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Arizona State University

School of Music

GUEST ARTIST CONCBRT SERIES

U OF A PIATS ASU

CONCERT EXCHANGE
Rosnnr SweNsoN,

TENOR

Pnula FaN, pIANo
KnrrnyN CownRrcK, MEZZj
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BBBBE, HORN

KATZIN CONCERT HALL
Monday, November l, 1999. 7:30 p.m.

PROGRAM

"Chiio mi scordi di teiinon

temer,

W.A. Mozart

amato benett

Idamantels Act tr

aria

(Idomeneo)

Freundliche Vision
Ich trage meine Minne
Nacht
Morgen
Cecilie

Richard Strauss

**There will be a I}-minute intermission**

Serenade for Tenor, Horn

Benjamin Britten

and Strings

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ASU Plays U of A
ASU faculty piano artists, Caio Pagano and Robert Hamilton will
perform at Frowder Hall on the U of A campus on
March 3 at 8:00 pm.

Call

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for inform ation.

Performance Events Staff Manager
Paul W. Estes
Assistant Performance Events Staff Manager
Gary Quamme
Performance Events Staff
Steve Aubuchon, Dom Baker

Chris Contreras, Jennifer Cook
Elizabeth Maben, Jessica Wood

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AnrzoNa Srnrr UNwrnstrY

College of Fine Arts
Schrlol ol Music

Main Campus, P.O. Box 870405, Tempe, AZ 85287-0405

Rec_ently praised by the New York Times in 1999 as giving a
performance...thdt wa! gripping and ultimately movini...ii a
production of Argento's Postcard form Morocco, Robert Swensen,
tenor, continues to combine his singing engagements at an international
level with a full academic schedule. He received his undergraduate
education (B.M.) at the University of Arizona, a Professional Studies
Diploma at the Juilliard School and his graduate education at the
University of Southern California (M.M.). He was also mentored and

closely associated with tenors Nicolai Gedda and Luciano Pavarotti.
A noted Mozart and bel-canto specialist, Mr. Swensen has appeared as
guest artis! with m_ajor opera companies including those of -Stuttgart,
Teatro La Fenice - Venice, Bayreuth, the Bavarian State Opera-Munich,
the Berlin State Opera, the Opera Comique - Paris, the Grande Theafie Geneva and the Vienna State Opera. His recent engagements include
appearances as Ferrando in Cosi fan Tuue at Opera Pacific in Southern
California, the same role in a critically acclaimed production of Cosi
fan T[tte at the Santa Fe Opera's 1997 Summer Season, Nemorino in

Madison Opera's 1997 production of L'Elisir D'amore, Luzio in
Wagner's Das Liebesverbot with the Wexford Opera Festival in Ireland,
the title roles in Mozart's Mitridate at the Teatro Regio in Turin,
Mo,zqt's Il Sogryo di Scipione with the Bavarian State Opera - Munich
and Mozart's ldomeneo at the Flemish Opera in Antwerp. He has also
appeared in concert at Lincoln Center's Mosfly Mozart Festival,
Hermann Prey's Schubertiade in New York and in Vienna, with the
Bavarian State Radio Orchestra, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, The
Cologne Symphony Orchestra, the Dresden Symphony Orchestra, the
Leipzig Symphony Orchestra and made his Carnegie Hall debut in the
protagonist role of George Brown in Boildieu's La Dame Blanche with
the Opera Orchestra of New York.
$ very successful recording artist his extensive dicography includes
Saint-Saens's Samson et Dalilah and Stravinskt's Obdipuiy Rer for
Phillips, and Oedipus Rex for Great Performances on PBS, Schumann's
Das Paradies und die Peri for Deutsche Grammophon, the title role in
Eaydn's Orfeo and the role of Duca D'Ottavio in Gazzarnga's Don
Giovanni for L'orfeo records, St. Phar in Adam's Le postillon de
Longemeau and Graf Hugo in Spohr's Faust for Capriccio records,
OrffsTrionfo d'Afrodite and Mendelssohn's Elijah for EMI records, the
Opera Singer in Werner Eck's Yolimba and the Bach St. John passion
for BMG/RCA and the tenor arias for the Bach Christmns Oratorio fot
Teldec . A passionate champion of song literature, Mr. Swensen has
recorded an album of songs by Rachmaninoff, Sibelius, Grieg and
AWgn and will soon be releasing a CD of Lieder by Schumann (Rerner
Lieder and the Dichterliebe) partnered by pianist Paula Fan.
Mr. Swensen is also an active adjudicator both locally and nationally
having judged the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and
the Concert Artisb Guild International Compedtion held in New York
City.
Formerly Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin - Madison
School of Music, Mr. Swensen recently accepted the Artist / Associate

Professor of Voice position at his undergraduate Alma Mater, the
University of Arizona School of Music and Dance.

Paula Fan, professor of piano at the University of Arizona School of
Music, has performed as soloist and chambr musician on flve
continents. She made her London debut in 1977 and her New York
debut in 1978. In 1980, she joined members of Beijing's Central
Philharmonic Orchestra for the first concert of Western chamber music
since the Cultural Revolution. In 1981, as the first ever accompanistcoach invited by the Chinese Minisfry of Culture, she organized and
accompanied the first Liederabend to be presented in many years. Dr.
Fan has recorded fifteen albums and has broadcast for the BBC,
National Rrblic Radio, Radio Television ChinA and other international
stations. She has coached and accompanied singers from the world's
leading opera houses, and, as a qpecialist in wind chamber music, she
has performed with many of today's leading clarinetists at numerous
international festivals. Fan chairs the Piano Area at the University of
Arizona and is pianist with the T\rcson Symphony Orchestra.
Christina Swanson, violin, is a doctoral fellow at the University of
Arizona. For two academic years (1997-99), she taught violin, viola
and chamber music at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. She
currently holds a position with the Arizona Opera Orchstra, and in the
spring of 1998 she was pnncipal violist of the Arizona Opera's
production of Wagner's Ring Cycle. Ms. Swanson has performed in
numerous orchestras, in both principal and section roles, in California,
New York, Arizona and Michigan, including the Grand Rapids
Symphony and the Michigan Opera Theatre Orchestra in Detroit. In
addition, Ms. Swanson has held summer positions with festivals in
Aspen, Flagstaff and Spoleto, Italy. An avid chamber musician, Ms.
Swanson has had extensive string quartet experience, including two
years of study with the Cleveland Quartet. Ms. Swanson holds viola
performance degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the
University of Michigan, as well as a masters degree in chamber music
from the University of Michigan. Her major teachers include Louis
Kievman, George Taylor and Yifiak Schotten.
Russell Beebe, horn, is the Horn Studio Teaching Assistant at Arizona
State University and is in his second year of graduate study. He
received a BM in performance from Northwestern University, where he

studied with Dale Clevenger, Bany Benjamin, Norman Schweikert,
Roland Pandolfi and Gail Williams. While in Chicago he was an
associate member of the Civic Orchestra. In high school he performed
with the Greater Boston Youth Symphony for five years and studied
with Jonathan Menkis. For the past two summers Russell has enjoyed
playing with the National Orchestral Institute and has just been
appointed to play fourth horn for two operas with the Arizona Opera
this year. He is also on the sublist for the New World Symphony
Orchestra in Miami, Florida.