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Judith
Bettina, soprano
 Soprano
Judith Bettina, hailed for her proficiency in a wide range of
musical styles, has appeared as guest soloist with such orchestras as
the Houston Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Saint Paul Chamber
Orchestra, and the Munich Philharmonic. She has appeared with chamber
groups throughout the United States and Europe, including appearances
with the Bach Chamber Soloists, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln
Center, Continuum, Bard Music Festival, New York Philmusica,
Parnassus, Speculum Musicae, The Geneva Music Festival, Ensemble 21,
Boston Musica Viva, San Francisco Contemporary Chamber players, the
Monadnock Music Festival, and the Library of Congress.
Highly
acclaimed for her performances of contemporary music, Ms. Bettina has
had works written for her by Mel Powell, Tobias Picker, Christopher
Berg, Chester Biscardi, David Rakowski, Richard Karpen, and David
Olan. She has premiered works by Charles Wuorinen, Milton Babbitt,
Lori Dobbins, Richard Danielpour, George Tsontakis, and Vivian Fine.
Ms. Bettina's recent performances have included Tobias Picker's
Symphony No. 2: Aussöhnung and the premiere of Trest
sonetos de amor, Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, and Edison
Denisov's La vie en rouge.
Her recordings
with pianist James Goldsworthy of Chester Biscardi's The Gift of Life,
David Rakowski's Three Songs on Poems of Louise Bogan, and a
new release of songs by Otto Luening are on Composers Recordings,
Inc. She has also recorded works by Milton Babbitt and Mel Powell on
New World Records and Musicmasters, respectively. Ms. Bettina resides
in Princeton Junction, New Jersey.
Amy
Burton, soprano
 A
lyric soprano known for her electric stage presence, musical
intelligence, and crystalline sound, Amy Burton enjoys an active
career in opera and concert on stages across the world. A favorite of
New York City Opera, Ms. Burton has performed most recently in Thor
Steingraber's new production of Don Giovanni, as Donna Elvira.
On the concert
stage, Amy Burton has appeared with many of the world's leading
orchestras, including the Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Syphony,
Israel Philharmonic, Berner Orchester, St. Louis Symphony, Atlanta
Symphony, and Philharmonia Baroque. She has appeared in recital with
the New York Festival of Song, Lincoln Center Great Performers, and
at the 92nd St. Y, where she made her New York recital debut in 1997.
Amy Burton has
won critical praise for her acting ability as well as her comedic
sense. Ms. Burton has a deep love for French music. She has performed Les
Mammelles de Tiresias, with L'Opéra Français de
New York, L'Amour Masqué with New York Festival of
Song, and excerpts from Noel Coward's Conversation Piece,
which was written for French operetta star Yvonne Printemps. Ms.
Burton will star in an homage to Yvonne Printemps in the Fall of 2002.
Amy Burton is
a graduate of Northwestern University and was one of three winners in
the 1995 Marian Anderson International Vocal Arts Competition. Other
awards include the George London Award and the New York City Opera's
1998 Kolosvar Award. She can be heard on recording in Richard
Wilson's Persuasions, a cantata for soprano and chamber
ensemble, released by Albany Records. She has also recorded Blue Monday,
an early Gershwin opera, on the world premiere recording for
Angel/EMI. She and her husband, composer John Musto, live in New York
with their son, Joshua.
Margaret
Lattimore, mezzo-soprano
 With
a repertoire that extends from the brilliant coloratura roles of
Rossini's Rosina and Cenerentola to the soaring
sophistication of Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier, mezzo-soprano
Margaret Lattimore is in demand by opera companies, orchestras and
recital presenters worldwide.
Ms. Lattimore
has become a leading interpreter of the works of composer John
Harbison. In addition to her performances of the role of Jordan Baker
in John Harbison's opera The Great Gatsby, she gave the
premiere of his Due Libri as part of the Tanglewood Festival
of Contemporary Music. This past season, she performed the work with
Collage New Music, and a recording is soon to be released on the Koch
International label. Margaret Lattimore has been invited to give the
world premiere of the composer's Requiem with the Boston
Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall in Boston and Carnegie Hall.
The
mezzo-soprano first received acclaim in the 1993-1994 season when she
joined Thomas Hampson in concert performances of Bernstein's Arias
and Barcarolles with the New World Symphony, and in October 1993,
as a member of the Lindemann Metropolitan Opera Young Artist Program,
made her house debut as Dorotea in Stiffelio. Ms. Lattimore
was selected by Marilyn Horne as a recitalist on her prestigious
"On Wings of Song" series at the Kosciuszko Foundation,
marking her New York recital debut. She has also appeared in recital
at the Library of Congress performing songs by Elinor Remick Warren
with baritone, Thomas Hampson and pianist, Craig Rutenberg.
A graduate of
the State University of New York at Potsdam where she studied with
Pat Misslin, Ms. Margaret Lattimore is a 1997 recipient of the George
London Award, and has received both the Eleanor McCallum Award from
the Houston Grand Opera and a Jacobson Study Grant from the Richard
Tucker Music Foundation. Margaret Lattimore currently resides in Colorado.
Richard
Clement, tenor
 Recognized
as one of the world's leading young American lyric tenors, Richard
Clement is hailed for the tonal beauty, innate musicality, and sense
of style in his operatic, concert, and recital performances.
A sought-after
and versatile concert performer, Mr. Clement began the 2001-2002
season at Opera Theatre of St. Louis with performances as To-No-Chujo
in Tale of the Genji in both St. Louis and Japan. The season
brought many appearances on the concert stage, including Gerald
Finzi's Dies Natalis with the DeKalb Symphony, Sir Michael
Tippett's Child of our Time
with the Santa Rosa Symphony, Aaron Jay Kernis' Millennium Symphony
with the Minnesota Orchestra, and Philip Glass' Symphony No. 5
in Indianapolis. Mr. Clement also recorded Toch's Cantata of the Bitter
with the Czech Philharmonic, and returned to the Brooklyn Academy of
Music for a repeat of Jonathan Miller's acclaimed, staged-version of
Bach's St. Matthew Passion.
Highlights
from previous seasons include appearances with the orchestras of
Cleveland, Philadelphia, Houston, Montreal, Boston, San Francisco,
and Colorado, and with such conductors as Wolfgang Sawallisch,
Christopher Hogwood, Charles Dutoit, James Conlon, and Neeme
Järvi. His operatic roles have included Ferrando in Cosí
fan tutte, Little Bat McLean in Susannah, Fenton in Falstaff,
and Ernesto in Don Pasquale.
Mr. Clement
studied voice at Georgia State University and at the Cincinnati
Conservatory, where he received his Master of Music degree. He was a
Tanglewood Music Festival Fellow in 1990 and 1991, a member of the
Houston grand Opera Studio in the 1991-1992 season, and winner of a
1994 Richard Tucker Music Foundation Jacobson Study Grant.
John
Hancock, baritone
 Baritone
John Hancock has sung in world premieres of three American operas.
He created the role of Lord Henry in Lowell Liebermann's The
Picture of Dorian Gray; he took on three roles in the one-act
trilogy Central Park; and played Abelard in Stephen Paulus' Heloise
and Abelard. Mr. Hancock has received international acclaim for
his interpretations of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and Oreste
in Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride. He has also performed
Dr. John Buchanan in Lee Hoiby's Summer and Smoke, Valentin in Faust,
le Duc de Rothsay in La Jolie Fille de Perth, Enrico in Lucia
di Lammermoor, and Falke in Die Fledermaus. Upcoming
engagements include his debut at the San Francisco Opera as Sharpless
in Madama Butterfly, and his debut at the Saito Kinen Festival
where he will perform the role of Ramiro in Ravel's l'Heure Espagnole.
Performances
on the concert stage include Mahler's Eighth Symphony with the Bilbao
Symphony Orchestra, Carmina Burana with l'Orchestre
Métropolitain de Montréal, and L'Enfant
du Christ with the Canadian Opera Orchestra. He has also appeared
in concert with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, NOS Dutch National
Radio Orchestra, and the Israeli Chamber Orchestra. Mr. Hancock
enjoys frequent collaborations in recital with the New York Festival
of Song, and made his Carnegie Hall debut with the Orchestra of St.
Luke's and the Collegiate Chorale in Carmina Burana.
A native New
Yorker, Mr. Hancock studied French Literature at Occidental College
and the Sorbonne before pursuing his musical education at the
Juilliard School. He is the recipient of awards and grants from the
Metropolitan Opera National Council, the Sullivan Foundation and the
Shoshana Foundation.
New
York Virtuoso Singers, Harold Rosenbaum, artistic director
Founded in
1988, The New York Virtuoso Singers (NYVS), under founder and
artistic director Harold Rosenbaum, has become this country's leading
exponent of contemporary choral music. NYVS is a professional choral
ensemble dedicated to presenting both seldom-heard works by past and
contemporary masters, as well as commissioning, performing, and
recording works by today's composers.
From its early
days in 1998, as an offshoot of a chorus-in-residence created
expressly for the Brooklyn Philharmonic, until the present day, with
self-produced concerts, recordings, commissions, and tours, NYVS has
carved a unique niche for itself in the musical world. NYVS has been
featured twice on Channel 2 WCBS-TV and Channel 11 WPIX-TV, performed
16 radio broadcasts, and been featured on two Voice of American
worldwide broadcasts. In 1993, the group appeared as the first-ever
guest chorus at Tanglewood Music Center's annual festival of
Contemporary Music. NYVS has twice received the ASCAP-Chorus America
"Award for Adventuresome Programming," and has been given
Chorus America's "American Choral Works Performance Award."
Among the composers NYVS has commissioned are Michael Gordon, David
Winkler, George Tsontakis, and Tristan Keuris.
Through his
wide range of conducting activities, Harold Rosenbaum remains a vital
and influential force on the American choral music scene. In this
country, Mr. Rosenbaum and his choirs have collaborated with the
American Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Lukes, Brooklyn
Philharmonic, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Mr. Rosenbaum has
conducted over 1200 concerts worldwide, half of them with the
Canticum Novum Singers, a volunteer chorus he founded in 1973. Mr.
Rosenbaum is Professor of Music and Director of Choirs at Suny
Buffalo and founder/conductor of the Westchester Oratorio Society.
Mr. Rosenbaum makes his residence in South Salem, NY. |
