Fall Workshop 2009

Friday October 16, 2010

Kurt Ollmann (Baritone) and Lucerne DeSa (Piano) in recital at Huntingdon College's Ligon Chapel.
7:30 p.m.

Saturday October 17, 2010

Masterclass Schedule

Ligon Chapel, Huntingdon College

Montgomery, AL

9:00 - 9:20 Registration

9:30 – Draper, Sandy (Wanous)

9:55 – Parish, Jenna (Swears)

10:20 – Cummings, Jacob (Griffin)

10:45 – Graves, Katelyn (Goode)

11:10 – Allen, Trey (Yang)

11:35 – Perkins, Katelyn (Hanvy)

 LUNCH

 1:30 – Jones, Patrick (Hanvy)

1:55 – Paramore, Clayton (Yang)

2:20 – Davis, Noel (Yang)

2:45 – Welch, Paige (Jackson)

3:10 – Johnson, Cameron (Jackson)

 Alternates:

1. Card, Lana
2. Woddail, Mara
3. Griffin, Meg
4. Meleth, Yamuna
5. Cheeseboro, April

Dear AlaNATS members:

This year we are honored to host distinguished American baritone Kurt Ollmann as our 2009 AlaNATS fall workshop clinician. Mr. Ollmann is an accomplished recitalist and performer with extensive experience on both operatic and musical theatre stages throughout Europe and the United States. He will offer the NATS membership and students a Friday evening recital (Oct. 16) in Ligon Chapel on the campus of Huntingdon College in Montgomery. Joining him will be Dr. Lucerne DeSa, Assistant Professor of Piano at Birmingham-Southern College.

On Saturday, October 17, Mr. Ollmann will offer a morning and an afternoon masterclass. We will pause at noon for lunch on your own.

Students will be selected on a first come, first served basis. As in years past, high school, undergraduate, and graduate students are eligible. Mr. Ollmann has a strong background in French mélodie, Mozart opera, and American musical theatre; you may wish to consider this as you and your students choose repertoire. 

Please submit the form below, designating two of your students you would like to sing (listed in order of preference).   Include brief descriptions of each student’s experience level so that we can have a good sampling for the class. The postmark deadline is Sept. 21; you may alternately submit your nominations electronically.

Many thanks in advance to Huntingdon College for generously hosting this event. Maps and hotel information will be available on the AlaNATS website.

I look forward to seeing you all at Huntingdon on October 16, 2009!

With warm regards,

Dr. Meg Jackson

Coordinator, 2009 AlaNATS Workshop

KURT OLLMANN

Distinguished American baritone Kurt Ollmann first came to prominence singing Riff on the Deutsche Grammophon recording of West Side Story under Leonard Bernstein. He has since sung Pelléas  at La Scala, Milan under Abbado and Don Giovanni in the original Peters Sellars production at Pepsico Summerfare and also appeared with the opera companies in Vienna, Rome, Brussels,  Wexford, Santa Fe, Seattle, Washington, Los Angeles, New York City Opera.  He has sung with the London Symphony Orchestra, L’Orchestre de Paris, Rome’s Accademia de Santa Cecilia, the New York Philharmonic, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and with the orchestras of Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia and San Francisco, among many others.

 A noted recitalist, Mr. Ollmann studied the song literature with Gérard Souzay and Pierre Bernac and has made a specialty of the French and American classical song literature. He has appeared in recital at London’s Wigmore Hall and in Paris, Milan, Geneva, New York, Chicago and numerous other European and American cities. A champion of new American music he has premiered works by such composers as Leonard Bernstein, Ned Rorem, Michael Torke, Richard Danielpour and Peter Lieberson. He was one of the original performers of the AIDS Quilt Songbook.  Kurt Ollmann has recorded songs of Leguerney with Mary Dibbern for Harmonia Mundi, Roussel with Dalton Baldwin for EMI, Schumann with Michael Barrett for Koch, and song works of Rorem with the New York Festival of Song for New World Records and with the composer for Newport Classics.

 Among his many other recordings are Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette with Placido Domingo on BMG, Gershwin’s Oh, Kay! With Dawn Upshaw on Nonesuch, Bernstein’s Candide and West Side Story,  and Ravel’s  L’Heure Espagnole  under Previn on DG and Pelléas et Mélisande on Opera d’Oro.  He has also been featured in several PBS specials.

 Born in Racine, Wisconsin, Mr.Ollmann holds a Bachelor or Arts degree in Romance Languages and an honorary Doctorate in Music from Bowdoin College. Since 2002 he has been on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.  He taught for several seasons at the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival and in 2006 and 2008 at the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival.  He given masterclasses at many American universities as well as NATS conventions and in Lebanon, Kuwait and Mexico.

 Recent highlights have included a return to the Boston Pops in an all-Bernstein program with Christine Ebersole, performances as Emile in South Pacific at Milwaukee’s Skylight Opera Theater and song recitals in Honolulu and at the Dallas Museum of Art.  In 2008 Mr. Ollmann sang Britten’s War Requiem with the Flagstaff Symphony and in 2009 he made his debut at the Florentime Opera of Milwaukee as The Speaker in The Magic Flute and premiered Song of Ecclesiastes by Michael Torke.  In June of 2010 he will return to Paris for a recital at the Atelier de la Main d’Or.

 

Fall Workshop registration forms and student nomination forms can be found at the bottom of the page.

Online submission of the registration form and the student nomination form is now available.

A list of hotels within close proximity to Huntingdon can be found here.

Receive a special  rate at the Country Inn and Suites by mentioning the NATS Workshop.

Country Inn & Suites

5155 Carmichael Road
Montgomery, AL 36106
Phone: (334) 270-3223
Fax: (334) 270-1423
Toll Free: (888) 201-1746
www.countryinns.com