Pro Musica: Duo Sureño and Friends
Nancy King, soprano, and Robert Nathanson, guitar (Duo Sureño)
Livia Sellin, violin
Helmut Jasbar, guitar
The eighth season of the PRO
MUSICA concert series celebrating the music of living composers and new music
of the 20th and 21st centuries continues with an evening of guitar, violin and voice.
Program
Helmut Jasbar: Three Things About Vienna
Helmut Jasbar: Kaddish: Four Sephardic Songs (world
premiere)
Jasbar/Waits: Time
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Sertaneja (from the Suite for Voice and Violin)
William Neil: Love Poem With A Knife (world premiere)
William Bolcom: Three Cabaret Songs – “Waitin’ ”; “Song for
Black Max”; “Amor”
About the artists
Nancy King, soprano, is an associate professor and coordinator of vocal studies at UNC Wilmington, artistic director of Opera Wilmington, and an active performer and guest lecturer. Recent concert appearances include Strauss’s Four Last Songs with the Wilmington Symphony, Brahms’s Requiem with the UNCW choirs, and a Southeastern North Carolina tour of Bach concerts with Chamber Music Wilmington. King has appeared as soloist in Handel’s Messiah with Toronto Classical Singers; and Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music with the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus in Eugene, Oregon; Orff’s Carmina Burana; Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915; Canteloube’s Chants D’Auvergne; and Poulenc’s Gloria with the Wilmington Symphony. Operatic roles include Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Così fan tutte, Hannah Glawari in Lehár’s Merry Widow, Cunegonde in Bernstein’s Candide, Rosalinda in Strauss’s Die Fledermaus, Susanna in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Euridice in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, and Belinda in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. King was also a member of the Grammy Award-winning Oregon Bach Festival Choir from 1998-2004, under the direction of Helmuth Rilling, and performs and records with Robert Nathanson as part of Duo Sureño (guitar and soprano).
Robert Nathanson, classical and baroque guitarist, is an active recitalist and orchestral soloist, now focusing mostly as an ensemble performer giving concerts throughout the United States, as well as performances in Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Spain, Austria, Slovenia, and Canada. He has been performing as part of the Ryoanji Duo (guitar and saxophone) and the North Carolina Guitar Quartet since 1992 and as part of Duo Sureño (guitar and soprano) since 1999. A champion of new music, Robert has commissioned, premiered, and recorded works by David Kechley, William Neil, Jing Jing Luo, Ernesto García de León, Leo Brouwer, John Anthony Lennon, Ernesto Cordero, Marilyn Shrude, Andrew York and others. He has hosted several New Music Festivals inviting composers and performers to the campus of UNC Wilmington, where he is professor of music, to perform, record and conduct master classes. Since 2010 he has been the artistic director for PRO MUSICA, a concert series celebrating the music of living composers sponsored by and performed at the Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, NC. In March 2016, Innova Records released the CD Sea of Stones: new guitar and saxophone music by David Kechley, where Nathanson serves as both performer and producer. He has also released Images, a CD of all new music for guitar and saxophone, and At the Edge of the Body’s Night, a CD of new music for soprano, saxophone and guitar. In July 2018, he released Waking the Sparrows, a new CD along with his duo partner Nancy King on the Ravello recording label: duosureño.com.
Livia Sellin, violin, lives in Vienna and tours the world
with her piano trio Trio Alba, regularly giving concerts in some of Europe’s
most prestigious concert halls and festivals, as well as in Canada, North and
South America, China, and Australia. In Austria, she has performed at Vienna
Musikverein and Konzerthaus Vienna, among others. Several recordings of Trio
Alba are available. They have been awarded both national and international
prizes. Born in Heidelberg, Germany, Sellin received her first violin lesson at
the age of five. She studied at the Freiburg University of Music, Germany, and
at the Graz University of Music, Austria, where she graduated with honors in
March 2011. She performs on a violin made by Laurentius Storioni, Cremona, in
1788.
Helmut Jasbar is a virtuoso guitar soloist who has
world-class recognition, performing at both jazz and classical music venues. He
has had tremendous popular and critical success with his recordings and
performances of classical and jazz works from Bach to Miles Davis. His own
compositions have been very well received by the general public and his recent
works have been extensively performed by some of the world’s finest guitar
players, David Russell and Roland Dyens amongst them. Since he appeared at Leo
Brouwer’s guitar festival in Havana, Cuba, a concert which brought him
outstanding critical acclaim, Jasbar has toured the US, Canada, South Africa,
Asia, and Europe regularly, performing at both jazz and classical music
festivals. His concerts have been broadcast on TV and radio in the US, Canada,
South Africa, and Austria. Guest professorships and invitations to teach at
other schools in other countries include Alaska-Fairbanks, USA; LiGiTa
(Liechtenstein), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Iserlohn, Germany; Johannesburg South
Africa; Perugia and Rome, Italy. Jasbar is host of the regular public radio
talk show Klassiktreffpunkt for 200.000 Listeners on radio oe 1, the primary
public radio station in Austria. He founded both the Pasticcio Preis (CD prize)
and the Vienna Guitar Festival, as artistic director, coordinated for the
Radiokulturhaus, Vienna.
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Tickets
Purchase seats on CAM’s website, by
phone and at CAM’s Visitor Services desk. Program seat purchase includes
admission to CAM’s exhibition: "Recovery in Flight: Sculptures of Grainger
McKoy" on view through March 10, 2019.
CAM Members and students: $12.00,
Non-Members: $17.00, UNCW students with valid ID: Free.
Location and phone
Cameron Art Museum: Weyerhaeuser
Reception Hall
3201 South 17th Street
Wilmington, North Carolina 28412
Phone: 910.395.5999
For ticket purchase, directions and
more, please visit:
www.cameronartmuseum.org
For
more information about the artists:
William Neil, composer, piano
(http://williamneil.net)
Robert Nathanson, guitar
(https://uncw.edu/music/faculty/nathansonr)
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Tickets and more information
Purchase seats on CAM’s website, by phone and at CAM’s Visitor Services desk. 910.395.5999
CAM members and students: $10.00
Non-members: $15.00
UNCW students with valid ID
Free.
Cameron Art Museum (Weyerhaeuser
Reception Hall)
3201 S 17th St, Wilmington, NC
28412
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