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Welcome to the Arts4All Newsletter's Artist Pages, where creative artists share their work.
Keith Spencer |
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Keith Spencer was born in West Palm Beach, Florida, one of thirteen children in a musical family. He earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Miami, and two Master's degrees - in voice from the Manhattan School of Music, and in opera performance from the Curtis Institute of Music. His opera debut was in 1992 with the Virginia Opera Company. Roles have included Papageno in Die Zauberflöte and the title role in Monteverdi's Orfeo. Keith's concert repertoire includes Dona Nobis Pacem by Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Fauré and Duruflé Requiems. In 1995 Keith made his New York recital debut with the Hugo Wolf Society at Merkin Concert Hall. Now living in New York City, he works closely with contemporary composers including Frank Lewin, Ed Windells, Robert Alpert, Peter Susser and Albert Ahlstrom.
Click below the song title to hear it, using QuickTime, Real Player or Windows Media Player. More about these free downloads. Keith performs in the opera Die Fledermaus with the Greensboro (NC) Opera Company this February 2002. In the spring he sings the baritone solos in Brahms' Requiem with the Bedford (NY) Symphony and Chorus, followed by several concerts and solo recitals in the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut area. For more information about the artist and his work, contact Arts4All at 212 / 391 4007 or email to artistpages@arts4all.com Aisha Hosley is a native of Irvington, New Jersey. She earned her Bachelor of Music degree in Jazz Performance from the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts. Her teachers there included Patricia Craig, Dominique Eade, Cecil McBee, Carol Sloane and Allan Chase. Aisha is both an experienced singer and actress. She has performed as a solo vocal artist since 1995, and in choruses and choirs, including the annual Thomas A. Dorsey Gospel Jubilee Celebration in Boston, where she has been a featured artist. She was also a soloist in A Taste of Passover concert celebration, aired in April 1999 on public television and released on PBS home video.
Infant Eyes
Georgia on
My Mind Click below the song title to hear it, using Real Player or Windows Media Player. More about these free downloads. Reviewed by the New York Daily News for her performance in For the Love of My Black Woman, Aisha has appeared in a number of dramatic productions by UJAMA Black Theater Ensemble, under the direction of Titus Walker. Aisha continues her singing career at jazz clubs and concert halls in New York and Massachusetts. For more information about the artist and her work, contact Arts4All at 212 / 391 4007 or email to artistpages@arts4all.com
A native of Ottawa, Canada, Jenny Mitchell has a growing reputation as a collaborative and solo pianist. As a vocal accompanist at the Music Academy of the West, she has studied with Warren Jones and performed in master classes with Marilyn Horne, Benita Valente, and Thomas Hampson. As a founding member of the Hepworth Piano Trio, she has performed in Europe and the US. Her recent solo recital at the Canadian Consulate in New York featured the works of Claude Debussy, earning her praise from critics in Canada and New York. In 1998 Jenny
completed her Master's Degree at the Manhattan School of Music, New York
City, with Phillip Kawin. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from
McGill University, Montreal, where she graduated first in her class and
was the recipient of the McGill Alumni Award and Ellen Ballon Piano
Scholarship.
Claude
Debussy's La Soirée dans Grenade
Claude
Debussy's La
terrase des audiences du clair de lune
Click below the song title to hear it, using Real Player or Windows Media Player. More about these free downloads. Favorite movie: The Usual Suspects. Long distance runner / caffeine addict. Big fan of the novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin by L. De Bernières. For more information about the artist and her work, contact Arts4All at 212 / 391 4007 or email o artistpages@arts4all.com
Trumpeter Jon Wilder is also an orchestral conductor, specializing in opera, operetta, and musical theater, as well as the concert stage, including masses and oratorios. He is a trumpet soloist who plays jazz, from combo to big band, and throughout a wide range of styles from Dixieland to hard bop. Currently Jon plays with Chameleon and with Bluzeinn, a group featured here in a live performance from The Ironstone in Jamestown, New York.
Stephen
Swanson's Click below the song title to hear it, using Real Player or Windows Media Player. More about these free downloads. Jon Wilder has taught for twenty years in all levels of public education. Currently he is department Chair at Salamanca City Central Schools in Salamanca, New York, where he conducts the high school bands and teaches music theory. He is a member of NYSSMA (the New York State School Music Association) and is the President of the Cattaraugus County Music Teacher's Association. In the form of pre- and post-concert lectures, he specializes in analysis and commentary on music history. His lecture expertise also extends to music education. For more information about the artist and his work, contact Arts4All at 212 / 391 4007 or email to artistpages@arts4all.com
Last season Vanessa Conlin appeared with Toledo Opera as Miss Jessel in Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw and with Opera Tampa in Basically Bernstein, repeating the role of The Girl in Trouble in Tahiti which she had sung in Boston. In May she was presented in recital at the Kosciuszko Foundation in New York City as guest artist with The Ensemble for the Romantic Century. Other recent appearances were as Zerlina in Don Giovanni at the historic Bardavon Opera House and as Lola in the Pamiro Opera's Cavalleria Rusticana, a role she repeated with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic. In August she was Musetta in Belleayre Summer Music Festival's La Bohème, and she has been cast in Baz Luhrmann's Broadway production of Puccini's opera. In 2000 she sang the title role in Berlioz's rarely-heard Beatrice et Benedict at the Boston University Opera Institute, where she has also been featured in leading roles in Tobermory, La clemenza di Tito and Le nozze di Figaro. Vanessa Conlin has appeared in productions of Metro Lyric Opera of New Jersey, Boston Fringe Festival, West Virginia Opera and the Charleston Light Opera Guild. As soprano soloist in Carmina Burana, Handel's Messiah, and evenings of opera arias and Viennese songs, she has appeared with the Bard College Chamber Orchestra, West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Boston University Symphony Orchestra and at the Snowshoe Music Festival and Music From Bear Valley. In recitals and concerts she has performed works by composers of all periods, nationalities and styles, including the premieres of several contemporary song cycles which were composed specifically for her. At a recent ceremony honoring George Crumb with a Lifetime Achievement Award, Ms. Conlin was invited to perform a set of the composer's songs.
Puccini's QuickTime Gounod's
Ms. Conlin attended the University of the Arts in Philadelphia as a Presidential Merit Scholar to study acting, while commuting to New York City for voice lessons under a study grant from the Musicians Club of New York. She earned her bachelor's degree in voice at the Manhattan School of Music and her master's degree at Boston University. As winner of the Concerto Competition at BU, she was presented as soloist with the orchestra in Canteloube's Chants d'Auvergne. She has been coached by Enza Ferrari (teacher of Maria Callas) in Spoleto, Italy and also by Marilyn Horne, Phyllis Curtin, Sherrill Milnes, Warren Jones and Martin Katz. Ms. Conlin is currently studying under Patricia McCaffrey in New York City. She was born in Texas and now resides in Manhattan. Click below the song titles to hear them, using Quicktime, Real Player or Windows Media Player. More about these free downloads. For more information
about the artist and her work, contact Arts4All at 212 / 391 4007 or
email to artistpages@arts4all.com Anne Kovach is an artist currently living and working in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY. Derived from a contemporary, pluralistic experience, the art of Anne Kovach transcends abstraction. The interlacing of random and non-random strokes that distinguish her work is a means to a balance of their opposing systems.
Then click your browser's Back button to return to this page. Her works on paper were included in the exhibition 100 Drawings at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, over the summer of 1999. For more information about the artist and her work, contact Arts4All at 212 / 391 4007 or email to: artistpages@arts4all.com
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