ANDREAS REIBENSPIES
BARITONE
KARLSRUHE GERMANY

ECKART SELLHEIM
PIANO AND FORTEPIANO

GUEST ARTIST CONCERT SERIES
KATZIN CONCERT HALL
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4. 2007 • 7:30 PM

MU S IC
-AiFferberger College
of the Arts
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY

The German baritone Andreas Reibenspies studied voice at the University of
Music in Karlsruhe, Germany. His most significant teachers were the American
mezzo-soprano Lucretia West, the dramatic baritone Gunter Reich, Elisabeth
Schwarzkopf, stage director Renate Ackermann and pianist Norman Shetler.
His opera debut was in 1991 as Mozart's Figaro at the State Opera Theater in
Regensburg, Germany. Since then he has performed at many opera houses
throughout Europe, such as Basel, Frankfurt, Karlsruhe, Munich and Passau.
Andreas Reibenspies has been invited to numerous festivals and concerts in
France, Austria, Switzerland, Russia (Tchaikovsky Conservatory), Hungary,
Poland, Jordan, Israel (Kfar Blum Chamber Music Festival), Brazil, USA, Latvia
(National Opera Riga), Mexico (CulturAlc Mexico-City, Cervantino-Festival
Guanajuato). Worldwide, he has sung the major roles in the operas "Jakob Lenz"
and "The conquest of Mexico" by Wolfgang Rihm.
Andreas Reibenspies has dedicated himself especially to contemporary music
and song. Besides these interests he is also very well known as an oratorio singer.
Other active fields of musical interests are as a collaborative pianist and as choral
and instrumental conductor. Presently he is the artistic director of the
prizewinning young vocal ensemble MILAGRO in Karlsruhe, Germany.
From 1989 to 2003 he was a member of the voice faculty at the University of
Music in Karlsruhe. Andreas Reibenspies was appointed full Professor of Voice in
October of 2002 at the University of Music in Trossingen, Germany.
Eckart Sellheim received has musical training in Germany and Switzerland;
Adolf Drescher and Jacob Gimpel were among his teachers. He was appointed to
the faculties of the two major conservatories in Cologne, Germany and continued
his academic career as Associate Professor of Piano and Chamber Music at the
University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Since 1989 he has been a Professor and
Director of Collaborative Piano (former piano accompanying) at ASU. He is also
a frequent guest lecturer of fortepiano and performance practice at various music
academies in Germany, most notably at the Musikhochschule in Trossingen, and
taught numerous master classes and workshops in the U.S. and in several
European countries.
Mr. Sellheim maintains an active performance schedule, having made concert
tours in the U.S., Central America, the Caribbean, Africa, and throughout Europe,
including Russia. He has rediscovered and performed, in concert and on CD, a
host of unknown piano concertos by classical and romantic composers including
Field, Boccherini, and others and he has played the world premiere of Debussy's
early piano trio. His longtime collaboration with his late brother, cellist FriedrichJurgen Sellheim, is manifested in an award-winning set of recordings on the
CBS/Sony label. He appears regularly on radio programs in the U.S. and abroad
and has made more than 20 recordings on piano and fortepiano as a soloist and
collaborative pianist.

Program
Erlkiinig
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Three songs on texts by Ludwig Uhland
from Op. 3

Anselm Hiittenbrenner
(1794-1868)
Norbert Burgmiiller
(1810-1836)

Einkehr
In der Ferne
Winterreise

Im Friihling (Ernst Schulze), D 882
Der Zwerg (Matthaus von Collin), D 771
Nachtstiick (Johann Mayrhofer), D 672
Auf der Bruck (Ernst Schulze), D 853

Franz Schubert
(1797-1828)

Four songs
on texts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Franz Schubert
(1797 - 1828)

Schafer's Klagelied, D 121
Ganymed, D 544
Wandrers Nachtlied, D 224
Der Musensohn, D 764
**There will be a 10-minute intermission**

Der arme Peter I-III
(Heinrich Heine), Op. 53, 3
Belsazar (Heinrich Heine), Op. 57
Vier Lieder, Op. 2 (1909-10)
Schlafen, schlafen (Friedrich Hebbel)
Schlafend tragt man mich (Alfred Mombert)
Nun ich der Riesen starksten (Mombert)
Warm die Lithe (Mombert)

Four songs from Des Knaben W underhorn
Rheinlegendchen
Urlicht
Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt
Der Tamboursgesell
Lob des hohen Verstandes

Robert Schumann

(1810-1856)

Alban Berg
(1885-1935)

Gustav Mahler
(1860-1911)

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Paul W. Estcs
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