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UVU Music Presents

chamber orchestra:
Britten's Serenade
for tenor, horn, and strings

 

Nu Skin Recital Hall

April 8, 2024
7:00 p.m.

 

about the performance

Immerse yourself in the sublime melodies of The UVU Chamber Orchestra. Join us for a captivating evening of classical music as talented musicians come together to deliver a breathtaking performance. Experience the beauty and precision of this exceptional ensemble as they transport you to a world of musical brilliance.

program

 
Brandenburg Concerto no. 6
Johann Sebastian Bach(1685 – 1750)
 
I. Alle Breve
II. Adagio ma non tanto
III. Allegro
 
 
 

Crisantemi
Giacomo Puccini (1858 – 1924)

 

 

Paint it Black, for String Orchestra, 2024
The Rolling Stones

Arr. Julianna Carlson Hinckley

Charlie Han

 

 

Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings
Benjamin Britten (1913 – 1976)

I. Prologue 
II. Pastoral
III. Nocturne
IV. Elegy
V. Dirge
VI. Hymn
VII. Sonnet
VIII. Epilogue

 

Anita Miller, horn
Joshua Lindsay, tenor

 


uvu chamber orchestra
Cheung Chau,
Director and Conductor

 

1st violin

Joseph Aguilar
Elsa Saunders 
Meagan VanNoy

 

2nd violin

Rosemary Palmer
Brynn Allen
Breanna Rigby

Joanna Fernandez

 

viola

Ashlyn McNeely
Lacey Gazaway

 

cello

Elise Johnson
Marisa Clark

 

Bass

AJ Peery

 

 

 

 


biographies

 

anita

Anita Miller

Anita Miller is an accomplished horn player who performed all over the world before settling in Utah. She is the Principal Horn for Utah Chamber Artists, the Fourth Horn in the Ballet West Orchestra, and member of the acclaimed Aspen Winds Woodwind Quintet. She plays extensively with the Utah Symphony and other Salt Lake area groups and is also a successful studio musician. 

During her years performing in New York City, Anita was a member of the Radio City Music Hall Orchestra, Third Horn in the New Haven Symphony, Principal Horn for the Connecticut Grand Opera, and member of the B.M.I. Big Band and Gotham Wind Symphony. She also performed with the New Jersey Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, New York Philharmonic, New World Symphony, New York Big Brass, and Solid Brass, plus countless Broadway shows, chamber groups, and regional orchestras. 

Anita was also a featured soloist at the Jeunese Musicales International Music Festival in Aberdeen, Scotland, and, as part of FIVE: A Woodwind Quintet, made her New York Debut with a sold-out concert at Weill Recital Hall through the Concert Artists Guild.

As an educator, Ms. Miller presents educational outreach concerts through A.R.T.S. Inc. and, with Aspen Winds, is the resident educational outreach ensemble for the NOVA Music Project. Previously, Anita taught at the Music Advancement Program at The Juilliard School, taught and mentored underserved students through The Midori Foundation, and taught at the prestigious Fieldston School in New York. Ms Miller was previously awarded a Rural Residency Grant through Chamber Music America to give concerts and lectures throughout Maine. Ms. Miller holds a master's Degree from The Juilliard School, where she was a student of Jerome Ashby(NY Phil). Her other teachers include Scott Brubaker (M.E.T.), Michelle Baker (M.E.T.), Laurie Frink (Caruso Method), David Wakefield (American Brass Quintet), and Peter Gordon (Studio musician).

 

josh

Joshua Lindsay

Over the past 30 years, Tenor Joshua Lindsay has performed over 500 performances of opera, operetta, and musical theater throughout the United States of America, Italy, Germany, and Austria. From 2011 to 2017, he sang with the Tiroler Landestheater in Innsbruck and in 2014 he was nominated for the distinguished Goldener Schikaneder music theater prize in Austria. In 2017, Dr. Lindsay joined the music faculty at Brigham Young University. At BYU he directed Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi, the Mikado, Handel’s TheodoraL’elisir d’amorDie Zauberflöte, and Die Fledermaus. In 2021, Mr. Lindsay started his own voice studio and teaches singers from all over the world.

Mr. Lindsay has sung over 45 roles, including Snake/Vain Man (The Little PrinceHoffman (Les contes d'Hoffmann), Mottel (Fiddler on the Roof), Camille de Rosillon (The Merry Widow), Walther von der Vogelweide (TannhäuserreviewAbate de Chazeuil(Adriana Lecouvreur), Knusperhexe (Hänsel und Gretel), Fenton (Falstaff), Matteo (Arabella), Kaspar (Amahl and the Night Visitors), Tamino (Zauberflöte), Parpignol (La Boheme) Trabucco (La forza del destino), Don Basilio (Le nozze di Figaro), Taupe (Capriccio), Jaquino (Fidelio), Harlekin/Soldat (Der Kaiser von Atlantis), Edgardo (Lucia di Lammermoor), Brabantischer Edle (Lohengrin) , Zweiter Jude (Salome), Edwin (Trial by Jury), Gran Sacerdote (Idomeneo), Ovando (Alzira), Dackel/Schulmeister (Das schlaue Füchslein), Erster Gralsritter (Parsifal), Tobby Higgins/Jack O'Brian (Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny), Nando (Tiefland), Timothy (Help! Help! The Globolinks!), Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas), Victorin (Die tote Stadt), Fiorello (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Sir Archibald Proops(Jekyll and Hyde), Tschekalinski (The Queen of Spades), Stimme (Totentanz), Heger (Rusalka), Pang (Turandot), Valzzacchi (Der Rosenkavalier), Albert (Albert Herring), Don Jose (Carmen), Dr. Blind (Die Fledermaus), Lackey (The Student Prince), and the Bangle Man (Kismet).
 
His concert repertoire includes: Beethoven's 9th Symphony, Mozart's Orgelsolomesse in C, Carl Orf's Carmina Burana, Franz Schubert's Missa Nr. 6 in E flat major, Handel's Messiah, Caccini's Jephtah, Mozart's Missa Solemnis in C major, Haydn's Nelson Messe, Mozart's Krönungsmesse, Brahms' Liebesliederwalzer, and Carl Maria von Weber's Jubel Messe. He has also sung several solo recitals.
 
He received a bachelor of music degree from Utah State University, a master of music degree from the Manhattan School of Music, and a doctor of music degree from Indiana University. He was a young artist with the Opera Theatre of St. LouisUtah Festival Opera, and a resident artist with the Nevada Opera. In addition to teaching at BYU, Dr. Lindsay taught applied voice lessons at Indiana University and the University of Nevada, Reno. 

 


land acknowledgment

land

Utah Valley University acknowledges that we gather on land sacred to all Indigenous people who came before us in this vast crossroads region. The University is committed to working in partnership—as enacted through education and community activities—with Utah’s Native Nations comprising: the San Juan Southern Paiute, Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah, Uintah & Ouray Reservation of the Northern Ute, Skull Valley Goshute, Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation, Northwestern Band of Shoshone Nation, Hopi Tribe, Navajo Nation, Ute Mountain Ute-White Mesa Community, and urban Indian communities. We recognize these Native Nations and their continued connections with traditional homelands, mountains, rivers, and lakes as well as their sovereign relationships with state and federal governments. We honor their collective memory and continued physical and spiritual presence. We revere their resilience and example in preserving their connections to the Creator and to all their relations, now and in the future.

With this statement comes responsibility and accountability. We resolve to follow up with actionable items to make the School of the Arts at UVU and The Noorda Center for the Performing Arts an inclusive, equitable, and just space for all. There is much work to be done, and we are committed to putting these words into practice.

Artwork by Shane Walking Eagle (Sisseton Dakota).

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Dean's Message

Courtney Davis

Our mission is to produce and present artistic excellence, which would not be possible without the generous support of our sponsors. We thank them and express our deep gratitude to all patrons, supporters, and friends of The Noorda.

The arts possess the unparalleled power to inspire, educate, liberate, and transform. They elevate moments, mark milestones, soften edges, and generate profound meaning. Experience the beauty and wonder of the arts with us this season at The Noorda and begin at once to live!

Courtney R. Davis, J.D., M.A.
Dean, School of the Arts

 

 

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DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC

Department Chair
JEFFREY O'FLYNN

Administrative Assistant
CHRIS GINES

 

Chamber Choir/Deep Green
REED CRIDDLE

Emerald Singers
CHERILYN WORTHEN

Concert Choir
DEMAREE BROWN

Opera Coordinator
ISAAC HURTADO

Voice Coordinator
MELISSA HEATH

 

Private Voice Instructors
AUBREY ADAMS-MACMILLAN
CECILY BILLS
ADRIENNE BRAUN
DEMAREE BROWN
ANTHONY BUCK
REED CRIDDLE
MELISSA HEATH
CHRISTOPHER HOLMES
ISAAC HURTADO
CONSTANCE JENSEN
SERENA KANIG BENISH
EMILY MERRELL
JOSEPH MOORE