4/20/2024, StageWorks 2024

Emory’s student performance of musical theatre and opera scenes

Date

Destination

Saturday, 20 April 2024 PERFORMING ARTS STUDIO (PAS)

Time 8:00 PM

1804 N Decatur Rd Atlanta, GA 30322

AT T ENZIO N E! H E L LO???

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B E PR E S E N T

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W I T H G R AT I T U D E

The Department of Music is profoundly grateful for the Friends of Music and their generous support of Music at Emory.

Emory’s student performance of musical theatre and opera scenes

I DEN T I T I E S Starring LUC Y A DELM A N

EZR A GR EIDINGER

RU BY STILLM A N

A N USHK A BASU

K A RY N LISK ER

CATA LINA VA R EL A

AVA SA NDSTROM

With

Stage Direction by DR. BETH A N Y M A MOL A

Musical Direction and Piano by DR. PATR ICI A DINK INS-M AT THEWS Assistant Stage Direction by DR. DA NIEL LICKTEIG Costume Design by K ATH Y SU MMERS

Lighting and Technical Design by ELI GUAJA R DO and JEFF MILLSA PS Costume Design Assistance by V E X HU T TON

The new works presented tonight are a result of the collaborative course MUS 370/

DAN 385 taught by Emory Arts Visiting Fellows THEODOSI A ROUSSOS (music) and A N NA LEE TR AY LOR (dance), exploring the collaborative possibilities between music/

sound creators and dance creators. Their students have collaborated this semester to create original works for the singers of StageWorks on the topic of identity, in

collaboration with DR. PATRICIA DINKINS-MATTHEWS and DR. BETHANY MAMOLA .

AC T 1 There Was Once a Handsome Prince from Cendrillon Cendrillon

Pauline Viardot (1821-1910)

Anushka Basu

Selections from The Magic Flute

Soon Speeds the Morning Light Proclaiming

W. A. Mozart (1756-1791)

Papageno & Papagena Duet Pamina Papageno Papagena

Anushka Basu Ezra Greidinger Catalina Varela

Ladies Karyn Lisker Lucy Adelman

Ruby Stillman Ava Sandstrom

Taylor the Latte Boy & Taylor’s Response

Marcy Heisler and

Carol Lucy Adelman Taylor Ezra Greidinger

(b. 1948)

I Feel Pretty

Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)

from West Side Story Maria Consuela

Catalina Varela Ava Sandstrom

Francisca Karyn Lisker Rosalia Lucy Adelman

A Trip to the Library

Jerry Bock

(1928-2010)

from She Loves Me Ilona

Ruby Stillman

Czárdás and Champagne Chorus from Die Fledermaus Rosalinde Adele Eisenstein

Zina Goldrich

Karyn Lisker Catalina Varela Ezra Greidinger

Chorus Anushka Basu Ruby Stillman

Johann Strauss II (1825-1899)

Lucy Adelman Ava Sandstrom

INTERMISSION

AC T 2 All That Jazz

Kander & Ebb (1838-1875)

from Chicago

Roxie Hart Lucy Adelman Velma Kelly Karyn Lisker

Chorus Ezra Greidinger Ruby Stillman Ava Sandstrom

“Thetis” Composed for StageWorks 2024 Vocalist

Ava Sandstrom

Staging

Ezra Greidinger

Staging

George Wu

Bibby Agbabiaka

The Beauty Is

Adam Guettel (b.1964)

from The Light in the Piazza Clara

Griffin Trejo Noble

Audrey Jones

“Heracles” Composed for StageWorks 2024 Vocalist

Anushka Basu Catalina Varela

Anushka Basu

Selections from Into the Woods Agony

Stephen Sondheim (1930-2021)

Any Moment/Moments in the Woods Cinderella’s Prince Rupunzel’s Prince The Baker’s Wife

Ezra Greidinger Ava Sandstrom Ruby Stillman

Adelaide’s Lament

Frank Loesser (1910-1969)

from Guys & Dolls Adelaide

Ava Sandstrom

All Girl Band

Joan Micklin Silver & Julianne Boyd

from A My Name is Alice Chorus Lucy Adelman Karyn Lisker

Catalina Varela Anushka Basu

Ruby Stillman Ava Sandstrom

CAST A N U S H K A BA S U, soprano, is a sophomore at

Emory University from the San Francisco Bay Area.

She is pursuing a double major in Vocal Performance

and Quantitative Social Science: Data Science. Anushka has been studying classical singing for eight years and is currently a student of Dr. Bethany Mamola at Emory.

Before joining Emory, she attended the Washington

National Opera Institute, the Metropolitan Opera Guild High School Opera Singers Intensive, and SongFest

at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Anushka

has also played the piano for fifteen years and has taken

part in Emory ensembles such as collaborative piano and University Chorus. This summer, Anushka will perform her first lead role as Bastienne in Mozart’s opera Bastien und Bastienne in Salzburg, Austria.

LU CY B R I G H T (A D E L M A N ) is an Atlanta

Native artist. In the Fall of 2020, Lucy arrived at Emory University as a Vocal Performance Major and has since

performed around the campus and city at Eddie’s Attic, Lost Dog Tavern, the Schwartz Center and more. Her

passion for creating sound brought her into the recording studio, where internship turned full time recording

artist. Throughout her time at Emory, Lucy performed with her band “Groove”, Aural Pleasure a Capella,

Emory UChorus, and The Emory Alumni Association.

She served as the Emory Musicians Network Events Coordinator, Ad Hoc Theater Group Vocal Coach, and Emory Composers Society Executive Board.

The singer/songwriter is taking her training and

determination to New York City in the fall where she

will be pursuing a career in music. She’d like to thank all her family, friends, and teachers for their support!

Enjoy the show!

CAST E Z R A G R E I D I N G E is a senior double majoring in psychology and music composition. He was drawn to music at a young age and enjoyed getting to perform in various musicals and plays. He has continued to pursue this interest at Emory through his involvement in student theater and the University Chorus. As well as performing, Ezra has had the opportunity to premiere several original compositions with the music department.

When he isn’t composing or performing, Ezra enjoys playing basketball, practicing guitar, and spending time with friends. He is grateful for all the support and guidance he has received at Emory.

K A RY N L I S K E R , 22, from St. Louis, Missouri, is a senior at Emory University and will be graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Music (Vocal Performance) and Psychology. Karyn studies voice under Dr. Bethany Mamola and collaborative pianist, Dr. Hanna Song. She is a former student of Bradley Howard and Erika Tazawa.

Karyn has performed in Emory Choir’s Concert Choir under Dr. Eric Nelson’s direction for four years as Alto 2 and serves as Co-Director of Public Relations. Karyn’s vocal studies have generously been supported by Emory’s Friends of Music, the 2018 Music Scholarship, and the Atlanta Symphony Chorus Robert Shaw Memorial Outstanding Singer Scholarship. This year is Karyn’s ninth of studying voice – growing up, she played piano and danced for fifteen years, musicals were a highlight of her high school years, and trained with Opera Theater St. Louis’s Artists-in-Training program for two years.

Outside of music at Emory, Karyn is involved in research within the ACCESS Lab at the Marcus Autism Center, and has or currently serves in leadership roles in Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women, Emory Hillel, Hillels of Georgia, Office of Spiritual and Religious Life, and the Student Well-being Advisory Committee.

CAST AVA S A N D S T R O M , mezzo, 19, is from Pittsburgh, PA, is a freshman unsure of her major but considering

interdisciplinary studies, vocal performance, linguistics, women’s studies, and international studies, to name a few. In past years, from school shows to professional

prep courses, she has enjoyed playing Éponine in Les

Misérables, Cinderella in Rodger’s and Hammerstein’s

Cinderella, Morticia in The Addams Family, and Belle in Beauty and the Beast, as well as many wonderful ensemble credits. Ava loves to participate in Emory Concert Choir as well. Ava has had the pleasure of

studying solo voice, focusing on musical theater, jazz, and a bit of classical here and there, for nearly 6 years

and sends so much love to her first voice teacher, Leigh Usilton. In 2016, Ava received the Rising Star Award

in her school, and in 2023 she was nominated for Best

Actress in a Leading Role at the Gene Kelly Awards. She serves as Vice President of Talks Branch at Table Talk on campus and is excited to be learning Muay Thai at Muay Thai club. Ava is obsessed with her cat, Gypsy, and has

been practicing and teaching martial arts for almost 13 years. All her love to Ryer Martial Arts Academy! Ava would like to thank Dr. Mamola, Dr. Matthews, and

Dr. Brower for beginning this journey with her and her friends and family far and wide. Ava’s heart beats for those she loves.

CAST R U BY S T I L L M A N is a senior from Minneapolis, MN majoring in Human Health and minoring in

Spanish. She is involved in student theater at Emory, and has enjoyed performing as well as studying

musical theater as a voice student for her entire Emory career. She is the first and only vocalist in Emory’s

Jazz studies department, as well as the President of Emory’s student-run radio station, WMRE. She

enjoys engaging in activism, thrifting, and spending

time with her friends. She has found her experiences in the arts at Emory fruitful and fulfilling.

CATA L I N A VA R E L A , soprano, is a junior double

majoring in Neuroscience (NBB) and Vocal Performance in the pre-med track. Catalina has studied solo voice for 2.5 years but has been involved in vocal ensembles since seventh grade. Currently, she enjoys being a member

of Emory’s University Chorus. She also loves to read, dance salsa, and fly gliders. She would like to thank Bethany Mamola, Daniel Lickteig, and Patricia

Dinkins-Matthews for their support of Emory’s music department and StageWorks. Finally, she hopes you enjoy the show!!

S TAG E D I R E C TO R D R . B E T H A N Y G R AC E M A M O L A , soprano,

has charmed audiences with her stage presence and warm vocal timbre. The Cleveland Plain Dealer praised her

with “...the most beautiful singing, whose Carolina was as disarming in characterization as it was expressive in

vocal shading.” Arts Atlanta wrote that Bethany “was that rare talent who commands not only the virtuosity of a

seasoned operatic vocalist but also the stage presence and acting prowess necessary to truly embody the character she presents”.

Bethany has been a featured soloist with the National

Repertory Orchestra Festival in Colorado, the DeKalb Symphony Orchestra, the Sausalito Song Society, The

McKinney Philharmonic, The River Cities Symphony

Orchestra and was the featured soprano soloist with the

UTRGV Symphony Chorus in their 2019 performances of The Messiah. Her recent stage credits include Susanna

in Le Nozze di Figaro, Drusilla in L’incornazione di Poppea and Zerlina in Don Giovanni.

She holds a DMA in voice from the University of North Texas, a Masters of Music from the Cleveland Institute

of Music and a Bachelors of Music from the University of the Pacific’s Conservatory of Music and is the Director of Vocal Studies at Emory University.

MUSICAL DIRECTOR AND PIANIST D R . PAT R I C I A D I N K I N S - M AT T H E W S joined the faculty of Emory University in 1998, where she is an Associate Teaching Professor in piano, vocal

coaching, piano skills, and collaborative piano. She has been a member of the piano faculties at the University

of Florida, Baylor University, the American Institute of

Music Studies (Graz, Austria), and McLennan College.

Dinkins-Matthews has an undergraduate degree from

the University of Tennessee and both a Master of Music degree in piano performance and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano pedagogy and performance from the University of Colorado. Dinkins-Matthews is an active solo and chamber music recitalist and has

performed both in the United States and in Europe,

including recitals in England, France, Austria, Belgium, and Germany. Among others, Dinkins-Matthews has been the pianist for the Florida Arts Trio and the American Chamber Winds (ACW), and she

has appeared as soloist with the ACW, the Colorado

Symphony, the University of Tennessee Orchestra, and

the Florida Symphony Orchestra. Dinkins-Matthews is

the pianist for the Aevia Trio and is the associate pianist for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus. She is an approved adjudicator for the National Federation of Music Clubs and the Music Teachers National Association.

A S S I S TA N T S TAG E D I R E C TO R D R . DA N I E L L I C K T E I G , having graced the stages of prestigious American opera houses, continues to leave audiences spellbound with his soaring baritone voice’s

sheer power and beauty. Dr. Lickteig is excited to join

Emory University as a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in

Vocal Studies. Throughout his career, he has worked with great conductors such as Valéry Ryvkin, Laurie Rogers, Timothy Myers, and Robert Larsen.

Originally from Iowa, Dr. Lickteig’s professional debut was singing comprimario roles in Des Moines Metro

Opera’s broadcast of The Ballad of Baby Doe for Iowa PBS. He has covered and sung leading roles with many opera companies, including Opera Philadelphia, Sarasota Opera, Cleveland Opera, and Utah Festival Opera, among others. Highlights of his extensive operatic

repertoire include Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Rossini’s

Figaro, Verdi’s Rigoletto, Scarpia in Puccini’s Tosca, and Marcello in La Bohème.

Dr. Lickteig has performed recitals in various cities, including Philadelphia, where he had the honor of

performing and recording songs by Charles Ives and

the world premiere of Jeremy Gill’s Dreamland with the Dolce Suono Ensemble. Equally comfortable on the concert stage, he has performed as a soloist in iconic

works such as Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Bach’s Magnificat,

Brahm’s Requiem, and Orff’s Carmina Burana, which he performed at Philadelphia’s Academy of Music.

Dr. Lickteig has been teaching voice throughout his

performing career. He holds bachelor’s and master’s

degrees from Temple University in Philadelphia. He

recently completed a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of North Texas.

VO C A L S T U D I E S AT E M O R Y Emory’s Vocal Studies area includes approximately 25 Music majors among many

other students who are either voice minors or voice non-majors studying for credit

or studying privately. With five voice teachers in the program, students have ample opportunity to explore the craft of singing, working on technique and artistry as it

relates to them individually. There are many performance opportunities on campus as well, including StageWorks, master classes with world renowned teachers, art

song symposia, solo recitals, and voice classes. The vocal program at Emory is for the student who is moving toward a career in music, or one who simply wishes to sing.

V O I C E FA C U LT Y DR . BE T H A N Y M A MOL A Director of Vocal Studies,

Performance Techniques, StageWorks DR . DA N IEL LICK T EIG

Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow Vocal Studies DR . SI MON E MCG AW E VA NS Vocal Instructor

M A R I A CL A R K Vocal Instructor

DR . JON AT H A N PILK I NGTON Vocal Instructor

M U S I C AT E M O R Y The Department of Music at Emory University provides an exciting and innovative environment for developing knowledge and skills as a performer, composer, and

scholar. Led by a faculty of more than 60 nationally and internationally recognized artists and researchers, undergraduate and graduate students experience a rich

diversity of performance and academic opportunities. Undergraduate students in the

department earn a BA in music with a specialization in performance, composition, or research, many of whom simultaneously earn a second degree in another department.

True to the spirit of Emory, a liberal arts college in the heart of a research university, the faculty and ensembles also welcome the participation of nonmajor students from across the Emory campus.

FRIENDS OF MUSIC Become a part of Music at Emory by giving to the

Friends of Music. A gift provides crucial support to

all of the activities and scholarship opportunities for students. To learn more, visit music.emory.edu, call 404.727.1401, or scan the QR code to the right.

UPCOMING CONCERTS The following events and recitals feature students and faculty of the Emory Department of Music. For a comprehensive list of performances, visit arts.emory.edu/events.html 21 APRIL 4:00 pm

Emory Concerto and Aria Competition

Schwartz Center for Performing Arts Emerson Concert Hall 1700 North Decatur Rd.

23 APRIL 8:00 pm

Spring Composition Showcase

Emory Performing Arts Studio (PAS) 1804 N Decatur Rd.

25 APRIL 6:00 pm

Jazz on the Quad

In front of the Carlos Museum 571 South Kilgo Circle NE

26 APRIL 8:00 pm

Emory University Symphony Orchestra and University Chorus Verdi’s Requiem

Schwartz Center for Performing Arts Emerson Concert Hall 1700 North Decatur Rd.

27 APRIL 12:00 pm

Student Recital Taekyu Lee (piano)

Emory Performing Arts Studio (PAS) 1804 N Decatur Rd.

27 APRIL 8:00 pm

Emory University Symphony Orchestra and University Chorus Verdi’s Requiem

Schwartz Center for Performing Arts Emerson Concert Hall 1700 North Decatur Rd.

28 APRIL 12:00 pm

Student Recital Kimiko Darcy (piano)

Emory Performing Arts Studio (PAS) 1804 N Decatur Rd.

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