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WHErE YoU HEAr WorlD renowned SINGErS AND DISCoVEr ToMorroW S STArS ToDAY Vocal Arts DC is proud to continue our distinguished history of presenting some of the world s greatest singers in recital, along with a uniquely gifted newcomer of enormous potential. Our singers showcase their extraordinary voices through the medium of classical song, their artistry distilled to its purest essence as they share timeless emotions from many cultures. From Elizabethan ballads with lute accompaniment to Latin-American works, from traditional German Lieder to Korean songs, plus the Washington premiere of a newly commissioned piece by an acclaimed American composer and works by beloved French and italian masters, our series has all that a lover of classical singing could want. This variety ensures that, whether you are a longtime devotee of Vocal Arts DC, or a newcomer to this intimate art form, you are assured of a rewarding experience as a subscriber. Sincerely, Peter Russell General Director, Vocal Arts DC Thursday, November 14, 2013 at 7:30pm Michael Fabiano tenor DANiELLE ORLANDO, piano Having catapulted to success since winning the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 2007, American tenor Michael Fabiano has gone from strength to strength at the Met, Milan s La Scala, English National Opera, and San Francisco Opera, and made a notable recital debut last year as part of the prestigious Harriman-Jewell Series in Missouri. After capturing exceptional notices in the Met s HD transmission of Otello opposite Renée Fleming this season, he will return to the Met in 2013-2014 for a new production of Die Fledermaus. Program to include works by Liszt, Duparc, and Tosti. He sings with effortless beauty of tone, and an exquisite sense of line. - TiM ASHLEy, THE GuARDiAN (LONDON) Wednesday, December 4, 2013 at 7:30pm brandon cedel bass-baritone BRiAN zeger, piano SuBSCRiPTiONS: Full subscriptions to the series of seven recitals are priced at $287 each. it is also possible to order a mini-subscription containing a minimum of three recitals in the series, with each recital priced at $45 per ticket. All concerts take place in the Terrace Theater at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, except for the recital by Lawrence Brownlee on Tuesday, May 13, 2014, which will be held in Lisner Auditorium at George Washington university. Please use the subscription form for all ticket orders, or subscribe online: www/vocalartsdc.org/subscribe. The deadline for current subscribers to renew their subscriptions is April 30. PHOTO CREDITS: Michael Fabiano by Arielle Doneson, Brandon Cedel by Peter Konerko, Ana María Martínez by Tom Specht, Luca Pisaroni by Marco Borggreve, Hei-Kyung Hong by J. Henry Fair, Iestyn Davies by Marco Borggreve, Lawrence Brownlee by Derek Blanks. A Grand Prize Winner of the 2013 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and Winner of the 2012 George London Foundation Award, Brandon Cedel joins the Lindemann young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera at the beginning of the 2013-2014 season, following a summer with Wolf Trap Opera Company as a Filene young Artist. He will make his European debut with Glyndebourne Festival in 2014. Cedel has a voice that passes the fundamental test: when he sings, you don t want him to stop. He was beautifully smooth with an elegant line and persuasive phrasing. - zachary WOOLFE, THE NEW york TiMES
Wednesday, January 8, 2014 at 7:30pm ANA MARíA MARTíNEZ soprano THOMAS JABER, piano Grammy Award-Winning soprano Ana María Martínez, a native of Puerto Rico, has become one of the world s most sought-after leading ladies in opera and concert, a favorite at the Met, Covent Garden, Paris Opera, Munich, and Vienna. Warmly remembered for her devastating portrayal of the title role in Madama Butterfly recently with Washington National Opera, Martínez combines a timbre of arresting beauty with extraordinary immediacy of expression. On this evidence alone she requires ranking among the top lyric sopranos of the day. - Max Loppert, Opera magazine Friday, January 31, 2014 at 7:30pm LUCA PISARONI bass-baritone WOLFRAM RIEGER, piano Selected by Opera News as one of the elite next wave among today s most exciting young vocal stars, Pisaroni brings an old-fashioned dash of sex appeal to an extraordinarily wide repertoire, ranging from the Baroque through the coloratura exertions of bel canto to German Lieder. Having caught all eyes and ears through his appearances in the Met s recent HD transmissions of Don Giovanni and The Enchanted Isle, he makes his Washington-area recital debut with Vocal Arts just prior to a return to the Met. Program to include works by Beethoven, Brahms, Liszt, and Reichardt. The terrific young Italian bass-baritone rattled through his show-stopping numbers with evident glee and absolute authority. - Hugo Shirley, Telegraph (London) Wednesday, February 26, 2014, at 7:30pm HEI-KYUNG HONG soprano VLAD IFTINCA, piano One of the most highly esteemed principal artists on the roster of the Metropolitan Opera, Korean-American soprano Hei-Kyung Hong commands a voice of unparalleled sweetness and purity. An exquisite musician who has won a loyal international following from London and Paris to Milan and Vienna, Hong has sung both the title role in Verdi s La Traviata and Cleopatra in Handel s Julius Caesar to overwhelming audience and critical acclaim for Washington National Opera. Program to include works by Grieg, Schumann, R. Strauss, Fauré, Bizet, Rachmaninoff, and Korean composers. Almost a quarter-century after her first Met Mimì, Ms. Hong sounded fresh and radiant, her singing distinguished by beautiful phrasing and refined pianissimos. - Vivien Schweitzer, The New York Times Tuesday, April 8, 2014 at 7:30pm IESTYN DAVIES countertenor THOMAS DUNFORD, lute With a solo album for Hyperion, Arias for Guadagni, recently selected by London s Gramophone as Best Solo Vocal Album of the Year, and a full calendar of concert and opera engagements, Iestyn Davies has become a true star among countertenors in the last several seasons. He comes to Washington on the heels of performing Oberon in Britten s A Midsummer Night s Dream at the Metropolitan Opera, a signature portrayal that has bewitched audiences in London and Houston. Program to include songs by Dowland, Purcell, Johnson, and Campion, plus the Washington-area premiere of a new work by young American composer Nico Muhly, commissioned by Wigmore Hall in London, written expressly for Mr. Davies. Iestyn Davies almost walks away with the show. The voice is utterly smooth, his agility remarkable and he dazzles in his second act showpiece. - Robert Levine, International Record Review
Tuesday, May 13, 2014 at 7:30pm GWU Lisner Auditorium LAWRENCE BROWNLEE tenor TBA, piano Back by popular demand following his wildly successful Vocal Arts DC recital debut in 2009, this stunning American tenor continues to expand his already enormous international fan base with an unbeatable mix of artistry, pyrotechnics, and sheer loveliness of sound. As an exponent of true bel canto, his interpretations bear comparison with the finest singers of any generation. He returns to DC fresh from performances at the Met in Bellini s I Puritani, with which he already wowed audiences with Washington Concert Opera. He sang with agility, elegance, and style this was a winning performance by an increasingly important artist. - Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times general information: Current subscribers requests for seating changes will be accommodated, space permitting. New subscriptions will be filled in the order received with best seats available. For the recital by Lawrence Brownlee on Tuesday, May 13, 2014, in Lisner Auditorium at George Washington University, Vocal Arts DC subscribers will be assured premium seating. Single ticket orders received with subscriptions will be processed in the order received, after subscription orders have been filled, and will be filled with best seats available. After the subscription period, full subscribers may still purchase additional single tickets directly through Vocal Arts DC at a reduced rate of $41 per recital, and mini-subscribers may purchase them at $45 per recital (full cost to non-subscribers for these tickets is $50). If, as a subscriber, you find you are unable to use your ticket to one of our recitals, contact us to inquire about exchanging it for a second ticket to another of the concerts in our series. VOCAL ARTS DC 2013-2014 SUBSCRIPTION ORDER FORM Deadline to keep your seats: April 30, 2013 q Yes! Please send me subscriptions @ $287 q Please keep my seats from last year total: q Please change my seats if possible (please call us at 202-669-1463, or email to info@vocalartsdc.org) q Please add any extra single tickets below @ $41 each q Yes! Please renew my mini-subscription - I have requested my 3 or more recitals below @ $45 each q New Subscriber. Please send me subscriptions @ $287 total: q New Mini-Subscriber. I have requested my 3 or more recitals below @ $45 each concert #seats price total Fabiano Cedel Martinez Pisaroni Hong Davies Brownlee Please consider a tax-deductible donation to Vocal Arts DC: (see reverse) Contribution to the Gerald Perman Fund for Emerging Artists: (see reverse) Handling Fee (credit card only) $5.00 Pay This Amount* Total: As a donor, please list me/us in printed programs as: Please charge my: q Visa q MasterCard q American Express Credit Card Number Exp. Date Verification Code (Visa/MC last 3 digits on the back; AmEx 4 digits on the right front) Name (as shown on your credit card) Address To contact us: Call 202-669-1463, or email: info@vocalartsdc.org Programs and artists are subject to change. Vocal Arts DC is made possible, in part, by major grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation. Vocal Arts DC also appreciates generous support from The Dallas Morse Coors Foundation and The Nancy Peery Marriott Foundation, Inc. City Daytime Phone Email State/Zip Code Evening Phone *Make checks payable to Vocal Arts DC Mail to: Vocal Arts DC, PO Box 42423, Washington, DC 20015
Vocal arts dc Please Consider a Donation to Vocal Arts DC From advance receipt of program materials, including background notes, texts, and translations, to invitations to post-performance dinners with our artists and to limited-capacity special events, Vocal Arts DC offers a range of benefits to our donors. Visit our website at www.vocalartsdc.org and click on Donations Matter to learn more about the rewards available to you for making a contribution. Vocal Arts DC is a 501c3 charitable organization, dedicated to the promotion of the song recital. Ticket sales cover less than half the cost of our presentations. Your generosity makes these recitals and our educational activities possible. Please add your donation to Vocal Arts DC on the reverse of this form on the appropriate line. The Gerald Perman fund for Emerging Artists Gerald Perman, the esteemed Founder and Artistic Director Emeritus of Vocal Arts DC, will celebrate his 90th birthday on July 6, 2013. In tribute to his longstanding dedication to the promotion and presentation of performances by some of the world s finest vocalists during the early stages of their illustrious careers, we have established the Gerald Perman Fund for Emerging Artists, for which the inaugural recital will be performed by the exciting young bass-baritone Brandon Cedel, accompanied by Brian Zeger, on Wednesday, December 4, 2013. Donations to the Gerald Perman Fund for Emerging Artists can be made in both lump sum payments and multi-year pledges. Please join us in celebrating Gerald Perman s 90th birthday while helping to insure that a debut recital by a young artist of outstanding accomplishment and promise will continue to be an integral part of our programming at Vocal Arts DC. q Yes! I would like to make a donation to the Gerald Perman Fund in the amount of. Please add donations to be made toward the Gerald Perman Fund for Emerging Artists on the reverse of this form on the appropriate line. q Yes! I would like to pledge a multi-year donation to the Gerald Perman Fund. My multi-year pledge will be paid in increments of each over a period of years, with an initial gift of at this time. Please add the initial donation amount to be made toward the Gerald Perman Fund for Emerging Artists on the reverse of this form on the appropriate line. We will contact you regarding the future donations.