Anthony Tomassini, Graduate Recital
PROGRAM
“Since first I saw your face” by Thomas Ford
“Flow my tears” (1600 )byJohn Dowland
“Time stands still”
Jeffrey Noonan, lute
“In der Fremde” Robert Schumann
“Auf einer Burg”
“Die Beiden Grenadiere”
Don Quichotte à Dulcinée by Maurice Ravel
I. “Chanson romanesque”
II. “Chanson épique”
III. “Chanson à boire”
Intermission
“Fußreise” by Hugo Wolf
“In der Frühe”
“Der Feuerreiter”
A Shropshire Lad by George Butterworth
“Loveliest of trees”
“When I was one and twenty”
“The lads in their hundreds”
“Is my team ploughing?”
“When you’re lying awake with a dismal headache” from Iolanthe by Arthur Sullivan
Biographies:
Anthony Tomassini is in his final semester as a graduate student in vocal performance. While attending Washington University, he has appeared in Opera Workshop’s performances in excerpts from The Crucible (John Proctor), Owen Wingrave (Owen), Don Giovanni (Giovanni), Sweeney Todd (Sweeney), Il barbiere di Siviglia (Figaro). He also performed the role of Bully in the Workshop’s production of Stop Bully!!, which was performed at local schools last spring. Anthony received his undergraduate education at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. He studied vocal performance with a minor in electronic media. While at Capital, he performed in musical theater productions, including The Mikado (Pish-Tush), The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Neville Landless), and Street Scene (Mr. Jones). He has also participated in summer programs such as the Colorado College Vocal Arts Symposium (2009), Johanna Meier Opera Theater Institute (2010-12), and the Wesley Balk Institute (2013). This summer, he will perform the roles of Benoit and Alcindoro in Bay View Music Festival’s La bohème.
Pianist Sandra Geary was born in Ireland and received diplomas from the Cork School of Music, Royal School of Music, and Trinity College (London). Her teachers include Joseph Kalichstein and John O'Conor. She earned her Bachelor of Music degree from the St. Louis Conservatory of Music. Ms. Geary serves as accompanist for the Washington University Concert and Chamber Choirs, Bach Society of Saint Louis, Webster Opera Studio and the Union Avenue Opera Crescendo program. She is a member of the piano faculty at Washington University and adjunct piano faculty of the Community Music School of Webster University.
Trained as a classical guitarist, Jeffrey Noonan (lute) has played early plucked instruments for over thirty years across the midwest. Based in St. Louis, he has performed throughout the region with various ensembles including Shakespear’s Bande, Musicke’s Cordes, Early Music St. Louis, Bourbon Baroque in Louisville, Ars Antigua in Chicago, and Musik Ekklesia in Indianapolis. As an in-demand accompanist and continuo player, Jeff performs a varied repertoire ranging from sixteenth-century chanson with solo voice to Handel’s Messiah with the St. Louis Symphony. A recognized expert on the early guitar, Jeff has produced two books and articles for Grove on the subject as well as a recent edition of eighteenth-century violin sonatas for A-R Editions. Jeff holds degrees from the University of Notre Dame (A.B.), the Hartt School of Music (B.Mus.) and Washington University in St. Louis (M.Mus., Ph.D.). He serves as Professor of Musicology at Southeast Missouri State University and has on occasion taught lute and coached early music performance at Washington University in St. Louis.