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The
20th Annual Bach Festival
scheduled for
August 21 -24, 2008
Introducing
Our Conductor & Soloists
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ROBERT
LEHMANN, FESTIVAL CONDUCTOR & SOLOIST
Robert
Lehmann was born and raised in Mexico City.
He is a graduate of the University of the Pacific and the Eastman
School of Music, and a 2008 recipient of a doctorate in violin performance
from Boston University.
He is Director of String Studies, Associate Professor of Music and
Artist Faculty in violin and viola at the University of Southern
Maine School of Music.
He
Conducts the Southern Maine Symphony Orchestra, the Portland Youth
Symphony Orchestra, the North Shore Philharmonic, the Portland Chamber
Orchestra, and the White Mountain Bach Festival.
He has been a frequent guest conductor of the Portland Symphony
Orchestra as well as other professional orchestras around the world,
and is in great demand as a violinist, teacher, adjudicator and
conductor.
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AHREUM HAN, ORGANIST
Originally
from Atlanta, GA, Ahreum Han graduated with a bachelor degree
in organ performance from Westminster Choir College, where she
studied with Ken Cowan. In May 2007, she graduated with an artist
diploma from the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music where she
studied as a full scholarship student of Alan Morrison.
Ms.
Han has received top prizes from numerous competitions including
the undergraduate division of Westminster Choir College Scholarship
Competition, the Charlotte Hoyt Bagnall Scholarship Competition,
the Music Teachers National Association(MTNA) National Young Artist
Performance Competition, the John Rodland Memorial Church Music
Scholarship Competition, the Albert Schweitzer organ competition
,and the West Chester University Organ Competition. Her live performance
of the MTNA Competition winner concert was featured on the radio
show PIPEDREAMS from Amercan Public Media.
Ms.
Han has performed with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra at Philadelphia
Kimmel Center, the University of Pennsylvania Orchestra at Irvine
Auditorium, as well as solo performances at the Kimmel Center
widely-acclaimed Cooper Memorial Organ, Ocean Grove Auditorium,
St. Bartholomew Church in New York City, St. Philip Cathedral
in Atlanta, Jack Singer Hall in Calgary and the Princeton University
Chapel. She was featured at the Young Virtuosi Festival held at
Wesleyan University, CT and Colorado State University, CO in 2006.
In June 2007, she was a featured artist at the Regional Convention
of the American Guild of Organists held in Atlanta, GA.
She
was the Principal Organist at First Presbyterian Church in West
Chester, PA. She is currently attending the Yale Institute of
Sacred Music for a Master of Music degree studying with Thomas
Murray.
The
opening Preview and evening Concert will take
place at Christ Church, Episcopal, Main Street, North Conway on
the Casavant free-standing, two manual tracker organ.
Organ
Recital Preview - 10 a.m.
Concert
~ 7:30 p.m.
Christ Church, Episcopal, North Conway
Organist, Ahreum Han
Casavant Tracker Organ |
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YOUNG
ARTIST, MATTHEW WOODWARD
to perform:
Sarabanda and Giga from the Partita no. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004
Lento and Allegro assai from the Sonata no. 3 in C major, BWV 1005
Matthew,13 years old, played violin since the age
of 4. He studied with Linda Laderach at Mount Holyoke College until
this past year. Matthew is currently a student of Mary Lou Churchill.
He attends the New England Conservatory Preparatory School in Boston
where he performs in chamber groups and orchestra. Besides performance,
Matthew's other passion is composition and he has been composing
music since he was 5 years old. He currently studies with Jerry
Noble at Smith College. His music has been performed at Greenwood
Music Camp (Junior Division) and Yellow Barn Young Artists= Program.
Recently, he received a Young Composer=s award from the public radio
show, "From the Top" for his AFive Vignettes for Piano
Trio@ he composed last summer. Part of the vignettes will be performed
on "From the Top=s" radio and TV shows this upcoming April
and May by piano trios made up of young musicians from both the
Juilliard and San Francisco Conservatory Preparatory Schools. Besides
music, Matthew loves cooking, gardening, reading, art, skiing, biking
and spending time with his family.
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WILLIAM
THORPE, BASS
William
Thorpe received his musical training at the Philadelphia College
of the Performing Arts, New England Conservatory (M.M.), Boston
Conservatory (B.Mus), and the Lichtenberg Voice Institute in Germany.
He has performed as soloist with the Handel & Haydn Society,
Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Boston, Boston Concert Opera, Boston
Civic Symphony, the Pennsylvania Ballet, Ocean City Pops Orchestra,
Bethlehem Music Festival, Westport Music Festival, Yuma Arizona
Heritage Festival, and the Missouri River Music Festival, as well
as on CBS Television, National Public Radio, and on more than
a hundred regional radio and television broadcasts across the
country. In 1993, he represented the United States in series of
concerts in China sponsored by the United Nations, including two
performances in Shanghai for an audience of 36,000, and at the
Beijing Concert Hall with members of the Beijing Philharmonic.
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Timothy
Neill Johnson, tenor
Timothy
Neill Johnson, tenor, received a Bachelor of Music Degree from Cal
State Los Angeles and continued his studies at the Conservatory
of Music in Antwerpen, Belgium. His focuses have included that of
Baroque and Classical concert and chamber music, Art Song and music
of the 20th century. The works of J.S. Bach, the oratorios of Handel,
the masses of Mozart, and the songs of Schumann, Fauré, Vaughan
Williams and Britten highlight his repertoire. He presently is on
the faculty at Bowdoin College and in the jazz Department at the
University of Maine in Augusta.
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RACHEL
HAUGE, MEZZO-SOPRANO
Mezzo-soprano
Rachel Hauge is from Corvallis, Oregon. This summer Ms. Hauge joins
Chautauqua Opera as a Studio Artist, performing the role of Jennie
Hildebrand in Street Scene. This fall she will join Connecticut
Opera as a Resident Artist for the 2008-09 season. Ms. Hauge holds
degrees from Boston University and the Boston Conservatory. Opera
experience includes appearances with Opera del West, Boston University
Opera Theater, Crittenden Summer Workshop, Boston Conservatory Opera,
Bel Canto Northwest and Oregon State University Opera. Featured
solo engagements include the Cantata Singers Recital Series, Metrowest
Symphony Orchestra, The Boston Conservatory Orchestra and Southborough
Pilgrim Church. Ms. Hauge is a student of Penelope Bitzas.
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CHRISTINE
TEETERS, SOPRANO
Soprano Christine Teeters began her vocal studies at
the University of Central Oklahoma in 1998 and moved to Boston
in 2003 for graduate work at The Boston Conservatory, where she
received her Masters in Opera in 2005 under the tutelage of William
Cotton, Sanford Sylvan and Kirsten Cairns. Ms. Teeters was the
Boston NATS 1st place winner-Division IV in 2007 and 3rd Place
winner-Division V in 2008. Ms. Teeters is also one of the original
members of the successful new Boston opera company Boston Opera
Collaborative. She began as Artistic Director and now serves on
the Board as Member at Large. Ms.
Teeters studies voice with Douglas Kevin Wilson. This summer Ms.
Teeters will sing her first Queen of the Night with BOC in Mozart's
Die Zauberflote.
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BARBARA
PRUGH, TRUMPET
Described
as “…a rare artist; one who is a consummate musician
and brilliant virtuso.” Has appeared as a guest artist of
the Philadelphia area’s top musical organizations; performed
the premiere of several solo compositions for trumpet and has been
a featured soloist at International Brass Conferences. Honors: Bachelor
of Music degree from the University of Delaware; Master of Music
degree (majoring in music performance & literature) from the
Eastman School of Music; released a solo
CD: Barbara Prugh, Trumpet Artisty.
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MARY
BASTONI-REBMANN, SOPRANO
Mary studied voice at the University of Lowell. Now, a resident
of Fryeburg, Maine, she is enrolled in the Bachelor of Music degree
program at the University of Southern Maine pursuing a major in
voice with Ellen Chickering. As a USM freshman she was chosen
to play the Queen of the Night role in the University's production
of Mozart's The Magic Flute. Mary is equally comfortable with
a wide variety of musical genres from the serious classics to
musical theatre. She has been heard in many leading roles in Mt.
Washington Valley Theater Company & Resort Players.
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FREDERIC
BEDNARZ, VIOLIN
Canadian
violinist Frédéric Bednarz regularly gives recitals
throughout North Amercia, Central Amercia and Europe. He has played
in New York's Weill Hall and Merkin Hall, in Boston, in Kansas City
and also in Montréal, Québec, Ottawa, Toronto, Edmonton,
Calgary and Vancouver.
A
prize winner in many competitions including the Prix d'Europe, the
Marseille International Competition and the Val Tidone International
Competition, Mr. Bednarz was heard as soloist with the Ottawa and
Montreal Chamber Orchestras, the Montreal Civic Orchestra, Ensemble
America in New York, OSSIA, the Atlantic Symphony and the Longy Chamber
Orchestra.
Chamber
music performances include appearences with Anthony Marwood, Richard
Lester, Julius Baker, Oleh Krysa, Malcolm Lowe, and the Ying Quartet.
He was a founding member of the Yanvar Trio. Bednarz was featured
on radio broadcasts with CBC and NPR, and recorded works by Tchaikovski
for the XXI Canadian Label.
Frederic Bednarz holds a B.M. from the Harid Conservatory where he
worked with Sergiu Schwartz and a M.M. from the Eastman School of
Music, where he studied under Oleh Krysa. He also worked with Victor
Tretiakov in France. In addition to solo and chamber music performances,
Frederic was concertmaster of the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra for
6 years. He recently joined the Molinari String Quartet, based in
Montreal, Canada.
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MARGARET
HERLEHY
Margaret
Helfer-Herlehy (oboe) received her training at the University of
Michigan and Sarah Lawrence College where she remained as Artist-in-Residence
for five-year tenure. Her principal teachers include Lois Wann and
Arno Mariotti. As a chamber musician, she performs with Sospiri
Ensemble and in 2003 premiered works for oboe, bassoon and piano
at the International Double Reed Conference in Greensboro, NC. She
also performs with Infinities Chamber Ensemble as a member of Massachusetts
Young Audiences presenting Young People’s Concerts throughout
New England. Currently, Margaret is Principal Oboist with the Hanover
Chamber Orchestra and the Granite State Symphony. In addition, she
has performed with the Portland (ME) Symphony Orchestra, as soloist
with the New England String Ensemble and the Berkshire Opera among
other orchestras throughout the northeast. Margaret maintains an
active teaching schedule. She is lecturer of oboe at the University
of New Hampshire, Director of Winds of the Wellesley Composers Conference
and founder and Artistic Director of Music da Camera Chamber Music
Workshops since 1992. performed with the Portland (ME) Symphony
Orchestra, as soloist with the New England String Ensemble and the
Berkshire Opera among other orchestras throughout the northeast.
Margaret maintains an active teaching schedule. She is lecturer
of oboe at the University of New Hampshire, Director of Winds of
the Wellesley Composers Conference and founder and Artistic Director
of Music da Camera Chamber Music Workshops since 1992.
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PAUL
CIENNIWA
Doctor
of Musical Arts degree from Yale University, awarded BAEF and Fulbright
grants, his musicological articles have appeared in American and
European journals. Founding Artistic Director of Newport Baroque
Orchestra (www.newportbaroque.org), and he serves as Director of
Music at First Church in Boston, where he leads the professional
12-voice choir and can be heard every Sunday on WERS (88.9 FM) in
Boston. In 2006, he was appointed director of the a cappella choral
ensemble Sine Nomine (Fall River, MA).
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