Peace Concert
Grant Us Peace — Dona Nobis Pacem |
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Saturday, April 22, 2006 at 8:00 p.m.
Silva Hall, Hult Center
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Concert Details
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| Robert Kyr, Composer |
 Robert Kyr is Professor of Composition at University of Oregon School of Music. His music is recorded on New Albion: Violin Concerto Trilogy (NA 126); Unseen Rain (NA 075); and The Passion according to Four Evangelists (098). He has also composed ten symphonies and music for choruses of all types. Dr. Kyr holds degrees from Harvard, Penn. State and Yale. |
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| Carmen Pelton, Soprano |
 Carmen Pelton has appeared in a wide range of works with orchestras, opera houses, chamber music groups, Equity drama theaters and Off-Broadway productions. Conductors have included Robert Shaw, Jeffrey Tate, Donald Runnicles, Patrick Summers, Gerard Schwarz and Nicholas McGegan with such diverse groups as the San Francisco Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Scottish Opera, Goodman Theater, the Smithsonian’s 21th-Century Consort, the New York Festival of Song and the Library of Congress. Recent premieres include works by Mark Adamo at Carnegie Hall and Augusta Read Thomas at the Kennedy Center. Ms. Pelton’s performances are on two recordings released this past year: Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with Pro Musica Orchestra and the Naxos recording of William Bolcom’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience, which recently won several Grammy awards, as well as one of Robert Shaw’s last recordings with the Atlanta Symphony: Barber, Bartok and Vaughan-Williams, which won a Grammy for Best Classical Album of the Year. She is also on the faculty at the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina. |
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| James Bobick, Baritone |
 James Bobick has had a versatile career, with roles ranging from Elviro in Handel’s Xerxes at New York City Opera to Sharpless in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, a role he repeated in 2003 for Connecticut Opera. He has been seen on two New York City Opera telecasts – as Schaunard in the Emmy-winning broadcast of Puccini’s La bohème in 1997, and John Shears in Britten’s Paul Bunyan in 1998. Among the 20-plus roles he has sung for New York City Opera are Ping in Puccini’s Turandot, Faninal in Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier, Masetto in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, and St. Brioche in Lehar’s The Merry Widow, along with the above-mentioned Schaunard and Elviro. Mr. Bobick recently made his debut with Seattle Opera in the leading role of Bendrix in Jake Heggie’s The End of the Affair. Mr. Bobick has also had a busy concert career. He most recently performed Orff’s Carmina Burana with the National Chorale at Avery Fisher Hall. At Carnegie Hall, he has been heard in Carmina Burana and Mendelssohn’s Die Erste Walpurgisnacht with the Oratorio Society of New York. Around the country, he has performed Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, Mozart’s Requiem, Bach’s Magnificat and B-Minor Mass, Handel’s Israel in Egypt and the title role in Saul, in Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, and in Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Oratorio. |
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