Season 27

Ever Onward Sponsored by Ernie Kretzmer Vision Duo

Maria Wirries

JIJI

Anthony Trionfo

Hanzhi Wang

Michelle Cann

Feder Duo

Cameron Crozman

Dover Quartet

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Our Mission Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota promotes excellence in live musical performance. We feature acknowledged stars of the next generation and introduce young people to musical experiences including educational outreach and competitive music scholarship programs. Sponsoring Partners

This project is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Arts and Culture and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture (Section 286.25, Florida Statutes).

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all venues First Presbyterian Church, FSU Center for Performing Arts, Historic Asolo Theater, Sarasota Opera House, Temple Sinai Presentations at the Sarasota Opera House are NOT productions of Sarasota Opera Association, which offers its facilities for rent, when available, to organizations and individuals. For information on the rental of this historic theater and other facilities owned by Sarasota Opera Association, please call 941-366-8450 (ext. 264).

1226 North Tamiami Trail - Suite 300 - Sarasota, FL 34236 Office hours are 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday - Friday Telephone: 941-306-1200 General email: [email protected] Website: www.artistseriesconcerts.org Marcy K. Miller, Executive Director [email protected] Daniel Jordan, Director of Artist Programs [email protected] Leiland Theriot, Educational Outreach Coordinator [email protected] Lee Dougherty Ross, Co-Founder and Director of Community Engagement [email protected] Donna Fisk, Office Administrator [email protected] Kelly Fores, Marketing BOARD OF TRUSTEES David Chivas, Chair Bill Schell, Vice Chair Bonti Burgess, Secretary Peter Phillipes and Gerald Ronkin, Co-Treasurers Miles Capron, Jane Hunder, James Johnson, Mary Ellen McMahon, Cyndi Mumm Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota, Inc. is a 501(c)3 tax exempt organization. For more information, visit www.artistseriesconcerts.org, www.thegivingpartner.org, or www.guidestar.org.

Greetings from our Executive Director Artist Series Concerts is thrilled to present EVER ONWARD, our 27th season, sponsored by Ernie Kretzmer, featuring acknowledged stars of the next generation. Your continuing and generous support enables us to bring these extraordinary musicians to you. Daniel Jordan, our new director of artist programs, has chosen outstanding artists for your enjoyment this season. The concerts are divided into five series: ~ Lighter Fare for classic jazz and musical theater presented outdoors in the lush ambience of Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in downtown Sarasota and indoors at the premier Plantation Golf & Country Club in Venice ~ Lunch and Listen at the Sarasota Yacht Club where we spotlight gifted young artists ~ Soirées at the Fischer/Weisenborne residence where intimate performances take place in the one-of-a-kind music room and are followed by wine, delicious treats, and the opportunity to get up close and personal with the artists ~ Tuesdays at the Historic Asolo Theater where the elegant 18th century theater serves as the backdrop for the energetic artistry of fascinating 21st century performers ~ Virtuoso Violins at the Sarasota Opera House features grand programs dedicated to the glory of the violin Single tickets to all concerts are available for purchase.

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We also present two individual concerts in 2023: ~ On Easter Sunday afternoon you will be delighted by Abraham Feder, cello, and Cheryl Losey Feder, harp, when they return to Sarasota where they began their careers as principal players in the Sarasota Orchestra. ~ We close the season with Viola Royale on May 14, featuring brothers and world-class violists Paul and Steven Laraia. We are excited about our collaborative performance with The Sarasota Ballet in May 2023. Watch for more information about this performance with dancers from the Ballet and music presented by Artist Series Concerts. For those of you who are new to Artist Series Concerts, I invite you to join us for a FRIENDS meeting. FRIENDS of Artist Series Concerts is a group of volunteers who delight in camaraderie while working on activities and projects to support Artist Series Concerts. Enjoy music and refreshments at our FRIENDS meetings, which are held in the first floor conference room at the Center for Arts & Humanity, 1226 N. Tamiami Trail in Sarasota. Meeting dates are February 23 and April 13. Another date to remember is March 16 for our annual fundraising gala to take place at Laurel Oak Country Club. Please mark your calendar! Once again, I thank you for your patronage. Your support not only helps us bring incredibly talented musicians to Sarasota, but also helps us to take them and their music to area students through our educational outreach programs, and to partner with the Sarasota Music Club to host the Suncoast Music Scholarship competition for talented high school students. This season we also are bringing back our state competition for college-aged students. I look forward to seeing you at these performances and events! Marcy Miller, Executive Director

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ARTIST SERIES CONCERTS - ANNUAL FUND DONORS (January 1, 2022-December 13, 2022)

SEASON SPONSOR ($25,000+)



Kretzmer Family Charitable Foundation

SERIES SPONSOR ($10,000-$24,999)



Kandy Kaak and Don & JoAnn Burhart

Sora Yelin in memory of Cary Yelin

Margarete & Russ Wiltshire

Barbara Staton

CONCERT SPONSOR ($5,000-$9,999)

Mary Elizabeth Carey

David Chivas & Ron Rice

Renee Hamad

Robert & Sally Arthur

Charlotte & Charles Perret

Jerold & Lee Dougherty Ross

Miles & Barbara Capron

While we try to list every donation accurately, occasionally we may miss or incorrectly list a name. Our donor lists are updated frequently throughout the season, so please let us know of any necessary corrections for prompt resolution. ([email protected] or call 941.306.1202)

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Robin Radin

Jane Riggin

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HONORARIUMS AND MEMORIAMS

In memory of Harvey & Betsy Heinrichs Dirksen Family Charitable Fund In honor of Keirin Kane’s birthday & music in Sarasota Jeffrey Olson In honor of Lee Dougherty Ross Donna Cubit-Swoyer

Danielle Talamantes, soprano Kerry Wilkerson, bass-baritone with Joseph Holt, piano January 18, 5:30 pm • Plantation Golf & Country Club Lighter Fare Series sponsored by Don and JoAnn Burhart and Kandy Kaak.

PROGRAM Gems of the Canon South Pacific Some Enchanted Evening

Rodgers & Hammerstein

The Music Man Till There Was You

Meredith Willson

Anyone Can Whistle Everybody Says Don’t

Stephen Sondheim

Right This Way I’ll Be Seeing You

Sammy Fain

On the Town Carried Away

Leonard Bernstein

Music by Henry Dehlinger (featuring poetry by James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and Dante) At that Hour Bahnhofstrasse Alone Requiescat Amore e ‘l cor gentil sono una cosa

Music by Duke Ellington Come Sunday

arr. Henry Dehlinger

Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me

arr. Larry Ham

Don’t Get Around Much Anymore

arr. Henry Dehlinger

About the Artists Danielle Talamantes, soprano “It’s not often that a fortunate operagoer witnesses the birth of a star!,” critics hailed for Danielle Talamantes’ recent role début as Violetta in La traviata, a role she performed again in her Hawaii Opera Theatre début. This season’s engagements include Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with the National Philharmonic, Verdi’s Requiem with both the Pensacola Symphony and North Carolina Master Chorale, the soprano soloist in Britten’s War Requiem with Opera Roanoke, as well as concerts with Lyric Fest, The United States Naval Academy, Choralis, the Artist Series of Sarasota (with her husband Kerry Wilkerson), and the Music Center at Strathmore. Last season, Talamantes made her Washington National Opera début as Maria Hernández in Kamala Sankaram’s Rise as part of their production Written in Stone, and recorded Mosaic for Earth at Virginia Tech. She performed Henry Dehlinger’s Kohelet for the Washington Master Chorale and the Santa Clara Chorale, Mimi in La bohéme for Jackson Symphony, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony for Fairfax Symphony, and the Artpark concert series with the Buffalo Philharmonic. In 2021, she appeared in the World Premiere of Henry Dehlinger’s The Love Song of Alfred Prufrock for the National Philharmonic, as a soloist in Washington Concert Opera’s Women’s Suffrage Virtual Concert, St. Petersburg Opera’s Virtual Concert Recital Series, in Close Encounters with Music’s Virtual Opera Gala, and in recital with Kerry Wilkerson for Opera Roanoke. Other recent engagements for Ms. Talamanates include the role of Mimì in La bohéme with Fairfax Symphony, her Hawaii Opera Theater début as Violetta in La traviata, Beatrice in Il Postino with Virginia Opera, and with The Metropolitan Opera for their production of Carmen. In addition, she appeared as a soloist in multiple classical masterworks including Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with DCINY, Verdi’s Requiem with the National Philharmonic, Fauré’s Requiem and Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music with Eugene Concert Choir, Brahms’ Requiem with Riverside Choral Society at Lincoln Center, Fauré’s Requiem and Mozart’s Missa brevis in C Major with MidAmerica Productions at Carnegie Hall, Mendelssohn’s Elijah with Choralis, Händel’s Messiah with La Jolla Symphony, and in the National Philharmonic’s Bernstein Choral Celebration concert. Danielle first earned a spot on the Metropolitan Opera roster in the spring of 2011, covering the role of Najade in Ariadne auf Naxos, and was subsequently reengaged to cover the role of the Flower Maiden in Wagner’s Parsifal, joined the house for their production of The Exterminating Angel, the soprano in the quartet of lovers in the Baroque pastiche The Enchanted Island, and in Strauss’ Die Frau ohne Schatten. This rising star made her exciting stage début as Frasquita in Bizet’s Carmen in a return to The Metropolitan Opera and has since returned to perform the role of Anna in Nabucco. Other

notable operatic engagements include the role of Marzelline in Fidelio with the Princeton Festival; Mimì in La boheme with the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas; the title role of Susannah with Opera Roanoke; Violetta in La traviata with Finger Lakes Opera; Donna Anna in Don Giovanni at Cedar Rapids Opera; the role of Sergente in Veremonda at Spoleto Festival USA; and Act I of La bohéme with the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas at Walton Arts Center. As a distinguished concert artist, Ms. Talamantes has sang the soprano solo in Händel’s Messiah with National Philharmonic, The New Choral Society, United States Naval Academy, and Austin Symphony & Chorus Austin; Brahms’ Requiem with National Philharmonic, and St. Mary’s College; Mozart’s Requiem with Phoenix Symphony Orchestra, National Philharmonic, Washington National Cathedral, and Fairfax Symphony; Verdi’s Requiem with Gloria Musicae; Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with Manchester Symphony Orchestra; Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with National Philharmonic, and Fairfax Symphony; Poulenc’s Gloria with Arizona State University’s Symphony Orchestra; Exsultate, jubilate with the National Philharmonic and the City Choir of Washington; and Dvořák’s Stabat Mater at North Carolina Master Chorale. Kerry Wilkerson, bass-baritone A resonant singer with unique evenness in register, baritone Kerry Wilkerson has been described by the Washington Post as an ‘exuberant’ performer, having the “amber tone of a lyric baritone with the imposing weight demanded by Handel’s low-lying writing.” He made his Carnegie Hall debut in June 2017 to rave reviews as a baritone soloist in the Vaughan Williams Sancta Civitas. His solo concert career has taken him up and down the east coast performing renowned oratorios and recitals. This season, Wilkerson can be seen as a soloist in Verdi’s Requiem with the North Carolina Master Chorale, and in concert with Strathmore’s Music at the Mansion. In past seasons, Mr. Wilkerson performed as baritone soloist in Opera Roanoke’s gala concert as well as in recital with Danielle Talamantes; Handel’s Messiah with National Symphony Orchestra, United Methodist Church, and La Jolla Symphony; Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs with American University; Rachmaninoff’s The Bells with Spokane Symphony; Kodály’s Te Deum with Oregon Music Festival; Bach’s Mass in B minor with The City Choir of Washington; Faure’s Requiem with Eugene Concert Choir; Mendelssohn’s Elijah with Choralis; Duruflé’s Requiem and Mozart’s Requiem for The Washington Chorus; as well as Einhorn’s Voices of Light with the National Philharmonic. Previous engagements included “Literary Giants” in recital with St. John’s Episcopal Church, Henry Dehlinger’s Kohelet for both the Santa Clara Chorale and Washington Master Chorale, as well as Benoit/Alcindoro in La boheme with the Jacksonville Symphony and Montano in Otello with Pacific Symphony; in addition, Wilkerson performed Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis for the

National Philharmonic and Ralph Vaughn Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem for the Washington Chorus. In addition, Kerry has sung professionally with the United States Air Force Singing Sergeants and the critically acclaimed Robert Shaw Festival Singers in many of the most prestigious concert halls throughout the United States and Canada. Kerry is well known to Washington, DC audiences through his solo recitals and regular guest appearances with choruses and orchestras such as the Handel Choir of Baltimore, the National Philharmonic Chorale and Orchestra, City Choir of Washington, Choralis, and the Oratorio Society of Virginia. Recent performances as featured soloist include Dvorak’s Stabat Mater with the North Carolina Master Chorale and Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem with the Air Force Symphony Orchestra at the acclaimed Kennedy Center. Dr. Joseph Holt, piano Dr. Joseph Holt has enjoyed a wide-ranging musical career as conductor, pianist, chamber music performer, arts administrator, educator and arranger. Dr. Holt served more than 20 years as principal pianist with The United States Army Chorus in Washington, DC, performing for U.S. presidents, military officials and dignitaries from around the world. He was also associate music director for the Choral Arts Society of Washington for 15 years. Unusual highlights of his musical career include coordinating and conducting the Filene Center Orchestra for a gala performance featuring premier comedian Victor Borge at Wolf Trap; compiling and directing the music for Prodigy, a children’s play about Mozart at the Kennedy Center; performing with soprano Jessye Norman at the base of the Hoover Dam; and assisting in the development of the National Music Conservatory in Amman, Jordan. He holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music, Shenandoah Conservatory, and the Catholic University of America. Now a full-time resident of Sarasota, Holt serves as artistic director of Choral Artists of Sarasota, and as a coordinator and host for Sarasota Institute of Lifetime Learning’s Music Mondays. In October 2017, Dr. Holt was recognized by the Arts Alliance of Sarasota for artistic achievement. Anu Tali, former music director of the Sarasota Orchestra, invited Dr. Holt to be the chorus master for several performances during her tenure with the ensemble, notably her final performances of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in April 2019. Dr. Holt also served for six years as director of artist programs for Artist Series Concerts, bringing a diverse array of exciting and innovative programs to Sarasota stages, including the very successful Piano Grand series.

Upcoming Concerts Soireé Series STEVEN MOECKEL, violin JOANNA GOLDSTEIN, piano January 29, 4:00 pm - SOLD OUT January 30, 7:30 pm Fischer/Weisenborne Residence

Celebrated violinist Steven Moeckel is concertmaster of the Santa Fe Opera. He performs throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia as a concerto soloist, concertmaster, and recitalist. This program features the works of women composers. Refreshments served following each performance.

Lunch and Listen HANZHI WANG, accordion February 9 11:00 am performance followed by lunch Sarasota Yacht Club

Praised for her captivating stage presence, this groundbreaking young musician is the only accordionist to win a place on the roster of Young Concert Artists in its 61-year history. In the five years since, she has debuted at both Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center.

Lighter Fare MARIA WIRRIES ON BROADWAY with Alan Corey, piano February 23, 5:30 pm Marie Selby Botanical Gardens

Sarasota’s own Broadway star comes home for an evening of musical theater gems under the stars. Most recently a member of the Broadway cast of Dear Evan hansen, Maria has been hailed for three albums of her own music. The evening promises to be an emotional homecoming for this rising star.

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