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Source Song Festival: J-Term
What is J-Term? J-Term (aka: "January Term") is an opportunity for students to engage in unique learning experiences not available during their fall/spring academic calendar. It is a time for focused, unhindered study and intense engagement with both peers and mentors, to expand creative thinking and enhance their skills to ensure creative contributions in their communities.
For the inaugural J-Term, Source has engaged the Chicago-based team of Rebecca Simone Schorsch & pianist Dana Brown. The weekend will focus on English-language songs, and include private study with the guest artists, as well as public masterclasses of both classical Western Art Songs and 'cross-over' musical theatre & popular styles of singing. The weekend will also include a workshop the emerging artists led by Dana Brown entitled "Business Practices for the Emerging Musician," focusing on such issues as websites, headshots, rep lists, financial planning, & many other topics germane to emerging artists looking to establish successful careers. Public performances cap off the weekend of exploration.
Source is thrilled to welcome pianist James Barnett as the staff pianist for the weekend.
For complete biographies of the guest artists, please visit:
www.sourcesongfestival.org/j-term
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS- OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
Saturday, Jan 16
11a-1p "Business Practices for the Emerging Musician"
2p-4:30p English Art Song Masterclass with Dana Brown
6:30-9p 'Cross-Over for the Classical Singer" with Rebecca Schorch
Sunday, Jan 17
1p - Participant Recital (FREE)
4p- 'Winter's Slumber'
-recital with Rebecca Simone Schorch & Dana Brown
featuring works by Dougherty, Hoiby, Barber, Argento, Sibelius, Rachmaninoff, Arlen, Weil, and others!
WINTER'S SLUMBER PROGRAM
Weathers Celius Dougherty
Winter SongLee Hoiby
Insomnia
Nocturne Samuel Barber
Nuvoletta
Six Elizabethan Songs Dominic Argento
1. Spring
2. Sleep
3. Winter
4. Dirge
5. Diaphenia
6. Hymn
INTERMISSION
Var det en dröm?Jean Sibelius
Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte
From Op 38Sergei Rachmaninoff
To Her
Daisies
Dreams
SerenadeJohn Alden Carpenter
I Never Has Seen Snow Harold Arlen
Dividing DayAdam Guettel
Susan's DreamKurt Weill
May's LoveHenry Mollicone
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
REBECCA SIMONE SCHORSCH
Recognized for her teaching in the field of Musical Theatre and Popular music for the voice, Rebecca Simone Schorsch was named one of the "Best of Chicago" (Chicago Magazine 2008). A sought-after teacher in Musical Theatre voice, she teaches singers who perform on Broadway and Chicago stages, in opera houses, on national tours, regional theater and in the recording industry. Ms. Schorsch is on The Theatre Conservatory Voice Faculty at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University and the Up North Vocal Institute in Boyne, Michigan. She is a frequent master class teacher for Musical Theatre and "Theater styles for the Classical Singer" and has guest taught at the University of Colorado-Boulder, Wheaton College, University of Chicago, Southern Methodist University, and The Royal College of Music and Drama in Cardiff, Wales. Ms. Schorsch is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and The Voice Foundation. She is a Musical Theater coach on stagelighter.com.
As singer herself, Ms. Schorsch has appeared extensively as a concert soloist in both Classical and Musical Theater repertoire in the Chicago area and beyond with: The Illinois Philharmonic, Bach and Beyond Festival, West Suburban Symphony, Northwest Symphony, Salt Creek Symphony, Access Contemporary Music and the Chicago Civic Orchestra, among others. She has been frequently heard live on WFMT Chicago on both the Pianoforte Foundation Salon series and "Live from the Mayne" in solo recital. Regarded for her conviction to text in performance and involvement in the Chicago classical music community, Ms. Schorsch was called "gutsya Chicago favorite" (Time Out Chicago). Rebecca is a student of Connie Haas.
DANA BROWN
Dana Brown, pianist, has a multi-faceted career which includes solo playing, accompanying, conducting, coaching and teaching. He has been heard at the Tanglewood Festival, the Ravinia Festival, and many times on WFMT Radio as a collaborator, in addition to performances on WTTW's "Chicago Tonight", Light Opera Works of Evanston, L'Opera Piccola, the Chicago Cultural Center and the Chicago Humanities Festival. As a coach, he has been on the faculty of Northwestern University, the Intermezzo Young Artists Program, the Opera and Music Festival of Lucca, Italy, and the Taos Opera Institute in Taos Ski Valley, New Mexico. He is now co-artistic director of a new summer program for emerging singers, the Up North Vocal Institute, held in Boyne, Michigan.
He was the coach for the 2008-2011 seasons of the Civic Music Association's Support Our Singers Program in conjunction with the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Wisconsin District. He is also a staff pianist for the Ryan Opera Center at the Lyric Opera of Chicago; at Lyric he has played in the lessons and masterclasses of Marilyn Horne, Renata Scotto, Renée Fleming and Sir Andrew Davis.
As a solo pianist, he is a past national winner of the National Federation of Music Clubs Young Artist Competition, and has been the featured soloist in concerti of Beethoven, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Brahms, and Gershwin with Midwestern orchestras. He represented the state of South Dakota, appearing with the Beethoven Society "Pops" Orchestra as soloist in the Beethoven "Emperor" Concerto, in Washington, DC.
He is an Associate Professor of Opera and Vocal Coaching at CCPA, where he has taught and coached since 2001. At CCPA he musically directs opera, coaches graduate and undergraduates in the vocal performance programs, and teaches singer-specific classes in diction, art song literature and business practices. Several recent productions at CCPA include Puccini/Gianni Schicchi, Bernstein/Candide and Trouble in Tahiti, Argento/Postcard from Morocco, Gilbert and Sullivan/The Mikado, Ravel/L'Heure Espagnole and L'Enfant et les sortilèges, Poulenc/Les Mamelles de Tirésias, Britten/Turn of the Screw and Albert Herring, and Rorem/Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters. Along with colleague Scott Gilmore, he is one of the music directors of CCPA Operafest, now in its sixth year.
In June 2013, Dr. Brown was the keynote speaker and performer at the opening convocation of the Texas Music Teachers Association Convention. Another highlight of 2013 was performing at the 80th birthday party of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg with soprano Patrice Michaels.
He is a graduate of the University of Michigan, where he studied with renowned accompanist Martin Katz. He currently studies piano with Mary Sauer, Principal Keyboard Artist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
JAMES BARNETT
James Barnett is an active pianist and conductor known for his work as an art song recitalist and chamber music pianist. As an ardent supporter of new and forgotten music, he has created a salon recital series in Minneapolis, Minnesota, focused on neglected works and composers. In addition to the recital series, Barnett has just launched Metamorphosis Opera Theater (MOT), a new company that pushes the conventions of opera through performances of lesser known works.
Barnett's career in opera started in the summer of 2007 at Des Moines Metro Opera where he served as a coach and rehearsal pianist in the James M. Collier Apprentice Program. Since then, he has been involved in numerous productions with the University of Minnesota Opera Theater, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Grand Valley State University as well as producing numerous operatic performances for such organizations as Heifer International and Feed My Starving Children. He also attended Songfest, a program devoted to the study of Art Song, where he worked with pianists Margo Garrett, Martin Katz, and Graham Johnson.
When not performing, he is an active teacher having been on staff at Grand Valley State University, Up North Vocal Institute, and Minnesota Operaʼs Opera Artist+ Summer Camp. Barnett is currently a Doctor of Musical Arts candidate in Piano Accompanying/ Vocal Coaching at the University of Minnesota. Major musical influences in his life include James and Karen Johnson, and Z. Randall Stroope.
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LocationUniversity of Minnesota School of Music - Ferguson Hall (View)
2106 Fourth Street South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
United States
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