Utah Symphony To Perform Stravinsky’s Pulcinella

Utah Symphony To Perform

Stravinsky’s Witty Pulcinella

Conducted by Keith Lockhart

Keith Lockhart returns to conduct Stravinsky’s Pulcinella with The Utah Symphony ~ January 27, 28, 29.

Making his first appearance with the Utah Symphony this season, Music Director Emeritus Keith Lockhart will return to conduct Stravinsky’s witty Pulcinella, Mark Adamo’s imaginative and virtuosic Four Angels: Concerto for Harp and Orchestra and orchestral excerpts from Bizet’s Carmen, performing with a handful of featured guest artists.

Adamo will attend all three performances of this program to see the Utah Symphony premier of his harp concerto, played by Utah Symphony Principal Harpist Louise Vickerman. Guest artists Lawrence Jones (tenor), Jeffrey Tucker (bass) and Deborah Domanski (mezzo-soprano) will also join Lockhart and the orchestra for Pulcinella.

These performances will be held Thursday, January 27 at 7:30 p.m. in the Browning Center in Ogden and Friday and Saturday, January 28 and 29 at 8 p.m. in Abravanel Hall. Lockhart and Adamo will also present a free pre-concert lecture each night, 45 minutes prior to the start of the performance in their respective venues.

On Thursday, January 27 at 10 a.m., the general public is invited to attend a Finishing Touches dress rehearsal, where audience members can experience the diligence and dedication that goes into rehearsing for each performance. Tickets for the rehearsal are $15.

Tickets for the evening performances start at $15 and can be purchased by calling (801) 355-ARTS (2787), in person at the Abravanel Hall box office, or by visiting www.usuo.org. Subscribers and those desiring group or student discounts should call (801) 533-NOTE (6683). Ticket prices will increase $5 the day of the performance.

Artist Bios:

Keith Lockhart currently serves as Conductor of the Boston Pops and Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the summer institute and festival at the Brevard Music Center. He recently completed his highly successful 11-year tenure as Music Director of the Utah Symphony. where his leadership of the symphony allowed him to stand at the front of that organization’s historical merger with the Utah Opera to create the first-ever joint administrative arts entity of the Utah Symphony and Opera. Since the merger, arts institutions nationally and internationally have looked to Maestro Lockhart as an example of an innovative thinker on and off the podium. Lockhart has conducted the Symphony Orchestras of Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Minnesota, Montreal, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Baltimore, Atlanta, St. Louis, Nashville, North Carolina, Indianapolis, Singapore, Toronto and Vancouver as well as the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and the National Arts Centre Orchestra.

Louise Vickerman, born in Glasgow, Scotland, was appointed Principal Harpist of the Utah Symphony in January 1999. She was formerly principal with the San Antonio Symphony and, prior to that, with the New World Symphony in Miami, Florida. Ms. Vickerman has also performed with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and BBC Scottish Symphony. Most recently she has performed as principal harpist for the Grand Teton Music Festival, the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in CA and has participated in numerous other festivals both here and abroad including the Colorado Music Festival, the BBC London Proms, the Aldeburgh Festival and the Edinburgh International Festival. As a soloist she has appeared with the Utah Symphony, the San Antonio Symphony, The National Repertory Orchestra, The Orchestra of St. John’s Smith Square, on Norwegian National and BBC Radio and at the Heidelberg Castle Festival, Germany. She is also an experienced & respected teacher and holds the permanent posts of Adjunct Professor of Harp at Weber State University in Ogden & Westminster College in Salt Lake City.

Lawrence Jones began his 2009-10 season with a New York City Recital as a featured soloist with the Five Boroughs Music Festival and pianist Steven Blier, which was followed by performances in Mozart's Bastien and Bastienne in his company debut with Boston Baroque. Jones appeared once again with Boston Baroque in performances of Monteverdi Vespro delta Beata Vergine in February and March. Other concert appearances include soloists in Haydn Paukenmesse at Carnegie Hall, Mendelssohn’s Die Erste Walpurgisnacht at Sanders Theatre in Cambridge, and a Mozart program with the Albany Symphony. It concluded with performances of Ariadne Auf Naxos at the Tanglewood Music Festival, and he will reprise the role during the 2010-11 season with Toledo Opera. At Tanglewood, Jones also appeared in a concert performance of Oliver Knussen's Where the Wild Things are, which is scheduled to be reprised by New York City Opera during the 2010-11 season. The upcoming season will also see Jones in Pearl Fishers at Opera in the Heights. Jones has been a recipient of awards and a finalist in competitions such as the Oratorio Society of New York Solo Competition, Liederkranz Art Song Competition and the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.

Deborah Domanski has performed in The Santa Fe Opera production’s of The Timid Twosome, Handel's Radamisto. Other recent engagements include Lazuli L'etoile with Austin Lyric Opera, La Cenerentola with Opera Southwest, Die Fledermaus and Le Nozze di Figaro with Opera Southwest, the American premier of Dame Ethel Smyth's The Wreckers with the American Symphony Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall, and with the Columbia Pro Cantare in Handel’s Messiah. Domanski made her Los Angeles Philharmonic debut during the 2002-03 season under the baton of Maestro Esa-Pekka Salonen in Mozart’s Requiem. Among other solo concert engagements, she has performed with the Laredo Symphony in Beethoven Ninth Symphony, the Greenwich Choral Society's performance of Rossini Petit Messe Solenelle and with The Juilliard Choral Union in Vivaldi Gloria at Alice Tully Hall. Domanski's education includes a Bachelor of Music, Cum Laude, from Chapman University in California, a Master of Music from Manhattan School of Music and an Artist Diploma from The Juilliard School's opera center.

Jeffrey Tucker recently made his New York City Opera debut in Margaret Garner, followed by Agrippina, L’Étoile, Rigoletto, I Due Foscari, Tosca, Don Carlos, Fidelio with Opera Roanoke, Rigoletto with the Opera Company of North Carolina, Falstaff with Toledo Opera and Der Kaiser von Atlantis with the Greenwich Music Festival. He looks forward to returning to Sarasota Opera in 2011 where he will perform The Crucible and the Toledo Opera for The Rake’s Progress. Tucker made his international debut to critical acclaim in Katowice, Poland singing the title role in Taneyev's Agamemnon with the Silesian Philharmonic, and Candide at the Konzerthaus in Vienna. Other operatic repertoire in performance includes Macbeth, Don Giovanni, Halka, Le Nozze di Figaro, Romèo et Juliette, Die Zauberflöte, Acis and Galatea, Ariodante, Madama Butterfly, The Bartered Bride, The Beggars Opera, Three Penny Opera, Albert Herring, Dialogues des Carmelites, La Traviata, Les Condes D’Hoffman, Un Ballo in Maschera, Otello, Die Fledermaus and La Bohème.


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