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The Birthday Club with Dan Chouinard Feat. Maria Jette & Richard Kriehn
Most Sunday nights, Dan Chouinard brings in a stellar guest singer to toast the music birthdays and anniversaries of the month. Some familiar, some not, all worth celebrating. A dose of history no prerequisites or homework required, singing along optional.
MARIA - Soprano Maria Jettes wide-ranging career has encompassed everything from early Baroque opera to world premieres, in the United States and abroad. Her orchestral resumé includes The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Houston, Kansas City, San Luis Obispo, Santa Rosa, Charlotte, Buffalo, Grand Rapids, Austin, Marin and San Antonio Symphonies, New York Chamber Symphony, Portland Baroque Orchestra and Musica Angelica; plus Berkshires Opera, Roanoke Opera, Sacramento Opera, and the sadly defunct Ex Machina Antique Music Theatre in her home base of Minneapolis-St. Paul. There, she's often heard with VocalEssence (led by conductor Philip Brunelle), Chamber Music Society of Minnesota, Minnesota Sinfonia The Schubert Club and Lyra Baroque Orchestra.
A regular guest over many seasons at the San Luis Obispo Mozart and Oregon Bach Festivals, the Maverick Chamber Series and the Oregon Festival of American Music, shes often heard nationally on Garrison Keillors A Prairie Home Companion.
Maria is an ecumenical recitalist: her programs range from songs of Grieg or Fauré through Edwardian parlor music and Latin American chamber music, liberally interspersed with Tin Pan Alley and the Great American Songbook. Shes performed her own productions of Seuss/Kapilows Green Eggs & Ham and Gertrude McFuzz for over 50,000 kids throughout the country, with pit bands, symphony orchestras, and even just piano and train whistle!
Recent activities include Prairie Home Companions last two cruises: 2013s Mediterranean, and last 2014s Baltic capitals; Vivaldi cantatas and neglected Swedish music with the new Minnesota Vivaldi Festival (co-founded with harpsichordist Henry Lebedinsky); the US premiere of Jonathan Doves There Was a Child with VocalEssence; and music for Mothers Day with The New Standards for The Schubert Club & Music in the Park. This season, shes sung songs of Edvard Grieg with pianist Sonja Thompson for both The Edvard Grieg Society in Minneapolis and the Grand Forks Symphony. In October, she sings the long-delayed premiere of Dominick Argentos Ode to the West Wind (1957) with The Metropolitan Symphony; Strauss Four Last Songs with the Minneapolis Civic Orchestra; and in November, repeats Augusts performance of Rachmaninoffs Six Romances op 38 and her own new singing translation of Shostakovichs Satires, in a benefit for Alexandrias The Festival of the Lakes (at Plymouth Congregational Church). She returns to Indianapolis for her second set of Holiday Pops with the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir, where she will also sing Messiah with that excellent chorus and the Indianapolis Symphony.
For more information-- including her two recordings with pianist Dan Chouinard--2011s In Our Little Paradise: Lyrics of PG Wodehouse, and the brand new The Sirens Song: Wodehouse and Kern on Broadway-- please visit www. mariajette.com.
RICHARD - When Richard Kriehn turned 10, his mom bought him a mandolin; at 19, he'd won the Buck White International Mandolin Contest. He went on to play with the Nashville Mandolin Ensemble and bluegrass group 1946. On the classical side, he has performed with numerous orchestras and was principal second violin for the Washington/Idaho Symphony.
DAN - For nearly three decades Dan Chouinard has been pianist and accordionist for a long and distinguished roster of artists that includes Maria Jette, Prudence Johnson, Peter Ostroushko, Kevin Kling, and Philip Brunelle and Vocalessence. Hes appeared all across the upper Midwest and turns up occasionally on Garrison Keillors A Prairie Home Companion.
In 1994 he created an acclaimed radio series The Singer's Voice, broadcast live Sunday nights from the Dakota Jazz Club, then in St. Paul, hosting song-spiked conversation from the piano with a different singer each week, over 200 in the six years of the shows tenure.
As a writer and host he's often asked to create special live programs for Minnesota Public Radio, the MN Historical Society, the Rose Ensemble and others. His show Civil War Homecoming played at the Fitzgerald Theater in March, was broadcast on MPR in April, and televised in November on Twin Cities Public Television. Last year his show Steerage Song was on tour throughout Minnesota, a show co-authored with Peter Rothstein about the Ellis Island era of immigration to the US, depicted in folk songs, newspaper clippings and Tin Pan Alley tunes. In 2014 his show Cafe Europa was broadcast statewide, about bicycling with an accordion from Naples to Normandy in search of Minnesota WWII stories.
As a writer his work has been published in Minnesota Monthly, Saint Johns Magazine, the Minnesota Orchestras Showcase magazine and in the Minneapolis StarTribune.
Hes traveled extensively in France and Italy, with bicycle and without, and has presented French and Italian sing-alongs at the Alliance Française in Minneapolis. This past summer he spent two months working in Italy on an independent Hollywood film to be released early next year, a movie with the working title, Smitten!
Hes a musical consultant and sometime bandleader at St. Joan of Arc Catholic Community in South Minneapolis, and leads monthly community sing-alongs in downtown Minneapolis and St. Anthony Park.
He grew up in a big musical family near Lindstrom MN, attended St. Johns University in Collegeville MN and spent four years as a teacher of French and Italian as a graduate student at the University of Minnesota.
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LocationTHE DUNSMORE ROOM at Crooners Lounge and Supper Club (View)
6161 Hwy 65 NE
Minneapolis, MN 55432
United States
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