Mark your calendars for our 2008-2009 concert season.
September 6, 2008
December 20, 2008
January 31, 2009
March 21, 2009
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The Best of Broadway
April 26, 2008 8PM
Big Spring Municipal Auditorium
Final Subscription Concert of the 07-08 Concert Season
Featuring
Renay Joubert, soprano
and
David Corman, tenor
and the
Big Spring Symphony Chorus
Featuring
Renay Joubert, soprano
and
David Corman, tenor
and the
Big Spring Symphony Chorus
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Soprano Renay Peters Joubert
Soprano Renay Peters Joubert exemplifies today’s eclectically experienced vocal musician . A graduate of The Manhattan School of Music, she studied with mezzo-soprano Helen Vanni and coached with Thomas Grubb and Dorothy Uris. Ms Peters Joubert has performed for such notables as President Bill Clinton , The Reverend Jesse Jackson, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mayor David Dinkins and The Archbishop of Canterbury.
Ms Peters Joubert has appeared in Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti
at Cami Hall and the world premiere of Noa Ain’s The Outcast.
As a member of Opera Ebony, she has played the role of Miss Silverpeal and Miss Goldentrill in Mozart's The Impresario, Norina in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, Annina in Verdi’s La Traviata and Cora Perkins in the premiere of Pamela Baskin-Watson’s The Meetin’. Ms Peters Joubert has toured Switzerland and Martinique in the role of Jenny in Dorothy Rudd Moore’s Frederick Douglass. She performed in Kemi, Finland for UNICEF’S 50th Anniversary Celebration at the “World’s Largest Snow castle” as a lead singer in Heikki Sarmanto’s Perfect Harmony and the PBS special Aida’s Brothers & Sisters: Black Voices In Opera.
Ms Peters Joubert has worked under America’s leading African American conductors such as Isaiah Jackson with The Dayton Symphony Orchestra and Dr. Leslie B. Dunner with The Harlem Festival Orchestra . Ms Peters Joubert was the featured soloist with The CenturyMen a one hundred voiced male chorus on their nine city tour of Brazil. She was also featured with The New York Ragtime Orchestra on their tour of Maine and Japan. Under the direction of Dr. Walter Turnbull, she has performed with The Boys Choir of Harlem’s famous “Harlem to Haarlem” tour of Amsterdam, France and England. As a winner in the Leontyne Price vocal competition, Ms Peters Joubert was presented in concert at Weill Recital Hall.
Ms Peters Joubert has also appeared on recordings with The Moses Hogan Chorale, The Moses Hogan Singers, The CenturyMen, organists Dorothy Papadakas and Tim Brumfield, The New York Ragtime Orchestra, Patti Austin and Luther Vandross.
Ms Peters Joubert has appeared in Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti
at Cami Hall and the world premiere of Noa Ain’s The Outcast.
As a member of Opera Ebony, she has played the role of Miss Silverpeal and Miss Goldentrill in Mozart's The Impresario, Norina in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, Annina in Verdi’s La Traviata and Cora Perkins in the premiere of Pamela Baskin-Watson’s The Meetin’. Ms Peters Joubert has toured Switzerland and Martinique in the role of Jenny in Dorothy Rudd Moore’s Frederick Douglass. She performed in Kemi, Finland for UNICEF’S 50th Anniversary Celebration at the “World’s Largest Snow castle” as a lead singer in Heikki Sarmanto’s Perfect Harmony and the PBS special Aida’s Brothers & Sisters: Black Voices In Opera.
Ms Peters Joubert has worked under America’s leading African American conductors such as Isaiah Jackson with The Dayton Symphony Orchestra and Dr. Leslie B. Dunner with The Harlem Festival Orchestra . Ms Peters Joubert was the featured soloist with The CenturyMen a one hundred voiced male chorus on their nine city tour of Brazil. She was also featured with The New York Ragtime Orchestra on their tour of Maine and Japan. Under the direction of Dr. Walter Turnbull, she has performed with The Boys Choir of Harlem’s famous “Harlem to Haarlem” tour of Amsterdam, France and England. As a winner in the Leontyne Price vocal competition, Ms Peters Joubert was presented in concert at Weill Recital Hall.
Ms Peters Joubert has also appeared on recordings with The Moses Hogan Chorale, The Moses Hogan Singers, The CenturyMen, organists Dorothy Papadakas and Tim Brumfield, The New York Ragtime Orchestra, Patti Austin and Luther Vandross.
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David Corman, Tenor
American Tenor, David Corman, has won critical praise and thrilled audiences all over the world. He has sung nearly fifteen hundred performances in twenty-five countries and in forty-five states of the United States. He has sung over 100 leading roles in such operas as Carmen, La Bohème, Tosca, Faust, Pagliacci, Madame Butterfly, Otello, La Traviata, Don Carlo, MacBeth, Salome, with the New York City Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, Zurich Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Bonn Opera, Vienna Opera, Bregenz Festival, Goteborg Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Opera Carolina, Pittsburgh Opera, Santa Fe Opera, and Fort Worth Opera, as well as many others. He has also sung concerts with the New York Philharmonic, Zurichtonhalle Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Montreal Symphony, Lucerne Symphony, Sudwest Deutsche Philharmonic, and the U.S. Navel Academy. He has won numerous competitions including the Metropolitan Opera, Puccini Foundation Award, Zachary Award and Richard Wagner Award. He received a Bachelor of Music degree from Friends University in Wichita Kansas, completed his masters at Yale University and then did further graduate studies at the Julliard School of Music. He has studied voice with several opera legends including Tito Capobinaco, Carlo Bergonzi, Franco Corelli, and Neil Shicoff. He has sung with many of the great conductors of the world including
Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta, Bruno Bartoletti, Sir George Solti, Nello Santi, Lamberto Gardelli, Franz Welser-Most, George Manahan, Carlo Franci, Julius Rudel, Adam Fischer, Ralf Weikert, Nikolaus Harnancourt, among many others. He has also premiered several new works with composers Philip Glass, Siegfried Matthus,
William Schuman, Robert Moran, and Heinrich Henze. In the last year he has appeared in La Bohème in Boston, Madame Butterfly in Miami, Palm Springs, and Daytona Beach, Carmen in Martinique, and Pagliacci and La Bohème at the Globe Theatre of the Great Southwest. He is currently performing Gianni Schicchi at the Globe Theatre in February/March 2008. David Corman is currently the Director of Vocal Studies at Odessa College.
Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta, Bruno Bartoletti, Sir George Solti, Nello Santi, Lamberto Gardelli, Franz Welser-Most, George Manahan, Carlo Franci, Julius Rudel, Adam Fischer, Ralf Weikert, Nikolaus Harnancourt, among many others. He has also premiered several new works with composers Philip Glass, Siegfried Matthus,
William Schuman, Robert Moran, and Heinrich Henze. In the last year he has appeared in La Bohème in Boston, Madame Butterfly in Miami, Palm Springs, and Daytona Beach, Carmen in Martinique, and Pagliacci and La Bohème at the Globe Theatre of the Great Southwest. He is currently performing Gianni Schicchi at the Globe Theatre in February/March 2008. David Corman is currently the Director of Vocal Studies at Odessa College.
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BIG SPRING SYMPHONY CHORUS
REHEARSALS BEGIN
For
APRIL 26, 2008 CONCERT
THE BEST OF BROADWAY
With
Renay Peters Joubert & David Corman
Fiddler on the Roof, Oklahoma, Wizard of Oz, West Side Story
Cinderella, Show Boat, My Fair Lady, Little Mermaid,
Carousel, Candide, High School Musical
REHEARSALS BEGIN
TUESDAY EVENING
February 19, 2008
7:00 – 8:45 P.M.
1ST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
BIG SPRING
CHORAL REHEARSAL ROOM
UPSTAIRS
(Enter from alley way)
Keith Graumann
Home: 263-5943
Office: 267-1626
Cell: 213-0645
graumann@suddenlink.net
www.bigspringsymphony.com
REHEARSALS BEGIN
For
APRIL 26, 2008 CONCERT
THE BEST OF BROADWAY
With
Renay Peters Joubert & David Corman
Fiddler on the Roof, Oklahoma, Wizard of Oz, West Side Story
Cinderella, Show Boat, My Fair Lady, Little Mermaid,
Carousel, Candide, High School Musical
REHEARSALS BEGIN
TUESDAY EVENING
February 19, 2008
7:00 – 8:45 P.M.
1ST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
BIG SPRING
CHORAL REHEARSAL ROOM
UPSTAIRS
(Enter from alley way)
Keith Graumann
Home: 263-5943
Office: 267-1626
Cell: 213-0645
graumann@suddenlink.net
www.bigspringsymphony.com
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