Round Up of Texas Art Song Composers
Start polishing your boots...
VOCES Intimae's popular Round Up of Texas Art Song Composers concert is back! Enjoy a concert that's as hot as a two-dollar pistol - written by talented Texas composers who can strut sitting down! Y'all join us and tap your toes to music by David Featherstone, Quinn Mason, Duilio Dobrin, Mary Alice Rich and Mark Landson.
Sunday, June 9, 2019, at 3:30 pm
Zion Lutheran Church
6121 East Lovers Lane
Dallas, TX 75214
Start polishing your boots...
VOCES Intimae's popular Round Up of Texas Art Song Composers concert is back! Enjoy a concert that's as hot as a two-dollar pistol - written by talented Texas composers who can strut sitting down! Y'all join us and tap your toes to music by David Featherstone, Quinn Mason, Duilio Dobrin, Mary Alice Rich and Mark Landson.
Sunday, June 9, 2019, at 3:30 pm
Zion Lutheran Church
6121 East Lovers Lane
Dallas, TX 75214
Tickets $25, Seniors $10, Students FREE
Online and at the door!
Online and at the door!
Composer Bios
Duilio Dobrin
Three-time winner of the prestigious Downbeat Award for Best Classical Recording of 2013 and for Latin American Music in 2010 and 2011, Duilio Dobrin’s career as conductor, pianist, and composer, has taken him to New York, Munich, Tokyo, Lugano, Montreal, Zagreb, Vienna, and Buenos Aires, among many other musical centers. He has been recently engaged by the Georgia Symphony Orchestra (U.S.), Dubrovnik Music Festival (Croatia), Sauris Music Festival (Italy), Zagreb Philharmonic, and Varazdin Chamber Orchestra. He has served as Artistic Advisor to the Nicosia Music Society Chorus in Cyprus, Vienna, Austria, and Bled, Slovenia. Dobrin has also led the Solingen Symphony Orchestra (Germany); Juilliard Philharmonia, Nashville Symphony, Tulsa Philharmonic, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Oregon’s Summersing Choral Festival, Orquesta Academica del Teatro Colon, National Radio, National Symphony, Rosario Symphony and Bahia Blanca Symphony Orchestras (Argentina); Savaria Chamber Orchestra (Hungary), and the Orchestre Symphonique du McGill in Montreal (Canada).
Dobrin ’s performances rose to national attention during his tenure as Resident Conductor of the Florida Philharmonic where he shared the stage with artists ranging from Pinchas Zuckerman to Celia Cruz and conducted most major works in the orchestral repertoire over the span of a decade. He also created the LatinPops™ Series for the Florida Philharmonic, lauded as “a paroxysm of passion” by Diario Las Americas. As one of the country’s most exciting concepts in "pops" programming, this series generated numerous new subscribers, donors, and corporate sponsorships and received consistent ovations by the South Florida public.
He had previously served as Music Director of the Chamber Orchestra of Connecticut. Comprised of musicians from the New York Philharmonic and Metropolitan Opera, the COC presented six subscription concerts, including presentations at Merkin Hall in New York City. Maestro Dobrin received frequent praise from Robert Sherman of the New York Times.
Dobrin launched his career as assistant conductor to the Bach Choir at the Teatro Colon in his native Argentina. At this famed opera house, Dobrin developed his love for oratorio and operatic repertoire. He would later conduct productions of Carmen, The Marriage of Figaro, The Barber of Seville, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi, Fedora and The Elixir of Love, and American works such as Amahl and the Night Visitors, The Devil and Daniel Webster, Susanna, and the world premiere of A Piece of String by Seymour Barab. Dobrin’s orchestra pit experience also includes ballet and extends well beyond the traditional, having directed such Broadway shows as Fiddler on the Roof, Pippin, Pajama Game, Take me along, and A little Night Music. Most notably, he was engaged as conductor for Salute to Harold Prince, with participating Broadway legends Elaine Stritch, Theodore Bikel, Debbie Shapiro, Kevin Gray and, Harold Prince, himself.
Equally at home as a composer and arranger, Duilio Dobrin’s catalogue includes a new concerto for bandoneon and orchestra, recently recorded by members of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra with bandoneonist Peter Soave, a special arrangement of the theme song for CBS This Morning, which was televised nationally, as well as vocal works and orchestral arrangements of Queen, Glenn Frey and others. Dobrin presently has a contract with Warner Chappell in London for his Nashville Symphony commission Jerusalem Fantasy. Other commissions have included an arrangement of Porgy and Bess for the English Chamber Orchestra, an orchestral Homage to the late Astor Piazzolla, over 70 orchestral arrangements of Latin American music and a number of choral works in Hebrew and in English. His music is published by Warner Chappel in London, England and Edizioni Aldo Pagani (former agent of the legendary Astor Piazzolla) in Milan, Italy.
You can keep in touch with him online at: http://www.duiliodobrin.com/
Dobrin ’s performances rose to national attention during his tenure as Resident Conductor of the Florida Philharmonic where he shared the stage with artists ranging from Pinchas Zuckerman to Celia Cruz and conducted most major works in the orchestral repertoire over the span of a decade. He also created the LatinPops™ Series for the Florida Philharmonic, lauded as “a paroxysm of passion” by Diario Las Americas. As one of the country’s most exciting concepts in "pops" programming, this series generated numerous new subscribers, donors, and corporate sponsorships and received consistent ovations by the South Florida public.
He had previously served as Music Director of the Chamber Orchestra of Connecticut. Comprised of musicians from the New York Philharmonic and Metropolitan Opera, the COC presented six subscription concerts, including presentations at Merkin Hall in New York City. Maestro Dobrin received frequent praise from Robert Sherman of the New York Times.
Dobrin launched his career as assistant conductor to the Bach Choir at the Teatro Colon in his native Argentina. At this famed opera house, Dobrin developed his love for oratorio and operatic repertoire. He would later conduct productions of Carmen, The Marriage of Figaro, The Barber of Seville, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi, Fedora and The Elixir of Love, and American works such as Amahl and the Night Visitors, The Devil and Daniel Webster, Susanna, and the world premiere of A Piece of String by Seymour Barab. Dobrin’s orchestra pit experience also includes ballet and extends well beyond the traditional, having directed such Broadway shows as Fiddler on the Roof, Pippin, Pajama Game, Take me along, and A little Night Music. Most notably, he was engaged as conductor for Salute to Harold Prince, with participating Broadway legends Elaine Stritch, Theodore Bikel, Debbie Shapiro, Kevin Gray and, Harold Prince, himself.
Equally at home as a composer and arranger, Duilio Dobrin’s catalogue includes a new concerto for bandoneon and orchestra, recently recorded by members of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra with bandoneonist Peter Soave, a special arrangement of the theme song for CBS This Morning, which was televised nationally, as well as vocal works and orchestral arrangements of Queen, Glenn Frey and others. Dobrin presently has a contract with Warner Chappell in London for his Nashville Symphony commission Jerusalem Fantasy. Other commissions have included an arrangement of Porgy and Bess for the English Chamber Orchestra, an orchestral Homage to the late Astor Piazzolla, over 70 orchestral arrangements of Latin American music and a number of choral works in Hebrew and in English. His music is published by Warner Chappel in London, England and Edizioni Aldo Pagani (former agent of the legendary Astor Piazzolla) in Milan, Italy.
You can keep in touch with him online at: http://www.duiliodobrin.com/
David Featherstone
David Featherstone, composer and conductor, was the founder and Artistic Director of "Evening Song", an a cappella chorus, for 17 years producing 5 CD's. David has composed numerous hymn arrangements as well as small choral works and organ arrangements, which he publishes through his publishing company, Featherstone Music.
He graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington with a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Performance, Classical Guitar, and a minor in Theory and Composition. He taught classical guitar at Mountain View, Eastfield, and Cedar Valley Colleges and served twice as Chorus Master for the North Texas Oratorio Society’s production of Crawford Gates’ “Visions of Eternity”, performed at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in 1995 and the Eiseman Center in 2005. David’s vocal experiences consist, in part, of singing with the UTA A Cappella and University Choruses and the Dallas Symphony Chorus. Currently, he is Artistic Director for the Texas State Men & Boys Choir in Fort Worth, Texas, a top 40-selling classical group, that he conducted in Carnegie Hall March 15th, 2018.
His compositional journey began in the 9th grade when he began arranging tunes for a Dixieland band he formed. In high school he played string bass in the Bud Hutchins big band and lead guitar in his own rock band. He is an ASCAP song writer with three honorable mentions from the Billboard song writing contest, a second place award in the national LDS Church Hymn Writing Contest, and two country songs that made the Billboard charts, one of which was “Pick Hit of the Week” in 1986. After composing and conducting a performance of his Oratorio "Testament" in 2009 he began work on a Requiem that is scheduled to be released later this year. His compositional mentors, Dr.s John Stewart and Robert X. Rodriguez, have deeply influenced his writing and appreciation for the materials and structures of music.
He graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington with a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Performance, Classical Guitar, and a minor in Theory and Composition. He taught classical guitar at Mountain View, Eastfield, and Cedar Valley Colleges and served twice as Chorus Master for the North Texas Oratorio Society’s production of Crawford Gates’ “Visions of Eternity”, performed at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in 1995 and the Eiseman Center in 2005. David’s vocal experiences consist, in part, of singing with the UTA A Cappella and University Choruses and the Dallas Symphony Chorus. Currently, he is Artistic Director for the Texas State Men & Boys Choir in Fort Worth, Texas, a top 40-selling classical group, that he conducted in Carnegie Hall March 15th, 2018.
His compositional journey began in the 9th grade when he began arranging tunes for a Dixieland band he formed. In high school he played string bass in the Bud Hutchins big band and lead guitar in his own rock band. He is an ASCAP song writer with three honorable mentions from the Billboard song writing contest, a second place award in the national LDS Church Hymn Writing Contest, and two country songs that made the Billboard charts, one of which was “Pick Hit of the Week” in 1986. After composing and conducting a performance of his Oratorio "Testament" in 2009 he began work on a Requiem that is scheduled to be released later this year. His compositional mentors, Dr.s John Stewart and Robert X. Rodriguez, have deeply influenced his writing and appreciation for the materials and structures of music.
Mark Landson
Mark Landson is a violinist, violist, composer, founder and Director of Open Classical, and the founder of the new classical chamber group Neo Camerata. Based in Dallas, Texas, he has been featured in numerous television and radio interviews and press articles as a prolific contributor to the creative culture of North Texas
The Dallas Observer has featured him in “Top 100 Creatives in Dallas”, and arts magazine TheaterJones featured him in their “Forward Thinkers” arts entrepreneurs series. His new classical compositions have been praised in reviews as “Stravinsky at his most lyrical”, and “a unique combination of pop inspiration and classical craft”.
Landson’s focus is to take the audience on a journey of emotions through motivic exploration, melding the techniques of classical composition with contemporary pop harmonic language and pacing. Within every context of composition and performance, his mantra is “It’s not the audience’s job to pay attention. It’s the role of the artist to command attention.”
Recent works include the operetta “Goldilocks!” (2015/2019), the ballet and suite “Le Mozart Noir” (2016/2019), and “Moments In Memory” for either piano trio or cello sonata (2017/2018). In December, 2016, the first movement of his string quartet “Travels” took the grand prize at the third installment of “The Ear” competition in New York, chosen among 750 overall entries, and 9 final live round contestants, where the audience determines the outcome by answering the simple question, “Do you want to hear that again?”
You can keep in touch with him online at: http://openclassical.org/artists/Mark-Landson
The Dallas Observer has featured him in “Top 100 Creatives in Dallas”, and arts magazine TheaterJones featured him in their “Forward Thinkers” arts entrepreneurs series. His new classical compositions have been praised in reviews as “Stravinsky at his most lyrical”, and “a unique combination of pop inspiration and classical craft”.
Landson’s focus is to take the audience on a journey of emotions through motivic exploration, melding the techniques of classical composition with contemporary pop harmonic language and pacing. Within every context of composition and performance, his mantra is “It’s not the audience’s job to pay attention. It’s the role of the artist to command attention.”
Recent works include the operetta “Goldilocks!” (2015/2019), the ballet and suite “Le Mozart Noir” (2016/2019), and “Moments In Memory” for either piano trio or cello sonata (2017/2018). In December, 2016, the first movement of his string quartet “Travels” took the grand prize at the third installment of “The Ear” competition in New York, chosen among 750 overall entries, and 9 final live round contestants, where the audience determines the outcome by answering the simple question, “Do you want to hear that again?”
You can keep in touch with him online at: http://openclassical.org/artists/Mark-Landson
Quinn Mason
Quinn Mason (b. 1996) is currently a student at the SMU Meadows School of the Arts where he studies composition with Dr. Lane Harder. He previously studied at Richland college with Dr. Jordan Kuspa and TCU with Dr. Blaise Ferrandino. For four years, Quinn studied with UTD's Dr. Winston Stone who guided him through the fundamentals of music theory and composition. In June 2013, Quinn's "Bulldog Fanfare" was performed at his North Dallas High School graduation. Quinn received The Dallas Foundation' s Tommy Tranchin Award to work with UTD's Dr. Robert Rodriguez in summer 2013. In June 2015, Quinn was selected as a winner in the American Composers Forum NextNotes High School Competition that included travel to Minneapolis to work with professional composer mentors, including Libby Larsen, a performance of his winning composition by professional musicians and cash awards. The winning work was also performed at the Dallas Museum of Art. In 2016, Quinn was named first place in the Voices of Change 2016 Texas Young Composers project with his piece “Two Fleeting Daydreams”. Quinn was also recently commissioned by Dallas based art song organization Voces Intimae for a a song cycle, "Confessions from a Dream", which was premièred in April of 2017. Also, in 2017, Quinn was named winner in the Texas A&M University Chamber Music Symposium composition contest. As the winner, he flew to College Station, TX where he worked one on one with the distinguished composer David Maslanka and his piece "There's Been a Breach" was premiered by the Atlantic Brass Quintet. This year, he was named one of three winners in the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra's young composer's composition contest.
In December 2015, SMU's Cézanne Quartet premiered a movement of Quinn's Quartet No. 5 that was repeated in the home of Morton H. Meyerson (namesake of Dallas’ Meyerson Symphony Center). In January 2016, Quinn's music was featured on WRR's program "New at Nine." Quinn has written a series of bassoon etudes published and recorded by Norwegian virtuoso bassoonist Kristian Oma Rønnes. Quinn has also worked as a copyist for Dallas composer Mary Alice Rich's opera, Wading Home. His music has also been performed by bands of SMU, UNT and TCU.
He was commissioned for a horn sonata by David Cooper, former principal horn of the Berlin Philharmonic. His Symphony No. 3 was commissioned by the Dallas based New Texas Symphony Orchestra and was premiered successfully in June 2018. He is currently working on a commissioned full-length orchestral work for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra to be premiered in 2019.
As a conductor, he has led the Brevard Sinfonia and the TCU Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Richland Wind Symphony and various small ensembles at Richland College, TCU and the Brevard Music Center. He has conducted his own works and led the world premieres of pieces by his colleagues. He has studied conducting with Derrick Logozzo at Richland College and Dr. Germán Gutiérrez at TCU, as well as supplementary lessons with Will White, former assistant conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
Highlights for 2018-2019 is a performance of his 'Passages of Joy' with the South Bend Symphony Orchestra in January 2019 and a collaboration with Dallas-based dance organization Avant Chamber Ballet and choreographer Katie Cooper.
Quinn's personal mission is to write music that is, “Based in traditional classical music, but reflects the times in which we currently live”.
You can keep in touch with him online at: https://masonianmusic.wixsite.com/home
In December 2015, SMU's Cézanne Quartet premiered a movement of Quinn's Quartet No. 5 that was repeated in the home of Morton H. Meyerson (namesake of Dallas’ Meyerson Symphony Center). In January 2016, Quinn's music was featured on WRR's program "New at Nine." Quinn has written a series of bassoon etudes published and recorded by Norwegian virtuoso bassoonist Kristian Oma Rønnes. Quinn has also worked as a copyist for Dallas composer Mary Alice Rich's opera, Wading Home. His music has also been performed by bands of SMU, UNT and TCU.
He was commissioned for a horn sonata by David Cooper, former principal horn of the Berlin Philharmonic. His Symphony No. 3 was commissioned by the Dallas based New Texas Symphony Orchestra and was premiered successfully in June 2018. He is currently working on a commissioned full-length orchestral work for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra to be premiered in 2019.
As a conductor, he has led the Brevard Sinfonia and the TCU Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Richland Wind Symphony and various small ensembles at Richland College, TCU and the Brevard Music Center. He has conducted his own works and led the world premieres of pieces by his colleagues. He has studied conducting with Derrick Logozzo at Richland College and Dr. Germán Gutiérrez at TCU, as well as supplementary lessons with Will White, former assistant conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
Highlights for 2018-2019 is a performance of his 'Passages of Joy' with the South Bend Symphony Orchestra in January 2019 and a collaboration with Dallas-based dance organization Avant Chamber Ballet and choreographer Katie Cooper.
Quinn's personal mission is to write music that is, “Based in traditional classical music, but reflects the times in which we currently live”.
You can keep in touch with him online at: https://masonianmusic.wixsite.com/home
Mary Alice Rich
Mary Alice Rich is delighted once again to have Bronwen Forbay and Brian Bentley performing her music for Voces Intimae. This time it will be selections from a song cycle written for Ms. Forbay, telling her story of growing up in South Africa during apartheid.
Mary Alice has bachelor’s and master’s degrees from University of Illinois in violin performance but began studying composition with Jack Waldenmaier, Ted Hansen, and Winston Stone following a debilitating condition which ended her days as a professional violinist. Since then she has won several composition contests for orchestral and vocal writing, and her opera “Wading Home” has been performed in Dallas, New Orleans, and in 3 cities in South Africa.
You can keep up with her online at: http://maryalicerich.com/
Mary Alice has bachelor’s and master’s degrees from University of Illinois in violin performance but began studying composition with Jack Waldenmaier, Ted Hansen, and Winston Stone following a debilitating condition which ended her days as a professional violinist. Since then she has won several composition contests for orchestral and vocal writing, and her opera “Wading Home” has been performed in Dallas, New Orleans, and in 3 cities in South Africa.
You can keep up with her online at: http://maryalicerich.com/
Tickets $25, Seniors $10, Students FREE
Online and at the door!
Online and at the door!