| |
 |
| |
Maria
Jette,
Soprano |
| |
|
| |
| A special thanks to
our foundation, corporate and individual friends, whose
generosity helps us maintain policy of free admission
to all Sinfonia concerts and programs. For a complete
list of our supporters, and information on how you too
can help the Sinfonia, please click on the “Support” link
above. |
|
| |
© Minnesota
Sinfonia |
|
About
Guest Artist Maria Jette
Maria
Jette has appeared with orchestras from around the country,
including, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles
Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Houston, Kansas
City, Santa Rosa, Charlotte, Buffalo, and the Minnesota
Sinfonia, as well as many others. In her alternate persona,
she has performed her own production of Seuss/Kapilow’s Green
Eggs & Ham for over 30,000 children around the
USA. Maria is a regular guest at the Oregon Bach and San
Luis Obispo Mozart Festivals, and the Oregon Festival of
American Music. Locally, she is often heard with Vocalessence,
Chamber Music Society of Minnesota and in the annual Sopranorama! at
the Southern Theater (with Dan Chouinard). Maria also often
appears on the nationally broadcast public radio program, A
Prairie Home Companion.
Ms. Jette's activities in 2005-6
included a recital of American folksong settings and
folksong-inspired songs for the Oregon Festival of American
Music ; Sofiya
Gubaidulina’s Hommage à T.S. Eliot on
the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra chamber
series; performances and a recording of Messiah with
Chicago’s Apollo Chorus;
chamber music with the Minneapolis Quartet Hill House
Chamber Players, and
Chamber Music Society of Minnesota. She also was featured
in the world premiere of Francis Grier’s ThePassion
of Jesus of Nazareth with Vocalessence; and, Mozart’s Le
Nozze deFigaro (Susanna) with Opera Roanoke.
Over
the summer, she programmed and sang in a 5-concert Schumann "mini-fest" for
the St. Paul Summer Song Festival, toured Samuel Barber's Knoxville:
Summer of 1915 in Australia with the San Luis Obispo Symphony,
and performed several Bach solo cantatas at the Oregon Bach
Festival. With longtime co-conspirators Janis Hardy, Molly
Sue McDonald and Dan Chouinard, she performed a sold-out run
of Sopranorama V! at Minneapolis' Southern Theater
in August.
|
|
S
P E C I A L E V E N T S