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  • 2022-2023 SEASON
    • 10/8/22 - Duo Atesorado
    • 11/5/22 - Hank Hammett Masterclass/Recital
    • 12/3/22 - Complete Art Songs of Puccini
    • 2/26/23 - Songs of Travel
    • 3/26/23 - Roundup of Texas Art Song Composers
    • 4/23/23 - Flying South and Heading East
  • ABOUT
    • Board of Directors
    • Join our mailing list
    • Get Involved
  • PAST SEASONS
    • 2021-2022 SEASON >
      • 10/14/21 Caliente! A Latin Affair
      • 11/13/21 Gala with Angela Turner Wilson and Buddy Bray
      • 1/30/22 Student Liederabend
      • 2/27/22 Soul Songs
      • 5/15/22 A Gem of a Song
      • 6/12/22 Adult Liederabend
      • Fall 2022 The Juliet Letters - Neo Camerata and Sergio Cepeda
    • 2020-2021 SEASON >
      • Adult Liederabend June 2021
      • Duo Floreciente Livestream Recital
      • Perspective - Virtual Recital by Christian Bester and Lyndon Meyer
      • Adult Liederabend - October 2020
    • 2019-2020 SEASON >
      • "Musings" Performed by Kay George
      • The Juliet Letters - Neo Camerata
      • Blake Davidson: An American Art Song
      • Student Liederabend 2019
      • Amy Canchola: Distiguished Lives
    • 2018-2019 SEASON >
      • Student Liederabend 2018
      • Italienisches Liederbuch
      • Popurrí Musical: Raíces Hispanoamericanas
      • Round Up of Texas Art Song Composers 2019
      • Adult Liederabend 2019
    • 2017-2018 SEASON >
      • Adult Liederabend 2018
      • Simon Sargon Birthday >
        • About Simon Sargon
      • Gala: Baby Its Cold Outside
      • Student Liederabend 2017
    • 2016-2017 Season >
      • THE TEXAS ROUND UP 2016
    • The Pulse of Poetry 2015
  • SUPPORT
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    • SILENT AUCTION
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Meet Our Board of Directors

​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.

Board of Directors

Christian Bester, Artistic Director
​Karen Moyer, Co-Executive Director

Mark Landson, Co-Executive 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

PictureChristian 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.

PictureKaren 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.

PictureMark 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.​

Contact
​214.478.7847
vocesintimae.artsong@gmail.com
Voces Intimae, 18951 Westwood Place, Dallas, TX 75287

Contact Voces Intimae: The art of Song

Voces Intimae: The art of Song is a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to the revitalization and promotion of the art of the song recital in the North Texas region. 

214.478.7847
vocesintimae.artsong@gmail.com
18951 Westwood Place
​Dallas, TX 75287

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