Masterworks I
50 Fingers
Friday, October 5, 2012
THE 5 BROWNS, piano
8:00 pm | Capitol Theater | Overture Center for the Arts
MOZART | Overture to Il ré pastore, K. 208
MOZART | Concerto No. 7 in F Major for Three Pianos, K. 242
MUHLY | The Edge of the World
MENDELSSOHN | Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 11
Wisconsin Pops
Disney in Concert: Magical Music from the Movies
Saturday, October 6, 2012
8:00 pm | Overture Hall | Overture Center for the Arts
Middleton Holiday Pops
A Christmas Sampler
Aaron Thompson, soloist
Middleton High School Concert Choir
Madison Marriott West
Saturday, November 26, 2011, 8:00 pm
Sunday, November 27, 2011, 1:00 pm
Handel’s Messiah
December 7, 2012
Stacey Tappan, Emily Lodine, James Doing, Peter Van de Graaff, The Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra Chorus and the Festival Choir of Madison
7:00 pm | Blackhawk Church, Middleton
Masterworks II
TOWERING GIANTS
Friday, January 11, 2013
CLAUDE DELENGLE, cellist
8:00 pm | Capitol Theater | Overture Center for the Arts
BIZET | Jeux d’enfants, Op. 22
VILLA-LOBOS | Fantasia, Op. 630
GLAZUNOV | Concerto for Alto Saxophone in E-flat Major, Op. 109
BEETHOVEN | Contradances, WoO 14
MOZART | Symphony No. 31 in D Major, K. 297 (Paris)
Masterworks III
PASTORAL GEMS
Friday, February 22, 2013
TASMIN LITTLE, violinist
8:00 pm | Capitol Theater | Overture Center for the Arts
BACH | Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068
FINZI | Introit, Op. 6
PROKOFIEV | Concerto No. 2 for Violin in G Minor, Op. 63
GOUNOD | Symphony No. 2 in E-flat Major
Wisconsin Pops
Live & Let Die: A Symphonic Tribute to the Music of Paul McCartney
Saturday, March 2, 2013
8:00 pm | Overture Hall | Overture Center for the Arts
Masterworks IV
VIENNESE VIRTUOSI
Friday, March 22, 2013
ANNE-MARIE MCDERMOTT, piano
8:00 pm | Capitol Theater | Overture Center for the Arts
MOZART | Concerto No. 24 for Piano in C Minor, K. 491
BRUCKNER | Symphony in D Minor (Nullte)
Masterworks V
CHANSONS D'AMOUR
Friday, April 12, 2013
SUSANNA PHILLIPS, soprano
8:00 pm | Capitol Theater | Overture Center for the Arts
HAYDN | Symphony No. 83 in G Minor (La poule)
CANTELOUBE | Selections from Chants d’Auvergne
MOZART | “Non mi dir, bell’idol mio” from Don Giovanni
MOZART | Bella mia fiamma, addio – Resta, oh cara, K. 528
BEETHOVEN | Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 36
The 5 Browns are delivering on their dream to wake up classical music by introducing it to the widest, largest and most excited audience they can find. Whether performing individually or together in various combinations from duo to complex five-piano arrangements, The 5 Browns reveal a deep connection to the intent of their material while bringing a fresh energy and dynamic character to the color and tonal spectrum of their sound.
The 5 Browns – Ryan, Melody, Gregory, Deondra and Desirae – all attended New York’s Juilliard School. In fact, they became the first family of five siblings ever accepted simultaneously. The quintet enjoyed their first wave of critical attention in February 2002 when People magazine dubbed them the “Fab Five” and at about the same time they were featured on Oprah and 60 Minutes. The 5 Browns have released 3 CDs that each went to #1 on Billboard Magazine’s Classical Album Chart. The New York Post has proclaimed: “One family, five pianos and 50 fingers add up to the biggest classical music sensation in years…When these kids do Rachmaninoff, they’ll make you forget about Marshall amps.”
The quintet has garnered extensive coverage from media outlets ranging from The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Good Morning America, Today, and The View to The Martha Stewart Show, Public Radio’s Performance Today, as well as The New York Times, Parade, People, the Los Angeles Times, theSunday London Telegraph and Entertainment Weekly. who called them “…five young Mormons who all play scorching piano. Thundering down on five Steinways together, they’re button-down cute and somewhat otherworldly.”
The 5 Browns tour extensively and have performed in numerous venues including the Grand National Theater in China, Suntory Hall in Japan and, in the United States, The Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, Symphony Hall in Chicago and Alice Tully Hall in New York City
In addition to touring, The 5 Browns are published writers. Their book, Life Between the Keys was published by Phoenix Books in March 2009.
In the spring of 2010, their new CD “The 5 Browns… In Hollywood”, was released on the E1 Music label. They are also featured in a new PBS TV special, “The 5 Browns In Concert” that is airing on PBS stations throughout the country.
Upcoming highlights include the premiere of a new work for five pianos and orchestra composed by Nico Muhly. The 5 Browns will premiere the work in summer 2011 at the Ravinia Festival with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by James Conlon.
The 5 Browns are exclusive Steinway Artists.
Aaron Thompson captivates his audience with heartfelt praise and a contagious spirit! Recently moving from Gilbert, Arizona to Madison, Wisconsin, Aaron's continuing his over 20 year career in music ministry as the Director of Music Ministry at St. Thomas Aquinas parish. Relocating Marian, his wife of 17 years, and his 4 children to the frigid Wisconsin climate has been an opportunity for growth, and a new endeavor for Aaron professionally. As amiable as he is spiritual, Aaron's ability to pour his soul into his music connects with an expansive audience of all ages. Aaron studied trumpet performance in college, and has since harnessed his skills on the piano, guitar, and as a vocalist. His 5 albums have had considerable success, and he thoroughly enjoys any opportunity to perform.
Touring worldwide professionally has been an envisioned dream attained, and he is eager to continue his passion for praise in the Madison community. A devout Catholic, Christian, and self-proclaimed family man, Aaron Thompson proves to be an inspiration to those around him. Expressing his spirituality through song, his music reflects an earnest desire for worship, a passion for the church, and a heart for ministry.
Actor, singer, and recording artist, Tony Kishman doubles as featured performer and producer of Live and Let Die, in which he performs the music of Paul McCartney, backed by symphony orchestra. Tony also developed and stars in the Beatles tribute show Twist and Shout.
Tony starred for six years in both the national and international tours of Broadway’s smash hit, Beatlemania. From the start, Kishman has been regarded as the quintessential Paul McCartney because of the gifted young musician’s uncanny resemblance both visually and vocally to the beloved Beatle. Kishman was just a young kid from Tucson when he first auditioned for Beatlemania in 1977. He worked up “Can't Buy Me Love," "Yesterday," and "Hey Jude" where he learned just enough piano to get him through the audition. He was so compelling that they hired him immediately and Kishman soon started touring around the world.
While performing in London, the group received high acclaim from Sir George Henry Martin who admitted their look and sound was as close to the real thing as it could possibly be. "At times I drifted" he told Kishman and added that each song reminded him of his time with the Beatleas in the studio.
During the 1990’s, Kishman joined the Classic recording group Wishbone Ash as bassist and vocalist. He recorded lead vocals for Illuminations, the band’s first studio album in nearly a decade.
Tony also performs in the well known and highly successful Beatles symphony show, Classical Mystery Tour, which has toured to great acclaim, filling concert halls throughout the U.S. and Europe. Today, Kishman still plays the original Hoffner Bass that was provided to him by the producers of Beatlemania in 1978. With only a few string changes over the years, the bass has maintained its authenticity.
Kishhman is regarded by “Beatlemaniacs” as the world’s best McCartney look-alike/sound-alike. Even after 30 years, Kishman is proud to bring the most brilliant pop music in history to a new generation of Beatles fans.
Tony has recorded for RCA Records and Mercury Records.
Soloist, researcher and pedagogue, Claude Delangle, one of the greatest contemporary saxophonists, stands out as the master of the French saxophone. Privileged interpreter for classic works, he enriches the repertoire and encourages creation by collaborating with the most renowned composers, including L. Berio, P. Boulez, Toru Takemitsu, A. Piazzolla, and promoting the youngest. Since 1986, he is invited saxophonist in the Ensemble Intercontemporain, he also appears as soloist with the most prestigious orchestras (London BBC, Radio France, Radio of Finland, WDR Köln, Berlin Philharmonic, Kioi Tokyo) and works with D. Robertson, P. Eötvös, K. Nagano, E.P. Salonen, Miung Wung Chung, G. Bernstein and many other conductors.
He is also invited to important festivals such as the Zagreb Bienniale , Présences of Radio France or the Musica Nova Festival . The Festival Musica of Strasbourg invited him recently to offer the world premiere of the programme “ Tango Futur ”, interpreted afterwards at the Festival Aix en Musique and at the Theatre of the Palais Royal in Paris.
Passionate for his instrument, he goes beyond the work of the soloist and frequents the Musical Acoustic Laboratories of the University of Paris 7. The results of his research on specific acoustics of the saxophone will be for him a precious asset in his collaboration with composers.
His recordings for BIS, Deutsche Grammophon, Harmonia Mundi, Erato and Verany bring out French music while revealing new musical horizons from the repertoire created by the brilliant Adolphe Sax to the avant-garde works or the popular repertoire.
After obtaining several outstanding Premiers Prix at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique of Paris , Claude Delangle was appointed professor in 1988, where he has created the most prestigious saxophone class in the world. Pupils of all nationalities long to receive this education, which combines concerts with the possibility of studying with important composers and offers a large range of interdisciplinary activities. In Europe, North America, South America, Australia and Asia, Claude Delangle is requested for interpretation courses.
He is currently in charge of a collection at the Henri-Lemoine-Paris publications, where he works for the publishing of new repertoires and for the republishing of classic works, not forgetting, however, the publication of pedagogical works.
During this season 2003-2004 Asia will welcome Claude Delangle four times: in Japan he will perform in a tour with the Metropolitan Tokyo Symphony, in Hong Kong with the City Chamber Orchestra, in Singapore he will record for BIS the great concertos of the repertoire with the Symphonic Orchestra of Singapore and will give recitals in China. He is also planning the premiere of Trame 1 by Martin Matalon at the Arsenal in Metz, a tour of recitals in Central America in July and concerts with the orchestras of Saint Petersburg and Novossibirsk in September. The strong point of his Parisian season will be the Festival Agora in June, for which he has been given carte blanche by the IRCAM (Institute of musical acoustics research and coordination).
Tasmin has played with many of the world's greatest orchestras in a career that has taken her to every continent of the world. In addition to her regular solo performances, she has play/directed orchestras such as Royal Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, London Mozart Players, English Chamber Orchestra, Norwegian Chamber, European Union Chamber Orchestra and Britten Sinfonia. In 2007/08 she joined the London Mozart Players as soloist and director in a tour of the UK which also featured her UK conducting debut.
Tasmin’s performances in the 2011/12 take her back to the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam for a performance of Dritte Musik by Rihm, and she will give three concerto performances in London at the South Bank, Cadogan Hall and the Barbican. She returns to China, Singapore, Dublin and Philadelphia, makes her debut in Dubai in December and in March 2012 she will give the World Premiere of the completed version of Roxanna Panufnik’s World Seasons with the London Mozart Players.
In 2011, Tasmin made her seventeenth appearance at the BBC Promenade Concerts in the Royal Albert Hall, London, in a performance of the Elgar Violin Concerto with Sir Andrew Davis and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. She continues to champion seldom-performed repertoire, and has received critical acclaim as one of the few violinists to have mastered Ligeti's challenging violin concerto. Her 2003 tour with the Berlin Philharmonic and Sir Simon Rattle, during which she performed the concerto at the Proms, Berlin Philharmonie, the Salzburg Festival, New York's Carnegie Hall and Philadelphia's Kimmel Center, received unanimous critical acclaim ('the technical command was glorious' ¬ The Guardian; 'very beautiful' ¬ Berliner Morgenpost; 'a major violin talent' ¬ Philadelphia Inquirer; 'a formidable soloist' ¬ New York Times). In 2007 she returned to the work with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam.
In 2006, Tasmin was Artistic Director of her hugely successful 'Delius Inspired' Festival, which was broadcast for an entire week on BBC Radio 3 in July. An exciting range of events, ranging from orchestral concerts and chamber music to films and exhibitions, also reached 800 school children in an ambitious programme designed to widen interest in classical music for young people. She was Artistic Director of Spring Sounds Festival from 2008 until 2010.
Her discography reflects her wide-ranging repertoire and includes twenty-five recordings, ranging from Bruch and Brahms to Karlowicz and Arvo Pärt. Her recording of all the four Delius Violin Sonatas with Piers Lane won the prized Diapason d'Or. In March 2009 she released the disc 'Partners in Time', her follow-up to The Naked Violin, and in Autumn 2010 her long-awaited recording of the Elgar violin concerto was released on the Chandos label to unanimous critical acclaim. The recording celebrated the 100th anniversary of the concerto’s premiere and included a re-creation of a special version of the accompanied cadenza. Tasmin won the much-coveted "Critic's Choice" award for the Elgar disc at the May 2011 Classic BRIT Awards Ceremony.
Tasmin is an Ambassador for The Prince’s Foundation for Children and the Arts, is a Fellow of the Guildhall of Music and Drama, is President of ESTA (European String Teachers Association), an Ambassador for Youth Music, and has received Honorary Degrees from the Universities of Bradford, Leicester, Hertfordshire and City of London. In 2009, she received a prestigious Gold Badge Award for services to music.
She plays a 1757 Guadagnini violin and has, on kind loan from the Royal Academy of Music, the 'Regent' Stradivarius of 1708.
Pianist Anne-Marie McDermott is a consummate artist who balances a versatile career as a soloist and collaborator. She performs over 100 concerts a year in a combination of solo recitals, concerti and chamber music. Her repertoire choices are eclectic, spanning from Bach and Haydn to Prokofiev and Scriabin to Kernis, Hartke, Tower and Wuorinen.
With over 50 concerti in her repertoire, Ms. McDermott has performed with many leading orchestra including the New York Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra, Dallas Symphony, Columbus Symphony, Seattle Symphony, National Symphony, Houston Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Moscow Virtuosi, Hong Kong Philharmonic, San Diego Symphony, New Jersey Symphony and Baltimore Symphony among others. Ms, McDermott has toured with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Moscow Virtuosi.
In the recent seasons, Ms, McDermott performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic, North Carolina Symphony, Charlotte Symphony, Huntsville Symphony, Alabama Symphony, San Diego Symphony, the Oregon Mozart Players, and the New Century Chamber Orchestra.
Recital engagements have included the 92nd Street Y, Alice Tully Hall, Town Hall, The Schubert Club, Kennedy Center, as well as universities across the country. Anne-Marie McDermott has curated and performed in a number of intense projects including: the Complete Prokofiev Piano Sonatas and Chamber Music, a Three Concert Series of Shostakovich Chamber Music, as well as a recital series of Haydn and Beethoven Piano Sonatas. Most recently, she commissioned works of Charles Wuorinen and Clarice Assad which were premiered in May 2009 at Town Hall, in conjunction with Bach’s Goldberg Variations.
As a soloist, Ms. McDermott has recorded the complete Prokofiev Piano Sonatas, Bach English Suites and Partitas (which was named Gramophone Magazine’s Editor’s Choice), and most recently, Gershwin Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra with the Dallas Symphony and Justin Brown.
As a chamber music performer, Anne-Marie McDermott was named an artist member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in 1995 and performs and tours extensively with CMS each season. She continues a long standing collaboration with the highly acclaimed violinist, Nadja Salerno Sonnenberg. As a duo, they have released a CD titled “Live” on the NSS label and plan to release the Complete Brahms Violin and Piano Sonatas in the future. Ms. McDermott is also a member of the renowned piano quartet, Opus One, with colleagues Ida Kavafian, Steven Tenenbom and Peter Wiley. She continues to perform each season with her sisters, Maureen McDermott and Kerry McDermott in the McDermott Trio. Ms, McDermott has also released an all Schumann CD with violist, Paul Neubauer, as well as the Complete Chamber Music of Debussy with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
Anne-Marie McDermott has been named the Artistic Director of two new Festivals; The Ocean Reef Chamber Music Festival and The Avila Chamber Music Celebration in Curacao.
Ms. McDermott studied at the Manhattan School of Music with Dalmo Carra, Constance Keene and John Browning. She was a winner of the Young Concert Artists auditions and was awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant.
Ms. McDermott regularly performs at Festivals across the United States including, Spoleto, Mainly Mozart, Sante Fe, La Jolla Summerfest, Mostly Mozart, Newport, Caramoor, Bravo, Chamber Music Northwest, Aspen, Music from Angelfire, and the Festival Casals in Puerto Rico, among others.
Alabama native Susanna Phillips has attracted special recognition for a voice of striking beauty and sophistication. Recipient of the Metropolitan Opera’s 2010 Beverly Sills Artist Award, she recently sang in the opening concert and Live from Lincoln Center broadcast of the Mostly Mozart Festival under the baton of Louis Langree. She will begin the 2011/12 season as the title character in Lucia di Lammermoor in a new production with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, directed by Catherine Malfitano. She will make her European debut as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte at the Gran Teatro del Liceu in Barcelona, followed by Contessa Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro at the Opera National de Bordeaux. Other operatic highlights include Musetta in Puccini’s La Boheme at the Metropolitan Opera, Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor with Minnesota Opera. Concert engagements of the 2011/12 season include debuts with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the St. Louis Symphony, and a concert performance of Mozart’s Idomeneo at the Ravinia Music Festival where she will sing the role of Ilia.
Susanna Phillips began her 2010/11 season as Euridice in Minnesota Opera’s Orfeo ed Euridice with David Daniels, under Harry Bicket. Additionally, performed her first staged Lucia di Lammermoor with Opera Birmingham, and sang Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Boston Lyric Opera. At the Metropolitan Opera, Susanna appeared as Pamina in Julie Taymor’s celebrated production of The Magic Flute, and as Musetta in La bohème. She also portrayed Musetta on the Met’s Japan tour in June. Susanna was a resident artist at the Marlboro Music Festival for the past two summers. Concert highlights include the Marilyn Horne Foundation gala at Carnegie Hall, a solo recital in Chicago, and a recital for the US Supreme Court Justices. She was a featured artist in the Met’s Summer Recital Series in Central Park and Brooklyn Bridge Park.
In the 2009/10 season, Susanna Phillips sang Pamina at the Met with conductor Bernard Labadie, Adina in L’Elisir d’Amore with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Countess Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro with Opera Birmingham, and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni at the Fort Worth Opera Festival. An alumnus of The Juilliard School, she made her New York solo recital debut at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall as recipient of the Alice Tully Vocal Arts Debut Recital Award. Following her Baltimore Symphony debut under Marin Alsop, the Baltimore Sun proclaimed, “She’s the real deal.”
In the banner year of 2005, Susanna Phillips was the winner of four of the world’s leading vocal competitions – Operalia (both First Place and the Audience Prize), the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the MacAllister Awards and the George London Foundation. She completed the Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago in 2007.
Since making her Santa Fe Opera debut as Pamina in the summer of 2006, Susanna Phillips has returned to Santa Fe in a trio of Mozart operas: as Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte, Countess Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni. Recent seasons have brought significant operatic debuts, including Mozart’s Countess with the Dallas Opera, Donna Anna with Boston Lyric Opera and her first Violetta with Opera Birmingham.
In recital, Susanna Phillips has appeared at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, and at Carnegie Hall with the Marilyn Horne Foundation. She has performed with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic as part of their annual “Composer’s Festival” under Alan Gilbert, Mozart’s Mass in C minor with the Chicago Symphony, Beethoven’s Mass in C and Choral Fantasy for her Mostly Mozart Festival debut at Lincoln Center, and at Carnegie Hall with the Oratorio Society of New York under Kent Tritle. She has also sung Dvorak’s Stabat Mater with the Santa Fe Symphony, Brahms’ Deutsches Requiem with the Santa Barbara Symphony, and appeared opposite baritone Wolfgang Holzmair in Wolf’s Spanisches Liederbuch at New York’s Weill Recital Hall. Other recent concert and oratorio engagements include Carmina Burana, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, Mozart’s Coronation Mass, the Fauré and Mozart Requiems, and Handel’s Messiah. She made her Carnegie Hall debut with Skitch Henderson and Rob Fisher with the New York Pops.
Raised in Huntsville, Susanna Phillips is grateful for the ongoing support of her community in her career. She sang Strauss’ Vier Letzte Lieder and her first performances of the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor in a concert version with the Huntsville Symphony, and she returns frequently to her native state for recitals and orchestral appearances.
