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debut as Ernesto in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale at theAmerican Opera Center, and he won two first prizesat the Concours International de Chant in Paris. Hehas earned a reputation as one of the world’s finestlyric tenors. His European stage appearances includeCovent Garden; the Deutsche Oper of Berlin; theVienna, Hamburg, and Bavarian state operas; theSalzburg Festival; and the Geneva, Madrid, Lyon, andBrussels operas.Baritone RANDALL SCARLATAstudied at the Eastman Schoolof Music and in Vienna, andat The Juilliard School, wherehe earned his master’s degreeand was a member of theJuilliard Opera Center. Hewon first prize at the YoungConcert Artists InternationalAuditions (1999) as well as theDiallo Prize, the LindemannVocal Chair, and the WalkerFund Prize, which sponsoredhis Washington, D.C., debut at the Kennedy Center in2000. In the United States, he has sung at New York’sAlice Tully and Merkin Concert halls, Boston’s GardnerMuseum, and at the Cleveland Art Song, Marlboro,and Ravinia festivals; and he has appeared as soloistwith the Minnesota, Philadelphia, National Symphony,and California Symphony orchestras. In Europe, he hasgiven recitals in Vienna, Salzburg, Hamburg, and Nice.RABBI RODNEY MARINER was born in Australia in 1941and graduated from Monash University Melbourne. Hestudied for the rabbinate at Hebrew Union College inJerusalem, and in London at Leo Baeck College. Since1982 he has been the senior rabbi at Belsize SquareSynagogue, an independent London congregationestablished by German and Central European GermanspeakingJews in 1938. This synagogue maintainsthe unique blend of the timely and the timeless thatcharacterized the Liberale Judaism of the middleand late 19th century in western Europe, especiallyin Germany, continuing up until its destruction bythe end of the 1930s. In 2005 Rabbi Mariner wasawarded an honorary doctorate by the JewishTheological Seminary.London-born HAROLD LESTER studied music atTrinity College of Music, specializing in all aspects ofkeyboard work. He has been principal pianist with theLondon Symphony Orchestra, the Royal PhilharmonicOrchestra, the New Philharmonia Orchestra, theLondon Philharmonic Orchestra, and the LondonSinfonietta, frequently as a soloist. He touredthe world as an accompanist with the late CathyBerberian for some ten years, performing the worldpremiere of Berio’s Recital 1 and playing in majorfestivals. He has worked alongside contemporarycomposers including Berio, Stockhausen, Ligeti, andMessiaen. He is a specialist in Baroque music andhas toured internationally as a solo harpsichordist.As a continuo player, he has played and recordedwith leading chamber orchestras and many Baroquechamber groups. He is professor of harpsichord andBaroque music at Kingston University, and has workedextensively in the world of opera as a répétiteur.Audiences often remark about the special interactionamong the players of the RUSKIN ENSEMBLE, whichwas formed in London by a group of friends, alltalented musicians. The Ensemble has given concertsthroughout the British Isles and regularly performsat National Trust houses and gardens. Named afterthe Victorian writer and critic John Ruskin, theEnsemble has also created programs combiningmusic with art or literature and performed in periodcostume, including Jane Austen—A Regency Soirée;8.559444 22
The Brontës Encountered; and There Is No Wealthbut Life, about the life and times of John Ruskin.The group is particularly committed to taking musicinto the community, performing to audiences thatnormally do not have access to live classical music. Themusical director, JANE GOMM (violin), studied at theRoyal Academy of Music and the Guildhall School ofMusic. She has toured Europe, Nigeria, Australia, andSouth America with different chamber orchestras,including the London Mozart Players and the LondonFestival Orchestra.He has twice won the worldwide competition Let thePeoples Sing. Brewer has been the music director atChethams, Britain’s largest music school for giftedchildren. He is known for his choral workshops, whichhe offers annually throughout Australia, New Zealand,and Great Britain.Laudibus, with conductor Michael BrewerFounded near the end of the 1990s, the chamber choirLAUDIBUS is known for its blend and flexibility, for the Michael Brewerbreadth of its programming, and for its willingnessSoprano MARTHA COWAN is active as a musicianto tackle difficult new works. It has given severalin concert, film, and recording throughout the Losworld premieres, including works by Gavin Bryars,Angeles area, and she has prepared, produced, andGiles Swayne, and Richard Allain. The twenty-twoperformed programs at home and abroad, frommembers of this dynamic ensemble are selected byBeethoven in Bonn to Bach in Carmel, California. Aaudition from the 130-voice National Youth Choirspecialist in early music, with an abiding interest inof Great Britain. MICHAEL BREWER, musical director17th-century repertoire, she also enjoys the challengeof Laudibus as well as of the National Youth Choirof singing contemporary works with their composersof Great Britain, has directed the World Youth Choirpresent, as she has with, among others, Boulez, Ligeti,and the National Youth Chamber Choir, and he makesAdams, and Zaimont.frequent guest appearances with prominent choirs.23 8.559444
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