Toppin/Heid/Holley
DATE: July 19 2009, 3 PM
SITE: NC Museum of Art
2110 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh
PROGRAM
INFORMATION & TICKET SALES
- NCMA Box Office (919) 715-5923
- Museum website: www.ncartmuseum.org
- Raleigh Chamber Music Guild (919) 821-2030
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
LOUISE TOPPIN D.M.A., University of Michigan; M.M. (piano), M.M. (voice) Peabody Conservatory of Music, John Hopkins University; B.M., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Czech Republic, Sweden, Uruguay, Scotland, China, England, New Zealand, the Carribean, Bermuda, Japan and Spain.
Louise has performed in such series as Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Beijing Concert Hall, Licieu and Aspen Music Festival.
She has recorded twelve commercial CDs of American Music on Albany, Innova, Centaur and Cambria Records. National radio and television broadcasts of recital performances. Has performed leading roles in such operas as: The Impresario, The Magic Flute, Le Nozze di Figaro, The Coronation of Poppea, The Old Maid and the Thief, The Elixir of Love, and L'Isola Disabitata.
DAVID HEID comes to North Carolina after a successful career in New York City as a vocal coach/accompanist. Among the many well-known singers he has performed with are Karen Beardsley, Susan Dunn, Adria Firestone, Carolyn James and Christine Weidinger. A composer, arranger and conductor, he made his Lincoln Center debut in Alice Tully Hall in 1994. In the summer of 1997, he was heard at both the Darling Harbor Convention Center and the historic Towne Hall in Sydney, Australia. His coaching clients include past Grammy and Tony Award winners.
David is currently a staff accompanist and teaches piano at Duke University as well as being in demand throughout the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area as a collaborative artist. He has worked with many of the areas leading organizations including Durham Choral Society, The Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle, The Fletcher Foundation, Opera Company of North Carolina, Theater in the Park, Thompson Theater Summerfest and Long Leaf Opera. He was previously on staff of the renowned Juilliard School in New York City.
Additionally he has worked extensively in gospel music and recorded on a number of Christian labels. He has toured the U.S. and Canada with Jane Syftestad and directed The Voices of St. John's MCC - named in 1997 "The Best Gospel Choir in the Triangle." Their debut CD "Anywhere with Jesus " was nominated for a GLAMA award in the contemporary spiritual category.
Cellist TIMOTHY HOLLEY is a graduate of Baldwin Wallace College and The University of Michigan, where he studied with Regina Mushabac, Jerome Jelinek, Jeffrey Solow and Erling Bløndal Bengtsson. He was a member of the Toledo Symphony Orchestra for twelve years, and also performed with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra during that time. He is a member of the Mallarmé Chamber Players, and has performed with the Ciompi Quartet of Duke University, and the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra.
Dr. Holley performed with the 50th Baldwin Wallace Bach Festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and gave the first Midwest performance of Lou Harrison's Double Concerto for violin, violoncello and Javanese gamelan with the composer performing in the gamelan. His doctoral dissertation focused on the cello music of African American composers, and he continues regular activities in the study and performance of African American concert music. He has given lectures on Ludwig van Beethoven and George Bridgetower, the art songs of African-American composers, and the dual influences in the poetry of Langston Hughes and the music of Howard Swanson. He has made cello transcriptions of works by William Grant Still, and contributed encyclopedia entries on the Negro String Quartet and the Symphony of the New World. He has also given premiere performances of works by T. J. Anderson (Spirit Songs, written for the cellist Yo-Yo Ma), William Banfield ("Soul Gone Home" for soprano and chamber ensemble with Nneena Freelon), Trevor Weston ("Life Goes" for soprano and chamber ensemble). He performed Valerie Capers' Song of the Seasons for soprano, cello and piano (with soprano Louise Toppin) at Carnegie Hall in New York.
He is an assistant professor of music and director of the University Honors Program at North Carolina Central University.
