PLEASE NOTE (8 November 2007):

JEREMY GALYON IS UNABLE TO APPEAR.

Jeremy Galyon , baritone
18 November 2007 | Bach: Cantata 82: Ich habe genug

Jeremy Galyon, baritone, is an Adler Fellowship resident with the San Francisco Opera, where he is performing this fall in Appomattox, a new opera by Philip Glass. Galyon performed with the UCDSO, University Chorus, and Adler Fellows as Escamillo in Bizet’s Carmen this past May. He made his Mondavi Center debut in March as a soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, also with the UCDSO. Concert and oratorio performances include Mozart Thamos, King of Egypt with the San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas; Fauré’sRequiem and Handel’s Messiah with Mid-America Productions at Carnegie Hall; Bach cantatas with the Bethlehem Bach Choir; regional performances of the Brahms, Duruflé, and Verdi Requiems; and National Public Radio broadcasts. Galyon was a regional finalist for the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and has received an Opera Index Encouragement award. He is a student of Peyton Hibbitt of Binghamton, New York.

Dan Flanagan, violin
10 February 2008 | Sibelius: Violin Concerto

Dan Flanagan currently serves as artistic adviser for the UCDSO, lecturer in violin at UC Davis, coach and adjudicator for the Sacramento Youth Symphony, and concertmaster for the Sacramento Philharmonic and Sacramento Opera. Flanagan began his violin studies at the age of five in New Jersey, eventually studying with Lewis Kaplan and performing in the New York Youth Symphony. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music and a master’s degree from the University of Oregon, where he was a graduate teaching fellow. As a chamber musician, Flanagan has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Sacramento, at the Oregon Bach Festival, and at the Chico State Chamber Music Series. As a soloist, his performances include concertos with the Sacramento Philharmonic, American River Chamber Orchestra, and Bear Valley Symphony. This season’s performances include Beethoven’s Triple Concerto and Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires with the Sacramento Philharmonic.

UOP Symphony Orchestra; Nicolas Waldvogel, conductor
20 February 2008 | Ives: Symphony No. 4

The University of the Pacific Symphony Orchestra performs works from the standard repertory for orchestra, as well as literature from the Baroque to the 21st century. Last season’s performance of Stravinsky’s Petrushka at Mondavi Center marked the group’s first joint concert with the UCDSO. The orchestra collaborates with UOP’s Pacific Opera Theatre in fully staged presentations, and it performs annually with UOP’s choral ensembles. In addition, the orchestra programs concerto performances with faculty and guest artists during the regular season and with student competition winners in the annual commencement concert. 

Nicolas Waldvogel joined the faculty of the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music in fall 2001 as associate professor and director of the University Symphony Orchestra. He holds degrees from Harvard University, the Peabody Conservatory, and Yale University. His conducting credits include the Orchestra de la Suisse Romande, the Orchestre du Conservatoire de Sion, and the Conservatoire Superieur de Genève (Switzerland); Orchestre à Cordes du Pays de Gex (France); the Deutsche Oper Berlin; and the State Philharmonic of Romania. He is the author of For Clara Schumann, an orchestration of the Brahms Piano Quintet in F Minor. At the UOP Conservatory, Waldvogel teaches conducting and music history.

Tamara Matthews, soprano
9 March 2008 | Brahms: Requiem

Soprano Tamara Matthews performs a remarkably varied body of repertoire on opera and concert stages around the world. She has risen rapidly to international status with debuts in France, Spain, and Israel, as well as major venues in the United States, including Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. With some 15 recordings to her credit, Matthews’s discography continues to grow in size and diversity. Her latest recording—the Bach Magnificat and Vivaldi Gloria with the Boston Baroque Orchestra—was released by Telarc in 2005. This season Matthews is slated to sign Mahler’s Resurrection with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic and Beethoven’s Missa solemnis with Philadelphia’s Singing City, with which she recently performed the Brahms Requiem. In addition to a busy performing career, Matthews teaches and conducts master classes regularly at festivals and seminars. She has participated on the faculties of both Swarthmore College and Westminster Choir College as a professor of voice and has a growing private voice studio in Paris.

David Arnold, baritone
9 March 2008 | Brahms: Requiem

David Arnold, baritone, previously appeared with the UCDSO, University Chorus, and Alumni Chorus in their 2004 production of the Verdi Requiem. He has performed leading roles with the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, English National Opera, Komische Oper Berlin, and recently with the Handel Society, and has sung with the major orchestras of Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Atlanta, New York, St. Louis, and Amsterdam. Leonard Bernstein selected him to perform the world premiere of David Diamond’s Ninth Symphony at Carnegie Hall, and James Grant wrote the baritone solos in Such Was the War for Arnold’s voice, the work having its premiere at the Kennedy Center in 2003. Abroad, he has been heard at the Holland, Spoleto, and Thessaloniki festivals; the Concertgebouw; and England’s Bath Opera. His recordings include the Mozart Requiem (Levin completion) and Haydn’s Missa in angustiis ( “Lord Nelson Mass,” with the American Bach Soloists). A winner of many awards, Arnold has made guest appearances at the White House for presidents Carter and Clinton.