CARMINA BURANA - The Chicago Bar Association
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CBA SYMPHONY & CHORUS OFFICIAL PROGRAM<br />
ian mcEuen,<br />
Tenor<br />
I a n M c E u e n<br />
m ost rece ntly<br />
appeared as the<br />
Marquis in Corigliano’s<br />
Ghosts<br />
of Versailles with<br />
the Aspen Opera<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre Center.<br />
Last summer, he<br />
graduated with<br />
honors from Carnegie Mellon University, where he<br />
performed the roles of Nanki-Poo in the Mikado,<br />
the Chevalier de la Force in Dialogues of the Carmelites,<br />
Sam Kaplan in Street Scene, and Amore in<br />
L’incoronazione di Poppea. His previous oratorio<br />
experience includes Uriel in Haydn’s Creation and<br />
the Tenor Soloist in Handel’s Messiah, both with<br />
the Carnegie Mellon choirs.<br />
An avid recitalist and proponent of 20th and 21st<br />
century music, Ian recently performed Britten’s<br />
Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo and the world<br />
premiere of Kate Pukinskis’s A Game of Glass. He<br />
has also performed multiple times in Pittsburgh<br />
Opera’s Brown Bag Concert Series with pianist<br />
James Lesniak.<br />
Ian is the recipient of numerous awards and<br />
honors, including most recently the third place<br />
and Seagle Colony awards in the Charles A. Lynam<br />
Vocal Competition, a Shirley Rabb Winston Scholarship,<br />
and Second Place in the Sue Goetz Ross<br />
Memorial Competition. He is currently working<br />
towards his masters in voice at the University<br />
of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music,<br />
where he will be performing as Romboïdal in<br />
Offenbach’s L’ile de Tulipatan.<br />
Patrice michaels, Soprano<br />
“Like the Romantic ideal of art, Patrice Michaels’<br />
voice is both natural and passionate,” says Classical<br />
CD Digest. “A formidable interpretative talent”<br />
(<strong>The</strong> New Yorker), Ms. Michaels receives raves for<br />
her “poise, musicianship and impressive fioratura”<br />
(Los Angeles Times), “a voice that is light, rich and<br />
flexible” (Opera News).<br />
Her concert engagements include appearances<br />
with the Shanghai, Czech National, St. Louis,<br />
Omaha, Atlanta, Phoenix, Milwaukee, and Minnesota<br />
Orchestras, the Maryland Handel Festival, Dallas Bach Society and Charlotte,<br />
Kansas City and Virginia Symphonies, as well as New York’s Concert Royal<br />
and <strong>Chicago</strong>’s Music of the <strong>Bar</strong>oque. Ms. Michaels has sung the Great Mass in C<br />
Minor with Skrowaczewski, Christmas Oratorio with Shaw, Mahler 4 with Zdenek<br />
Macal, Mozart Arias with Andrew Parrott and Nicolas McGegan, Carmina Burana<br />
with Joanne Falletta and Beethoven 9 with Andreas Delfs and Victor Yampolsky.<br />
Ms. Michaels includes in her operatic credits the Hal Prince production of Candide<br />
at the Lyric Opera of <strong>Chicago</strong>. She made her debut with the Cleveland Opera as<br />
Marzelline in Fidelio and has sung with Central City Opera, Tacoma Opera, <strong>The</strong><br />
Banff Centre, Canada and <strong>Chicago</strong> Opera <strong>The</strong>ater. Her recording as Monica in<br />
Menotti’s <strong>The</strong> Medium (Cedille Records) continues to receive international critical<br />
acclaim.<br />
Recital appearances for Ms. Michaels include three consecutive seasons at the<br />
Festival of Contemporary Music in Havana, Cuba and tours of Mexico, Japan,<br />
Venezuela, <strong>Bar</strong>bados, and Belize. She performs frequently in the United States and<br />
Canada, has sung with pianist John Browning for Music at the Supreme Court, as<br />
guest artist with the <strong>Chicago</strong> Chamber Musicians, for the Schubert Club of St. Paul<br />
and for many academic institutions, including her alma mater Pomona College,<br />
Northwestern University, and Harvard.<br />
www.patricemichaels.com<br />
Jacob Lassetter, <strong>Bar</strong>itone<br />
A native of San Antonio, Texas, baritone Jacob Lassetter is achieving triumphant success with his dignified<br />
characterizations, unique range of high notes, and richness of tone quality.<br />
In 2010, Jacob Lassetter returned to his signature role Germont in La Traviata at the Music by the Lake<br />
summer festival, which he first sang in his Italian debut at the Teatro Accademico in Castelfranco Veneto.<br />
This summer also marked Mr. Lassetter’s debut in the title role in Le Nozze di Figaro with the Peninsula<br />
Music Festival. Critical acclaim followed his recent performances as a featured soloist with the Lexington<br />
Philharmonic in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and Orff’s Carmina Burana.<br />
Mr. Lassetter’s operatic repertoire includes the title role in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor,<br />
Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte, and Griswold in <strong>The</strong> Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe. He performed the<br />
title character of Delling in Eric Chasalow’s new opera <strong>The</strong> Puzzle Master in the Midwestern Premiere. Jacob Lassetter has participated<br />
in the Young Artists Programs of Chautauqua Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, and Utah Festival Opera.<br />
Equally adept on the concert stage, Jacob Lassetter has been the featured soloist for numerous symphony organizations, performing<br />
Händel’s Messiah, Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine and Bach’s St. John Passion, St. Matthew Passion, Christmas and Easter Oratorios,<br />
and Missa Brevis in F. In 2008, he made his debut at New York City’s Carnegie Hall performing with his wife, soprano Karen Kanakis.<br />
Mr. Lassetter holds a Bachelor of Music degree, magna cum laude, from Louisiana State University, a Master of Music degree from the<br />
University of North Texas, and the Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.<br />
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