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The Music of Glen Roven

Part of the 1901 Arts Club 2017-18 Season

Add to my Calendar 22-11-2017 19:30 22-11-2017 21:30 36 The Music of Glen Roven You are cordially invited to Emmy Award Winner Glen Roven's first recital in London. Please join us and hear Lucy Schaufer sing the 2nd Movement of Glen's Second Symphony which will premiere on April 15 at Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center. Daniel Okulitch will sing Roven's monumental "Songs from the Underground" which Gramophone Magazine said, “reveal a vivid musical imagination.” (Full review) Kim Criswell will sing the original solo version of "The Hillary Speeches," settings of Mrs. Clinton’s words that were streamed around the world on January 20th opposite Trump's inauguration. (WQXR Feature) Glen Roven will be at the piano. The performance takes place at 7:30pm at 1901 Arts Club.  DANIEL OKULITCH, currently starring at the ENO in Nico Muhly’s new opera Marnie, has been lauded as "flat out brilliant" by Opera News. Canadian bass-baritone Daniel Okulitch is a leading interpreter of Mozart roles, most notably Don Giovanni, Almaviva, and Figaro, which he has performed at New York City Opera, Teatro Colón, Los Angeles Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Palm Beach Opera, Opera Warsaw, Vancouver Opera, Dallas Opera, New Orleans Opera, Portland Opera, Michigan Opera Theater, Hawaii Opera, Manitoba Opera, and Lyric Opera Kansas City. Okulitch has also equally excelled in creating leading roles in contemporary opera, most notably the roles of Ennis del Mar in Charles Wuorinen’s Brokeback Mountain at Teatro Real in Madrid; Seth Brundle in Howard Shore's The Fly at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris and at Los Angeles Opera; Willy Wonka in Peter Ash's The Golden Ticket at Opera Theatre of St. Louis and Atlanta Opera; LBJ in JFK with Fort Worth Opera; and Herman Broder in Ben Moore’s Enemies, A Love Story at Palm Beach Opera. Okulitch can be heard on the original cast recording of Baz Luhrmann's production of La bohème, Chausson's Le Roi Arthus with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Pasatieri's Frau Margot, and David DiChiera's Cyrano de Bergerac. His first solo recording, The New American Art Song, featuring the songs of Ricky Ian Gordon, Jake Heggie, Lowell Liebermann and Glen Roven, was released on GPR Records in March of 2011 and is available online at GPR Records and Amazon. He was praised by Gramophone for his “luxuriantly rich and well controlled” voice. KIM CRISWELL has been in numerous musicals and has appeared with some of America's leading symphony orchestras as the featured soloist. She won the Helen Hayes Award in 1989 for her 1988 performance in Side By Side By Sondheim at the Olney Theatre in Washington. In September 1991, she presented her one-woman show Doin' What Comes Naturally, at the Shaw Theatre in London. She has lived in London since 1992 when she was invited to play Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun.  On August 1, 2009, she was a featured soloist in the BBC PROMS. On October 4, 2009, she was a featured artist at the Broadway to West End Gala in the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. She repeated her Proms Concert success when she appeared in a Rodgers and Hammerstein evening, once again at The Royal Albert Hall with opera singer Rod Gilfry in August 2010. In January 2012, she performed at Vienna's Volksoper, starring in Bernstein’s Candide.  LUCY SCHAUFER was a member of Bühnen der Stadt-Köln and has performed internationally as a guest artist for companies including the Metropolitan Opera, New York, LA Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Washington National Opera, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Théâtre du Châtelet, Hamburg State Opera and Opéra national du Rhin. Engagements include Susanna (The Ghosts of Versailles), Marcellina (Le nozze di Figaro) and Berta (Il barbiere di Siviglia) for Los Angeles Opera, music by Bernstein at the BBC Proms with the John Wilson Orchestra, Ib (Becoming Santa Claus, world premiere) for Dallas Opera, Old Woman (Flight, London premiere) for Opera Holland Park, Jenny (Higglety Pigglety Pop) for Aldeburgh Festival and the Barbican, Carolina (The Elegy for Young Lovers) for English National Opera, Der Trommler (Der Kaiser von Atlantis) and Ma Moss (The Tender Land) for Opéra de Lyon.Schaufer’s debut solo recording, Carpentersville, was released in 2013. Other recordings include Weill’s The Firebrand of Florence with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Andrew Davies, Bowles’s The Wind Remains with Eos Ensemble and Jonathan Sheffer and Bray’s Fire Burning in Snow (world premiere) with Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. She teaches voice and body integration for the singing actor at the Royal College of Music, London. GLEN ROVEN is an Emmy Award-winning composer, conductor and pianist. This season he has two important premieres: Symphony No. 2, performed at Geffen Hall (Lincoln Center) this April, (the “Sarabande,” sung by Lucy Schaufer at the 1901 Arts Club is the second movement.) He will also premier a new cycle at Carnegie Hall this May. He recently composed “The Hillary Speeches,” a setting of two of Mrs. Clinton’s words sung by 24 opera singers including Lawrence Brownlee, Patricia Racette, Isabel Leonard, and Nathan Gunn on a video recital which was streamed around the world on January 20th. Kim Criswell will premiere the original solo Mezzo version. Roven has written 35 Song Cycles (billholabmusic.com). Daniel Okulitch has performed Roven’s “Songs from the Underground” in Carnegie Hall, Santa Fe, Toronto and San Francisco; this evening marks the London premiere. Current projects in addition to Symphony 2 and the new cycle, is a release of SPECTRUM, a collection of his music composed over the last ten years, and a CD he is producing with Universal and Carnegie Hall based on their Lullaby Project with Natalie Merchant, Diane Reeves, Patti LuPone, Joyce DiDonato, Ansel Elgort, Fiona Apple, Rosanne Cash and more. He was also hired to create the core Poetry curriculum for all of the kindergarten through sixth grade students in the U.S. public school system. Last season saw the premiere of his  "Goodnight Moon" by the National Chorale at Geffen Hall and the feature film “Humor Me.” He just completed a new symphony, "Symphony of Songs,” two new operas and a new Broadway Musical, World War Me. This year he also produced an all-Verdi aria CD for Soprano Hui He and SONY, recorded live in Verona. Last week his opera Bounce opened at Kentucky Opera.Roven made his Carnegie Hall debut conducting his Violin Concerto based on Margaret Wise Brown's famous children's book, The Runaway Bunny, with Glenn Close and the American Symphony Orchestra; Catherine Zeta-Jones recorded the Piano Trio Version.  He also recorded the piece with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Brooke Shields for Sony/BMG. Three other recent Carnegie Hall performances of Roven’s music include concerts by Baritones Mark Stone and Daniel Okulitch, and Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard. Roven has conducted the National Symphony, the Seattle Symphony, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, The Munich Philharmonic, The Radio Luxembourg Orchestra, as well as many others; he made his Israeli conducting debut in 2001 leading the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in two sold-out concerts honoring Leonard Bernstein. He was chosen to conduct four Presidential Inaugural Concerts. 1901 Arts Club, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

1901 Arts Club
7 Exton Street
Waterloo

London
SE1 8UE
England


Programme

Glen RovenTwo Song by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Glen RovenGoodnight Moon
Glen RovenThe Hillary Speeches
Glen RovenSongs from the Underground
Glen RovenSymphony no.2: Saraband

Performers

Kim Criswell – mezzo-soprano
Daniel Okulitch – bass-baritone
Lucy Schaufer – mezzo-soprano
Glen Roven – piano

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Programme Note

You are cordially invited to Emmy Award Winner Glen Roven's first recital in London. Please join us and hear Lucy Schaufer sing the 2nd Movement of Glen's Second Symphony which will premiere on April 15 at Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center. Daniel Okulitch will sing Roven's monumental "Songs from the Underground" which Gramophone Magazine said, “reveal a vivid musical imagination.” (Full review) Kim Criswell will sing the original solo version of "The Hillary Speeches," settings of Mrs. Clinton’s words that were streamed around the world on January 20th opposite Trump's inauguration. (WQXR Feature) Glen Roven will be at the piano. The performance takes place at 7:30pm at 1901 Arts Club. 

DANIEL OKULITCH, currently starring at the ENO in Nico Muhly’s new opera Marnie, has been lauded as "flat out brilliant" by Opera News. Canadian bass-baritone Daniel Okulitch is a leading interpreter of Mozart roles, most notably Don Giovanni, Almaviva, and Figaro, which he has performed at New York City Opera, Teatro Colón, Los Angeles Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Palm Beach Opera, Opera Warsaw, Vancouver Opera, Dallas Opera, New Orleans Opera, Portland Opera, Michigan Opera Theater, Hawaii Opera, Manitoba Opera, and Lyric Opera Kansas City. Okulitch has also equally excelled in creating leading roles in contemporary opera, most notably the roles of Ennis del Mar in Charles Wuorinen’s Brokeback Mountain at Teatro Real in Madrid; Seth Brundle in Howard Shore's The Fly at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris and at Los Angeles Opera; Willy Wonka in Peter Ash's The Golden Ticket at Opera Theatre of St. Louis and Atlanta Opera; LBJ in JFK with Fort Worth Opera; and Herman Broder in Ben Moore’s Enemies, A Love Story at Palm Beach Opera.

Okulitch can be heard on the original cast recording of Baz Luhrmann's production of La bohème, Chausson's Le Roi Arthus with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Pasatieri's Frau Margot, and David DiChiera's Cyrano de Bergerac. His first solo recording, The New American Art Song, featuring the songs of Ricky Ian Gordon, Jake Heggie, Lowell Liebermann and Glen Roven, was released on GPR Records in March of 2011 and is available online at GPR Records and Amazon. He was praised by Gramophone for his “luxuriantly rich and well controlled” voice.

KIM CRISWELL has been in numerous musicals and has appeared with some of America's leading symphony orchestras as the featured soloist. She won the Helen Hayes Award in 1989 for her 1988 performance in Side By Side By Sondheim at the Olney Theatre in Washington. In September 1991, she presented her one-woman show Doin' What Comes Naturally, at the Shaw Theatre in London. She has lived in London since 1992 when she was invited to play Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun.  
On August 1, 2009, she was a featured soloist in the BBC PROMS. On October 4, 2009, she was a featured artist at the Broadway to West End Gala in the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. She repeated her Proms Concert success when she appeared in a Rodgers and Hammerstein evening, once again at The Royal Albert Hall with opera singer Rod Gilfry in August 2010. In January 2012, she performed at Vienna's Volksoper, starring in Bernstein’s Candide. 

LUCY SCHAUFER was a member of Bühnen der Stadt-Köln and has performed internationally as a guest artist for companies including the Metropolitan Opera, New York, LA Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Washington National Opera, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Théâtre du Châtelet, Hamburg State Opera and Opéra national du Rhin. Engagements include Susanna (The Ghosts of Versailles), Marcellina (Le nozze di Figaro) and Berta (Il barbiere di Siviglia) for Los Angeles Opera, music by Bernstein at the BBC Proms with the John Wilson Orchestra, Ib (Becoming Santa Claus, world premiere) for Dallas Opera, Old Woman (Flight, London premiere) for Opera Holland Park, Jenny (Higglety Pigglety Pop) for Aldeburgh Festival and the Barbican, Carolina (The Elegy for Young Lovers) for English National Opera, Der Trommler (Der Kaiser von Atlantis) and Ma Moss (The Tender Land) for Opéra de Lyon.
Schaufer’s debut solo recording, Carpentersville, was released in 2013. Other recordings include Weill’s The Firebrand of Florence with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Andrew Davies, Bowles’s The Wind Remains with Eos Ensemble and Jonathan Sheffer and Bray’s Fire Burning in Snow (world premiere) with Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. She teaches voice and body integration for the singing actor at the Royal College of Music, London.

GLEN ROVEN is an Emmy Award-winning composer, conductor and pianist. This season he has two important premieres: Symphony No. 2, performed at Geffen Hall (Lincoln Center) this April, (the “Sarabande,” sung by Lucy Schaufer at the 1901 Arts Club is the second movement.) He will also premier a new cycle at Carnegie Hall this May. He recently composed “The Hillary Speeches,” a setting of two of Mrs. Clinton’s words sung by 24 opera singers including Lawrence Brownlee, Patricia Racette, Isabel Leonard, and Nathan Gunn on a video recital which was streamed around the world on January 20th. Kim Criswell will premiere the original solo Mezzo version. Roven has written 35 Song Cycles (billholabmusic.com). Daniel Okulitch has performed Roven’s “Songs from the Underground” in Carnegie Hall, Santa Fe, Toronto and San Francisco; this evening marks the London premiere. 
Current projects in addition to Symphony 2 and the new cycle, is a release of SPECTRUM, a collection of his music composed over the last ten years, and a CD he is producing with Universal and Carnegie Hall based on their Lullaby Project with Natalie Merchant, Diane Reeves, Patti LuPone, Joyce DiDonato, Ansel Elgort, Fiona Apple, Rosanne Cash and more. He was also hired to create the core Poetry curriculum for all of the kindergarten through sixth grade students in the U.S. public school system. Last season saw the premiere of his  "Goodnight Moon" by the National Chorale at Geffen Hall and the feature film “Humor Me.” He just completed a new symphony, "Symphony of Songs,” two new operas and a new Broadway Musical, World War Me. This year he also produced an all-Verdi aria CD for Soprano Hui He and SONY, recorded live in Verona. Last week his opera Bounce opened at Kentucky Opera.
Roven made his Carnegie Hall debut conducting his Violin Concerto based on Margaret Wise Brown's famous children's book, The Runaway Bunny, with Glenn Close and the American Symphony Orchestra; Catherine Zeta-Jones recorded the Piano Trio Version.  He also recorded the piece with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Brooke Shields for Sony/BMG. Three other recent Carnegie Hall performances of Roven’s music include concerts by Baritones Mark Stone and Daniel Okulitch, and Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard. Roven has conducted the National Symphony, the Seattle Symphony, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, The Munich Philharmonic, The Radio Luxembourg Orchestra, as well as many others; he made his Israeli conducting debut in 2001 leading the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in two sold-out concerts honoring Leonard Bernstein. He was chosen to conduct four Presidential Inaugural Concerts.

The Music of Glen Roven

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