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.