Rachel Barton-Pine — Celebrations
In both life and art, violinist Rachel Barton Pine has an extraordinary gift for connecting with her audiences. She has received worldwide acclaim for her virtuosic technical mastery, lustrous tone and perceptive performances. Her passion for research allows her to bring emotionally charged, historically-informed interpretations to her diverse repertoire, and her work as a philanthropist continues to inspire the next generation of artists and concert-goers.
Highlights of her 2010–2011 season include performances with Netherland’s Radio Kamer Filharmonie at the Concertgebouw, Bournemouth Symphony, Orquesta Sinfonica de Chile, Turkey’s Bilkent Symphony Orchestra, Mexico’s Orquesta Sinfonica de la UANL, Orquestra Sinfonica Brasileira, as well as appearances with the Stamford, Springfield, Lake Geneva, Asheville, Shreveport and Jacksonville Symphonies, the Illinois, Riverside and Brevard Philharmonics, and the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra. These concerts include concertos by Barber, Brahms, Bruch, Beethoven, Clement, Glazunov, Mozart, Szymanowski, Tchaikovsky and Vivaldi. Her period instrument chamber ensemble, Trio Settecento, will be featured at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., and at the 2011 Boston Early Music Festival. Recital appearances include dates in Dayton, OH and North Central College in Naperville, IL, for the Ladies Morning Musical Club in Montreal, and return engagements with the Montreal and Amelia Island Chamber Music Festivals.
In May, 2011, Pine released Capricho Latino, a collection of unaccompanied virtuoso pieces from Spain and Latin America, on the Cedille label. Also in 2011, Warner Classics will release her performance of the Glazunov Violin Concerto, recorded with the Russian National Orchestra conducted by José Serebrier.
Travis Cloer — Christmas Pops
Travis is one of the hottest talents to come hit the scene in a long time. With an amazingly versatile voice, his unique ability to take a song of any genre and make it completely his own has wowed audiences across the globe.
After a year and a half on Broadway in the TONY Award winning hit JERSEY BOYS, where audiences raved about his performance, Travis can now be seen playing the “falsettoed” Frankie Valli in JERSEY BOYS at the Palazzo Hotel & Casino in fabulous Las Vegas. Other stage credits include Rusty in Starlight Express, Tony in West Side Story, John Wilkes Booth in Assassins, & as a featured soloist with The Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular. Travis recently added to his long list of accomplishments by honoring our country, and wowing a crowd of over 40,000 people, at the 2008 Pioneer Las Vegas Bowl with his rendition of “America the Beautiful”.
Travis has enjoyed an outstanding recording career, both as a vocalist and a songwriter. His CD “Setting the Standard” features some of his favorite jazz standards from the Great American Songbook. “I’ve always been influenced by this amazing genre. The beautiful melodies, meaningful lyrics, amazing singers & bands…this is the music that made me want to be a singer. They don’t make music like this anymore.”
As a holiday treat, fans can hear Travis sing some of his favorite Christmas songs on his CD “Christmas from the City”.
Lynn Eustis — Cathedrals of Sound
Dr. Lynn Eustis, soprano, a member of the University of North Texas faculty since 1999, is currently Associate Professor of Voice and Director of Graduate Studies in Music. She holds the Doctor of Music degree in opera from Florida State University, a Master of Music degree from the Curtis Institute of Music and a Bachelor of Music degree from Bucknell University, Phi Beta Kappa.
She appears regularly as a soloist with numerous professional organizations. She has been heard internationally with the Hudebni Festival Vysocina and the Američke Jaro Festival in the Czech Republic, the Festival de Opera with the Compania Lirica Nacional (Costa Rica), the Guangzhou Symphony (China), and as a soloist at Chichester Cathedral (UK). Other organizations include the Dallas Bach Society, the Fort Worth Symphony, the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, the San Angelo Symphony, Texas Ballet Theater, Fort Worth Early Music, the Orchestra of New Spain, the Crested Butte Music Festival (CO), the Williamsport Symphony (PA), Tulsa Oratorio, Master Chorale of South Florida, Concert Royal (NY), and the Æxxus Vocal Ensemble (NY). Works include King Arthur (Purcell), Messiah (Handel), Requiem, and Coronation Mass (Mozart), Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mendelssohn), Magnificat (Bach), The Creation (Haydn), St. Matthew Passion, St. John Passion, Zephyre (Rameau), and La Musique in Les arts florissants (M.A. Charpentier). She has also been heard as soprano soloist with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in Cantata No. 51 (Bach) and Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor. With the Texas All-State Mixed Choir at the 2000 TMEA Convention in San Antonio, she was the soprano soloist for Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de confessore. Recordings include Carmina burana (Klavier Music Productions, 2003), featured soloist with Anam Cara on Innisfree (GIA Publications Choral Series, 2007) and the SCI Performers Series recording Portraits (Capstone, 2007). With Westminster Williamson Voices she appeared as the title soloist in the U.S. premiere of James Whitbourn’s Annelies: The Anne Frank Oratorio. She has been heard at Carnegie Hall with DCINY (Distinguished Concerts International New York) as the soprano soloist for Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de confessore and Vesperae de Dominica.
Dr. Eustis has sung over thirty operatic roles, most notably the title roles in Lucia di Lammermoor and The Daughter of the Regiment, Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, Olympia in The Tales of Hoffmann, Pamina in The Magic Flute, Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro, Rosina in The Barber of Seville, and Gilda in Rigoletto. In spring 1998, she was the First Place Winner at the Florida Suncoast Opera Guild Competition. She has appeared at the Brevard Music Center (as a guest artist), the National Opera Company (two seasons on tour), the Ash Lawn-Highland Festival, and the European Opera Center in Belgium.
Jason Forbach — Broadway a la Carte II
Originally from Overland Park, Kansas, Jason grew up with a deep love and appreciation for music. He attended University of Missouri-Columbia, his family’s alma mater, on a music scholarship where he majored in Vocal Performance. He performed with both the Opera and Musical Theater departments culminating with a life changing performance of Michael John LaChiusa’s Hello, Again and winning the distinctive honor to be the first vocalist in the school’s history to be named the Chancellor’s Emerging Artist Winner in 2000. At that moment his love for modern musical theater, the power of song interpretation, and the thrill of communicating and sharing an emotional experience with an audience was sparked.
Jason decided to continue his musical training and was accepted at the prestigious New England Conservatory in Boston, MA. He was named the Frelinghuysen Grant Recipient and completed his Masters Degree in Vocal Performance with honors.
Soon after Jason completed the cast recording of The Music Teacher, he received notice that he was offered his first big production contract with Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera in Las Vegas. This new, lavish production of one of the world’s most popular musicals is on a scale like no other proving to be an experience for every performer, as well as every audience member, that is out of this world. The next journey takes him across the nation as he begins the exciting adventure of joining the National Tour of the 25th Anniversary Produciton of Les Miserables. He would never have imagined that his life would have brought him to this point, where he is truly happy doing what he loves to do while aspiring to accomplish so much more, always believing in the power of faith when following a dream.
Kristen Hertzenberg - Christmas Pops and Benefit Concert
Kristen Hertzenberg currently plays “Christine” in the Las Vegas production of Phantom of the Opera and has been a cast member since the show opened in 2006. She moved to Las Vegas from New York City, but she’ll always be a Texan at heart! A graduate of the University of Texas, she then headed to Boston where she earned a Masters in Opera from the Longy School of Music.
Las Vegas has now become her home and Kristen enjoys being active in the community. She started the website “Broadway Vegas” (broadwayvegas.blogspot.com) in February of 2008 to keep readers informed about all of the wonderful things happening with the actors on the Las Vegas Strip. She can also frequently be found in the recording studio working with composers from the theatre community or in benefit concerts on various stages around town. Her favorite local organizations include Family Promise of Las Vegas, Opportunity Village, and the Liberace Foundation. www.kristenhertzenberg.com
“Music brings me so much joy. I’ve been influenced by so many different styles…gospel, jazz, country, R&B, Broadway. So whatever kind it is that I write or sing, I put 100% of my heart and soul into it. After a performance I don’t want anything left in me that could have been given to an audience.”
Greg Hustis — New World
Gregory Hustis has been principal horn of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra since 1976. A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Mason Jones, Mr. Hustis has performed as a concerto soloist with numerous orchestras, including the Utah Symphony, the Knoxville Symphony, the Dallas Chamber Orchestra, the Florida West Coast Symphony, the Latvian Chamber Orchestra, the Northwest Chamber Orchestra, the National Repertory Orchestra, the Hamilton Philharmonic, the Wichita Falls Symphony and, on numerous occasions, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.
A clinician, chamber music player, and recitalist, he has been a featured guest artist at the Sarasota Music Festival, Scotia Fest, Round Top, Orford, Bowdoin, National Repertory Orchestra, numerous International Horn Society Workshops, the Mainly Mozart Festival, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Lapplands Festspel, the Brevard Music Festival, and Music in the Mountains in Durango, Colorado, where he was recently appointed festival artistic director. Mr. Hustis has premiered and recorded many concertos for horn and orchestra, including Joseph Schwantner’s Beyond Autumn, a work commissioned by the International Horn Society. He has also premiered and subsequently recorded concertos by Eric Ewazen, Simon Sargon and Augusta Read Thomas.
In addition to his varied performance schedule, Mr. Hustis has taught horn for over 25 years at Southern Methodist University, where in 1995 he was presented the Meadows Foundation Distinguished Teaching Award. He has served on numerous boards and advisory boards, including that of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra, the International Horn Society, the American Horn Competition, Voices of Change, Blue Candlelight Series, and the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Foundation. Mr. Hustis was also co-founder of TrumCor, a company that manufactures mutes for brass instruments.
Soyeon Lee — Magnificent Beethoven
First prize winner of the prestigious 2010 Naumburg International Piano Competition, Korean pianist Soyeon Lee has already been hailed by The New York Times as a pianist with “a huge, richly varied sound, a lively imagination and a firm sense of style,” while The Washington Post has lauded her for her “stunning command of the keyboard.”
Soyeon Lee has been rapturously received as guest soloist with The Cleveland Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, symphony orchestras of Columbus, Bangor, Napa Valley, San Diego, Scottsdale, Shreveport and New York City’s Park Avenue Chamber Symphony, the Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra (South Korea) and Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional (Dominican Republic), including performances under the batons of Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Jahja Ling and Otto-Werner Mueller.
Soyeon Lee was featured on the January 2006 cover of SYMPHONY magazine’s annual “Emerging Artists” issue and in the 2008 edition of Musical America’s “More Thrills of Discovery.” She has been heard in live broadcasts from New York City on WQXR’s “McGraw-Hill Young Artists Showcase” and WNYC’s “Soundcheck,” and recorded performances from Washington’s WGMS and Cleveland’s WCLV; she has also been heard throughout the United States on National Public Radio. A classical music documentary featuring Soyeon Lee, entitled Classic Club, has been aired nationally in Japan on NHK.
Anthony Pattin — A Gershwin Evening
A native of Toledo, Ohio, is Professor of Music at UM where he has taught since 1987. He received the Bachelor of Music degree from Toledo University where he studied with Beatrice Erdely and Frances Renzi and received the Master of Music degree from the University of Michigan, where he was a student of Theodore Lettvin. After moving to Alabama he completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in 1994 where he studied with Amanda Penick. He is the recipient of both the Distinguished Teacher Award (2001) given by the College of Fine Arts, and the University Scholar Award (2002–2003). He has performed with the Alabama Symphony, the Tuscaloosa Symphony, the Toledo Symphony, the Arkansas Symphony, the Abilene Philharmonic Orchestra as soloist as well as in recitals, including three in New York City (Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall-1998/2006; Merkin Concert Hall-2002). In 2006 while on sabbatical from the University of Montevallo he performed several concerts in Tokyo, Japan. He has recorded six CDs, which includes “Live from New York” (2002) recorded in concert at Merkin Concert Hall in New York.
Kristi Tingle — Broadway a la Carte II
Kristi is thrilled to be back in Abilene performing with the Philharmonic, and with Jason Forbach, whom she sang with last year in Las Vegas! Regional theatre credits include leading roles in EVITA, Camelot, The Sound of Music, Cabaret, South Pacific, My Fair Lady, Cats and Hairspray (just to name a few.)
On the concert scene, Kristi has been a guest soloist with symphonies across the United States including Alabama, Tennessee, Florida, Arkansas, Chicago and Las Vegas. Kristi resides in Birmingham with her husband David and terrific son, Clay. She continues to perform musical theatre and is a private vocal coach.
Lisa Vroman — A Gershwin Evening
Lisa starred for several years on Broadway as Christine Daae in The Phantom of the Opera. As Christine, she garnered Theatre Critic’s awards for the role in a record breaking run in San Francisco, and did a return engagement at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles. Ms. Vroman starred as Rosabella in The Most Happy Fella, making her New York City Opera debut with Paul Sorvino in the title role. This season Lisa performed the role of Charlotte in A Little Night Music with Michigan Opera Theatre in Detroit with Leslie Uggams and Ron Raines. Recently she made her Carnegie Hall debut with the New York Pops, starred as Lili Vanessi in Kiss Me Kate with Glimmerglass Opera, played Marian Paroo in The Music Man with Shirley Jones (Mrs. Paroo) and Patrick Cassidy (Harold Hill) at The Bushnell Theatre in Hartford CT.; sang the role of Birdie in Regina with Utah Opera, conducted by Keith Lockhart; made her New Jersey Opera debut as Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus, (directed by Ira Siff), replacing Metropolitan Opera soprano Ruth Ann Swenson; and premiered two Comic Operas by composers John Musto (Bastianello) and William Bolcum (Lucrezia — lyrics by Mark Campbell) with the New York Festival of Song.
Her Broadway debut was in Aspects of Love, and she is the first to play both Fantine and Cosette in Les Miserables. For PBS she was featured with Colm Wilkinson and Michael Ball in Cameron Mackintosh’s Hey Mr. Producer! at the Lyceum Theatre in London, a Royal Gala attended by Queen Elizabeth. Lisa played Lucy Brown in Threepenny Opera at ACT (American Conservatory Theatre) in San Francisco with Bebe Neuwirth, Nancy Dussault, and Anika Noni Rose. She sang the role of Johanna in the San Francisco Symphony’s Emmy Award winning Sweeney Todd in Concert, with Patti Lupone and George Hearn. Both are available on DVD. Lisa starred as Laurey in Oklahoma, filmed live in concert for the BBC Proms Festival at Royal Albert Hall in London, and starred as Mary Turner in Gershwin’s Of Thee I Sing/Let ‘em Eat Cake in concert with Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the San Francisco Symphony and Chorus, directed by Pat Birch.
