PATRICIA BRADY
PIANO
DOROTHY
MADDISON
SOPRANO

GUEST ARTIST CONCERT SERIES
KATZIN CONCERT HALL
THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2007 • 7:30 PM

MUSIC
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Patricia Brady is currently Professor of Piano in the School of Music at James
Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. A graduate of Indiana University,
Dr. Brady's major teachers have included James Tocco, Sidney Foster, and
Daniel Fletcher. Further study and master classes include coaching with George
Bolet, Abbey Simon, and Luis de Moura Castro. In addition to teaching piano
and piano pedagogy at JMU, Dr. Brady has performed as soloist and
collaborative artist in the United States and abroad. Featured in Dr. Brady's solo
recital repertoire are the Rachmaninoff Etudes-Tableaux (the topic of a doctoral
dissertation and subsequent lecture-recitals), French music of the late ninteenth
and early 20th centuries and works of contemporary women composers. In
recent years, a comprehensive study of the piano works of the French composer
Albert Roussel resulted in performances of Roussel's music (solo and chamber
works) in the U.S., France, Belgium and Portugal, and designation as artist in
residence for the Roussel Festival Concert Series in France and Belgium in 2004.
Another area of research and performance has focused on visual associations in
piano works--and their relationships to art works--from the late 19th century to
the present. Lecture-recitals have explored the significance of color, light, and
atmosphere in the piano music of Liszt, Debussy, Ravel, Griffes, Bartok,
Prokofiev, and George Crumb. In the area of pedagogy, Dr. Brady has pioneered
strategies for incorporating composition and collaborative performance as part of
a regular regimen of music study for pianists at the pre-college and college levels.
In addition to teaching at JMU, Dr. Brady also maintains a private piano studio
and is active in Virginia and neighboring states as a clinician, adjudicator, and
officer for local and state music teacher organizations.
Soprano Dorothy Maddison graduated from St. Olaf College, Minnesota, with
honors and distinction. She completed her Master Degree and Doctor of Musical
Arts in vocal performance at Arizona State University. During her professional
career in Europe, she performed with the Stadttheater of Dobeln, Germany,
singing the roles of Olympia, Antonia, Guilietta and Stella in Les Contes
d'Hoffmann, Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor, Euridice in Offenbach's Orphee aux
Enfers, and Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro. She toured Germany singing
Christine in the Yeston-Kopit version of Phantom of the Opera. Dr. Maddison is
co-author of the book Kein' Angst Baby!, a guide book to help English speaking
singers survive the German audition process. As a concert artist, her work
includes the CD Christmas Art Songs, with Mario Balzi, pianist. Most recently
she has completed a CD Songs for Brenda and Bertha featuring the song cycles
ME (Brenda Ueland) and Brautlieder by Peter Cornelius. She is a professor of
voice and opera at James Maddison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. She has
performed with the JMU Symphony Orchestras and Bands in their "pops" and
classical settings, as well as in the Contemporary Music Festival and as a soloist
in the Bach's Christmas Oratorio and Handel's Messiah. Off-campus, she has
appeared as the soprano soloist in John Rutter's Requiem in London, England
Con't on back

Deux poemes chinois, Op. 12
Amoureux separes
A un jeune gentilhomme
Deux melodies
S'il est un charmont gazon
Comment, disaient-ils
Les jeux d'eau a la villa d'Este

Albert Roussel
(1869-1937)

Franz Liszt
(1811-1886)
Franz Liszt
(1811-1886)

Seven Macabre Songs for Piano (1979)
Tina Davidson
1.
(b. 1952)
The ground swayed like a sea
2.
The officer wore a thin smile/Over his dental plate
3.
Roses were planted and grew again/Out of my pain
4.
Under the pie crust...I must
5.
It is forbidden to go further/Darkness stands in the wall
My husband Bluebeard has a blue beard
6.
7.
My death with a nail in his foot

Awake on A Spring Night (1996)
When I Was Young
The Time Comes
New Grass
Awake on a Spring Night
The Shape of Laughter

Judith Cloud
(b. 1954)

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with the Rotherhithe and Bermondsey Choral Society, and in concerts in
Minnesota and in California with the contemporary music group Colloquy.
Future engagements include performances in Germany, England and Brazil. In
January of 2007 she sang the role of the Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors,
by Menotti in Harrisonburg.

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