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Composer Lori Laitman’s Art Songs Showcased at SongFest 2010
Acclaimed American composer Lori Laitman joins the SongFest faculty at Pepperdine University, CA for the first time this summer. Founded by Rosemary Hyler, SongFest is an intensive annual summer training program designed to provide gifted young vocalists and pianists a unique opportunity to interact directly with some of the vocal world’s most distinguished professionals and to facilitate enrichment of their musical skills. This year, Laitman’s esteemed composer colleagues are Tom Cipullo, John Harbison, Jake Heggie, Ben Moore and John Musto.
Thanks to a generous grant from the NY-based Sorel Organization, Laitman will work in tandem with Arlene Shrut and Debra Wiley from New Triad for Collaborative Arts, an organization dedicated to providing emerging classical musicians with innovative performance and presentation skills. Together, they will conduct a series of workshops and master classes devoted to Laitman’s music, culminating in a retrospective concert on June 19th. This concert will feature the world premiere of The Act — Laitman’s setting of American poet H.L. Hix’s poem about a circus knife-thrower and his wife, scored for soprano, tenor and piano; several West Coast premieres of Laitman’s music and selections from her recently premiered Holocaust oratorio, Vedem.
Lori Laitman will be in residence at SongFest from June 15th to the 20th, but exploration of her musical output continues throughout the program’s three-week duration. Selected arias from Laitman’s opera The Scarlet Letter will be presented in the workshop “Auditioning for Success: Opera Arias,” conducted by Joshua Winograde of the LA Opera on June 12th, and on June 13th in the master class “New American Arias,” conducted by NY City Opera director Beth Greenberg. In addition, the composer will conduct two master classes on her music on June 20th. The concert “American Song is Alive and Well” (June 24th), created by American tenor Paul Sperry, will feature the music of all resident SongFest composers.
To find out more about composer Lori Laitman, please visit www.artsongs.com
SongFest 2010 runs from June 5th to the 27th. For all information please visit www.songfest.us
Lori Laitman is represented by Jona Rapoport Artist Management - www.jonarapoport.com
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Jona Rapoport
Jona Rapoport Artist Management/PR
jona@jonarapoport.com
www.jonarapoport.com
Thanks to a generous grant from the NY-based Sorel Organization, Laitman will work in tandem with Arlene Shrut and Debra Wiley from New Triad for Collaborative Arts, an organization dedicated to providing emerging classical musicians with innovative performance and presentation skills. Together, they will conduct a series of workshops and master classes devoted to Laitman’s music, culminating in a retrospective concert on June 19th. This concert will feature the world premiere of The Act — Laitman’s setting of American poet H.L. Hix’s poem about a circus knife-thrower and his wife, scored for soprano, tenor and piano; several West Coast premieres of Laitman’s music and selections from her recently premiered Holocaust oratorio, Vedem.
Lori Laitman will be in residence at SongFest from June 15th to the 20th, but exploration of her musical output continues throughout the program’s three-week duration. Selected arias from Laitman’s opera The Scarlet Letter will be presented in the workshop “Auditioning for Success: Opera Arias,” conducted by Joshua Winograde of the LA Opera on June 12th, and on June 13th in the master class “New American Arias,” conducted by NY City Opera director Beth Greenberg. In addition, the composer will conduct two master classes on her music on June 20th. The concert “American Song is Alive and Well” (June 24th), created by American tenor Paul Sperry, will feature the music of all resident SongFest composers.
To find out more about composer Lori Laitman, please visit www.artsongs.com
SongFest 2010 runs from June 5th to the 27th. For all information please visit www.songfest.us
Lori Laitman is represented by Jona Rapoport Artist Management - www.jonarapoport.com
Source:
Jona Rapoport
Jona Rapoport Artist Management/PR
jona@jonarapoport.com
www.jonarapoport.com
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