Voces Intimae
Voces Intimae [VO-ches EEN-tee-may]
n. 1. Intimate Voices. 2. The Art of Song. 3. An innovative musical organization bringing the genre of the art song to Metroplex music lovers in an intimate, contemporary, personal setting, allowing listeners to get closer - both physically and emotionally - to this exceptional art.
Founded in Spring 2005, Voces Intimae inspires the revitalization and promotion of the art of the song recital. We offer a series of exciting recitals with outstanding professional singers and pianists. Program themes are designed to be stimulating, provocative and entertaining. We explore poets and composers in solo and ensemble literature, in songs from every era of the vocal art.
n. 1. Intimate Voices. 2. The Art of Song. 3. An innovative musical organization bringing the genre of the art song to Metroplex music lovers in an intimate, contemporary, personal setting, allowing listeners to get closer - both physically and emotionally - to this exceptional art.
Founded in Spring 2005, Voces Intimae inspires the revitalization and promotion of the art of the song recital. We offer a series of exciting recitals with outstanding professional singers and pianists. Program themes are designed to be stimulating, provocative and entertaining. We explore poets and composers in solo and ensemble literature, in songs from every era of the vocal art.
Board of Directors
Karen Moyer, Co-Executive Director
Mark Landson, Co-Executive Director
Christian Bester, Artistic Director
Pamela Cates, Treasurer
Amy Canchola , Board Member
Rachel Maura Fant, Board Member
For information on joining the Voces Intimae Board of Directors, please email vocesintimae.artsong@gmail.com
Mark Landson, Co-Executive Director
Christian Bester, Artistic Director
Pamela Cates, Treasurer
Amy Canchola , Board Member
Rachel Maura Fant, Board Member
For information on joining the Voces Intimae Board of Directors, please email vocesintimae.artsong@gmail.com
Advisory Board
Riko Chandra, Founder
James Howard
Elizabeth Racheva
Nancy Brunson
Riko Chandra, Founder
James Howard
Elizabeth Racheva
Nancy Brunson
Christian Bester - Artistic Director
Christian Bester, Artistic Director
Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as “Impressive,” native South African baritone,
Christian Bester made his professional debut as Schaunard in La Bohème for Pro
Musica Theater. His European debut and engagements include Zaremba in Polin
Blut for the Americke Jaro Festival in the Czech Republic, Papageno and Armed
Man both for the Amalfi Coast Festival in Italy. Additional critical acclaimed roles
include: Don Giovanni, Count Almaviva, Belcore, Enrico, Marcello, Germont,
Aeneas, Bob (Old Maid and the Thief), Guglielmo, Escamillo, Prince Moritz
Popolescu, Basil (Der Graf von Luxemburg) and Dr. Malatesta.
Recent orchestra engagements include: Fort Worth Symphony, Kwazulu Natal Philharmonic,
Manitowoc Symphony, Lone Star Wind Orchestra, Allen Philharmonic, and Dallas
Symphony Orchestra League. Christian is a sought-after recitalist with regular
performances throughout the United States, Australia, Wales, and South Africa.
With more than fifteen years of studio voice teaching and voice classification
experience, Dr. Bester has been instructing undergraduate and graduate voice
majors, musical theater majors, voice concentration, education majors,
instrumental majors, and talented high-school and adult learners.
Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as “Impressive,” native South African baritone,
Christian Bester made his professional debut as Schaunard in La Bohème for Pro
Musica Theater. His European debut and engagements include Zaremba in Polin
Blut for the Americke Jaro Festival in the Czech Republic, Papageno and Armed
Man both for the Amalfi Coast Festival in Italy. Additional critical acclaimed roles
include: Don Giovanni, Count Almaviva, Belcore, Enrico, Marcello, Germont,
Aeneas, Bob (Old Maid and the Thief), Guglielmo, Escamillo, Prince Moritz
Popolescu, Basil (Der Graf von Luxemburg) and Dr. Malatesta.
Recent orchestra engagements include: Fort Worth Symphony, Kwazulu Natal Philharmonic,
Manitowoc Symphony, Lone Star Wind Orchestra, Allen Philharmonic, and Dallas
Symphony Orchestra League. Christian is a sought-after recitalist with regular
performances throughout the United States, Australia, Wales, and South Africa.
With more than fifteen years of studio voice teaching and voice classification
experience, Dr. Bester has been instructing undergraduate and graduate voice
majors, musical theater majors, voice concentration, education majors,
instrumental majors, and talented high-school and adult learners.
Karen Moyer - Co-Exec. Director
Karen Moyer, Co-Executive Director
Karen has always loved music. She began piano lessons at age 4 but switched to voice lessons at 11 when she was recognized for having a mature voice at an early age. She enjoyed playing flute in the school bands for many years, until her lip became frozen to the mouthpiece at a high school half-time show. At age 12, she fell in love with opera when her father took her to a performance of Rossini's, "The Barber of Seville." She has always loved the beauty and subtleties of Art Song and her enthusiasm for art song is contagious.
Karen Moyer was raised in Michigan and Ohio and lived in Chicago before moving to Dallas. She received Vocal Performance and Music Education degrees from Alma College, North Park University, and University of North Texas. Karen is a recognized classical singer and voice teacher in Dallas. For almost 20 years, she has taught private voice, performance techniques, and music history at the middle school, high school, and college levels. As a conductor, she has directed college and professional choirs. Her solo career includes performances with local symphonies and opera companies, as well as, nationally and in Europe. She worked for years as a Radio Announcer and Producer at WRR Classical 101.1. Karen is active on the boards of various local music groups and educational organizations.
Karen has always loved music. She began piano lessons at age 4 but switched to voice lessons at 11 when she was recognized for having a mature voice at an early age. She enjoyed playing flute in the school bands for many years, until her lip became frozen to the mouthpiece at a high school half-time show. At age 12, she fell in love with opera when her father took her to a performance of Rossini's, "The Barber of Seville." She has always loved the beauty and subtleties of Art Song and her enthusiasm for art song is contagious.
Karen Moyer was raised in Michigan and Ohio and lived in Chicago before moving to Dallas. She received Vocal Performance and Music Education degrees from Alma College, North Park University, and University of North Texas. Karen is a recognized classical singer and voice teacher in Dallas. For almost 20 years, she has taught private voice, performance techniques, and music history at the middle school, high school, and college levels. As a conductor, she has directed college and professional choirs. Her solo career includes performances with local symphonies and opera companies, as well as, nationally and in Europe. She worked for years as a Radio Announcer and Producer at WRR Classical 101.1. Karen is active on the boards of various local music groups and educational organizations.
Mark Landson, Co-Exec. Director
Mark Landson, Co-Executive Director
Mark Landson is a violinist, violist, composer, founder and Director of Open Classical, and the founder of the new classical chamber group Neo Camerata. He has been called “the Elon Musk of the North Texas classical music scene” by TheaterJones, recognized as “One of the Top 100 Creatives in Dallas” by the Dallas Observer and “An Arts Entrepreneur Forward Thinker”, and has been featured in numerous television and radio interviews and press articles as a prolific contributor to the creative culture of North Texas.
As composer, his new classical compositions have been praised as “Stravinsky at his most lyrical”, and “a unique combination of pop inspiration and classical craft”. Recent compositions include the song cycle on Frost poems “Nothing Gold Can Stay” (2021), the ballet “Le Mozart Noir” (2016 recipient of a Donna Wilhelm Family New Works grant), the operetta “Goldilocks” (2015), and “Moments in Memory” (2017) Piano Trio. His string quartet “Travels” took the grand prize at “The Ear” competition in New York in 2016, chosen among 750 overall entries, and 9 final live round contestants.
Mr. Landson has created the first performable English versions of many of the most famous German lieder, including Schumann’s Dichterliebe cycle and Schubert’s great songs “Erlkönig”, “Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel”, “Shepherd on the Rock”, “The Trout” and more.
Mark Landson is a violinist, violist, composer, founder and Director of Open Classical, and the founder of the new classical chamber group Neo Camerata. He has been called “the Elon Musk of the North Texas classical music scene” by TheaterJones, recognized as “One of the Top 100 Creatives in Dallas” by the Dallas Observer and “An Arts Entrepreneur Forward Thinker”, and has been featured in numerous television and radio interviews and press articles as a prolific contributor to the creative culture of North Texas.
As composer, his new classical compositions have been praised as “Stravinsky at his most lyrical”, and “a unique combination of pop inspiration and classical craft”. Recent compositions include the song cycle on Frost poems “Nothing Gold Can Stay” (2021), the ballet “Le Mozart Noir” (2016 recipient of a Donna Wilhelm Family New Works grant), the operetta “Goldilocks” (2015), and “Moments in Memory” (2017) Piano Trio. His string quartet “Travels” took the grand prize at “The Ear” competition in New York in 2016, chosen among 750 overall entries, and 9 final live round contestants.
Mr. Landson has created the first performable English versions of many of the most famous German lieder, including Schumann’s Dichterliebe cycle and Schubert’s great songs “Erlkönig”, “Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel”, “Shepherd on the Rock”, “The Trout” and more.
Contact
214.478.7847
vocesintimae.artsong@gmail.com
Voces Intimae, 18951 Westwood Place, Dallas, TX 75287
214.478.7847
vocesintimae.artsong@gmail.com
Voces Intimae, 18951 Westwood Place, Dallas, TX 75287