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7th annual Valentines Concert coming up
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HE LOGAN Tabernacle Concert and Lecture Series will present its seventh annual Valentines Concert at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 13, at the Logan LDS Tabernacle. Admission is free and everyone is invited. Susan Haderlie serves as artistic director of the concert and Merrilee Broadbent will be the accompanist. This year’s concert theme is “Falling in Love,” as performers will present vocal selections from opera, musical theater and classic American ballads. Solo and ensemble music from “La Boheme,” “West Side Story,” “Die Fledermaus,” “Brigadoon,” “Showboat,” “The Pearl Fishers,” “La Rondine” and “I Pagliacci” will display the artists’ virtuoso singing. SUSAN HADERLIE Susan Haderlie has performed with professional opera and stage companies throughout the United States, including Utah Opera in Salt Lake City, Cimmaron Opera in Oklahoma and Idaho Falls Opera in Idaho (to name a few). Some of her roles include Orfeo in “Orfeo ed Euridice,” the mother in “Amahl and the Night Visitors,” the witch in “Hansel and Gretel,” Octavian in “Der Rosenkavlier,” Frugola in “Il Tabarro,” the third lady in “The Magic Flute,” Mercedes in “Carmen,” Ruth in “Pirates of Penzance” and Lalume in “Kismet.” She has performed more than 700 solo performances in educational, community and religious settings. Some of her concert work includes the Temple Square Concert Series in Salt Lake City, Evan Stephens Concert Festival, Idaho Falls Youth Symphony and the Upper Snake River Valley Festival in Rexburg, Idaho. Haderlie has twice won the first-place vocalist title for the state of Idaho in the American Mothers Inc. Voice Competition. She is an honor graduate of Centenary College
Susan Haderlie of Louisiana and also named Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities. Presently she is on the Utah State University music department adjunct voice faculty. JAMES W. MILLER James Miller studied musical theater at the University of Utah and received a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts. He has performed professionally for several years appearing with Utah Opera, Utah Symphony, Arizona Opera and Utah Festival Opera (to name a few). He has also performed with several community organizations around Utah. Most recently he performed in Utah Opera’s production of “Regina” and will be performing in Bernstein’s “Mass” with the Utah Symphony this spring. LYNNETTE OWENS Carnegie Hall’s packed house gave a 10-minute standing ovation and welcoming shouts when Owens displayed her virtuosity soloing with the New England Symphony and a 300-voice chorus. Her operatic performances have included diverse roles such as Mimi in Puccini’s “La Bohème” and the Countess in Mozart’s “Le nozze di Figaro” with the Rome Festival Opera; Lady MacBeth
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in Verdi’s “MacBeth,” Nedda in Leoncavallo’s “I Pagliacci” and Zemfira in Rachmaninoff’s “Aleko” with Amici Opera; Fiordiligi in Mozart’s “Cosi fan tutte” with Utah Opera Studio Artists; Fortuna in “Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea” with Utah Opera; and the musically demanding role of Maliella in “The Jewels of the Madonna” with Amici Opera. Owens has received acclaim for her concert soloist performances including Utah Symphony’s “New Years in Vienna” and several of Utah Symphony & Opera’s “Singin’ in the Park” and “Summer Serenade” concerts, Brahms’ “Requiem,” Handel’s “Dixit Dominus,” Beethoven’s “9th Symphony” and numerous performances of Handel’s “Messiah,” singing with organizations such as the Rome Festival Opera, Utah Symphony & Opera, Amici Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Utah Festival Opera, Sarasota Opera, MidAmerica Productions, the American West Symphony and the Da Camera Choir and Symphony of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
gomery, Ala., and a master’s degree from New England Conservatory in Boston. Apart from secular and sacred choral music, he has performed part or all of these: Verdi’s “La Traviata and “Falstaff”; Mozart’s “Die Zauberflote” and “Cosi fan Tutte”; Nicola’s “The Merry Wives of Windsor”; Strauss’ “Die Fledermaus”; Pasatieri’s “Signor Deluso”; Donizetti’s “L’elisier d’amore”; Ward’s “The Crucible”; Menotti’s “The Old Maid and the Thief” and “The Telephone”; Milhaud’s “The Misfortunes of Orpheus”; Offenbach’s
“Orpheus in the Underworld”; and Poulenc’s “Dialogues of the Carmelites.” Most recently, Sumner introduced children all over Utah to opera as an apprentice artist with Utah Opera. Since June 2008 he has taught both private lessons and as an instructor (in voice, keyboard, guitar, drums and bass) at the School of Rock Music in Sandy. His professional goals include film acting, his own music, public speaking and writing books while inspiring others to find and live out their callings.
ERIK SUMNER Baritone Erik Sumner earned a bachelor’s degree in voice and theory/composition from Huntingdon College in Mont-
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