In Memoriam Bourbon Baroque John Austin Clark & Nicolas Fortin, Artistic Directors

presents

Georg Frideric HÄNDEL Nicolas Fortin 1980-2016 Messiah HWV 56

with support from The Owsley Brown II Family Foundation &

Nov. 26 & 27, 2016 Ernie Adams St. Brigid Catholic Church 1959-2016 1520 Hepburn Avenue Louisville Kentucky 40204 Messiah, HWV 56 Georg Frideric Händel Albinoni Avenue | $100+ Geri Fridy (1685-1759) Rachel Gries Big Bar Rosanne Hoffmann Part One Kathy Burr Jan Kottke Elizabeth Bruenderman Barbara Buddeke Ogden Isaiah's prophecy of salvation Lola Burdine Carroll Marilyn Meredith Sinfony Leigh Walton Clark Kathleen Schmitz Comfort ye my people (Spears) Evelyn T. Cohn Ellen Miller Timmons Ev'ry valley shall be exalted (Spears) Barbara Collins Rachel W. Waterfill And the glory of the Lord (chorus) Barret H. Collins Cassandra Culin Bourbon Baroque | $25+ Dr. and Mrs. Bobby M. DeWeese The coming judgment Sarah O. Eggers Nancy D. Anderson Thus saith the Lord of hosts (Rittenhouse) Benjamin J. Evans Laura H. Chipe But who may abide the day of His coming (Bier) Andrew Fleischman Paula Fangman And he shall purify the sons of Levi (chorus) Janice Grady Susan Feingold Michael Hardesty Vickie Mann Austyn E. Hill Jim Rittenhouse The prophecy of Christ's birth Michael Hill Mark Spicknall John and Cathy Holtman Behold, a virgin shall conceive (Rader) Sally MacDonald O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion (Rader and chorus) Jack Roby For behold, darkness shall cover the earth (Ferrill) Lynn D. Slaughter The people that walked in darkness (Rittenhouse) Michael Swansburg For unto us a child is born (chorus) Delia and Hugh Walker

The annunciation to the shepherds Cape Couperin | $50+ Martha M. Calderwood Pifa Mrs. Gretchen G. Clark and Mr. There were shepherds abiding in the fields (Mayhew) Taisuke Yamashita And lo, the angel of the Lord (Mayhew) And the angel said unto them (Mayhew) Special thanks to our hosts: And suddenly there was with the angel (Mayhew) Glory to God in the highest (chorus) Andrew Gentile Antiques Michael Hill Louise Brown Marilyn Meredith Christ's healing and redemption Stephen Buss Lynne Pendleton Mr. and Mrs. John H. Clark, IV Chad Sloan Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion (Wright) Nick Covault Stephen Wesley Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened (Rader) Cassandra Culin Wendy Yoder He shall feed his flock like a shepherd (Rader and Mayhew) His yoke is easy (chorus) P.O. Box 2229 New York, NY 10163| bourbonbaroque.com Bourbon Baroque, Inc. Part Two Bourbon Baroque, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization Christ’s Passion Board of Directors Behold the Lamb of God (chorus) He was despised and rejected of men (Adams) Robert E. Kulp, Jr., president Surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrow (chorus) Austyn Hill, secretary And with his stripes we are healed (chorus) Michael G. Swansburg, Jr., treasurer John H. Clark IV All we like sheep have gone astray (chorus) Benjamin J. Evans All they that see him laugh him to scorn (Morris) Autumn Lucas He trusted in God that he would deliver him (chorus) . Ticket sales cover only a small percentage of the operating costs Christ’s Death and Resurrection needed to maintain our collaborative programming. He was cut off (Romney) Please consider becoming a member of Bourbon Baroque! But thou didst not leave his soul in hell (Romney)

Membership Circle Christ's Ascension (as of 11/1/20156 Lift up your heads, O ye gates (chorus) Rond-Point du Roy | $5000+ Lully Lane | $500+ Christ's reception in Heaven Christina Lee Brown Dean M. Karns Virginia S. Frazier Mary and Bob Rounsavall Unto which of the angels (Romney) The Robert W. Rounsavall, Jr. Let all the angels of God worship Him (chorus) Family Foundation The beginnings of Gospel preaching Thou art gone up on high (Ferrill) Rue Rameau | $1000+ Handel Heights | $250+ The Lord gave the word (chorus) Mrs. Edith S. Bingham Nathan Cox How beautiful are the feet (Black) Mr. & Mrs. John H. Clark, IV Michael Kirk Mrs. Harry S. Frazier, Jr. Stephanie and Charles Sarasohn The world’s rejection of the Gospel Dr. and Mrs. Robert S. Tillett, Jr. Mary Moss Greenebaum Why do the nations so furiously rage together (Rittenhouse) Mark Huebsch Mr. and Mrs. William C. Tyler Let us break their bonds asunder (chorus) Mr. Robert E. Kulp, Jr. Yum! Brands Foundation He that dwelleth in heaven (Spears)

God’s ultimate victory CDs are available for purchase at the ticket table. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron (Spears) All proceeds go to cover the cost of programming. Hallelujah (chorus) Don’t forget to sign-up for our e-newsletters for the latest BB news! Part Three Bourbon Baroque The promise of eternal life John Austin Clark & Nicolas Fortin Artistic Directors I know that my Redeemer liveth (Peer) Since by man came death (chorus) Violin Bass Janelle Davis Dara Bloom The Day of Judgment Alice Culin-Ellison Trumpet Evan Few Behold, I tell you a mystery (Sloan) Kris Kwapis Martie Perry Sean Burdette The trumpet shall sound (Sloan) Kathie Raymond Ana Sarbu Timpani The final conquest of sin Aaron Hanka Viola Then shall be brought to pass (Bier) Rachel Gries Oboe O death, where is thy sting (Morris and Bier) Michael Hill Sung Lee But thanks be to God (chorus) Meghan Casper Sarah Huebsch If God be for us, who can be against us (Black) Cello Bassoon Kelsey Schilling The acclamation of the Messiah Erica Rubis Lara Turner Theorbo/Lutes Worthy is the Lamb (chorus) David Walker Amen (chorus) Violone Phil Spray Harpsichord John Austin Clark

Soprano Tenor Emily Yocum Black Zackery Morris Marie-France Duclos Justin Romney Elizabeth Mayhew Steven Paul Spears Mary Catherine Wright Alto Bass Audrey Belle Adams Kyle Ferrill Robin Bier Jim Rittenhouse Andrew Rader Chad Sloan

Lighting Design Theresa Bagan Biographies

Kyle Ferrill, , has appeared with some of the nation’s finest orchestras, including Soprano Emily Yocum Black is completing her Masters of Music in Vocal the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops, and New York’s Orchestra of St. Performance at the University of Louisville with plans to graduate May 2017. Emily is Luke’s. Conductors include Stefan Asbury, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Keith Lockhart, Gil the Apprentice Studio Artist at Kentucky and is performing in the chorus for Rose, , Kirk Trevor, and John Williams. Recent engagements include the the 2016-2017 season as well as working with their outreach and education program. Brahms Requiem and Mendelssohn’s Elijah with St. Olaf College Choir and Orchestra, Last year, she served as the School of Music Graduate Teaching Assistant in Voice the Oregon Bach Festival , a commercial recording of Ruth Fazal’s Awakening with the where she maintained a full voice studio and taught courses in voice to non-majors. Slovak National Orchestra in Bratislava, Slovakia, and a reprise of a successful Carnegie Recently, Emily won First Prize in the University of Louisville Aria Competition and Hall commission, David Bruce’s Piosenki, in London. In addition to performing, Kyle will perform with the University Orchestra in the spring. She was also the 2016 Grand teaches voice and vocal pedagogy at the University of Memphis. A native of Prize winner of the Kentucky Bach Choir Audrey Rooney Vocal Competition and will Greenwood, Indiana, he holds a bachelor’s degree from Butler University and a master’s perform as a soloist with the Kentucky Bach Choir this season. Last year, Emily had the and doctoral degree from Florida State University, and has also studied at Tanglewood, pleasure of performing as a soloist in Bernstein’s Mass with the Louisville Orchestra. Songfest, Ravinia, and several sessions in the Carnegie Hall Professional Training Emily has been very active in the U of L Opera Theatre program performing the roles Workshops. www.kyleferrill.com of Pamina in The Magic Flute (2016), Laetitia in The Old Maid and the Thief (2015) and Silverpeal in The Impresario (2015). She is also a three-year member of the Louisville Jim Rittenhouse has been critically acclaimed as possessing a “luscious baritone voice,” Chamber Choir. …“an instrument with agility and a continuum of many shades…” and “a vulnerability few vocalists achieve.” He holds the Performer’s Certificate/Voice and MCM degree in Soprano Marie-France Duclos has built a vast repertoire of solo performances choral conducting from Southern Seminary. His solo performances have included including sacred music and opera. She was recently featured as Despina in Cosi fan appearances with the Louisville Orchestra and Orchestra KY; Caccini’s La Liberazione di tutte with UK Opera Theatre. She also sang the role of Belinda in Bourbon Baroque’s Ruggiero with Ars Femina; the Durufle Requiem, Rutti Requiem, Britten’s Cantata 2015 production of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas as well as in their 2015 Händel’s Messiah. misericordium and War Requiem with Louisville Choral Arts Society; Bach’s Christmas She was the soprano soloist in Bach’s Saint-John’s Passion with the Kentucky Bach choir Oratorio with The Blanche Moyse Chorale, Vermont; and Messiah with Bourbon Baroque last March. She is the first prize winner of the Audrey Rooney Kentucky Bach Choir and Fort Wayne Bach Society. Jim is a member of the Louisville Chamber Choir and sits Competition 2014. She sang in J.S. Bach’s Motets in a concert broadcasted by the on their board. With the LCC he has performed with the Louisville Orchestra in Orff ’s public radio CBC. She also toured as Gretel in Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel Carmina Burana, Bernstein’s Mass, and Messiah. He is Associate Director of Music at St presented by JMC. She performed in roles as Musetta, Cendrillon, and Monica. Paul UMC Louisville, and is owner of R2 Impact, a speakers bureau and meetings/ Marie-France earned a Master’s degree in Voice Performance from the University of events consultancy. He and wife, Janet, reside in Louisville and have two daughters. Montreal. She is now working towards her DMA in Voice Performance at the University of Kentucky under the guidance of Dr. Noemi Lugo. Marie-France will be Chad Sloan, Chad Sloan, baritone, is a member of the faculty at the University of presenting two recitals of Chamber music at the University of Kentucky. The first one Louisville. He has sung with Kentucky Opera, Louisville Choral Arts Society, Dayton on January 17th 2016 and the second one at the beginning of May. Opera, Tanglewood Music Center, Anchorage Opera, New York City Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Atlanta Ballet, Atlanta Opera, Aspen Opera Theater, and Elizabeth Mayhew, Elizabeth Mayhew is a second-year master’s student studying Tacoma Opera. Most recently he was heard in recitals with Ensemble for the Romantic Vocal Performance at The University of Kentucky. She received her undergraduate Century, as a soloist in Britten's War Requiem with Lawrence University, as a soloist in The degree in vocal performance from Wingate University in North Carolina '15. Elizabeth Juilliard School's concert celebrating the life and work of Elliott Carter, Willy in Lee has been fortunate to perform with the Wingate University Opera program in their Hoiby's This is the Rill Speaking with Opera Memphis and featured along side eighth productions of Cenerentola (Tisbe), Pirates of Penzance (Edith and Mabel), Regrets Only blackbird in University of Chicago's CONTEMPO series. Other recent projects include (Emma Lou), and The Tenderland (Laurie) all under the direction of Dr. Jessie Wright Carmina Burana with Lexington Philharmonic, South Bend Symphony and Flagstaff Martin. She was the soprano soloist for a number of choral works with the Wingate Symphony, a return to the CONTEMPO series with eight blackbird at University of University Choir, including Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s B-minor Mass, Magnificat and the Chicago, performances of Papageno in Arizona Opera's production of Die Zauberflöte Oster-Oratorium. At the University of Kentucky, Elizabeth was most recently seen as and Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden gesellen with Orchestra Kentucky. Further engagements Evelyn Nesbit in UK Opera Theatre’s Ragtime, and she is currently preparing for UK include a return to Kentucky Opera in their production of The Mikado. Opera Theatre’s 2017 Spring production of Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Elizabeth studies with Dr. Elizabeth P. Arnold. Mary Catherine Wright is currently finishing her Bachelors in Vocal Performance and Zackery Morris, a native of Raleigh NC, is thrilled to be apart of this exciting Musical Theatre Certificate at the University of Kentucky studying under Dr. Everett ensemble! Equally at home on operatic and musical theatre stages with credits McCorvey. She is a 2015 Metropolitan National Council Audition Mid-South Region including; Marius (Les Miserables), Anthony Hope (Sweeney Todd), as well as the roles of Finalist and was the first-place winner of the 2012 Alltech Vocal Scholarship Ferrando (Cosi fan tutte), The Four Servants (Les Contes d’Hoffmann) and Don Basilio (Le Competition. In November 2014, she was the recipient of the Encouragement Award Nozze di Figaro). Most recently, Zackery was a young artist with PORTopera in Portland at the Metropolitan Opera National Council District Auditions. Most recently, Ms. Maine where he performed the role of Tobias in The Medium as well as covered the role Wright performed Zerlina in Don Giovanni in the Estates Theatre (Prague) in July 2015 of La Remendado in Bizet’s Carmen. Zackery has worked as young artist for The Ohio and made her professional debut as Nuria in 's Ainadamar in April 2015 Light Opera and just last year with the Bayview Music Festival in northern Michigan. with the Lexington Philharmonic, Kentucky Opera, and UK Opera Theatre. Mary On the concert stage, Zackery was a recent winner of the audience choice award Catherine has enjoyed playing roles such as Olympia in the Les Contes d'Hoffmann, with the Audrey Rooney Bach Competition last April, and has sung as soloist for the Johanna in Sweeney Todd, Carrie in Carousel, and Suor Genovieffa in Puccini's Suor Kentucky Bach Choir, North Carolina Master Chorale, Carolina Ballet, as well as Angelica. Currently, Ms. Wright is singing in the Kentucky Opera chorus for their Angela Rice's 'Thy Will Be Done' . Mr. Morris is a graduate of Wingate University ‘12 2016-2017 season, performing Handel's Messiah this holiday season and traveling to in Charlotte N.C., and holds Masters of Music ‘15, and is a current D.M.A. candidate at New York to sing with the National Chorale. the University of Kentucky. Audrey Belle Adams is a sophomore vocal performance major at the University of Tenor Justin Romney is in his 10th year of teaching choir in public schools; he is Kentucky, where she studies under the direction Dr. Angelique Clay. She is the recipient currently the head of the choral department at South Oldham High School. He is also of the Alltech Scholarship and is a proud member of the University of Kentucky in his 11th year as the choir director for the choir of the German-American Club of Chorale, UK's top performing ensemble. She has performed in Carnegie Hall, ACDA, Louisville. Justin earned his B.M. in Music Education and M.M. in Choral Conducting KMEA, and internationally. Within the University, she has performed Mother in at the University of Louisville and sang with the prestigious Collegiate Chorale and Ragtime, and in the spring will be singing the role of Berta in The Barber of Seville. Cardinal Singers each year there as a student. With his high school ensembles he has Audrey is a proud graduate of the Youth Performing Arts School. She would like to traveled to various destinations across the eastern United States and participated in thank Austin and Nico, her Mother, family and friends for all of the love and support. concerts and festivals where his choirs consistently receive top honors. Justin is married This performance is dedicated to her Father, Ernie Adams. to Monica (13 beautiful years!) and has two sons: Eli and Enoch. Hailed as “a Ferrier in waiting” (The Rehearsal Studio), Robin Bier has been praised for her “robust, shapely contralto,” (San Francisco Chronicle). Recent solo appearances Noted for being “most consistently musical, most clear in diction,” possessing a include Bach Mass in B Minor and the role of Clori in Handel’s Parnasso in Festa at the “stunningly beautiful, edgeless tenor” and for “lustrous singing,” tenor Steven Paul American Bach Soloists Academy, and she has also appeared as a soloist with the Spears has performed with many arts organizations across the United States and English Symphony Orchestra, the Brook Street Band, the Baroque Collective and Europe. Specializing in works of the Baroque and Contemporary Periods, Steven’s Compagnia d’Istrumenti in the UK, and the Bach Festival of Philadelphia, Brandywine recent repertoire includes of works of Rameau, Cavalli, Monteverdi, Bach and Handel, Baroque, and the Oberlin Orchestra in the USA. Robin holds a PhD in historical vocal as well as Britten, Stravinsky, Orff and Ullmann. Of his singing, reviewers have said performance practice from the University of York, and she is artistic co-director of Steven brought out “one reason why Bach’s vocal melodies have such complex, solo-voice early music ensemble Les Canards Chantants. She is a current student of searching contours; they’re tracing not just musical thoughts, but also the changing Christian Immler, and is based in Philadelphia, PA, where she is a staff singer at St. weight and implications of the text,” giving a performance “so true to the words” and Clements Church and directs the choristers of Bryn Athyn Cathedral. of a performance of the Roasted Swan in Orff ’s Carmina Burana, one critic wrote that it was “riveting…filled with angst and an overabundance of high notes, Spears Countertenor Andrew Rader has performed on three continents, both as a soloist, and dramatized the moment with vocal dexterity and polish.” His first solo album, The Call in chamber music. He has sung the title role in Giulio Cesare, Oberon in A Midsummer to Earth, songs of Daniel Gilliam, has just been released in various formats. Receiving Night’s Dream, and he was the cover for the three countertenors in Adams’ The Gospel the Master’s Degree in Music from the Juilliard School and the Bachelor’s Degree in According to the Other Mary with the LA Philharmonic. In June 2016, he performed Music from the University of Louisville, Steven is in his 13th year of teaching at Eustazio in Opera Mission’s Rinaldo in New York City. Concert work includes St. John Lawrence Conservatory in Appleton, WI and continues to be a student of Edith Davis Passion, Messiah, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Chichester Psalms, Handel’s Dixit Dominus, and Tidwell. For more info, you can go to stevenpaulspears.com. L’Amfiparnaso, Carmina Burana, Bach Mass in G Minor and numerous cantatas, including BWV 170 upcoming in April. In his performance of Carissimi’s Historia di Job, San Francisco Classical Voice said, “his voice was as strong as his character’s faith.” Competition successes have included Second Prize in the 2015 Nicholas Loren Vocal ~ Competition, Second Prize in the 2015 Handel Aria Competition of the Madison Early Music Festival, Third Prize in the 2011 Gianni Bergamo Classic Music Award, and Third Orpheus National Vocal Competition.