Dayton, OH (Top40 Charts/ Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra) -The Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra's 2010-2011 Miami Valley & Good Samaritan Hospitals Classical Series will continue with Mozart's Eternal Requiem on Friday and Saturday, October 15 & 16, 2010, both performances at 8 p.m. at the
Benjamin and Marian
Schuster Performing Arts Center.
As a prelude to this program, the DPO will offer a screening of the 8-time Academy Award winning film Amadeus on Sunday, October 3 at 3:00 at the Dayton Masonic Center. The screening is free to all DPO Subscribers, holders of Mozart Requiem tickets and Dayton Masons.
Joining the DPO for Mozart's Requiem will be the DPO Chorus, under the direction of Hank Dahlman, and soloists Lynne Giacalone Church, soprano; Kathleen Clawson, mezzo soprano; Randall Black, tenor; and William Henry Caldwell, baritone. �
In addition to the sublime Requiem - Mozart's final work, and among his most profound and inspiring - the concerts will also include the fanfare Tromba Lontana, by American composer John Adams, and the symphony Mathis der Maler by German composer Paul Hindemith. Patrick Reynolds, Assistant Conductor of the DPO, will conduct the Adams and Hindemith works, while Hank Dahlman, Director of the DPO Chorus, will conduct the Mozart Requiem.
The DPO's '10-'11 Classical Series promises a "Voyage" of discovery. �Each composer is on a quest; each composition evokes a time and place. This season's concerts will take the listener from Mozart's Vienna to the steppes of Central Asia (Borodin's Polovtsian Dances, March 11-12) to a quilt-making community in rural Alabama (Daugherty's Gee's Bend, March 24-26).
Tickets for the concerts of October 15 & 16 range from $9 - $59 and are available by calling (888) 228-3630 or by ordering on the web at www.daytonphilharmonic.com.
The Dayton Philharmonic's 2010-2011 Classical Series is sponsored by Miami Valley & Good Samaritan Hospitals.
About Hank Dahlman
Hank Dahlman is Professor of Music and Director of Choral Studies at Wright State University, where he serves as the conductor of the WSU Collegiate Chorale. He serves as the Artistic Director of WSU's annual Madrigal Dinners and Holidays in the Heartland. �Dahlman is also Director of CELIA, the State of Ohio's Center of Excellence for Collaborative Education, Leadership, & Innovation in the Arts, based at WSU. Wright State choirs under his direction tour regularly in the U.S. and abroad, and have been invited to sing numerous times for regional and state conferences of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and other professional organizations. Choirs directed by Dahlman have also appeared on stage with such notable and varied performers as Robert Shaw, Bill McLaughlin, Anonymous 4, Leon Bates, Simon Carrington, Marvin Hamlisch, and Kenny Rogers. �Dahlman has prepared world or regional premieres of new works by such composers as William Bolcom, Robert Xavier Rodriquez, Steven Winteregg, James McCray, Robert Yeager, and Drew Collins. Dahlman's choirs have also prepared demonstration recordings of new choral works for several nationally known music publishers.
Director of the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra Chorus, Dahlman also serves as a guest conductor with the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, and founded the Dayton Philharmonic Chamber Choir in 2000. Dr. Dahlman conducted the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra Chorus in performance with professional orchestras such as the Czech Chamber Philharmonic in Prague and at the Salzburg Cathedral celebrating Mozart's 250th birthday in 2006. �He conducted in his Carnegie Hall debut in 2008, and in June 2010 conducted the DPOC and other choirs in performance at Avery Fisher Hall in New York's Lincoln Center.
Dr. Dahlman regularly appears as a guest conductor, presenter, or adjudicator at festivals and conferences at the international, national, and regional levels. �For five years he was the host of VOICES, a radio program tracing the history, development, and current trends of the choral art, heard weekly on Dayton Public Radio. He has served as an adjudicator at semi-final and final rounds of the National Student Conducting Competitions sponsored by the ACDA, and was invited to be one of four experts on conducting pedagogy to be featured at the inaugural national convention of the National Collegiate Choral Organization.
Dahlman's Choral Pronunciation Guide to Carl Orff's Carmina Burana has been called an industry standard and used by over 100 universities, professional orchestras, and choruses on five continents. His research writings and reviews have appeared in Choral Journal, Triad, Resound, the Missouri Journal of Research in Music Education, and other professional journals and publications. �Dahlman has also served regularly as a board member for several state and regional divisions of the ACDA and state music education associations.
Dahlman holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in conducting from the Conservatory of Music at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, the Master of Music degree in choral conducting and literature from the University of South Florida, and the Bachelor of Music Education degree (magna cum laude) from Longwood University. Notable teachers have included Eph Ehly, James McCray, Rey Longyear, Wesley K. Morgan, Randall Pembrook, and Robert Summer.
Hank is the fortunate husband of Cindy, and the proud father of James and Amanda. He and Cindy recently completed their first marathon while raising funds for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Besides his love of running, Hank is also an avid cyclist and golfer.
About Patrick Reynolds
Now in his 13th season with the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, Assistant Conductor Patrick Reynolds is a frequent presence on the podium, conducting the DPO in Classical, Chamber, SuperPops and Family concerts. �An enthusiastic proponent of educational programs, each season he leads the DPO in its Magic Carpet, SPARK (School Partners with Artists Reaching Kids) and Young People's concerts, reaching thousands of students across the Dayton metropolitan area.
Patrick Reynolds has appeared as guest conductor of the Modesto (CA) Symphony Orchestra, Annapolis (MD) Symphony Orchestra, Arlington (VA) Symphony Orchestra, Queens (NY) Symphony Orchestra, the High Mountain (NJ) Symphony Orchestra, and the Starling Project at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. During the 2009-2010 season he conducted the Dayton Opera production of Verdi's La Traviata, and for the past two summers he has led Young Peoples Concerts at the Colorado Music Festival in Boulder.
He is in his eleventh season as Conductor of the Dayton Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, an organization selected from the area's finest young musicians. Founded in 1937 by Paul Katz, the DPYO is one of the nation's oldest youth orchestras, soon celebrating its 75th anniversary. In 2008, Reynolds conducted a production of Hans Krasa's opera Brundibar in a collaboration between the DPYO, the Dayton Opera, the Kettering Children's Choir and the Victoria Theatre Association.
Reynolds is a member of the music faculty at the University of Dayton, where he conducts the University Orchestra and the Symphonic Wind Ensemble, and teaches courses in conducting. He earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in conducting from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the University of Michigan School of Music.
About Lynne Church
Lynne Giacalone Church, a diverse soprano of opera, operetta and musical theater, began her career after receiving her Masters Degree in Vocal Performance at the University of Michigan, where she was reviewed by the International London Opera Quarterly as "outstanding in the role of Nancy" in Benjamin Britten's Albert Herring, directed by the late, internationally renowned stage director, Cynthia Auerbach. As well, the Detroit Free Press termed her coloratura "glittering" when reviewed as Gretel in Hansel and Gretel, a role she would eventually perform over 300 times.
Immediately after receiving her degree at Michigan, Lynne made her professional debut with first the Chautauqua Opera and then the Connecticut Opera as "Antonia" in Man of La Mancha directed by Dorothy Frank Danner. Since, Lynne has been heard in leading roles across the country with opera companies including the Chautauqua Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Kentucky Opera, Lyric Opera of Dallas, and Nevada Opera. Some of the these roles have included "Susanna" in The Marriage of Figaro, "Despina" in Cosi Fan Tutti, "Papagena" in Die Zauberflute, "Adina" in The Elixir of Love, "Musetta" in La Boheme, "Valencienne" in The Merry Widow, both "Casilda" and "Gianetta" in The Gondoliers.
As a resident artist at the Connecticut Opera, Lynne received the Robert E. Smith Award for outstanding singers, and at the Chautauqua Opera, she received the prestigious Elaine Laughlin Award for her work there in The Gondoliers as "Casilda." While singing The Gondoliers in Dallas, cast in the role of "Gianetta," the opening night performance was recorded live on National Public Radio with the late Beverly Sills as host. While successful as an opera artist, Lynne has also performed in a variety of roles including Opera Diva, "Carlotta," in over 1500 performances of Sir Andrew Lloyd Weber's hit musical, The Phantom of the Opera at the former Pantages Theater in Toronto in addition to touring throughout Canada, Alaska, Hawaii, and being in residence for one year in Singapore and Hong Kong with Lloyd Webber's production Company, The Really Useful Group, Ltd. of Australia.
As a concert soloist, she has been heard with the symphonies of Chautauqua, Connecticut, Gaylord, Long Island, Saginaw, Traverse City, and Interlochen Center For the Arts Festival Orchestra in works such as the Brahms Requiem, Mozart Mass in C, Beethoven Symphony No 9 and Missa Solemnis, Handel's Messiah, The Seasons, Judas Maccabeus, Mahler's Symphony No 2, The Resurrection, Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, a work for 8 celli and soprano, Verdi's Rigoletto, as well as many opera and musical theater concerts. Lynne has also been the soloist for the nationally acclaimed John Phillip Sousa Artist and Conductor, Keith Brion.
In December of 2009 and May of 2010, Lynne returned for her sixth annual performances as a guest artist with Encore Winds in Traverse City, Michigan. With her husband, Rick Church, as music director and conductor, she can be heard on the recording of Placido Domingo Jr.'s musical, Vlad in the female lead role of "Mina" produced by the great operatic tenor and conductor, Placido Domingo and Cherry Lane Music Publishers in New York City. Together with her husband, Lynne has regularly performed aboard the Regent Seven Seas cruise line in a variety of concerts, including A Tribute to Rogers and Hammerstein, also arranged and conducted by Rick Church.
Lynne is currently is on faculty of Theater, Dance and Motion Pictures at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, as well as on the voice faculty for the Musical Theater summer programs at Interlochen Center For The Arts in Michigan with her husband, in addition to maintaining a private vocal studio out of their home in Traverse City. However, their greatest productions together to date are that of their sons, ten year old Sam and seven year old Jackson.
About Kathleen Clawson
American mezzo-soprano Kathleen Clawson is consistently praised for the burnished, bronze beauty of her voice enhanced by an innate musicality and a persuasive, sensuous manner of communication. She has appeared throughout the United States in opera, on the concert stage and recital platform in a wide range of repertoire from Bach and Janacek to Verdi and Wagner.
In addition to frequent appearances with the New Mexico Symphony, Miss Clawson has been guest soloist with the Symphony Orchestras of Dayton, Evansville, Grand Rapids, Midland, North Arkansas, Sacramento, San Juan, Santa Fe and Syracuse, among others, as well as the Berkshire Choral Festival, the Calvin College Oratorio Society and the Orchestra of San Antonio. Her opera credits include the Banff Festival of the Arts, The Dallas Opera, The Santa Fe Opera, New England Lyric Operetta Inc., Four Corners Opera, Dallas Lyric Opera, Southwest Opera and Theater Basel. She presented the World Premiere of Lanham Deal's Weather Songs at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival accompanied by Janos Starker, has recorded De Falla's El Amor Brujo for a recent United States tour by Maria Benitez' Teatro Flamenco and sung the Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music with Debby Boone across America and Japan. She made her New York debut at Lincoln Center as soloist in A Herbert Centennial with The Little Orchestra Society with whom she later starred in a rare performance of Herbert's Cyrano de Bergerac and on several occasions as the Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors in their annual fully-staged production of the Menotti classic at Avery Fisher Hall.
Kathleen Clawson received her training at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, the University of Southern California and the University of New Mexico and participated in the Merola Program of the San Francisco Opera and the Banff Centre Fine Arts Opera Program. She was a Metropolitan Opera Auditions National Finalist and won the Dewar's Profiles in Performance Award.
About Randall Black Tenor Randall Black has won critical acclaim with orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States for his portrayals of roles and repertoire ranging from Monteverdi and Bach to Henze and Eaton. Highly respected for his mastery in all musical styles, Mr. Black specializes in Baroque and Twentieth Century repertoire.
As an operatic personality, Mr. Black made his professional debut with Opera Memphis as Ralph Rakestraw in H. M. S. Pinafore and went on that season to create the role of the First Soldier in the American Premiere of Henze's We Come to the River with the Santa Fe Opera. Other World Premieres include the role of Orestes in John Eaton's The Cry of Clytemnestra, the role of Dan in David Ott's Lucinda Hero and the role of Choragos in Dinos Constantinides' Antigone.
As an oratorio singer, Mr. Black is in great demand, having performed with the Evansville and Lexington Philharmonics and the Richmond (VA), North Carolina, Indianapolis (IN), and Atlanta Symphonies. A frequent soloist in the works of Bach he has been featured with the Bach societies of Louisville (KY), St. Louis (MO), Rochester (NY), Miami (FL), Christ Church Cathedral of Indianapolis and as a fellow with the Bach Aria Festival in Stony Brook. In a performance of the Bach's St. John Passion with conductor Margaret Hillis, she commented, "He is the best evangelist I have ever heard!" The review for the performance agreed with that evaluation.
Last season was particularly active and included: the tenor solos in Beethoven's Missa Solemnis with the Lexington (KY) Philharmonic conducted by George Zack, the evangelist in J.S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion with Bethany Messiah Festival of Art and Music in Lindsborg, KS conducted by Dan Mahraun, the tenor solo in Bach's Cantata 198 with the Louisville (KY) Bach Society conducted by Melvin Dickinson, the tenor solos in Bach's Easter Oratorio with the Rochester (NY) Bach Festival conducted by Tom Folan, the tenor solos in Bach's Magnificat with the Tulsa (OK) Oratorio Chorus conducted by Don Studebacker and the Rochester (NY) Bach Festival conducted by Tom Folan, the tenor solos in Verdi's Requiem with the Marshall University (WV) Chorus and Orchestra conducted by David Castleberry, the tenor solos in Handel's Messiah, with the Southern Illinois University Choruses and Symphony conducted by John Mochnick and the Bethany Messiah Festival of Art and Music in Lindsborg, KS conducted by Dan Mahraun, and the tenor solos with the Murray State University Concert Choir in the World Premiere of Jubilate Deo (written for Dr. Black and acapella chorus by Joseph Baber).
Recent accomplishments include: his European debut with a solo concert at St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church in London, England, the release of his first compact disc, An American Son: The Vocal Works of Joseph Baber, Vol. 1, becoming the inaugural recipient of the "Ethel Closson Smith Vocal Artist/Teacher Lectureship" at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, IN, creating the role of the evangelist in the World Premiere of William Averitt's St. Matthew Passion in Columbia, SC conducted by Larry Wyatt, his selection as the Southern Illinois University Music Department's Distinguished Alumnus for '96-'97, and "re-creating" the role of the evangelist in the American Premiere of the 1769 version of CPE Bach's St. Matthew Passion with St. George's Church, Nashville, TN conducted by Murray Forbes Somerville. The score of CPE Bach's St. Matthew Passion was thought to have been destroyed during World War II and was discovered recently by Harvard musicologist Christoph Wolff.
A native of Carbondale, Illinois, Dr. Black received his Bachelor of Music degree from Southern Illinois University and his Master and Doctor of Music degrees from Indiana University. He is now in his nineteenth year of teaching at Murray State University. He and his wife, Kim, also a music teacher, have two children.
About William Henry Caldwell
William Henry Caldwell is director of vocal and choral activities at Central State University. He holds degrees from Stillman College magna cum laude, and the University of Texas at Austin. �He attended the Ohio State University and the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music. Mr. Caldwell maintains a very active schedule as a baritone soloist. In December 1988, Mr. Caldwell traveled to London, England where he studied with Virginia Pleasants and Hugue Cuenod in Vevey, Switzerland. As part of the 1999 Fourth of July Celebration for the United States Embassy in Egypt, Mr. Caldwell performed as a guest soloist at the Cairo Opera House. In the summer of 2004, Mr. Caldwell studied and performed in Lucca, Italy. �He has performed as a baritone soloist with the Dayton Bach Society, Dayton Westminster Presbyterian Church May Festival, the Dayton Opera Association, The Blue Ash Symphony, and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. He is professor of music in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Central State University and serves as chairman of the Department of Fine and Performing Arts. �Mr. Caldwell is director of the Paul Robeson Cultural and Performing Arts Center.
Under his leadership, the Central State University Chorus has received international acclaim. In November 2009, the Central State University Chorus was invited to Passau, Germany to perform for ORF-TV, Musikantenstadl with a viewing audience of 7 million. �The Chorus has also performed in Paris, London, Stratford Upon Avon, Canterbury, Venice, Florence, Rome, the Vatican, and Gut Aiderbichl near Salzburg, Austria. On several occasions the Chorus has performed with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, the Dayton Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, and the Cincinnati and Indianapolis Symphony Orchestras. The Chorus has several recordings on the Telarc International Label and in 1994 the Chorus was nominated for a Grammy Award.
In 1997, Mr. Caldwell made his debut with the Cincinnati Pops singing the role of Cokey Lou in the one act opera Blue Monday by George Gershwin, recorded on the Telarc Label. He has sung the role of Elijah with the Dayton Philharmonic Chorus and has also performed the role of Fiorello in the Dayton Opera production of The Barber of Seville. Other operatic roles include Junius, in The Rape of Lucretia, and �Bob, in The Old Maid and the Thief. �Mr. Caldwell will perform the role of Jim in Porgy and Bess for the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Dayton Opera Association in October. �Mr. Caldwell has prepared choruses for Erich Kunzel, Keith Lockhart, John Morris Russell, James Conlon, Neal Gittleman, Robert Porco, Earl Rivers, Chelsea Tipton, and Franz Welser-Most.
Mr. Caldwell has served as baritone soloist in over 10 performances of the Annual Messiah Sing-In with the Dayton Bach Society. �He has also performed as a baritone soloist in Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass with the Wright State University Orchestra and Chorus and the role of King Balthazar in the Dayton Opera Fun-actics holiday production of Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors. Mr. Caldwell made his debut as a baritone soloist with the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra in 2000 in a performance of the Mozart Requiem with Neal Gittleman as conductor. Mr. Caldwell's teachers have included Dr. James Arthur Williams, Willa Stewart, David Garvey, Walter Ducloux, Andrew White, and William McGraw.
Mr. Caldwell was guest conductor of the Ohio All-State Choir at the OMEA convention in 1997. He is a recipient of the 1998 Benjamin Hooks Image Award and holds membership in the National Association of Teachers of Singing, where he serves as an adjudicator, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Incorporated, Alpha Kappa Mu National Honor Society, and Kiwanis Club International. Mr. Caldwell serves on a number of boards including the Dayton Philharmonic, The Bach Society of Dayton, the Miriam Rosenthal Trust Fund, and the Kettering Children's Choir. Mr. Caldwell also currently serves as choir director at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Xenia, Ohio.
About the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra
The Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra is the largest and oldest performing arts organization in the community. Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra performances are made possible in part by Montgomery County and Culture Works, the single largest source of community funds for the arts and culture in the Miami Valley. The Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra receives partial funding from the Ohio Arts Council, a state agency created to foster and encourage the development of the arts and to preserve Ohio's cultural heritage. Funding from the Ohio Arts Council is an investment of state tax dollars that promotes economic growth, educational excellence, and cultural enrichment for all Ohio residents.
