May 18, 2024, 7:30 PM
Fireside Lounge at RIT
Rochester International Vocal Competition Showcase Premiere
Program
Greeting
K. Sue Geier, Immediate Past Board President, Rochester Oratorio Society
Ben Willmott, Director of Operations and Administration, RIT School of Performing Arts, College of Liberal Arts
Board Vice President, Rochester Oratorio Society
Rochester International Vocal Competition Showcase
Performance
Ghalip Ekber, Tenor; Kevin Nitsch, Piano
Verdi
from La Traviata, “De’ miei bollenti spiriti”
Bolcom
from A View From The Bridge, “New York Lights”
Sorozabal
from La tabernera del puerto, “No puede ser”
Rochester International Vocal Competition Showcase Resumes
Audience Favorite Voting
Closing
K. Sue Geier
Kevin Nitsch is a pianist, collaborator and teacher in the Rochester area. Kevin is a member of the piano faculty at Nazareth College of Rochester, is vocal coach at SUNY Geneseo and is the Music Director at the Baptist Temple in Brighton. Kevin performs regularly with Rochester Oratorio Society, Finger Lakes Opera, and Lyric Opera. In celebration of Beethoven’s 250th birth year, Kevin anticipates performing the five piano concertos in the Fall of 2020.
Kevin holds a BM in Piano Performance from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music, and a MM and a DMA in Performance and Literature in Piano Performance from the Eastman School of Music.
Kevin lives in Penfield with his wife, Brenda and enjoys hiking, biking and kayaking. He is a certified yoga instructor and finds pianobenchasana to be his favorite pose.
Meet the Winners
Cody Bowers, countertenor
First Prize
With “a voice of rare beauty” (Seen and Heard International, 2022), American countertenor Cody Bowers has received national awards from The Sullivan Foundation, The Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, and The George London Foundation for Singers. In the 23-24 performance season, Mr. Bowers will make concert debuts with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, The Houston Symphony Orchestra, Apollo’s Fire Baroque Orchestra, and The Metropolitan Opera. In previous seasons, Mr. Bowers has performed at San Francisco Opera War Memorial Opera House, the Stern auditorium at Carnegie Hall, San Diego Opera, Minnesota Opera, Utah Opera, The Atlanta Opera, and is a 2019 Boston Early Music Festival YATP alumnus. Operatic credits include Tolomeo in Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Refugee in Dove’s Flight, Federico Garcia Lorca in Ainadamar, Leonardo in El último sueño de Frida y Diego, L’Enfant in Ravel’s L’enfant et Les Sortilèges, Orlando in Handel’s Orlando, and a 2023 debut as Ruggiero in Handel’s Alcina.
Susanne Burgess, soprano
Second Prize
British-American soprano Susanne Burgess returns to the Metropolitan Opera this season as Frasquita in a new production of Carmen, following her stunning debut as Countess Ceprano in Rigoletto. She also reprises her critically acclaimed performance of Helena in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Des Moines Metro Opera. A standout performer on the competition circuit, Susanne has garnered numerous awards and recognitions, including First Prizes and Audience Choice Awards at the Shreveport Opera Mary Jacobs Singer of the Year and Opera Birmingham Vocal Competition, First Place at the National Opera Association’s Argento competition, and Second Prize at Opera Mississippi’s John Alexander Competition, as well as an Encouragement Grant from the Gerda Lissner Foundation. Last season, Susanne shone as Mabel in Pirates of Penzance at The Atlanta Opera and delivered a sparkling role debut as Gilda in Rigoletto with Bohéme Opera NJ. Other notable performances include Violetta Valéry in La Traviata with Teatro Lirico d’Europa, Lucy Brown in The Threepenny Opera with The Atlanta Opera, Musetta in La bohème, and Hannah in Dear Erich with New York City Opera. A frequent soloist with the New England Symphony, Susanne has also performed solos in the Fauré Requiem, John Trotta’s The Seven Last Words of Christ, as well as Jubilate Deo and Requiem for the Living by Dan Forrest at Carnegie Hall.
Logan Wagner, tenor
Second Prize
Noted for his “expressive stage skills” and “powerfully transformative” voice, tenor Logan Wagner is a highly sought-after young artist. Mr. Wagner grew up in Villa Hills, Kentucky. An advocate for contemporary opera, Mr. Wagner originated the role of Boy in a workshop of Bulrusher by Nathaniel Stookey at Cincinnati Opera. With Cincinnati Opera’s Opera Fusion: New Works, Mr. Wagner also originated the roles of Sergei Eisenstein and Carl Van Vechten in Robeson/Moscow by Scott Davenport Richards. Comfortable in both musical theater and opera, Mr. Wagner was seen as a Principal Artist at Utah Festival Opera where he performed the roles of Monostatos in The Magic Flute, Padre in Man of La Mancha, and covered Martin in The Tender Land. In 2023, Mr. Wagner joined Des Moines Metro Opera as an Apprentice Artist. While at DMMO he covered the role of Jumper in Zach Redler and Jerre Dye’s new American opera, The Falling and the Rising. Mr. Wagner made his Dayton Opera debut as Beadle Bamford in Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd. He then sang the roles of Marcellus and the Second Gravedigger in Thomas’ Hamlet with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. This performance was conducted by Maestro Louis Langrée and was in collaboration with Opéra-Comique in Paris. In the summer of 2024, Mr. Wagner will join Wolf Trap Opera as a Studio Artist to sing the Brother in Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins with the National Orchestra Institute. At the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), Mr. Wagner has sung Orfeo in L’Orfeo, Don Basilio and Don Curzio in Le Nozze di Figaro, L’Aumonier in Poulenc’s haunting opera Les Dialogues des Carmélites, and Timothy Laughlin in Gregory Spears’ contemporary masterpiece, Fellow Travelers. Mr. Wagner began his operatic studies at CCM, graduating with his Bachelor of Music in 2020 and Master of Music in 2023. Mr. Wagner is currently in the prestigious Artist Diploma program at CCM and is based in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Maggie Reneé, mezzo-soprano
Emerging Artist Prize
Maggie Reneé, a mezzo-soprano from Los Angeles, California, is a Metropolitan Opera Competition Grand Finalist Award Winner, Opera Index Award Winner, Sullivan Foundation Finalist, Igor Gorin Memorial Award Recipient, and an Honors BM and MM graduate of The Juilliard School where she is pursuing her ADOS. This season she will perform Venus with Vienna Volksoper, Baba the Turk with Barbara Hannigan’s production of The Rake’s Progress, and will sing Carmen at Juilliard. This summer she covered Carmen and sang Nicolette in The Love for Three Oranges at Des Moines Opera. Last season she sang Irene in Atalanta at Juilliard, Zweiter Knabe at Merola, and Baba the Turk at Juilliard Opera. Previously, Maggie Reneé covered Olga and Due Donne at Santa Fe Opera and sang King Egeo and Goffredo at Juilliard. She sang Carmen in La Tragédie de Carmen with City Lyric Opera, toured Europe with Juilliard’s Dido and Aeneas, and made her European debut as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro in Germany. Maggie Reneé writes her own music, has a black belt in Karate, and entertains over 250,000 of her subscribers on her YouTube channels daily.
Meet the Judges
Evans Mirageas is in his seventeenth season as The Harry T. Wilks Artistic Director of Cincinnati Opera. Widely considered one of the most talented and respected artistic leaders in the classical music industry today, Mirageas brings to Cincinnati Opera a broad range of experience in both opera and symphonic music, as well as a long history of successful partnerships with many of the world’s leading singers and conductors.
Mirageas’s varied career in classical music has included radio production with the nationally renowned WFMT radio station in Chicago, Artistic Administrator to Seiji Ozawa at the Boston Symphony, and Senior Vice President of Artists and Repertoire for the Decca Record Company. In addition, he is an award-winning record producer, lecturer, interviewer, presenter, and awards panelist. From 2012 to 2018, he served as the Vice President for Artistic Planning for The Atlanta Symphony. Since 1999, Mirageas has served as an independent artistic advisor to conductors, instrumentalists, singers, symphony orchestras, opera companies, and other performing arts organizations throughout the United States and Europe.
The thread of opera runs throughout Evans Mirageas’s career. Like many other Americans, his early exposure to opera was through recordings and the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts. A Detroit Opera Theater production of Boris Godunov in 1974 with Jerome Hines was his first exposure to professional live opera, followed soon thereafter by regular attendance at Metropolitan Opera productions on tour in Detroit and, starting in 1980, in New York. Among his earliest opera experiences was his first visit to the Cincinnati Opera in 1978 to see Verdi’s Macbeth with Sherrill Milnes in the title role.
Very soon after joining the staff of radio station WFMT in Chicago, Mirageas produced the historic 1983 international broadcast live from the Bayreuth Festival of Sir Georg Solti’s only appearances at the Wagner festival. The following autumn he began working with Norman Pellegrini and Lois Baum, the producers of the Lyric Opera of Chicago internationally syndicated broadcasts. For seven seasons, Mirageas attended rehearsals and performances, recorded interviews, and eventually produced the broadcasts himself. In this time he observed closely the “golden era” of Ardis Krainik at the Lyric.
In 1989, Evans Mirageas was appointed Artistic Administrator of the Boston Symphony. Seiji Ozawa hired Mirageas, in part for his operatic expertise. Ozawa programmed fully-staged opera and opera scenes in Symphony Hall and Tanglewood nearly every season. While in Boston, Mirageas cast and supervised the production team for Tchaikovsky’s Pique Dame (also recorded live for RCA), Strauss’s Salome, Verdi’s Falstaff, and Mozart’s Idomeneo with all-star casts including Mirella Freni, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Hildegard Behrens, Frederica von Stade, Frank Lopardo, Dawn Upshaw, and Benjamin Luxon, among others.
When he was appointed Senior Vice-President for Artists and Repertoire of the Decca Record Company in London, England in 1994, Evans Mirageas inherited a stellar roster of opera singers and conductors under exclusive contract to the label. For the next seven years he supervised opera recordings conducted by Sir Georg Solti, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Riccardo Chailly, and others with singers Luciano Pavarotti, Cecilia Bartoli, Bryn Terfel, Renée Fleming, Angela Gheorghiu, Plácido Domingo, Thomas Hampson, Ben Heppner, René Pape, Karita Mattila, Barbara Bonney, and more.
Since 2000, Evans Mirageas has been an independent consultant and in this time has cast opera productions for Semyon Bychkov, the Music Director of the WDR Cologne. Many of these concert productions have been recorded for commercial release, including Strauss’s Daphne with Renée Fleming (October 2005 release on Decca) and Strauss’s Elektra with Deborah Polaski (fall 2005 release on Hänssler) and Wagner’s Lohengrin with Johan Botha (fall 2009 release on Hänssler).
For the Milwaukee Symphony, he developed a concert performance production of Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel with Susanne Mentzer and Heidi Grant Murphy in the title roles. It was nationally broadcast by NPR and is now commercially available on AVIE. It is the first English-language recording of the work in nearly 50 years.
In his work as Artistic Advisor to the Brooklyn Philharmonic and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, he has cast productions of Mozart’s Così Fan Tutte, Cimarosa’s Il Matrimonio Segreto (Jonathan Miller, dir.), Adams’s The Death of Klinghoffer, and the revival of the staged version (Jonathan Miller, dir.) of the Bach St. Matthew Passion.
In autumn 2004, Evans Mirageas was engaged by the Los Angeles Opera and the Lincoln Center Festival to serve as casting director for the new Eliot Goldenthal/Julie Taymor opera Grendel, which had its world premiere production in summer 2006 in Los Angeles and New York.
For the Handel and Haydn Society in Boston he assisted in the development of an exciting multiyear project of the three Monteverdi operas and the 1610 Vespers, which was co-produced by the Handel and Haydn Society and the English National Opera with the celebrated Chinese director Chen Zhi-Zhang. The first opera to be produced in the cycle—Orfeo—premiered in autumn 2006 in London and then Boston. Haydn’s Orfeo with Sarah Coburn and Christopher Maltman, with Sir Roger Norrington conducting, followed in February 2009.
In January 2005, Cincinnati Opera engaged Evans Mirageas as Artistic Advisor to assist in the planning of the 2006 and 2007 seasons while the search was underway for a new artistic director of the company. In July 2005, he accepted Cincinnati Opera’s invitation to become Artistic Director and officially took up the post in September 2005.
In recognition of his remarkable contributions to the opera world, Opera News magazine listed Mirageas among its “25 Most Powerful Names in U.S. Opera” in its August 2006 issue.
Daniel Wolfsbauer is a graduate of the University of Vienna, where he received his Master’s Degree in Law (Magisterium), and of Vienna’s University of Music and Performing Arts, where he earned his Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) degree in Cultural Management. Since 2000, he has been the Artistic Director of the Music Society LA PRIMA VOLTA, which presents music rarely heard in Vienna in a diverse series of concerts (composer portraits, operas in concert). He frequently gives lectures and is invited to sit in juries for international singing competitions and master classes. Daniel is also a founder of Artists’ Management begun in 1999, and is dedicated to developing the careers of young opera singers while simultaneously managing the careers of established artists. The agency is licensed to negotiate contracts of fixed employment as well as guest engagements.
About the Rochester Oratorio Society
The Rochester Oratorio Society (est. 1945) annually presents 2-6 performances of stimulating and gratifying music for chorus and orchestra. Guest conductors such as Leonard Bernstein, Erich Leinsdorf, David Zinman, Uri Segal, and Christopher Seaman have led its concerts. At present, the ROS seeks to illuminate provocative intersections between music and society by programming music to commemorate events such as the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln’s birth, and the NY Women’s Suffrage Centennial. We also support youth, under-resourced persons, emerging artists, and local organizations through our many outreach activities. Multimedia performances interweaving visual art, spoken word, and dance are a hallmark of our seasons. The Rochester Oratorio Society melds high artistry with intense community engagement. It has premiered works locally such as Berlioz’s Requiem and Britten’s War Requiem and is best known for its performances of Handel’s Messiah. The ROS has toured in Italy, the UK, Eastern Europe, and China, where they were the keynote ensemble at the 9th International Cultural Festival preceding the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Our music formed a feature episode of WXXI’s televised “Voices” series. We have maintained a lengthy relationship with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and we collaborate with the region’s finest vocalists, instrumentalists, ensembles and artists. ROS supports composers locally and abroad by commissioning and premiering new music. It brings music well outside the concert hall, traveling to colleges, libraries, schools, and even street corners. Our education initiatives complement our support for early-career vocalists through the nationally acclaimed Rochester International Vocal Competition, presented annually by ROS since 2007.
ROS BOARD OF DIRECTORS – OFFICERS
Jeff Moran, President
Ben Wilmott, Vice President
Daniel McInerney, Secretary
Kara Dwyer, Treasurer
BOARD MEMBERS
Phillip Burke
Luanne Crosby
Peter Gaess
Jenny Horn
Nicole Prahler
Katherine Clark Walter
STAFF
Eric Townell, Artistic Director
Sarah Engel, Office Coordinator
Jo Ann Lampman, Registrar
Kathleen Green, Financial Operations Manager
COMMITTEE CHAIRS/KEY VOLUNTEERS
Choral Scholars and Choral Fellows | Maryellen Giese
Development Committee | Jenny Horn
Education and Community Outreach | Molly Sanchez
Event and Fundraising Committee | Sue Geier
Executive Committee | Jeff Moran
Governance Committee | Daniel McInerney
Marketing and Public Relations Committee | Sarah Stage
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee | Frederick Jefferson and Katherine Clark Walter
Thank You
Thank you for attending the 2024 Rochester International Vocal Competition Showcase Premiere! The RIVC
Showcase will be available for streaming this June, and will also be broadcast on several local television
stations. Every viewing makes a new friend for ROS! More information on streaming and broadcast dates
will be shared via email on social media. Please share with your friends and family.
Please also patronize the sponsoring businesses who support us.
Rochester International Vocal Competition Co-Chairs
K. Sue Geier
Carole Huther
Artistic Director
Eric Townell
Judges
Evan Mirageas
Daniel Wolfsbauer
Special Thanks
The Rochester Oratorio Society Board of Directors, Jeffrey Moran, President
Jeff Beckett, Beckett Audio
David Kassnoff, Photography
Sarah Engel
Kathleen Green
Laura Hellwig
Hon. John Ninfo
Kevin Nitsch
Nicole Prahler
Maura Slon
Robert Slon
Sarah Stage
Ben Willmott
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Underwriters
First Prize: Carole Eliott
Second Prizes: Elise Rosenfeld
Emerging Artist Prize: Peter Gaess
Audience Favorite Prize: Jim Anderson and Sue Geier
Judges: Peter Gaess and Virginia Wohltman
In addition, several ROS choristers and friends of ROS, who wish to remain anonymous, made substantial contributions toward underwriting our showcase video and event production costs. RIVC 2024 would not be possible without your generous support. THANK YOU!
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