Composers Recital Series: Junior Song Project

Name: Composers Recital Series: Junior Song Project
Start: 2023-04-02T20:00:00-04:00
End: 2023-04-02

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Sunday / April 2, 2023 / 8:00 p.m.

Houston Hall

8 Fenway, Floor 1

Boston

02215

United States

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In this Composers Recital Series concert, Boston Conservatory third-year voice students perform new songs composed collaboratively by students in the composition program.

Program Information

Repertoire

GWENDOLYN CLORES: what is happiness?
Claire Burreson, soprano

MANUELA CARDONA: Portrait of a Seed
Montserrat Martinez Buganza, mezzo soprano

MADISON HILL: Calypso
Alexandra Rogés, soprano

DIEGO DAVILA: Letter to a friend
Lucy Martindale, soprano

SIDNEY O’GORMAN: On Joy and Sorrow
Vaughn Nesmith, baritone

MICHAEL XU: Because I could not stop for Death
Charles Wolfer, tenor

MYLES QUINN: My Eyes, Eldritch Eyes
Alexander Robinson, bass-baritone

GABRIEL TOMÁS GARZA: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Chirbee Dy, mezzo soprano

THEODORE Q. DUONG: When I Dream of You
Shouzheng Wei, bass

JULIAN DÜRR: Love Never Stirs in His Heart
Aoife Schenz, mezzo soprano

LUCIANO LOPEZ-PARNETTI: Tragedy Befalls the Ship
Andrew Steele, tenor

BENJAMIN LAHAM: Gone Away
Anthony Paredes, tenor

Welcome

Welcome to an evening of premieres! The classical songs you are about to hear were composed by composition students at Boston Conservatory at Berklee and written specifically for the third-year voice principal singers performing them. The songs are widely varied and interesting, and we hope you will enjoy them!

Ensemble

VOICE

Montserrat Martinez Buganza, B.M. '24, voice principal
Claire Burreson, B.M. '24, opera emphasis
Chirbee Dy, B.M. '24, voice principal
Lucy Martindale, B.M. '24, opera emphasis
Vaughn Nesmith, B.M. '24, opera emphasis
Anthony Paredes, B.M. '24, voice principal
Alexander Robinson, B.M. '24, voice principal
Alexandra Rogés, B.M. '24, voice principal
Aoife Schenz, B.M. '24, voice principal
Andrew Steele, B.M. '24, voice principal
Shouzheng Wei, B.M. '24, voice principal
Charles Wolfer, B.M. '24, opera emphasis

PIANO

Yukiko Oba

COMPOSITION

Manuela Cardona, B.M. '26
Gwendolyn Clores, B.M. '26
Diego Davila, B.M. '26
Theodore Q. Duong, B.M. '25
Julian Dürr, B.M. '25
Gabriel Tomás Garza, B.M. '26
Madison Hill, B.M. '26
Benjamin Laham, B.M. '25
Luciano Lopez-Parnetti, B.M. '26
Sidney O’Gorman, B.M. '24
Myles Quinn, B.M. '26
Michael Xu, B.M. '24

Concert Services Staff

Senior Manager of Concert Services – Luis Herrera
Concert Production Coordinator – Matthew Carey
Concert Production Manager – Kendall Floyd
Manager of Performance Technology – Wes Fowler
Performance Technology Technicians – Sara Pagiaro, Goran Daskalov

Special Thanks

To Yukiko Oba, piano, and Mischa Salkind-Pearl, interim chair of composition, contemporary music, and core studies.

Boston Conservatory thanks audience members for viewing this program information online. This paperless program saved 200 sheets of paper, 21 gallons of water, and 18 pounds of CO2-equivalent greenhouse gas emissions.