The True Story of Cinderella

The Da C apo Inst itute p resents: The True Story of Cinderella By: W arren Martin February 22, 2008 at 7:30pm, River Road Presbyterian Church , Sanctuary All proceeds will benefit the Da Capo Institute and the Performance Library of Westminster Choir College Host/Chime: Larry Heath Piano: Scott Dettra King: James Lynn Queen: Kristin Titus Stepmother: Joan Maples Stepsister: Tracee Prillaman Stepsister: Becky Hopkins Fairy Godmother: Rachel Goldenberg Narrarator: Heidi Thurmond Cinderella: Angela St. Pierre Prince: Jeff Prillaman Hermit: Dominic Inferrera Hermit: Elem Eley Hermit: William Gorton Herald: David St. Pierre Thank you for your gracious attendance and time this evening. The True Story of Cinderella has been an important musical work in both Tracee’s and my life since we were first exposed to it at Westminster Choir College. For us, it represents a wonderful mixture of music and comedy, along with a commitment to and requirement for excellence. The Da Capo Way elements of passion, discipline and application are evident in every scene and every note. Borne out of the musical community at WCC, it is a perfect “fit” to help Da Capo grow musical communities here in Richmond and beyond. I hope that you will join us in appreciation of the donation of time and talent of the wonderful artists performing this evening. Additionally, there are many Da Capo volunteers among you who also deserve recognition and thanks. We are loving, learning and living our music with you all and for you all. If you have any questions or would like to play a bigger part in building musical communities with us at Da Capo, we would welcome your partnership and support. Please take the time to talk with us and share your passions for music. The work will be performed in concert form without interruptions. We respectfully request that you hold your applause until the conclusion of the finale. INVITATION TO NOTE: Please join us on Saturday, February 23 at 10 am for a special master class opportunity to interact with our artists as both teachers and performers. If you are interested in performing, please talk with a Da Capo faculty member or volunteer. Best Regards, Jeff and Tracee Prillaman , Founders and Directors; Da Capo Institute Da Capo Institute • PO Box 74264 • Richmond, VA 23236 Tel 804 432 3446 • Email info@dacapoinstitute.org Founded in 2006, the Da Capo institute offers musical training in a community based, passion driven approach via choruses, private instruction, coaching, small ensembles and public performances. We make musicians, not just music. About t he Artists: Scott Dettra is Organist of Washington National Cathedral, where he is responsible for the organ playing at more than 350 services a year and assists Music Director Michael McCarthy with the direction of the Cathedral choirs. Mr. Dettra is also assistant conductor and keyboard artist of both the Cathedral Choral Society and the Washington Bach Consort. He has previously held positions at St. Paul's, K Street in Washington, St. Mark's, Philadelphia, and Trinity Church, Princeton. Additionally, he was principal accompanist of the American Boychoir for many years. A prize-winning organist, he has performed at national conventions of the American Guild of Organists and the Association of Anglican Musicians, and has appeared at many notable venues throughout the world. He has appeared recently as a harpsichord soloist with the Washington Ballet and the Washington Bach Consort. In his work with the Cathedral Choral Society, Mr. Dettra has prepared the ensemble for performances with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Juilliard Orchestra, and the Dave Brubeck Quartet. In 2006 he was co-conductor of the Society's performance of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem. Mr. Dettra appeared at the 2004 Lincoln Center Festival as organist for the North-American premiere of John Tavener's seven-hour work The Veil of the Temple. In addition to many recording credits, his performances have been broadcast numerous times on the BBC, NPR, and PRI. Mr. Dettra holds two degrees from Westminster Choir College and has also studied at Manhattan School of Music. His principal organ teachers have been Joan Lippincott, Dennis Keene, and Lee Dettra. James Lynn, a native of Richmond, earned music degrees from Cincinnati Conservatory and Carnegie Mellon University. His early career included apprenticeships with Santa Fe Opera, San Francisco Opera and Glimmerglass Opera.He then went on to sing with such companies as Florentine Opera, Lyric Opera of Cleveland, Western Opera Theater and Virginia Opera. Some of his favorite roles included Don Magnifico in La Cenerentola, Sparafucile in Rigoletto, the First Apprentice in Wozzeck, Ben Hubbard in Regina, and every male role in The Marriage of Figaro except Basilio and Cherubino.He and his wife, Laurie, have settled in Mechanicsville and they despair that their two young daughters already crave the spotlight. Soprano Kristin Titus recently graduated from Westminster Choir College with her Masters Degree in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy with distinction. She received her Bachelors Degree in Vocal Performance from WCC in 2005. While at Westminster, Kristin enjoyed performing Gertrude in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, Lady Billows in Britten’s Albert Herring and Alice in Verdi’s Falstaff and Mother in Menotti’s Amahl and the Night visitors. Kristin has spent her summers studying opera at The Florence Voice Seminar, The CoOPERAtive Program, New York Opera Studio and The Princeton Festival. While at these programs she performed scenes as the Countess, Mimi, Arabella, and the Marschallin. In 2007, Kristin received an encouragement award in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. She has been honored with awards or recognition in numerous competitions including the New Jersey National Association of Teachers of Singing, the Marian Anderson Competition and the Westminster Voice Awards. The main teachers in her life have been Lindsey Christiansen, Laura Brooks Rice, Daniel Beckwith, Susan Ashbaker, Mark Verzatt, Richard Raub and Yelena Kurdina. Kristin is married to artist Jesse Titus, who makes it very easy to decorate their home with his gorgeous oil paintings. They live in New Jersey. Heidi Thurmond is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, where she received her Bachelor of Music degree in flute performance. Her graduate studies completed with a Master of Music Education and Music Therapy Degree from the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. Mrs. Thurmond’s teachers have included Francile Bilyeu (VCU), Susan West, Emily Skala of the Peabody Conservatory and the Baltimore Symphony, Chris Ertell, and Mary Boodell of the Richmond Symphony. Ms Thurmond teaches both flute and piano on Da Capo faculty, and is the Director of Da Capo’s new pilot program for special needs students, VIVO, launching in April. She enjoys working as a Pre-K teacher’s assistant, music teacher and chapel leader for the HRBC Child Development Center. Mrs. Thurmond is an active member of Huguenot Road Baptist Church (HRBC) where she serves in the children’s ministry, sings in the chancel choir and performs regularly with the HRBC Festival Orchestra. In addition to her instructional load and performances with the Da Capo Da Capo Institute • PO Box 74264 • Richmond, VA 23236 Tel 804 432 3446 • Email info@dacapoinstitute.org Founded in 2006, the Da Capo institute offers musical training in a community based, passion driven approach via choruses, private instruction, coaching, small ensembles and public performances. We make musicians, not just music. Institute, she is an active freelance performer, providing music for weddings, church services, and special events throughout the greater Richmond area. Joan Weinbender Maples teaches private voice and piano in her Midlothian studio. In addition to teaching children and adults, Joan leads the women’s ensemble, Gloria Deo, sings in the Huguenot Road Baptist Church Chancel Choir, and often facilitates study groups. She sang the role of Narrator in HRBC’s 1999 production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat. Several other musicals at HRBC, in Springfield, VA and Pensacola, FL enriched Joan’s church music experience. Joan enjoyed participating in Southern Seminary’s staged production of Mendelssohn’s oratorio Elijah and playing with The Zoo’s Who, an educational instrumental group, while a student in Louisville, KY and Babes in Toyland while a student in Eau Claire, WI. A highlight of Joan’s college time was singing and traveling with the Albert-Ludwig-Universitaet Bach Chor while studying abroad in Freiburg, Germany. During childhood, college and her young adult years Joan traveled extensively throughout Europe. Joan is married to church educator Terry L. Maples. Joan and Terry reared two children – Andrew Kyle (22) who lives in Boulder, CO, and Anna Michele (20), a vocal performance student at VCU. Besides her passion for teaching music, Joan enjoys mentoring, exercising, nutrition issues and reading. Soprano Rebecca Hopkins of Richmond, Virginia, is a local musician in various church and classical venues. With a Bachelor’s degree in Music Education from Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, a Master’s of Music Education degree and a Master’s of Music in Vocal Performance, both from Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida,, Rebecca is in her sixth season with the Richmond Choral Society with solos in Britten’s Ceremony of Carols, Bloch’s Avodath Hakodesh, and both Vivaldi and Poulenc settings of the Gloria. She is the pianist at the Bon Air Baptist Church where she directs the select a cappella vocal ensemble Exaltation. Besides teaching private voice locally, Rebecca also teaches classes for Christian Youth Theatre. Other experience includes opera roles, music theatre roles, and numerous recitals and church concerts. She is married to Kevin, and has three children, Stephanie, Stephen, and Melanie. Tracee Prillaman is an honors graduate of Westminster Choir College where she received her bachelor’s degree summa cum laude in Music Education in 1992. As a member of the Westminster Symphonic Choir and Westminster Choir she traveled internationally and has extensive performance experience under the batons of many leading musicians of our time including: Kurt Masur with the New York Philharmonic, Riccardo Muti of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Stephen Mercurio of the Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi and Hugh Wolf of the New Jersey Symphony. Dedicated to her family, church, community and to the Da Capo Institute, Tracee leads the children's choirs at HRBC in addition to Da Capo’s Animato, Cantare, private piano and voice. Tracee's passion is teaching young musicians to use their music to make a difference in their world. As a music educator, she specializes in vocal music at the Elementary and Middle School level. Most recently Mrs. Prillaman was the director of an award winning middle school chorus in Holland Township NJ. Her teaching philosophy centers around a curriculum rooted in Kodaly with special focus on critical thinking skills and interdisciplinary learning environments. Mrs. Prillaman coined the phrase "use our music to make a difference in someone's day" and is one of the central authors of the Da Capo Way. Rachel Brager Goldenberg holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in voice from the Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey. She has won numerous awards and has sung with Opera Nuova and Westminster Opera Theatre. Last summer, Mrs. Goldenberg was featured at the Banff Summer Arts Festival in chamber music concerts, opera scenes and in Mozart’s “The Magic Flute”. As a chorister, she has sung with many of the US’ top orchestras including the New York Philharmonic under such conductors as Sir Neville Mariner, Sir Colin Davis, and Lorin Maazel. She currently resides in Richmond where she teaches music and voice at St. Catherine’s. Angela (Adams) St. Pierre is a native of Gainesville, Florida. She graduated from Westminster Choir College with a Bachelor of Music Education degree in 1992. While at Westminster, she studied voice with Lorna MacDonald, and was a member of the Westminster Singers under Allen Crowell and the Westminster Choir under Joseph Flummerfelt. Da Capo Institute • PO Box 74264 • Richmond, VA 23236 Tel 804 432 3446 • Email info@dacapoinstitute.org Founded in 2006, the Da Capo institute offers musical training in a community based, passion driven approach via choruses, private instruction, coaching, small ensembles and public performances. We make musicians, not just music. She performed the roles of Despina in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte and Constance Fletcher in Thompson’s The Mother of Us All for the Westminster Opera Theater. In 1991, she sang and recorded the role of the maid in Gian Carlo Menotti’s European premiere of his opera Goya at the Spoleto Festival dei due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy. At Florida State University, where she received her Master of Music, Vocal Performance in 1997, Angela studied with Yvonne Ciannella and performed the roles of Gossip #1 in Ibert’s Angelique and Mariane in Mechem’s Tartuffe. Her performance of the role of Gabriel in Haydn’s Creation under conductor Robert Shaw at Florida State was described as “filled with ethereal enthusiasm, filled with ringing high notes and nicely aspirated words.” Angela lives in Maryland with her husband David (also a Westminster alum) and twin sons, Armand and Jean-Luc. She has been an elementary music teacher in Anne Arundel County for ten years, and is a voice teacher for the Maryland State Boychoir Jeff Prillaman is the co-founder and executive director of the Da Capo Institute. His versatile repertoire and experience has provided performances venues ranging from Dvorak Hall in Prague, to opera and concert stages in Italy, France, and Germany, to the vaunted stages at Lincoln Center in New York City. While completing his Master of Music degree at the Juilliard School, he was a winner of the NY Vocal Artist Competition and enjoyed a Carnegie Hall debut with the Opera Orchestra of New York. He has recorded with both Elysium and Chesky records. In September 2007, he was a finalist and prize winner in the Garrison International Competition’s collaborative artist division. Mr. Prillaman is an accomplished conductor with a passion for ministry through music in the local church and surrounding community and holds a Bachelors Degree from Westminster Choir College in Princeton NJ. Most recently, he was the Minister of Music for Branch’s Baptist Church in Richmond, and he is now a proud member of the music ministry at Huguenot Road Baptist Church with his wife, and four wonderful children. As a businessman, strategist and technologist, Mr. Prillaman has worked for corporations in NJ and VA and holds an executive certificate in management from the Darden School of Business at the University of VA. Currently, he serves Capital One as an IT Director responsible for all HR systems and IT management. His career there has included the design and support of award winning workplace innovation programs such as the “Future of Work”, as well as a world class/scale VOIP deployment branded My Phone My Way. A recipient of the prestigious Circle of Excellence award, he has been recognized in the top 1% of Capital One's workforce. Baritone Elem Eley enjoys a remarkably varied career, from opera, oratorio and recital to premieres of art song and cabaret music. The current season (2007-2008) features Carmina Burana with Richard Westenburg conducting Musica Sacra, in a concert at the Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center. That concert will include the world premiere performance of Cantata for Revival, for solo baritone and orchestra, by the Italian composer Alessandro Cadario. Mr. Eley also returns to the Springfield (MO) Symphony for the great Ninth ("Choral") Symphony of Beethoven, and to the Westfield Oratorio Singers for Bach's Mass in B Minor. Recitals during this year include a revisit of Schubert's Winterreise in Princeton (with pianist J.J. Penna), and Masters of Modern American Art Song II (music of Tom Cipullo, David Eddleman and Gardner Read), with soprano D'Anna Fortunato, tenor Michael Polscer, and pianist Frank Daykin, at Symphony Space in New York City. Additionally, a new CD with Penna -- Drifts and Shadows: American Song for the New Millennium -- will be released in future months. Elem Eley created the role of Dumdum Devine in the world premiere of Vera of Las Vegas, by Daron Hagen and Paul Muldoon, at New York’s Symphony Space Thalia Theater. He has sung premieres by various other contemporary composers, among them Laurie Altman, David Eddleman, David Sampson, Joseph Summer, and Stefan Young, and is featured on recordings of songs by Altman, Summer and Young. As Winner of the Joy in Singing Award, Mr. Eley made his New York recital debut in 1996 at Merkin Hall, and has been recognized in such prestigious competitions as those of the Oratorio Society of New York (finalist), the Musica Sacra Bach Competition (finalist), the Metropolitan Opera National Council and the San Francisco Opera. He and pianist J. J. Penna ushered in the new millennium with a recital of American art song at Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall, and are compiling a CD of art songs by living American composers, to be released in 2007. Mr. Eley has been soloist at the Breckenridge, Westminster Choir College Da Capo Institute • PO Box 74264 • Richmond, VA 23236 Tel 804 432 3446 • Email info@dacapoinstitute.org Founded in 2006, the Da Capo institute offers musical training in a community based, passion driven approach via choruses, private instruction, coaching, small ensembles and public performances. We make musicians, not just music. Summer Choral and Wilmington Music Festivals, the Weimar (Germany) Summer Festival, the Brattleboro Music Center, and the Westfield Bach Festival. Performances have been televised on WNET and in national syndication, with additional recording on Albany Records, Arsis Records, and MusicMasters Classics. In addition to his active performance career, Mr. Eley is Professor of Voice at Westminster Choir College of Rider University, where he has taught since 1987. Dominic Inferrera is enjoying a great deal of success in regional opera companies across the country, most recently appearing as Silvio and Marco in OperaDelaware’s double bill of Pagliacci/Gianni Schicchi. He won critical acclaim in the role of The Son in Hugo Weisgall's Six Characters in Search of an Author with Opera Festival of New Jersey, where The New York Times proclaimed him a “standout”. Other roles include Escamillo in OperaDelaware's Carmen, Lescaut in Opera Memphis's production of Manon Lescaut, Guglielmo in Così fan Tutte with Capital City Opera, Moralès (Carmen) with Opera Festival of New Jersey, Count Almaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro), Nick Shadow (The Rake's Progress), and with Encompass Opera Theater The Swineherd in John Harbison's A Full Moon in March. Mr. Inferrera’s concert repertoire includes Carmina Burana, Faure’s Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas) with the Greenwich Village Singers, and Pontius Pilate in Brooklyn Academy of Music’s critically acclaimed St. Matthew Passion, and has enjoyed performing contemporary music in venues such as Merkin Hall and the Moscow/St. Petersburg Contemporary Music Society, including frequent collaborations with composer Louis Karchin in pieces such as American Visions, a song cycle on Yevtushenko poetry with the Da Capo Chamber Players, and Orpheus, a masque for baritone, chamber ensemble, and dancers available on Albany Records. Fanfare magazine remarked, “Karchin’s music is not easy to sing and baritone Dominic Inferrera… captures the wide range of expression [he] demands of his singers.” In addition to the operatic and concert stage, Mr. Inferrera's performing credits include operetta, musical theater, and pops performances with Jack Everly and the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, the Oregon Symphony, Utah Festival Opera, Colorado Symphony, and the Naples Philharmonic in Florida with conductor Erich Kunzel, and the Meredith Monk Ensemble. William Gorton, Tenor, has performed extensively in venues on the West Coast and sung numerous engagements around the USA and Europe. A solid and versatile singer, he has appeared with Opera Pacific, Festival Opera, Sacramento Opera, Rogue Opera, Pacific Repertory Opera, Orchestra X of Houston, Opera Santa Barbara, the Stockton Symphony in Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, the Opera Center of the San Francisco Opera, among others, and has recorded with the Russian National Orchestra. William is the recipient of several awards, including Finalist in the National Opera Association competition and Merola Opera Program auditions, and Apprentice Artist with the Santa Fe Opera. He recently sang the role of Don Jose in Carmen with Stockton Opera and the Bear Valley Music Festival, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly with Bay Shore Lyric Opera, and Riccardo / Gustavo in San Francisco Lyric Opera's production of Un Ballo in Maschera. William is also a skilled conductor and composer. He currently serves as Director of Music at Duncan Memorial United Methodist Church in Ashland, Virginia, where he leads a vibrant and growing music program. Before moving to Virginia, he was Choirmaster and accompanist at St. Michael & All Angels Church in Concord, California. His compositions include numerous art songs for voice and piano as well as choral and church service music numbers. Watch for the release of Brimfull, a collection of his art songs on life, beauty and the spiritual quest. David St.Pierre studied Vocal Performance with Anne Ackley Gray at Westminster Choir College, performing roles in Amahl and the Night Visitors and The Mother of Us All, as well as scenes from L'Italiana in Algeri. He went on to study voice under Yvonne Cianella at Florida State University, performing scenes from Manon and La Boheme and a role in Angelique. Having also performed a great deal of art song, Mr. St.Pierre put his music career aside and served 10 years in the US Army as an Arabic language specialist and non-commissioned officer. He was awarded the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Joint Service Commendation Medal and 3 Joint Service Achievement Medals. He continues to serve his country as a DOD civilian, but still enjoys the opportunity to revisit his musical side. Da Capo Institute • PO Box 74264 • Richmond, VA 23236 Tel 804 432 3446 • Email info@dacapoinstitute.org Founded in 2006, the Da Capo institute offers musical training in a community based, passion driven approach via choruses, private instruction, coaching, small ensembles and public performances. We make musicians, not just music. The Artist’s Experience by Dr. Charles Hulin IV Artists are interested in expressing the human condition. They are interested in all of life. As an art form, classical music explores every facet of the human condition: pain, passions, conflict, disappointments, as well as love, joy, peace, self-control, and much more. As music gives a broad picture of human experience, it provides a tremendous gift to the church. It shows something of the need for God in daily life outside the church’s walls. It also speaks of the presence of God wherever we find ourselves. Da Capo musicians serve two purposes: to experience music and serve as the musical experience for others ! Our vision is to offer community-based opportunities that develop and train leaders in musical excellence. Our mission is to provide a transforming music experiences that inspire and capture passion, equip through exceptional, dynamic instruction, and champion sharing music’s profound effect with one’s community. Develop the whole person through opportunities for self-expression, discipline, creativity, and teamwork. Achieve excellence through challenging experiences. Create, build, and strengthen new and existing communities through the common language of music. Appreciate all types of music. Provide an opportunity for everyone, where all are valued as individuals. Outfit individuals with the power to share music and impact their world Upcoming Masters as Teachers 2008 Events & Instructional Sessions: For the most current information, check the website at http:www.dacapoinstitute.org The Concert Pianist: featuring Dr. Charles Hulin IV from Chowan University Bon Air Presbyterian Church: Friday, March 14, 7:00p masterclass Saturday, March 15, 10:00am The Singer: “Be thou my vision” featuring Bass Baritone: Steven Condy & Soprano: Robin Massie Huguenot Road Baptist Church: Friday, May 9, 7:00p; masterclass Saturday, May 10, 10:00am The Jazz Quartet: “All that Jazz” featuring Mike Pinto on vibes & Logan Richardson on Alto Sax. Location TBD: October 3, 2008 7:30pm Masterclass Saturday October 4, 2008 10:00am Register now… Da Capo Institute • PO Box 74264 • Richmond, VA 23236 Tel 804 432 3446 • Email info@dacapoinstitute.org Founded in 2006, the Da Capo institute offers musical training in a community based, passion driven approach via choruses, private instruction, coaching, small ensembles and public performances. We make musicians, not just music.