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Ethan DePuy and William Reber: Live in Recital
Boston-based tenor Ethan DePuy returns to Phoenix for a one-night only recital with his mentor, pianist and conductor William Reber.
Schumann: Dichterliebe
Britten: Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo
Songs by Stephen Sondheim
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About the performers:
Praised for his "masterful acting" and "fine singing," Ethan DePuy made his Chautauqua Opera debut as Dr. Caius in Falstaff. As a Young Artist with Ash Lawn Opera, he performed the roles of Motel in Fiddler on the Roof, Gherardo in Gianni Schicchi, Elder Gleaton in Susannah, and Salesman #1 in The Music Man. Other recent appearances have included Nemorino in L'elisir d'amore and Dr. Blind in Die Fledermaus with the Janiec Opera Company at the Brevard Music Center, Don Basilio in Le nozze di Figaro, Jacey Squires in The Music Man, Alfred in Die Fledermaus, and the title role in Albert Herring with the Arizona State Lyric Opera Theater, Peter Quint in Britten's The Turn of the Screw with the Western New York Chamber Orchestra, the Chevalier de la Force in Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites, and the Snake in Rachel Portman's The Little Prince with Opera Sacra.
On the concert stage, he has performed Mozart's Requiem and Bach's Mass in B minor with the Westminster Choir and Chamber Orchestra of Buffalo, Stravinsky's Mass with the ASU Symphonic Chorale, Mozart's Coronation Mass with the North Valley Chorale, and Schubert's Mass in G with the St. Barnabas on the Desert Choir.
The Rochester, NY native earned a BM: Vocal Performance degree from the State University of New York at Fredonia and a MM: Opera Performance degree from the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. He is a recipient of the 2013 Young Artist Encouragement Award from the Chautauqua Opera Guild.
For the 2014-2015 season, Ethan joins Music at Marsh Chapel in Boston, MA as a Choral Scholar, where he performs as tenor soloist in Bach Cantatas BWV 190 and BWV 1, Herbert Howells' Requiem, Rachmaninoff's All Night Vigil, and Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri. His performances of Bach Cantatas from Marsh Chapel have been broadcast across New England on 90.9 WBUR, Boston's NPR News Station. An accomplished choral artist, DePuy made his ensemble debut with the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston in 2014's A Bach Christmas.
William Reber is Professor of Music in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. He joined the ASU faculty in 1991 and served as Director of the Opera and Musical Theatre training programs from 1991 2014. A native of Oakland, CA, he has been Conductor of the Corpus Christi Ballet (TX) since 1986. Co-director of James Madison University's Language, Music and Culture of Germany summer program in Freiberg, Germany since 2008 and chief coach/accompanist since 2009 for the Curso Magistral de Verado para Cantantes y Pianistas Acompañantes in Memorium Irma Gonzalez, he was head of the vocal coaching program for AIMS (American Institute of Musical Studies), in Graz, Austria from 1993 through 2004. In addition to conducting symphony and chamber orchestra concerts in the United States and Europe, he has served as Music Director/Conductor for more than 150 productions of operas, musicals and ballets.
Former Music Director of the Minnesota Opera Studio and conductor for the Minnesota Opera, he also served as conductor and vocal coach for the Altenburger Musiktheater Akademie in Altenburg, Germany. He was Music Advisor to the StaatsOperette Dresden, Assistant Conductor for Arizona Opera's two productions of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, and a member of the music staff for the Minnesota Dance Theatre. Dr. Reber also served as Music Director for both the Symphony Orchestra and Opera Theatre at California State University, Fullerton and was a member of the conducting faculty of The University of Texas at Austin where he founded the Chamber Orchestra and conducted productions of the Opera Theatre.
As a recital accompanist, he has performed with singers and instrumentalists in Germany, Austria, Macedonia and throughout the United States. A frequent lecturer on opera and symphonic repertory, he has presented lectures to audiences and classes in Macedonia, Austria, Germany and several U.S. cities. For Arizona Opera, he created and presented introductory lectures for more than twenty different productions and well as a series of special topic lectures for their two productions of Wagner's Ring.
Dr. Reber earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Opera and Conducting at The University of Texas at Austin, where he studied under Walter Ducloux who was a student of Felix Weingartner and Josef Krips at the Vienna Academy (now known as the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien).
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This event made possible in part by the generous support of Central United Methodist Church in Phoenix, AZ.
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LocationCentral United Methodist Church (View)
1875 North Central Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85004
United States
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