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Coming this spring, Philomusica
presents:

Russian and Hungarian Sacred Music -
With Wind Ensemble plus S-A-T-B solos
Rachmaninoff, Sergei – Ave Maria
Russian liturgical music
Stravinsky, Igor - Ave Maria, Pater Noster, and Mass
Kodaly, Zoltan - Missa Brevis
SATURDAY, MAY 20, 2006 at 8 PM
AND
SUNDAY, MAY 21, at 4 PM
Our Lady of Peace Church, North Brunswick, NJ
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Ticket prices at the door are $18 regular, $16 students/seniors, $9 children under 13. Discounted tickets are available for advance purchase. Scroll down for
more information.
This program has been made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey
State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the
National Endowment of the Arts; through a grant provided by the Middlesex
County Cultural and Heritage Commission/Board of Chosen Freeholders.

This concert will feature soloist performances by:
TERESA
BUCHHOLZ,
mezzo-soprano: Teresa Buchholz maintains an
active career both in opera and concert performances. Past opera
performances include roles with Connecticut Grand Opera in productions of
La Traviata and La Forza del Destino. Other operatic roles
include Prince Orlofsky, Cenerentola, Mélisande, Dorabella, Nicklaus and Meg
Page. The past summer marked her 5th season with Light Opera
Oklahoma, where she performed the title role in La Pèrichole and the
role of Dame Doleful in Too Many Sopranos. Past seasons at LOOK have
included the roles of Lucy Brown in Threepenny Opera, the title role in
Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe, and the role of Pheobe in Yeoman
of the Guard.
Miss Buchholz also
performs regularly as a concert soloist, and has just recently appeared
with the American Symphony Orchestra in the oratorio “Das Paradies und die
Peri” at Lincoln Center. She has also made recent appearances with the
Berkshire Bach society, where she has performed as a mezzo soloist in
Bach’s Magnificat, Bach’s Cantata BWV 72 “Ich habe genug, Haydn’s Chandos
Anthem no. 6 and Carrissimi’s “Jephte”. Other recent solo performances
include Bach’s Mass in b minor with the St. Bartholomew’s choir in New
York City, and Pergolesi’s “Stabat Mater” with New York’s Collegiate
Chorale. In 2004 she made her Lincoln Center debut with the American
Symphony Orchestra in a one-act opera by Hindemith entitled Das
Nusch-Nuschi. The previous year she was a soloist with the Cincinnati
May Festival in a world premiere performance of Liszt’s oratorio St.
Stanislaus, conducted by James Conlon and released by Telarc. In 2002
Miss Buchholz performed the role of the Third Elf in Strauss’s
Äegyptische Helena with the American Symphony Orchestra, which has
been released as a Telarc recording as well. A well-experienced oratorio
soloist, she has sung performances of Mozart’s Mass in c minor,
Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, Durufle’s Requiem, Handel’s
Messiah, Bach’s Mass in b minor, and Mozart’s Requiem.
In 2001 she was a featured soloist on a Great Performances Recital Series
concert with Jane Eaglen and members of the London Symphony Orchestra at
St. Bartholomew’s.
A
graduate of the Yale University Opera Program (Artist Diploma) and Indiana
University (Masters in Voice), Miss Buchholz has participated in master
classes with such renowned artists as Elly Ameling and Sherrill Milnes.
She has spent summers performing with the Santa Fe Opera, Opera Theatre of
St. Louis, and Natchez Opera, where she was awarded the Outstanding
Performer Award for the season.
BRIAN
DOUGHERTY, tenor:
Brian Dougherty enjoys a varied career as a soloist and ensemble singer
throughout the New York City area. He has performed in stage musical
theatre and opera productions with FringeNYC, West End Theatre,
Fredericksburg Theatre Company, Berkshire Opera, Fuma Sacra and Spoleto
Festival USA. Solo credits include engagements with the American Symphony,
Melodious Accord, Music Before 1800, West Village Chorale, Dessoff Choirs,
Philomusica, the Westminster Choir, and the New York Concert Singers. As
an ensemble singer, Brian has appeared with the New York Philharmonic,
Chicago Symphony, Berlin Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic,
Philadelphia Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony, London Symphonietta, among
others. Brian is a founding member and co-artistic director of Manhattan
Voices, a 12-voice chamber ensemble dedicated to the concept of "musical
democracy," working without a conductor. Brian's television credits
include HBO's acclaimed mini-series Angels in America, PBS' Live from
Lincoln Center, and NBC's Today. He is an accomplished cabaret performer.
His latest, currently in development, is set to debut Fall 2006.
RODRIGO
GOMEZ, BARITONE: Rodrigo Gomez, a native of
the Philippines, has performed over 30 operatic roles with various
companies, including Manila Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Sacramento Opera,
Utah Festival Opera, and West Bay Opera. He performed the world premiere of
Ionel Petroiâ’s Les Melodies de Sancho Pança and title roles in
Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Britten’s Billy Budd. Recent New York
area performances include Maugiron in Chabrier’s Le Roi Magre Lui,
der Hanker in Hindemith’s Das Nusch-Nuschi and Luigi Nono’s
Epitaffi (all with the American Symphony at Avery Fisher Hall), Fauré’s
Requiem with the Little Orchestra Society, Orff’s Carmina Burana
with both the Bard Chorus /Chamber Singers and the New York Choral Society,
Bach’s Saint John Passion with the Gotham Baroque Orchestra and
Magnificat with New Jersey’s Philomusica, his premiere performances of
the Requiems of both Brahms and Duruflé with the One World Symphony.
Mr. Gomez holds a B.M. from California State University, Northridge and an
M.M. from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He has been awarded the
Los Angeles Music Center Spotlight Award, the Bay Area Performing Arts
Fellowship, the Chevron Foundation Scholarship, the Nancy Hooker Memorial
Scholarship, the Glendale Symphony’s Hoeft Memorial Award and prizes from
the Metropolitan Opera National Council, the San Jose Music Club, the
Pacific Music Society and the American Art Song Competition.
NADINE ROBINSON,
SOPRANO:
Nadine Robinson is equally at home on the opera and concert stage.
Classical New Jersey wrote Ms. Robinson “has the indefinable ability to
stand out in a crowd” and describes her singing as “meltingly beautiful.”
She was introduced to opera with a small part in Suor Angelica at the
Spoleto Festival dei due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy. Since then she has
performed with the Little Opera Company of New Jersey as Zerlina in Don
Giovanni and Giannetta in L’Elisir d’amore. Other roles include
Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, Despina in Così fan tutte, and
Micaela in Carmen. Among her concert credits are Haydn’s St.
Cecilia Mass, Fauré’s Requiem, Bach’s Cantata BWV 93, 106
and 199, and Handel’s La Lucrezia. Recently, she was a
finalist in New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera’s annual vocal
competition. Ms. Robinson received her Bachelor of Music in Music Education
from Westminster Choir College and her Master of Music in Voice Performance
from Rutgers University.
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