VOICES OF SPRING
BROADWAY COMES TO
THE GARDEN
GUEST ARTIST
SARAH RICE, SOPRANO
MUSICAL DIRECTOR,
ACCOMPANIST
DR. WILLIAM REBER
WITH:
ROBERT BAREFIELD, BARITONE
DAVID BRITTON, TENOR
KENNY CHAN, GUITAR
LISA DEKTOR, FLUTE
KAITLYNN KLEINMAN, SOPRANO
PRODUCTION COORDINATOR:
JOANN YEOMAN TONGRET
GUEST ARTIST CONCERT SERIES
KATZIN CONCERT HALL
SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2007 • 7:30 PM

MUSIC
-4-ferberger College
of Fine Arts

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY

Tenor David Britton lived and worked in New York City for two decades as a
professional singer and sang with most of the major symphony orchestras and
opera companies in the United States. He received his music education at the
University of North Texas, the Manhattan School of Music and the Julliard
School. A professor in the School of Music, Britton teaches voice.

Program will be announced from stage
**There will be a 15-minute intermission**
***************

Kenny Chan, originally from Hong Kong, came to ASU in 2004. He began
playing the guitar at the age of 13. At age 21, he is now a junior studying under
Frank Koonce for his Bachelor of Music Degree in Guitar Performance. This
year, he has been chosen as a finalist in the 2007 National American String
Teachers Association Solo Competition.
Lisa Dektor is a graduate of Duquesne University and Arizona State University.
She was a founding member of the Con Spirito Woodwind Quintet in Pittsburgh
and was a winner of the Concerto Competition at ASU in 2000. Ms. Dektor is a
parent of five children and is currently an elementary school band director in the
Gilbert Public Schools.
Kaitlynn Kleinman is a junior in the Lyric Opera Theatre program at ASU. She
was last seen in Phoenix Theatre's production of Thoroughly Modern Millie as
Miss Dorothy Brown. She is looking forward to appearing in LOT's production
of Candide later this year after performing the role of Ado Annie for LOT in
Oklahoma! last season.

Special thanks to:
Frank Koonce
Toby Yatso
Dr. Kimberly Marshall
Catherine Bickell
And
Music Building Staff

Out of respect for the performers and those audience members around you, please
turn all beepers, cell phones and watches to their silent mode. Thank you.

Sarah Rice arrived in New York City with $100, two cats and a piano. Shortly
after, she originated the role of Marianne in a musical adaptation of The Miser
called Hang On To Your Ribbons, off-off Broadway. She was next cast as The
Girl in the long-running original off-Broadway production of The Fantasticks.
She soon appeared as Cunegonde in Candide at the Guthrie, Anne in A Little
Night Music, Zan in Regina and Liesl in The Sound of Music.
Then Stephen Sondheim and Harold Prince chose her to become part of musical
theatre history. She was cast as the original Johanna in Sweeney Todd, The
Demon Barber of Fleet Street on Broadway for which she won a Theatre World
Award and recorded the original cast album for RCA. This recording won a
Grammy for best show album and Sweeney swept the Tony awards including best
production. Leading soprano roles since then include Marie in Daughter of the
Regiment, Gilda in Rigoletto, Mabel in Pirates of Penzance and Kathie in The
Student Prince. Ms. Rice currently resides in NYC with her husband, John Hiller,
five cats and the piano.
William Reber, Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of ASU's Lyric Opera
Theatre, is Professor of Music at Arizona State University. He has been Music
Director/Conductor for more than 100 productions of opera and musical theatre
works and has also guest conducted orchestral concerts in the United State and
Europe. Before joining ASU's School of Music, he was on the faculty of the
University of Texas at Austin where he was founding conductor of the Chamber
Orchestra, conductor of the UT Opera Theatre and Associate conductor of the
symphony.
Baritone Robert Barefield is a frequent performer in opera, oratorio, and recital.
He has performed with organizations throughout the United States and abroad,
including the New Orleans Opera, the Arizona Opera, the Central City Opera, the
Ohio Light Opera, Operafestival di Roma and the Mississippi Symphony. Roles
include Figaro in The Barber of Seville, Germont in La Traviata, Sid in Albert
Herring and John Proctor in Robert Ward's The Crucible. He is a member of the
voice faculty at ASU.

Lyric Opera Theater
Presents:
Candide
April 20-22, 25, 28, 29
For information call
(480) 365-6447

Performance Events Staff Manager
Paul W. Estes
Senior Event Mangers
Laura Boone, Yevgeniy Chainikov, Brady Cullum
Eric Damashek, Anthony Garcia, Ingrid Israel
Xian Meng, Kevan Nymeyer, Pedro Perez, Chase Wiles
Apprentice Event Managers
Edwin Brown

Events Information Call 480-965-TUNE (480-965-8863)

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