【Vocal Master Class】
主講人：
◎W.A.Mozart:An Chloé
Vocal:陳昱嘉Yu-Chia,Chen
Piano:孫世綸Shih-Lun,Hsun
◎Gaetano Donizetti :"Una
furtiva lagrima"-
from 《L'ELISIR D'AMORE》
Vocal:王皓光Hou-Kuong,Wong
Piano:陳以恩 Yi-En,Chen
◎Stefano
Donaudy:
O del mio amato ben
Vocal:鄭又瑄You-Syuan,Jheng
Piano:林炘圻 Hsin-Chi,Lin
◎F.Schubert : Frühlingstraum From "winterreise " ,
An den Mond
D.193
Vocal:林義偉Yi-Wei,Lin
Piano:游適伃 Shih-Yu,Yu
日期:2015年4月27日(一)
時間:13:30~15:10
地點:音樂二館演奏廳
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Timothy Bentch, tenor
Tenor
Timothy Bentch was raised on a farm in Missouri. His first singing experiences took place in
the local Mennonite church and practicing scales on the tractor and in the silo
but eventually led him to a master’s degree at the acclaimed Curtis Institute
of Music. For twelve years he lived in Hungary
where critics referred to him as “a treasure in today’s Hungarian musical life”
naming him the most significant “Hungarian” lyric tenor of this
generation. He has sung at all the
leading venues in this country appearing before presidents and prime ministers
with many television appearances and radio broadcasts. At the Hungarian State Opera he premiered new
productions as Don Ottavio in Don
Giovanni, Belmonte in The Abduction,
Nencio in L’Infeldelta delusa by
Haydn and the Evangelist in a semi-staged version of Bach’s Saint Matthew
Passion. Other roles with the Hungarian
State Opera include Ferrando in Cosi fan
tutte, Tamino in The Magic Flute,
Tito in La Clemenza di Tito, and Alfredo in La Traviata. His performed
opera repertoire of over 40 roles also includes such roles as Mozart’s
Mitridate, Nemorino in L’Elisir d’amore,
Edguardo in Lucia, Almaviva in The
Barber of Seville, Ismaele in Nabucco,
Fenton in Falstaff, Tom Rakewell in The Rake’s Progress, four roles by
Benjamin Britten, and numerous baroque operas – Jupiter in Semele, Nero in The
Coronation of Poppea, Monteverdi’s Ulyssis,
and Orfeo – a performance that marked
the opening of the new theater in the Hungarian National Palace of the Arts in
2005. His performances have taken him to
many other countries including the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Russia, Bulgaria,
France, Malta, Israel, Russia, the UK, and Germany.
In
symphonic repertoire, he has performed the entire standard repertoire from
renaissance and baroque to the large works of Mahler and Verdi. Highlights have included the Evangelists in
the Bach Passions, the Dream of Geronius by Elgar, and Mahler’s 8th
Symphony which he recorded for Naxos.
This recording was lauded by critics winning the “Recording of the
Month” by Sterophile Magazine. Bentch’s
performance was described as “bright, confident, and heroic, and his
"Blicket auf!" is stunning.” Another
critic wrote, “Bentch's top B-flats and Bs are as heroic as his sweet singing
is sweet. His "Blicket auf," a moment that can cause fear and
trembling, is stirring in all the right ways.” A recent review in the BBC Music Magazine praised
Timothy Bentch’s “heroic tenor” as one of the saving graces of a recent
recording of Janacek’s Glagolitic Mass with the Warsaw Philharmonic. He has sung with the philharmonic orchestras of Lille,
Strasbourg, Avignon, Saint Petersburg, Sofia, Warsaw, the Israeli Chamber
Orchestra, the Ars Nova Symphony in Chicago, and appears regularly with the
Hungarian National Philharmonic. His
most recent performance with the HNP of the Britten War Requiem was critically
acclaimed and broadcast live on national radio.
He has sung under the batons of Zoltán Kocsis,
János Fürst, Ádám Fischer, Tamás Vásáry, János Kovács, John Nelson, Jean Claude
Casadesus, Antoni Witt, György Vashegyi, and Valentin Radu.
Timothy
is the co-founder and co-artistic director of the Crescendo Summer Institute (www.crescendohungary.org) in
Hungary, a classical music festival, which celebrated its 11th
season in 2014. He is active as a voice
teacher and his former students sing in many of the leading opera houses of
Europe. He also enjoys
scriptwriting. His recent script was a
quarterfinalist in the Academy Nicolls Fellowship in Screenwriting Competition sponsored
by the Academy Awards.
