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Musicians Performing at the Fall 2015 Concert

Stories, Dances, Tricks & Treats!
November 1, 2015
Susan Davenny Wyner, Music Director/Conductor
Marian Vogel, soprano
 
Hailed as "thrilling," "surprisingly powerful," and "bursting with dramatic intensity," lyric soprano, Marian Vogel is equally at home on both concert and opera stages. She made her Carnegie Hall debut singing the Mozart Requiem and Rutter Magnificat under the baton of composer/conductor John Rutter, and has performed on several occasions with the Cleveland Orchestra at Severance Hall, including the recent groundbreaking production of The Cunning Little Vixen. Praised for her "gleaming upper register and a soaring sense of phrase," Ms. Vogel has performed the Requiems of Verdi, Brahms, Mozart, Fauré, and Rutter, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Mahler's Symphony No. 4, Berlioz's Les Nuits d’Eté, Mozart's Grand Mass in C Minor, Regina Coeli and Exsultate Jubilate, Poulenc's Gloria, Barber's Knoxville Summer of 1915, the Strauss Four Last Songs, Gershwin's Concert Suite from Porgy and Bess, Orff's Carmina Burana, and Bach's St. Matthew Passion.
 
A versatile singing actress, she has won acclaim for such opera roles as Tosca in Tosca, Cio Cio San in Madame Butterfly, Mimi and Musetta (La Boheme), Violetta (La Traviata), Micaela in Carmen, Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Donna Elvira and Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Pamina (The Magic Flute), the Mother (Amahl and the Night Visitors), and a wealth of Gilbert and Sullivan heroines such as Josephine (H.M.S. Pinafore), Yum Yum (Mikado) and Patience (Patience), as well as musical theater roles such as Actor 2 in Das Barbecu, Nellie in South Pacific, and Cinderella in Cinderella.
 
Ms. Vogel has toured extensively as a soloist, both in the United States and in Europe. She is a two-time first prize winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council District Auditions, the winner of the Belle O. Morse Young Artist Award given by Cleveland Opera, and is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music.

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Hristo Popov, violin

    Described as "Virtuoso-violinist extraordinaire" (Musical Horizons), Hristo Popov made his orchestra debut at the age of nine with Plovdiv State Philharmonic Orchestra and since then has performed as recitalist, chamber musician and concerto soloist at major performing arts venues in the U.S. and throughout Europe.

    His Carnegie Hall debut was hailed by The Strad Magazine as "…alert and energetic." Hristo Popov was a prizewinner at the Kocian International Violin Competition, Silver Medalist at the California Young Artist Competition, winner of the Grand Prize at the International Institute of Music (Germany, USA), and first place winner at the American String Teachers Association Chamber Music Competition. He was selected as Artist of the Month at the Obama for Arts and Entertainment Organization in April of 2009. 

    Born in a family of musicians and educators of four generations, he began studying the violin at the age of four in his native country, Bulgaria. He completed most of his studies in the U.S, and holds bachelor's degree and Artist Diploma from Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and a doctorate from the University of Kentucky.

    Hristo Popov performs music from the standard repertoire as well as significant works of the contemporary genre. He performs over twenty violin concerti and maintains a wide variety of recital programs. His performances have been documented on TV and radio stations in the U.S., Mexico, and Bulgaria and he has recorded albums for TC Recordings and Bravante Records. He has performed with members of the Juilliard Quartet, Miami Quartet, Miro Quartet, Berlin Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic and the Cleveland Orchestra, among others. 

    Mr. Popov has led residencies at many universities on Early 20th Century Eastern European Composers and the violin focusing on specifically on the composers Bela Bartok, George Enescu, and Pancho Vladigerov. The New York Concert Review praised his 2013 Carnegie Hall performance of these composers as "outstanding from start to finish," saying "Mr. Popov played with sensitivity, panache and fire, and his singing tone in the high register was unfailingly exceptional…Hristo Popov is a musician's musician."

   He continues to receive rave reviews, as described recently by the Plain Dealer, "…the performance benefited from the elegant purity soloist Hristo Popov invested in every phrase. Popov traced the lyrical and vibrant lines (Mozart, Violin Concerto No. 5, Turkish) with unruffled assurance. He enabled the music to float where necessary and made easy work of the acrobatic demands."

    Hristo Popov plays on a violin by Giovanni Battista Gabrielli made in Florence, Italy, in 1765. He has served as concertmaster of the Warren Philharmonic Orchestra since 2012.




FLUTE
Kathryn Thomas Umble*
Victoria Francioni

OBOE
Martin Neubert*
Justine Myers

CLARINET
Chris Bowmaster*
Joseph Mansfield

BASSOON
Donald W. Byo*
Janice Pylinski

HORN
Stacie Mickens*
Adam Zagotti
Laura Ogram
Rob Cole

TRUMPET
Christopher Krummel*
Daniel Honeycutt
​Antoine Jackson


TROMBONE
John Olsson*
James Weltman
Greg Bibri

TIMPANI /PERCUSSION
Don Yallech*
Scott Thomas*
Ken Alexander

VIOLIN I
Joseph Kromholz, Concertmaster
Barton Samuel Rotberg
Mary Ellen Price
Megan Benchwick
Gloria Slocum
Natalie Sahyoun**
Caitlin Hedge
Lydia Byard
Katherine O'Neill

VIOLIN II
Brendan Considine*
Karen Considine
Abigail R. McLaughlin
June Byo

Jeffrey Johns
Melinda Perttu
Patrick Strasik
Robert Pavalko

VIOLA
Christine Sherlock*
Jerry Koziorynsky
Leslie Dubiel
Hillary Lenton
BeckyAnn Harker

CELLO
Michael Gelfand*
Jackie Pitman

Fra Vit Fiala
Scott Burns
Stephanie Zitkovich

DOUBLE BASS
Jeffrey Bremer*
Shawn Marko
Alan Purdum


PIANO
Jack Ciarniello*

HARP
Bill Van Patten*


*Principal
**Concert Manager/Librarian

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