Golden Anniversary Choral Spectacular - The Grant Park Music ...

Friday, June 29 and Saturday, June 30, 2012
Mezzo-soprano, SArAH POnDEr frequently performs as both
a soloist and ensemble singer with Chicago’s finest musical
organizations. Favorite recent performances include a recital
with the Musicians Club of Women “Award Winners in Concert”
Series, the role of Ino in Handel’s Semele, and solo appearances
with Maestro Riccardo Muti as part of her continued work as a
Teaching Artist with the Chicago Symphony orchestra’s outreach
programs. In addition to her performing and outreach work, Sarah
also maintains a large private studio.
Tenor HOSS BrOCK’S operatic credits include the Majordomo of
the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier at the San Francisco opera,
and Ramiro in Rossini’s La Cenerentola with the San Francisco
opera’s Merola opera Program. He is a full-time member of the
Lyric opera Chicago chorus and Chicago a cappella. Recently he
has performed Verdi’s Requiem with the Peninsula Music Festival,
Baba Yetu from CIV IV at Video Games Live, and appeared in the
American premiere of Richard Blackford’s Not in Our Time.
Tenor PEDEr rEiFF has been a member of the Grant Park Chorus
for nine years and is thrilled to be making his solo debut in Carmina
Burana. A graduate of Indiana University, Peder currently holds
the record for appearing in the greatest number of operas in a
single season, having appeared in seven operas in one year. Peder
frequently sings with the ensembles of the Lyric opera of Chicago
and Chicago Symphony, as well as solos with many local orchestras
and choruses.
Bass DAniEL EiFErT is a featured soloist across the Chicago
area whose recent engagements include the Chicago Symphony
orchestra, Chicago Civic orchestra, Elmhurst Symphony orchestra,
and the Apollo Chorus of Chicago. A frequent performer of the
works of J.S. Bach, he regularly appears with the Bach Institute of
Valparaiso University. Equally comfortable as a chorister, Daniel is a
long-term member of the Grant Park Music Festival Chorus and the
Chicago Symphony Chorus where he currently serves as Section
Leader.
Bass THOMAS HALL has been a member of the Grant Park Chorus
since 1999. He is also a frequent soloist in both concert and opera
performances, most recently performing the title role in a concert
performance of Verdi’s Rigoletto with the Ann Arbor Symphony,
Il Conte di Luna in Il Trovatore with opera de Nuevo Leon in
Monterrey, Mexico, and Telramund in Wagner’s Lohengrin at the
Savonlinna opera Festival in Finland.
2012 Program Notes, Book 2 A15