MSM would like to thank the Library of Congress for providing the manuscript and first edition scores from their digital archive of the works by W. A. Mozart and Richard Wagner performed in in the master class that took place on February 03, 2015 in Greenfield Recital Hall.
from Faust
from Le nozze di Figaro
from Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor
from Il barbiere di Siviglia
from Hérodiade
from Don Carlo
from Tannhäuser
from Die Zauberflöte
from L’Arlesiana
ABOUT THE STUDENTS
Baritone SeokJong Baek is a Bachelor of Music degree candidate at Manhattan School of Music under the tutelage of Ashley Putnam. SeokJong Baek won first place at the Peel Music Festival in Brampton, Canada.
Currently pursuing her Master’s degree at Manhattan School of Music under the tutelage of Cynthia Hoffmann, Noragh Devlin has been praised for her authoritative singing by Opera News and her “powerful, rangy mezzo-soprano” by the New York Times. A recipient of the Mae Zenke Orvis Opera Scholarship, Ms. Devlin also earned her undergraduate degree from Manhattan School of Music.
Previous operatic credits include Thomson’s The Mother of Us All (Susan B. Anthony) and Orphée aux enfers (L’Opinion Publique and Junon) with Manhattan School of Music Opera Theatre and I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Romeo) with MSM’s Opera Repertoire Ensemble; Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Giulio Cesare) with the Bay Area Summer Opera Training Institute; Elektra (Dritte Magd); and The Little Prince (The Geographer). Scene work includes The Crucible (Elizabeth Proctor), Die Zauberflöte (Dritte Dame), Così fan tutte (Dorabella), The Rape of Lucretia (Female Chorus), La Clemenza di Tito (Annio), and Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Nicklausse). This spring and summer, Ms. Devlin will perform the role of the Second Lady in The Magic Flute with Manhattan School of Music Opera Theatre and Gertrude in Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette at the Aspen Opera Festival.
Ms. Devlin has performed as a soloist in Rossini’s Petit Messe Solennelle, Pergolesi’s Magnificat, Brahm’s Neueliebeslieder, Handel’s Messiah and the rarely performed Requiem by Nunes Garcia. She is also an avid performer of Lieder and spent the summers of 2013 and 2014 studying at the Franz Schubert Institute in Baden bei Wien, Austria. There, she worked with such master teachers as Christa Ludwig, Julius Drake, Elly Ameling, and Roger Vignoles.
Baritone Kidon Choi is a second-year Master’s student at Manhattan School of Music under the tutelage of Marlena Malas. He is the recipient of the Joseph F. McCrindle Scholarship. He completed his Bachelor of Music degree in vocal performance at Hanyang University in Seoul. In April 2013, Mr. Choi made his SejongArts Center debut with Seoul Metropolitan Opera as Amonasro in Verdi’s Aida. At Manhattan School of Music, he recently performed the role of Peter in Hänsel und Gretel with the Opera Repertoire Ensemble and Rodomonte in Orlando Paladino with MSM’s Senior Opera Theatre. While earning his undergraduate degree, Mr. Choi performed in Rigoletto (Rigoletto) at the Seoul Arts Center and La Traviata (Germont) in the KBS (Korean Broadcasting System) main hall, as well as many concerts in Baek-nam Hall and the Seoul Arts Center. Kidon was a 2014 finalist of the 52nd Concorso Internazionale Voci Verdiane; a grant winner of the 2014 Licia Albanese–Puccini Foundation International Vocal Competition; and the recipient of the 2012 Grand-Prize (Prize of the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism) of both the Korea National Opera Council and the Vocal Music Competition of Daegu, among other awards. Mr. Choi released his own CD, Soar, with Sony Music Entertainment in 2013.
Tenor Taehwan Ku is a first-year Master’s degree candidate at Manhattan School of Music under the tutelage of Mark Oswald. At the Hanover Opera Theater in Germany in February 2012, Taehwan was selected for the project of dispatching students to the ‘Junge Oper’ course. He received the grand prize in vocal music and first prize in the university students’ section at the Music Journal Competition. He also received the grand prize and first prize in the university students’ section at the Korea Young Artists Competition in December 2013. He has played Rodolfo in La Bohème twice, once with Yonsei University in 2012 and recently with Manhattan School of Music’s Opera Repertoire Ensemble under the baton of Thomas Muraco. Other scene work includes La Traviata (Alfredo), Rigoletto (Duca), Die Zauberflöte (Tamino), and Die Fledermaus (Eisenstein) with Yonsei University and Sacco and Vanzetti (Sacco) with Manhattan School of Music.
Baritone Young Kwang Yoo was born in South Korea, where he graduated from Seoul National University. He is a first-year Master’s degree candidate and scholarship recipient at Manhattan School of Music under the tutelage of Mark Oswald. Young Kwang was a first-prize winner in the Osaka International Competition in Japan. Previous credits include Rigoletto (Rigoletto) with Seoul National University, La Bohème (Marcello) with MSM’s Opera Repertoire Ensemble, and The Telephone (Ben) with Te Art Ro Production. Scene work includes Rigoletto (Rigoletto) and Falstaff (Falstaff) with Seoul National University and Le nozze di Figaro (Count) with Manhattan School of Music. Mr. Yoo has given many concerts and recitals in Korea.
Tao Jiang is a first-year Master of Music degree candidate in accompanying, studying with Kenneth Merrill.
Jeremy Chan has performed at many of the major concert venues in New York, including Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and Trinity Church Wall Street. This past summer he participated in the Toronto Summer Music Festival Academy as an Art of Song Fellow and the Stowe Tango Music Festival Academy. An active advocate for new music, Jeremy has premiered many pieces written for him, while his own compositions have earned him a prize from the Fellowship of Australian Composers. His playing is featured on Bright Sheng’s upcoming NAXOS release. Jeremy has served as staff pianist for the Aaron Copland School of Music, the Westchester Summer Voice Institute, New York Opera Exchange, and the University of New South Wales Music Performance Unit.
Collaborative pianist and coach Mario Antonio Marra was recently named the 2015–16 Apprentice Coach at the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center. Lauded by Marilyn Horne for his “superb technique,” Mr. Marra won the Marilyn Horne Song Competition in 2013, which launched him on a national tour. Other performance highlights include “The Song Continues” at Carnegie Hall and a tour of Tuscany performing solo and chamber music with renowned new music flutist Roberto Fabbriciani. He was twice a fellow at the Music Academy of the West, where he prepared Die Zauberflöte and Carmen, as well as scenes from Il Trovatore and The Medium.
Korean collaborative pianist Ieseul Yoen began accompanying at Idyllwild Arts Academy in California, playing for brass, woodwinds, string, and voice students. Ms. Yoen has performed in master classes for Soomi Ahn, John Perry, Antoinette Perry, and Ory Shihor for solo piano and has appeared in various master classes as a collaborative pianist. Having earned her Bachelor’s degree as a solo pianist at Manhattan School of Music under Jeffrey Cohen, Ms. Yoen is now pursuing her Master’s degree as a collaborative pianist, studying with Mr. Warren Jones.
Jonathan Gmeinder is a first-year Master’s candidate studying vocal accompanying under the tutelage of Warren Jones. He studied piano with Catherine Kautsky as an undergraduate at Lawrence University. Jonathan has spent several summers overseas, studying solo piano in Spain and Italian opera in Italy, and has regularly attended the Green Lake Chamber Music Festival in Wisconsin. He has participated in several lessons and master classes with renowned pedagogues and performers from across the nation, including Dale Duesing, Martin Katz, Craig Rutenberg, Robert McDonald, and Gilbert Kalish. Jonathan is currently the rehearsal pianist for Manhattan School of Music’s AMTE production of Sondheim’s A Little Night Music and is looking forward to attending Songfest in Los Angeles this summer.
Preeminent American baritone Thomas Hampson enjoys a singular international career as opera singer, recitalist, and recording artist and maintains an active interest in research, education, outreach, and technology. He has performed in all of the world’s important concert halls and opera houses with many of today’s most renowned singers, pianists, conductors, and orchestras.
Honored as a Metropolitan Opera Guild “Met Mastersinger” and inducted into both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Gramophone’s 2013 Hall of Fame, Hampson is one of the most respected and innovative musicians of our time. He recently added a new album to his Deutsche Grammophon discography titled Notturno, featuring songs by Richard Strauss.
Hampson is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Hampsong Foundation, dedicated to the study and proliferation of the art of classic song from around the world, which fosters communication and understanding among cultures through their poetry and music. With a passion for art song, the singer has received worldwide recognition for his creative and thoughtfully researched programs, including his celebrated “Song of America” project and the forthcoming “Song: Mirror of the World” series.
Thomas Hampson’s 2014–15 season features debuts and reprisals of some of his best-known roles. Mr. Hampson makes two role debuts, singing the Four Villains in Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann at the Metropolitan Opera, and King Arthus in a new production of Chausson’s Le roi Arthus at the Opéra National de Paris. He also revisits signature roles, including Scarpia in Puccini’s Tosca at the Vienna State Opera and the Munich State Opera, and Renato in Verdi’s Un ballo in Maschera at San Francisco Opera. Mr. Hampson returns to the role of Mandryka in Strauss’s Arabella in his debut with the Dresden State Opera, conducted by Christian Thielemann and with Anja Harteros in the title role.
Highlights of Mr. Hampson’s concert engagements in 2014–15 include performances with Staatskapelle and Daniel Barenboim, Concertgebouw Orkest with Mariss Jansons, Filarmonica della Scala with Christoph von Dohnanyi, Wiener Symphoniker with Philippe Jordan, and Israel Philharmonic Orchestra with Gianandrea Noseda. He also appears in a special program ranging from Gershwin to Sting with percussionist Martin Grubinger at the Philharmonie in Munich and at the Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival. The baritone takes his celebrated lieder recitals to Carnegie Hall in New York, which includes a commission by composer Jennifer Higdon, and sings Strauss recitals at the Herkulessaal in Munich, Dresden Semperoper, and Linz Opera House. He will also return to Vienna for a recital at the Musikverein.
His discography of more than 150 albums includes winners of Grammy Awards, five Edison Prizes, and the Grand Prix du Disque. He carries the titles of Kammersänger of the Vienna State Opera and Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of the Republic of France and was awarded the Austrian Medal of Honor in Arts and Sciences in 2004. He received the Distinguished Artistic Leadership Award from the Atlantic Council in Washington D.C. in 2009 and was named special adviser to the study and performance of music in America by Dr. James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress, in 2008. In 2010, Hampson was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and received the Library of Congress’s “Living Legend” award, which recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to America’s cultural, scientific, and social heritage.
Thomas Hampson holds the title of Distinguished Visiting Artist for Vocal Studies and Distance Learning at MSM and serves as a member of the School’s Board of Trustees and Artistic Advisory Board. He was made an honorary professor of the University of Heidelberg in 2013 and holds honorary doctorates from Manhattan School of Music, Whitworth College, and San Francisco Conservatory.
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