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Home | Special Guests Special Guest Recitals – January and February 2012Atalla Ayan and Marília Caputo Admission is free to all of the following events. Atalla Ayan, tenor, and Marília Caputo, piano PROGRAM: BIOGRAPHIES: Brazilian tenor Atalla Ayan was born in Belem (Para) where he began his vocal studies in 2002 at the Conservatorio Carlos Gomes under the guidance of Professor Malina Mineva. In 2008 Mr. Ayan was a member of the Scuola della Opera Italiana with the Teatro Comunale di Bologna where he made his Italian stage debut as Ruggero in La rondine conducted by Jose Cura. He debuted the role of Rodolfo in La Bohème in Belem in August of 2008 and made his European debut in October 2008 in the same role with the Greek National Opera in Athens in a production staged by Graham Vick. He also appeared with OSESP Orchestra of São Paulo as the Italian Tenor in Der Rosenkavalier opposite Anne Schwanewilms and Kristine Jepson and in the summer of 2009, and he debuted the role of Romeo in Romeo et Juliette in Belem. Last year Atalla Ayan became a member of the Lindemann Young Artists Development Program with the Metropolitan Opera and later appeared in concert with the RAI Orchestra of Turin in a concert titled “Nuovi Voci.” In 2006, he won second place in the 10th Concurso Nacional Maracanto in the tenor category. That same year he appeared in concerts of the Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Symphony Orchestra of the Theatro da Paz in his native Belem under the direction of Mateus Araujo. In 2007, he won the first prize of the jury and audience in the first Concurso Internacional de Canto Maria Helena Carodos Coelho in Belem. He then appeared that year at the Theatro da Paz in two roles: Don Alvaro in Il Guarany and Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi. He also appeared there as tenor soloist in the Rossini’s Stabat Mater. In November of 2007, he won the first prize in the Concurso Interncaional de Canto Lirico in Trujillo, Peru. In 2008 he debuted at the Theatro Municipal of Rio de Janeiro as Joaquino in Fidelio where he returned in the same season to appear in concerts of Kurt Weil's The Seven Deadly Sins under the direction of Roberto Minchuk. Brazilian pianist Marília Caputo has performed throughout Europe, Latin America and the United States both as soloist and as a collaborative pianist with violinists Koh-Gabriel Kameda, Daniel Guedes and Ignace Jang, the São Paulo String Quartet, with singers Reginaldo Pinheiro and Juliana Gondek, and cellists Antonio Del Claro and Barbara Switalska among others. Caputo has performed in New York at Weill Hall; in Moscow at Rachmaninoff Hall, Malie Sall, and Glinka Museum; in Salzburg at the Mozarteum, and in Rio de Janeiro at Cecilia Meireles Hall, at the Pepperdine University Festival (USA), Northern Chamber Music Festival (Brazil), Para International Chamber Music Festival (Brazil), Summit Festival (USA) and Hawaii Performing Arts Festival (USA) where she also coached. Caputo is a DMA candidate at Rutgers University and studies with Prof. Paul Hoffmann. Caputo started taking piano lessons at the age of eight, in Belem, Para, Brazil. Just a couple months before turning nine, her parents moved to the United States where she continued her studies with Janice Sharon in Santa Barbara, California, and later with Val Underwood. With only two years of formal training, she was a winner at the Santa Barbara Young Artists Competition. That same year, she played in a master class with Argentinean pianist Eduardo Delgado at Steinway Hall in Los Angeles, which was later broadcast on Educational TV. After returning to Brazil when she was 14, she won several awards in the Villa-Lobos National Competition, including Best Interpreter of Villa-Lobos. At sixteen, Caputo had the opportunity to have lessons in Austria with Oleg Maisenberg and Hans Graff. Later in Brazil, she met Nelson Freire, who “was most impressed with her natural talent for the piano.” Two years later, she won a competition held at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She obtained a seven-year full scholarship to attend the Moscow Conservatory, where she completed her Master's Degree under the guidance of Ludmila Rochina (a pupil of Samuel Feinberg) and Alexander Shtarkman. In 1998, she was awarded the “Virtuose” scholarship by the Brazilian Ministry of Culture, while studying with Boris Slutsky at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore. Caputo began studying with Sophia Rosoff in 2000. Caputo says, “Sophia's work opened me to levels of awareness I could hardly imagine. She is a friend, mentor, and teacher and will always be part of my creative approach to music making.”
Dean Southern, baritone, and Jeffrey Brown, piano PROGRAM: BIOGRAPHIES: Dean Southern, baritone, has performed in opera, oratorio, and recital throughout the United States and Europe, including Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall in New York, Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy. His students have been accepted to prestigious young artist programs and graduate schools and awarded the Fulbright grant, and they are having successful careers as performers and voice teachers. He regularly gives masterclasses at universities and conservatories in the US and abroad, including, most recently, at the Kungliga Musikhögskolan (Royal College of Music) in Stockholm, Sweden, the Conservatorio Profesional de Música in Valencia, Spain, the Interlochen Arts Academy, Michigan State University, Western Michigan University, and the University of North Carolina. Since 2004, he has spent his summers on the faculty of the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria, where he teaches voice and gives the Henry Pleasants Lecture Series on historic singers. He has adjudicated numerous vocal competitions, including the MTNA national finals and the Leopoldskron competition in Salzburg, Austria. A graduate of Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, he holds master’s degrees in piano performance from the University of Missouri as a student of Jane Allen and in voice performance from the University of Akron as a student of Clifford Billions. He earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in voice performance at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with the noted pedagogue Mary Schiller. He teaches voice and vocal pedagogy and serves as stage director for Frost Opera Theater at the University of Miami Frost School of Music in Coral Gables, Florida. Jeffrey Brown, pianist, has concertized extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia as a solo recitalist, chamber musician, and soloist with orchestras. Recent performance highlights include the Dame Myra Hess Series in Chicago, the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., a recital tour of the U.S. and Canada sponsored by the Metropolitan Opera Guild of New York, and two chamber music tours of China. A dedicated vocal accompanist and chamber musician, he has recently presented collaborative recitals at the National Flute Association Convention, the Cleveland Institute of Music, the University of Miami, the University of South Carolina, and the Norfolk Chamber Consort. He has served on the faculties of the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria, the Scuola Italia Summer Opera Program in Urbania, Italy, and the Eastman International Young Artists Piano Competition and Festival. In addition to his performance engagements, he is a passionate educator of young musicians. He has presented masterclasses and lectures for the Illinois State Music Teachers Association, the St. Louis Area Music Teachers Association, the Virginia Music Teachers Association, and has served as adjudicator for competitions throughout the United States. In 2008, he traveled to China to perform and present masterclasses at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music in Chengdu. He currently serves on the faculty at Western Illinois University.
Victor Rosenbaum, piano PROGRAM: BIOGRAPHY: American pianist Victor Rosenbaum has concertized widely as soloist and chamber music performer in the United States, Europe, Asia, Israel, and Russia in such prestigious halls as Tully Hall in New York and the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia. Described by the Boston Globe as “one of those artists who make up for all the drudgery the habitual concertgoer endures in the hopes of finding the real, right thing,” he has collaborated with such artists as Leonard Rose, Paul Katz, Arnold Steinhardt, Robert Mann, Joseph Silverstein, Malcolm Lowe, and the Brentano, Borromeo, and Cleveland String Quartets, among others. Festival appearances have included Tanglewood, the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Kfar Blum and Tel Hai (in Israel), Yellow Barn, Kneisel Hall (Blue Hill), Musicorda, Masters de Pontlevoy (France), the Heifetz Institute, the International Keyboard Institute and Festival in New York, and the International Music Seminar in Vienna. Concert appearances in recent years have brought him to Chicago, Minneapolis, Tokyo, Beijing, St. Petersburg (Russia), Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, New York, Boston, and other cities. His highly praised recording of Schubert, which Classical disCDigest described as “a powerful and poignant record of human experience,” is on Bridge Records. The release of the last three Beethoven sonatas on the same label was named by American Record Guide critic Alan Becker as one of the top ten classical recordings of 2005 and Susan Kagan of Fanfare wrote of that disc: “Victor Rosenbaum’s rewarding interpretation can sit proudly among the best.” Two recent recordings on the Fleur de Son label feature music of Schubert and Mozart.
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