Eastman School of Music Voice, Opera & Vocal Coaching Department THIRTY-NINTH ANNUAL JESSIE KNEISEL LIEDER COMPETITION Saturday, May 15, 2021 Kilbourn Hall 1:00 P.M. Martin Katz, Adjudicator 1:00pm Seoyong Lee / Delvan Lin 1:20pm Hannah Stokes / Rebecca Golub 1:40pm David Wolfe / Maeve Berry 2:15pm - Break – 2:45pm Elise Noyes / I-Hsiang Chao 3:05pm Kyrsten Chambers Jones / Brock Tjosvold 3:25pm Edward Bland / Jenny Choo Kirby MARTIN KATZ The NY Times has called Martin Katz “the gold standard of accompanists.” Justifiably so, for his fifty- year career has taken him to five continents, collaborating with the world's most celebrated singers. He has regularly shared the stage and the microphone with Marilyn Horne, Frederica von Stade, Karita Mattila, Kiri Te Kanawa, Lawrence Brownlee, David Daniels, and Piotr Beczala to name but a few. Mr. Katz has also been active as a conductor and editor. He has led opera productions for San Francisco's Merola program, the BBC, as well as innumerable performances at his home school. His editions of baroque and bel canto operas have been performed in Houston, Ottawa, and at the Metropolitan Opera. At the University of Michigan for more than three decades now, he has chaired the program in collaborative piano and coached vocal repertoire and chamber music for singers, pianists and instrumentalists alike. His students are working in their chosen field all over the world. The University has recognized his contribution by awarding him a Distinguished University Professorship. Now an author as well, Mr. Katz's first opus, "The Complete Collaborator," published by Oxford Univ. Press, is widely considered the seminal work on the subject. Dr. Jessie Kneisel (1904-1992) Dr. Jessie Kneisel, a Rochester native, enjoyed a forty-year career as professor of German language, literature, and diction at the Eastman School of Music from 1936 until 1976. Her passion for German culture began early in life. During her high school years, the works of Eduard Mörike and the song settings of his poems by Hugo Wolf kindled her interest in German lieder. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history and German from the University of Rochester in 1928 and 1930. An elected member of Phi Beta Kappa, Dr. Kneisel studied at the University of Bonn, Germany, and received her doctorate from Columbia University in 1947. Her doctoral thesis on Wolf’s Mörike settings established her as a leading authority in a hitherto neglected field of research. In the early 1960s, Dr. Kneisel spent a sabbatical year studying opera in Germany and Austria; upon her return to Eastman, she established a course on German opera libretti. She was an inspired teacher whose personality and scholarship made a deep impression on her students. After her retirement in 1976 she remained deeply invested in the affairs of the Eastman School; she and her husband Karl often spent summers in Europe, visiting former students who had gone abroad to make a career as opera singers in Austria and Germany. The Jessie Kneisel Lieder Competition With the establishment of the Jessie Kneisel Prize in 1981, Eastman began a tradition of celebrating Dr. Kneisel’s rich contributions to the school and her life-long love of German and Austrian culture. An annual competition determines the winners of the Kneisel Prize for an outstanding performance of German lieder by a vocalist and collaborative pianist, and was made possible through a gift from former Kneisel student George T. McWhorter. Ann Clark Fehn (1945-1989) Ann Clark Fehn was associate professor of German and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies at the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Rochester until her untimely death at age 44 in 1989. She was a scholar as well as a musician, having earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in piano from the Oberlin College-Conservatory, where she studied with John Perry. She actively performed throughout her career, and was particularly interested in German lieder. In the 1980s she team-taught doctoral seminars at Eastman with Jürgen Thym, professor of musicology, and co-authored articles with him and Rufus Hallmark of the City University of New York on text music relations in the German lied. Fehn was a distinguished teacher and scholar of 20th-century German literature, German lyric poetry, and the relationship between music and literature. The Ann Clark Fehn Memorial Award Established in 1997, the Ann Clark Fehn Memorial Award recognizes excellence in the accompaniment of German lieder. The recipient is chosen during the annual Jessie Kneisel Lieder Competition, and the award is supported in part by a gift from Fehn’s mother, Mrs. Margaret V. Clark. Seoyong Lee, bass-baritone Delvan Lin, piano Erlkönig, Op.1, D328 (Goethe) (4:14) Franz Schubert Der Wanderer, D489 (Lübeck) (5:47) (1797-1828) Des Fräuleins Liebeslauschen, D698 (Schlechta) (4:00) Fahrt zum Hades, D526 (Mayrhofer) (5:16) Odins Meeresritt, Op. 118 (Schreiber) (4:07) Carl Loewe Edward, Op. 1, #1 (Herder) (5:15) (1796-1869) from Liederkreis Op. 24 (Heine) Robert Schumann V. Schöne Wiege (3:45) (1810-1856) Hannah Stokes, soprano Rebecca Golub, piano Liane (Mayrhofer) (2:53) Franz Schubert Nachtstück (Mayrhofer) (5:21) (1797-1828) Stimme der Liebe (Stolberg) (1:53) Drei Lieder, Op. 22 Erich Korngold Was Du mir bist? (Straaten) (2:50) (1897-1957) Mit Dir zu schweigen (Kobald) (1:55) Welt ist stille eingeschlafen (Kobald) (2:46) from Spanisches Liederbuch (Geibel) Hugo Wolf Bedeckt mich mit Blumen (2:39) (1860-1903) Schmerzliche Wonnen und wonnige Schmerzen (1:51) Die Loreley (Heine) (6:14) Franz Liszt (1811-1886) Die Sterne schau’n in stiller Nacht (Schlippenbach) (2:37) Felix Mendelssohn Des Mädchens Klage (Schiller) (2:20) (1809-1847) David Wolfe, baritone Maeve Berry, piano Kriegers Ahnung (Schwanengesang) (Rellstab) (4:51) Franz Schubert Auf der Bruck (Schulze) (3:30) (1797-1828) An den Mond (‘Geuss, lieber Mond‘) (Hölty) (3:05) from Mörike-Lieder (Mörike) Hugo Wolf Der Feuerreiter (5:32) (1860-1903) Storchenbotschaft (3:40) Der Jäger (3:17) from Vier ernste Gesänge, Op. 121 Johannes Brahms III. O Tod, wie bitter bist du (Ecclesiasticus) (3:18) (1833-1897) IV. Wenn ich mit Menschen und mit Engelszungen redete (I Corinthians) (4:24) Elise Noyes, soprano I-Hsiang Chao, piano Lied der Mignon (‘Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt’) (Goethe) (3:00) Franz Schubert Gretchen am Spinnrade (Goethe) (3:40) (1797-1828) Wandrers Nachtlied II (‘Uber allen Gipfeln ist Ruh’) (Goethe) (2:00) Des Liebsten Schwur, Op. 69, No. 4 (Jos. Wenzig-aus dem Böhmischen) (2:15) Johannes Brahms Sonntag, Op. 47, No. 3 (aus Uhlands Volksliedern) (2:00) (1833-1897) An die Nachtigall, Op. 46, No. 4 (Hölty) (2:30) Heimliche Aufforderung John Henry Mackay) (3:00) Richard Strauss (1864-1949) from Fünf Lieder, Op. 39 Junghexenlied (Otto Julius Bierbaum) (2:30) Mignon (Kennst du das Land) (Goethe) (6:30) Hugo Wolf (1860-1903) And’res Maienlied (Hexenlied) (Hölty) (2:30) Felix Mendelssohn Winterlied (aus dem Schwedischen) (3:20) (1809-1847) Kyrsten Chambers Jones, mezzo-soprano Brock Tjosvold, piano Litanei auf das Fest Aller Seelen (Jacobi) (3:30) Franz Schubert Versunken (Goethe) (2:10) (1797-1828) Der Zwerg (Collin) (5:10) from Sechs einfache Lieder, Op. 9 Erich Korngold III. Das Standchen (Eichendorff) (2:00) (1897-1957) V. Das Heldengrab am Pruth (Kipper) (2:45) Unbewegte laue Luft, Op. 57, No. 8 (Daumer) (3:45) Johannes Brahms Verzagen, Op. 72, No. 4 (Lemcke) (2:40) (1833-1897) Warm die Lüfte, Op. 2, No. 4 (Mombert) (2:45) Alban Berg (1885-1935) from Vier Lieder, 1915 Alma Mahler III. Ansturm (Dehmel) (1:40) (1879-1964) Aufblick (Dehmel) (2:30) Rebecca Clarke Wandrers Nachtlied (‘Uber allen Gipfeln ist Ruh’) (Goethe) (1:30) (1886-1979) Edward Bland, baritone Jenny Choo Kirby, piano from Die schöne Müllerin (Müller) Franz Schubert II. Wohin? (2:30) (1797-1828) III. Halt! (1:30) IV. Danksagung an den Bach (2:25) V. Am Feierabend (2:35) VI. Der Neugierige (4:15) from Des Knaben Wunderhorn Gustav Mahler IX. Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen (Bretano and von Arnim) (6:35) (1860-1911) from Rückert Lieder (Rückert) III. Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (5:40) Wie rafft‘ ich mich auf in der Nacht, Op. 32, No. 1 (Platen) (4:25) Johannes Brahms Meine Liebe ist grün, Op. 63, No. 5 (F. Schumann) (1:40) (1833-1897) from Mörike-Lieder (Mörike) Hugo Wolf V. Der Tambour (2:35) (1860-1903) .