St. Paul’s Episcopal Church 2015-16 Evensong Concert Series Concert Descriptions St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1444 Liberty St. SE in Salem, is pleased to announce the 2015-2016 Evensong Concert Series. All concerts are sponsored by St. Paul’s Episcopal Church and the St. Paul’s Music Guild. Each concert immediately follows the service of Evensong at 4:00 p.m. unless stated otherwise. Admission is free; however, donations are gratefully accepted. Please call the church for further information. (503-362-3661) The 2015-16 Evensong Concert Series begins on October 4th. The St. Paul’s Chamber Singers will present “Anthems of the Anglican Tradition.” This all-professional choir will sing anthems from important Anglican composers such Orlando Gibbons, Henry Purcell, Herbert Howells and Ralph Vaughan Williams. The group will be accompanied by Debra Huddleston at the organ and directed by Dr. Paul Klemme. Handbell Choirs from six different Willamette Valley churches will converge on St. Paul’s Church for a Festival of Handbell Music on November 1st. Directed by clinician, Michael Glasgow, the groups will participate in an allday workshop on Saturday, October 31. Here they will learn three massed-choir handbell pieces to be performed on the Sunday afternoon concert. Additionally, the choirs will work with Glasgow separately and perform individually during the concert. Michael J. Glasgow is a native of Detroit, and his family still lives in Michigan. An honors graduate from the College of Charleston (SC), Michael holds B.A. degrees in music theory/composition and journalism. He holds a summa cum laude Master of Church Music degree from Concordia University Wisconsin as the program's first double-emphasis student, in both choral and handbell music. Michael has composed four musical plays (two of which premiered in Charleston's Sottile Theatre), as well as numerous original choral, orchestral, and handbell compositions. His setting of the Latin Requiem text was premiered at North Raleigh United Methodist Church, Raleigh, NC on April 8, 2001 with full orchestra and choir. He has served as NRUMC's full-time Minister of Music since April 1998. An active member of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), the Handbell Musicians of America Area 3 (HMA), the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), and the Fellowship of United Methodists in Music and the Worship Arts (FUMMWA), Michael participates in many extracurricular and educational pursuits, including serving as the editor for the Handbell Musicians of America Area 3 newsletter, The Bell-O-Gram. Michael serves as the Bass Section Leader for the North Carolina Master

Chorale (Raleigh, NC) and the Chorus Conductor for the Tar River Philharmonic (Rocky Mount, NC). In his admittedly limited spare time, Michael enjoys weightlifting, yoga, and gourmet cooking. The feast of St. Nicholas falls on December 6 each year. Since the feast day falls on a Sunday in 2015, the St. Paul's Music Guild has elected to present Benjamin Britten's oratorio "St. Nicolas". The piece, written in 1948, is scored for children's choir, high school treble choir and adult choir along with an orchestra of strings, percussion, piano and organ. St. Paul's Advent, Grace Notes and Trinity Choir will be featured. Soloist David Vanderwal, who is a member of the St. Thomas Choir in New York City, will play the part Nicolas. This oratorio documents the life of St. Nicolas, Bishop of Myra in the fourth century. He was one of the bishops summoned to attend the first great church council at Nicea. Most legends of Nicolas are concerned with care of the poor and oppressed, and with his power of appearing from great distances to rescue those who called on him. The May Dudley Memorial Organ Concert will feature Douglas Schneider on January 3rd. Mr. Schneider is the Organist/Director of Sacred Music at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Salem. Repertoire for the concert will encompass the rich bounty of French organ music for Christmas from the Baroque period to the present. Douglas Schneider received his music degrees from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. Before moving to Salem, he served as organist at St. Mary's Cathedral in Portland, Oregon and at Holy Name Cathedral and St. Alphonsus Church in Chicago, Illinois. He is highly sought after as an accompanist for oratorio having played for the Portland Symphonic Choir, Portland Opera and the Chicago Opera Theatre. Chanticleer comes to St. Paul's to perform on February 7th at 2:00 p.m. (Please notice the start time) "Washing of the Water" is the title of their concert, which expresses the symbolic power of flowing water to cleanse, redeem and restore, extolled by composers since music began. The biblical Israelites sang of their grief beside the waters of Babylon, modern souls yearn for a bridge over troubled water. Music of spiritual power by Palestrina, Gibbons, Cardozo, Victoria, Kroyavic, Gabriel, Simon, and Cohen will be sung. A ticket is required for this concert by simply stopping at the church office during regular weekday business hours. Donation of $20 per ticket is requested but not required. Tickets will be available after January 1st. Called “the world’s reigning male chorus” by The New Yorker magazine, the San Francisco based GRAMMY® award-winning ensemble Chanticleer celebrates its 38th season in 2015-16, performing in the United States, Germany, Austria, Italy, Hong Kong, Singapore, Macao, the Republic of China, the People's Republic of China. Chanticleer will also represent the United States at the biannual Festival de las Chiquitas in Bolivia, celebrating the rich musical heritage

of the South American missions. Praised by the San Francisco Chronicle for their “tonal luxuriance and crisply etched clarity,” Chanticleer is known around the world as “an orchestra of voices” for the seamless blend of its twelve male voices ranging from soprano to bass and its original interpretations of vocal literature, from Renaissance to jazz and popular genres, as well as contemporary composition. Chanticleer’s 27-concert 2015-16 Bay Area Season will be the first under the direction of newly appointed Music Director William Fred Scott. The season opens in September with Over the Moon featuring a world premiere by Nico Muhly, music by Gustav Mahler, Jaakko Mäntyjäarvi, Mason Bates, Stephen Paulus, Orlando di Lasso, Claudio Monteverdi, Josquin Desprez and others. A Chanticleer Christmas is in high demand at the Christmas season with performances from coast-to-coast in venues including New York’s St. Ignatius Loyola, Chicago’s First Presbyterian Church, Walt Disney Concert Hall and churches and missions in the San Francisco Bay Area. A Chanticleer Christmas is broadcast annually on over 300 affiliated public radio stations nationwide. The season continues in 2016 with Mission Road; Chanticleer's ongoing exploration of the glorious music of the mission period includes music from the Mexican and Bolivian missions. Washing of the Water, a program of spiritually inspired music ranging from Palestrina to Leonard Cohen and Paul Simon, will conclude the season in June. With the help of individual contributions, government, foundation and corporate support, Chanticleer’s education programs engage over 5,000 young people annually. The Louis A. Botto (LAB) Choir—an after-school honors program for high school and college students—is now in its sixth year, adding to the ongoing program of in-school clinics and workshops; Youth Choral Festivals™ in the Bay Area and around the country; Skills/LAB–an intensive summer workshop for 100 high school students; master classes for university students nationwide; and the Chanticleer in Sonoma summer workshop for adult choral singers in June 2016. The Singing Life—a documentary about Chanticleer’s work with young people—was released in 2008. Chanticleer’s education program was recognized with the 2010 Chorus America Education Outreach Award. Since Chanticleer began releasing recordings in 1981, the group has sold well over a million albums and won two GRAMMY® awards. Chanticleer’s recordings are distributed by Chanticleer Records, Naxos, ArkivMusic, Amazon, and iTunes among others, and are available on Chanticleer’s website: www.chanticleer.org. Chanticleer will release a live recording of Over the Moon on its Chanticleer Live in Concert (CLIC) series. In 2014 Chorus America conferred the inaugural Brazeal Wayne Dennard Award on Chanticleer’s Music Director Emeritus Joseph H. Jennings to acknowledge his contribution to the African-American choral tradition during his 25-year (1983-2009) tenure as a singer and music director with Chanticleer. The hundred plus arrangements of African-American gospel, spirituals and jazz made

by Jennings for Chanticleer have been given thousands of performances worldwide—live and on broadcast—and have been recorded by Chanticleer for Warner Classics and Chanticleer Records. Chanticleer’s long-standing commitment to commissioning and performing new works was honored in 2008 by the inaugural Dale Warland/Chorus America Commissioning Award and the ASCAP/Chorus America Award for Adventurous Programming. Among the over eighty composers commissioned in Chanticleer’s history are Mark Adamo, Mason Bates, Régis Campo, Chen Yi, David Conte, Shawn Crouch, Douglas J. Cuomo, Brent Michael Davids, Anthony Davis, Gabriela Lena Frank, Guido López-Gavilán, Stacy Garrop, William Hawley, Jake Heggie, Jackson Hill, Kamran Ince, Jeeyoung Kim, Tania León, Jaakko Mäntyjärvi, Michael McGlynn, Peter Michaelides, John Musto, Tarik O’Regan, Roxanna Panufnik, Stephen Paulus, Shulamit Ran, Bernard Rands, Steven Sametz, Carlos Sanchez-Guttierez, Jan Sandström, Paul Schoenfield, Steven Stucky, John Tavener, Augusta Read Thomas and Janike Vandervelde. Named for the “clear-singing” rooster in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Chanticleer was founded in 1978 by tenor Louis A. Botto, who sang in the Ensemble until 1989 and served as Artistic Director until his death in 1997. Chanticleer was named Ensemble of the Year by Musical America in 2008, and inducted in the American Classical Music Hall of Fame the same year. William Fred Scott begins his tenure as Chanticleer's fifth Music Director in 2015. William Fred Scott was named Music Director in 2014. A native of Georgia, Scott is the former Assistant Conductor to Robert Shaw at the Atlanta Symphony, former Artistic Director of the Atlanta Opera, an organist and choir director. The St. Paul’s Chamber Orchestra will present the well-known “Water Music Suite” by G. F. Handel on March 6th. Dr. Paul Klemme will conduct. The score is a collection of orchestra movements, often published as three suites, composed in 1717. King George I requested the composition to be performed as a part of an excursion down the river Thames. The music is scored for string, trumpets, oboes, horns and flute. The beautiful Yamaha concert grand piano at St. Paul’s will be heard in concert on April 3rd. Alexandre Dossin, Professor of Piano at the University of Oregon, Dossin come to St. Paul’s to play a concert of piano music by W. A. Mozart, Franz Liszt and Frederic Chopin. Born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, where he lived until he was 19, Alexandre spent nine years studying in Moscow, Russia, before establishing residency in the United States. Currently a tenured professor at the University of Oregon School of Music, Alexandre Dossin is a graduate from the University of TexasAustin and the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Russia. He studied with Hubertus Hofmann and Dirce Knijnik at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, with Boris Romanov (Merzliakovsky Pre-Conservatory School in Moscow) and was assistant of Sergei Dorensky at the Tchaikovsky

Conservatory (Moscow, Russia) and Willliam Race and Gregory Allen at University of Texas at Austin (USA). A prizewinner in several international piano competitions, Dossin received the First Prize and the Special Prize at the 2003 Martha Argerich International Piano Competition in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Other international awards include the Silver Medal and second Honorable Mention in the Maria Callas Grand Prix, and Third Prize and Special Prize in the Mozart International Piano Competition, in addition to several prizes in Brazil. He performed numerous live recitals for public radio in Texas, Wisconsin, Washington and Illinois, including returning engagements at the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series. Dossin has performed in over twenty countries, including international festivals in Japan, Canada, United States, Brazil and Argentina, in some occasions sharing the stage with Martha Argerich He has CDs released by Musicians Showcase Recording (Alexandre Dossin, 2002), Blue Griffin (A Touch of Brazil, 2005), and Naxos (Verdi-Liszt Paraphrases, 2007, Kabalevsky Complete Sonatas, 2009, Kabalevsky Complete Preludes, 2009, Russian Transcriptions, 2012, Piano Music of Leonard Bernstein, 2015) praised in reviews by Diapason, The Financial Times, Fanfare Magazine, American Record Guide, Clavier and other international publications. Conductors with whom he has performed include Charles Dutoit, Isaac Karabtchevsky, Keith Clark and Michael Gielen, with orchestras including the Porto Alegre Symphony Orchestra, Buenos Aires Philharmonic, Brazilian National Symphony, Mozarteum University Symphony, Petrobrás Symphony and Tchaikovsky Conservatory Symphony Orchestras. Alexandre Dossin was featured in the main interview and on the cover of Clavier magazine (May, 2008) and is an editor and recording artist for Schirmer Performance Editions series (Tchaikovsky’s The Seasons in 2009, Tchaikovsky’s Album for the Young and Prokofiev’s Visions Fugitives in 2010, Liszt Consolations and Liebesträume, 2011, Rachmaninoff Preludes op. 3/2 and op. 23, 2012, Preludes op. 32, 2013). A recipient of the 2015-2016 University of Oregon Fund for Faculty Excellence, Dossin is the Vice-President of the American Liszt Society and the President of the Oregon Chapter of the American Liszt Society. He lives in Eugene with his wife Maria and children Sophia and Victor. The Extraordinary Young Musicians at St. Paul’s concert will feature Brooke Brooks, Bridget Goodwin and Leslie Katter in a concert of sacred music for three sopranos. The concert on May 1st will encompass music for a trio of singers and works for solo voice. All three singers grew up in Salem and were a part of the youth choir at St. Paul’s during their middle and high school years.

Brooke Brooks received her Bachelor and Master of Music Degree’s from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Most recently, she has performed the role of The Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors and Mrs. Sem in Noah’s

Flood, at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. Brooke has also performed as a vocalist with Carnival Cruise Lines in the Bahamas and the Caribbean. She has been in numerous Opera and Musical Theatre productions, some of which include; The Pirates of Penzance (Mabel), Company (Joanne), Little Women (Meg), The Magic Flute (Papagena), The Mikado (Yum-Yum), Fiddler on the Roof (Chava) and San Francisco’s off-Broadway production of Tony and Tina’s Wedding (DeeDee). Brooke currently teaches private voice lessons at The Reed Opera House in downtown Salem and sings with the Trinity Choir at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. Bridget Goodwin received a B.A. in Music and Religion from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota and sang for three years in the renowned St. Olaf Choir. She is still an active choral performer, singing in several professional ensembles including Apollo’s Voice, and the internationally recognized Ensemble Lipzodes, which brings to life the rarely performed music of 16th century Guatemala. Bridget is currently pursuing a Masters of Music in Voice at the Indiana Universtiy Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana. She has appeared in productions of Puccini’s La Bohème and Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. Bridget is also active as a concert performer, having appeared as the soprano soloist for Schubert’s Mass in G, Handel’s Messiah, and as a frequent soloist with the professional choir on campus. She is also very active in ROK: Reimagining Opera for Kids, a not-for-profit organization connected to Indiana University that seeks to provide musical outreach and education by performing engaging operas for children. Leslie Katter recently made her professional debut, singing the role of Queen of the Night in Mozart's The Magic Flute with Waffle Opera. She sang the role of Gretel with Portland Summer Opera Workshop in July of 2013. Leslie returned from a three-month independent language and cultural study in Tuscany, Italy in 2011. Ms. Katter graduated with a Master's of Music in Voice Performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in May of 2010. She received a B.M. in Vocal Performance from Willamette University in May of 2008. She currently studies with Jane Randolph in San Francisco, CA. Leslie has also recently performed scenes as Lucia from Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, and Konstanze from Mozart's Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail. She also performed the role of Belisa in Conrad Susa's The Love of Don Perlimplin in March of 2010. Leslie received the Encouragement Award in Seattle at the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in October of 2010, and sang the role of Venus (Orpheus in the Underworld by Jacques Offenbach) with SFCM in the spring of 2010.

 Miss Katter attended the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria for six weeks in their Opera Studio during the summer of 2007, and performed with the Bay Area Summer Opera Theater Institute during the summer of 2008. She studied privately with Allison Swensen-Mitchell for six years at Willamette and has performed in master classes for artists such as John Churchwell, Sheri Greenawald, Patricia Wise, Patricia Craig, Edlyn de Oliveira, Pilar Jurado, Jenny Cook, Neil Wilson, and Ruth Dobson.

The St. Paul’s Vocal Jazz Quintet returns to perform a concert of sacred jazz and gospel music on June 5th. Megan Miller, Leah Brakebill, David Nelson, Nicholas Ertsgaard and Barry Nelson make up the quintet, which will be accompanied by pianist, Mark Simon; bassist, Kevin Deitz; and drummer, Mike Snyder.