Cecilia Leitner has performed as a soprano soloist in the United States, Spain, China, and Korea with conductors Helmut Rilling, Simon Carrington, Stephen Layton, Paul Hillier, Stephen Stubbs, and Nicholas McGegan. Her performances include the Oregon Bach Festival, Seattle Accademia d’Amore, Yale Schola Cantorum, Yale Voxtet, Yale Baroque Opera Project, Magnolia Baroque Festival, and Interpretation of Spanish and Latin American Song. Ms. Leitner received a Master of Music in vocal performance from Yale University, where she studied at the Institute of Sacred Music under the tutelage of James Taylor, Ted Taylor, Judith Malafronte, and Simon Carrington. She completed her bachelor’s degree at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where she studied with Glenn Siebert. Cecilia currently performs and teaches in the Santa Fe area and continues her vocal studies under Nina Hinson Rasmussen.
Highlights of mezzo-soprano Deborah Domanski’s career thus far include principal roles with the Santa Fe Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, Opera Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Utah Symphony, and the American Symphony Orchestra at Lincoln Center. In 2002, she performed a Juilliard Vocal Arts Honors Recital in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. She was also the 2002 winner of the Music Academy of the West/Marilyn Horne Foundation Award. In January 2005, Deborah made her Carnegie Hall debut as part of the Horne Foundation’s The Song Continues… recital series. Ms. Domanski’s education includes a Master of Music from the Manhattan School of Music and an Artist Diploma from the Juilliard Opera Center at the Juilliard School.
A native of Greeley, Colorado, baritone Tim Willson has also lived in Cleveland and New York. He was seen at the Metropolitan Opera as the mad doll-maker Spalanzani in The Tales of Hoffman, conducted by Julius Rudel, and as Wagner in Mefistofele, conducted by Mark Elder. He also appeared as the Innkeeper in the “Live from the Met” production of Verdi’s Falstaff. On the Sony/Met recording of Il Trovatore, Tim sings the role of the Messenger. Understudy assignments at the Met included Goro in Madama Butterfly and Spoletta in Tosca.He appeared as Pang in Turandot with the Tulsa Opera, Triquet in Eugene Onegin with the Santa Fe Opera, Monostatos in The Magic Flute with Opera Grand Rapids, and Benoit in La Boheme with the Sacramento Opera.With Opera North Carolina he was Gastone in La Traviata and Robot from Arcturus in Starbird.At Amato Opera in New York, Tim sang the leading tenor roles in Lucia di Lammermoor, The Tales of Hoffman, Aida, Otello, Pagliacci, Cavalleria Rusticana, and Madama Butterfly. Now a Santa Fe resident, Tim was a soloist in the Santa Fe Symphony’s performances of Dvořák’s Stabat Mater and sang the role of Satan in the Santa Fe Pro Musica’s production of Gerald Fried’s Rock of Angels as well as Pontius Pilate in their performances of J. S. Bach’s St. John Passion. He is also a docent at Las Golondrinas Living History Spanish Colonial Museum, where he appears as a hide tanner and a buffalo hunter.
Mezzo-soprano Monika Cosson has appeared with the New Orleans Opera, Gulf Coast Opera, and the Santa Fe Opera. She has toured and recorded with the Gregg Smith Singers in New York and performed and recorded with the Santa Fe Desert Chorale. She has also been a featured soloist with the Santa Fe Community Orchestra, Canticum Novum Chamber Orchestra, the Santa Fe Men's Camerata, the Sangre de Cristo Chorale, and Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico. A resident of Santa Fe, she is an active member of the Church of the Holy Faith, serving as soprano section leader with the choir, cantor for Taizé Services, and director of the Royal School of Church Music Children's Choir. Ms. Cosson is a student of Nina Hinson Rasmussen.
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Pianist Peter Vinograde holds B.M., M.A., and D.M.A. degrees from the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with Zenon Fishbein. His numerous distinctions began with first prize in the J. S. Bach International Competition in 1971, followed by his New York debut at Carnegie Recital Hall and an N.E.A.-sponsored Lincoln Center recital at Alice Tully Hall.
Mr. Vinograde has developed a reputation as an outstanding interpreter of J. S. Bach and of modern composers. He gives recital tours annually across the U.S., Canada, and Asia. His most recent Asian appearances have included three China tours (one solo, one with the Macao Orchestra, and one with flutist Lydia Yang) and recitals in Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, and Thailand with violinist Midori. As a chamber musician he has appeared at the Bard, Bargemusic, Caramoor, and Wolftrap Festivals. He has also performed with Midori at the Cape Cod and Mostly Mozart Festivals.
Most recently, Mr. Vinograde played the Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Southwest Symphony in Utah, presented a Bach Birthday Concert on the St. Andrews Series in New York, and toured Canada with flautist Lydia Yang. In June he will perform Mark Zuckerman’s On the Edges at
New York City's Symphony Space as part of the American Composers Alliance Festival. Last season’s performances included the American Music Festival at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., and solo and chamber performances in Macao, Singapore, and Beijing.
Mr. Vinograde teaches at the Manhattan School of Music and at Lehman College (CUNY). In conjunction with his class, Bach for Pianists, at the Manhattan School, this season he presented the Goldberg Variations in lecture/recital form and gave repeat performances at Oberlin and Juilliard.
Mr. Vinograde gave the world premiere performances of Nicolas Flagello's Concerto No. 3 (1962) with Nicholas Palmer and the Owensboro (Ky.) Symphony and Hal Campbell’s Piano Concerto (1997) in Utah, where he also performed Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with the Southwest Symphony at Zion National Park in an outdoor live concert. He has been featured on NPR’s Performance Today and on CBC-TV's The Journal. His recordings appear on the Albany, CBC, Linfair (Decca) and Phoenix labels and include premieres of works by Alfred Fisher, Nicolas Flagello, Michael Matthews and Mark Zuckerman. Other CDs feature works by J. S. Bach, Rachmaninoff, Schumann, and Scriabin. His latest CD of works for flute and piano by Beethoven, Copland, Hue, Franck, and Roussel was just released on the Linfair (Decca) label with flutist Lydia Yang.
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