BOISE MASTER CHORALE PRESENTS ‘AN EVENING WITH THE MASTERS’

Vocal and instrumental soloists from far and near will be featured in the Boise Master Chorale performance "An Evening with the Masters" at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 8, in the Morrison Center Main Hall. Bach’s "Palm Sunday Cantata #182" and Mozart’s "Requiem in D Minor" are the two works on the program.

Tickets cost $15, available at Select-a-Seat, 426-1110 or www.idahotickets.com, or at the Morrison Center box office.

Bass-baritone Neil Wilson, a nationally known soloist who has more than 40 opera and musical theater roles to his credit as well as extensive oratorio experience, will sing with the chorale and will also give a recital the same day at 4 p.m. in the Morrison Center Recital Hall. Admission to that recital, sponsored by the Boise State music department, is $5 adults, $3 seniors and free to students of all ages and Boise State faculty and staff.

The Evening with the Masters concert will also feature award-winning tenor Ryan Olsen from Weiser. He has sung five roles with Opera Idaho and has performed extensively with the Utah Festival Opera and made other appearances in U.S. cities and in Lucca, Italy.

Other soloists are soprano Leslie Mauldin and mezzo-soprano Diana Smith, both of whom now live in the Boise area and bring a vast amount of stage experience with them. Both singers have extensive opera and oratorio credits and are talented teachers as well. In previous work in Boise, Maudlin sang the part of Marcellina in "The Marriage of Figaro" and Smith portrayed the mother in "Hansel and Gretel."

Instrumentalists featured in the Palm Sunday concert are violinist Geoffrey Trabichoff and cellist Samuel Smith, who will perform solos within the Bach cantata, as will flutist Sara Williams. The Mozart requiem will feature George Turner in the famous "Tuba Mirum" trombone solo.

For more information, call 344-7901.

Contact:
James Jirak
Music department
426-4101