August 30, 2004 :: No. 27
Who: |
Cal State Fullerton Department of Music |
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What: |
Barbara Kilduff, soprano and Brian Moll, piano
Guest artists in recital |
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When: |
8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 10, 2004 |
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Where: |
Little Theatre, California State University,
Fullerton
800 N. State College Blvd. (Nutwood and State College Blvd.)
Fullerton |
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Program: |
Ah, mai non cessate....................................
Stefano Donaudy
Amor mi fa cantare.................................... Donaudy
Date abbiento al mio dolore..................... Donaudy
Maggiolata....................................................
Donaudy
Frühlingsmorgen.........................................
Gustav Mahler
Hans und Grethe......................................... Mahler
Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft..................... Mahler
Liebst du um Schönheit............................. Mahler
Um schlimme Kinder artig zu machen... Mahler
From Canciones clásicas españolas..........
Fernando Obradors
Will There Really Be a Morning?............. Richard Hundley
Come Ready and See Me.......................... Hundley
The Bird.........................................................
John Duke
Nuvoletta.......................................................
Samuel Barber
Chansons de Ronsard................................. Darius
Milhaud |
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Background: |
Coloratura soprano Barbara Kilduff
has enjoyed a career on both the American and European stages
in opera, oratorio and song. A national winner of the Metropolitan
Opera Council auditions, she went on to win first prize in
the famed Munich International Competition and the silver
medal in the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. Within a year
of these competitions, debuted with the Bavarian State Opera,
the Vienna State Opera and the Hamburg State Opera as Zerbinetta
in Richard Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos. She made her
Metropolitan Opera debut in the same role in 1987 with Jessye
Norman, conducted by James Levine, and has continued in roles
including Adele in Die Fledermaus, Cleopatra in Julius Caesar
and Blondchen in Die Entführung aus dem. She has also
performed leading roles to great acclaim at the Bavarian State
Opera, La Scala, in Vienna and San Diego.
She’s appeared in opera and oratorio under Mistislav
Rostropovich, Charles Dutoit, Leonard Slatkin and Pierre Boulez.
As a recitalist Kilduff has appeared in numerous artist series
in the United States and has presented master classes at universities
and colleges. In the New England area she has appeared in
Poulenc’s Gloria with the Chorus Pro Musica and was
featured in 2002 in the Schocken-Gessner series in a recital
with Brian Moll in Pickman Hall at the Longy School of Music
in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Brian Moll is music director of the opera
program at the Boston Conservatory of Music and is also chair
of the collaborative program at the Longy School of Music
in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has performed as a keyboardist
with Emmanuel Music and the Handel & Haydn Chorus and
Orchestra in Boston, and has also served as assistant conductor
for productions of Boston Lyric Opera and for the Opera North
Summer Festival, and has appeared in the Strings in the Mountains
Festival in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Moll has given recitals
as a pianist and organist in Germany, Austria, Switzerland,
Japan, France, and throughout the United States, and has recently
appeared with singers Barbara Kilduff, Barbara Quintiliani,
Paul Sperry, Sheri Greenawald, Gerald Seminatore and Kevin
Deas, along with many others. Moll has played in such prestigious
halls as Vienna's Mozartsaal, the Haydnsaal at the Esterhazy
Castle in Eisenstadt, Austria, Tokyo's Lilia Hall, and Boston's
Jordan Hall. |
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Admission: |
Advance sales $20 ($12 with advance Titan discount
& $9 with advance CSUF student discount) At the door all
tickets $20 |
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Box Office: |
Tickets available at the Performing Arts Center
box office 657-278-3371. Hours: 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., Monday-Friday
and one hour prior to performance. Or online at: www.tickets.com |
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Internet: |
http://www.fullerton.edu/arts/events/ |
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Media Contact: |
Elizabeth Champion, College of the Arts at
657-278-2434 |