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Sunday, September 23, Vivaldi Strings @ 4:00 PM CDT
For more information on Vivaldi Strings, please go to http://www.wheaton.edu/csa/performance/Vivaldi_Strings_New.htm
Sunday, November 18, Dr. Lorraine Brugh, Organ Recital @ 4:00 PM CST
For more information on Dr. Brugh, please go to http://www.valpo.edu/music/LorraineBrugh.html
Sunday, February 17, 2008, Ryan de Ryke Baritone, Baritone and Daniel Schlosberg, Piano @ 4:00 PM CST
Ryan de Ryke
Ryan de Ryke is a young artist whose versatility and unique musical presence have made him increasingly in demand on both sides of the Atlantic .  He has performed at many of the leading international music festivals including the Aldeburgh Festival in the UK and the festival at Aix-en-Provence in France .  Apart from his exciting recital career, Ryan appears regularly as a soloist in much Oratorio work including Handel’s Messiah, the Passions by Bach and Schütz, Bach’s Weinachts-Oratorio, B-minor Mass, Magnificat and solo cantata “Ich habe genug”.  He has worked with many early music ensembles including the Orchestra of the 17th Century, the Baltimore Handel Choir, the Bach Sinfonia, the Ciciliana Quartet, the Apollo Chorus of Chicago and Ignoti Dei Opera. Ryan’s operatic roles include the title roles in Monteverdi’s l’Orfeo, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Blow’s Venus and Adonis, and Giove in Cavalli’s La Calisto.  He has also performed the role of Nardo in Mozart's La Finta Giardiniera with the Bay Area Summer Opera in San Francisco , and the role of Oberon in Britten’s Midsummer Night’s Dream. Ryan is equally at home in Romantic and Contemporary repertoire, regularly performing works like Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death, Vaughan William’s Five Mystical Songs, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Dvorak’s Stabat Mater, and Richard Einhorn’s Voices of Light.  He has also given performances of Dallapicola’s Rencesvals with Neil Sissons, director of the Dallapiccola Ensemble in London .  Ryan made his Weill Recital Hall debut as a finalist with the New York Oratorio Society, and later returned to the Zankel hall as a finalist in the Marilyn Horne masterclass competition.  Ryan is an alumnus of the Britten-Pears Institute where he developed a partnership with Roger Vignoles.  He has also studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Ian Partridge , the Peabody Conservatory with John Shirley-Quirk , King’s College London with Lawrence Dreyfus, and the National Conservatory of Luxembourg with Geoges Backes.  In 2007 he received a fellowship at the Franz Schubert institute in Austria where he worked with Elly Ameling, Rudolf Jansen, Julius Drake, and Helmut Deutsch.  He has participated in masterclasses with Martin Issep, Wolfgang Holzmair, and Leon Fleischer.  His recital partners include Nicholas Rimmer, Michael Sheppard , Eva Mengelkoch, and Daniel Schlosberg .  He is a featured artist on the Peabody Conservatory’s CD Music for the World and Songs to Remember, published by Yorktown Press, Inc. He has also performed live on Chicago Public Radio in the Fazioli Salon Series.  Future engagements include lecture-recitals with Susan Youens, Offenbach ’s Orpheus in the Underworld with Opera Vivente, and a cabaret of songs by Jacques Brel and Kurt Weill with Roger Vignoles in Spain . Contact information:  3356 Paisley Point, Whitestown, IN  46075       Tel.+001 (410) 952-4724   or at rderyke@yahoo.com
Daniel Schlosberg
Mr. Schlosberg was born in Los Angeles . He appears regularly on such series as Bargemusic ( Brooklyn ), the Embassy Series ( Washington , D.C. ), and on live radio broadcast recitals from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  Prior to being appointed Artist-in-Residence at the University of Notre Dame, he served as an accompanist in Sarasota , FL and Shelter Island , NY for the Perlman Music Program, headed by faculty violinist Itzhak Perlman. In the summer of 2000, Mr. Schlosberg held the Leonard Bernstein Fellowship in piano at Tanglewood. The same summer, he took part in a special collaboration with the Paul Taylor Dance Company at the Jacob's Pillow festival in performances of solo Debussy. He has also appeared at the summer festivals of Taos , Aspen , and Aldeburgh. Other projects of note include recitals at Weill Hall and in France and Italy as a fellow of the La Gesse Foundation, an appearance at the inaugural Amagansett Chamber Music Festival, and a recital at the Israeli Embassy, presented in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institutions. He has taught piano at Stony Brook University , and also served on the faculty of the Stony Brook Pre-College Program.  He is a member of Yarn/Wire, a piano and percussion quartet dedicated to performing the music of our time. In 2007, the group will give concerts in New York , Massachusetts and Tennessee .   Mr. Schlosberg studied at the Peabody Conservatory with Ann Schein and at Stony Brook University with Gilbert Kalish; his other major teachers were Barbara Hee and Christina Dahl.
Program for February 17:
Roger Quilter (1877-1953)  - Love's Philosophy  - Damask Roses  - Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
Thomas Dunhill (1877-1946)  - The Cloths of Heaven
William Dennis Browne (1888-1915)  - To Gratiana, Dancing and Singing
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)  - Liederkreis op. 24
Jerome Kern (1885-1945)  - Just the Way You Look Tonight  - All the Things You Are
Joseph Kosma (1905-1969)  - Les Feuilles Mortes
George Gershwin (1898-1937)  - A Foggy Day
Harold Arlen (1905-1986)  - Stormy Weather
Kurt Weill (1900-1950)  - September Song
Harold Arlen (1905-1986)  - Over the Rainbow
Stephen Sondheim (b. 1930)  - Love I Hear  - Not a Day Goes By
Cole Porter (1891-1964)  - Every Time We Say Goodbye
Sunday, April 13-May 2, 2008, Art Exhibition featuring Linda Huston Freel and Ron Suver,
Opening Reception: April 13, 2:00 to 4:00 PM CDT; Exhibition open daily 2:00 to 4:00 PM CDT
Linda Huston Freel                                                                   Ron Suver
Sunday, June 1 — Malgosia Fiebig , Poland and The Netherlands
For more information, please go to www.malgosiafiebig.com.
Sunday, June 29 — Jim Brown, Naperville , Illinois
Sunday, August 3 — Tim Sleep, Warrenville , Illinois

All events are handicapped accessible.  Childcare is provided for all inside performances.