Oberlin College and Conservatory

ARS Nicholas Phan, tenor and Myra Huang, piano

Wednesday, February 3, 2016 at 8:00pm to 10:00pm

Finney Chapel
90 North Professor Street, Oberlin, OH 44074

Order tickets by calling Oberlin’s Central Ticket Service at 1-800-371-0178 or online at www.oberlin.edu/arseries.

Tickets for Nicholas Phan with Myra Huang are $30 ($25 for seniors and Oberlin College employees, and $10 for all students). Tickets are available via Oberlin’s Central Ticket Service (67 N. Main St.) or by calling 800-371-0178.

All tickets for the John Relyea and Warren Jones performance will be honored at the door.

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Program for Nicholas Phan, tenor and Myra Huang, piano:

ROBERT SCHUMANN: Dichterliebe, Op. 48 

BENJAMIN BRITTEN: Winter Words, Op. 52 (lyrics and ballads by Thomas Hardy)

I. At day-close in November

II. Midnight on the Great Western

III. Wagtail and baby

IV. The little old table 

V. The choirmaster's burial

VI. Proud songsters

VII. At the railway station, upway

VIII. Before life and after 

NED ROREM: Selected Songs

"O Do Not Love Too Long"
"As Adam Early in the Morning"  
"That Shadow, my Likeness"
"Are you the new person?"
"Youth, Day, Old Age, and Night"

JAKE HEGGIE: Friendly Persuasions (Songs in Homage to Poulenc)

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Appearing regularly in the world’s premiere concert halls, music festivals, and opera houses, American tenor Nicholas Phan continues to distinguish himself as one of the most compelling tenors performing today.

In the 2015-2016 season, Mr. Phan performs the role of Inverno in the American premiere of Alessandro Scarlatti’sLa gloria di primavera as part of a tour with Philharmonia Baroque and makes his role debut as Tamino in Mozart’sMagic Flute in a set of semi-staged performances with Boston Baroque.  In what are becoming signature roles for him, he will perform both the tenor arias and Evangelist on a tour of Bach’s St. John Passion with Apollo’s Fire and the Evangelist in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with John Nelson and the Strasbourg Philharmonic.  As Artistic Director of Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago, he will both curate and perform in the organization’s fourth annual Collaborative Works Festival, a vocal chamber music festival held in venues throughout Chicago.  Other highlights this season include solo recitals at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC and the Green Music Center in Sonoma; returns to the Dallas and Kansas City Symphonies; a return to Da Camera of Houston and his debut with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

Mr. Phan has appeared with many of the leading orchestras in the North America and Europe, including the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, National Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Les Violons du Roy, BBC Symphony, English Chamber Orchestra, and the Lucerne Symphony. He has also toured extensively throughout the major concert halls of Europe with Il Complesso Barocco, and appeared with the Oregon Bach, Ravinia, Marlboro, Edinburgh, Rheingau, Saint-Denis, and Tanglewood festivals, as well as the BBC Proms.  Among the conductors he has worked with are Harry Bicket, Pierre Boulez, James Conlon, Alan Curtis, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Jane Glover, Manfred Honeck, Bernard Labadie, Louis Langrée, Nicholas McGegan, Zubin Mehta, John Nelson, Helmuth Rilling, David Robertson, Masaaki Suzuki, Michael Tilson Thomas and Franz Welser-Möst. 

An avid proponent of vocal chamber music, he has collaborated with many chamber musicians, including pianists Mitsuko Uchida, Richard Goode, Jeremy Denk, and Alessio Bax; violinist James Ehnes; guitarist Eliot Fisk; and horn players Jennifer Montone and Gail Williams. In recital, he has been presented by Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Atlanta’s Spivey Hall, Boston’s Celebrity Series, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and the University of Chicago. He is also a founder and the Artistic Director of Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago, an organization devoted to promoting the art song and vocal chamber music repertoire.

Also considered one of the rising young stars of the opera world, Mr. Phan recently appeared as the title role inCandide at the Tanglewood Music Festival, with the Portland Opera as Fenton in Falstaff, the Atlanta Opera as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, and the Seattle Opera as Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia. Other opera performances have included his debuts at the Glyndebourne Opera and the Maggio Musicale in Florence, as well as appearances with Los Angeles Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Chicago Opera Theater, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, and Frankfurt Opera. His growing repertoire includes the title roles in Acis and Galatea and Candide,Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore, Fenton in Falstaff, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, and Lurcanio in Ariodante. 

Mr. Phan’s most recent solo album, A Painted Tale will be released on Avie Records in February of 2015.  His previous solo album, Still Falls the Rain (Avie), was named one of the best classical recordings of 2012 by The New York Times. His growing discography also includes the Grammy-nominated recording of Stravinsky’s Pulcinella with Pierre Boulez and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO Resound), his debut solo album, Winter Words (Avie), the opera L’Olimpiade with the Venice Baroque Orchestra (Naïve), and the world premiere recording of Elliott Carter’s orchestral song cycle, A Sunbeam’s Architecture (NMC).

A graduate of the University of Michigan, Mr. Phan is the 2012 recipient of the Paul C Boylan Distinguished Alumni Award.  He also studied at the Manhattan School of Music and the Aspen Music Festival and School, and is an alumnus of the Houston Grand Opera Studio. He was the recipient of a 2006 Sullivan Foundation Award and 2004 Richard F. Gold Career Grant from the Shoshana Foundation.

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Acclaimed by Opera News as being ‘among the top accompanists of her generation,’ and ‘a coloristic tour de force,’ pianist Myra Huang regularly performs in recitals and chamber music concerts around the world. Among the notable venues where she has performed are Carnegie Hall, the Supreme Court, the Metropolitan Museum, Teatro alla Scala, and the Metropolitan Opera House.

Ms. Huang has served on the music staffs of the Washington National Opera and New York City Opera. Among the conductors she has worked with are James Conlon, Riccardo Frizza, Marco Armiliato, Richard Hickox, Christopher Hogwood, Daniel Oren, Robert Spano, Patrick Summers, and Xian Zhang. From 2006 until 2008, she was a member of the music staff at the Palau de les Arts in Valencia, Spain, where she worked closely with the company’s artistic director, Lorin Maazel and director Zubin Mehta. She works regularly with Plácido Domingo for his competition Operalia, held at opera houses around the world such as Teatro alla Scala, Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the Opera House of the National Grand Theatre in Beijing, and Teatro Real in Madrid.

Of her recent discography, Winter Words with tenor Nicholas Phan was listed as as among the top classical recordings of 2011 in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Bay Area Reporter, Time Out magazine, and the New Yorker magazine.

Ms. Huang has served as Head of Music at New York City Opera since the 2012–13 season.

Event Type

Signature Programs, Artist Recital Series, Master Class

Departments

Academic, Vocal Studies, Administrative, Conservatory of Music

Cost

$30 ($25 for seniors and Oberlin College employees, and $10 for all students). Tickets are available via Oberlin’s Central Ticket Service (67 N. Main St.) or by calling 800-371-0178.

Contact E-mail Address

conpro@oberlin.edu

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