Program

Eine Kleine Deutches Kantate        Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Mein                                                     Franz Schubert
Der Neugierige
Ungeduld

Mandoline                                           Gabriel Fauré
Lydia
Fleur Jetée

Afternoon on a hill                           Ricky Ian Gordon
Souvenir
Sweet Song

Johanna                                              Stephen Sondheim

Jonathan Mack

     Since graduating from the University of Southern California with degrees in french horn and voice, Jonathan Mack has maintained an active balance as a performer in concerts, recitals, opera, the sound studio, and as an educator at U.S.C., Chapman University and in master classes around the U.S.
     For four years, Mr. Mack lived in Germany with his family where he was the leading lyric tenor for the opera houses of Kiel and Dortmund. His guest engagements took him throughout West Germany, France and Holland.
     Jonathan has performed over fifty roles during his eighteen seasons with the Los Angeles Opera, including Ferrando in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte, Kudrjas in Janacek’s Katya Kabanova, Quint in Britten’s Turn of the Screw, and Orpheus in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld. Appearances with other companies include Belmonte in Mozart’s Abduction for Netherlands Opera, Lysander in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Kentucky Opera, Bob Boles in Britten’s Peter Grimes for Vancouver Opera, and the Steersman in Wagner’s Flying Dutchman for Opera Columbus.
     His concert work includes engagements with the London Symphony Orchestra, Chautauqua Festivals, the Carmel Bach Festival, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Minnesota Orchestra with conductors including Giulini, Meta, Previn, Boulez, Rattle, Hogwood and Tilson-Thomas. Recent performances include a tour of the province of Quebec in Beethoven’s ninth symphony with the Montreal Metropolitan and Frank Ticheli’s Pulitzer Prize nominated first Symphony for Festival Miami. He premiered two works at Disney Concert Hall in December, 2005; excerpts from film composer (The Matrix) Don Davis’ opera Rio de Sangre for the LA Master Chorale and the multi-media opera WET by Ann LeBaron in the REDCAT theater. This summer he returned to the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival for his tenth season.
     In demand as a studio singer, Jonathan has sung on over 100 productions for film, radio and television, including the 2005 Grammy Awards, television’s Studio 60, and most recently The Simpsons Movie.
     Mr. Mack is featured as a soloist on many recordings including three on the Nonesuch label: two with the Los Angeles Vocal Arts Ensemble of Brahms’ Liebeslieder Waltzes, Rossini’s Sins of my Old Age, and one with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Andre Previn of William Kraft’s Contextures II. Most recently he recorded the third Gammy nominated CD for the popular children’s series Beethoven’s Wig, which is now touring nationally.

“He is instantly sympathetic, authoritative, and secure. He inflects every line with point and unexpected force, and he makes every word count. A sensitive actor, he is a musician of remarkable refinement and the owner of an extraordinarily pliant, sweet and ever growing tenor.”
–Martin Bernheimer, Los Angeles Times.

Vicki Ray

     Pianist Vicki Ray performs widely as a soloist and collaborative artist. She is a member of the award winning California E.A.R. Unit and Xtet. As a founding member of PianoSpheres, an acclaimed solo piano series dedicated to exploring the less familiar realms of the piano repertoire, her playing has been hailed by the Los Angeles Times for "displaying that kind of musical thoroughness and technical panache that puts a composer's thoughts directly before the listener."
     Vicki Ray has played on various national and international festivals including the Salzburg Festival, the Berlin 750 Jahre Festival and the Ojai Festival where she premiered a new concerto with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Sir Simon Rattle. Ms. Ray has been a member of the piano faculty at the California Institute of the Arts since 1991.

Funded in part by the Ahmanson Foundation, the Ted Roy Charity Foundation/Lake Arrowhead Country Club,
Harry and Marjorie Johnson, and Jim and Paulette Parker.
Piano donated by Cannon Pianos, San Bernardino.