Sunday, April 11, 2021 - 3:00 PM
A partnership for the ages, we are thrilled to welcome two legendary artists who perform regularly in international venues three times the size of our intimate hall. Featuring the two major song cycles of Schumann, this program is being presented in only four other venues in North America (including Carnegie Hall).
ALL-SCHUMANN
Hans Christian Andersen Lieder, Op. 40
Liederkreis, Op. 39
Dichterliebe, Op. 48
UNION COLLEGE
MEMORIAL CHAPEL
SCHENECTADY, NY
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Mark Padmore has established an international career in opera, concert and recital. His appearances in Bach Passions have gained particular notice especially his acclaimed performances as Evangelist in the St Matthew and St John Passions with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle, staged by Peter Sellars.
In opera Mark has worked with directors Peter Brook, Katie Mitchell, Mark Morris and Deborah Warner. Recent work includes the leading roles in Harrison Birtwistle The Corridor and The Cure at the Aldeburgh Festival and Linbury Theatre, Covent Garden; Captain Vere in Britten Billy Budd and Evangelist in a staging of St Matthew Passion for Glyndebourne Festival Opera; Third Angel/John in George Benjamin Written on Skin with the Royal Opera, Covent Garden. Future projects include new works written for him by Tansy Davies and Thomas Larcher.
In concert Mark performs with the world’s leading orchestras. in the 2016/17 season he was Artist in Residence with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and will hold a similar position with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra for the 2017/18 Season. His work with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment has involved projects exploring both Bach St John and St Matthew Passions. He also collaborates regularly with The Britten Sinfonia.
Mark gives recitals worldwide. He has performed all three Schubert song cycles in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Birmingham, London, Liverpool, Paris, Tokyo, Vienna and New York. Regular recital partners include Kristian Bezuidenhout, Jonathan Biss, Imogen Cooper, Julius Drake, Till Fellner, Simon Lepper, Paul Lewis, Roger Vignoles and Andrew West. Composers who have written for him include Sally Beamish, Harrison Birtwistle, Jonathan Dove, Thomas Larcher, Nico Muhly, Alec Roth, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Huw Watkins, Ryan Wigglesworth and Hans Zender.
His extensive discography include recent releases: Beethoven Missa Solemnis and Haydn Die Schöpfung with Bernard Haitink and Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra on BR Klassik and lieder by Beethoven, Haydn and Mozart with Kristian Bezuidenhout for Harmonia Mundi. Other Harmonia Mundi recordings include Handel arias As Steals the Morn with the English Concert (BBC Music Magazine Vocal Award); Schubert cycles with Paul Lewis (Winterreise won the 2010 Gramophone magazine Vocal Award); Schumann Dichterliebe with Kristian Bezuidenhout (2011 Edison Klassiek Award) and Britten Serenade, Nocturne and Finzi Dies Natalis with the Britten Sinfonia (ECHO/Klassik 2013 award).
Mark was voted 2016 Vocalist of the Year by Musical America and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Kent University in 2014. He is Artistic Director of the St. Endellion Summer Music Festival in Cornwall.
A gifted pianist whose style touches upon sophisticated post-bop, classical, and indie rock, Ethan Iverson distinguished himself first as solo artist and then as a co-founding member of the trio the Bad Plus. Emerging in the early 1990s, Iverson released a handful of solo albums, including 1993's School Work, before joining the Bad Plus with bassist Reid Anderson and drummer Dave King. Together, they issued a steady stream of lauded albums like 2003's These Are the Vistas and 2008's For All I Care, applying their jazz chops to adventurous originals alongside songs by Nirvana, the Flaming Lips, Rush, and others. In 2015, they earned a Grammy nomination for The Bad Plus Joshua Redman, their live collaboration with the acclaimed saxophonist. Iverson, who left the Bad Plus in 2017, has maintained a fertile solo career over the years, publishing a well-known music blog and issuing albums like 2004's My Ideal and 2016's The Purity of Turf.
Born in Menomonie, Wisconsin in 1974, Iverson became interested in music at a young age and attended the Stanford Jazz Workshop before relocating to New York in the early '90s. During this period, he studied privately with Fred Hersch and Sophia Rosoff.
