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World Voice Day Concert 4/16/22

SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 2022  •  12:301 P.M.

The Ohio State University School of Music
Hughes Auditorium

Katherine Rohrer, area head of voice

 

PROGRAM

Performance order TBA


Tundra

Ola Gjeilo (b. 1978)
Text by Charles Anthony Silvestri

Women’s Glee Club
Jordan Saul, conductor
Ariel Alvarado and Ruth Peart, soloists
 

The Steps of the City

(from The Great Trees)
Gwyneth Walker (b. 1947)

Lara Semetko-Brooks, voice
Robert Brooks, saxophone
Ed Bak, piano


Variations on “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” (2013)

Excerpts from String Quartet No. 2
Adolphus C. Hailstork (b. 1941)

Sadiyah Babatunde, soprano

Janus String Quartet
Devin Copfer, violin
Kelsey Shaheen, violin
Nancy Nehring, viola
Mark Rudoff, cello

“There are few living composers as prolific and wide-ranging as Adolphus Hailstork. Best known in the choral community (check out Earthrise and his 2021 A Knee on the Neck), the joy he takes in song, and especially the music of the Black church, also plays out in a broad swath of orchestral and chamber music. The variations in String Quartet #2 are pure play, a familiar tune spun out in moments of tight counterpoint, jazz rhythms and choral singing.”
 

Come Fly With Me

Jimmy Van Heusen, arr. Kevin Keller

Hello, Mary Lou

Gene Pitney, arr. David Wright

Zing-a-Mama Barbershop Quartet
Matthew Burns
Nick Denino
Seiji Kawakami
Indigo London
 

Auf dem Strom, Op. 119

Franz Schubert (1797–1828)

Dana Carlson-Kottke, soprano
Brittany White, horn
Nancy Nehring, piano
 

About the Artists

Janus Quartet

JANUS STRING QUARTET takes its name and inspiration from Janus, the Roman god of time and transitions, presenting faces that look to the past and the future. Janus brings together rising stars Devin Copfer and Kelsey Shaheen with veterans Nancy Nehring and Mark Rudoff. They share the artistic mission of tugging on threads that connect old and new musics, and weaving those threads into the broad tapestry of the humanities. Recent Janus work includes appearing on stage in Ballet Met‘s production of Cacti, and video performances of works by Haydn and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson for the First Community Church Easter season, Meditations on the Crucifixion: An Evening of Transfiguration.

Devin Copfer (she/her/hers) is a violinist, vocalist, recording musician, registered Suzuki teacher, and arts entrepreneur based in Columbus. Her musical collaborations range from classical to avant-garde pop, from arranging jazz standards to hiring string ensembles. Devin’s work spotlights and grows her community of incredible musicians through purposeful concert design and meaningful audience connection.

Kelsey Shaheen (she/her/hers) is a passionate performer and private violin and viola instructor based in Columbus. Kelsey collaborates and performs regularly with her husband Ben Shaheen in their violin and percussion duo, Summit Ridge. In their duo, Kelsey and Ben work to expand the violin and percussion repertoire and bring new music to unique spaces. Kelsey holds a deep interest in the mind/body connection that fuels music making, and she currently teaches at Pure Barre Columbus.

Nancy Nehring (she/her/hers) started out as a piano major but ended up with a Master of Music in viola from Michigan, later playing with orchestras in Oklahoma, California, Oregon, Colorado, Wyoming, Mexico and Canada. An experienced arts administrator, Nancy has taught viola at every level and performed with chamber ensembles across the Midwest. She is currently assistant principal viola and personnel manager of the Newark-Granville Symphony, and serves as a collaborative pianist for an Ohio State voice studio and many Columbus-area string students.

Mark Rudoff (he/him/his) is associate professor of cello and chamber music at The Ohio State University. A respected chamber and orchestra musician, Mark performs with Janus and the Galileo Trio, and served as principal cello of the Calgary Philharmonic and Saskatoon Symphony Orchestras. Away from Ohio State, he has served on faculties at Interlochen Summer Arts Camp, Zephyr International and Florentia Consort Chamber Music Festivals, and is currently music director of the Cincinnati Community Orchestra. Mark is a recipient of the Ronald and Deborah Ratner Distinguished Teaching Award in Arts and Humanities in the Ohio State College of Arts and Sciences.

Sadiyah Babatunde

SADIYAH BABATUNDE, soprano, is a senior undergraduate pursuing a dual degree in vocal performance and marketing at The Ohio State University. Currently, she is a student of Dr. C. Andrew Blosser. During Sadiyah’s time at Ohio State, she has been part of both the Women’s Glee Club and the Chorale, previously known as Symphonic Choir. Within Chorale, she has enjoyed soloing in Benjamin Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb, Craig Hella Johnson's "All of Us" from Considering Matthew Shepard, and Marianna Martines’ Litany in G. In summer 2019, Sadiyah spent her time as a counselor in Michigan at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp. There, she claimed first place in the Staff Solo Competition and was honored as a soloist with the esteemed Festival Band. The following autumn, she joined the Columbus Symphony Chorus and was a featured soloist in The American Festival singing the choral solos within George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. Sadiyah has gone on to place first in two Great Composers Competitions, the Ohio State Wilson  Competition, and the School of Music Concerto Competition. Most recently, she placed second in the Senior Voice Division of the Lima Symphony Orchestra’s 60th Annual Young Artists’ Competition.

Dana Carlson-Kottke

DANA CARLSON-KOTTKE, soprano, is a first-year doctoral student and graduate teaching associate in Vocal Performance at The Ohio State University. Most recently, she performed the title role in the Ohio premiere of Sweets by Kate by Griffin Candey.  •  Previous performance credits include Dew Fairy/Sandman (Hansel and Gretel), First Lady (Queen of the Night, world premiere), Beauty (Beauty and The Beast, Vittorio Giannini), Adele (Die Fledermaus), Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Adina (L’Elisir d’Amore), Ms. Pinkerton (The Old Maid and the Thief), Blanche (A Streetcar Named Desire), First/Second Ladies (Die Zauberflöte), and Beth (Little Women) with companies and young artist programs in Wisconsin, South Dakota, Texas and Alabama. 

BRITTANY WHITE is a second-year DMA student and graduate teaching associate at The Ohio State University. She received her Master of Music degree from Columbus State University (Georgia) and her Bachelor of Music from the University of Southern Mississippi. She has performed with numerous ensembles including Opera Project Columbus, the Springer Opera House, the Newark–Granville Symphony, the Westerville Symphony, the New Albany Symphony, and the Mississippi Wind Symphony.

WOMEN'S GLEE CLUB
Jordan Saul, director

WGC ROSTER
Ariel Alvarado
Grace Cooper
Ella Cope
Ema Davis
Emma Edwardson
Grace Ermie
Katelyn France
Anna Giametta
Ayla Hoermann
Elizabeth Holup
Molly Hornberger
Caroline Karbowski
Emma Kelley
Brenna Kitchen
Leah Mattas
Grace McNeil
Molly Molina
Ruth Peart
Stephanie Ranallo
Lydia Robertson
Janayia Rodgers
Gabriella Stauffer
Megan Waldfogel
Katerina Warner
Celina Zhao
 


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