Williams College Department of Music

Charlotte Dobbs, soprano (1833 -1897) Wie Melodien zieht es Robert Schumann (1810Renana -1856) Gutman,Lied der Suleika Hugo Wolf (1860 -1903) Anakreons Grab (1797 -1828) Suleika I

Francis Poulenc (1899 -1963) Fiancailles pour rire l. Le damed'Andre 2. Dans l 'herbe 3. Il vole 4. Mon cadavre est douxco mme un gant 5. Violon 6. Fleurs

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Aaron Copland (1900-1990) Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson I. Nature, the gentlest mother IL There came a wind like a bugle III. Why do they shut me out of Heaven? IV. The world feels dusty V. Heart, we will forget him VI. Dear March, come in VIL Sleep is supposed to be VIII. When they come back IX. / felt a funeralin my brain X. I' ve heard an organ sing sometimes XI. Going to Heaven XII. The Chariot

Sergei Rachmaninov (1873 -1943) Songs from op. 38: Margartiki Kn'ei Son'

CharlotteDobbs and Renana Gutman are presented by the Williams College Departmentof Music with the generous support of the W. Ford Schumann '50 PerfonningArts Endowment.

Saturday, October 1, 2016 8:00 p.m. Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall Williamstown, Massachusetts Charlotte Dobbs, soprano Praised in Opera Now for her “angelic lyric soprano voice”, Charlotte Dobbs brings luminous sound and incisive musicianship to a broad repertoire that encompasses Bach, Mozart, and the bel canto masters, as well as the second Viennese school and contemporary composers. Charlotte made her debut in a new song cycle by the Swiss composer Michael Jarrell, as well as debuts with the in a concert of works of Mozart and the Alabama Symphony Orchestra in Handelʼs Messiah. She joined the Chamber Orchestra for Bachʼs Magnificat under Jeffrey Kahane. She also was featured in recital at Copland House, Caramoor and with the Claring Chamber Players for Faureʼs La Bonne Chanson. An avid performer of new music, Charlotte has been featured by the MATA Festival, Beth Morrison Productions, and Collage New Music in . On the operatic stage, Charlotte made her debut with New York City Opera in VOX, a concert performance of new operas, as well as covering Governess in their production of The Turn of the Screw. Charlotte made her European debut as Corinna in Il viaggio a Reims at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, and returned to Italy to sing Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia under the auspices of the Fondazione Pergolesi Spontini and Teatro Aligheri in the theaters of Jesi, Fermo, and Ravenna. She also made her debut with the Chicago Opera Theater, singing Servilia in La clemenza di Tito with Jane Glover in a new production of Christopher Alden. Under the baton of Lorin Maazel, she appeared as Governess in the Chateauville Foundationʼs production of The Turn of the Screw. Other recent operatic credits include Amina in La Sonnambula, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, the title role in Tchaikovsky's Iolanta, Nuria in Ainadamar, and Countess in Le nozze di Figaro with the Curtis Opera Theater, as well as the title role in Iphigenie en Aulide, Elettra in Idomeneo, and Juno in La Calisto at Juilliard. Charlotte also joined renowned theater group The Civilians for their production Paris Commune at Arts Emerson and the Academy of Music. She appeared recently with Music of the Baroque in Chicago, in a concert performance of Dido and Aeneas and other works of Purcell. She also recently made her debut with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, singing Beethovenʼs Ninth Symphony under the baton of Jeffrey Kahane. She appeared in recital with Mitsuko Uchida at the Marlboro Music Festival, performing Schoenbergʼs Book of the Hanging Gardens. Also at Marlboro, she gave her first performance of Schoenbergʼs Second String Quartet, which was reprised with the Saratoga Chamber Players. She has been featured in three programs with the New York Festival of Song, most recently “The Sweetest Path” at Caramoor and Merkin Hall. Miss Dobbs made her Kimmel Center and debuts in Nielsenʼs Third Symphony with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Alan Gilbert. Born in Massachusetts, she has received an M.M. from both Juilliard and Curtis and a B.A. from Yale, where she majored in English and Music.

Renana Gutman, piano Praised by The New York Times for her “passionate and insightful” playing, Renana Gutman has performed across four continents as an orchestral soloist, recitalist and collaborative artist. She played at venues like The Louvre Museum, (France), Carnegie Recital Hall, Merkin Hall (New York), St. Petersburgʼs Philharmonia (Russia), Stresa Music Festival (Italy), Ravinia Rising Stars (Chicago), Jordan Hall (Boston), Herbst Theatre (St. Francisco), Menuhin Hall (UK), UNISA (South Africa), Marlboro (VT), and Washington National Gallery. Her performances are heard frequently on WQXR Young Artists Showcase, NY, WFMT Dame Myra Hess, Chicago, and MPR Performances Today, MN. A top prize winner at Los Angeles Liszt competition, International Keyboard Festival in New York, and Tel-Hai Internationl Master Classes, she has performed with orchestras including Jerusalem Symphony, Haifa Symphony, Belgian “I Fiamminghi”, Mannes College Orchestra. Renana was one of four young selected by the renowned Leon Fleisher to participate in his workshop on Beethoven piano sonatas hosted by Carnegie Hall, where she presented performances of “Hammerklavier” and “Appassionata” to critical acclaim. Her recording of Chopin etudes op.25 will be released in 2016. Renana spent summers at the Marlboro and Ravinia Music Festivals where she collaborated with Richard Goode, Mitsuko Uchida, members of the Guarneri quartet and clarinetist Anthony McGill. She toured with “Musicians from Marlboro” in series like Peopleʼs Symphony Concerts (NY), Gardener Museum (Boston) and Freer Gallery (Washington). High in demand as a chamber musician, Renana serves as the staff collaborative of Steans Institute at , where she performs chamber music and lieder extensively. Her regular duo partners include violinists Alexi Kenney, InMo Yang, Yoojin Jang and Tessa Lark. Recently, she premiered a commissioned piece by composer alongside violinist Miriam Fried. She has been touring with “Echoes of Hope” ensemble, which is dedicated to performing obscure pieces by Jewish composers who perished in the Holocaust. As a former member of the piano trio “Terzetto”, Renana won first Prize at the Yellow Springs Chamber Music Competition in Ohio, performed Beethoven Triple Concerto with Lansing Symphony. The trio was featured at “Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival”, the Banff Center, Canada, Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival, North Carolina and Saugatuck Music Festival, Michigan. From 2008-2010 Renana had been on the piano faculty of the Yehudi Menuhin Music School in the UK, as an assis- tant of prof. Marcel Baudet. She currently teaches at 92nd Street Y, and Bard College Preparatory in NY. A native of , she started piano playing at the age of six. Soon after, she garnered multiple awards and honors, and became a recipient of America Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship with distinction from 1992-2004, and later on of Jewish Foundation for the Education of Women Scholarship. Her most influential teachers were pianists Natasha Tadson and Victor Derevianko in Israel, and Richard Goode at Mannes College of Music in New York where she completed her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees. Her musicianship teacher was the established Israeli composer Arie Shapira. Renana became an American citizen in 2015 and makes her home in NYC.

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