9:00 am: Scenes featuring new work by Tawnie Olson

Date: Saturday, April 7 | 7:30pm Location: Aetna Theater, The Wadsworth Atheneum This concert will feature opera scenes from our Composer-in-Residence Tawnie Olson, as well as scenes composed by Elizabeth Austin and Dawn Sonntag.

Concert Program: Evangeline by Dawn Sonntag I am one and double too by Elizabeth Austin Sanctuary and Storm by Tawnie Olson

Evangeline (United States Premiere) Composer: Dawn Lenore Sonntag Libretto: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow/Dawn Lenore Sonntag Director: Theresa Pilz Supported in part by the Greater Hartford Arts Council’s United Arts Campaign Evangeline: Theresa Pilz with major support from the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, OPERA Piano: Blake Hansen America, The Edward C. and Ann T. Roberts Foundation. I am one and double too (World Premiere) Composer: Elizabeth R. Austin Libretto: Gerhard Austin Julietta: Lydia McClain Peter (Count F.): Christopher Grundy Baby: Óscar Dorian Brandt-Campinho Director: Erik Bloomquist Conductor: Amelia Nagoski Piano: Mahlon Peterson Celesta: Miguel Campinho Strings: Cuatro Puntos : Kevin Huhn Horn: Julia Cavagnaro Umphress Flute: Krystal Ankerbrand Percussion: Nathaniel Gworek, Jianpeng Feng

Sanctuary and Storm (World Premiere, Co-commissioned by WCFH and the Canada Council for the Arts, with special thanks to OPERA America) Composer: Tawnie Olson Libretto: Roberta Barker Hildegard: Evanna Lai Eleanor: Amanda Kohl Angel: Will Doreza Director: Michelle Hendrick Conductor: Sarah Paquet Piano: Blake Hansen Viola: Kevin Bishop Co-sponsored by the Hartt Community Division Cello: Alan Ballinger Percussion: Nathaniel Gworek

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Prior to her purchase of the business in November of 2014, immediately after , promises to support mother and child. Marcia worked in Information Technology in the Financial Services industry for over 30 years. Kleist concludes his story with a paragraph referring to a marital reconciliation She joined the Board of Directors of the Women Composers Festival of Hartford in June of 2017 after the year during which Peter has lived passively and according to the as its Vice President/Treasurer. stipulations of the wedding contract. With 90% of its floor-space dedicated to sheet music, Foundry Music is one of the Our final scene, which is Gerhard’s inspiration, explores the catharsis: how last remaining shops of its kind between NYC and Boston. Its customers include music does Julietta become willing to reconcile, under such dark shadows of the past. teachers, school systems, universities, churches, large choral groups, solo musicians and small Some time has passed since the baby’s birth, during which Peter has been ensembles. The shop often procures music from tiny specialty publishers and self-published allowed occasional familial visits. At the onset of the scene, Julietta refuses to composers for its clients. As part of the company’s evolution, plans include expanding offerings open a dialogue with Peter, remaining physically and spiritually distant. He by contemporary composers, and highlighting the work of women composers and composers must find a way to approach her. Since his own words have been unconvincing from local communities. throughout this story, the Count turns to the language of poetry. (I have written a musical retrospectus of my entire vocal output in this scene, quoting Rami Levin received her B.A. from Yale University, an M.A. in composition from the University my own music in many instances!) Julietta dares to listen and to consider what of California, San Diego, and a Ph.D. in composition from the University of Chicago. Her catalog forgiveness might entail. The inspiration of the poetic word reaches her, just as includes pieces for orchestra, chorus, and chamber ensembles, which have been performed art illuminates the darkness in our own lives. Art being the embodiment of internationally. hope, transcending the temporal, it serves as a harbinger for the future for Her work, A New Leaf, commissioned by Chicago Symphony Orchestra clarinetist these two people- and there is joy in that! John Bruce Yeh, was recorded by him on Koch International Classics. Her Anima/breath of life Julietta gradually becomes convinced that the sinful assault, committed in was recorded by the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and her Concerto for Clarinet and "a whirlpool of wildly confused senses" and in an environment of violence, may not be allowed to destroy the future of two people whose essence has drawn Orchestra was recorded by the Slovak Radio Orchestra with Richard Stoltzman, clarinet. Both them to one another. Her strong emotions act to guide her to a place of works were released on MMC Recordings. Orquestra Sinfônica Nacional of Rio de Janeiro healing, but her clear mind is even more responsive. We see her as one of the recorded her Expressões on the Brazilian label, A Casa Estudio. few characters who acknowledges her emotions but who does not allow them to While living in Chicago, Levin served as president of American Women Composers, control her life. Midwest and was founding director of the chamber music series Lake Forest Lyrica. She served This last scene presents the mystery of how two distinct persons can as Chair of the Department of Music at Lake Forest College and Associate Dean of Faculty and in become one, yet still remain double, united yet still fulfilled in their individual 2005 was named Composer-in-Residence. The recipient of a Fulbright award in 2008, she spent personhood. This image is mirrored in the bilobed ginkgo leaf, the central symbol in a semester teaching and composing in Brazil at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Goethe's ‘Ginkgo’ poem. Goethe, a contemporary of Kleist, was fascinated by the Janeiro. She now lives in Connecticut. botany of this leaf, clearly divided into two parallel parts by a gap in the middle of the leaf, with this seam closing as the leaf ages. The message in human terms points Sacha Peiser is a , voice/piano educator, arts administrator, and music theorist based in to the growth of two individuals into persons who are "one and double too". Julietta, San Diego, California. After earning a bachelor’s degree in vocal performance from Loyola determined not to allow the past to control the future, insists that freeing oneself University New Orleans, Peiser pursued a master’s in music theory from Louisiana State from the sobering burden of the past does not mean that one forgets such a tragic University. Upon completion of a doctoral voice minor from Louisiana State, she began her act. This poem is a subtheme and unifying force in the entire opera, which almost doctoral studies in music theory/musicology from the University of Connecticut, where her every character revisits from their own perspective: dissertation was successfully defended in 2017. Peiser began her relationship with WCFH in 2015 when she served on a discussion panel, and joined the board shortly thereafter, Ginkgo Biloba eventually serving as President during the 2016-2017 season. She has enjoyed presenting her This tree's leaf, that grows entrusted research, performing, and working with so many talented people to bring this important To my garden, from The East, Festival to fruition over the past few years. Yields its secrets that delight us, As it pleases those who know. Theresa Pilz works as an Institutional Giving Manager for the New Haven Symphony Orchestra. Is it living just as one, She received her MM and Feminist Studies Graduate Certificate from the University of Separate within itself? Connecticut, and her BA in English and Theater from Boston College. She is a classical soprano Are there two, who chose each other, who has sung with such companies as Opera Theater of Connecticut, Hartford Opera Theater So that they are known as one? and the Amherst Early Music Festival. In reply to all these questions, I have found the meaning true: Don't you feel, in all my singing, That I'm one and double too?

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Theresa Pilz works as an Institutional Giving Manager for the New Haven Symphony Orchestra. She received her MM and Feminist Studies Graduate Certificate from the University of Sanctuary and Storm Connecticut, and her BA in English and Theater from Boston College. She is a classical soprano who has sung with such companies as Opera Theater of Connecticut, Hartford Opera Theater and Most musicians know Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) as that rarest of creatures: a named the Amherst Early Music Festival. medieval composer to whom we can safely attribute dozens of surviving musical works. She was much more than that, however; she was also Magistra (leader) of a monastic community Violinist Annie Trépanier's playing has been hailed by The Boston Globe as "supercharged, clear- that she herself founded, a visionary, theologian, and preacher, and many more things headed, yet soulful." As a founding member of the acclaimed Avery Ensemble and a core member besides. She was believed to be a prophetess (the “Sybill of the Rhine”) and powerful people, of the Hartford-based chamber music collaborative Cuatro Puntos, she has performed across including kings and bishops, wrote to her for advice. Canada, North and South America and Europe. Her recent Avery Ensemble CD of piano quartets by Mahler, Schnittke and Brahms was an obvious favorite of one classical.net reviewer: One of these was Eleanor (1122-1204), the famously beautiful and wealthy Duchess “gorgeous… the performers clearly have passionate feelings about what they are playing. This is of Aquitaine. As a teenager, she married Louis VII and became Queen of France. After the what loving music is all about.” She has been heard regularly in national broadcasts on Radio- annulment of that marriage in 1152 she married the Duke of Normandy, a man eleven years Canada, CBC and NPR and has recorded for Toccata Classics, Navona Records and Zephyr Labels. her junior. In 1154, he became King Henry II of England. Since 2015, Ms. Trepanier performs in the summers at the chamber music festival Loon Lake Live! in the Adirondack. She holds degrees from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec and the Although there is reason to believe that there was real love between Eleanor and University of Ottawa, Ontario. Henry at first, the marriage reached a serious crisis in the 1160s. Henry was unfaithful; worse, he tried to wrest control of Aquitaine from Eleanor. This was the same decade in which Henry quarreled, fatally, with Archbishop Thomas Becket, and it is at the end of this decade that the action of the opera is set.

Eleanor, intelligent, proud, determined, is faced with a question that human beings have had to answer again and again throughout human history: how should she respond to tyranny? How should she react when her rights, her person, are disrespected? At the end of the scenes tonight, we hear Hildegard’s reply, the words of her surviving letter to Eleanor. The rest of the opera, the forty minutes that will not be sung this evening, contains Eleanor’s reaction to that advice, and an impassioned dialogue and debate between these two very different women.

One more character appears in the opera: Walter Benjamin’s Angel of History. Where we perceive a chain of events (or, as in the case of much of medieval history, interconnected fragments) the Angel sees all history as one eternal moment, a “single catastrophe,” a monumental ruin in which nothing, for him, is lost. In the opera’s Prologue, he summons Eleanor and Hildegard from “the great disorderly pageant of the dead” and places their struggles - to respond to tyranny, to understand each other and themselves, to know and fulfill their separate vocations - in a larger context that stretches from the expulsion from Eden to our own day.

I am very, very grateful to all of the performers this evening for bringing their skill and musicality to my opera, to Roberta Barker for writing such a terrific libretto, to Michelle Hendrick for her thoughtful direction, to Madeleine Ranges for creating the video used in the Prologue, and to the Women Composers Festival of Hartford for making this performance possible. Workshops of Sanctuary and Storm were funded by an OPERA America Discovery Grant, and the piece is co-commissioned by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Women Composers Festival of Hartford.

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and a Masters in Music from Florida State University. She lives in Simsbury, CT CT Simsbury, in lives She University. State Florida from Music in Masters a and Olson Tawnie Residence: - in - Composer 2018

Amanda Kohl, lyric soprano, holds a Bachelor of Music degree and Artist Diploma 2018 Ensemble-in-Residence: Cuatro Puntos String Quartet from the Hartt School of Music and a Master’s of Music degree from Indiana University. Throughout her study as a classical singer she has performed in many Cuatro Puntos is an ensemble dedicated to intercultural dialogue and Oratorio and Operatic works and studied with renowned teachers including, universal access through the performance, writing, and teaching of music. Cuatro Metropolitan Opera soprano Carol Vaness, Joanna Levy of the Hartt School of Music Puntos has performed extensively throughout the United States as well as in Bolivia, and is currently a student of James Doing, Master Teacher for NATS. Ms. Kohl was Brazil, England, Germany, the Netherlands, and Afghanistan. Notable festival seen as Soprano Soloist in Handel’s Messiah with the Orchestra of the Southern appearances include the Brighton Festival (England); Late Music Festival (England); Finger Lakes, and made her debut in the role of 'Susanna' in Mozart's, Le Nozze di Figaro, with Connecticut lyric Opera. In December of 2017, she joined CLO again, Purbeck Arts Festival (England); Bach Festival (Bolivia); National Flute Convention portraying the role of 'Pamina' in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. A strong advocate for (Washington DC); Chamber Music America Convention (New York City). Notable new music, Amanda is featured on Navona Records ’Pendulum’ (2014) with Julliard university residencies and performances include New England Conservatory String Quartet violinist, Joseph Lin, in ‘Wing Over Wing’ by award winning composer (Boston); Goldsmith College (London); Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (Germany); Eric Nathan and also on the same labels’ ‘Polarities’(Jan. 2014), singing ‘Vox dilecti SESC Prainha (Brazil); University of Hartford (Connecticut); University of Connecticut; mei,’ for Soprano, and chamber orchestra by Katherine Saxon. Ms. Kohl is thrilled to Eastern Connecticut State University; Columbia University (New York City). Notable be joining the Women Composers Festival in the American premiere of excerpts concert series appearances; Silk Mill (England); Casa de la Cultura (Bolivia); French from Canadian composer, Tawnie Olsons’ opera “Sanctuary and Storm.” www.AmandaKohlSoprano.com Cultural Centre (Afghanistan); Seabury Music Institute Series (Connecticut); Advent Library Series (Boston); Connecticut Alliance for Music. Cuatro Puntos organizes a Canadian mezzo-soprano Evanna Lai is at home on both the operatic and concert regular concert series in downtown Hartford and in Glastonbury, and organizes a stage. Recently, she made her professional European and radio debut at the Hartford educational program titled Chamber Music for Peace. Amsterdam Concertgebouw as Nancy T'ang in Nixon in China with the Dutch Youth Orchestra, and her Elm City Consort debut as Calliope in the première performance A four-year collaboration with Afghanistan’s only music school, which of La Lira Muta, a 17th century pastiche opera. included several teaching artist visits to Afghanistan and a one-year teaching tenure Ms. Lai is a recipient of a Canada Council for the Arts grant in 2018. She by Cuatro Puntos’ executive director, resulted in a collaborative album between was a finalist in the 2017 George London Foundation Awards Competition and is the Cuatro Puntos and the Afghanistan National Institute of Music titled “The recipient of a Sylva Gelber Music Foundation grant and a BC Arts Council scholarship. Rosegarden of Light.” The album is released on Toccata Classics, distributed by She is a thrice-named fellow at the Toronto Summer Music Academy and a protégée Naxos, and has received critical acclaim worldwide as well as airplay on major of the Chamber Music Northwest Festival. She is a two-time recipient of both the stations such as BBC and NPR. Music from the album has also been used on the score Johann Strauss Foundation Scholarship and the Vancouver Women's Musical Society of several films, most recently in The Staging Post. Blackmore Vale Magazine in the Bursary. In 2015, she was a semi-finalist at the Belvedere International Singing UK said “At a time when we are bombarded every day by images of the world in Competition, as well as a finalist at the Metropolitan Opera National Council district crisis, The Rosegarden of Light is a joyful celebration of musicians who share a auditions. fundamental right to express themselves through the universal language of music.” She holds a bachelor of music from the University of British Columbia, and For more information, please visit www.cuatropuntos.org. a master of music and artist diploma from the Yale School of Music.

Lydia McClain is a multi-faceted soprano whose repertoire ranges from early music to contemporary song. Most recently, Lydia performed Elizabeth Austin’s Sandburg Songs with the Dance Collective at the Wadsworth Atheneum. This Fall, Lydia performed the World Premiere of Austin’s Frauenliebe und –leben, sung in English, at the National Opera Center. Other recent performances include Hartford Opera Theater’s New In November Festival, a recital debut at the Hill-Stead Museum, the US Premiere of Tawnie Olson’s Sailing to Byzantium with the Foot In the Door Ensemble, and the World Premiere of Aphrodite, by Daniel Mertzlufft. Lydia was a fellow at the Fall Island Vocal Arts Seminar under the direction of Stephanie Blythe and Alan Smith. There she presented songs by living American composers, including a gala featuring the music of composer-in-residence, Ricky Ian Gordon. A native of Pennsylvania, Lydia holds a Bachelor of Music from The Hartt School of Music and a Masters in Music from Florida State University. She lives in Simsbury, CT where she

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Orchestras, Wind Ensembles, Rock and Jazz bands, Mexican and African music music African and Mexican bands, Jazz and Rock Ensembles, Wind Orchestras,

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concert halls, and at the World Economic Forum in Davos. As an international international an As Davos. in Forum Economic World the at and halls, concert

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Afghanistan National Institute of Music in Kabul, he led the country’s only orchestras orchestras only country’s the led he Kabul, in Music of Institute National Afghanistan

music and performing recitals and clinics in the area. He also is on the advisory board board advisory the on is also He area. the in clinics and recitals performing and music

on BBC Radio in the UK. During his tenure as Director of Orchestras at the the at Orchestras of Director as tenure his During UK. the in Radio BBC on

history. He continues to work with the percussion community commissioning new new commissioning community percussion the with work to continues He history.

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music music and lessons, private methods, percussion ensemble, percussion teaches

Southern California Brahms Festival to on stage with the Foo Fighters at the Grammy Grammy the at Fighters Foo the with stage on to Festival Brahms California Southern

is on the faculty at Georgia College and State University where he he where University State and College Georgia at faculty the on is Gworek Nathaniel

played viola in everything from the complete chamber music of Brahms with the the with Brahms of music chamber complete the from everything in viola played

tzerland, the Netherlands, Afghanistan, and both coasts of the USA. He has has He USA. the of coasts both and Afghanistan, Netherlands, the tzerland, Swi

Society. Liszt American the of member

conducted, and taught masterclasses in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, England, Germany, Germany, England, Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia, in masterclasses taught and conducted,

Castro. Dr. Campinho was inducted into Pi Kappa Lambda and is a a is and Lambda Kappa Pi into inducted was Campinho Dr. Castro. Moura de Luiz

is Executive Director of Cuatro Puntos. He has performed, performed, has He Puntos. Cuatro of Director Executive is Bishop Kevin Violist

Arts degrees in piano performance from The Hartt School, where he was a protégé of of protégé a was he where School, Hartt The from performance piano in degrees Arts

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on and accomplishment for for accomplishment and on recogniti of certificates with Campinho Miguel presented

Central Connecticut State University. He taught instrumental and vocal music for for music vocal and instrumental taught He University. State Connecticut Central Connecticut, and the Portuguese American Leadership Council of the United States States United the of Council Leadership American Portuguese the and Connecticut,

Symphony. Allan has master’s degrees in both history and music education from from education music and history both in degrees master’s has Allan Symphony. Eurico Tomás de Lima. In 2015, US Senator Christopher Murphy, the State of of State the Murphy, Christopher Senator US 2015, In Lima. de Tomás Eurico

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Austin. at Texas of University Music, of School Butler the at piano collaborative

renowned solo artist Lynn Harrell and Lee Fiser of the LaSalle Quartet. He has also also has He Quartet. LaSalle the of Fiser Lee and Harrell Lynn artist solo renowned

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University of Cincinnati’s College Conservatory of Music, where he studied with with studied he where Music, of Conservatory College Cincinnati’s of University

passages, judicious pedaling, all combined with a sensibility for this music that brings brings that music this for sensibility a with combined all pedaling, judicious passages,

the the at performance cello in studies undergraduate his did Ballinger Dr. Quartet.

technique serves him well through lucid phrasing, uncannily clearly executed executed clearly uncannily phrasing, lucid through well him serves technique

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collaborative pianist extensively throughout Europe and the USA. Piano Journal Journal Piano USA. the and Europe throughout extensively pianist collaborative Connecticut of University the at While history. music in minor a with performance,

has performed as a soloist and as a a as and soloist a as performed has Campinho Miguel pianist Portuguese

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teaches music history, US and world history, and women’s studies. He earned his his earned He studies. women’s and history, world and US history, music teaches

England.

professor and content coordinator for the Humanities at Goodwin College where he he where College Goodwin at Humanities the for coordinator content and professor

Trinity College and is an alumnus of the London Dramatic Academy in London, London, in Academy Dramatic London the of alumnus an is and College Trinity

since 2014. Allan is an assistant assistant an is Allan 2014. since Puntos Cuatro with cellist a been has Ballinger Allan

School, and Visiting Artist at Miss Porter’s School. He graduated cum laude from from laude cum graduated He School. Porter’s Miss at Artist Visiting and School,

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(alphabetical) Biographies Performer In addition to teaching masterclasses throughout the northeast, Erik has has Erik northeast, the throughout masterclasses teaching to addition In