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Music For All Seasons MUSIC FOR THE HOME AND THE THEATRE April 29, 2018 at 2 pm at Historic Peterloon ABOUT THE ARTISTS MELISA BONETTI ALLAN PALACIOS CHAN RAFAEL DE ACHA EBEN WAGENSTROOM WILLIAM WILLITS Melissa Bonetti, mezzo-soprano Bill Willits, theorbo and lute Alan Palacios Chan, tenor Eben Wagenstrom, piano SONGS FROM PLAYS with music by Henry Purcell SIX CONTRADANZAS by Manuel Saumell FOUR SONGS FROM PLAYS with music by Scarlatti ARIAS FROM SPANISH ZARZUELAS AND GEORGES BIZET’S CARMEN TWO ARIAS FROM SAMSON AND DELILAH by Camille Saint-Saëns RENAISSANCE DANCES FOR THE LUTE SOMEHERE…MARIA…TONIGHT… from Gentleman’s Journal If Music be the Food of Love (The Phoenix) La Fénix by Pablo Luna De España vengo from El niño judío Printemps qui commence (Pepa’s Eyes) from Pirro e Demetrio from Pompeo Los ojos de Pepa Le Violette Gia il sole dal Gange by Ruperto Chapí Al pensar en el dueño de mis amores from Las Hijas del Zebedeo Mon coeur s’ouvre a ta voix from Il Flavio from La Caduta de’ Decembiri Chi vuole innamorarsi Spesso vibra per suo gioco from Carmen Quand je vous amerai…Habanera from Carmen Seguidille from The Mock Marriage Man is for the woman made (Friendship) L'amitié (Cries of the Soul) Ayes del alma from Pausanias Sweeter than Roses (Gossiping in Guanabacoa) Los chismes de Guanabacoa (Dissembling) El disimulo from The Fairy Queen Hark, the echoing air BILL WILLITS therobo BILL WILLITS therobo EBEN WAGENSTROOM piano EBEN WAGENSTROOM piano EBEN WAGENSTROOM piano EBEN WAGENSTROOM piano ALAN PALACIOS tenor ALAN PALACIOS tenor ALAN PALACIOS tenor MELISA BONETTI mezzo-soprano MELISA BONETTI mezzo-soprano MELISA BONETTI mezzo-soprano various composers from West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein BILL WILLITS lute Melisa Bonetti was described in Opera Today as “…a warm, supple mezzo…(and) a wonderful presence…” Since earning her Master’s at CCM, she has sung with Kentucky Opera, Nashville Opera, Opera Columbus, Des Moines Metro Opera, and performed in concert with the Lexington Philharmonic, the Queens Symphony Orchestra, and the Dayton Philharmonic a wide repertory ranging from Bizet’s Carmen and Mozart’s Zerlina to Britten's Spring Symphony, Mahler's Symphony No. 2, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, Mozart’s Requiem and Coronation Mass, and Leonard Bernstein's Jeremiah Symphony. Visit her at www.melisabonettimezzo.com. Here she sings Enrique Granados’ El tra-la-la y el punteado. Allan Palacios Chan holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from George Mason University, a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where he is currently pursuing a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Vocal Performance. Allan has been a Corbett Foundation Young Artist with Cincinnati Opera for four consecutive seasons, and was recently a Voice Fellow at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California. Seen and Heard Internationally singled out Allan for “bringing musicality plus an attractive and flexible leggiero sound to his assignment.” ,Visit him at www.allanpalacioschan.com and listen on his media page to his singing of Handel’s Love Sounds the Alarm from Acis and Galatea. Rafael de Acha began his 60-year career in the arts as a child actor in his native Cuba. In 1960 he came to the United States, where he studied at the Juilliard School of Music, Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, and the New England Conservatory of Music. After training as a singer, Rafael pursued a career as a stage director and theatre producer, which led to his founding with his wife, Kimberly the award-winning New Theatre in Coral Gables, FL., home of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Visit him at www.RafaelMusicNotes.com Eben Wagenstroom made his professional debut while still in his teens with the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra of South Africa in an acclaimed performance of the Concerto in G minor by Saint-Saëns. After earning every possible award, competition and scholarship in his native South Africa, and becoming proficient as both pianist and organist Eben came to Cincinnati to continue his studies at CCM, where he obtained his MMus degree, and is now pursuing his DMA degree, studying under Dror Biran. William Willits performs as a solo guitarist, and collaborates with singers and instrumentalists, playing the theorbo and the lute spanning the genres of Renaissance, classical, romantic, Spanish, Latin, and contemporary popular music. Bill plays in several early music groups, and also maintains an active private teaching studio. He is a yearly faculty member at the CCM Summer Guitar Workshop, and directs several summer music camps for kids. Visit him at www.williamwillits.com. Here he plays Mauro Giuliani’s Fantasia Rossiniana
