Public Concerts

Song recital for mezzo-soprano 

Aufenthalt (Dwelling) by Franz Schubert
“Ombra mai fu di vegetabile” (Never was the shade of any plant) from Serse by GF Handel

Vaga Luna, che inargenti (Beautiful moon, dappled with silver) by Vincenzo Bellini
O mio Fernando from La Favorita by Gaetano Donizetti

그리운 금강산 (Pining for Mt. GeumGan) by Choi, Yeongseop
(Mt. GeumGang is the most beautiful mountain in North Korea, located at right next of Military Demarcation Line, MDL with South Korea. It is the reason why Mt. Geumgang is so missed in this song.)
산 촌 (The Village in the Mountain) Cho, DooNam (1912-1984)

YeonSoo Lee, mezzo-soprano and Glenda Williams (guest artist), piano

Music for cello and piano

Suite Italienne by Igor Stravinsky, Movement I, Introduzione
12 Variations on a theme from Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” by Ludwig van Beethoven

Prayer by Ernest Bloch (1880-1959)
Sonata by Dimitri Shostakovich(1906-1975)
II. Allegro

Erika Pierson, cello and Annie Chang-Center, piano

Partita for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano by David Diamond (1935-2005)

1. Allegro vivo
2. Adagio espressivo
3. Allegro molto

Terzetto No. 1 for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano by Gaetano Corticelli (1804-1840)
(Central episode introduces Desdemona’s aria from Rossini’s Otello, “Assisa ai piè di un salice”)

Gail Perstein, oboe
Erik Shankland (guest artist), bassoon
Nobuko Hasegawa, piano

NW Composer Spotlight: Kam Morrill

Idaho Songs by Kam Morrill

Katie Hochman, soprano and Nobuko Hasegawa, piano

Housman Songs by Kam Morrill

Tiina Ritalahti, soprano and Nobuko Hasegawa, piano

I Wander Dreaming by Kam Morrill

Regina Thomas, soprano and Nobuko Hasegawa, piano

Four Madrigals for three sopranos by Kam Morrill

Tiina Ritalahti, Katie Hochman, and Regina Thomas, sopranos

Prelude from Suite Bergamasque by Claude Debussy (1890-1905)
“Mouvement de menuet” from Sonatine by Maurice Ravel (1905)
Preludes, Op. 28 Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)
No. 9 in E Major
No. 15 in D flat Major (“Raindrop”)

Etude in C sharp minor, Op. 2, No. 1 Alexander Scriabin (1871-1915)
Prelude in C Major, Op. 11, No. 1 Alexander Scriabin
Prelude in a minor, Op. 11, No. 2 Alexander Scriabin
Prelude in e minor Op. 11, No. 4 Alexander Scriabin
Intermezzo in B flat Major, Op. 76, No. 4 by Johannes Brahms (1879)
Intermezzi in C Major, No.1 and A Major, No. 2, and Romance in F Major, No. 5, Op. 118 by Johannes Brahms (1893)
Valses Poeticos by Enrique Granados (1867-1916)
Prelude (Asturias) from Cantos de Espana, Op. 232, No. 1 by Isaac Albeniz (1892)

Karin McCullough, piano

Toccata in C Minor BWV 911 by J. S. Bach (1685-1750)

6 Lieder, Op. 1 by Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel (1805-1847)

1. Schwanenlied
2. Wanderlied
3. Warum Sind Denn Die Rosen So Blass
4. Mayenlied
5. Morgenständchen
6. Gondellied

Impromptu Op. 90, No. 2 by Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Cantique by Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979)
Vous M’Avez Regardé Avec Toute Votre Ȃme by Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)
Les Lilas Qui Avaint Fleuri  by Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)
Chanson  by Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979)

From Four Anniversaries (1948) by Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)

I. For Felicia Montealegre
III.  For David Diamond

Fleeting is a Maiden’s Favor by Ethyl Smyth (1858-1944)

Rondo Capriccioso in E Major, Op. 14 by  Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

Molly Tomlinson, soprano and Cori Belle, piano

Molly Tomlinson grew up in the Seattle area, where she developed her lifelong passion for music. She earned her BA in Music from Chapman University and her MM in Voice from the Chicago College of Performing Arts. Over the last two decades Molly has been fortunate to participate in both choral and solo music festivals, competitions and Young Artist Programs around the United States and abroad. In addition to performing Molly is a certified NATS teacher and enjoys teaching and collaborating with her students and colleagues. She is also the Choir Director for the Woodinville Unitarian Universalist Church in Woodinville. www.mollytomlinson.co

Cori Belle earned her Piano Performance degree from Grand Canyon University with additional studies at the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria. She holds a teaching certificate from the University of Washington. As a collaborative pianist she has worked with a variety of schools, churches, and choral groups in Arizona and Washington and has performed across the United States, England, and Austria. She has served as music director and accompanist at Studio East, Second Story Repertory, and the International School in Bellevue. Currently she is the Kirkland Choral Society’s accompanist. Since 2012 Cori has programmed and performed in house concerts through her creation of Indie Musikhaus, bringing together a variety of musicians in the greater Seattle area. In 2018 she released her first solo classical album, Commonplace Beauty. www.coribelle.com

Operetta music by Franz Lehár (1870-1948)

“Einer wird kommen” from Der Zarewitsch
“Ich Mocht weider einmal die Heimat sehn” from Das Land des Lächelns
“Dein ist mein ganzes Herz” from Das Land des Lächelns
“Liebe, du Himmel auf Erden” from Paganini
“Meine Lippen sie Kussen” from Giuditta
“Vilja” from Die lustige Witwe
“Niemand liebt Dich so wie ich” from Paganini

Operetta music by Sigmund Romberg (1877- 1951)

“Romance” from The Desert Song
“Deep in my Heart”  from The Student Prince
”Softly as the Morning Sunrise” from The New Moon
“Lover, come back to me” from The New Moon
“One Kiss from The New Moon

Katie Hochman, soprano
Christine Menschner, soprano
Clarice Alfonso, soprano
Regina Thomas, soprano
Jesse Nordstrom (guest artist), tenor
Johanna Mastenbrook, piano

Sonatina for treble recorder and piano Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989)

1. Moderato
2. Adagio
3. Allegro moderato

Sabine Endrigkeit, recorder and Nola Allen, piano

It’s all I have to bring today by Craig Urquhart
On this wondrous sea by Craig Urquhart

The Lordly Hudson by Ned Rorem (1923- )
Early in the morning by Ned Rorem

Sure on this shining night by Samuel Barber (1910-1981)

La Bonne Cuisine (Four Recipes) Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
I. Plum Pudding
II. Queus de Boeuf (Ox-tails)
III. Tavouk Gueunksis
IV. Civet à Toute Vitesse (Rabbit at Top Speed)

Come ready and see me by Richard Hundley (1981-2018)
Arise my love by Richard Hundley

Three Cowboy Songs by Libby Larsen (1950- )
Bucking Bronco
Lift me into heaven slowly
Billy the kid

Clarice Alfonso, soprano

From ghoulies and ghosties
And long-leggedy beasties
And things that go bump in the night,
Good Lord, deliver us!

-Traditional Scottish Poem

Sonata for cello and piano in g minor, Op. 19 by Sergei Rachmaninoff (1835-1921)

• Allegro Scherzando

Erika Pierson, cello and Annie Center, piano

Отрывок из А. Мюссе (Excerpt from Alfred de Musset) by Sergei Rachmaninoff

Amber Rose Johnson, soprano
Katie O’Rourke, piano

“Au Cimitiere” (At the cemetery) from Les nuits d’été byHector Berlioz (1803-1869)

Malya Muth, soprano and Katie O’Rourke, piano

Graceful Ghost Rag byWilliam Bolcom (b. 1938)

Katie O’Rourke, piano

“The Jewel Song” from Faust byCharles Gounod (1818-1893)

Regina Thomas, soprano and Katie O’Rourke, piano

Gretchen am Spinnrade (Gretchen at the spinning wheel) by Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Malya Muth, soprano and Katie O’Rourke, piano

“L’altra notte” (The other night) from Mefistofele byArrigo Boito (1842-1918)

Regina Thomas, soprano and Katie O’Rourke, piano

Suite No. 5 for solo cello, BWV 1011 by J.S. Bach (1685-1750)

• Sarabande

Erika Pierson, cello

Sonata, Op. 40 for cello and piano by Dimitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)

• Allegro

Erika Pierson, cello and Annie Center, piano

Pictures at an Exhibition byModest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)

• “Gnomus”
• “Old Castle”

Katie O’Rourke, piano

Nebbie (Mists) by Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)

Amber Rose Johnson, soprano and Katie O’Rourke, piano

Waldesgespracht (Conversation in the Forest) by Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

Regina Thomas, soprano and Katie O’Rourke, piano

Erlkonig (Elfking) by Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Jill Carlsen, soprano and Katie O’Rourke, piano

Danse Macabre (Dance of Death)  by Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)

Erika Pierson, cello and Annie Center, piano

From ghoulies and ghosties
And long-leggedy beasties
And things that go bump in the night,
Good Lord, deliver us!

-Traditional Scottish Poem

Sonata for cello and piano in g minor, Op. 19 by Sergei Rachmaninoff (1835-1921)

• Allegro Scherzando

Erika Pierson, cello and Annie Center, piano

Отрывок из А. Мюссе (Excerpt from Alfred de Musset) by Sergei Rachmaninoff

Amber Rose Johnson, soprano
Katie O’Rourke, piano

“Au Cimitiere” (At the cemetery) from Les nuits d’été byHector Berlioz (1803-1869)

Malya Muth, soprano and Katie O’Rourke, piano

Graceful Ghost Rag byWilliam Bolcom (b. 1938)

Katie O’Rourke, piano

“The Jewel Song” from Faust byCharles Gounod (1818-1893)

Regina Thomas, soprano and Katie O’Rourke, piano

Gretchen am Spinnrade (Gretchen at the spinning wheel) by Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Malya Muth, soprano and Katie O’Rourke, piano

“L’altra notte” (The other night) from Mefistofele byArrigo Boito (1842-1918)

Regina Thomas, soprano and Katie O’Rourke, piano

Suite No. 5 for solo cello, BWV 1011 by J.S. Bach (1685-1750)

• Sarabande

Erika Pierson, cello

Sonata, Op. 40 for cello and piano by Dimitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)

• Allegro

Erika Pierson, cello and Annie Center, piano

Pictures at an Exhibition byModest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)

• “Gnomus”
• “Old Castle”

Katie O’Rourke, piano

Nebbie (Mists) by Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)

Amber Rose Johnson, soprano and Katie O’Rourke, piano

Waldesgespracht (Conversation in the Forest) by Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

Regina Thomas, soprano and Katie O’Rourke, piano

Erlkonig (Elfking) by Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Jill Carlsen, soprano and Katie O’Rourke, piano

Danse Macabre (Dance of Death)  by Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)

Erika Pierson, cello and Annie Center, piano

From ghoulies and ghosties
And long-leggedy beasties
And things that go bump in the night,
Good Lord, deliver us!

-Traditional Scottish Poem

Konzertstuck for two clarinets in d minor, Op. 114 by Felix Mendelssohn

Julie Shankland and Katie Beisel Hollenbach, clarinets
Abigail Habegger, piano

Отрывок из А. Мюссе (Excerpt from Alfred de Musset) by Sergei Rachmaninoff

Amber Rose Johnson, soprano
Katie O’Rourke, piano

“Au Cimitiere” (At the cemetery) from Les nuits d’été byHector Berlioz (1803-1869)

Malya Muth, soprano and Katie O’Rourke, piano

Graceful Ghost Rag byWilliam Bolcom (b. 1938)

Katie O’Rourke, piano

“The Jewel Song” from Faust byCharles Gounod (1818-1893)

Regina Thomas, soprano and Katie O’Rourke, piano

Gretchen am Spinnrade (Gretchen at the spinning wheel) by Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Malya Muth, soprano and Katie O’Rourke, piano

“L’altra notte” (The other night) from Mefistofele byArrigo Boito (1842-1918)

Regina Thomas, soprano and Katie O’Rourke, piano

Pictures at an Exhibition byModest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)

• “Gnomus”
• “Old Castle”

Katie O’Rourke, piano

Nebbie (Mists) by Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)

Amber Rose Johnson, soprano and Katie O’Rourke, piano

Waldesgespracht (Conversation in the Forest) by Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

Regina Thomas, soprano and Katie O’Rourke, piano

Medley from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, selections by John Williams

Julie Shankland and Katie Beisel Hollenbach, clarinet
Gail Perstein, English horn

Valses nobles et sentimentales by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
I. Modéré –très franc
II. Assez lent – anec une expression intense
III. Modéré
IV. Assez animé
V. Presque lent – dans un sentiment intime
VI. Vif
VII. Moins vif
VIII. Ėpilogue: lent

Prelude in D Major, Op. 23, No. 4 by Sergei Rachmaninoff
Prelude in G Major, Op. 32, No. 5 (1873 – 1943)
Prelude in C minor, Op. 23, No. 7

Joyce Gibb, piano

Where the music comes from by Lee Hoiby (1926-2011)
“Heavenly Grass” from Blue Mountain Ballads by Paul Bowles (1910-1999)
“Cabin” from Blue Mountain Ballads by Paul Bowles (1910-1999)

“The daisies” from Three Songs, Op. 2 by Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
“Sure on this shining night” from Four Songs for Voice and piano, Op. 13
Music when soft voices die

“Shenandoah” Traditional folksong arr. by Jay Althouse (1951-)
“Poor wayfairing stranger” Traditional spiritual arr. by Jay Althouse
“Deep River” Traditional spiritual arr. by Moses Hogan (1957-2003)

“But not for me” from Girl Crazy by George Gershwin (1898-1937)
“Falling out of love can be fun” from Miss Liberty by Irving Berlin (1888-1989)

Katie Stevenson, mezzo-soprano

Joyce Gibb was born in Sri Lanka and started her early piano studies with the admired, but feared music critic Elmer DeHaan. After surviving his rigorous training, she moved to London for further studies with Swiss pianist Albert Ferber whose teachers included Rachmaninoff. Studying both piano and cello, she was awarded a gold medal for performance by the Royal Schools of Music. Joyce teaches and performs regularly and has been the concerto soloist with the Cascade Symphony, Seattle Philharmonic, Rainier Symphony, Port Angeles, Thalia, and Philharmonia Northwest Orchestras. Her performances have included concertos by Beethoven, Poulenc, Grieg, Addinsell, and Chopin and the 1st and 2nd piano concertos by Rachmaninoff.