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SOLOISTS
December 2011
 Mary
Bonhag,
soprano, made her Carnegie Hall solo debut in 2009 singing in
David T. Little's new chamber opera Dog Days. She is an avid
supporter of new music and has worked closely with numerous composers
to premier new works, most recently and frequently with Michigan-based
composer Curtis Curtis-Smith. In 2007, she created the role of
"Eve" for the Pine Mountain Music Festival premiere
of The Diaries of Adam and Eve, a new chamber opera by Evan Premo.
Bonhag
has a deep-rooted love of chamber music and recital repertoire
and is equally at home on the concert and operatic stages, having
sung in Italy, Germany, South Africa, Hawai'i, and much of the
continental U.S. She has soloed with the American Symphony Orchestra,
Berkshire Bach Society, Lehigh University Orchestra, Superior
Chamber Orchestra, and Keweenaw Symphony Orchestra.
Bonhag
is a member of Duo Borealis with her husband, double bassist/composer
Evan Premo. Both are artistic directors of Scrag Mountain Music,
a chamber music series in central Vermont. After studying at
the University of Michigan, she earned her Master's degree at
Dawn Upshaw's graduate vocal program at Bard College, winning
concerto competitions at both institutions. She currently lives
in Vermont where she teaches as Johnson State College.
 Sierra
Marcy,
soprano, a senior at South Burlington High School has been singing
for 13 years and plans to attend conservatory and sing professionally.
During 2011 she was named a winner of the Vermont Young Musicians
Award, was a national semi-finalist in the Classical Singer Magazine's
Vocal Competition, winner of both the All State and District
Vocal Scholarships, as well as a recipient of the 2011 SBHS Music
Award.
Marcy
has been chosen to participate in prestigious programs such as
the 2010 Boston University Tanglewood Institute's Young Artists
Vocal Program and the 2009 Westminster Choir College's Solo Vocal
Program. These programs provided opportunities to perform in
selected opera scenes including Clorinda in Rossini's La Cenorentola
and Lady Angela in Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience. She has performed
in numerous musical theatre productions throughout middle and
high school.
Marcy's
repertoire is large and varied, and in addition to classical
and musical theatre, includes jazz and religious music. Besides
her solo singing, she enjoys participating in choral festivals
at the state, regional, and national levels. She has sung with
All State Music Festival choirs, New England Music Festival choirs,
and was a member and soloist of the 2010 MENC National Honors
Choir, which performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.
For the past three years, Marcy has presented a solo recital
showcasing her recent work with classical instructor Beth Thompson.
 Ann
Harvey,
alto, is a Duxbury native with a wide-ranging career in music
and theater, from classical choral singing to playing Patsy Cline
in Always,… Patsy Cline. She has worked as a performer,
director, producer and teacher from Michigan to New York City
and Vermont to Florida. Harvey has enjoyed a long association
with Lost Nation Theater, in particular as director and performer
in many of the Fall Foliage Shakespeare productions.
In her
varied career, Harvey has sung with the Gregg Smith Singers in
NYC, been the Executive Director of Riverside Shakespeare Company,
initiated the popular Weekends at the Players cabaret series
at the Peterborough (N.H.) Players, and performed and produced
dozens of cabaret shows in New York and elsewhere. Most recently,
she joined the Vermont Philharmonic Orchestra in its summer Pops
Concert.
Harvey
has collaborated many times with conductor Lisa Jablow in both
Shakespearean and musical productions at Johnson State College.
This fall, she was delighted to direct Jablow in Dennis Batory-Kitsz'
opera Erzebet with the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble. Her
next project isAn Eclectic Cabaret: Ann Harvey with Family and
Friends as part of Lost Nation Theater's Winterfest performances
in Montpelier this February.
 Daniel
Marcy,
tenor, has performed with symphony orchestras, opera companies
and oratorio societies across the United States. Locally, he
has appeared with the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, the Vermont
Philharmonic, the Mozart Festival, the Burlington Oratorio Society,
and the Lyric Theatre.
Marcy
is a full-time teacher of voice. He is very proud of the more
than 50 private students he currently works with at his home
in South Burlington and at Middlebury College. He has been a
member of the voice faculty at Middlebury College since 1996.
These
concerts are very special for him, as it is the first time that
he has sung Handel's Messiah with his daughter. He would like
to say to his daughter, "I am very proud of you Sierra!"
 Marc
Yakubosky,
bass, has appeared frequently on Vermont area stages in both
classical and musical theater performances. He has appeared in
the title roles of Die Fledermaus with the Green Mountain Opera
and Mendelssohn's Saint Paul at Middlebury College. In addition
he has served as Music Director for the critically acclaimed
Vermont premiers of Jekyll & Hyde, The Scarlet Pimpernel
and Titanic, the Musical with the Stowe Theater Guild. Yakubosky
has also been a long-time featured soloist in Stowe Performing
Arts' annual Messiah Sing-in.
Prior
to his arrival in Vermont, Yakubosky was a principal soloist
with the New York Grand Opera, the Amato Opera, Opera Classic
of New Jersey and the Pro Arte Chorale in venues such as New
York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Carnegie Hall
and Central Park.
Yakubosky
holds a BA in Music Education from Montclair State University
and attended the New York School of the Opera. He and his wife
Luanne live in Morrisville with their trusty dachshund Mini. |
