The University at Albany Department of Music is pleased to present a Fall Choral Concert on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 7pm in the Main Theatre of the Performing Arts Center on the uptown campus.  The University Chorale and the University Chamber Singers will perform under the direction of Dan Foster.

 

The program of music will range from renaissance era motets to works by contemporary composers. The University Chorale will sing large scale works by the great Austrian romantic Anton Brucker and his earlier countryman Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart including “Venite populi,” one of Mozart’s only works for double choir.  The University Chamber Singers will present two multi-movement works by prominent living composers: Five Hebrew Love Songs by Eric Whitacre with poems by his wife Hila Plitmann; and Mid-Winter Songs by Morten Lauridsen, written on the incomparable poetry of Robert Graves.

 

Dan Foster was trained in Sacred Music at Westminster Choir College as a singer, pianist, organist, and conductor. He studied the training of young singers at the American Boychoir School. As a tenor, Mr. Foster sang for three years in the Spoleto Festival International appearing in Der Rosenkavalier (Richard Strauss), The Excursions of Mr. Brocek (Leos Janacek), and Falstaff (Verdi).  He has also sung in concert tours in Taiwan, Korea, France, Holland, the Czech Republic and Italy. Mr. Foster has performed and recorded extensively with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Orchestra of St. Luke's, performing many masterworks including the Mass in B-Minor, The Passion According to St. John (J.S. Bach), Ein Deutches Requiem (Johannes Brahms), Jeanne d'Arc au Bűcher (Arthur Honegger), and War Requiem (Benjamin Britten). He has also recorded with the renowned early music ensemble Fuma Sacre. 

 

Mr. Foster is the founder and artistic director of Aśde Consort, a choir and orchestra specializing in early music and living composers. Mr. Foster is also the conductor of The New Opera in Williamstown, Massachusetts where this past Spring, he lead Henry Purcell's operatic masterwork Dido and Ćneas starring Metropolitan Opera award winner, Vivien Shotwell.

 

Tickets are $6 for the general public and $3 for students, seniors & UAlbany faculty/staff and may be purchased through the Performing Arts Center Box Office.  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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