Role: Mary Magdalene
SMF’s “SpringFest2024” offers a three-day celebration of Baroque music, spanning Europe from West to East and culminating with Handel's sublime Italian oratorio La Resurrezione.
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“The Four Seasons + Esmail”
David Alan Miller, Conductor
Molly Netter, Soprano
Ravenna Lipchik, Edson Scheid, Amelia Sie, & Shelby Yamin, Violins
Program
Reena Esmail: The History of Red
Derek Bermel: Murmurations
Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Saturday, March 16, 2024 at 7:30pm to 9:30pm & Sunday, March 17, 2024 at 3:00-5:00pm.
Friday, January 5, 2024
Saturday, January 6, 2024
7:30 pm
David Lang’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Little Match Girl Passion, based on a Hans Christian Andersen story and modeled after Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, has become a beloved Met holiday tradition over the last decade. Now, the haunting piece returns in its starkest, most poignant form: a quartet of percussion-playing vocal soloists standing in front of The Met’s ornate Christmas tree. Join us for this wrenching contemplation of joy amid suffering, hope amid hopelessness, and beauty amid bleakness.
Entertainment for Elizabeth
Voice of the Viol with soprano Molly Netter
Renaissance music from the court of Elizabeth I, including music by William Byrd for his 400th anniversary.
December 15, 2023 Palo Alto 7 pm
December 16, 2023 San Francisco 8 pm
December 17, 2023 Berkeley 7:30 pm
Molly Netter – Soprano
Lillian Brooks – Mezzo-Soprano
Asitha Tennekoon – Tenor
Stephen Hegedus – Bass-Baritone
Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony
Grand Philharmonic Choir
Mark Vuorinen, Conductor
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A new recording of the little match girl passion will be released in October 2022. This studio recording features soprano Molly Netter, mezzo Kate Maroney, tenor Gene Stenger, bass-baritone Dashon Burton, percussionist Ian Rosenbaum and Jeffrey Douma, conducter. Produced and supervised by the composer, it will be available in both vinyl and digital formats and will be accompanied with the publication of a new score with essays and notes by Lang and musicians who have performed the piece.
PAM TANOWITZ | ARTISTS AT THE CENTER
Songs of Songs
Choreography by Pam Tanowitz
Music by David Lang
Direct from its five-star UK run, the NYC premiere of Song of Songs fuses Pam Tanowitz’s choreography with Pulitzer Prize winner David Lang’s “dreamlike” (The Guardian) choral settings of the Biblical love poem, performed live by six musicians, with movement mined and abstracted from Jewish folk dance. Tanowitz’s intricate assemblage of style, form, and emotion "fills the stage with love” (The Guardian).
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Soprano soloist
Jeannette Sorrell, conductor
“Premiered in 2017, Jeannette Sorrell’s new adaptation of Handel’s neglected oratorio has won rave reviews…”
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Voice Faculty: Dame Emma Kirkby, Daniel Taylor, James Taylor, and Molly Netter
World Premiere, Los Angeles Philharmonic commission
Solo debut with the LA Phil
Lead role: “Tasha”
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Hosted by the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton
soprano soloist, recording in Berkeley, CA
Voice of the Viol
Early English repertoire for soprano and viol consort
Soprano soloist: Handel’s “Lucrezia” and “Mi palpita il cor”
Two period-instrument concerts of Bach Flute Sonatas & Handel Cantatas with SMF
Boston Symphony Orchestra; Andris Nelsons, conductor
Lorelei Ensemble; Beth Willer, director
Boston Symphony Orchestra; Andris Nelsons, conductor
Lorelei Ensemble; Beth Willer, artistic director
Gustav Hoslt’s The Planets
For the Bang on a Can All-Stars and three voices
Voice Faculty at Oberlin’s BPI
A two-week intensive summer workshop focusing on baroque instruments and voice
Music for Voices and Percussion with Yale Choral Artists (Jeff Douma, director) and The Percussion Collective (Robert van Sice)
World premiere of Garth Neustadter’s Memory of Water , among other new works
Soprano soloist with Camerata Antonio Soler; Gustavo Sánchez, director; Javier Mendoza, conductor
Performance at the Cofidis Alcázar Theater in Madrid, Spain.
Concert and Masterclass on Eighteenth-Century music with duo Molly Netter (soprano) and Mark Shuldiner (harpsichord)
Location: San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Assembly Hall of the House of Culture.
Duo Molly Netter (soprano) and Mark Shuldiner (piano) perform David Lang’s “simple song #3”
The American Academy in Rome
SMF’s “BaroqueFest,” a three-day immersion in the very best music from the 17th and early 18th centuries
World premiere of Katherine Balch’s “Illuminate,” a song cycle for three voices and orchestra; Donato Cabrera, conductor
*This performance was recognized as one of the top 10 musical highlights of 2022 by the San Francisco Chronicle
solo debut with the NY Phil
David Lang’s “prayers for night and sleep” for soprano, solo cello, and chamber ensemble
for the Bang on a can All-Stars and three voices
Soprano soloist, Handel’s “Israel in Egypt”
Apollo’s Fire Baroque Orchestra; Jeannette Sorrell, director
