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Ann Arbor Festival of Song Presents the Sixteenth Annual ANN ARBOR FESTIVAL OF SONG PRESENTS THE TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL WEEK AFTER ART FAIR SONG FEST WEDNESDAY-FRIDAY, JULY 26-28, 2017 KERRYTOWN CONCERT HOUSE, ANN ARBOR WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 8:00PM L’AMOUR TOUJOURS: LA MUSIQUE MAGNIFIQUE DE FRANCE THURSDAY, JULY 27, 8:00PM THAT TIME OF YEAR THOU MAYEST IN ME BEHOLD: SONGS OF TIME AND SEASON FRIDAY, JULY 28, 8:00PM MAKE AMERICA SING AGAIN: OUR ANNUAL CABARET NIGHT 2017 ARTISTS Key to abbreviations: BGSU = Bowling Green State Univ; EMU = Eastern Michigan Univ; MOT= Michigan Opera Theatre; UM = Univ of Michigan Pianist KEVIN BYLSMA ‘s work has taken him in recent years to Venice, Paris, Romania, Eastern Europe, New York City, Boston, Los Angeles, and Thailand. Recent collaborations include several recitals with Irina Mishura, Michelle DeYoung, and Kathryn Lewek, and accompanying masterclasses of Samuel Ramey, Dianne Soviero, and Marilyn Horne. His music directing and coaching credits include Ann Baltz' OperaWorks in Los Angeles, Toledo Opera, MOT, OPERA!Lenawee, Papagena Opera Company, and the UM. Currently serving as Head of Music Preparation at Toledo Opera, and Lecturer of Opera at the College of Musical Arts at BGSU, Kevin has also served the Toledo, Adrian, and Greater Lansing Symphony Orchestras as keyboardist, and since 1993 has been associate organist at Mariners' Church of Detroit. EMILY BENNER, soprano, has performed roles with MOT and Toledo Opera, and in concert with the Detroit and Toledo Symphonies. A former resident artist with the Toledo Opera, Ms. Benner has also performed extensively in Northwest Ohio. Most recently, Ms. Benner appeared as a soloist with the Toledo Symphony and Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra. She is the recipient of numerous awards, and was a regional finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. A graduate of the UM, she maintains connections with the Phoenix Ensemble, Brave New Works, The Ann Arbor Festival of Song, Michigan Opera Works and Vox Early Music Ensemble. She is currently on the faculties of EMU and Albion College, and is a longtime member of the professional choir at the historic Mariners’ Church of Detroit. CLAIRE CHARDON, soprano, a Michigan native, has established herself as a versatile artist on the operatic, musical theater, and concert stage. Some recent highlights include appearances with Michigan Opera Theater, performing the role of Despina in Mozart’s Così fan tutte with the Bay View Music Festival, and singing as the soprano soloist in Fauré’s Requiem. In addition, Claire has sung the roles of Clara in Light in the Piazza, Adele in Die Fledermaus, and Valencienne in The Merry Widow. Claire earned her Bachelor of Music degree from Grand Valley State University and her Master’s degree from BGSU. JENNIFER CRESSWELL, soprano, frequently performs with Toledo Opera, including as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni and Liu in Turandot. Other roles are Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana, Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors, Anna Maurrant in Street Scene, and Pasatieri’s Lady Macbeth. Concert work has included Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, and Bach’s Mass in bminor. Ms. Cresswell is also an opera librettist, having rewritten/condensed six operas for young audiences, and one original work, Respectable Woman, with composer Kristi Fullerton. She has served as artistic administrator for Toledo Opera, hosted a classical music radio show for two years on 91.3 WGTE, and currently serves as director of music at St. Ursula Academy in Toledo, Ohio. JARROD DAVIS, JR., tenor, is a recent masters graduate in Voice Performance from BGSU. During his time in the Toledo area he has performed with the Toledo Opera chorus in Porgy and Bess, Barber of Seville, and Marriage of Figaro. His most recent roles are Mr. Sankey in Street Scene, Giorgio in Gondoliers, and Pirate King in Pirates of Penzance. This fall he hopes to reach out and finally start his career as a young artist and perform in theatres and opera houses. JENNIFER GOLTZ, soprano, specializes in new chamber music, opera, and cabaret. Her collaboration with composer/pianist Logan Skelton spans two decades, two continents, and numerous song cycles. She is the vocalist for Brave New Works as well as a founding member; in recent years she has also appeared with Milwaukee-based Present Music. She created the role of the god Pan in Kamran Ince’s new opera Judgment of Midas, recently released on Naxos; she can also be heard on Albany, Centaur, MSR Classics, AMP, and Blue Griffin Records. In the early 2000s, she fronted the popular Klezmer band Into the Freylakh, with whom she released an eponymous CD and The Shape of Klez to Come. TERI HERRON, soprano, holds degrees from Simpson College, University of Houston, and Indiana University at Bloomington. She is a veteran of the opera stage and has appeared in the roles of Lady Billows in Albert Herring, The New Prioress in Les Dialogues des Carmélites, Ottavia in Coronation of Poppea, the Witch in Hansel and Gretel, and La Ciesca in Gianni Schicchi. She continues to present her research, perform, and offer master classes at various venues across the country. She currently lives and works in San Diego, California where she teaches voice and serves on the boards of the NATS CALWestern region and the San Diego NATS Chapter. JOHN F. HOPKINS, tenor, has enjoyed lead roles and solo engagements in Anything Goes, Little Shop of Horrors, She Loves Me, and others, at Detroit’s Masonic Temple, Gem and Fisher Theaters, Croswell Opera House in Adrian, Toledo’s Franciscan Center, Valentine, and Stranahan Theaters. He has performed and/or directed at MOT, Detroit Symphony, Ann Arbor Performance Network, Kerrytown Concert House, Toledo Opera, Toledo Repertoire Theater, University of Toledo, Toledo Symphony, International Thespian Society, Toledo School for the Arts, Livonia Churchill and Stevenson High Schools, and he has been director of the Operetta Workshop at the Detroit Opera House. He is Drama Coordinator for the Berkley School District, and a member of the professional choir at historic Mariners’ Church of Detroit. KO KAIDEN, baritone: A native of Kamakura, Japan, Ko began his professional music career as an oboist, playing with symphony orchestras in Japan. Upon moving to New York in 1990 he expanded his excellent woodwind skills by becoming a woodwind doubler in Broadway productions. Inspired by a recording of acclaimed tenor José Carreras and pianist Martin Katz, an experience he describes as life-changing, he began his vocal training with a goal of professional singing. He soon became a sought-after performer and has been praised for his “musical sensitivity” and his “intelligence in the delivery of text” by Francisco Casanova, Metropolitan Opera. JOHN MINK, baritone, is a recent graduate from BGSU, where he obtained a Master’s degree in vocal performance. John holds a bachelor’s degree in music business from Mansfield University. His opera credits include the roles of Alfio (Cavalleria Rusticana), Uncle Billy (The Outcasts of Poker Flats), Grandpa Moss (The Tender Land), the Sergeant of Police (The Pirates of Penzance), the title role in Pasatieri’s Signor Deluso, in addition to his involvement as the section leader of the Toledo Opera chorus. His musical theater credits include Joe Hardy (Damn Yankees), Adam (The Apple Tree), Rod (Avenue Q), Bobby (Company) and the title role in Sweeney Todd. Toledo-born STEVEN MULLAN is excited to be back with the music community that fostered his lifelong passion. As a teen, his training with Joan Layne, Kevin Bylsma, Luke Rosen, and Christopher Scholl prepared him to earn a full scholarship to Miami University. Fast forward to a career as a songwriter, keyboardist, model, and producer in Nashville, with songs in commercials for Starbucks and Nestle; his work as a keyboard player has taken him on the road opening for Tim McGraw and Hunter Hayes; he’s in music videos for Kelly Clarkson and Steven Tyler; and his modeling career began with an editorial in Cosmopolitan. With his production partner, Owen Lewis, he has produced indie artists in Iceland and Ireland. They are currently recording his band, T0T, set to release this Fall. Follow along at stevenmullan.com. ALISSA PLENZLER, soprano, hails from South Bend, Indiana. She holds a BM in Voice Performance (Cum Laude) from the University of Dayton, and is working on a MM in Voice Performance at BGSU. Recently roles include Casilda in The Gondoliers (BGSU), and Papagena in Die Zauberflöte and Naiade and Spring in The Fairy Queen (Hawaii Performing Arts Fesitival). She was an apprentice with Dayton Opera for their performances of Les pêcheurs de perles in 2015, and was an Emerging Artist in Oberlin Conservatory’s Oberlin in Italy (Arezzo) program. Alissa has sung in masterclasses for Jake Heggie, Dean Southern (Cleveland Institute of Music), Andrea Huber (AIMS, Graz, Austria), and Lucy Simon. KATE POMRENKE, soprano, recently completed her Master of Music in Vocal Performance at BGSU, and is also a graduate of Aurora University. In the spring of 2016 she won 1st place in the Graduate Division of the annual Conrad Art Song Competition, and 3rd place in The Marni Nixon International Vocal Competition. She has appeared as Rose Maurrant in Street Scene, Célie in Signor Deluso, Lola in Gallantry, and as the soprano soloist in Mozart's Vesperae Solennes de Confessore. LAURA REAPER, mezzo-soprano, performed Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde this past spring. Her opera credits include Alisa (Lucia di Lammermoor), Orfeo (Orfeo ed Euridice), Katisha (The Mikado), and 3rd Lady (Die Zauberflöte). Concert solo work has included Messiah, Rejoice in the Lamb, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. She is a staff singer at the historic Mariners’ Church of Detroit, and currently serves as adjunct professor of voice at the University of Toledo.
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