NOCHE ESPAÑOLA FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 2021 | 7:00PM
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EL GRUMETE Learn about Arrieta's work The Cabin Boy
UNA VIEJA Find out information on An old woman by Gaztambide
GOYESCAS Discover the famous zarzuela by Goyescas
CONNECT Keep in touch with UTSA Lyric Theatre
COMPOSED BY ARRIETA
EL GRUMETE
DIRECTED AND ADAPTED BY MICHELLE PIETRI CONDUCTED BY HECTOR GARCIA Pascual Juan Emilio Arrieta Corera was a Spanish composer born in Puente la Reina, Navarre (1823). A student of the Milan Conservatory, Arrieta composed four operas in his lifetime. His Zarzuela output far exceeded any other musical form he composed. Arrieta contributed twenty-nine Zarzuelas to the cannon. He was praised for his works zarzuela
Marina, El grumete, Dos coronas, and Llamade y tropa. El grumete premiered on June 17th, 1853 at the Teatro Circo in Madrid. It tells the story of a young Cabin Boy named Serafin who hopes to marry the lovely Luisa. The production this evening has been adapted by the director and cast using translations specifically executed for this production.
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THE CAST Conductor Hector Garcia Hector Garcia is a San Antonio native studying conducting at UTSA under the mentorship of Dr. John Zarco and Ron Ellis and also studies trumpet with Jeffrey Castle. In May of 2017 Hector graduated summa cum laude from Texas State University San Marcos with a Bachelor of Music Studies degree. While at Texas State he studied trumpet with Jack Laumer, retired Austin Symphony member, and was under the mentorship of Dr. Mary Ellen Cavitt, Dr. Caroline Beatty, Dr. Kyle Glaser, Matthew Holzner, and Jordan Stern. Hector participated in a number of ensembles at Texas State University including the Bobcat Marching Band, Concert Band, Symphonic Winds, Wind Symphony, brass quintet, Ceremonial Brass, and basketball band. After receiving a bachelor’s degree he taught secondary
Director Michelle Pietri public school for three years earning several UIL First Divisions in marching and concert band. Hector's teaching career began in 2017 where he team taught the middle and high school bands in Taylor, Texas. He instructed beginner high brass classes and was the conductor of the Symphonic Winds at Taylor Middle School. The non-varsity group earned their first ever UIL Sweepstakes under Mr. Garcia's direction in 2018. After teaching in Taylor, TX Hector continued his teaching career at Memorial High School in San Antonio, TX . There he instructed the marching band, concert band, jazz band, percussion class, and beginning band classes. While at Memorial High School the indoor percussion earned several trophies in the Texas Color Guard Circuit. In May of 2019, the Memorial HS Band was invited to participate in the National Memorial Day Parade, a nationally televised event.
Michelle Pietri received her Bachelor degree from the University of New Orleans and her Master of Fine Arts from Tulane University. She has performed locally, nationally, and internationally and worked professionally as a director, choreographer and costume designer. Her work has been seen from California to the Czech Republic and Russia. In 2003 Michelle began working for the UTSA Lyric Theatre program as a choreographer, costumer, and director. In San Antonio, Michelle has worked as a guest artist for Incarnate Word University, Trinity University, St Philips College, North West Vista College, The Playhouse San Antonio, the Sheldon Vexler theatre, Allegro Theatre company, Harlequin Dinner Theatre, SRO and Associates, and Fiesta Texas. Ms. Pietri has been awarded many awards of excellence for her choreography in the musical
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cont. Michelle Pietri theatre field and in 2014 she and her husband, William McCrary, were recognized by the Alamo Theatre Arts Council with the Jasmina Wellinghoff Award for their contributions to San Antonio area theatre. In 2009 Michelle began teaching the first credited dance classes for the new dance program at UTSA. Michelle loves teaching theatre and dance to every age group. She assures her students and cast members that there is no one she cannot teach to dance. She hopes her passion for the arts is infectious to all with whom she works. To quote Martha Graham, ”Technique doesn’t make a great dancer, passion makes a great dancer." Michelle is one of the directors of UTSA’s Summer Performing Arts Camps and Workshops for grades 3 through 12.
Pianist Anna Hakobyan Anna Hakobyan is a pianist originally from Armenia. During her fourteen years in the US she worked as a staff accompanist at the University of Texas at San Antonio and runs a private piano studio. She has performed in numerous concerts with the students, guest performers and faculty members. She worked as a coach and an accompanist for the Taos Opera institute, American Musical and Dramatic Academy, performed in concerts with the Musical Bridges Around the World, with the USAA choir, Casa de Spania of San Antonio. She has collaborated with different artists in concerts and performed in Washington D. C., Portugal, Spain, Russia. She is a graduate of Yerevan State Conservatory with a Master’s degree in Piano Performance. She is a participant of National and International Piano Competitions. UTSA LYRIC THEATRE | 4
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Serafin Joseph Rodriguez, tenor
Luisa Eva Alpar, soprano
Joseph Rodriguez is a senior vocal performance major studying with John Nix at The University of Texas at San Antonio. This is Joseph’s second principal role with UTSA Lyric Theatre. Joseph has been in the chorus for Die fledermaus, The Pirates of Penzance, and was cast as Basilio in The Marriage of Figaro. He has also performed in the chorus for Opera San Antonio in Faust and Tosca, and was an Apprentice Artist with Opera San Antonio in the summer program's inaugural year (2020).
Eva Alpar is a second semester graduate student (Vocal Performance and Pedagogy) in John Nix's voice studio at The University of Texas at San Antonio. Alpar received her undergraduate degree (Vocal Performance) from St. Mary's University in spring 2020, studying under Dr. Meredith Keisgen-Shilling. Alpar has appeared in Guys and Dolls (Sister Sarah Brown), Cendrillon (Maguelonne), Little Women (Jo March), and The Old Maid and the Thief (Miss Pinkerton). She has also appeared as Meg Magarath in Beth Henley's Crimes of the Heart.
While at UTSA, she has successfully competed in NATS competitions and appeared as Lady 1 in UTSA Lyric Theatre's debut performance of Bowles' A Picnic Cantata. Alpar dreams of becoming a professional opera singer and opening a private voice studio. She is so incredibly thankful for the opportunity to be performing with such wonderful colleagues.
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Tomás Lucas Moncada Zoll, tenor
Pasqual Joshua Moncada Zoll, baritone
Narrator Jared Kellman-Medina, baritone
Lucas Moncada Zoll is at present working towards an undergraduate degree at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He is a 3rd year tenor, Vocal Performance major and is currently studying under Dr. Jourdan Laine Howell. He has previously competed at South Texas NATS where he earned first place in his category in 2019. Earlier this school year, Lucas performed in UTSA Lyric Theatre's production Speed Dating Tonight! (Ching).
Joshua Moncada Zoll is a second year undergraduate student at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He is studying Music Performance in the studio of Professor Christopher Besch. This is his first time performing with the UTSA Lyric Theatre.
Jared Kellman-Medina is a freshman Music Education major new to the UTSA Voice area this semester. He has appeared earlier this year as a soloist for "Rejoice!" with the UTSA Concert Choir, as well as on the virtual voice recital "Amor!" which featured voice students of Professor Crystal Jarrell Johnson. Earlier this semester he represented UTSA in the South Texas NATS student auditions and was recognized as a semi-finalist in his category. Jared is also a member of the "Opera On the Run" cast this spring, which will be recording a virtual presentation over the coming weeks.
He is excited to perform El grumete by Emilio Arrieta with his very talented colleagues.
He is excited to be performing in this program with such talented people.
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THANK YOU
Michelle Pietri and the cast of El grumete would like to thank the following people for their help: Christopher Rodriguez Ben Grabill The Woodlawn Theatre Hector Garcia Cindy Solis, UTSA Event Manager Alessandra Scarlatti, translations UTSA's Department of Modern Languages and Literatures The Voice Faculty at UTSA Dr. Tracy Cowden, Chair of UTSA's Department of Music
COMPOSED BY GAZTAMBIDE
UNA VIEJA
DIRECTED BY WILLIAM MCCRARY CONDUCTED BY YOOJIN MUHN Joaquín Romualdo Gaztambide y Garbayo (1822) was a prominent Spanish composer of zarzuela in the mid-nineteenth century. he studied piano and composition at the Real Conservatório de Musica Maria Cristina in Madrid, Spain and would later take on the role of conductor for the Teatro de los Campos Eliseos, among many other prominent leadership roles. He is well know for the works La Mensajera, El valle de Andorra, El sueño de una noche de verano, Catalina, Los magiares, El juramento, and Una vieja. Una vieja (The old woman), is a one-act show
based on the French opéra comique La vieille by Eugène Scribe. Una vieja premiered at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid on December 11th, 1860 and was regularly staged through the 1930s. Despite the production's overwhelming success, a full recording of the work does not exist. The English dialogue for this production was adapted by William McCrary and the entire cast, and is based on translations provided by UTSA graduate student Alessandra Scarlatti. The folksong "Pregúntale a las Estrellas" has been inserted into this evening's production.
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THE CAST Conductor Yoojin Muhn Yoojin Muhn serves as the Director of Choral Activities at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she directs the UTSA Chamber Singers, Concert Choir, and teaches choral conducting for both undergraduate and graduate students. Prior to coming to Texas, Dr. Muhn has served as the Artistic Director at Tucson Masterworks Chorale in Tucson, Arizona and directed the Oriana Women’s Chorus, and led the Concert Choir as an assistant director at the University of Southern California. She recently has been invited to the Missouri Choral Directors Association as the All-State honor choir conductor and headliner and appointed as a choral conducting faculty at the Music Across the Pond, a summer music program in England. Dr. Muhn received a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Choral Music with honors from the
Director William McCrary University of Southern California Thornton School of Music, the Master of Music degrees in Choral Conducting from the University of Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and in Sacred Music from Westminster Choir College where she graduated with distinction. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Composition from SookMyung Women’s University in Seoul, Korea.
Dr. William McCrary is the Director of Lyric Theatre and an Associate Professor of Music at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Since moving to Texas in 2001, Dr. McCrary has established UTSA as a leader in Lyric Theatre education in the city and state and in 2006, his efforts were awarded when he received the UTSA President’s Distinguished Achievement Award for Excellence in Creative Production. An active stage director in Musical Theatre and Opera, McCrary is known for his creative and insightful productions. In 2010 McCrary directed the world premiere of David Heuser’s opera, A Brief History of Root Vegetables for UTSA. Past productions include Working, Das Barbecu, and Falsettos for CSU, Chico’s Court Theatre, The Magic Flute, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, and Madama Butterfly for Lyric Opera of San
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cont. William McCrary
Pianist Kieley Simonsen Morales
Antonio, the award winning production of Beauty and the Beast, Evita, State Fair, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and Jekyll and Hyde for the San Pedro Playhouse (San Antonio, TX), the critically acclaimed Evita, Sweet Charity, Kiss Me, Kate, and Cabaret for the Jefferson Performing Arts Society (New Orleans, LA.), and Die fledermaus, Così fan tutte, The Pirates of Penzance, The Magic Flute, The Medium, The Old Maid and the Thief, Sour Angelica, Working, South Pacific, H.M.S. Pinafore, The Marriage of Figaro, Hansel and Gretel, The Consul, Forever Plaid, Das Barbecu, and a world premier opera by Seymour Barab, Gods of Mischief for UTSA. Dr. McCrary has also directed Brundibar, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, Hansel and Gretel, and Little Red Riding Hood at UTSA.
Kieley Simonsen Morales is a collaborative pianist from San Antonio, Texas. She attended Centenary College of Louisiana, where she served as an accompanist for the Centenary College Choir and the Centenary Suzuki School. In the spring of 2018, she graduated with her B.A. in Music (Piano Performance). Kieley has spent much of her time both teaching and collaborating with other musicians. She accompanied the Texas Children’s Choir as a teenager and performed with them in venues including the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall. She most recently traveled to the United Kingdom on tour with the Centenary College Choir. Kieley regularly collaborates with music programs at various San Antonio schools and accompanies at the UIL and Texas Solo and Ensemble competitions.
She particularly enjoys opportunities to coach vocalists and instrumentalists. Schools have also collaborated with her for their musicals in recent years, including Legally Blonde (2013), Hello, Dolly (2019), and Titanic (2020). Kieley currently has a piano studio where she teaches privately. She also enjoys working at Our Lady of the Atonement Catholic Church as an organist and works as a graduate assistant of accompanying at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Kieley is currently pursuing a Master of Music Degree in Piano Pedagogy and Performance at UTSA. This is her fourth production with UTSA Lyric Theatre, having previously played for Speed Dating Tonight!, The Worst One Ever, and Captain Lovelock. She and her husband have one son and they reside in San Antonio, Texas. UTSA LYRIC THEATRE | 10
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Conrado Louis Ramos, tenor
Adela Margaret Wolfe, soprano
Louie Ramos is a junior vocal performance major studying under Dr. William McCrary at UTSA. Louie has done multiple shows with UTSA Lyric Theatre including The Pirates of Penzance and The marriage of Figaro. His most recent appearance was in UTSA Lyric Theatre’s Speed Dating Tonight! by Michael Ching. He has competed successfully at various NATS competitions and has been a featured performer in master classes at UTSA. Louis is excited to be performing live once again in Una Vieja.
Margaret Wolfe, soprano, is a second year Master's student in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy studying with Professor John Nix. In 2019, she received her BM in Vocal Performance from the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, where she studied with Yvonne Gonzales Redman. Margaret has appeared with UTSA Lyric Theatre as Laurentia in Captain Lovelock and Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro. Other stage credits include Despina (Così fan tutte), Taumann/Sandmännche n (Hänsel und Gretel), and Amore (L'incoronazione di Poppea). Ms. Wolfe was a winner of UTSA's Concerto and Aria Competition in 2019, and was a featured soloist in the Winterlude
performance of Bach's Magnificat. Shortly after completing her degree, Margaret will be presenting her graduate research at the Voice Foundation's annual symposium.
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Leon Thomas Buley, baritone
Pancho Alejandro Cuellar, bass baritone
Thomas is a senior Music Marketing student who plans to continue working as a recording engineer when he graduates in May. He is primarily a vocalist, but also plays bass guitar, piano, and guitar as secondary instruments. He plays bass guitar in the UTSA Jazz Ensemble and is a Jazz Studies minor. Thomas would like to thank his family, friends, and professors for all of their support as he continues chasing his dreams and working to make the world a better place through music. Special thanks to his parents, Mark and Rena, and to Dr. McCrary, the director of this opera and Thomas’ vocal teacher.
Alejandro Cuellar (Pancho) is a BassBaritone studying with Dr. Christopher Besch. He is a Music Education major with an emphasis in Vocal/Choral. Alejandro has been a member of the UTSA Chamber Choir since 2019 and he recently competed in the 2021 Classical Singer Vocal Competition. This is his debut performance with the UTSA Lyric Theatre.
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THANK YOU
Dr. McCrary and the cast of Una vieja would like to thank the following people for their help: Jason Roberts The Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit Bethany Hirota-Mabry Gary Mabry Scott Bellair Alessandra Scarlatti, translations UTSA's Department of Modern Languages and Literatures Dr. Yoojin Muhn, Director of Choral Activities at UTSA Cindy Solis, UTSA Event Manager The Voice Faculty at UTSA Dr. Tracy Cowden, Chair of UTSA's Department of Music
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DIRECTED BY JOURDAN LAINE HOWELL CONDUCTED BY TROY PETERS Pantaleón Enrique Joaquín Granados Campiña (1867) was a Spanish pianist and composer. His composition Allegro de concierto, Op.46 won a coveted prize from the Madrid Royal Conservatory. He composed numerous works for piano, as well as several canciones. His piano suite Goyescas earned extreme praise and inspired his opera of the same name. His works are said to have inspired Pablo Casals and Manuel de Falla. Tragically, Granados and his wife lost their lives in a German U-boat attack in 1916, leaving behind six children.His personal papers are housed in the National Library of Catalonia. Goysescas (1914) received its premiere in New York City at the Metropolitan Opera in 1916; this was the first time a Spanish work, or a
work by a Spanish composer, had been heard at The Met. Goyescas is a tragic love story centered around passion, jealousy, and pride. This is UTSA Lyric Theatre's debut performance of Goyescas. The production has been adapted by Anna Hakobyan and Troy Peters to exclude the massive chorus. Dr. Yoojin Muhn and her Chamber and Concert Choirs at UTSA, recorded the important "El pelele" in Tableau 1, which will be heard via recording during the performance. In addition to playing an important part in the score, the 'El pelele' is a significant work by the painter Goya, and serves as Granados' inspiration for Goyescas. 'El pelele' (straw man) and was a popular group game played in Spain that tosses a stuffed doll into the air with a blanket. UTSA LYRIC THEATRE | 14
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THE CAST Conductor Troy Peters Hailed by the San Antonio Current as “consistently brilliant and impossibly cool,” conductor Troy Peters is Director of the UTSA Orchestra at the University of Texas at San Antonio and Music Director of YOSA (Youth Orchestras of San Antonio). In 2016, Musical America featured him in their special issue, The MA30 Professionals of the Year: The Innovators. Peters has guest conducted many professional orchestras, including the Oregon Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, and Vermont Symphony Orchestra. He was previously Music Director of the Vermont Youth Orchestra and Montpelier Chamber Orchestra, and conducted college orchestras at Texas State University and Middlebury College. He has also gained international attention for his orchestral collaborations with rock musicians, including Jon Anderson (of the band Yes), Blind Pilot, and Trey Anastasio (of
Director Jourdan Laine Howell the band Phish), with whom he recorded two albums on Elektra Records. Working with dozens of San Antonio rock musicians, he created YOSA’s Classic Albums Live series, winner of a 2016 Centropolitan Award from Centro San Antonio and a 2016 Best of the City Award from San Antonio Magazine. Among the soloists with whom he has collaborated are Branford Marsalis, Midori, Edgar Meyer, Time for Three, and Richard Stoltzman. His work has been the subject of national media attention from CBS Sunday Morning, National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition, and The New Yorker. Awarded a Vermont Arts Council Citation of Merit in 2009, he has also been honored with eight ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music. He has also presented acclaimed talks at TEDx San Antonio, Pecha Kucha San Antonio, and Texas Public Radio’s Worth Repeating.
Soprano Jourdan Laine Howell is an active soloist and recently completed an exciting 19|20 season beginning with the U.S. premiere of Douglas Hedwig's Rowing in Eden: Three Dickinson Songs, written for her voice, alongside pianist Tracy Cowden (October 2019). She performed selections from Kirsten Broberg's The Waters of Time at the 2019 Festival of New Music (San Antonio, TX), Finzi's In terra pax with the Symphony of the Hills (Kerrville, TX), and was invited to present a solo recital for First Baptist Church's First Fine Arts Series (San Antonio, TX). Jourdan Laine was pleased to work with Douglas Hedwig in Spring 2020 to give the Tennessee premiere of Rowing in Eden: Three Dickinson Songs at the Hunter Museum of American Art. In addition to her numerous concert and opera performances in the US and abroad, Jourdan
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cont. Jourdan Laine Howell Laine has directed Goyescas (Granados), A Picnic Cantata (Bowles), Review (Beck), The Worst One Ever (Belshaw), and numerous scenes programs. Jourdan Laine served as an invited panelist at the Opera America conference in Montreal, Canada and has presented at the National Opera Conference (2020), Southeastern Theatre Conference (2018) and has delivered masterclasses and lectures in Florida, Texas, and Tennessee. Prior to her collegiate appointments, she developed and directed Palm Beach Opera's Studio program, a rigorous seven month training program for select high school voices, and the third tier of the company's celebrated artist training system. Jourdan Laine is a professor at UTSA in Lyric Theatre and voice.
Pianist Anna Hakobyan Anna Hakobyan is a pianist originally from Armenia. During her fourteen years in the US she worked as a staff accompanist at the University of Texas at San Antonio and runs a private piano studio. She has performed in numerous concerts with the students, guest performers and faculty members. She worked as a coach and an accompanist for the Taos Opera institute, American Musical and Dramatic Academy, performed in concerts with the Musical Bridges Around the World, with the USAA choir, Casa de Spania of San Antonio. She has collaborated with different artists in concerts and performed in Washington D. C., Portugal, Spain, Russia. She is a graduate of Yerevan State Conservatory with a Master’s degree in Piano Performance. She is a participant of National and International Piano Competitions.
Stage Manager Josh Ralph Originally from Landstuhl, Germany, Josh is a senior Music Marketing Major and stage manager with UTSA Lyric Theatre. This semester he managed Goyescas, Captain Lovelock and The Worst One Ever. His primary instrument is percussion through which he has performed with the Spirit of San Antonio Marching Band, Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band, Percussion Ensemble, Steel Band, Jazz Combo and the Jazz Ensemble at UTSA. Josh has performed at the UTSA 50th anniversary gala, the 2018 NFL Draft, TMEA conferences, and a PASIC conference. In 2020, Josh interned with the award winning event management company, the CE Group. He has as also spent spent the past five years performing at Sea World San Antonio and plans to stage manage shows on Broadway after graduation. UTSA LYRIC THEATRE | 16
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THE CAST Rosario Julieta García Reyes Julieta García Reyes is a lyric soprano from Jacona, Michoacán, México. She received her Bachelor of Music from the University of Colorado at Boulder in May 2019 and is completing her Master of Music degree in Vocal Pedagogy and Performance at the University of Texas at San Antonio in May 2021. At UTSA she served as the Graduate Research Assistant for the Institute of Music Research. During her time as Assistant Archivist at the American Music Research Center at CU Boulder, she processed and encoded The Berton Coffin Papers archive. She has performed operatic title roles as the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro and as Rosario in Goyescas (UTSA Lyric Theater). Other credits include the roles of Anita and Rosalia in West Side Story, The Beggar Woman in Sweeney Todd, and Spirit 2 in Die zauberflöte (Eklund Opera Program.) Mrs. García Reyes also
Fernando Matthew Perez, tenor developed and led the writing of the Video-Opera Script of UTSA Lyric Theater’s pandemic production of The Marriage of Figaro in April of 2020. Recently, Mrs. García Reyes was named Outstanding Graduate Student by the College of Liberal and Fine Arts at UTSA. Her future plans include private studio teaching, performing and presenting her research titled “Singing and persons with physical disabilities: a survey of singing teacher attitudes, knowledge, and experience,” at The Voice Foundation’s Virtual Voice Symposium in the summer of 2021, and pursuing a DMA degree in Vocal Pedagogy.
Matthew Perez is a senior Vocal Performance major at The University of Texas at San Antonio. Matthew has performed in a number of productions with the UTSA Lyric Theater department and in outside community theater groups. In the Spring of 2019, Matthew performed as the lead tenor Frederic is Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance. Outside of UTSA, Matthew is a member of the Zion Theater Group, a community theater group that has performed musicals and plays such as Anything Goes, The Wizard Of Oz and One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. After receiving his BM in Performance at UTSA this Spring, Matthew is planning to seek a Masters of Music in Performance at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. Matthew is excited to continue his training at IU. He is a student of Dr. Jourdan Laine Howell at UTSA.
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Paquiro Hector Tobar, baritone
Pepa Casey Winkleman, soprano
Born and raised in Southern California, Mr. Tobar has enjoyed success on the opera and concert stage, and has performed with many award winning ensembles. He performed a lead role in Haydn's The Creation at Carnegie Hall (2017) under the direction of Dr. Jerry Blackstone. He has made finals and semi-finals at NATS and South Texas NATS competitions, most recently earning 3rd place in his category this April. This spring, Mr. Tobar performed a successful sophomore recital and was an invited to perform at The Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit's Thursday Recital Series.
Casey Winkelman is a soprano hailing from Fairbanks, Alaska. She is currently pursuing a Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy at the University of Texas San Antonio, where she studies with Professor John Nix. In addition to her studies, she performed the role of Kirsten in John Duke’s Captain Lovelock in the Spring of 2021 with UTSA’s Lyric Theatre. Casey received her Bachelors in Vocal Performance from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, studying with Dr. Jaunelle Celaire. During her time at UAF, she was an avid performer, both on campus and off. She performed as a soloist in Fairbanks’ annual Sing-It-Yourself-Messiah, in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019. She sang regularly with both the Choir of the North, and the Fairbanks Symphony Chorus, and even had the pleasure of performing as the alto soloist in Haydn’s Missa Sancti Nicolai with the former ensemble. In 2018, Casey was
In addition to singing Paquiro in Goyescas, UTSA Lyric Theatre roles include the Count in The Marriage of Figaro and Daters #18 and #36 in Speed Dating Tonight! (Ching). A student of Dr. Jourdan Laine Howell, Mr. Tobar currently teachers in the NISD Learning Tree.
selected as an Apprentice Artist for Opera Fairbanks and performed scenes from Puccini’s La bohème and Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann at their annual Opera Ball fundraiser gala. In 2017, she placed first in the Anchorage Concert Chorus Vocal Scholarship Competition, and in 2019 received first place in her division at the Alaska NATS competition. Casey spent four summers with the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival Opera Music Theater Workshop, where she studied and performed scenes from Eugene Onegin, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Carmen, and Der Rosenkavalier. In 2018, she performed the role of Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Così fan tutte at the Utah Vocal Arts Academy’s Summer Opera Festival. The following year, she had the pleasure of performing in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi at the Astoria Music Festival in Astoria, Oregon. UTSA LYRIC THEATRE | 18
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THANK YOU
Jourdan Laine Howell and the cast of Goyescas would like to thank the following people for their help: First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Antonio Troy Peters Susan Dill James Barbato, Director of Artistic administration, Palm Beach Opera Dr. Yoojin Muhn and the Chamber Choir and Concert Choir singers Gary Evans, tech support Gibson Costumes Cindy Solis, UTSA Event Manager John Nix, Associate Professor of Voice and Vocal Pedagogy at UTSA The Voice Faculty at UTSA Anna Hakobyan, score adaptation Dr. Tracy Cowden, Chair of UTSA's Department of Music
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