Bruckner - UC Davis: Department of Music
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About the Artists<br />
Possessing a luminous voice with “the breadth <strong>of</strong> dramatic inflection to make for a powerfully effective<br />
performance” (Opera), soprano arianna Zukerman is equally in demand for opera and concert performances.<br />
The Washington Post observes, “Arianna Zukerman possesses a remarkable voice that combines the range, warmth<br />
and facility <strong>of</strong> a Rossini mezzo with shimmering, round high notes and exquisite pianissimos….” Zukerman’s 2009-<br />
10 season includes several reengagements, including with the Gulbenkian Foundation Orchestra in Lisbon to sing<br />
Salieri’s Requiem, with <strong>Music</strong> <strong>of</strong> the Baroque for Mozart’s Requiem, and with the National Arts Centre for Mozart’s<br />
“ch’io mi scordi di te.” She also sings First Lady in Die Zauberflöte with Opera Lyra Ottawa, Mahler’s Symphony<br />
No. 4 with the National Philharmonic, and in recital with pianist Navah Perlman for El Paso Pro <strong>Music</strong>a. Previous<br />
opera highlights include her first collaboration with Lorin Maazel as Female Chorus in The Rape <strong>of</strong> Lucretia; her<br />
debut with the New York City Opera in Mark Adamo’s Lysistrata; and performing the Governess in The Turn <strong>of</strong> the Screw with Chicago<br />
Opera Theater, Micaëla in Carmen with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra at the Vail Valley <strong>Music</strong> Festival; Marzelline in Fidelio with the<br />
Minnesota Orchestra, and Nizza in the world premiere <strong>of</strong> Donizetti’s long-lost Elisabeth, conducted by Will Crutchfield at the Caramoor<br />
<strong>Music</strong> Festival. Other performance highlights include performing as soloist in Haydn’s The Seasons with <strong>Music</strong> <strong>of</strong> the Baroque, Neikrug’s<br />
Nachtlieder and Debussy’s Fall <strong>of</strong> the House <strong>of</strong> Usher with the Gulbenkian Foundation Orchestra, Britten’s War Requiem in a return to the<br />
National Philharmonic, Musetta in La bohème with the Philadelphia Orchestra and at the Vail Valley <strong>Music</strong> Festival, and Handel’s Messiah<br />
with the American Bach Soloists, recorded for the Naxos label.<br />
Judith malafronte, mezzo-soprano, has appeared with numerous orchestras and oratorio societies, including<br />
the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, the San Francisco Symphony, the St. Louis and Baltimore<br />
Symphonies, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, and the Handel and Haydn Society.<br />
She has sung at the Tanglewood Festival, the Boston Early <strong>Music</strong> Festival, and the Utrecht Early <strong>Music</strong> Festival,<br />
and she is a frequent guest artist with the American Bach Soloists, the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, the Dave<br />
Brubeck Quartet, and the Harp Consort. Her operatic performances include the title role in Handel’s Serse at the<br />
Göttingen Festival, Scarlatti’s L’Aldimiro at the Berkeley Festival, Dido and Aeneas with the Mark Morris Dance<br />
Group (singing both Dido and the Sorceress), and Nero in Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea for the Aston<br />
Magna Festival. She has also sung leading roles at the opera houses <strong>of</strong> Lyon, Liège, and Montpellier, and she has<br />
won several top awards in Italy, Spain, Belgium, and the United States. She has recorded a wide range <strong>of</strong> repertoire, from the 12 th -century<br />
chant <strong>of</strong> Hildegard von Bingen to the Deutsche Motette <strong>of</strong> Richard Strauss, including Handel’s Serse with Nicholas McGegan on BMG,<br />
Bach cantatas and the St. Matthew Passion with American Bach Soloists for Koch Classics, medieval music with the Newberry Consort for<br />
Harmonia Mundi, and Spanish 17 th -century music. Malafronte’s writings on music have appeared in Opera News, Early <strong>Music</strong> America,<br />
Stagebill, Schwann Inside, and Opus.<br />
Hailed by San Francisco Classical Voice as possessing the “kind <strong>of</strong> tenor that pours forth powerfully, effortlessly,<br />
seemingly for any length <strong>of</strong> time,” tenor wesley rogers is making his mark on both operatic and concert<br />
stages throughout the United States. While a member <strong>of</strong> the Seattle Opera, Rogers performed the roles <strong>of</strong> Peter<br />
Quint in Britten’s Turn <strong>of</strong> the Screw, Maintop in Billy Budd, and Trin in Fanciulla del West. He has also performed the<br />
role <strong>of</strong> Alfredo in Skagit Opera’s La Traviata and the title role in Tacoma Opera’s Faust. Recent concert engagements<br />
include Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the American Bach Soloists, Britten’s War Requiem<br />
with Orchestra Seattle, Mozart’s Coronation Mass with the Eos Orchestra, and Louis Gruenberg’s The Daniel Jazz at<br />
the Bard Festival. Rogers has also performed with the Mark Morris Dance Group, Santa Fe Pro <strong>Music</strong>a, the Seattle<br />
Baroque Orchestra, the Cabrillo Festival, Capella Romano, the Tudor Choir, Opera Memphis, and the Sun Valley<br />
Center for the Arts. Upcoming engagements include Tony in Pacific Northwest Ballet’s West Side Story Suite.<br />
James maddalena, baritone, is known for his outstanding work in contemporary music. He created the<br />
notable characters <strong>of</strong> Richard Nixon and The Captain in two operas by John Adams, the award winning Nixon<br />
in China and The Death <strong>of</strong> Klingh<strong>of</strong>fer, respectively. He is closely associated with other composers, including John<br />
Harbison, Gunther Schuller, Elliot Goldenthal, Robert Moran, Domenick Argento, Marc Blitzstein, and Michael<br />
Tippett, via performances with such companies as the New York City Opera, the Houston Grand Opera, the<br />
Washington Opera, the San Francisco Opera, the Atlanta Opera, Opera Theatre <strong>of</strong> St. Louis, the Frankfurt Opera,<br />
Opéra de la Monnaie in Brussels, Australia’s Adelaide Festival, The Netherlands Opera, the Glyndebourne Festival<br />
Opera, and the Opéra de Lyon, as well as with the Chicago Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Boston<br />
Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the Royal Scottish Orchestra, Orchestra<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, and the London Symphony. Other highlights <strong>of</strong> Maddalena’s career include<br />
Schubert’s demanding song cycle Die Winterreise, sung at the Brooklyn Academy <strong>of</strong> <strong>Music</strong> with Robert Spano as accompanist, and the<br />
complete cycle <strong>of</strong> Bach cantatas with Boston’s Emmanuel <strong>Music</strong>. He has recorded prolifically for Decca/London, BMG Classical Catalyst,<br />
Nonesuch, Teldec, Sony Classical, Harmonia Mundi, and EMI. He can also be heard on the Grammy Award-winning recording <strong>of</strong> Nixon in<br />
China (Nonesuch) and the Emmy Award-winning PBS telecast, now on DVD.<br />
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Soprano i<br />
Jessica Bruns<br />
Kaitlyn Clark<br />
Leanna Friedrich<br />
Wendy Ho<br />
Christina Lawrence<br />
Laura Putnam<br />
Miriam Rocke<br />
Adele Sonora<br />
Diane Soto<br />
Cecilia Whitworth<br />
Sara Wilson<br />
Soprano ii<br />
Jennifer Adler<br />
Alyssa Black<br />
Phoebe Copp<br />
Sarah Flores<br />
Caitlin Gaustad<br />
Tianna Grant<br />
Kirstin Haag<br />
Amy Harris<br />
Ruthie Levine<br />
Louise Lindberg<br />
Erica Nurse<br />
Anne Richardson<br />
Simone Verbaken<br />
Rachel Whitcombe<br />
univerSity choruS<br />
Jeffrey thomaS, conductor<br />
peter hill, aSSiStant conductor and accompaniSt<br />
alto i<br />
April Ferre<br />
Alisha Gorder<br />
Yoon Jeong (Jennifer) Jang<br />
Julia Kulmann<br />
Caroline McGrath<br />
Alex Menze<br />
Elizabeth Nichols<br />
Oaggin Park<br />
Patricia Peacock<br />
Elizabeth Reeves<br />
Haeri Kate Suh<br />
Winona Wagner<br />
alto ii<br />
Meghan Eberhardt<br />
Sara Franssen<br />
Susan Garbini<br />
Emma Gavenda<br />
Moran Goren<br />
Sally Gray<br />
Mary Herbert<br />
Paula Lerner<br />
Gina Marino<br />
Krysten Melgar<br />
Barbara Molloy<br />
Tatz Ishimaru<br />
Nina Vuoso<br />
tenor i<br />
Pejman Ahmadi<br />
Joseph Espena<br />
John Forell<br />
Milton Jackson<br />
Richard Kulmann<br />
Daniel Olivas<br />
Gabriel Peralez<br />
Jerry Schimke<br />
Peter Shack<br />
tenor ii<br />
Adam Cobb<br />
Jordan Cohen<br />
John Gibson<br />
David Griffin<br />
Harry Jin<br />
Spencer Little<br />
Kenny Mac<br />
Jeffrey Paterson<br />
Eddie Shih<br />
Daniel Tan<br />
Janghee (John) Woo<br />
bass i<br />
Paul-Anthony Bernucci<br />
Brent Curriden<br />
Kevin Foster<br />
Nathan Hannon<br />
James Hutchinson<br />
Gregory Lanton<br />
Neil Ruud<br />
Dakota Salazar<br />
Eric Spears<br />
Doug Underwood<br />
Caleb Yee<br />
bass ii<br />
Leonidas Constable, Jr.<br />
Robert Crummey<br />
Jim Draper<br />
Kenneth Firestein<br />
David Green<br />
Bryan Klingman<br />
Craig Landon<br />
Timothy Mascarinas<br />
Dan Na<br />
Joshua Scott<br />
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