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BARBARA BONNEY PERFORMS IN OBERLIN
ON
MARCH 3
FEBRUARY 27, 2002-- Internationally acclaimed soprano Barbara Bonney, joined by pianist Margo Garrett, will perform works by Schumann, Schubert, and Liszt in "Songs from the Cycles" on Sunday, March 3, at 8:00 P.M. in Finney Chapel, located at the corner of Professor and Lorain Streets in Oberlin. Tickets for the concert, part of the Oberlin Artist Recital Series range from $7 for students to $18 for the public and can be purchased from Oberlin's Central Ticket Service (440-775-8169). Bonney will also give a masterclass at the Oberlin Conservatory on Saturday, March 2, 2002 at 10:00 A.M. in Kulas Hall.
The program will include Robert Schumann's song cycle Dichterliebe, various songs from the song cycles of Franz Schubert, and Der Fischerknabe, Mignon, Freudvoll und Leidvoll, Im Rhein im schönen Strome, and Die Lorelei by Franz Liszt.
Bonney has been praised for her radiant tone and the engaging warms of her personality, as well as for her stylistic versatility in a broad repertoire that ranges from the Baroque to 20th century music. These interests are reflected as well in the more than seventy recordings she has made for major labels including London/Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Teldec, Angel/EMI, and Philips.
Ms. Bonney regularly appears at the Vienna Staatsoper, the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, and the Opera Bastille and Chatelet, Paris. She also appears regularly with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the Berlin Radio Symphony, and London's Philharmonia, as well as the English Concert, the Concentus Musicus Wien, and the English Baroque Soloists.
North American appearances of the present season include performances of Strauss Orchestral Songs with The Cleveland Orchestra, Schumanns Scenes from Goethe's "Faust" with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Boston and at Carnegie Hall, Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem with the Pittsburgh Symphony and at Carnegie Hall with the Orchestra of St. Luke's, and a North American recital tour. She also returns to the stage of the Metropolitan Opera singing the role of Zdenka in Strauss' Arabella. Highlights of her European calendar during the season include Arabella at The Chatelet and Die Zauberflöte at The Bastille and the Salzburg Festival, Beethovens Symphony No. 9 with the Vienna Philharmonic, and Haydn's The Creation in Vienna and Barcelona.
A champion of the Lieder recital, Bonney also regularly performs songs of Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann, Benjamin Britten and Zemlinsky, along with more familiar works by Schubert, Robert Schumann, and Hugo Wolf. Dedicated to transmitting the song literature and the art of the recital to future generations while she is herself still actively performing, Bonney frequently gives master classes for young singers at major festivals and in music capitals world-wide, often pairing them with her own recitals.
Pianist Margo Garrett has partnered artists throughout the world in chamber, instrumental and vocal recitals. She has been heard in concert for almost thirty years with a large roster of internationally renown artists, and her recordings include Kathleen Battle's Carnegie Hall debut recital on Deutsche Grammophon, which received a Grammy Award; and a collection of virtuoso violin encores recorded with Jaime Laredo on the Dorian label.
As Co-director of the Cape and Islands Chamber Music Festival with festival founder Samuel Sanders, Garrett and Sanders were awarded an American Society of Composers and Publishers' (ASCAP) Most Creative Programming of Contemporary Music Award. As faculty member for nineteen years of The Tanglewood Music Centers Vocal Program and as Director of that program for the last six of those years, Garrett has coached and partnered many of todays finest young vocalists and collaborative pianists. Garrett returned in September 2000 to the faculty of the Juilliard School after an eight-year absence. During these years, she held the Ethel Alice Hitchcock Chair in Accompanying and Coaching at the University of Minnesota, a position she continues to hold. She also gives classes frequently throughout the world at major universities and conservatories and serves often as consultant to institutions designing new programs of collaborative study. Garrett played her first recitals for Barbara Bonney last summer at the Ravinia Festival and at the Tanglewood Music Center.
Media Contact: Joanna Chang
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