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St. John’s College Concert:
Songs by Jake Heggie and Others
Who
Nicolle Foland, soprano
Jake Heggie, piano
What
Featured Concert
Title
Songs by Jake Heggie and Others
Where
Great Hall, Peterson Student Center, St. John's College
When
Friday, September 30th, 8 p.m.
Price
$15 at door, free for St. John's College community
Details
Nicolle Foland and Jake Heggie will perform a program that includes songs by Schubert, Dvorak, Gershwin, Puccini, and Heggie himself. A particular highlight of the program will be Heggie's song cycle "Natural Selection," which he wrote originally for Ms. Foland, who gave its world premiere in San Francisco in 1997.
Jake Heggie is a pianist and American art song composer. Some of his credits include the operas Moby-Dick, Dead Man Walking, Three Decembers, The End of the Affair, To Hell and Back, and the stage works for A Look or a Touch and At the Statue of Venus. He has also composed more than 200 art songs, as well as orchestral, choral, and chamber music. Mr. Heggie was 2010/11 guest artist-in-residence at the University of North Texas at Denton. His first symphony, based on monologues from the novel Moby-Dick, was commissioned there. His operas have been performed around the world, including in Australia, Sweden, Germany, Ireland, and South Africa, and by more than a dozen American opera companies. Mr. Heggie also received the 2005/06 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. His most recent recording of songs and duets is called Passing By: Songs by Jake Heggie. He studied music in Paris and at UCLA.
Nicolle Foland, alumna of San Francisco Opera Center’s Adler Fellowship program, began her career with the San Francisco Opera singing many roles with the company, including Musetta in La bohème, Countess in Le nozze di Figaro, and Tatyana in Eugene Onegin. She has sung the role of Violetta in La traviata with Houston Grand Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Michigan Opera Theater, and has performed with Los Angeles Opera, Opera Bilbao in Spain, and Seattle Opera as Musetta. Ms. Foland has worked with orchestras across the United States, including the Santa Fe Opera and Colorado Symphony. She is also an avid recitalist, appearing on performing arts series throughout the U.S.