Fry Street Quartet and Jin-Xiang Yu, soprano
Commission by Aida Shirazi
With the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music’s Composing Earth
A collaborative project on sustainability and story telling.
Further details on a later Utah Valley University Performance TBA.
Performance: Saturday, March 16, 7:30pm
Location: Ogden Contemporary Arts
Hosted by: Teresa Sanderson
Tickets: nextensemble.org/tickets
Songs and arias from the era of Art Nouveau (1890-1910) by female composers:
Cécile Chaminade
Lilli Boulanger
Amy Beach
Liza Lehmann
Alma Mahler
Pauline Viardot
Ethel Smyth
Presented By: Asian Arts & Culture Association
Date: February 3, 2024
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Location: Cottonwood Heights City Hall, 2277 East Bengal Blvd.
Come and join the Arts Council for a free and educational event that celebrates Chinese culture through art, music, and Kung Fu. The event is open to everyone aged five and above, but parents must accompany their children. Please note that space is limited, so early registration is recommended.
During the event, you will have the opportunity to experience the following activities:
- Chinese Traditional Instruments / Singing
- Kung Fu Demonstration
- Calligraphy Class
Please make sure to wear suitable clothing while painting.
BWV 140: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme
Soprano soloist
with the Madeleine Choir School
PASSES for the St. Cecilia's Day Concert will be available to the general public beginning
9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, November 8. Click here for the passes.
J.S. BACH
Cantata No. 140, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme
ILDEBRANDO PIZZETTI
Messa di Requiem
Presented by the Hart Theater Co.
Based on Federico Fellini's semi-autobiographical 1963 film 8½, the musical won multiple Tony awards and was made into a hit film!
Nine centers around Guido Contini, a famous Italian film director and ladies man. His last couple of movies have been panned by the critics, and Guido is under pressure to make a return to form with his latest film. However, there is one major problem: he hasn’t written a line of the script and has lost all inspiration. Guido’s professional and personal lives becomes intertwined as he attempts to save both his career and his marriage. His wife, Luisa, threatens to divorce Guido unless he can pay more attention to the marriage, but the director is constantly pulled in another direction by his saucy mistress, Carla, who shows up at the most inconvenient times.
In an attempt to find peace and inspiration, Guido suggests that he and Luisa go to a luxury spa near Venice. However, he does not expect his whole film crew and production team to follow him also. As Guido struggles to find a story line for his film, his mind becomes increasingly preoccupied, and fantasy and reality become inextricably intertwined. Carla arrives from Rome and provides a naughty distraction, while his fierce producer Liliane La Fleur pressures Guido to produce the musical he agreed to. In Guido’s confused mind, the women from his past and present all appear to him, including his Mother, Sarraghina (a prostitute), and Claudia, his muse and movie star. As he tries to create a new masterpiece, Guido must face the ultimate decision of life and death.
Thursday pricing: $29 for House Seating, $35 for Preferred, $43 for Cabaret table seating.
Friday – Sunday pricing: $35 for House seating; $43 for Preferred; $49 for Cabaret table seating.
Tickets increase by $5 half hour to show time. All sales final, no refunds. Exchanges may be made for the same show, different date only. 24 hours notice must be given to the box office prior to original ticket date. Subject to availability, price difference and $5 per ticket exchange fee. See Box Office for all other policies.
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8PM SHOW
https://tickets.egyptiantheatrecompany.org/tickets/413165?tc=hmt
6PM SHOW
https://tickets.egyptiantheatrecompany.org/tickets/413167?tc=hmt
Presented by the Hart Theater Co.
Based on Federico Fellini's semi-autobiographical 1963 film 8½, the musical won multiple Tony awards and was made into a hit film!
Nine centers around Guido Contini, a famous Italian film director and ladies man. His last couple of movies have been panned by the critics, and Guido is under pressure to make a return to form with his latest film. However, there is one major problem: he hasn’t written a line of the script and has lost all inspiration. Guido’s professional and personal lives becomes intertwined as he attempts to save both his career and his marriage. His wife, Luisa, threatens to divorce Guido unless he can pay more attention to the marriage, but the director is constantly pulled in another direction by his saucy mistress, Carla, who shows up at the most inconvenient times.
In an attempt to find peace and inspiration, Guido suggests that he and Luisa go to a luxury spa near Venice. However, he does not expect his whole film crew and production team to follow him also. As Guido struggles to find a story line for his film, his mind becomes increasingly preoccupied, and fantasy and reality become inextricably intertwined. Carla arrives from Rome and provides a naughty distraction, while his fierce producer Liliane La Fleur pressures Guido to produce the musical he agreed to. In Guido’s confused mind, the women from his past and present all appear to him, including his Mother, Sarraghina (a prostitute), and Claudia, his muse and movie star. As he tries to create a new masterpiece, Guido must face the ultimate decision of life and death.
TICKETS TO BE ANNOUNCED!
Westminster College brings the fun with its trademark, engaged-learning experience through SummerSong — an immersive vocal camp for talented singers. Camp participants meet and interact with exceptional faculty, guest vocal artists, and peers with a common passion for singing. The camp is open to all high school-aged students, including incoming freshmen and graduating seniors.
June 18-24, 2023. There will be a Showcase Recital the evening of June 23rd.
Presented by Opera Contempo and Salt Lake City Arts Council at Sugar Space Arts Warehouse, Salt Lake City UT
Using live music, theatrical design, and expert discussion, domestic and intimate partner violence will be addressed in Turnage and Kay’s chamber opera “Twice Through the Heart.”
The piece is a collaboration between English composer Mark Turnage and Scottish poet Jackie Kay and explores the real-life story of an abused woman imprisoned for the murder of her husband. The music is lyrical but abrupt, painful but often quiet and reflective; one of the composer’s most finely crafted, intensely moving and technically accomplished works.
Sung by 8 diverse local singers, this chamber opera is a representation of the effects of domestic violence on all populations in Salt Lake
<Sun Apr 16 / 2 pm> Connect With The West - NOVA Chamber Music Series
This is a unique program that explores music inspired by the culture and natural beauty of the American West. Some of the music presented have been inspired by and composed in this very place. I will be singing Songs from Letters by Libby Larsen.
Tickets here: https://www.novaslc.org/concerts/2022-23/larsen-benavides-kaminsky-harris
<Apr 14 - Apr 22> Les Noces (The Wedding) - Ballet West
https://balletwest.org/events/thewedding
BalletNEXT Park City Institute Main Stage Performance
Artistic Director, Michele Wiles
Debussy’s Beau Soir with Vedrana Subotic on the piano.
BalletNEXT is returning to the Eccles theater for another performance in partnership with the Park City Institute!
Please join us on March 26 for an incredible evening of live music and dance!
This performance will include Different Homes, danced to the music of Benjamin Britten, the world premiere of Night Realms to the music of Claude Debussy, and an encore of Surmisable Units to the music of Steve Reich.
The theme for the service is “Flower Communion", centering around friendship, diversity, and unity.
<Mon Mar 13 / 7:30 pm> Katie Porter - Faculty Recital
This concert will feature protest music in support of the Women. Life. Freedom movement in Iran. Kelariz Keshavarz (flute) and Cecyl Ruehlen (sax) are sharing the evening with Katie Porter, and they are performing a new commission by Bahar Royaee, an Iranian woman composer, along with several other works. I will be singing a Christian Wolff piece, John Heartfelt (Peace March 10).
<Mon Feb 27 / 7:30 pm> Caroline Shaw in Concert - Westminster Concert Series
Tickets available here: https://westminstercollege.edu/student-life/events-and-performances/performing-arts-events/performing-arts-tickets.html
The Westminster Concert Series presents “In Counterpoint” taking place at Vieve Gore Concert Hall on February 27th at 7:30pm, featuring composer, vocalist, violinist, and the youngest recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in Music, Caroline Shaw in concert with Westminster Faculty and Students and Grammy award winning cellist, Andrew Yee.
This Westminster concert will feature Shaw’s fresh and inventive take on baroque inspired forms alongside the vibrant works of Barbra Strozzi and Antonio Vivaldi.
In partnership with the local nonprofit Mundi Project, Shaw and Yee will perform a free community concert at Alliance Theatre on Saturday, February 25th. Part concert, part conversation, this one-of-a-kind experience will explore the relationship between Andrew’s art and their experiences navigating the world as a non-binary and biracial artist.
<Fri Feb 17 / 7 pm & Sun Feb 19 / 3 pm> Puccini's Gianni Schicchi and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci at the Lyrical Opera Theatre
This is a double-bill of two "short" operas presented in Italian with supertitles in English. I will be singing Nedda in Pagliacci on 2/17 and 2/19 only. They recommend children ages 8 and up for this production. Tickets available here: http://lyricaloperatheater.com/Gianni-Pagliacci2023.html
PROGRAM
Overture to West Side Story
LEONARD BERNSTEIN (1918-1990)
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
CHARLES-CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS (1835-1921)
DONNA FAIRBANKS, violin
"Shuimeishange", Water Girl Mountain Boy
XIAO YA YU (B.1950)
Moon In a Foreign Land
LI XIAO JUN (B. 1973)
ARR. JOHANNES BOWMAN
JIN-XIANG YU, soprano
Capriccio Espagnol
NIKOLAI RIMSKY KORSAKOV (1844 – 1908)
Music Director: Cheung Chau
Lyrics for Moon in a Foreign Land
How many roads I have traveled, thousands of rivers and mountains,
How many people I have met, complex and simple,
How many stories I have heard, reunion and separation,
The biggest wish is to go home and to reunite.
These unstoppable footsteps have traveled far,
And the forgotten past has been recalled several times,
In the deepest night, I am used to insomnia, and living well is a beautiful lie
The moon in a foreign land shines in front of the window,
The attachment to home is hidden in my heart,
The moon in a foreign land is so close and so far away,
It is overcast, cloudy, sunny, and full,
It tells the joys and sorrows of the world
The moon in a foreign land illuminates me,
The face of the people I care about warm my heart,
The moon in a foreign land,
The longing that I can't hide,
The wanderer in the distance want to return to my parents,
The sky in the distance has my most affectionate wishes
NOVA artists engage with song traditions ranging from 19th-century New England to 21st-century Peru and Brazil.
Songs of the Americas
Gabriela Lena Frank: Four Folk Songs
Charles Ives: Selected Songs
Anthony R. Green: Gettysburg Address
Jessie Montgomery: Loisaida, My Love
Clarice Assad: Canções da America (Songs of America)
Music by Liliya Ugay,
Libretto by Sokunthary Svay,
Dramaturgy by Antigoni Gaitana,
Soloist Jin-Xiang Yu,
Chhlong Tonle explores the roles women are called to serve through the prism of different cultures and traditions.
Premiere of opera-monodrama for soprano and piano featuring with the support of the Opera America IDEA grant
3/26/2022 at 2pm, Dohnanyi Hall, FSU, Tallahassee, Florida
Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical comes to life in Cottonwood Heights, UT!
https://www.cottonwoodheights.utah.gov/community/arts/community-musical
A CHILD OF OUR TIME
AN EVENING OF MUSIC TO REFLECT ON THE AFTERMATH OF WAR
Friends of Legacies of War request your presence for a private performance and intimate dinner.
Thursday, March 21st, 6pm-11pm
An evening of music to inspire conversation about the impact of conflict over time. Our special guest speakers will reflect on shared experiences, from the World Wars to the Vietnam War and secret bombing of Laos to current conflicts.
Distinguished soloists, Kenneth Tarver, Damian Whiteley, Jin-Xiang Yu, and Tamara Gura along with the New York Choral Society will perform excerpts of renowned A Child of Our Time by Michael Tippett, an oratorio composed as a memorial to the tragic events of Kristallnacht, a violent assault against Jews in Germany that took place in 1938, marking the start of the World War II horrors.
RSVP here: https://spark.adobe.com/page/cyzvQaUTDANF5/
The Mile-Long Opera, a citywide public engagement project, brings together 1,000 singers from across New York for free performances on the High Line, October 3—7 2018.
Co-created by architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang, with words and lyrics by acclaimed poets Anne Carson and Claudia Rankine, The Mile-Long Opera: a biography of 7 o’clock is an ambitious, collective, free choral work that shares personal stories from hundreds of New Yorkers about life in our rapidly changing city.
The stories sung in the The Mile-Long Opera have been gathered through first-hand interviews with residents throughout the city, asking what 7:00 pm means to them. They reveal a vast spectrum of feelings and perspectives—and, by extension, represent the diverse character of the city’s inhabitants and their individual experiences.
Set in one of the most dynamic public spaces for observing New York City and its multitude of intersecting lives, The Mile-Long Opera invites audiences to move in and out of groups of singers as they walk along the High Line.
At the heart of the work is an extensive community engagement initiative that activates non-profit cultural organizations across all five boroughs. Seven Anchor Partners serve as a hub for engaging local audiences—from recruiting singers, to holding and welcoming the public for open rehearsals and workshops, to hosting social and cultural events in the lead-up to the October performances.
Concerts on the Slope is a monthly concert series performed at St. John's Episcopal Church. Suggested donation $20. We encourage you to give a free will offering--proceeds go directly to the artists. (Admission is free.)
