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SOLI ONE: A Vocal Recital of Art Songs & Solo Works artwork by: JM Knudsen JM by: artwork VoxDaniel MusicaI. Paulson, founder/music director Streaming Live - February 21, 2021 welcome Although we can’t be together at Beatnik Studios to experience this performance face-to- face, we are very excited that you are joining us in this virtual environment. For this season, we’ve worked hard to provide you with experiences that will lift you up and help to provide you balance during this time of isolation. This season has been crafted with you in mind, combining remastered favorite performances with new project offerings. In addition, each concert project includes interactive experiences with the artists, composers, distinguished guests, and myself. From the beginning, Vox Musica has been dedicated to providing Music Worth Sharing to our community in beautiful Northern California. This year, we have the incredible opportunity to share our music beyond those borders, to people across the country and globe who are looking for something to brighten their world. I sincerely believe that music has the power to heal, to enlighten, and to change lives. I hope that our monthly concerts and performances will be a source of strength and peace for you. I want to also take a moment to thank everyone who generously gives to our organization so that we can do the important work of sharing music with our community. As we welcome in a new year, may we continue to connect in ways that nourish our heart and soul, and keep the arts alive in our community and our lives. Although we are streaming our performances online and we can’t be face-to-face we appreciate you joining us for our 15th concert season. We sincerely hope you enjoy our performance tonight and will continue to value our Music Worth Sharing. Daniel Paulson, founder/music director organization VOX MUSICA 1017 L Street, # 333 • Sacramento, CA 95814 www.VoxMusica.net • 916.844.2586 • [email protected] Executive Director: Suzi Horowitz Founder/Music Director: Daniel I. Paulson Production Manager: Spencer Timmons Board President: Mary Frank Member: Jennifer Crawford Vice President: Ann Huntsman Member: Suzi Horowitz Treasurer: Joaquin Razo Member: Tony Torres t @VOX_MUSICA | f /VOXMUSICA | I @VOX_MUSICA | h #VOXMUSICA VOX | 2 ensemble Vox Musica was founded in 2006 in a niche of “The recent arrival of the choir Vox Musica untapped potential in Sacramento’s budding classical to the Sacramento music scene is also indicative of the talent moving into the music scene. Vox Musica is committed to excellence area that highly values new music.” in performance of diverse and challenging choral - American Music Center, 2007 literature for women’s voices and is dedicated to promoting new works, including many premieres “The singers and conductor Daniel and commissioned works. Through collaborations Paulson threw down a breathtaking performance of my Three Nightsongs.” with composers, conductors, choirs, and musicians - Joshua Shank, 2008 from around the world, Vox Musica’s featured concert projects have included collected works from the 18th “The ensemble breathed refreshing life century Venetian Ospedali; music from India, Persia, into three contemporary arrangements of a 15th-century hymn ‘Es Ist Ein Ros and Georgia; a concert project for Taiko Drums and Entsprungen’ .” Women’s Choir; a concert project for DJ and Women’s - Sacramento Bee, 2010 Choir; and a concert project for looping violin and “The music was effectively built from a Women’s Choir. Vox Musica has released one compact hushed austerity to the more complex disc and has been a featured artist for both the and Vox Musica drove us through the prestigious Old First Concert Series in San Francisco terrain with excellent taste and powerful and the American Choral Directors Association’s 2011 emotion.” National Convention in Chicago, IL. More recently, Vox - Sacramento Choral Calendar, 2015 Musica was selected as the recipient of the 2015-16 “Vox Musica undertakes the performance American Society of Composers and Publishers (ASCAP) of insanely difficult music and does so National Award for Adventurous Programming. successfully, time and again.” - Sacramento Choral Calendar, 2017 Arunima Kohli, soprano I Laura McLellan, soprano II Samantha Harrison, soprano I Ema Gluckmann, alto I Rebekah Steiner, soprano I Erin Brothers, alto I Mira Huang, soprano I Jennifer Crawford, alto II Tabitha Lewis, soprano II Cat Fithian, alto II Marielle Petricevich soprano II Kate Kalthoff, alto II WWW.VOXMUSICA.NET VOX | 3 founder/director Daniel I. Paulson, founder & music director, holds a Bachelor of Music degree in voice performance from Sacramento State University, a Masters of Music Degree in Choral Conducting from the Three-Summer Masters of Music degree program at California State University, Los Angeles, and is a Doctoral student in Music Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. He has been a featured conductor on the International Festival of New American Music in Sacramento, CA, the Old First Concert Series in San Francisco, CA, and the American Choral Directors Association’s 2011 National Convention in Chicago, IL. He is a student of Dr. William Belan, Professor Emeritus of Choral Studies at California State University, Los Angeles, and Donald “Paulson has proved himself to be an astute programmer. He’s not afraid of Brinegar, Professor Emeritus of Choral Studies at Pasadena taking chances.” - Sacramento Bee, 2007 City College and former Adjunct Professor of Graduate Choral Conducting at the University of Southern California. “Paulson coaxed a multi-layered sound from the singers, whose His extended education includes studying early music with mysterious dimensions were delicately revealed.” the Western Wind Ensemble, the King’s Singers, and at the - Sacramento Bee, 2010 2013 American Bach Soloist’s Summer Academy. He was a “Paulson’s “Silent Night” was the most featured presenter at the 2013 Sacramento TEDx Conference perfect rendition that I could ever and spent the summer of 2014 teaching Choral/Vocal music imagine.” - Sacramento Choral Calendar, 2017 at the University of Costa Rica. He is Professor of Voice and “Paulson consistently produces Choral Music at Sacramento City College, is a resident artist programs that thoughtfully translate with the Tahoe Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, and serves as and provide context for the cerebral music they tackle.” Founder & Music Director for Vox Musica. - Sacramento Choral Calendar, 2018 This season we are asking you to take an active role in the growth of our organization. There are plenty of opportunities for your IS OUR talents and skills to be utilized: BOARDSHIP, FUNDRAISING, MUSIC MARKETING, & SOCIAL MEDIA are some areas in which you can be of service. WORTH Contact us today if you can help! SHARING? (916) 844-2586 | [email protected] t @VOX_MUSICA | f /VOXMUSICA | h #VOXMUSICA VOX | 4 featured artists Dr. Tabitha Lewis Soprano Dr. Tabitha Lewis is a recent transplant to California. She formerly served as Lecturer of Voice and Theory at Georgia College and State University. A frequent recitalist and concert performer, her oratorio work includes a performance of Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass under the baton of Joseph Flummerfelt, Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem, Haydn’s Paukenmesse, and Libby Larsen’s Sonnets from the Portuguese. On the operatic stage she has performed Rosalba (Florencia en el Amazonas), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Josephine (HMS Pinafore), Gretel (Hansel and Gretel), Lily (The Secret Garden), and Mabel (The Pirates of Penzance). Her love of Gilbert and Sullivan led her to make her directorial debut in 2017 with the Bloomington University Gilbert and Sullivan Society’s production of Patience. A frequent collaborator with composers, she has worked with Libby Larsen, Anne Hege, Mark Carlson, and countless student composers. She has sung in the choruses of Ash Lawn Opera, Music by the Lake Opera, Volti in San Francisco, and Aire Born Recording Group in Indianapolis. In 2014, she received an Encouragement Award from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. In 2017 she was a Marc and Eva Stern Fellow at SongFest in Los Angeles, where she performed the world premiere of Juliana Hall’s song cycle When the South Wind Sings (subsequently the topic of her doctoral dissertation) and enjoyed a solo recital performance with Martin Katz. She enjoys singing and teaching a variety of styles, including classical art songs, musical theater, and jazz. She holds a Doctor of Music and a Master of Music from Indiana University and a Bachelor of Music from Wheaton College and is also a certified Suzuki Violin Instructor. To learn more visit: www.tabithalewissoprano.com VOX | 5 Marielle Petricevich Marielle Petricevich has been a singer for as long as she can remember. According to her violin teacher, at three years old, Marielle sang every song before she learned to play them. In fact playing violin and singing go hand in hand for this artist; when a piece isn’t sitting in her voice, she knows it is time to pull out her violin. It’s only a matter of time before her repertoire is singing in hand and voice. A graduate of California State University Fresno (2013, 2015), Marielle’s music career has been centered in and around the greater Valley of California. In addition to lending her musicianship to Vox Musica, she sings with the Modesto Jazz Duo which takes a neo-classical approach to traditional jazz standards. She maintains a regular recording studio appointment with PureJoyful Music, an entity focused on recording newly composed pieces for children’s chorus and four-part acapella works. She is an advocate for performing new works, premiering Harry Sommer’s “Loon” in Fresno, California, developing the role of the “Abbess” in Evan Mack and Joshua McGuire’s opera “Secret of Luca”, and commissioning a piece from Biljana Bojovic, “Living Water” for solo voice and string quartet. However her singing is not limited to the Valley.