Featuring students of the Collaborative Piano Institute: presenting pieces by Wolf, Debussy, Mozart and Barber.

7:30 PM, Chapel of the Good Shepherd on the campus of Shattuck St. Mary’s.

Marie-France Lefebvre works regularly as a guest assistant conductor at major opera companies, including the Metropolitan Opera and San Francisco Opera. She was a member of the full time Music Staff of the Washington National Opera from 1994-2004. She has worked with Wolf Trap Opera, Santa Fe Opera and Seattle Opera, and was the program and music director for the 20th Century Opera and Song Interpretation Program at the Banff Centre for the Arts. She is currently Professor of Opera and  Voice Coaching at the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music.

4:30 PM, Chapel of the Good Shepherd on the campus of Shattuck St. Mary’s.

Pianist Timothy Lovelace heads the Collaborative Piano program at the University of Minnesota and is an active recitalist, having been featured at Rio de Janeiro’s Sala Cecilia Meireles, Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, Washington’s Kennedy Center, New York’s Merkin Concert Hall, Chicago’s Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts and on chamber music series sponsored by the symphony orchestras of Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit, Minnesota and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. As a soloist, he has performed with the Minnesota Orchestra conducted by Osmo Vänskä. The roster of internationally-known artists with whom Lovelace has appeared includes Miriam Fried, Nobuko Imai, Robert Mann, Charles Neidich, Ayano Ninomiya, Paquito D’Rivera, and Dawn Upshaw. For thirteen years, he was a staff pianist at the Ravinia Festival’s Steans Institute, where he played in the classes of Barbara Bonney, Christoph Eschenbach, Thomas Hampson, Christa Ludwig and Yo-Yo Ma, among others. A proponent of new music, Lovelace has performed the works of many living composers, and he presented the world premiere of Osvaldo Golijov’s Third World. He has recorded for the Albany, Arabesque, Blue Griffin, Boston Records, and MSR labels. His principal teachers were Harold Evans, Gilbert Kalish, Donna Loewy, and Frank Weinstock.

7:30 PM, Chapel of the Good Shepherd on the campus of Shattuck St. Mary’s.

Marie-France Lefebvre works regularly as a guest assistant conductor at major opera companies, including the Metropolitan Opera and San Francisco Opera. She was a member of the full time Music Staff of the Washington National Opera from 1994-2004. She has worked with Wolf Trap Opera, Santa Fe Opera and Seattle Opera, and was the program and music director for the 20th Century Opera and Song Interpretation Program at the Banff Centre for the Arts. She is currently Professor of Opera and  Voice Coaching at the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music.

7:30 PM Performance, Newhall Auditorium on the campus of Shattuck St. Mary’s.

Featuring the pianists of the Collaborative Piano Institute.

7:30 PM Performance, Newhall Auditorium on the campus of Shattuck St. Mary’s.

Featuring the pianists of the Collaborative Piano Institute.

3:00 PM Performance, Chapel, Shattuck St. Mary’s.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, musicians performed their compositions at Salon Concerts presented in drawing rooms of opulent mansions. Join legendary pianist Martin Katz and internationally acclaimed baritone Jesse Blumberg at The History Theatre in St. Paul on June 20th at 7:00pm for an evening of song presented in “Salon Concert” style on the set of the Historic Glensheen Mansion.

Martin Katz, who frequently performs at Carnegie Hall, has accompanied the world’s most celebrated vocalists such as Marilyn Horne, Kathleen Battle, Frederica von Stade, Cecilia Bartoli, and Jose Carerras.
Jesse Blumberg, praised by the New York Times for his “rich sound and dramatic authority,” has appeared in opera productions around the globe, including the lead in Grapes of Wrath, premiered at the MN Opera.

This recital, presented by CPI Concert Series and Wells Pianos, will present a life’s journey through Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte, Schumann’s Liederkreis op. 24, Ravel’s Histories naturelies. and songs by Charles Ives.

Tickets: $35-$30 Adults; $25-$20 Seniors; $15 Students
Call (651) 292-4323 for reservations

Pre-concert music by members of the Collaborative Piano Institute starts at 6:00pm in the lobby. Concessions Available.