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Lane Music, Dance, and
Theatre NEWS!
PRESS RELEASE
DATE:February 11, 2008
CONTACT:
Myrna Seifert Ph. 463-5161
Music, Dance & Theatre Arts Department
4000 East 30th Ave. Eugene, OR 97405
A CONCERT OF SONGS FROM THE HEART FOR A FEBRUARY EVENING
Lane vocal music faculty, David Gustafson, Siri Vik,
Laura Wayte and invited guest, Douglas Webster, (UO Opera Theater
Director) perform SONGS FROM THE HEART in a concert on Thursday,
February 21 at 7:30 p.m. in the Performance Hall (Bldg. 6) on the main
campus at Lane Community College. UO faculty member, John Jantzi will
accompany on piano.
General admission tickets are $10.00 for adults, $8.00 for students
& seniors and $7.00 for Lane faculty and staff. Tickets may
be purchased at the door starting one hour before the concert.
Advance tickets may be purchased at the EMU ticket office on the UO
campus Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Tickets
ordered by phone through the EMU may be claimed at will-call the night
of the concert. The EMU ticket office phone number is 346-4363.
Proceeds from this concert fund individual lessons scholarships for
music students at Lane. To help ensure that the audience, as well
as the performers experience Lane productions free of distraction or
annoyance, we ask that patrons leave cameras, recorders, cell phones,
beepers and children under age six (including infants) at home.
The program includes the following songs:
• W. A. Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro
Dove Sono Siri Vik, soprano
Sull'aria Laura Wayte and Siri Vik, sopranos
Deh vieni Laura Wayte, soprano
• Three French songs by Faure Laura Wayte, soprano
• “Juliette's Waltz” from Roméo & Juliette Siri Vik, soprano
• “Au fond du temple saint” from The Pearl Fishers David Gustafsaon, tenor
Douglas Webster, baritone
• from Kizmet
“Stranger in Paradise” and “This
is my beloved” David Gustafsaon, tenor and Laura
Wayte, soprano
“The Man That Got Away” from A Star is Born Siri Vik, soprano
“Any Place I Hang My Hat is Home“
from St. Louis Woman Siri Vik, soprano
• from Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata
“Diei Miei bollenti spiriti” David Gustafsaon, tenor
“Un di felice” David Gustafsaon, tenor and Siri Vik, soprano
• from Verdi's Rigoletto
“Caro Nome” Laura Wayte, soprano
“Bella figlia del’amore”David Gustafsaon, Siri Vik,
Laura Wayte and Douglas Webster
BIOS:
DAVID GUSTAFSON teaches Vocal Performance and Group Voice in the Music program at Lane Community College.
In the performance world David is known for his robust and
expressive voice, which has been internationally recognized for
programs in Europe, Asia and throughout the United States. His operatic
roles include Ernesto in Don Pasquale, Tamino in The Magic Flute, Don
Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Ferrando in Cosi fan Tutte, Prince Ramiro in
La Cenerentola, Peppe in I Pagliacci, Lionel in Martha, Christopher
Columbus in Christopher Columbus, Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi,
Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, and many others. David’s recent
performances include Rodolfo in La Boheme, Alfedo in La Traviata,
Nemorino in The Elixir of Love, featured with a photo and article on
the front page of the Arts section of the New York Times. The Oregon
native is rapidly acquiring a reputation as one of the warmest and
sweetest voiced tenors to appear in years.
David sang the Count in Il Barbiere with the Shanghai Broadcasting
Orchestra, internationally broadcast from Shanghai, China. Mr.
Gustafson performed, and at Abbey Road Studio in London, recorded
Prince Hal/Henry V in Plump Jack with the London Phil. He
continues to impress the opera world because of his full rich sound
being able to conquer even the most difficult musical passages.
“Tenor David Gustafson sang with a vibrant, flexible tone that
handled the difficulties of Rossini’s complex vocal requirements
with ease, and he showed a true comic gift in his scenes as Don Alonso
(one of his disguises).” Ballam said, “The lead performers
are remarkable this year. For example, David Gustafson, singing the
part of Count Almaviva in ‘The Barber of Seville,’ was one
of the reasons Ballam chose that particular opera. He has that Rossini
capability to move his voice with the melismas and the runs that a
Rossini tenor needs, but it’s not one of those very light voices.
He has a very strong, robust sound, which is so exciting for me to
hear. I really think that this is a remarkable talent.”
A frequent oratorio singer, David excels in the florid repertory such
as Handel’s Messiah. Additionally, he has sung Haydn’s The
Seasons and Mass in Time of War, Mozart’s Mass in C and Requiem,
Bach’s Magnificat as well as Bach cantatas. Some of his recent
concert appearances include Verdi’s Requiem, Orff’s Carmina
Burana, and Schubert’s Mass in A flat, Beethoven’s Missa
Solemnis, as well as the World Premiere in Oregon and the European
premiere of Robert Kyr’s Symphony No. 9 in Denmark. PBS
nationally broadcast Eugene Symphony’s “Tango Lesson”
where David appeared as the Tango Singer. Most recent concert
performances include Mozart’s Requiem, Beethoven’s 9th
Symphony, Handel’s Messiah, Handel’s Praise the Lord.
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Native to Eugene, SIRI VIK returned to the area 2 years ago after 13
years of education, professional performance and teaching out of state.
She currently teaches Group Voice in the music program at LCC.
Siri has performed as a singing actress on operatic, concert, and
musical theatre stages in New York, Cincinnati, Cleveland,
Indianapolis, Kansas City, London, and in several cities in Italy.
Locally, Siri has sung with Bel Canto Northwest, Eugene Opera, the
Oregon Bach Festival, Actors Cabaret of Eugene and with the Central
Lutheran Chorale.
Siri received her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of
Kansas and her Master of Music from Cincinnati College-Conservatory of
Music, where she also completed three years of Doctoral study. She has
been a private voice teacher for ten years, and has guided students to
entrance into premier music colleges, as well as success at contests
and auditions at any level.
In particular, Siri specializes in European cabaret – a unique
amalgam of classical, pop, and musical theatre styles which flourished
in the 1920s-30s. She has won national acclaim for her work in this
area. Siri performs cabaret here in Eugene as Mr. and Mrs. Grieves, a
performance project with McKenzie Stubbert.
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Soprano LAURA DECHER WAYTE has been performing traditional and
contemporary opera, orchestral pieces, choral, and chamber music for
over 10 years. She has performed roles and been the soloist with the
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe
Symphony, Nevada Opera, Mendocino Music Festival, Berkeley Opera, and
Diablo Valley Symphony among others. She has also given many solo
recitals of art songs, including several world premiers of contemporary
compositions. In 2000, Ms. Wayte sang the world premier in Amsterdam
with The Nieuw Ensemble of a piece for voice and chamber orchestra
written by her husband, composer Lawrence Wayte. Her singing can be
heard on a recording of composer D’Arcy Reyhold’s music
entitled The Past Keeps Changing (Dharma Gate Music). Ms. Wayte’s
singing has been consistently praised for its lyric expressiveness and
rich tonal qualities. Originally from Seattle and a former newspaper
reporter for the Burlington (Vermont) Free Press, Laura graduated with
a Master's Degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music where
she was awarded Outstanding Achievement in Opera Performance. She
recently moved with her family to Eugene, Oregon.
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DOUGLAS WEBSTER recently joined the faculty of the University of Oregon
as Director of the UO Opera Theater. Prior to that, he was the director
of performing arts for South Park High School in Colorado. He has also
taught on the faculty of the University of Memphis. Since 1999, he has
been the artistic director for the American Singer Seminar in Colorado.
A student of Nicola Rossi-Lemeni at Indiana University he studied Opera
Stage direction with the late Italian basso-cantante. He previously
studied with William Shriner receiving his bachelor of music from IU in
1985. Webster received his Master of Music degree in voice and opera in
1986 from Northwestern University, studying under Norman Gulbrandsen.
In 1987 he attended the Academy of Singing and the New Work Development
programs at the Banff Centre in Alberta. Summer music festival
apprenticeships include Aspen (chamber choir), the Santa Fe Opera and
the Dorian Opera.
Making his debut singing for the composer's 70th Birthday celebration
at the Tanglewood Festival, Webster began a twenty year association
with the epic theater piece, MASS and the music of Leonard Bernstein.
Now considered the foremost interpreter of Bernstein's MASS, Webster
has lead productions as singer, director and producer across the
country including Portland, Eugene, Santa Cruz, Eugene, Columbus,
Dallas, Denver, The Kennedy Center in Washington, and Carnegie Hall in
New York. International appearances include Spain, Latvia, Lithuania
and The Vatican.
Performing the music of Bernstein in concert, Webster has appeared with
the Madison Symphony, Wichita Symphony, Oregon Symphony, San Diego
Symphony, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Indiana University
Bernstein Festival in 1998 and on NPR.
His other chamber music appearances include the Breckenridge Music
Festival, Rockport Music Festival, San Juan Islands Chamber Music
Series, Round Top, Texas, The Long Island Mozart and Seacliff Chamber
Players, Mohawk Trails Festival and Internationally at the Banff
Centre, Kuhmo Festival (Finland), and CIFM Festival in Nice, France.
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JOHN JANTZI joined the UO faculty in 2002 after receiving the UO
Graduate Teaching Fellow Excellence in Teaching Recognition in 2001.
His composition, Sing to God was a commissioned composition by the
European Chapter of the American Guild of Organists in 1990.
John Jantzi served as Musical Director in the United States Army Music
and Theater Branch, GS-7 Music Specialist, in Wiesbaden and Mainz,
Germany for seven years. He later served as Director of Protestant and
Catholic Chapel Music programs with the U.S. Army Chapels in Wiesbaden
and Bad Kreuznach, Germany for four additional years. While studying in
Switzerland, he was choir master/organist for Emmanual Episcopal Church
in Geneva, private piano instructor for the International School of
Geneva, and Ballet School pianist for the Conservatoire de Musique de
Genève. From 1994 - 2002 he was Director of Music
Ministries/Organist at Central Presbyterian Church in Eugene.
He has performed on organ and piano and was a finalist in St. Albans
International Organ Competition in England in 1983. Jantzi has
conducted major works for the Eugene Chamber Singers, Central
Presbyterian Church in Eugene, Oregon Opera Ensemble, Oregon Festival
American Music, Chorus Master for the Eugene Opera Company and the
Eugene Symphony, masterclass conductor for the Oregon Bach Festival,
and musicals and operas in Germany and Switzerland.
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