The University at Albany Department of Music is pleased to present The
Art of Aria Substitution on Thursday, January 22, 2009 at 7pm
in the Recital Hall of the Performing Arts Center on the uptown campus. Performed by
mezzo-soprano Krista River, speaker Hilary Poriss and pianist Duncan
Cumming, the concert will feature arias drawn from the repertory of 19th
century substitution arias collected from libraries and archives throughout Italy and England.
Krista River is a winner of the 2004
Concert Artists Guild International Competition and is also a 2007 grant recipient
from the Sullivan Foundation. Last season, she made her debut with Opera Boston
in the role of Annio in La clemenza di Tito. Other recent roles include
Zerlina in Don Giovanni with Opera Aperta, the Mother in Menotti’s Amahl
and the Night Visitors with the Santa Fe Symphony, Rosina in Il barbiere
di Siviglia at the Crested Butte Music Festival, Nancy in Albert Herring
with Red House Opera, Hansel in Hansel and Gretel with Opera
Southwest and Anna I in Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins with Intermezzo Opera.
She has also performed concert versions of Handel’s Orlando (Medoro)
with Boston's
Emmanuel Music and Berg’s Wozzeck (Margret) with the New England
Philharmonic. Recent orchestral engagements include Schubert’s Mass in
E-flat with the North Carolina Symphony, Duruflé’s Requiem with the
York Symphony and Messiah with the Charlotte Symphony, Dvorak’s Requiem
with the Florida Orchestra, de Falla's El Amor Brujo with the Boston
Symphony, Handel’s Israel in Egypt, Schumann’s Genoveva, Bach’s Magnificat
and Christmas Oratorio with Emmanuel Music, Telemann’s St. Matthew
Passion with the Pittsburgh Bach and Baroque Ensemble.
Currently
an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University, Hilary Poriss specializes in
topics surrounding nineteenth-century opera, particularly on the history of
performance practice and “diva culture.” Her recent book, Changing the Score: Arias, Prima Donnas, and the Authority of
Performance (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), represents the first
full-length study of how nineteenth-century productions of the bel canto repertory were shaped by the
use of insertion arias. She is also co-editor of two volumes of essays: The Fashions and Legacies of
Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera (with Roberta Marvin, Cambridge University
Press), and The Arts of the Prima Donna
in the Long Nineteenth Century (with Rachel Cowgill, Oxford University
Press).
Now in
his third year on the faculty at UAlbany, Duncan J. Cumming has performed
concertos, recitals and chamber music concerts in cities across the U.S. as well as in Europe. The Kennedy
Center in Washington
DC, Merkin Hall and Carnegie Recital Hall in New York City, and the Wallenstein
Palace in Prague, Czech Republic
are among the concert halls in which he has appeared. This past fall, a tour
took him from New York to New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia for solo recitals, outreach concerts for
children and a Capital Trio performance at Marshall University.
In November he hosted the first “Youth Movements” Festival at UAlbany and this
spring he will host the “Piano Roles” Festival.
The Capital Trio (Cumming with cellist Solen Dikener and violinist
Hilary Cumming) will tour in the spring as well with a program commemorating
the 200th anniversary of the death of Haydn, called “The Capital
Trio plays Classical Trios.”
In 2002
Cumming joined the faculty of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute where
he continues to teach, coach chamber music, and perform as Assistant Director
of the Young Artists Piano Program. Before accepting the position at UAlbany,
he was a member of the faculty at Phillips
Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. He has lectured, given master classes, and
served on juries for competitions in addition to his performing and
teaching. He has also commissioned, premiered and recorded new works for
solo piano, violin and piano, and piano trio.
Admission to the concert is free. For further information, contact the Box
Office at (518) 442-3997 or visit the Performing Arts Center website at www.albany.edu/pac.
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