Special Guest Performance by 1985 Cliburn Gold Medalist José
Feghali
For Immediate Release
Contact: Maggie Estes, Director of Marketing and Public
Relations
mestest@cliburn.org
, 817.738.6536 (o), 817, 739, 0459 (c)
Fort
Worth, Texas, March
29, 2012--The Cliburn
at the Modern series welcomes
soprano Angela Turner Wilson to
the Modern Art Museum of Fort
Worth on Saturday,April
14, 2012, at 2
p.m. Underscoring the Cliburn at the Modern's
mission of highlighting contemporary American composers and their
works, Ms. Wilson, with pianist Shields-Collins
Bray, will present a program of art songs by composers
previously featured on the series, including John Corigliano, Ned
Rorem, Osvaldo Golijov, and Adam Guettel. The "American Anthem"
program will also include works by two composers new to the Cliburn
at the Modern series--Gene Scheer and Libby Larsen. Additionally,
the afternoon's concert will feature a special guest performance
by 1985 Cliburn Gold Medalist José
Feghali.
The "American Anthem" program will replace "Zenph: Great
Performances Live Again," which has been postponed to an
undetermined future date at the request of the
artist. Single tickets are $25 for general admission
seating and can be purchased by calling the Performing Arts Fort
Worth Box Office at 817.212.4280 or online at
Cliburn.org.Tickets to the Zenph performance will be
honored, and ticket holders with questions should contact the Box
Office at 817.212.4280.
Angela Turner Wilson
Angela Turner Wilson has garnered praise from critics and
audiences in the United States and abroad for her poignant and
lyrical performances. Her portrayal of Lucia in Donizetti's tragic
opera Lucia di Lammermoor with the Lyric Opera
of Kansas City earned her critical acclaim, and she was immediately
re-engaged by the company to appear as Leila in
Bizet's Les Pecheurs des Perles. Ms. Wilson has sung
leading roles in productions with the Washington, Dallas, Fort
Worth, Portland, Connecticut, and Calgary Operas; the Fresno Grand
Opera; and the Boston and Chicago Lyric Operas. She has also
appeared with the New York City Opera, where her performance of
Norina in Donizetti's Don Pasquale was praised
by The New York Times as "acted well and sung
with an admirably pure and light soprano."
Ms. Wilson has appeared in concert with the National Symphony
Orchestra, and the Alabama, Fort Worth, Mississippi, and Colorado
Symphony Orchestras. She also performed at the Clinton White House
as a featured soloist for a state dinner honoring the Prime
Minister of Italy. Ms. Wilson was a finalist of the Metropolitan
Opera National Council's New England Regional Auditions in 1996.
She received a grant from the Sullivan Foundation and was named
Washington Opera's Artist of the Year in 2000. She is currently an
instructor of voice at TCU.
José Feghali
Gold Medalist and winner of the Steven De Groote Memorial Award
for Best Performance of Chamber Music at the Seventh Van Cliburn
International Piano Competition in 1985, José Feghali has been
artist-in-residence at TCU's School of Music since 1990. He has
appeared in over 1,000 performances worldwide, with orchestras such
as the Berlin Philharmonic, Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, Gewandhaus
of Leipzig, Royal Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, and the
Shanghai and Beijing Symphonies. In the United States, he has
appeared with the orchestras of Chicago, St. Louis, Dallas,
Houston, Detroit, Atlanta, and Baltimore, among others.
Equally active as a recitalist, Mr. Feghali has appeared on such
prestigious stages as Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Ambassador
Auditorium, Chicago Orchestra Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, and
Wigmore Hall, among others. He has also performed in the major
concert halls of the United Kingdom, Germany, Holland, Spain,
Portugal, Eastern Europe, Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Latin
America. An avid chamber musician, he has participated in many
chamber music festivals in the United States and abroad.
Mr. Feghali has worked as a producer and master engineer on over
50 commercial and non-commercial recording projects, and was the
remastering engineer for the Cliburn Competition's retrospective
series of CDs on the VAI label. He is coordinator of internet
technologies for TCU's School of Music, where he was awarded the
Mike Ferrari Award for his work with Internet2, video conferencing,
and streaming technology.
Shields-Collins Bray
Shields-Collins "Buddy" Bray is the artistic advisor for the Van
Cliburn Foundation, has been principal keyboardist of the Fort
Worth Symphony Orchestra since 1986, and has hosted the orchestra's
pre-concert discussion series since 1993. He has also appeared as
soloist with the Dallas and Jacksonville Symphony Orchestras, the
Buffalo Philharmonic, the Kennedy Center Opera Orchestra, and in
Miguel Harth-Bedoya's The Passion of Tango with
the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl.
Mr. Bray served as artistic director of Dallas' new-music
ensemble Voices of Change from 2003-2006, and maintains his
commitment to new music as host of Cliburn at the Modern, bringing
such composers as Ned Rorem, William Bolcom, David Del Tredici, and
Ricky Ian Gordon to Fort Worth. This season, he hosts John
Corigliano, Anthony de Mare, and "American Anthem" featuring Angela
Turner Wilson, soprano, and José Feghali, piano, in concert.
Mr. Bray and music educator John Feierabend create the Van
Cliburn Foundation's Musical
Awakenings® curriculum, and he continues to be
deeply involved as narrator, host, and sometimes pianist at these
uniquely interactive children's programs. Bray was born in
Mississippi and grew up in northeastern Louisiana. He studied piano
there with Donald Cornell, and later with Steven De Groote in Fort
Worth.
ABOUT THE VAN CLIBURN FOUNDATION
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worldwide, and nurtures and launches young artists' careers through
the quadrennial Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, the
ensuing three-year international concert tour of its medalists,
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The Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano
Competition will take place May 24-June 9, 2013, at
Fort Worth's Bass Performance Hall and will welcome 30 of the
world's finest young pianists to Texas. Continuing its longstanding
commitment to new music, the Cliburn has selected composer
Christopher Theofanidis to write the commissioned work that will be
performed by all competitors during the Semifinal Round.
Additionally, the Cliburn has been dedicated to showcasing both the
extraordinary talent of its competitors in recital performance as
well as their ability to collaborate with other musicians. The
Fourteenth Competition will mark the first Cliburn appearance by
the renowned Brentano String Quartet performing a piano quintet
with each of the 12 semifinalists. The Fort Worth Symphony
Orchestra, which has appeared at every Cliburn Competition, will
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baton of Maestro Leonard Slatkin for the first time. Maestro John
Giordano will serve as the chairman of the jury for his eleventh
competition since assuming the post in 1973.
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