Cantabile

De Valles y Montañas: A South American Journey

Katja — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:00:03 +0000

Join Cantabile for a beautiful assortment of representative pieces from South America, with an emphasis on Colombia, Venezuela and Brazil. De Valles y Montañas refers to the incredible diversity of geography and topography of the South American continent, a diversity which is reflected in its wonderful people and cultures.

Joining us for this concert is guest conductor María Teresa Guillén, one of Colombia’s foremost experts in Latin American choral music. This concert sure to captivate you with the engaging rhythms, stories, and flavors of one of the richest lands in the world.

In Longmont, all proceeds from the performance will go to benefit the Wild Plum Center for Young Children and Families. The program will include a short performance by the four year-old class from the Wild Plum Center.

Slide Show: Director Alejando Gomez Guillen working with the four year olds at the Wild Plum Center. Photo Credit: Lori Stott/Wild Plum Center

Andrew Lloyd Webber Requiem

Katja — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 07:00:42 +0000

Maria Lindsey, Soprano
Jason Baldwin, Tenor
Bobby Swift, Treble

It is not Cats or Phantom, but Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Requiem stands out as a profoundly moving and sincere composition. Winner of a 1986 Grammy Award for Best Classical Composition, the Requiem explores the Latin text for the Mass of the Departed Souls in a very poignant and dramatic fashion. Please join Boulder’s Cantabile as we bring to life this rarely performed piece in a production which features over 80 musicians, including excellent soloists!

Alejandro discusses the Requiem in an interview with Charley Samson of Colorado Public Radio: Download audio file (gomez-guillen-requiem-promo.mp3)

An excerpt of Cantabile’s most recent concert with Takacs Quartet’s Geri Walther: Download audio file (flos-campi-excerpt.mp3)

Soloists

Maria Lindsey

Soprano Maria Lindsey recently completed her second year as an apprentice with the Santa Fe Opera, covering the role of Sardula in The Last Savage. After her time with the Santa Fe Opera this summer, Maria appeared as Gretel in Hansel and Gretel with Opera Omaha. Maria received her Master’s Degree in Voice Performance from the University of Colorado at Boulder where she performed the title role in Susannah, Julie in Carousel, and Miss Wordsworth in Albert Herring, as well as Adina in The Elixir of Love with the Loveland Opera Theater. Maria received her Bachelor’s of Musical Arts degree in Vocal Performance from BYU-Idaho in 2008 and performed the roles of Pamina in The Magic Flute and Yum-Yum in The Mikado with the BYU-Idaho Opera. Maria was an apprentice with the Santa Fe Opera in 2009 when she covered Coryphèe in Alceste, and sang Juliette from Roméo et Juliette in SFO’s apprentice opera scenes. In the spring of 2010 Maria was one of the Voices in Residence and had the opportunity of singing Barbarina in Le Nozze Di Figaro with Opera Omaha. This summer Maria is honored to be a Gerdine Young Artist with Opera Theatre of St. Louis, covering the role of Micaëla in Carmen and singing the role of the Rat in a new opera, Alice in Wonderland.

Jason Baldwin

Jason Baldwin, tenor, has enjoyed immense praise for his strong, Italianate voice. He earned an MA in vocal performance at the University of Colorado, was a Studio Artist for the Utah Symphony, appeared with the Opera Theatre of the Rockies, the Utah Festival Opera, Colorado Opera, Theatre of St. Louis, Opera Tampa, Asheville Lyric Opera, Amarillo Opera and Opera Fort Collins. Jason’s website is at jasonbaldwintenor.com.

Bobby Swift

12-year-old Bobby Swift lives in Larkspur, Colorado. He is a member of the Young Voices of Colorado’s Concert and Boys Choirs led by Jena Dickey. He has become a favorite boy soprano soloist in the Denver area. In December 2010, Bobby sang the role of Amahl in Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors at Central Presbyterian Church’s 150th Year Celebration. For Easter of 2010, Bobby sang the Pie Jesu in Faure’s Requiem at University Park United Methodist Church. Bobby made his CU Opera debut in April 2010 as the Boy Soprano in CU’s presentation of Leonard Bernstein’s Mass. He has also been featured as a soloist in choral concerts at the ACDA Honors Choir, with the Denver Brass, and at the University of Denver under the direction of Paul Smith.

Composer

Andrew Lloyd Webber

We know him as the creator of such musical theater favorites as Phantom of the Opera, Evita and Cats, but Andrew Lloyd Webber also produced this haunting Requiem, written in memory of his father, who died in 1982. It is his first and to date only full-blown classical work. He called it “the most personal of all my compositions”.

The Soul of Cantabile

Katja — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:51:46 +0000

Join Cantabile at the Stanley Hotel in beautiful Estes Park as we open the Estes Park Music Festival Winter Series. This concert will feature works about love, adventure, passion and satire, by Poulenc, Copeland, Ayres, Rachmaninov and others.

The performance will also feature the talents of Stella Pradeau, Collaborative Pianist, and Music Director Alejandro Gómez Guillén, violin, performing Beethoven’s Sonata for Piano and Violin, Op. 23 in A minor, and Liebesleid by Fritz Kreisler.

Flos Campi

Katja — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 16:24:08 +0000

Geraldine Walther

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Suite for Solo Viola, Chorus and Orchestra
featuring
Geraldine Walther, viola

Additional works by Paul Ayres, including the US premiere of In the stillness

Feminæ: Of Love, Passion and Motherhood

Katja — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:04:35 +0000

Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Sunday, May 8th, 2011

From tales of love and adventure, passionate and satirical, to prayers to the Virgin Mary, celebrate Mother’s Day with Cantabile and beautiful choral works by Ravel, Poulenc, Tavener, Lauridsen, Rachmaninov and others.

Old World, New World: From Many Voices

Katja — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 00:45:41 +0000

In our first season with Music Director Alejandro Gómez Guillén, Cantabile invites you to experience masterful choral works from Europe and America. Enjoy insights, relationships and connections to the music.

To represent the Old World and the New World, we will sing masterful pieces and arrangements of composers from Europe and America. The Old World is represented by Italy, France, Russia, and Germany, with examples by Duruflé, Wagner, Stravinsky, and Mendelssohn. The New World is represented by American works that display the breadth of choral music in the Unites States with spirituals and hymns featuring well-loved composers Aaron Copland, Randall Thompson, Moses Hogan and Morten Lauridsen among others.

Cantabile believes that a concert should be an active endeavor that deeply touches and reaches everyone. The audience doesn’t just sit at the receiving end; everyone present, including the singers, is able to relate│listen│reveal. Cantabile recounts a story, and establishes relationships; the audience and the singers listen for patterns that will reinforce these relationships; and through this uncovering all become active participants, engaged in the music.

In the Spirit of Joy

Katja — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 04:25:02 +0000

Join Cantabile, under new Music Director Alejandro Gómez Guillén, for a beautiful combination of music for Christmas from different Western traditions at Frasier Meadows, 350 Ponca Place, Boulder, CO on Wednesday, December 15, 2010 at 7:30 pm. Admission is free.

Blood, Sweat & Tears: Creative Journeys

Katja — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 04:23:31 +0000

Cantabile will be joining with the Boulder Symphony this fall to present Blood, Sweat & Tears: Creative Journeys, including Franz Schubert’s Mass in G, on Saturday, November 13th at 7:30 pm at Mountain View United Methodist Church, 355 Ponca Place in Boulder.

Robert Farr will lead Cantabile and the Boulder Symphony, with soloists Emily Murdoch (soprano), Lucas Goodrich (tenor), and Larry Jay Gidden (bass).

In addition to the Schubert Mass, the orchestra will be performing Exchanging Glances, by Chip Clark, and Brahms’ Symphony No. 1 in C minor under the baton of Devin Patrick Hughes.

The Mass in G Major was written early in 1815 when Franz Schubert was just 18 years old and first performed in the same year in the Viennese parish church of Lichtental.

The Mass has an intimate character heightened by the chamber scoring for three vocal soloists, a string orchestra and organ. Wind parts were added to the Mass by Schubert’s brother Ferdinand which was first published in Prague in 1846 and falsely attributed to Robert Führer.

This performance will use the Ferdinand Schubert orchestration orchestration of chorus, strings, woodwinds, trumpets, tympani and organ continuo.

Thanks to the Royal Free Music Society for permission to adapt material about the Mass in G.

Estes Park Music Festival

Katja — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 04:22:06 +0000

This program will include a performance of Brahms’ Liebeslieder Waltzes Op. 52 and other works for chorus and 4-hand one piano accompaniment by Diemer, Gilbert & Sullivan and others, and will feature Stella Pradeau, Collaborative Pianist, and Elizabeth Smith, Guest Pianist.

Four Hands For Voices

Katja — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 04:19:54 +0000

The Cantabile Singers, under the direction of Robert Farr, perform “Four Hands For Voices” on Saturday, May 1st at First Congregational Church, 1500 9th Avenue in Longmont, and on Sunday, May 2nd at Mountain View United Methodist Church, 355 Ponca Place in Boulder.

Date:	Friday, May 18th 2012 , 7:30pm
Location:	First Congregational Church
Address:	1128 Pine Street Boulder, CO
Cost:	$20/$15/$5

Date:	Saturday, May 19th 2012 , 7:30pm
Location:	First United Methodist Church
Address:	350 11th Avenue Longmont, CO
Cost:	$15/$10/$5

Date:	Sunday, February 12th 2012 , 2:30pm
Location:	Mountain View United Methodist Church
Address:	355 Ponca Place Boulder, CO
Cost:	Adults: $15, Senior/Student: $10

Date:	Sunday, November 6th 2011 , 2:00pm
Location:	The Stanley Hotel
Address:	333 Wonderview Avenue Estes Park, CO

Date:	Wednesday, November 2nd 2011 , 7:30pm
Location:	First Congregational Church
Address:	1128 Pine Street Boulder, CO
Cost:	$20 ($15 Seniors, $5 Students)

Date:	Thursday, May 5th 2011 , 7:30pm
Location:	Cairn Christian Church
Address:	1700 Stonehenge Drive Lafayette, CO
Cost:	$15 ($10 Students/Seniors)

Date:	Sunday, May 8th 2011 , 7:30pm
Location:	Mountain View United Methodist Church
Address:	355 Ponca Place Boulder, CO
Cost:	$15 ($10 Students/Seniors)

Date:	Friday, February 25th 2011 , 7:30pm
Location:	Mountain View United Methodist Church
Address:	355 Ponca Place Boulder, CO
Cost:	$15 ($10 Seniors, $5 Students)

Date:	Sunday, February 27th 2011 , 3:00pm
Location:	Broomfield Auditorium
Address:	3 Community Park Road Broomfield, CO
Cost:	$15 ($10 Seniors, $5 Students)

Date:	Wednesday, December 15th 2010 , 7:30pm
Location:	Frasier Meadows Manor
Address:	350 Ponca Place Boulder, CO

Date:	Saturday, November 13th 2010 , 7:30pm
Location:	Mountain View United Methodist Church
Address:	355 Ponca Place Boulder, CO

Date:	Sunday, November 7th 2010 , 2:00pm
Location:	The Stanley Hotel
Address:	333 Wonderview Avenue Estes Park, CO

Date:	Saturday, May 1st 2010 , 7:30pm
Location:	First Congregational Church
Address:	1500 Ninth Avenue Longmont, CO

Date:	Sunday, May 2nd 2010 , 7:30pm
Location:	Mountain View United Methodist Church
Address:	355 Ponca Place Boulder, CO