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Musicians Performing at the Fall 2016 Concert
Magic Treats!
October 30, 2016
Susan Davenny Wyner, Music Director/Conductor
Guest soloists: Joseph Kromholz, violin, and Brian Keith Johnson, baritone
October 30, 2016
Susan Davenny Wyner, Music Director/Conductor
Guest soloists: Joseph Kromholz, violin, and Brian Keith Johnson, baritone
Brian Keith Johnson
Brian Keith Johnson, baritone
Brian Keith Johnson has performed many roles in opera from Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia to Ford in Falstaff. Favorite opera roles include Germont in Verdi's Traviata, Sharpless in Pucinni's Madame Butterfly, Figaro in Rossini's Barber of Seville, Almaviva in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, Marcello in Puccini's La Bohème, Michele in Puccini's Il Tabarro, and the title role in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi.
As a member of Actors' Equity Association, he has also performed a variety of musical theater roles ranging from Jim in Big River to Father/God in Children of Eden. Favorite musical theater roles include Joe (Show Boat), Bill Sykes, Miles Gloriosus, Sweeney Todd and Audrey II. His concert repertoire includes most of the major baritone works such as Carmina Burana, Elijah, the Verdi Requiem, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, the Brahms Requiem and the Fauré Requiem.
He has performed operatic and musical theater roles across the United States, including performances with the Cleveland Orchestra, Akron Symphony Orchestra, Canton Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Opera Theater, Lyric Opera Cleveland, Blossom Festival Orchestra, Opera Theater of Pittsburgh, Opera Western Reserve, Carolina Master Chorale, Charlotte Symphony Orchestra and Porthouse Theatre.
Born and raised in Warren, Ohio, Johnson received his bachelor's degree from the University of Akron and has also studied abroad at the New Opera Academy of Rome in Rome, Italy, and the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria.
Brian Keith Johnson has performed many roles in opera from Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia to Ford in Falstaff. Favorite opera roles include Germont in Verdi's Traviata, Sharpless in Pucinni's Madame Butterfly, Figaro in Rossini's Barber of Seville, Almaviva in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, Marcello in Puccini's La Bohème, Michele in Puccini's Il Tabarro, and the title role in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi.
As a member of Actors' Equity Association, he has also performed a variety of musical theater roles ranging from Jim in Big River to Father/God in Children of Eden. Favorite musical theater roles include Joe (Show Boat), Bill Sykes, Miles Gloriosus, Sweeney Todd and Audrey II. His concert repertoire includes most of the major baritone works such as Carmina Burana, Elijah, the Verdi Requiem, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, the Brahms Requiem and the Fauré Requiem.
He has performed operatic and musical theater roles across the United States, including performances with the Cleveland Orchestra, Akron Symphony Orchestra, Canton Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Opera Theater, Lyric Opera Cleveland, Blossom Festival Orchestra, Opera Theater of Pittsburgh, Opera Western Reserve, Carolina Master Chorale, Charlotte Symphony Orchestra and Porthouse Theatre.
Born and raised in Warren, Ohio, Johnson received his bachelor's degree from the University of Akron and has also studied abroad at the New Opera Academy of Rome in Rome, Italy, and the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria.
Joseph Kromholz
Joseph Kromholz, violin
Internationally acclaimed for his eloquent and expressive playing, violinist Joseph Kromholz is concertmaster of the Warren Philharmonic Orchestra, CityMusic Cleveland and Opera Western Reserve. A founding member of the Linden String Quartet, he is a professor at Youngstown State University's Dana School of Music, where he teaches violin, viola and chamber music. His students have attended the Juilliard School, Curtis Institute of Music, Cleveland Institute of Music, New England Conservatory, Berklee College of Music and Harvard University. He previously taught violin at Luther College.
Hailing from Reston, Virginia, Kromholz studied violin at the Cleveland Institute of Music and economics at Case Western Reserve University, followed by doctoral studies at New England Conservatory. He also taught college music theory for eight years. As a chamber music coach, he has taught at the Chamber Music Connection in Worthington, Ohio, at SUNY Stony Brook's summer chamber institute and at Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival in Blue Hill, Maine.
Mr. Kromholz's mentors and teachers include Paul Kantor, Miriam Fried, Itzhak Perlman and members of the Juilliard and Cleveland Quartets.
Internationally acclaimed for his eloquent and expressive playing, violinist Joseph Kromholz is concertmaster of the Warren Philharmonic Orchestra, CityMusic Cleveland and Opera Western Reserve. A founding member of the Linden String Quartet, he is a professor at Youngstown State University's Dana School of Music, where he teaches violin, viola and chamber music. His students have attended the Juilliard School, Curtis Institute of Music, Cleveland Institute of Music, New England Conservatory, Berklee College of Music and Harvard University. He previously taught violin at Luther College.
Hailing from Reston, Virginia, Kromholz studied violin at the Cleveland Institute of Music and economics at Case Western Reserve University, followed by doctoral studies at New England Conservatory. He also taught college music theory for eight years. As a chamber music coach, he has taught at the Chamber Music Connection in Worthington, Ohio, at SUNY Stony Brook's summer chamber institute and at Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival in Blue Hill, Maine.
Mr. Kromholz's mentors and teachers include Paul Kantor, Miriam Fried, Itzhak Perlman and members of the Juilliard and Cleveland Quartets.
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FLUTE Kathryn Thomas Umble* Victoria Francioni OBOE Josiah Dyck* Martin Neubert CLARINET Alice Wang* John Stumpff BASSOON Donald W. Byo* Janice Pylinski HORN Heather Johnson* Rachel Vaduva Debbie McDowell Stan Matras |
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Christopher Krummel* Nicholas Samson TROMBONE John Olsson* James Weltman Mike Niro TIMPANI /PERCUSSION Don Yallech* Scott Thomas* VIOLIN I Barton Samuel Rotberg* Abigail R McLaughlin Katherine O’Neill Caitlin Hedge Gloria Slocum Natalie Sahyoun** Megan Benchwick *Principal player **Concert Manager/Librarian |
VIOLIN II Brendan Considine* Karen Considine Wanda Sobieska Melinda Perttu Jeffrey Johns Robert Pavalko Brittany Battaglia VIOLA Vincent Scacchetti* Jerry Koziorynsky Hillary Lenton BeckyAnn Harker CELLO Michael Gelfand* Jackie Pitman Scott Burns Stephanie Zitkovich DOUBLE BASS Jeffrey Bremer* Shawn Marko |