S.C. Bach presents
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Ticket Information
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The S.C. Bach Choir and orchestra return for their spring concert, which features Adrian Smith, baritone, and Jennifer John, violin.
Program: Sacred Music from Leipzig
Motet: Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227
Sonata for Violin in E Major, BWV 1016
Jennifer John, violin
Cantata: Ich habe genug, BWV 82
Adrian Smith, baritone
Program: Sacred Music from Leipzig
Motet: Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227
Sonata for Violin in E Major, BWV 1016
Jennifer John, violin
Cantata: Ich habe genug, BWV 82
Adrian Smith, baritone
Buncombe Street United Methodist is located at 200 Buncombe Street, Greenville, SC. Parking is available on-site or in the Richardson Street Garage nearby.
About the S.C. Bach ChoirAbout Adrian SmithAbout Jennifer John |
The S.C. Bach Choir is comprised of musicians throughout the Upstate of South Carolina with expertise in early and Baroque music. The Choir's talented amateur singers are joined by professional soloists and instrumentalists to offer quality performances to capacity audiences in various venues across the state.
With a deep, rich tone and commanding stage presence, bass-baritone Adrian Smith is establishing himself as a rising young opera star. A recent alumnus of Virginia Opera’s Emerging Artist Program, Smith’s assignments included Joseph Porter in H.M.S. Pinafore, the title role in Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, Zuniga in Carmen, Truffaldino in Ariadne auf Naxos, and First Nazarene and Fifth Jew in Strauss’ Salome. Last summer, he joined Santa Fe Opera as an Apprentice Artist for productions of La fille du Régiment, Salome, and the world première of Jennifer Higdon’s Cold Mountain, based on an epic Civil War novel of the same name by Charles Frazier. This season, he appears with the Western Piedmont Symphony performing Vaughan Williams’ Songs of Travel, Zuniga in Carmen at El Paso Opera, and Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia and Papageno in Die Zauberflöte with the Asheville Lyric Opera. He will also be returning to Santa Fe Opera in summer 2016 as a part of their Apprentice Artist program performing the roles of Larkens in La fanciulla del West, Friar Jean in Roméo et Juliette, and Major Domo in Capriccio.
In recent seasons Smith performed Colline in La bohème with Opera North, and Angelotti in a concert performance of Tosca with the Owensboro Symphony Orchestra amidst a wealth of début performances including King Arthur in Camelot at Glimmerglass Opera, Dr. Grenvil in Atlanta Opera’s La traviata, and The Dodo in the U.S. premiére of Unsuk Chin’s Alice in Wonderland at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. Additional credits include appearances as Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor, The Old Doctor in Vanessa, Frère Laurent in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, as Geronimo in Domenico Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio segreto, as Marquis de la Force in Dialogues des carmélites, and in the title role of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale. Jennifer John is the new Violin teacher and Conductor of the Concertato at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities. Before moving to Greenville she founded the Jennifer John School for Violin, Viola and Chamber Music located in Lafayette, CO. She is also faculty at the Rocky Ridge Center for the Arts. She was also Professor of Violin at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Director of Orchestras at Peak to Peak Charter School and faculty Emeritus at the Aspen Music Festival and School.
Jennifer was previously Concertmaster of the Wichita Symphony, Prague International Chamber Orchestra, Great Lakes Music Festival, National Repertory Orchestra and the Flint Michigan Symphony. She was also Associate Concertmaster of the Aspen Chamber Symphony for many years. In addition she was Professor of Violin at Wichita State University and First violinist of the Fairmount String Quartet as well as one of the founding members of the Ceruti Quartet in residence at the University of Memphis. Ms. John has been a member of the faculty of the Prague International Chamber Music Festival and the Ameropa Chamber Music Festival. Other teaching positions include The University of Memphis. St. Olaf College, Carelton College, the University of Memphis and the Flint Institute of Music. In addition, she was guest faculty at the University of Houston, Texas Music Festival. Ms. John received her Masters degree with Paul Kantor at the University of Michigan. She earned her Bachelors degree with Dorothy Delay and Kurt Sassmannshaus at the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. Other education includes Postgraduate study at Yale University, Lausaunne Switzerland. Other teachers include Lawrence Maves and Fransesca Koscielny at the University of Oregon. Ms. John has also studied the Suzuki method with William Starr in Boulder, CO to enhance her knowledge as a pedagogue. Ms. John has appeared as soloist with orchestras around the country. The Oregon Symphony, Oregon Mozart Players, Prague International Chamber Orchestra, Wichita Symphony, Aurora Symphony, National Repertory Orchestra, Boulder Bach Festival, University of Colorado Symphony, Wichita State University Orchestra and Youth Orchestra, Cincinnati Chamber Players and the Timberline Symphony (CO) to name a few. Ms. John has published an article on Pilates/Ron Fletcher Work in the American String Teacher’s National String Journal and presented solo recitals, chamber music recitals, and workshops around the country including the College Music Society National Convention, San Francisco, ASTA, University of Indiana, Midwest Orchestra and Band Clinic, Chicago, MENC, Phoenix, and ASTA, Columbus OH and Denver, CO. Examples of master classes include The New England Conservatory, UMKC, Conservatory of Music, Arizona State University, University of Wisconsin, University of Oklahoma, Interlochen Art Academy, Medicine Hat College, Cananda, Texas Tech University, Metropolitan Youth Orchestra of Portland, OR, Eugene Youth Symphony, Omaha Conservatory of Music and the Interlochen Arts Academy. |