Faculty Artist Series

FACULTY ARTIST SERIES 1999-2000 twelfth season RICHARD WAGNER: DIE WALKORE ACT I, (abridged) JOHN HINES, tenor, as Siegmund with guests SHARON SEARLES, soprano, as Sieglinde CATHERINE BRINGERUD, piano pre-concert lecture by Mary Hagopian Sharon Beckendorf Searles, educated at the University of Tennessee, Indiana University School of Music and the Curtis Institute of Music, enjoys a balanced professional life as professor of voice at Butler University and widely-heralded recitalist and concert singer through the United States, Great Britain, Europe and Asia. At Curtis and Indiana University she was a student of Margaret Harshaw. Equally at home in the demanding Wagnerian repertoire as well as the rarefied contemporary vocal literature, some of which has been written for her voice and artistry, she has premiered several compositions including the first opera of Butler's Composer-in-Residence, Michael Schell, The Great Soap Opera, as well as his song cycle, Swanwhite (1981). She also performed the mono-opera, Diary of Anne Frank, by Grigori Frid, a renowned Russian composer who traveled to America for the first time to hear this performance. Catherine Bringerud, who completed piano performance degrees at Indiana University, supervises the staff/student accompanying program at Butler University. A collaborative pianist in high demand both on and off the university campus, she performs an average of 50 recitals a year with students, faculty and Indianapolis area musicians. Equally at home with singers and instrumentalists, she particularly enjoys the intimate art song and chamber music setting. She has appeared with Indianapolis Scott Chamber Players, Linden String Quartet, Ronen Ensemble, and recently joined "Fourte," a clarinet, violin, cello and piano ti group. In 1994 she was appointed Artistic Ambassador of the United States and performed with Butler colleagues throughout Bahrain, Pakistan and India. In February, 1998, she appeared at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts with Mrs. Searles and her two daughters in a concert celebrating the arts in Indiana. This past summer the four of them had the opportunity to perform with cellist Yo Yo Ma. She has recorded for Lorenz and Hal Leonard Publishing Co., and is featured pianist on the "15 American Songs" collections of Hal Leonard. She recently completed her first C.D. with Indianapolis bassist David Murray. John Hines, Heldentenor, is an active performer of opera, oratorio and,song recitals, • ti and was one of eight intemational finalists chosen to perform at New York's Lincoln Center in the 1996 Lauritz Melchior Heldentenor Competition. Performances in the United States Z) and abroad have included principal operatic roles in Madama Butterfly, Die Meistersinger, ;, Falstaff, La Taviata, Gianni Schicchi, Carmen, I Pagliacci, The Rakes Progress and Wozzeck. ti He holds degrees from Kent State University and Heidelberg College, and has studied at Indiana University and the American Institute of Musical Studies-Graz, Austria. He was a featured tenor in the Muncie Symphony Orchestra's 3-Tenor's Valentine's Day gala concert, \..._ and will return this season for a millennium celebration in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. He will later make his debut, with the same work, with the North Bay Philharmonic Orchestra, Napa Valley, California, and is scheduled to perform the roles of Siegmund and Siegfried in a Ring Cycle highlights concert with North Bay Philharmonic in October, 2000. An assistant professor of voice on the Ball State University faculty, he maintains an active performing schedule, and is an adjunct instructor of voice and opera at Taylor University. PRUIS HALL Series LIV Sunday, September 19, 1999 Number 9 3:00 p.m. In keeping with copyright and artist agreements, use of recording and photographic devices is not permitted by other than approved university personnel. We request your cooperation. For performance information, call the School of Music Concert HotLine: (765) 285-5878. .

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