-4-terberge.frF011e Arts School of Music FACULTY ARTIST RECITAL SERIES A RECITAL OF ART SONGS ANNE ELGAR KOPTA SOPRANO ANDREW CAMPBELL PIANO KATZIN CONCERT HALL Sunday, February 6, 2005 • 2:30 p.m. ARIZONA STATE AIMI UNIVERSITY PROGRAM Anne Elgar Kopta, soprano and Associate Professor of Music in Voice, comes to the Arizona State University School of Music with a distinguished record of performing and teaching that spans the world of Broadway and opera, and that of teaching at major universities and at summer music schools both here and abroad. As a principal artist singing under the stage name of Anne Elgar, she regularly appeared in leading roles with the New York City Opera and the opera companies of San Francisco, San Diego, Houston, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Wichita. Her credits include Violetta in La Traviata, Gilda in Rigoletto, Mimi in La Boheme, Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier, Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro, Blonde in The Abduction front the Seraglio, Pamina in The Magic Flute, Rosina in Barber of Seville, Baby Doe in The Ballad of Baby Doe, Abigail in The Crucible, and Sister Blanche in Dialogues of the Carmelites, among many others. She created the role of Margaret in the world premier of Lizzie Borden by Jack Beeson, a work commissioned by the New York City Opera. The original cast album released on Desto Records has recently been reissued on CDs by Composers Recordings, Inc./CRI. Miss Anne Elgar has also recorded opera by Rossini and Meyerbeer on the Vanguard (reissued on CDs) and the HRE labels. As a soloist, she appeared frequently with orchestras such as the Boston Symphony conducted by Eric Leinsdorf, with whom she sang Mahler's Symphony No. 4 and the world premier of Roger Sessions' Psalm 140 in the orchestral setting commissioned by Maestro Leinsdorf. Other major orchestras that engaged her include the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Pittsburgh Symphony and the San Antonio Symphony. Miss Kopta's international appearances include performing with the Montreal Symphony, the Orchestra of Mexico City, the National Theater of Croatia and the Orchestra of The Hague, Holland. Under the sponsorship of Columbia Artists' Community Concerts Series, she was a popular recitalist. There were also many guest appearances at Tanglewood, Chautauqua, Caramoor, Newport, Saratoga and other summer music festivals. At the beginning of her career, she won the Metropolitan Opera Guild Scholarship and sang with the Metropolitan Opera Studio in New York and on national tours. Prior to her operatic career, she was in the original Broadway cast of The Sound of Music. In the academic setting, Professor Kopta, a native of Kansas, brings her knowledge of vocal technique and her performing experience to her studio teaching. Amor mi fa cantare Come l'allodoletta No, non me guardate Madonna Renzuola Stefano Donaudy (1879-1925) Gruss Im Kahne Lauf der Welt Ein Traum Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) Pause La courte paille Le sommeil Quelle aventure! La reine de coeur Ba, Be, Bi, Bo, Bu Les anges musiciens Le carafon Lune d'Avril A Letter From Sullivan Ballot' Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) music by John Kander (b. 1927) For more than 15 years, she has taught at major universities during the academic year and devoted the other months to summer music schools in Austria, Italy, Israel, Pennsylvania and North Carolina. She is a regular faculty member of the American Institute of Musical Studies which is celebrating its 30th year in Graz, Austria. ************** Professor Kopta's master classes at Mexico's National Conservatory of Music have become an annual event, and she is preparing similar programs of master class teaching combined with recital performances both here and abroad. In respect for the performers and those audience members around you, please turn all beepers, cell phones, watches to their silent mode. Thank you. Andrew Campbell is Assistant Professor of Piano Accompanying and Chamber Music. During the summer season, Dr. Campbell is the Director of the Collaborative Piano Program at the Brevard Music Center and Principal Pianist for the BMC Festival Orchestra. Previous positions include music staff and rehearsal pianist for the Washington (D.C.) Opera, Principal Pianist for the San Diego Opera, and Music Director and Pianist for the San Diego Opera Ensemble. He has served as rehearsal pianist for such distinguished conductors as Andre Previn and Placido Domingo, and has worked closely with the composer Carlisle Floyd on several productions of his operas. Dr. Campbell graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Pi Kappa Lambda in History and Piano from Oberlin College and Conservatory and earned his M.M. in Piano Performance from Indiana University. He received the Doctorate in Piano Chamber Music and Accompanying from the University of Michigan, where he studied with the renowned accompanist Martin Katz. While at Michigan he was a Graduate Assistant in Accompanying and Opera Coach/Continuo performer for the U. of M. Opera Theater. Dr. Campbell spent several summers at the Aspen Music Festival as a fellowship pianist for the Vocal Concert Studies program and staff accompanist for the violin studio of Paul Kantor. He was a national prizewinner in the MTNA Wurlitzer Collegiate Artists competition. Chamber music performances have taken him to Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, where The Strad and Strings magazines both hailed his performance as "excellent." In 1998, Dr. Campbell served as pianist for both the International Double Reed Society Conference and the National Flute Association Convention, performing with some of the finest woodwind musicians in the world. He has performed on numerous recital series throughout the United States as a member of the McLin/Campbell Duo with violinist Katie McLin and Trio del Sol with McLin and clarinetist Robert Spring. Performance Events Staff Manager Paul W. Estes Performance Events Staff Mark Adamcin, Niel Aigner, Marisin Alzamora, Iftekhar Anwar, Laura Bryce, Scan Campbell, Yevgeniy Chainikov, Chase Cornet, Steven Heitlinger, Rebecca Jolly, Elany Mejia, Samuel Moore, Jenwei Yu K. HERBERGER COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS THE KATHERINE School of Music PO Box 870405, Tempe, AZ 85287-0405 http://music.asu.edu Events Information: 480-965-TUNE (8863)