2011–2012 Season
We are honored to have the following talented musicians as guest artists for the 2011–2012 BCOC concert season.
Amanda Balestrieri, soprano
Soprano Amanda Balestrieri was born and educated in England, and brings an impressive list of credits from both sides of the Atlantic. A few among many are several appearances with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, and a broadcast on National Public Radio’s Performance Today.
Ms. Balestrieri has sung under the baton of Neville Marriner, Christopher Hogwood, Leonard Slatkin, and Peter Phillips.
Much in demand for her skills in Baroque repertoire, Ms. Balestrieri received critical acclaim for her performances of Messiah with the Santa Fe Pro Musica and in New York with the famed St. Thomas Choir, for which she was praised in The New York Times, and for her appearance at the Maryland Handel Festival. Other notable performances include a solo recital at the Phillips Collection, Rameau’s opera Pigmalion with renowned French tenor Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, Bach’s Easter Oratorio with the Washington Bach Consort, Couperin’s Leçons de Ténèbres with the Smithsonian Chamber Players, and Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with the Santa Fe Pro Musica.
Amanda Balestieri appears in our Venus and Adonis concerts in November.
Biography source: Opera Lafayette website
Peter Becker, baritone
Bass-baritone Peter Becker has performed throughout the USA, Europe, Asia, and South America in repertoire ranging from medieval to contemporary. His theater credits include performances with the Canadian Opera Company, Macerata Festival, Teatro Opera di Roma, New York Shakespeare Festival, Glimmerglass Opera, 21st Century Consort, and Broadway Show Band in Berlin. Mr. Becker has made guest appearances with Tafelmusik, Smithsonian Chamber Players, Magnificat, the Newberry Consort, Folger Consort, Portland Baroque, and Artek, and he has performed at a great number of festivals, including Spoleto (Italy and USA), Caramoor, Ravinia, Aldeburgh, Utrecht, Hong Kong, Ravenna, Jerusalem, Macao, Miyazaki, and Saratoga.
As a member of the male vocal quintet Hudson Shad, Mr. Becker has performed with such distinguished conductors as Kurt Masur (New York Philharmonic), Zubin Mehta (Los Angeles Philharmonic), Michael Tilson Thomas (San Francisco Symphony), Charles Dutoit (Philadelphia Orchestra), Dennis Russell Davies (Austrian Radio Orchestra, and the Bruckner Orchester Linz), Bruno Bartoletti (Orchestra Regionale Toscana), and Ingo Metzmacher (Orchestra Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia).
Mr. Becker’s contemporary music credits include Tan Dun’s Marco Polo, Peter Maxwell Davies’ Eight Songs for a Mad King, Heinz Karl Gruber’s Frankenstein, William Walton’s Façade, Stravinsky’s Renard, Oliver Knussen’s Where the Wild Things Are, Mark Kuss’ The Show, and Kurt Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins.
Peter Becker appears in our Venus and Adonis concerts in November.
Robert Sussuma, countertenor
Robert Sussuma, countertenor, voice teacher, and movement educator, holds a Masters of Music in Voice Performance, is a Certified Master Teacher and Course Instructor of Estill Voice Training, and is a Certified Teacher of Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement.
Mr. Sussuma has worked with vocalists of all types — from beginner to professional, classically trained to contemporary — helping each find more vocal awareness and choice in their learning, practicing and performing. He has taught voice at SUNY Fredonia, was the Head of Voice for the BFA in Contemporary Performance at Naropa University, and was the vocal coach for The Ars Nova Singers. In addition to being the Executive Director and main instructor at the Estill Voice Institute in Boulder, Colorado, Mr. Sussuma was the Symposium Chair for the Fourth Annual Estill World Voice Symposium and a guest trainer for the Feldenkrais Professional Training Program in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
As an instructor, Mr. Sussuma has created several unique workshops — Breathing for Speaking, for Singing for Life!, the Spine in Action, Thinking and Breathing, Dynamic Stillness/Movement for Singers, and the Naked Face — which have been presented nationwide. Also a performer, he has been a soloist in the Boston Early Music Festival and the Colorado Early Music Festival. He has performed throughout Europe with Ensemble al Verso and other ensembles, has sung with the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado and at the Boulder Bach Festival, and appeared on NPR as a soloist with the Ars Nova Singers.
Robert Sussuma appears in our Venus and Adonis concerts in November.
Biography source: The Studio New Canaan website
Boulder Children’s Chorale
Since its inception in 2009, the Boulder Children’s Chorale has collaborated in concert with the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra, Boulder Ballet, Mahlerfest, and the adult ensembles of the Boulder Chorale.
Since its inception in 2009, the Boulder Children’s Chorale has collaborated in concert with the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra, Boulder Ballet, Mahlerfest, and the adult ensembles of the Boulder Chorale. Its 2011-2012 season includes performances with the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra, Boulder Ballet, and Kutandara Marimba, in addition to the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado.
The Children’s Chorale is part of the Boulder Chorale, the area’s oldest and largest community choral organization, with a rich history rooted in the Boulder, Colorado community.
The Boulder Children’s Chorale performs in our Venus and Adonis concerts in November.
Biography source: The Boulder Chorale website
Kathryn James Adduci, trumpet
A native of Perth, Australia, Kathryn James Adduci has performed and taught throughout the world, including in Australia, Asia, Europe, and North America. She has appeared as a soloist with the Western Australian Symphony Orchestra and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, and has performed with professional orchestras in Australia, Malaysia, Canada and the United States.
In 2006 Ms. Aducci received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in performance from the University of North Texas after studying with Keith Johnson. She also holds a Master of Music performance degree from the University of Georgia, after studies with Fred Mills, and a Bachelor of Music performance degree from the University of Western Australia, where she studied with Kevin Johnston, Andrew Evans, and Sean Priest.
Dr. Adduci is well-regarded for her work with historical instruments. She has performed with numerous period instrument groups in North America including the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, Apollo’s Fire, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, Musica Angelica, Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado, Texas Camerata, and the Orchestra of New Spain.
Kathryn James Adduci appears in our Italian Sojourns concerts in January.
Biography source: Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra website
Daniel Zuluaga, guitar and theorbo
Daniel Zuluaga is native of Colombia, where he received his musical education. His interest in the early plucked-string instruments took him to the Early Music Institute at Indiana University in Bloomington, where he studied lute under the tutelage of Nigel North.
Mr. Zuluaga’s six-year collaboration with the Colombian early music ensemble, Musica Ficta, focused on the research and performance of renaissance and Baroque repertory from Spain and Latin America, and has taken him to concert halls in Europe, Japan, Southeast Asia and the Americas. He has appeared at numerous international music festivals, including Tage Alte Musik Regensburg (Germany), Festival van Vlaanderen-Antwerpen (Belgium), Singapore Arts Festival, Festival Cervantino (Mexico), Il Canto delle Pietre (Italy), Jakarts Festival (Indonesia), Baroque Festival “Misiones de Chiquitos” (Bolivia) and Noches en los Jardines del Alcázar (Spain).
Much in demand as a continuo player, Mr. Zuluaga frequently collaborates with groups such as Ensemble Elyma, Belgium’s B’Rock, Musica Angelica of Los Angeles, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Al Ayre Español, La Monica, Concord Ensemble, Mercury Baroque, etc. He has worked under the direction of Richard Egarr, Gabriel Garrido, Monica Huggett, Eduardo López-Banzo Rachel Podger, Stanley Ritchie and Skip Sempé.
Daniel Zuluaga appears in our Italian Sojourns concerts in January.
Biography source: San Miguel el Grande Pro Musica website
Julie Andrijeski, violinist
Julie Andrijeski became Artistic Director of the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra in 2011.
Lauded for her “invigorating verve and imagination” by the Washington Post, Ms. Andrijeski is among the leading Baroque violinists in the U.S. A full-time lecturer in the music department at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, Ms. Andrijeski teaches performance practice and Baroque dance, and directs the Case/CIM Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Ensembles. She was also Visiting Assistant Professor at Oberlin College during the 2009–2010 academic year.
For many years, Ms. Andrijeski was a full-time member of the early-music ensemble Chatham Baroque, an award-winning group that performs throughout the Americas. In addition to her work with the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, she regularly appears with many ensembles including Cleveland’s Apollo’s Fire, the New York State Baroque Orchestra, Quicksilver, the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Cecilia’s Circle, and the Renaissance group The King’s Noyse.
Ms. Andrijeski’s unique performance style is greatly influenced by her knowledge and skilled performance of Baroque dance, and she often teaches both violin and dance at workshops. She has been on the summer faculties of the Baroque Performance Institute at the Oberlin Conservatory and the Madison Early Music Festival for over a decade and now also teaches at the Vancouver Early Music Festival.
Ms. Andrijeski began a D.M.A. degree at the Cleveland Institute of Music where she studied with Linda Cerone before turning her focus to historical performance practice. She holds a D.M.A. in Early Music from Case Western Reserve University, an M.M. in Violin Performance from Northwestern University, and a B.M. in Violin Performance from the University of Denver. A native of Boise, Idaho, Ms. Andrijeski resides in Cleveland, Ohio.
Julie Andrijeski is guest concermaster for our Requiem for a King performance in March.
Biography source: Atlanta Baroque Orchestra website
St. Martin’s Chamber Choir
Timothy J. Krueger, director
St. Martin’s Chamber Choir is a secular ensemble of 24 professional singers. The group was founded in 1994, and takes its name from the site of its first concerts, St. Martin’s Chapel at St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral in Denver, Colorado.
St. Martin’s is led by founder and Artistic Director Timothy J. Krueger. Now in its 17th season, the choir presents imaginative concert programs drawn from choral literature that spans the centuries — from Renaissance motets, through 18th century Baroque and Classical works and Romantic-era partsongs, to masterworks of the 20th century and new pieces composed expressly for St. Martin’s. The group’s repertoire is largely a cappella, or without accompaniment, but St. Martin’s has also notably collaborated with such groups as the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra, the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado, the Confluence String Quartet, and in 2008, the Musica Sacra Chamber Orchestra of Augustana Arts. The choir was also featured at the National Performing Arts Convention, held in Denver in June 2008.
Under Mr. Krueger’s leadership the choir has released 11 acclaimed CD recordings, which have been featured on nationally syndicated radio programs “Sacred Classics” and “The First Art,” and which regularly appear on classical radio play lists across the U.S. Through its concerts and recordings St. Martin’s has become recognized as the region’s foremost choir of its size.
St. Martin’s Chamber Choir performs in our Requiem for a King concert in March.
Biography source: St. Martin’s Chamber Choir website
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