Collegium Musicum University Community Chorus

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University Community Chorus
Spring 2013 Information
European Masterpieces
Rehearsals:
Tuesdays, 7:00-9:30 p.m.
Room 146, UA School of Music
Spring Semester First Rehearsal:
Tuesday, January 17, 2014
Spring Concert:
Tuesday, April 22, 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Mozart: Regina Coeli
Bruckner: Te Deum
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For more information or pre-registration materials:
Contact Dr. Elizabeth Schauer at 626-8936
or [email protected]
Collegium Musicum
Brent Rogers, conductor
University Community Chorus
Elizabeth Schauer, conductor
Benjamin Hansen, assistant conductor
Sunday, November 3, 2013
Crowder Hall
3:00 p.m.
This concert is being recorded
for future broadcast
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European Masterpieces
Upcoming UA Choral Concerts
Sunday, November 3, 2013, Crowder Hall, 3:00 p.m.
Collegium Musicum
Brent Rogers, conductor
Hyeyeon Park, rehearsal pianist
In ecclesiis......................................................Giovanni Gabrieli (1553–1612)
from Symphoniae Sacrae, Book II (1615)
Kelsey Rogers, soprano
Kristina Orosz, alto
Stephen Warner, tenor
Jonathan Kim, bass
Will Thomas, organ
Aus der Tiefe.......................................................Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)
from Psalmen Davids (1619)
Will Thomas, organ
Kyrie a5, a8, a12 (1587).....................................Andrea Gabrieli (1532-1586)
Kelsey Rogers, soprano
Blair McNeille, Alex Pesqueira, trumpet
Gregory L. Campbell, Lisa Gollenberg, horn
Robert Boone, Steven Gamble, trombone
Will Thomas, organ
Graduate Choral Conductors Recital: Kantorei & Recital Choir
Sunday, November 24, 7:00 p.m., Holsclaw Hall, $5
Graduate Choral Conductors Recital: University Singers & Honor Choir
Tuesday, November 26, 7:30 p.m., Crowder Hall, $5
“Holiday Card to Tucson”
Arizona Choir, UA Symphonic Choir, University Community Chorus,
Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus, Tucson Girls Chorus
Sunday, December 8, 3:00 p.m. & 7:30 p.m., St. Augustine Cathedral
(192 S. Stone Avenue), $Free with voucher (call 626-9227)
UA Wildcat High School Choir
Saturday, December 14, 4:00 p.m., Crowder Hall, $Free
Arizona Choir with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra
Classics Special, Tuesday, January 14, TCC Music Hall, 8:00 p.m.
(info: www.tucsonsymphony.org)
Arizona Choir with Tucson Symphony Orchestra & TSO Chorus,
Desert Song Festival
Friday, February 14 & Sunday, February 16, TCC Music Hall,
8:00 p.m. & 2:00 p.m., (info: www.tucsondesertsongfestival.org)
“ars long, vita brevis” - UA Symphonic Choir
Saturday, February 15, 4:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m., Holsclaw Hall, $5
Madonna, sua mercé per una sera....................Luca Marenzio (1556-1599)
Graduate Choral Conductors Recital:
Honor Choir, Kantorei, Recital Choir & University Singers
Sunday, March 2, 7:30 p.m., Crowder Hall, $5
April is in My Mistress’ Face...................... Thomas Morley (c. 1557-1602)
Ho! Who Comes Here?........................................................... Thomas Morley
Collegium Musicum, early music ensemble
Sunday, April 13, 7:00 p.m., Holsclaw Hall, $5
O Care Thou Wilt Despatch Me.....................Thomas Weelkes (1576-1623)
Hence Care, Thou Art Too Cruel
Thomas Weelkes
“Austrian Treasures” – University Community Chorus & Orchestra
Tuesday, April 22, 7:30 p.m., Crowder Hall, $12, 6
Volgendo in ciel per l’immortal sentiero, SV 154...... Claudio Monteverdi
from the Eighth Book of Madrigals (1638)(1567-1643)
Graduate Choral Conductors Recital:
Honor Choir, Kantorei, Recital Choir & University Singers
Friday, April 25, 7:30 p.m., Crowder Hall, $5
Stephen Warner, tenor
David Rife, Wynne Rife, violin
Robert Chamberlain, cello
Yunmeng Deng, harpsichord
Arizona Choir, UA Symphonic Choir, Arizona Symphony Orchestra
Vienna/Prague Tour send-off: Dvořák: Stabat Mater
Sunday, April 27, 3:00 p.m., Crowder Hall, $10, 7, 5
Intermission
UA Wildcat High School Choir
Saturday, May 10, 4:00 p.m., Crowder Hall, $Free
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So enjoy; A keen and flattering
voice invites us!
Chorus
Let’s enjoy the wine and the singing,
the beautiful night, and the laughter.
Let the new day find us in this paradise.
Violetta
Life means celebration.
Alfredo
Only if one hasn’t known love.
Violetta
Don’t tell someone who doesn’t know.
Alfredo
But this is my fate...
All
Let’s enjoy the wine and the singing,
the beautiful night, and the laughter.
Let the new day find us in this paradise.
Duo Seraphim
Two seraphim cried to one another:
Holy is the Lord God of Sabaoth.
The whole earth is full of his glory.
University Community Chorus
Elizabeth Schauer, conductor
Benjamin Hansen, assistant conductor
Woan Ching Lim, rehearsal pianist
Angelus Domini Descendit.......................... Giovanni Gabrieli (1557-1612)
Amy Burmeister, trumpet
Gordie Hixon, trumpet
Lisa Gollenberg, horn
Steven Gamble, trombone
Partsongs........................................................Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Der deutsche Rhein
Zigeunerleben
Dunkler Lichtglanz (from Spanische Liebeslieder, Op. 138)
Es ist verrathen (from Spanisches Liederspiel, Op. 74)
Kelsey Rogers, soprano
Kimberly Moeller, mezzo-soprano
Jason Dungee, tenor
Jonathan Kim, baritone
Woan Ching Lim & Chia-Chun Ko, piano
Opera Choruses
Chorus of the Wedding Guests....................Gaetono Donizetti (1797-1848)
from Lucia di Lammermoor
Placido e il Mar.......................................................W.A. Mozart (1756-1791)
from Idomeneo
Brindisi.................................................................Giuseppi Verdi (1813-1901)
from La Traviata
Jason Dungee, tenor
Ivette Ortiz, soprano
Woan Ching Lim, piano
Duo Seraphim.......................................................... Jacob Handl (1550-1591)
University Community Chorus & Collegium Musicum
Please note that no audio or video recording or flash photography
is allowed during today’s performance. Thank you.
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University Community Chorus
Elizabeth Schauer, conductor
Benjamin Hansen, assistant conductor
Woan Ching Lim, rehearsal pianist
Soprano
Zandra Alford
Andrea Akins
Joan Biggar
Lucille Boilard-Harkin
Karen Conway
Jeanine David
Vera Lucia Diani
Sheryl Forte
Sata Hessler
Mary Huebner
Louise Iles
Amber Kerstein
Susan Knittel
Gina Kruse
Joyce Lagasse
Carrie Landau
Jo Ann Little
Nancy McCallion
Caitlin McDavid
Erica McEvoy
Chao Mei Meyer
Jody Moll
Valerie Moses
Amy Lynn Palmer
Mary Paganelli Votto
Kelly Rentscher
Meredith Skeath
Maria Smith
Judith Tracy
Elizabeth Wells
Kirk Emerson
Susanna Eden
Alisha Escoto
Katrina Farrell
Katie Good
Vicki Greer
Laura Gutowski
Rachel Hackl
Norma Haire
Amy Lynn Harris
Sara Herman
Margaret Long
Jennifer Lord Mazur
Cheryl Lougee
Lois Manowitz
Andrea P. Martin
Jenine Mayer
Becky McLean
Norrine McMillan
Sara Louise Mohr
Anne Morgan
Connie Myren
Celeste Pardee
April D. J. Petillo
Emily Powers
Jennifer Rich
Sophie Richerd
Valerie Armstrong
Janet Rowe
Charley Rowland
Debi Ryan
Kristen Schwerin
Linda Shenk
Cecilia Siruno
Valerie J. Smith
Wanda Torrey
Hester van Heemstra
Alto
Noella Amyot
Julie Bubul
Laurel Campbell
Augusta Davis
Melanie De Sa
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this smile in sorrow.
For a time in the gloom
Your star disappeared;
I shall let it ascend again
Brighter and more beautiful.
Give me your hand, Henry,
I draw you to my heart.
To you I come as friend,
As brother, as protector.
Placido è il mar (Voyagers’ Chorus)
Calm is the sea, let us go.
Everything is reassuring.
We shall have good fortune;
So come, let’s go now.
Blow, gentle breezes,
Calm the anger of the icy north
wind;
be courteous with your pleasing
breath
which can spread love everywhere.
Brindisi
Alfredo
Let’s drink, let’s drink from the joyous chalices
that beauty so truly enhances.
And may the brief moment be inebriated
with voluptuousness.
Let’s drink for the ecstatic feeling
that love arouses.
Because this eye aims straight to the heart, omnipotently.
Let’s drink, my love, and the love among the chalices
will make the kisses warmer.
Chorus
Ah! Let’s drink, and the love among the chalices
will make the kisses warmer.
Violetta
With you all, I can share
my happiest times.
Everything in life
which is not pleasure is foolish.
Let’s enjoy ourselves
for the delight of love is fleeting and quick.
It’s like a flower that blooms and dies
And we can no longer enjoy it.
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And, banned as they are from their blissful homeland,
they see it in their dreams, that happy land.
But now, when the morning awakes in the east,
so vanish the beautiful visions of the night;
at daybreak the mules paw the ground,
the figures move away – who knows where?
Dunkler Lichtglanz
Dark light, blind gaze,
Dead life, joy and pain,
Fortune full of misfortune,
Dull laughter, happy lament,
Sweet bitterness, blessed pain,
Peace and war in a single heart –
Only you, Love, can be all that,
With happiness paid for with pain.
Es ist verrathen
That you are burning with love’s glow,
clever one, is noticed easily.
And your cheeks disclose
what secretly rests in your heart.
Tenor
Robert Armendariz
Sheldon Clare
Carol Freundlich
DeWayne Halfen
Mike Haynes
Gina Haynes
Sean Kiilehua
David Nix
James Quirk
Bruce Van Sickle
Richard Wilson
Bass
Terry Alston
Gary Anderson
Richard Burns
Stephen Chrisman
Jeffry Davis
Jeff Fookson
Thomas Garrett
Edward Gelardin
Andreas Gross
Michael Iragorri
Bernard Kanavage
T. Quinn Kimball
Howard Richmond
Frank Scoonover
Abe Valenzuela
Armando Vargas y M.
Roger Voelker
Donn Weaver
Paul Wolf
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Acknowledgements:
Always to enjoy deep sighing,
always to cry instead of singing,
to spend your nights waking,
and to avoid sweet sleep;
these are signals of the glow
that your countenance reveals.
Dr. Schauer and the University Community Chorus express our
heartfelt gratitude to the following people for service to the
chorus on the board and in many capacities:
I consider love, money, and sorrow,
as the most difficult to hide,
for even in the sternest souls
they strongly rush to the fore.
That restless spirit
betrays them all too openly.
Chorus of the Wedding Guests
Full of great joy for you
All gather here together,
For you we see dawning anew
The day of hope;
Guided here by friendship,
accompanied by love,
All gather here together,
Accompanied by love.
This star in an overcast night,
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Noella Amyot, Gary Anderson, Sean Kiilehua, Carrie Landau,
Amy Palmer, Jennifer Rich, Ana Luisa Terrazas, Armando Vargas,
Jennifer Lord Mazur, T. Quinn Kimball and Benjamin Hansen
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In Memoriam
The University Community Chorus
dedicates this performance to
Jane Ann Priester, Sally Freeman & Eunice Evans
Their love of choral music and participation in the chorus
helped bring forth the beauty of the music and brought joy
to fellow choristers and audiences alike.
They are greatly missed.
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Collegium Musicum
Brent Rogers, conductor
Hyeyeon Park, rehearsal pianist
Soprano
Nicole Baugh
Cristen Jimenez
Sarah Kortemeier
Lisa Lang
Leslie Nitzberg
Jane Perlee
Tori Powell
Kelsey Rogers
Mary Uhrig
Alto
Faez Abdalla
Valerie Anderson
Norah Booth
K.C. Holliday
Andrea Martin
Erica Morris
Kristina Orosz
Ryan Redmond
Rebecca Hagen Watson
Tenor
Colin Dawson
Helen Fort
Andrea Garcia
Vincent Jackson
Andrea Miller
Dylan Murphy
Kwesi Pasley
Tom Tompkins
Bass
Andrew Agnew
Nathan Allen
Alejandro Bañuelos
Keith Martin
Ed Moore
Fred Reinagel
Will Thomas
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As long as within its current
The rocks still stand firmly,
As long as lofty cathedrals
Can see themselves in its mirror.
They shall not have it,
The free German Rhine,
As long as courageous lads
Court slender maidens,
As long as a fin is lifted
By a fish within its depths,
As long as a song still lives
In the mouths of its singers.
They shall not have it,
The free German Rhine,
Until its floodwaters have buried
The bones of the last man!
Zigeunerleben
In the shadows of the forest, among the beech trees,
something moves and rustles and whispers all at once.
Flames are flickering, their glow dances
Around colorful figures, around leaves and rocks:
It is the roaming band of gypsies
With flashing eyes and waving hair,
weaned on the holy waters of the Nile,
tanned by Spain’s scorching sun.
Around the fire in the swelling green forest
Wild and bold men are resting,
women squat to prepare the meal,
and busily fill ancient goblets.
And tales and songs resound all around,
telling how the gardens in Spain are so full
of bloom, so full of color;
and words of magic to ward off need and danger
the wise old woman recites for the listening crowd.
Dark-eyed girls begin their dance
While torches flicker in reddish glow;
The guitar casts its lure and the cymbal sounds;
The dance grows wild and wilder.
Then they rest, weary from the night of dance,
and the beeches rustle them to sleep.
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Come noble lyre: the crown of flowers
Fasten about me, o sons: I will wound the stars
Singing praises of my King to the heights.
And you who for beauty, ladies and girls
Turn beautifully for immortal honors,
Move to my beautiful sound the slender feet,
Lovely blonde tresses strewn with roses.
And, leaving the rich depths of the Danube,
The water nymphs come also to the ball.
Flee well the clouds and storms.
On scented breezes the joyful murmur
Is made an echo to my singing, resounding over the world
The exalted and beautiful deeds of Ferdinand.
And with weapons girded, and astride his winged steed
He ran through the meadows, and on the hard earth
The helmet resting on his armored arm.
The exalted towers and the grand walls
Scattered to the wind, and the lawn made vermilion,
Leaving all other glory to the dark world.
Angelus Domini
An angel of the Lord came down from heaven,
and rolled back the stone,
and sat on it. And said to the women:
Do not be afraid: for I know that you seek the crucified:
He has risen: come and see the place where the Lord was lain.
Alleluia.
Der deutsche Rhein
They shall not have it,
The free German Rhine,
Though they like greedy ravens
Scream themselves hoarse after it,
As long as, peacefully flowing,
It still wears its green garb,
As long as even one oar resoundingly
Strikes into its waves.
They shall not have it,
The free German Rhine,
As long as hearts refresh themselves
With its fiery wine,
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About the Artists
Dr. Elizabeth Schauer accepted an
appointment as associate director of choral
activities and associate professor of music
at the University of Arizona in fall 2004.
An award-winning educator, Dr. Schauer
directs the Symphonic Choir and University
Community Chorus, and teaches undergraduate
and graduate courses in conducting, literature
and methods. In addition she serves as Chancel
Choir director at St. Mark’s United Methodist
Church in Tucson, and has served on the
summer faculty at Westminster Choir College
in Princeton, New Jersey. Before coming to
Tucson, Dr. Schauer was director of choral
activities at Adams State College in Colorado, and also taught at
Centenary College in New Jersey.
Dr. Schauer has conducted college, community, church, honor and
public school choirs, and has served as music director of community
and university theatrical productions as well. She is in demand as an
adjudicator, clinician, guest conductor and presenter throughout the
United States. She recently served as conductor for all-state choirs in
Maine and New Mexico. She has presented sessions at the national
conventions of American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and
College Music Society (CMS); regional conferences of ACDA, and state
conferences of ACDA and National Association for Music Education
(NAfME). In addition, her choirs have been invited and selected by
audition to perform at local, state and regional events of NAfME, ACDA
and College Music Society, including performances for the 2014 and
2010 conferences of the western division of American Choral Directors
Association , the 2012 Pacific-Southwest College Music Society
Conference, and the 2011 Arizona Music
Educators Annual Conference. Dr. Schauer
holds degrees from University of Cincinnati
College-Conservatory of Music, Westminster
Choir College and University of Michigan.
Benjamin Hansen received his
bachelor’s degree from Yale, singing in
The Whiffenpoofs, his master’s degree in voice
from The Catholic University of America,
a master’s degree in conducting from The
College-Conservatory of Music at the
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University of Cincinnati, and is currently pursuing his doctorate in
choral conducting at the University of Arizona. Hansen has studied
conducting with Mark Gibson, Jerry Blackstone, Fiora Contino, Robert
Sund, Marguerite Brooks, Leo Nestor, Brett Scott, Earl Rivers, Elizabeth
Schauer and Bruce Chamberlain. He was a conducting fellow at the
Chorus America Conducting Symposium in 2010, Houston, Texas, and
was the director of the Washington Collegium, in Washington, D.C.,
conducting such works as Howell’s Requiem and Poulenc’s Exultate Deo.
For seven semesters Hansen directed the Cincinnati State Chorale at
Cincinnati State College, conducting such works as Whitacre’s Lux
Arumque, the national anthem at a Cincinnati Reds Game, and a set of
spirituals for a concert at the World Choir Games. Beyond his career in
music, Hansen has an interest in politics, and was a congressional aide
for U.S. Congressman Tom Lantos and U.S. Senator Ben Nelson.
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Brent Rogers is a second-year doctoral
student in choral conducting at the University
of Arizona, where, in addition to his work with
the Collegium Musicum, he has conducted the
University Singers, Honor Choir, and Recital
Choir. Prior to commencing his studies at UA,
Brent was professor of vocal music at Arizona
Western College in Yuma. There he conducted
the Yuma Chorale and AWC Chamber Singers,
the latter of which was praised by their
adjudicator as among the best choirs at the
2012 Northern Arizona University Jazz/
Madrigal Festival. While in Yuma he also
served as guest conductor of the Yuma County
Middle School Honor Choir, assistant conductor of the Yuma Ecumenical
Choir, and adjudicator for the Yuma County Middle and High School
Choir Festival. Prior to his employment at AWC he taught middle
school choir in Las Vegas. Brent has sung in choral ensembles since the
age of eight, including five years as a member of the internationallyacclaimed Brigham Young University Singers, several past and
upcoming concerts with the Tucson Chamber Artists, and membership
in the Arizona Choir at UA, with which he will perform Dvořák’s Stabat
Mater at Vienna’s Musikverein and Prague’s Dvořák Hall in May of
2014 under the direction of Dr. Bruce Chamberlain. He holds degrees
in music education (BM) and choral conducting (MM) from Brigham
Young University in Provo, Utah, where he co-directed the University
Chorale, and served as assistant conductor of the BYU Singers for
three years under the mentorship of Dr. Ronald Staheli.
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In ecclesiis
In churches bless ye the Lord. Hallelujah.
In every place of his dominion, bless the Lord, O my soul. Hallelujah.
In God is my salvation and my glory.
God is my help, and my hope is in God. Hallelujah.
Our God, we invoke thee, we adore thee,
Deliver us, enliven us, Hallelujah.
God is our helper forever. Hallelujah.
Aus der Tiefe
From the depths, I have cried out to you, O Lord;
Lord, hear my voice.
Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication.
If you, Lord, were to mark iniquities, who, Lord, shall stand?
For with you is forgiveness; that man may fear you.
I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I hope.
My soul waits for the Lord from one morning watch until the next.
Israel, hope in the Lord, for with the Lord there is mercy
and with him is plenteous redemption.
And he will redeem Israel from all his sins.
Glory be to the Father and the Son, and also the Holy Ghost,
as it was in the beginning, now, and forevermore, unto eternity, Amen.
Kyrie a5, a8, a12
Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy.
Madonna, sua mercé
My Lady, her goods, for one evening
Appeared to me very joyful and beautiful in sleep
It rejoiced my heart like the sun
Wont to clear the ground after rain,
Saying to me, come pick in my meadow
Some flowerets and leave the gloomy caverns.
Volgendo in ciel
Turning in the sky for the immortal path,
The wheels of the light and serene soul,
The sun brings back a century of peace
Under the new king of the Roman Empire.
On, to me now is borne from great Iberia
The deep cup, garlanded and full
Which, running to my heart from vein to vein,
Rids the soul of every mortal thought.
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voice. Mr. Warner has been a featured soloist of the University
of Arizona Honor Choir, Recital Choir, Collegium Musicum and
University Community Chorus, as well as Arizona Choral Society.
Mr. Warner is a student of Grayson Hirst, and has also studied voice
with Dean Schoff, Jami Flora and Stephen Carr.
Originally from Malaysia, accompanist
Woan Ching Lim collaborates in choir,
vocal and instrumental repertoire, musical
theatre and ballet. In addition to the University
Community Chorus, Ms. Lim serves as the
accompanist/pianist of UA School of Dance,
Tucson Girls Chorus and Arizona Opera
outreach program. Recent collaborative
performances include Song Fire Festival at the
Vancouver International Song Institute, Opera
Previews: Marriage of Figaro with the Opera
Guild of Southern Arizona, You’re a Good Man,
Charlie Brown with Rose Theatre Company and
the Guest Artist Series at Northern Arizona University (NAU). Ms Lim
is studying under the tutelage of Dr. Paula Fan and will be completing
her Master of Music degree in collaborative piano in December 2013.
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Kelsey K. Rogers recently returned
from her international solo debut in Saarburg,
Germany, where she was a featured soloist in
the Saarburg International Chamber Music
Festival. While there she performed as a soloist
with the festival orchestra and the Phoenixbased Tetra String Quartet, as well as in other
capacities. Mrs. Rogers has appeared as a soloist
with the University of Arizona Collegium
Musicum in their performance, “Gethsemane to
Golgotha: The Music of the Passions”, for the
Arizona Early Music Society in a hausmusik
performance, as well as in Camille Saint-Saëns
Oratorio de Noël, Handel’s Messiah (Parts I and
III), Bach’s Es ist das Heil uns kommen her (Cantata No. 9), and
Buxtehude’s Magnificat, the last two of which were recorded for
broadcast on public radio. Kelsey has to her credit several operatic roles,
Spirit in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Annina in Verdi’s La Traviata, Kate in
Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance, and Amahl in Menotti’s Amahl
and the Night Visitors. She also sings with the Tucson Chamber Artists.
She is currently pursuing a Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance
at the University of Arizona, and holds a bachelor’s degree in music
education, with a choral emphasis, from Brigham Young University,
where she sang with all the auditioned choirs, including the BYU Singers,
who placed second in the Cork International Choral Competition during
her time with them. Her teachers include Kristin Dauphinais, Charles
Roe and Arden Hopkin.
Mezzo-soprano Kimberly Prins Moeller appeared most
recently as the Sorceress in Dido and Aeneas with the St. Andrew’s Bach
Society. Other recent appearances include the Vancouver International
Song Institute, the Saarburg International Chamber Music Festival,
Handel’s Messiah with the American Chamber
Orchestra and Flora in La Traviata with the
University of Arizona Opera Theater. Active in
opera, oratorio, and recital repertoire, Kimberly
will sing the role of Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus
with the University of Arizona Opera Theater
in November 2013 and will make her Carnegie
Hall debut as soloist in Mozart’s Requiem and
Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy in March 2014.
Other stage and oratorio credits include the
roles of Dinah in Trouble in Tahiti, Ma Moss in
The Tender Land, Florence in Albert Herring, and
soloist in Vivaldi’s Gloria and Magnificat and
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Saint-Saëns’ Christmas Oratorio. Kimberly is a multiple winner of the
National Association of Teachers of Singing competitions in New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Arizona, and is currently pursuing the
Doctor of Musical Arts degree in voice performance at the University of
Arizona. She received the Professional Performance Certificate in voice
performance from Penn State University, the Master of Arts degree in
voice performance from Montclair State University and the Bachelor
of Music degree in vocal music education from Houghton College.
the Fort Wayne Philharmonic in their productions of Vaughan Williams’
Fantasia on Christmas Carols and Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass. Currently,
Mr. Kim is in his first year of the Doctor of Musical Arts degree program
in choral conducting at the University of Arizona and is studying
conducting with Dr. Bruce Chamberlain and Dr. Elizabeth Schauer,
and voice with Prof. Grayson Hirst. His previous conducting professors
include Prof. Joseph Huszti, Dr. Carmen Tellez, Dr. Tom Merrill, and
Dr. Nancy Menk. He has studyed voice with Prof. Patrick Goeser, and
has worked with Prof. Horst Günther, Rodney Gilfry, Prof. Martin Katz,
Prof. Graham Johson.
Jason Andrew Dungee, tenor, is a
native of Wilmington, Delaware. He received
his Bachelor of Arts degree in vocal performance
from Hampton University where he studied
under Lorraine Bell and Royzell Dillard. He
received his master’s degree in music education
from Westminster Choir College where he
studied voice under noted voice pedagogue
Marvin Keenze. Since that time, Jason has
frequently been in demand as a guest soloist
for performances such as Handel’s Messiah,
Robert Ray’s A Gospel Mass, Dubois’ Seven Last
Words of Christ and has been in demand as a
vocal clinician for many area church choirs.
Jason is currently pursuing a Doctorate of Music degree in choral
conducting at the University of Arizona.
Jonathan Kim is a lyric baritone from Los Angeles, California.
He earned a Bachelor of Music degree at University of California, Irvine
in vocal performance – opera, where he earned multiple awards with
Orange County’s Opera 100, NATS, Young Musicians Scholarship. His
experiences include singing with the Opera Pacific in Orange County,
various lead roles with the Orange County
Opera and the opera program at the University
of California, Irvine. His major roles in Orange
County consist of Guglielmo in Così fan tutte,
Morales in Carmen, Manoah and Harapha in
Samson. He has served as music director in a
number of churches, which led him to earn
a master’s degree in sacred music – choral
conducting from the University of Notre Dame.
There, he has been featured in choral
workshops at the 2012 American Choral
Directors Association Convention in Fort
Wayne. He has also sung as a guest soloist with
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Ivette Ortiz won the National Symphony
Orchestra Young Soloists Competition in Costa
Rica in 2005. She obtained her undergraduate
studies in voice performance at the University
of Costa Rica, with mezzo-soprano Raquel
Ramírez and soprano Zamira Barquero.
In Costa Rica, she has been part of several
professional productions of Zarzuelas – Spanish
Opera – such as Luisa Fernanda, La Viuda Alegre,
El Retablo de Maese Pedro by Manuel de Falla
and the Costa Rican Zarzuela Toyupán. In 2010
she made her professional opera debut with the
National Lyrical Company, with the role of Elvira
in Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algeri. In 2011 she sang
the role of Frasquita in Carmen by G. Bizet. In 2012 she traveled to Mexico
to represent the University of Arizona in the Festival Internacional Arte
Joven in Morelia, she sang the role of Nella in Gianni Schicchi by G. Puccini,
Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro and Euridice in Orfeo ed Euridice with
Opera Guild Southern Arizona. She recently won the second place in
NATS competition and third place in Quest for the Best competition.
She was invited last summer to perform in a Verdi Gala as part of the
voice faculty of the University of Costa Rica.
She is currently in the Doctor of Musical Arts
degree program at the University of Arizona
studying with Dr. Kristin Dauphinais.
Stephen Warner maintains an active
schedule as a chorister and soloist in addition
to working toward a Bachelor of Music degree
in choral music education and vocal performance
at the University of Arizona. Mr. Warner has
been awarded the Interlochen Performance
Award for work in the areas of both cello and
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