Southern Nevada Musical Arts Society 45th Season (2007-2008)

‘Las Vegas’ Distinguished Choral Orchestra Society

Our Next Concert

Annual Pops Concert

Fabulous Broadway

Musical Arts Chorus & Orchestra      

Community College of Southern Nevada Horn Theatre (Cheyenne Campus)                                                    

8 p.m. May 31, 2008, 3 p.m. June 1, 2008     

Tickets are $12 for adults and $9 for seniors, students, military, and disabled. Tickets may be reserved or purchased at the CCSN Box Office by calling 654-LIVE(5483).                 

Past Concerts this Season

St. John Passion- J.S. Bach
Musical Arts Chorus & Musical Arts  Orchestra

Jonathan Mack (Evangelist), Neil Wilson (Jesus)

Tod Fitzpatrick (Pilate)

Arias: Amy Cofield  Juline Barol-Gilmore

Sunday 3:00 p.m. March 16, 2008

UNLV Artemus W. Ham Concert Hall

Our Soloists

Amy Cofield, Soprano, praised for her beautiful singing, wonderful artistry and beauty of interpretation, has performed all across the U.S. as well as in France, Spain, Portugal, England, Austria, Santo Domingo, Taiwan and Guam.

Ms.Cofield’s recent engagements with the Southern Nevada Musical Arts Society include Mendelssohn’s Elijah; John Rutter’s Requiem; Hear My Prayer by Mendelssohn; the Coronation Mass and the Jubilate by Mozart, and the Seasons by Haydn. Her busy concert schedule includes performances of Handel’s Messiah; Orff’s Carmina Burana; John Rutter’s Mass of the Children at Carnegie Hall; and the role of Julie Jordan in Carousel with the Annapolis Chamber Orchestra and Chorale.

Ms. Cofield’s operatic roles include the following roles: Musetta in La Boheme and Pamina in The Magic Flute with Knoxville Opera; Gilda in Rigoletto with Wildwood Opera; Norina in Don Pasquale and Violetta in La Traviata with Lyric Opera of San Antonio; Konstanze in Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail and Violetta in La Traviata with Teatro Lirico D’Europa; Musetta in La Boheme with American Opera Theater in Taiwan and New York; Mimi in La Boheme with Opera! Lenawee in Michigan; Cunegonde in Candide; Susannah in Floyd’s Susannah with Fort Worth Opera; and Berta in Il Bariere di Siviglia with Houston Grand Opera, where she also served as cover for Renee Fleming’s Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata.

Neil Wilson, Bass-Baritone, has sung to critical acclaim throughout the United States and Germany during a wide-ranging career as teacher and singer. He has been soloist many times with the Southern Nevada Musical Arts Society, since 1980 in performances of Elijah by Mendelssohn; A Sea Symphony by Vaughan Williams; The Creation by Haydn; Saul by Handel; the Brahms and Verdi Requiems; and the St. John and St. Matthew Passions by Bach. He has been a soloist at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, as well as with the Seattle, Denver, Richmond, Rochester, Annapolis, San Antonio, Austin, and Oregon Symphonies.

Mr. Wilson has sung title and leading roles with Opera Southwest, Portland Opera, Opera Roanoke, Eugene Opera, Oregon Repertory Theatre and others regional companies. He has been a soloist with numerous summer festivals including the Grant Teton Music, Festival, Alaska Music Festival, Oregon Bach Festival, San Antonio Festival and Richman Big Gig. He was a recording artist with South German Radio in Stuttgart and soloist in oratorio and recital performances in Cologne, Frankfurt, Nuremberg, Detmold and Oldenburg, as well as Lyon and St. Etienne, France. Wilson’s academic career spanned over forty years. He was a member of the faculties of Eastern Oregon University, The University of Oregon, The University of Texas at San Antonio, and Virginia Commonwealth University where he retired as Emeritus Professor in 1996. Neil Wilson earned Bachelor and Master degrees at the University of New Mexico and the Ph.D. at Indiana University.

Jonathan Mack, lecturer, vocal arts, earned degrees in French horn and voice at the Thornton School. His career as a lyric tenor has taken him throughout the U.S., Europe and Australia, as a recital, concert and opera singer. He was the leading lyric tenor for the opera houses of Kiel and Dortmund in Germany for four years. Now in his fourteenth season with the Los Angeles Opera, he has performed over 40 roles, and has appeared with the Netherlands, Utah, Vancouver and Columbus opera companies. Mr. Mack has performed solo recitals throughout the country under the auspices of the National Federation of Music Clubs and the National Association of Teachers of Singing. His concert work includes engagements with the London Symphony Orchestra, Chautauqua Festivals, the Carmel Bach Festival, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Minnesota Orchestra with conductors including Giulini, Mehta, Previn, Boulez and Tilson Thomas. Mr. Mack is featured as soloist on several recordings, most recently on John Biggs' Songs of Laughter, Love and Tears (Crystal CDs). He can also be heard on the soundtracks of numerous films including and can be heard on the sound tracks of numerous films including Jurassic Park, Amistad, Anastasia, and Men in Black.

Tod Fitzpatrick, Baritone

Baritone Tod Fitzpatrick has been a soloist for many distinguished performing organizations around the United States. Some of these include the Los Angeles Philharmonic, L.A. Opera, Opera Pacific, the Los Angeles Mozart Orchestra, Virginia Opera, the Virginia Symphony, and the Utah Festival Opera Company. His recent engagements have included recitals, lectures and concerts in San Francisco, New York, Seattle, Los Angeles and Fort Collins, Colorado. A native of California, he earned his Bachelor of Music degree in vocal performance from Chapman University. His Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees are from the University of Southern California where he received the Marilyn Horne Voice Scholarship. He currently serves as Voice Area Coordinator at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he teaches voice in addition to various graduate courses in vocal literature and opera history.

Juline Barol-Gilmore, Mezzo-Soprano, a frequent stage performer, has performed leading and supporting roles with Opera Omaha, Central City Opera, Opera Theater of St. Louis, Des Moines Metro Opera, and the Dona Ana Lyric Opera. Her roles include the title role in Carmen; Tisbe in La Cenerentola; Dorabella in Cosi fan Tutte; Maddalena in Rigoletto; Rosina in The Barber of Seville; Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus; Dido in Dido and Aeneas; Nancy in Albert Herring; Zerlina in Don Giovanni; and several musical theater roles, including Nellie in South Pacific and Aldonza in Man of La Mancha.

She has appeared with the Southern Nevada Musical Arts Society on a number of occasions, including performances of the Mass in B minor by J.S. Bach; the Mass in C by Beethoven; Mendelssohn’s Elijah and the Alto Rhapsody by Brahms.

Ms. Gilmore’s numerous awards include include the 1996 Central City Opera Studio Artist of the Year, the Richard F. Gold Career Grant in 1997, five first place awards for the New Mexico NATS Competition, and finalist of the NATS Texoma regional competition and the Oklahoma Stewart Awards. Ms. Barol-Gilmore has appeared frequently as a concert soloist with various orchestras, performing concert works of Mozart, Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Brahms. She has performed as a soloist with the Omaha Symphony, Performing Arts Society of Nevada, Chamber Music Southwest, and the Southwest Symphony.

Educated at New Mexico State University and the Kansas City Conservatory, Ms. Barol-Gilmore currently teaches private voice at UNLV, where she is also pursing a Doctorate of Music Arts under the tutelage of Dr. Carol Kimball.

Musical Arts Singers in Concert

A Concert of American Music

Musical Arts Singers

3:00pm.Sunday, October 14, 2007
UNLV Doc Rando Recital Hall in The Beam Music Center

45^th Gala Anniversary Concert

St. Theresa Mass by Joseph Haydn

Nanie by Johannes Brahms

Thamos King of Egypt by W.A. Mozart

Musical Arts Chorus  and Orchestra                                          3:00pm.Sunday, November  11, 2007
UNLV Artemus Ham Concert Hall

Christmas with Musical Arts Society

Musical Arts Singers, Musical Arts Chorus, Musical Arts Orchestra
3:00 p.m. Sunday  December 16, 2007
Community College of Southern Nevada Horn Theatre (Cheyenne Campus)   

Musical Arts Singers in Concert

Down Memory Lane-Nostalgic Melodies
Musical Arts Singers
UNLV Doc Rando Recital Hall Beam Music Center
3:00 p.m. Sunday, April 13^th, 2008

NOTE This Concert has been rescheduled to:

3:00 p.m. Sunday, May 18^th, 2008

(Program subject to change. Call (702)451-6672 for information.)

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