Faculty and Guest: Jason Fuh, baritone and Ed Bak, piano 1/27/25

Faculty and Guest: Jason Fuh, baritone and Ed Bak, piano 1/27/25

Monday, Jan. 27, 2025  •  7:30 p.m.

Timashev Recital Hall
Columbus, OH

Jason Fuh, baritone

Edward Bak, piano


Winterreise (Winter Journey), Op. 89, D. 911

Franz Schubert (1797–1828)


Please refrain from applause until Intermission and at the end of the program. 
 

Part I.

  1. Gute Nacht (Good Night)
  2. Die Wetterfahne (The Weather-Vane)
  3. Gefrorne Tränen (Frozen Tears)
  4. Erstarrung (Numbness)
  5. Der Lindenbaum (The Linden Tree)
  6. Wasserflut (Flood)
  7. Auf dem Flusse (On the River)
  8. Rückblick (Backward Glance)
  9. Irrlicht (Will-o’-the-Wisp)
  10. Rast (Rest)
  11. Frühlingstraum (Dream of Spring)
  12. Einsamkeit (Loneliness)


INTERMISSION (10 minutes) 
 

Part II.

  1. Die Post (The Post)
  2. Der greise Kopf (The Grey Head)
  3. Die Krähe (The Crow)
  4. Letzte Hoffnung (Last Hope)
  5. Im Dorfe (In the Village)
  6. Der stürmische Morgen (The Stormy Morning)
  7. Täuschung (Illusion)
  8. Der Wegweiser (The Signpost)
  9. Das Wirtshaus (The Inn)
  10. Mut (Courage)
  11. Die Nebensonnen (The Mock Suns)
  12. Der Leiermann (The Organ-grinder)

Texts and Translations

Artists

Alumnus Jason Fuh (DMA), baritone, and Edward Bak, associated faculty and collaborative pianist, present Franz Schubert's song cycle, Winterreise (Winter Journey). Fuh's 2019 performance of this work in Taiwan's Taipei National Recital Hall was featured on Winterreise.online/media, an Amsterdam-based website dedicated to this song cycle. This inspired Fuh to engage in an ongoing project of performances and master classes on the piece.

Currently, Professor Fuh is a faculty member of the Beck Center for the Arts, and serves as a soloist at St. Paul Shrine and Lakewood Presbyterian Church. He is also a performing member of the Cecilian Musical Art Society. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from The Ohio State University; and BM, MM, and Artist Diploma from the Cleveland Institute of Music.

Jason Fuh was last seen as Salieri in the Cleveland Opera’s production of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Mozart and Salieri. His Taiwan operatic debut was with the Wan Sha Performing Arts Center performing the role of Count Robinson in Il Matrimonio Segreto. Other notable opera roles include Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, the title role in Gianni Schicchi, Figaro in The Barber of Seville, Marcello and Schaunard in La Bohème, and the title role in The Abbot of Drimock. For more than a decade, Fuh has regularly given recitals in both the U.S. and Taiwan. In recent years, he launched the “Song Recital Project” devoting himself to performances of art song repertoire. Joined by pianist Berdie d’Aliberti, he was invited to perform in New York City’s Carnegie Hall (Stern Auditorium). He and pianist Edward Bak have collaborated on numerous performances in Taiwan’s Taipei National Recital Hall and the Cleveland Museum of Art's Gartner Auditorium. Fuh was awarded the Elizabeth Stoeckler Stevens Prize in Lieder, the Irvin Bushman Memorial Prize, and the First Place of the Darius Milhaud Performance Prize.

Pianist Edward Bak enjoys an active career as a vocal coach and collaborative pianist. The international press has hailed him as “a pianist who knows how to combine fury and restraint, elegance and lyrical effusion” and  praised him for playing of “fire, excitement, and a real sense of grandeur,” as well as being a collaborator of “great sensitivity and refinement.” Read more  
 


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