Liederabend, featuring Estelí Gomez, soprano, Eric Hoeprich, clarinet, and Seth Carlin, fortepiano
General Admission $20
Seniors and WUSTL faculty/staff $15
Students with ID FREE
Tickets also available at the door.
Special $10 discount for American Council on Germany and the WUSTL Friends of Music.
Featuring the music of Meyerbeer, Mendelssohn, Weber, and Schubert
PROGRAM: “Shepherd on the Rock”
Deutsche Lieder, opus 103 Ludwig (Louis) Spohr (1784-1859)
Sei still mein Herz
Zweigesang
Wach auf
Des Menschen Herz ist ein Schlacht Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Le Chant du Berger Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864)
“Sylvana” Variations, opus 33 Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
INTERMISSION
Die Liebende schreibt (opus 86, no.3) Felix Mendelssohn
Auf flugeln des Gesang (opus 34, no.2)
Pagenlied (woo. 17, no. 2)
Suleika (opus 34, no. 4)
Ganymed (opus 19, no.3) Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Lied der Delphine (opus 124)
Der Hirt auf dem Felsen Franz Schubert
Praised for her "clear, bright voice" (New York Times) and "artistry that belies her young years" (Kansas City Metropolis), soprano Estelí Gomez is quickly gaining recognition as a stylish interpreter of early and contemporary repertoires. In January 2014 she was awarded a Grammy with contemporary octet Roomful of Teeth, for best chamber music/small ensemble performance; in November 2011 she received first prize in the Canticum Gaudium International Early Music Vocal Competition in Poznan, Poland. An avid performer of early and new music, Estelí can be heard on the Juno-nominated recording Salsa Baroque with Montreal-based Ensemble Caprice, as well as Roomful of Teeth's self-titled debut album, for which composer Caroline Shaw was awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize.
Highlights of 2014-15 include soprano solos on Conspirare’s newest CD in Robert Kyr’s Songs of the Soul (Harmonia Mundi), a performance of Mozart’s Exultate Jubilate with the Louisiana Philharmonic in New Orleans, soprano solos in Esenvalds’ Passion and Resurrection in Kansas City, recitals with lutenist Sylvain Bergeron and guitarist Colin Davin, and performances with Roomful of Teeth at Lincoln Center, Walt Disney Hall, and in Seoul, South Korea.
Originally from Santa Cruz, California, Estelí received her Bachelor of Arts with honors in music from Yale College, and Master of Music from McGill University, studying with Sanford Sylvan. She currently travels and performs full-time.
For the past 25, years Eric Hoeprich has specialized in performing on historical clarinets in music from the Baroque to the late Romantic. In addition to Indiana University, he also is currently on the faculties of the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique and the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague. A founding member of Frans Brüggen's Orchestra of the 18th Century (1982), Hoeprich has performed frequently as a soloist with this orchestra and many of the major early music ensembles, under conductors such as Roger Norrington, Christopher Hogwood, Bruno Weil, Philippe Herreweghe, Nicholas McGegan, and Jos van Immerseel. He has also performed with orchestras including the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Akamus (Akademie für Alte Musik), Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Galicean Symphony Orchestra, B'Rock, and the Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra.
In the 1980s, he founded two wind ensembles, NACHTMUSIQUE and the Stadler Trio (three basset horns), which have toured around the world. He has made dozens of recordings, which are available on the Deutsche Grammaphon, Philips, EMI, SONY, Harmonia Mundi, Glossa, and Decca labels. Collaboration with string quartets, chamber ensembles, and vocal soloists also feature regularly on his calendar. The recent release of clarinet quintets (Mozart and Brahms) with the London Haydn Quartet (Glossa), and the three clarinet concertos by Bernhard Crusell with Kölner Akademie (ARS Production) have received wide critical acclaim.
Hoeprich's interest in historical clarinets has led to the publication of numerous articles and a general text on the clarinet published by Yale University Press (The Clarinet, 2008). He has amassed a collection of over 100 antique clarinets, including instruments from the eighteenth century, which has also led to restoration and construction of replicas of period originals. He maintains a workshop for instrument making at his home near London.
Seth Carlin's career began at the age of nine with a broadcast performance over radio station WNYC, performing a work written especially for him. Since then Carlin has been soloist with orchestras such as the STL Symphony, San Francisco Philharmonia Baroque and Boston "Pops", with conductors such as Leonard Slatkin, Nicholas McGegan and Roger Norrington, in recital with performers such as Pinchas Zukerman and Malcolm Bilson, and in performances at the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy, the Marlboro Music Festival, and the Newport Music Festival in Rhode Island, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Great Performers at Lincoln Center Mozart Marathon, Cambridge Society for Early Music in Massachusetts, and "On Original Instruments" at Merkin Hall in New York. In addition he has made appearances on French, Swedish, German and mainland Chinese national television and radio, and recorded for Titanic and Naiad records. Recent concerts have taken him to Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Mr. Carlin performed the cycle of complete Schubert fortepiano sonatas, including the "Wanderer" Fantasy, in New York City during the 1991-92 season. The concerts were broadcast nationally on National Public Radio's program "Performance Today." Seth Carlin was a prizewinner in the International Busoni Competition, a recipient of a special scholarship from the French government, and one of only two fully funded National Endowment for the Arts recitalist grant winners in the United States in 1989. He holds degrees from Harvard University (B.A. in music, cum laude), the Juilliard School (M.S. in piano) and the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris (Licence de Concert, premier nommé à l'unanimité), and has studied piano with Rosina Lhevinne, Jules Gentil and Morton Estrin, as well as interpretation with Wilhelm Kempff. His CD recording of Sonatas and Bagatelles by Beethoven was named "Recording of the Month" by Alte Musik Actuelle magazine. Carlin is Professor of Music and head of the piano program at Washington University in Saint Louis.