| HUMANARTS:
A Program of French Song with Amy Jarman and Enid Katahn
October,
2004—As part of the 2004-2005 HUMANARTS series,
musicians Amy Jarman and Enid Katahn of the Blair School of Music
at Vanderbilt University will give a recital of French art songs
on Sunday, October 24, 2004. The concert will take place at 2:00
p.m. in the Chapel of the Holy Spirit at Assumption College. The
program will include works of Faure, Ravel, Poulenc, Debussy, Chaminade,
and others.
Soprano Amy Jarman has an active performing career in the United
States and in England, and is known for her outstanding solo and
ensemble performances, as well as for her appearances on the operatic
stage. She has been hailed by the Los Angeles Times for
her “radiant tone and moving phrasing,” and critics
have praised her “pure sound that is so finely focused it
soars through phrases cleanly and effortlessly.” A native
Californian, Ms. Jarman has studied in Perugia, Italy and Leeds,
London, and Aldeburgh, England in addition to her undergraduate
work in the United States. Ms. Jarman has sung in Westminster Abbey,
and has appeared in recital series at St. James’ Piccadilly,
St. Martin-in-the-Fields and St. Bride’s churches in London.
She is a favorite of the Baroque Festival of Corona del Mar, Califormia,
and the Sewanee Summer Music Festival in Sewanee, Tennessee. Ms.
Jarman has been a featured recitalist on Chicago’s Dame Myra
Hess Concert Series, broadcast from the Chicago Cultural Center,
and the City of Leeds (England) International Concert Series. Ms.
Jarman has performed with the Nashville Symphony, Nashville Chamber
Orchestra, and Owensboro Symphony, and the Loiusville Bach Society,
and has also sung with Hancock Chamber Players, the Blair String
Quartet, Stetson Choral Union, and has been a guest artist at the
Rocky Ridge Festival (Colorado).
She has also sung with the Nashville Opera, appearing as “YumYum”
in The Mikado, “Lucia” in Lucia di Lammermoor, “Mimi”
in La Boheme, and as “Lily” in the Circle Players production
of The Secret Garden. Ms. Jarman has performed music by
and coached with award-winning composers Joseph Schwantner, John
Harbison, William Bolcom, Robert Beaser, J. Mark Scearce, and Leslie
Bassett. She has premiered new works by British composer Phili Wilby,
and American composers Michael Alec Rose, Michael Kurek, and Stan
Link.
Ms. Jarman has been a member of the voice faculty at the Blair School
of Music at Vanderbilt University since 1986.
Enid Katahn is Professor Emerita of Piano at Vanderbilt University’s
Blair School of Music. Her concert tours have taken her throughout
the United States and Europe, and she is greatly in demand for recitals,
lectures, and master classes. Katahn records on the Gasparo label
and her numerous compact discs feature the piano works of Carl Nielsen,
Pierre Max Dubois, Cécile Chaminde, and Gabrile Pierne. Another
CD, Beethoven in the Temperaments, offers four of Beethoven’s
most popular sonata in two different tunings commonly used in Beethoven’s
time. Katahn’s colorful recitals balance the classics with
the rhythmic American folk idioms of Eubie Blake and George Gershwin.
An added treat for all audiences is her lively, informative commentary
on the music to be played. “Unforgettable music-making by
a consummate artist” is the way a London critic described
one of her concerts.
This musical performance is free and open to the public. For more
information, please contact Frank Corbin, director of HUMANARTS,
at (508) 767-7508.
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