, Piano (The Juilliard School/ Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artists Development Program)
Bryan Wagorn, Piano (Mannes College The New School for Music)
Alternates:
Bridgette Gan, Soprano (University of Maryland)
Marquis Fuse, Tenor (New England Conservatory)
Warren Jones Master Class
A program of The Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall in partnership with The Marilyn Horne Foundation
Professional Training Workshops are made possible, in part, by Mr. and Mrs. Nicola Bulgari and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.
Tickets: $20
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Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
Weill Recital Hall
THE SONG CONTINUES…
Participating Artists:
Betsy Diaz, Soprano (Music Academy of the West)
Allison Sanders, Mezzo-Soprano (The Curtis Institute of Music)
Rodney Westbrook, Tenor (Oklahoma University)
Joseph Barron, Bass-Baritone (The Curtis Institute of Music)
Adam Bloniarz, Piano (Bard College)
Lio Kuokman, Piano (The Curtis Institute of Music)
Alternates:
Elizabeth Dow, Soprano (Peabody Institute)
Jean Bernard Cerin, Baritone (New England Conservatory)
Marilyn Horne Master Class
A program of The Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall in partnership with The Marilyn Horne Foundation
Professional Training Workshops are made possible, in part, by Mr. and Mrs. Nicola Bulgari and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.
Tickets: $20
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Friday, January 22, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
Zankel Hall
THE SONG CONTINUES…
Marilyn Horne, Host
Keri Alkema, Soprano
Elaine Alvarez, Soprano
Amanda Majeski, Soprano
Jennifer Zetlan, Soprano
Michael Baitzer, Piano
Warren Jones, Piano
Tamara Sanikidze, Piano
David Shimoni, Piano
Special Guest Artist: Kristin Chenoweth, Soprano
Marilyn Horne Foundation Annual Recital
Dames at "C"
A program of The Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall in partnership with The Marilyn Horne Foundation
Professional Training Workshops are made possible, in part, by Mr. and Mrs. Nicola Bulgari and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.
Tickets: $37, $45
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