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Ms. Montalbano will be performing the alto solo in Mozart’s Requiem and Vesperae Solennes de Confessore with the Reading Choral Society.
Peter Hopkins, conductor
Jennifer Michalik, soprano
Maren Montalbano, mezzo-soprano
Steve McMahon, tenor
Jackson Williams, bass
Where
Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church
701 Franklin Street
West Reading, PA 19611
When
Sunday, April 10, 2011 at 4:00 PM
General Admission
$18 advance tickets
$20 at door
Students $1 at door
To order tickets, call the RCS office: (610) 898-1939
Ms. Montalbano will be performing the role of Isaac in Benjamin Britten’s Abraham and Isaac. This piece will be one of three of Britten’s Five Canticles that will be performed with Choral Arts of Philadelphia, directed by Matthew Glandorf.
Written in 1952, Britten adapted text from medieval language of the Chester Miracle Plays rather than the authorized version of Bible. During this canticle, Britten portrays the most dramatic moment in the life of Abraham as recounted in Genesis 22, the binding and near sacrifice of his beloved son Isaac in obedience to God.
- program notes from Krista Tippett’s Being from American Public Media
Benjamin Britten
David Price – Abraham
Maren Montalbano – Isaac
Matthew Glandorf – conductor
Where:
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
1625 Locust Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
When:
Friday, April 8, 2011 at 8:00pm
Ms. Montalbano will be one of 12 women singing with the New York Philharmonic, performing Ligeti’s Clocks and Clouds (1973), under the direction of Esa-Pekka Salonen.
The title of Ligeti’s Clocks and Clouds refers to an essay by the Anglo-Austrian philosopher Karl Raimund Popper, “On Clocks and Clouds.” Popper’s essay describes two different kinds of processes that occur in nature, one that can be measured exactly (“clocks”) and the other, made up of indefinite occurrences that can only be described in a statistical approximation (“clouds”). According to Ligeti: “I liked Popper’s title and it awakened in me musical associations of a kind of form in which rhythmically and harmonically precise shapes gradually change into diffuse sound textures and vice-versa, whereby then, the musical happening consists primarily of processes of the dissolution of the ‘clocks’ to ‘clouds’ and the condensation and materialization of ‘clouds’ to ‘clocks’.”
- from Steve Lacoste’s article on the LA Philharmonic performance
For more videos and commentary by Maestro Salonen about the piece, go here.
György Ligeti
When:
Thu, Mar. 24, 2011 at 7:30PM
Fri, Mar. 25, 2011 at 2:00PM
Sat, Mar. 26, 2011 at 8:00PM
Where:
Avery Fisher Hall
New York, NY
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
New York Philharmonic
Women of the New York Choral Artists (Joseph Flummerfelt, director)
Ms. Montalbano will be performing the alto solo (the roles of the Angel and the Queen) in Mendelssohn’s epic oratorio, Elijah with the Philadelphia Biblical University Symphony and Chorus in Langhorne, PA.
When:
February 25, 2011 at 8:00 p.m.
Where:
William Chatlos Memorial Chapel
Philadelphia Biblical University
Langhorne, PA
Joseph Caminiti, conductor
Steven Condy, baritone – Elijah
Donna Lee Ramsey, soprano
Maren Montalbano, mezzo-soprano
David Shockey, tenor
Ms. Montalbano will be performing the mezzo-soprano solo of Verdi’s Requiem with the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra in Lancaster, PA.
When:
November 12, 13 and 14, 2010
Opening Night Friday at 8 pm
Saturday at 3 and 8 pm
Sunday at 7:30 pm
Where:
At the historic Fulton Opera House
12 N. Prince St., Downtown Lancaster
Francesco La Vecchia, conductor
Dr. William Wright, chorusmaster
Lancaster Symphony Chorus comprised of audition singers from the community, members of the Franklin & Marshall College Chamber Singers, The Millersville University Keystone Singers under the direction of Dr. Mark A. Boyle, and The Elizabethtown College Concert Choir directed by Dr. Matthew Fritz
Julie-Ann Whitely Green, soprano
Maren Montalbano, mezzo-soprano
Jeffrey Halili, tenor
Zeffin Quinn Hollis, baritone
Ms. Montalbano will join budding early music ensemble, The Buxtehude Consort, in its third concert program. This concert will feature Membra Jesu Nostri, Dietrich Buxtehude’s monumental cycle of seven cantatas devoted to the body of Christ. Performance dates are April 9 and 10, 2010.
April 9, 2010 at 8:00 p.m.
Church of the Resurrection
620 South 8th Street, Philadelphia
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AND
April 10, 2010 at 8:00 p.m.
St. Paul’s Church
22 E. Chestnut Hill Ave., Philadelphia
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On 20 March 2010 at St. Mark’s Church in Philadelphia, mezzo-soprano Maren Montalbano will join composers/pianists Benjamin C. S. Boyle and Jeremy Gill in presenting two new song cycles in recital. Le passage des rêves (Boyle, 2007) sets poetry by the great French poet and philosopher Paul Valéry, and Helian (Gill, 2009) sets the Austrian Georg Trakl’s longest and finest poem. The composers will each accompany Ms. Montalbano for their own works.
There is a $10 suggested donation.
Where:
St. Mark’s Church
1625 Locust Street
Philadelphia, PA
When: Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 8:00 p.m.
Ms. Montalbano will be performing the Alto Solo in Franz Joseph Haydn’s Theresienmesse with the Drexel University Chorus.
When: Sunday, March 14, 2010 at 3:00 p.m.
Where:
Drexel University
Main Auditorium
32nd & Chestnut Streets
Philadelphia, PA
Join The Philadelphia Singers and new music ensembles Relâche and Orchestra 2001 for the premiere of Persephone by Phillip Glass, whose music and impact reaches from the concert hall and opera house, to the dance world, Academy Award winning films, and popular music. The program also features the Philadelphia premiere of Steve Reich’s You Are (Variations). Reich is the winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in music. The concert concludes with the Philadelphia premiere of two Laude for female chorus from British composer Gavin Bryars’ Cycle Laude Cortonese.
As a member of The Philadelphia Singers, I receive a 10% discount on tickets to this concert and I am happy to be able to extend that offer to you! Groups of 10 or more receive even greater discounts. To purchase tickets Click Here and enter the promo code “SINGERS” at checkout or call 215-898-3900 and mention the promo code “SINGERS”. I have included more information about the concert below. I look forward to seeing you on March 6!
Where:
The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
3680 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA
When: Saturday, March 6, 2010 at 8:00 PM