From Broadway to Bel Canto...featuring:

KRISTA WIGLE & JOE MEYERS Friday, September 3, 2021 @ 8:00 pm

Joe Meyers and Krista Wigle sing some of their favorite tunes ranging from popular musical theater num- bers to epic operatic arias and duets. They are performing with the incredible Daniel Lockert on piano! Come and enjoy this vast array of vocal and keyboard stylings by these beloved Bay Area artists! KRISTA WIGLE Krista is thrilled and honored to be performing on this concert series! In the past few seasons, she has been fortunate enough to perform at Woodminster as Rosie in Mamma Mia!, Jack’s Mother in Into the Woods, and Grandma in Billy Elliot. Other companies for which she has worked include: San Jose Playhouse, Cinnabar Theater, Pocket Opera, Sierra Repertory Theater, Brava Opera, Opera Parallele, Opera Santa Barbara, Liver- more Valley Opera, Festival Opera and many others. Recent roles include: Saraghina(Nine), Berta(The Barber of Seville), Miss Jessel(The Turn of the Screw), Hucklebee(The Fantasticks), The Princess Puffer(The Mystery of Edwin Drood), Chayesel/Dobrisch(People in the Picture), Soprano/Jazz Trio(), Cleo(The Most Happy Fella), Dame Quickly(Falstaff), Marcellina(The Marriage of Figaro), Jenny(The ThreePenny Opera), and Carlotta/Confidante/Wild Woman(The Phantom of the Opera: San Francisco and Las Vegas prod.). Krista is also a vocal teacher; she has her own private voice studio, is an Artist-in-Residence at the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts(R.A.S.O.T.A.), and is a Musical Theater/Cabaret Instructor at the Young Conservatory of the Ameri- can Conservatory Theater(A.C.T.). Future engagements include: Miss Spink in Coraline with West Edge Opera, and Jack’s Mother in Into the Woods, Betty Gold in Thanks for Playing the Game Show Show!, and Nurse/ Mrs./Harriet Pawling in Sunday in the Park with George, all with San Jose Playhouse. JOE MEYERS California native, tenor, Joseph Meyers has performed from Shanghai to New Jersey. You might remember Joe’s previous engagements with Woodminster; Mr. Snow in Carousel and Nicely Nicely in Guys and Dolls. Some of his favorite roles include: Piangi in The Phantom of the Opera-First National Tour and The Opera Singer in the 2009 Oscar winning movie “Milk.” Other roles/performances include: Andres in Wozzeck and Howard Boucher in Dead Man Walking with Opera Parallèle, Suite with Orchestra, Seven DeadlySins and Carmina Burana with Symphony Silicon Valley, the Governor in and Nicely Nicely in Guys and Dolls with Oakland Symphony, Marquis/ Prince in Lulu and the Rector/Mosquito in The Cunning Little Vixen with West Edge Opera, Canio in I Pagliacci and Hoffmann in The Tales of Hoffmann with Pocket Opera. Most recent: Dec 2017/18 -Vain Man/Snake in The Little Prince with Opera Parallèle, April 2017-The Golden Age of Operetta with Rogue Valley Chorale Feb 2017/18-Multiple roles- Snapshot(New Opera Works) with West Edge Opera, March 2018-Carmina Burana with Sacramento Ballet. May 2018- Men- delssohn Die Erste Walpurgisnacht with Master Sinfonia Chamber Orch. April/August 2019-Carmina Burana (Davies Symphony Hall) and Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle with San Francisco Choral Society, Snapshot(New Opera Works) with West Edge Opera in February 2020, and Little Victor in Elizabeth Cree with West Edge Opera in July 2021. Future engagements include: Mr. Bobo in Coraline with West Edge Opera, Summer 2022.

DANIEL LOCKERT Pianist, Coach, Collaborator Daniel Lockert, pianist, was born in San Diego, California, where he began his piano studies at the age of five. After receiving his Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance with a minor in Organ from Loma Linda University, he attended the University of Southern California. It was there that he was awarded an advanced degree in the spe- cialized area of accompanying, studying with the renowned Gwendolyn Koldofsky, the pioneer teacher in the field of accompanying and the pedagogue to many distinguished accompanists. While at USC, he also studied instrumental accompanying with Brooks Smith, accompanist to Jascha Heifeitz and Jenny Tourel. In his role as coach and teach- er, Daniel has been on the staffs and faculties of the Juilliard School, the San Francisco Opera, Opera San Jose, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Chapman University and the Aspen Music Festival, and Cal State East Bay. He is currently professor of Collaborative Piano at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, and Staff Accompanist at Mills College, Oakland. He has been the musical director for many shows and theatrical productions, including I Do! I Do! And Fiddler on the Roof, both in Los Angeles and New York. Daniel has a particular passion for , and has had the opportunity to be the musical director for several Sondheim reviews at the Marin Theatre Company, includ- ing Summer Nights of Sondheim, Side by Side by Sondheim, and You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow. For the Pleasanton Children’s Theatre, he musically directed Into the Woods as well as at Notre Dame de Namur Uni- versity. For the same university he musically directed The Light in the Piazza. For the main stage at Marin Theatre Company he made his conducting debut with Sondheim’s Company directed by the late Albert Taka- zaukus. Since then, he has musically directed and accompanied several shows for their “Words and Music” series, including Love is in the Air, Pure Gershwin, Bernstein on Broadway, September Song, the Great Broad- way-Sing-a-Long, a Berlin Kabarett with soprano Angelina Reaux and Frostiana by Randall Thompson, con- ducted by Daniel’s wife, Jenny Matteucci. . For the same company he collaborated on a 2-piano version of Kurt Weill’s Lady in the Dark. For the San Francisco Performances series, “Salons at the Hotel Rex”, he per- formed a recital of the solo of George Gershwin. In 2005, Daniel musically directed and per- formed with some of the Bay Area’s leading and cabaret performers, including Lisa Vroman, in a 75th birthday celebration for Stephen Sondheim. The live concert, Simply Sondheim, has been recorded and is available on i-tunes. He has collaborated with noted composer Craig Bohmler on several productions: for the Willows Theatre he assisted the composer on Mountain Days: the John Muir Musical, performed at the Concord Pavillion and for the San Jose Repertory Theatre, Bohmler’s the Haunting of Winchester. In addi- tion, he was music director for Bohmler’s Enter the Guardsman, which was performed aboard the cruise ship QE2. (Subsequently, Mr. Lockert developed and directed a Broadway review, also featured on this cruise line.) Most recently, Mr. Lockert was music director for a staged reading of Bohmler’s All the More to Love, the real life story of the “colorful” dress shop of the same name, formerly owned by Daniel’s wife, Jenny Matteucci. Daniel has taught and coached students for special Sondheim projects at the American Conserva- tory Theatre in San Francisco and has been a vocal coach for the summer Music Theatre Conservatory at Notre Dame de Namur in Belmont, CA. Daniel is active as a cabaret pianist and singer, having collaborated with many San Francisco Bay area performers at the former Plush Room, the New Conservatory theater, 42nd Street Moon, Martuni’s, Society Cabaret (SF and San Jose) and Feinstein’s. With his wife, Jenny Matteucci, they perform and sing together as the Mattlock Duo with music ranging from Fats Waller to Ricky Ian Gordon. Incidentally, another musical.