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Introducing
Our Conductor & Soloists
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ROBERT
LEHMANN
WMMA MUSIC DIRECTOR, 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.
WMMA
is proud to welcome Dr. Lehmann back is Festival Director for
the fourth season.
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PAUL
MCGOVERN
WMMA CHORAL CONDUCTOR
WMMA is pleased to announce that Dr. Paul McGovern, will
be preparing the Festival Chorus for the 2011 Bach Festival. Dr.
McGovern has over 20 years teaching experience, both in K-12 schools
and at the college level.
Throughout his career, he has conducted school and community choral
ensembles of all types and ages. Currently he serves as chorus master
for PORTopera and as conductor of the Southern Maine Children's
Choir at USM. Previously, he has served as music director and conductor
of the UMF Community Chorus and the Granite State Choral Society.
Paul continues to sing with the Choral Art Society’s chamber
choir, Camerata.
Currently he teaches music at Portland High School. He has taught
music and directed choirs at Cape Elizabeth High School, Saint Joseph’s
College, SUNY-Potsdam, and Georgia Southern University. Dr. McGovern
received his Bachelor’s degree from Queens College/CUNY and
his Masters and Doctoral degrees in Choral Conducting from Indiana
University. Before graduate school, he taught music in the public
schools in the greater Philadelphia, PA area for six years.
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Ray Cornils, ORGANIST
Ray
Cornils is the Municipal Organist for the City of Portland and
is also Minister of Music at Parish Church, UCC in Brunswick,
Maine. A member of the music faculties of Bowdoin College and
the University of Southern Maine, he also teaches organ, harpsichord
and related classes. Mr. Cornils graduated from the Oberlin College
Conservatory of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music.
Ray has concertized throughout the United States and in Germany,
France, Spain, Russia, Ecuador and New Zealand. He has performed
at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, the
National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia’s
famed Wanamaker Organ. He has been a featured recitalist for conventions
of the American Guild of Organists and the Organ Historical Society.
He performs regularly with the Portland Symphony and Musica Tricinia,
a group of two trumpets and organ.
Concert
~ Sunday afternoon, August 21 at 4 PM
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Aaron Pettengill, Young Artist
Aaron
Pettengill began playing the violin in third grade after seeing
the an orchestra perform at his school in the third grade. Since
then, he's been a dedicated musician and has devoted his life to
music. His teachers have included Anne Wilkinson, Deardre Oehrtman,
Ronald Lance and Robert Lehmann. Before graduating high school,
he became the concertmaster of the Portland Youth Symphony and the
Maine All-State Orchestra. He is currently persuing a performance
degree in music at the University of Southern Maine.
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Frank
Glazer
Frank
Glazer has had a long and distinguished career as a soloist, recording
artist, chamber musician and teacher. Critics from all over the
world have called him "a master musician as well as a virtuoso"
and have praised his performances as "formidable", as
well as "extraordinary", and "phenomenal". Mr.
Glazer studied with the great pianist and Beethoven interpreter
Artur Schnabel in Berlin where he met the composer Arnold Schoenberg
with whom he also studied. His New York debut when he was 21 was
a notable success, as was his first appearance three years later
with a major symphony orchestra, the Boston Symphony led by Serge
Koussevitsky. Since then he has played in 24 countries with the
world's finest
orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony,
the Cincinnati Symphony, and many of the finest ensembles abroad.
Mr. Glazer was a founding member of the Eastman Quartet and, as
a chamber musician, has performed with the Fine Arts Quartet, the
Cleveland Quartet, and the New York Woodwind Quintet, among others.
He was on the faculty of the Eastman School of Music for 15 years
before coming to Maine. He is Artist-in-Residence at Bates College,
and continues to perform, conduct master classes and lecture frequently
in Maine, throughout the United States and abroad.
The
94-year-old Glazer, a pianist of international renown,
has been an artist in residence at Bates College, Maine since 1980.
In a era whose pianists often strive for the gloss of mechanical
precision and a big sound, Glazer instead makes all else secondary
to the music's own message.
"He has thought everything through and tried to get at the
core of what the music is about. Everything he does is about that,"
says colleague James Parakilas, a pianist himself and the James
L. Moody Jr. Family Professor of Performing Arts at Bates. "And
he has a wonderful way of making a line sing."
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JOHN
ADAMS , BASS-BARITONE
Bass-baritone
John David Adams has enjoyed acclaim as a concert soloist as well
as for diverse opera and stage roles. His concert repertoire ranges
from cantatas and oratorios by Bach, Handel and Haydn to premieres
of new works, appearing with ensembles such as the San Francisco
Symphony, Berkeley Symphony, Berkeley Lyric Opera Orchestra, Marin
Chamber Orchestra, Midcoast Symphony, Arlington Symphony, North
Shore Philharmonic, New England Wind Symphony, Maine Music Society,
Longfellow Chorus, Masterworks Chorale and Oratorio Chorale. His
musical stage credits range from Cosi fan tutte to Sweeney Todd
in productions by Boston Opera, Granite State Opera, San Francisco
Lyric Opera, Berkeley Opera, Port Opera, Apollo Opera, SOLO Opera,
Maine Grand Opera, New England Light Opera and Maine State Music
Theater.
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EMILY
MARVOSH , SOPRANO
Emily
Marvosh, mezzo soprano, is active in opera and oratorio in the
Boston area. As a soloist, she has performed with Boston Lyric
Opera, the Back Bay Chorale, L’academie, Longwood Opera
and Intermezzo Chamber Opera; she, also, is a frequent soloist
with the Marsh Chapel Choir Bach Cantata Series. In 2005 Miss
Marvosh sang the role of Meg in the New England premiere of Mark
Adamo’s Little Women, and also recently premiered the song
cycle In the Sky She Floats. Recent concert performances include
solo appearances with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Harvard
University, the Providence Singers and Seraphic Fire and Firebird
Chamber Orchestra. 2010 engagements include the Oregon Bach Festival
under the direction of Helmut Rilling and the Berkshire Choral
Festival She holds degrees from Central Michigan University (B.
Music) and Boston University (Master of Music).
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Ashley
Emerson, soprano
In
the 2009-2010 season, Ashley Emerson will be seen at the Metropolitan
Opera as Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro and Young Lover in Il Tabarro.
For her Seattle Opera debut, she will create the role of Young Amelia
in the world premiere of Daron Hagen’s Amelia. Concert engagments
include the Mozart Requiem in a joint project with the Choral Art
Society of Maine and Portland Ballet; as well as Blonde in Die Entführung
aus dem Serail with Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood Music
Festival, conducted by James Levine.
This past season, Ms. Emerson was a Gerdine Young Artist with the
Opera Theatre of St. Louis, where she covered Florestine in The
Ghosts of Versailles. In concert, Ms. Emerson was a featured soloist
with the Bangor Symphony Orchestra singing arias from Mozart’s
Zaide, where she was described as “sweet, defiant, and sensual,
Emerson has the deep, gutsy sense of urgency that lends any opera
singer an air of dramatic authenticity (Bangor Daily News).”
A
recent graduate of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young
Artist Development Program, Ms. Emerson appeared at the Met in
new productions of La Rondine and Macbeth, and made her professional
stage debut there in Le nozze di Figaro. She was also featured
in the “Met in the Parks” summer concert series in
2009 and recently appeared as Despina at the Verbier Festival.
Ms.
Emerson won First Prize in the Junior Division at the 2006 Palm
Beach Opera Competition. In the summer of 2006, Ms. Emerson participated
in the Maine Emerging Artist Program with PORTopera, singing Auretta
in Mozart’s L’oca del Cairo. Ms. Emerson completed
her undergraduate studies at the University of Southern Maine,
where her roles included Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Adele
in Die Fledermaus, and Isabelle/Madeline in The Face on the Barroom
Floor.
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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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