CAMERATA CALIFORNIA An American Requiem

CAMERATA CALIFORNIAChamber Choir & Orchestra

present

RequiemAn American

Sunday May 28, 2017First United

Methodist Church21st and J streets • 4:00

by American ComposerJames DeMars

Peter NowlenCONDUCTOR

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— Battle Hymn of the Republic —arranged by Peter J. Wilhousky

— National Anthem —

— An American Requiem—James DeMars (1952 -)

— Taps —Paul Simmons

— Welcome & Introduction —Peter Nowlen - Conductor

I. Canticle of the Sky – chorus II. Requiem Aeterna – chorus III. Kyrie – Quartette and chorusIV. Psalm 39 – Matt Hidalgo, tenorV. Dies Irae – Ava DeLara and chorusVI. Tuba Mirum – chorus VII. Liber Scritus – duet: Matt Hidalgo, Walter Aldrich

and chorusVIII. Recordare – duet: Ava DeLara &

Kathleen Moss-MillerIX. Rex Tremendae – chorus

X. Dedication – Ava DeLara, sopranoXI. Sanctus – Quartette and chorusXII. Memorial Prayer – Walter Adrich, bassXIII. Lux Aeterna – women’s chorusXIV. Libera Me – Quartette and chorus


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C O M P O S E R

James DeMars (b.1952)

Composer/conductor James DeMars belongs to ageneration that is revealing a new integration ofworld music with the range, depth and stylistic vari-ety of the classical tradition. His works include or-chestral concertos for violin, piano, African drumensemble, pow-wow singers, Native American flute,several cantatas, a requiem mass and an opera.

Ensembles that perform DeMars' music includethe New York Choral Society, Brooklyn Philhar-monic, Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Utah Symphony,Philadelphia Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic,Phoenix Symphony, California Symphony, ChicagoSinfonietta, Tucson Symphony, Anchorage Sym-phony, Choer et Orchestre Francais D'Oratorio(Paris), Wuppertal (Germany) Orchestra.

DeMars has received commissions from the NEA, the Heard Museum, Flynn Founda-tion, Art Renaissance Foundation, the Phoenix Symphony, Canyon Records, the European-American Foundation, the Phoenix Boys Choir, I Solisti di Zagreb, and the ArizonaCommission on the Arts.

As a conductor, DeMars' performances include the national premiere of his work, AnAmerican Requiem, at the Kennedy Center in Washington and nationally televised per-formances at Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York. In 1998 he conducted the Eu-ropean premiere of the requiem in Paris at Église La Trinité with Choer et OrchestreFrancais D'Oratorio and was inducted to the French Order of Arts and Letters.

With Native American flutist R. Carlos Nakai he has created four CDs for CanyonRecords. Two World Concerto received two Native American Music Awards and led to the2008 release of DeMars' inter-cultural opera, GUADALUPE. In 2010 he received the Ari-zona Artist of the Year Governor's Award.

Aesthetic influences include the writings of Joseph Campbell and Albert Camus. Heholds a doctorate from the University of Minnesota and currently teaches composition atArizona State University in Tempe

About An American RequiemCommissioned in 1993 by the Art Renaissance Foundation, James DeMars produced

this amazing work with the hope that it would contribute to bringing the American com-munity together. Hugely ambitious and soundly constructed, the 75-minute choral worktook a full year to be written and orchestrated. It is a stylistically eclectic, strongly ap-proachable offering in four parts, interpolating English and Latin texts in an attempt to re-flect the diversity of our nation’s cultural and religious life.

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N O T E F R O M T H E P R E S I D E N TDear friends,As we continue our journey with livingcomposers, we are proud to feature the workof James DeMars. “An American Requiem”is a Sacramento area premiere. Listen forthe different rhythms and voices as itweaves through American idioms in unexpected ways. The message that wehear in this composition is that we mustcome and sit at the table together, brothersand sisters. It is very timely in today’sworld. Thank you for sharing this with us on this Memorial Day concert.

— Mary

PETE NOWLEN, Conductor — has been amember of the UC Davis faculty since 1988,and the CSU Sacramento faculty since 1990.He was a member of the French horn sectionof the Sacramento Symphony from 1987 to1996, and since has been active as an orches-tral and chamber performer and conductor.Mr. Nowlen is currently Artistic Director ofVITA Academy and Camerata California, andhas been the Director of Concert Bands at U.

C. Davis since 2002. Opera, ballet and theater conducting credits include La Bo-heme, Hansel und Gretel, Magic Flute, Amahl, Orpheus in the Underworld, LaFinta Giardiniera, Billy the Kid, L'Histoire du Soldat, Façade, Little Shop of Hor-rors, Falsettos, Company, and Man of La Mancha.Orchestral conducting credits include the Sacramento Symphony, UCD Symphony, CSUS Symphony, Camellia Symphony, VITA Symphony, AuburnSymphony and the Music in the Mountains Orchestra.In 1992, Pete was the third prize winner of the International Competition for Solo Horn of the Castle of Duino, Italy, and in 1994 was a semi-finalist in theprestigious American Horn Competition. Horn performance credits include theSan Francisco Symphony, Opera and Ballet orchestras, Symphony Silicon Valley,Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera, and the International Orchestra of Italy.

C O N D U C T O R

“ At the close of last night’s premiere performance therecould have been little doubt that James DeMars had metthe standards of the deathmasses of Brahms and Britten;grand and spacious, stately,ethereal, glorious, inspired andquintessentially American. Itspeaks of untarnished dreamsand naïve yearnings; an intensely hopeful conjuration of all that is best about the nation’s peoples.”— Washington Post


C AMERA T A C ALIFORNIA CHAMBER CHOIR


C O N D U C T O RPete Nowlen

S O P R A N OAva DeLara* • Glena Clark Jue • Sarah Messbauer • Angela Yam

A L T OLaurel Jensen • Jan Truesdale • Mary Wesley

Kathleen Moss-Miller* • Dresden Vogt

T E N O RMatt Hidalgo* • Steve Pierce • Alex Stalarow

B A S SWalter Aldrich • Don Dittmer • Roy Domoe • Edward Gibson • Mark Kane

*aterisk denotes soloist

GENERAL DIRECTOR Mary Wesley

ORCHESTRA MANAGER Maki Kuper

HOUSE MANAGER Portia Njoku

REHEARSAL ACCOMPANIST Steve Pierce

VIDEOGRAPHERS James Jed & Randy Russell

AUDIO RECORDINGS Living Sound

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C A M E R A T A A C O M P I A N I S T S

O R G A NKevin McKelvie

P I A N OJohn Hillebrandt

T I M P A N IRoss Ackerman


fung, the Fauré Requiem, Mozart’s VesperaeSolennes de Dominica, Verdi's Messa da Re-quiem (a television broadcast) and Te Deum,Saint-Saëns’ Oratorio de Noël, RandallThompson’s The Nativity according to St.Luke, Vaughn Williams’ Dona Nobis Pachem,Karl Jenkin’s The Armed Man, Respighi’sLauda per la Natività del Signore, Vivaldi’sGloria, and J.S. Bach's Magnificat, St.Matthew Passion and B Minor Mass.

Ava has also performed in recitals, music festi-vals and concerts extensively throughout Nand S-California, Europe, Central Mexico, andthe Philippines. In addition, she has sung ben-efit performances for the Sacramento Women’sChorus and a local AIDS care program, a ben-efit concert for Habitat for Humanity to helprebuild homes in New Orleans after the devas-tation from hurricane Katrina, and for “at risk”children in Napa, CA. She is currently plan-ning joint concert performances with theamazing violinist Michelle You.

Has been recognized asa singer with a “greatvoice and projection,and a dramatic abilityseldom seen on theopera stage.” (SanFrancisco ClassicalVoice) She has sung

with many Bay Area opera companies includ-ing Opera San Jose, West Bay Opera, and SanFrancisco Opera. Kathleen is also at home onthe musical theater stage and has performedwith such companies as American MusicalTheater of San Jose, TheatreWorks of PaloAlto, and Sacramento's Music Circus.

She can be heard on the American originalcast recording of The 3Musketeers withmusic by George Stiles. In 2009 Ms. Moss ap-peared as Carmen in Pocket Opera’s Carmenand Dorabella in North Bay Opera’s Cosi fantutte. In 2008 Ms. Moss appeared as Judith inBerkeley Opera’s Bluebeard’s Castle, Mrs.

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F E A T U R E D S O L O I S T

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Has been a member ofCamerata California for15 years. She is also anexperienced performerof operas, oratorios,concerts and recitals.She has performed lead-ing roles with several

regional opera companies, includingTownsend Opera Players, North Bay Operaand the San Francisco Children’s Opera.

On March 21, 2015, Ava performed the leadrole of Sylvia in Mascagni's Zanetto, for theopening of Capitol Opera, Sacramento. Otherleading roles she has performed include Vio-letta (La Traviata, Verdi), Cio-cio-san(Madama Butterfly, Puccini), Aida (Aida,Verdi), Ariadne (Ariadne auf Naxos,Strauss), Erste Dame (Die Zauberflöte,Mozart), Georgetta (Il Tabarro, Puccini), Es-meralda (The Bartered Bride, Smetana), Cin-derella (Cinderella, Gingold), Josephine(H.M.S. Pinafore, Gilbert and Sullivan),Phillia (A Funny Thing Happened on theWay to the Forum, Sondheim) and PollyPeachum (The Beggar’s Opera, J. Gay) whichgarnered her a nomination for a Sacramentoregional theater Elly Award.

As a guest soloist with many Regional Cali-fornia orchestras, Ava's performances in-clude Das himmlische Leben from Mahler’sSymphony No. 4, Mendelssohn’s Hear MyPrayer, Ravel’s Kaddisch, the Pie Jesu by L.Boulanger, Händel’s Gloria in exelsis Deoand Salve Regina, Fern Hill by JohnCorigliano, and much more. She has ap-peared with the Solano Symphony, CamelliaSymphony, Auburn Symphony, Gold Coun-try Chamber Orchestra, Camerata CaliforniaChamber Orchestra, the Sacramento ChoralSociety Festival Symphony, and the ValleyChoral Society Orchestra.

Ava’s oratorio work includes Rossini’s StabatMater, Händel’s Messiah and Dixit Dominus,Haydn's Missa in Augustiis and Die Schöp-

Ava DeLara — Soprano

Kathleen Moss — Mezzo




Grose in San Francisco Lyric Opera’s produc-tion of The Turn of the Screw, and as Mad-dalena in Rigoletto with Opera San Jose. Shewas a soloist in the world premiere of DivideLight, a new opera based on the poems ofEmily Dickinson.

Recent credits: Suzuki in Madama Butterflywith Opera San Jose, Polina in Pique Damewith West Bay Opera, Second Lady in Die Za-uberflöte, Bianca in The Rape of Lucretia &Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni with San Fran-cisco Lyric Opera, Cherubino in Le Nozze diFigaro & Suzuki in Madama Butterfly withCinnabar Opera, Mad Margaret in Ruddygore& Ruth in Pirates of Penzance with The Lamp-lighters, Boulotte in Bluebeard & Maddalena inRigoletto with Pocket Opera, Hansel in Hanseland Gretel with Opera a la Carte & covered therole of Anna Hope in The Mother of Us Allwith San Francisco Opera.

Ms. Moss appeared most recently as theAngel in The Dream of Gerontius with theSacramento Choral Society & Orchestra. Shehas performed as a soloist in the Messiahwith the Stockton Symphony and as a fea-tured soloist in the San Francisco EarthquakeCentennial Concert, broadcast live on Na-tional Public Radio.

Walter Aldrichr — Bass

Is baritone, is a stu-dent at CaliforniaState UniversitySacramento, where hestudies Vocal Perform-ance with Dr. RobinFisher. He holds anAA in Music from

Matt Hidalgo returns tothe stage with Camerataafter his beautiful per-formance at Christmassinging Saint-Saëns’Christmas Oratorio andVaughan Williams’ TheFirst Nowell. Matt is a

graduate of California State University,Sacramento; and holds a Bachelor’s of Musicin Vocal Performance. He has sung and per-formed regularly throughout the greaterSacramento region and is a familiar facewith many local performing groups. Mattperforms regularly with St Mark’s UnitedMethodist Church, Fifth Church of Christ

Matt Hidalgo — Tenor

Scientist, Sacramento Opera, The Sacra-mento Choral Society, Capella Antiqua,Sacramento’s Classical Revolution, the choirsat UC Davis, the Carson City ChamberSingers in Carson City, NV; and is also a reg-ular performer for the St Mark’s annualBravo Bach! Festival.

Recently, Matt returned to his alma mater toperform the role of Paolino in DominicoCimarosa’s Il Matrimonio Segreto with theSacramento State Opera Theater under thedirection of Omari Tau. In Spring 2014, Mattwas also asked to return to Sacramento Stateto perform the role of Pluto in Jacques Offen-bach’s Orpheus in the Underworld; alsounder the direction of Tau. In 2013, Mattmade his Sacramento Opera solo debut asEddie Pensier for Sacramento Opera’s 2013opening production of The Bremen TownMusicians at Fairy Tale Town. Matt’s oper-atic career highlights include Don Ottavio inMozart’s Don Giovanni, Tamino in Mozart’sDie Zauberflöte, Sir Hugo in Gerald Cock-shott’s The Faun in the Forest, Don Basilioand Don Curzio in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Fi-garo, Mercury in Offenbach’s Orpheus in theUnderworld, and Luiz in Gilbert and Sulli-van’s The Gondoliers.

A distinguished concert performer, Matt Hi-dalgo has performed the tenor solos in Ben-jamin Britten’s Serenade for Horn andTenor, Haydn’s Missa Celensis, Händel’sMessiah, Saint-Saëns’ Oratorio de Noël,Bach’s Coffee Cantata, Haydn’s Pauken-messe, and Pergolesi’s Magnificant.




John Hillebrandt keeps an active schedule asa pianist, composer and educator. His numer-ous and highly acclaimed performances eachseason include solo recitals, chamber music,concertos, and original compositions. He re-tired in 2011 from California State Univer-sity, Stanislaus, where his remarkable careeras staff accompanist and lecturer for 15 yearsincluded more than 500 performances. Hehas been the Principal Pianist and Key-boardist for the Modesto Symphony Orches-tra since 1996, and plays with other regionalorchestras including the Sacramento Philhar-monic and the “Music in the Mountains” fes-tival orchestra. He has taught manyaward-winning students, and is a regular ad-judicator for the United States Open MusicCompetition, the Music Teachers’ Associa-tion of California, and others. He is also cur-rently teaching courses online throughModesto Junior College, and performs regu-larly on faculty artist concerts.

Dr. Hillebrandt is the choir director and or-ganist/pianist at First United MethodistChurch of Sacramento, where many of his re-cent original compositions are heard regu-larly. Hillebrandt’s Concerto for Piano andOrchestra was featured by the Modesto Sym-phony Orchestra in 2013. He has recently

Kevin McKelvie beganhis musical career as achurch musician at theage of 12. He began tostudy at the University ofNorthern Iowa. As afreshman, he attendedWartburg College (IA)

studying with Warren Schmidt before transfer-ring to Northwestern University (IL) where heearned a Bachelor of Music degree in organ andchurch music and a Master of Music degree inconducting studying with John Paynter.

Kevin has served as Interim Director of In-strumental Music at Alma College (MI) from1983-1985 where he conducted the collegeMarching Band, Concert Band, Jazz Ensem-ble, the Alma Symphony Orchestra, began aChapel Choir and taught orchestration andconducting. From 1985-1996, Kevin was theMusic Director and Conductor of theMcHenry County Youth Orchestras.

Kevin holds a Vocal Performance Certificatefrom DePaul University and has worked as a professional tenor with the Chicago Symphony Chorus for 28 years; the GrantPark Music Festival Chorus for 15 seasonsand the Lyric Opera of Chicago Chorus for 13 seasons.

Kevin McKelvie — Organist

As an organ recitalist, Kevin has been pre-sented at a number of churches in Chicagoand the throughout the Midwest, includingFourth Presbyterian Church – where he alsoserved as Interim Assistant and Interim Associate organist; St. James' Cathedral, HolyName Cathedral and most recently atMadonna della Strada Chapel of Loyola Uni-versity. He is a member of the AmericanGuild of Organists.

Kevin is thrilled to return to Sacramento fortoday’s concert. His last apperance here wasin the Concerts of All Hallows series dedica-tion concerts for the William A. Bakes Me-morial Organ at All Hallows Church in 2008.

Sierra Community College, where he alsoserved as the Accompanist and AssistantDirector of the choral program. An alum-nus of the Lingua e Canto opera programin Italy, Mr. Aldrich has won 1st place inthe NATS Cal-West Regional Competi-tion, and was also awarded the Music inthe Mountains Lucy Becker MemorialScholarship. He has appeared with theCSUS Opera Theatre as Conte Robinsonin Cimarosa’s opera Il Matrimonio Seg-reto, The Preacher in Elie Siegmeister’sDarling Corie, and as Mr. Peachum inBenjamin Britten’s The Beggar’s Opera.

John Hillebrandt — Piano


B I O G R A P H I E S

Camerata California 2017 Season

— SOPRANOS —

AVA DELARA has been a member of Camerata California since 2001. She hasbeen guest soloist with many Regional Cal-ifornia orchestras, but Camerata Californiahas given her the rare and exciting oppor-tunity to sing the music of some of theworld's leading living contemporary com-posers. Camerata also gave her the honorof singing Gounod's Gallia for the Centen-nial of the Panama Pacific Exhibition at thePalace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Shehas appeared with the Solano, Camelliaand Auburn Symphonys and many Or-chestras including: Gold Country Cham-ber, Camerata California Chamber andSacramento Choral Society.

GLENA CLARK JUE enjoyed doing com-munity theater as a dancer so much she de-cided it might be a good idea to be able tocarry a tune. This began years of voicetraining leading to a love of Opera. Her fa-vorite roles to perform were Micaela (Car-men) and Suzuki (Madame Butterfly). Shehas also enjoyed singing in Musical The-ater, church, Chinese association functionsand in the past with Sacramento ChoralSociety. Camerata is pleased to have herlovely voice here to sing the Messiah.

SARAH MESSBAUER is a doctoral can-didate in ethnomusicology at UC Davis.She received her undergraduate degree in vocal performance from MuhlenbergCollege in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where


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been performing his Twelve TranscendentalHymn-Fantasies to great acclaim, and willpresent them on the Sacramento State PianoSeries in October, 2017.

Hillebrandt is also an avid skier and moun-taineer. His climbs include the Grand Teton,

Mt. Shasta, Mt. Rainier, and Mt. Whitney;and he has hiked to the top of Half Dome inYosemite more than 50 times. He has com-pleted one ultramarathon (50 km) and skiedthe Vallée Blanche in the French Alps, a 20km glacier ski descent of Mont Blanc.

she studied under Brian Ming Chu; atDavis, she works with Jonathan Nadel. Sheperforms in a number of musical stylesfrom around the world, including tradi-tional vocal genres from Indonesia, Korea,Haiti, South Africa, India, Russia and Europe.

ANGELA YAM holds a degree in Musicwith an emphasis on Vocal Performancefrom University of California Davis, and ispursuing a Master's of Music this fall atCalifornia State University Sacramento.She has performed as a member and soloistof Davis Chamber Choir, the UC DavisUniversity Chorus, Early Music Ensemble,Campus Band, and Chamber Ensembles.She has been taught by Dr. Robin Fisherand Zoila Muñoz, with coachings fromGregory Mason, Ben Johns, and Kyle Ste-gall. She works as a teacher at FolsomPiano Academy and performs as a collabo-rative pianist in the Davis area.

— ALTOS —

JAN TRUESDAIL has many years of mu-sical experience both singing and playing. Avocal major in college, she also playedFrench horn through her college years, allwhile singing in a variety of choral groups.She holds a BA in Vocal Music and a MA inMusic and Pupil Personnel Services. She hasdivided her career between teaching andschool guidance counselor. She has sungwith The Sacramento Chorale, the Sacra-mento Chamber Singers and Chanteuses.


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phonies in the Midwest and the east coast.Mary has sung throughout Europe and theUSA. She was a member of the SacramentoOpera Company, The Silver Swan Singers,the James Mitchell Chorale, the WisconsinSymphony Chorus, and The Melodiesamong others. Mary is a founder of Camer-ata California and sits on the boards of manyarts and community organizations.

—TENORS —

MATT HIDALGO is a graduate of Califor-nia State University, Sacramento; andholds a Bachelor’s of Music in Vocal Per-formance. He has sung and performed reg-ularly throughout the greater Sacramentoregion and is a familiar face with manylocal performing groups. Matt performsregularly with St Mark’s United MethodistChurch, Fifth Church of Christ Scientist,Sacramento Opera, The Sacramento ChoralSociety, Capella Antiqua, Sacramento’sClassical Revolution, the choirs at UCDavis, the Carson City Chamber Singers inCarson City, NV; and is also a regular per-former for the St Mark’s annual BravoBach! Festival.

A distinguished concert performer, MattHidalgo has performed the tenor solos inBenjamin Britten’s Serenade for Horn andTenor, Haydn’s Missa Celensis, Händel’sMessiah, Saint-Saëns’ Oratorio de Noël,Bach’s Coffee Cantata, Haydn’s Pauken-messe, and Pergolesi’s Magnificant.

STEVE PIERCE sings tenor and is alsocurrently the rehearsal accompanist forCamerata California. Steve hails fromNorthern California and holds a Bachelorof Music in horn performance. Steve has astrong background in music education,having taught general music, bands andchoirs at different levels in California andin Texas. Also an arranger, Steve hasarranged music for church orchestras andassorted instrumental groups, and is themusic director at Lutheran Church of theAscension in Citrus Heights.

She also played percussion with the SierraNevada Winds and the Auburn ConcertBand. She is a member of the newly formedwomen's vocal ensemble, Una Voce.

LAUREL JENSEN started singing at a veryyoung age – having a theatrical and musicalfamily, this was just part of everyday life. Atage seven, Laurel began piano lessons andsinging in church choirs. She continuedsinging grade school and high school in com-munity theatre and school choirs - includinggirl’s ensemble, madrigals, and honor choir.She continued singing in college, but eventu-ally focused on a geology degree. Laurel grad-uated from CSU, Sacramento and is workingfor the State of California as an engineeringgeologist. Laurel has been singing withChanteuses - a women's ensemble choir -since 2002. Prior to that, she performed withthe Sacramento Choral Society and Sacra-mento Chamber Singers. Laurel feels veryhonored to be singing with such incrediblemusicians, and having an opportunity to singwith Camerata.

DRESDEN VOGT is singing her first sea-son with Camerata California. She also singswith the Sacramento Choral Society.

LAUREL JENSEN started singing at avery young age: with a theatrical and mu-sical family, this was just part of everydaylife. At age seven, Laurel began piano les-sons and singing in church choirs. She con-tinued through high school singing inCommunity Theater and school choirs - in-cluding girl’s ensemble, madrigals, andhonor choir. She also sang in college, buteventually focused on a geology degree.Laurel is a member of Chanteuses, and hassung with the Sacramento Choral Societyand Sacramento Chamber Singers. Laurelcurrently studies voice with Ava DeLara.

MARY WESLEY received her education invoice and oboe performance from the Uni-versity of Wisconsin. She has performedmany classical roles with various sym-




ALEX STALAROW is thrilled to besinging again alongside Camerata Califor-nia. He joined the choir in 2013, andwhenever he is in town, he has sang tenor,led rehearsals, and conducted excerptsfrom Mendelssohn’s Christus for their2014 holiday concert. Originally from LongIsland, NY, Alexander began performingmusic at the age of five. He started bysinging in choirs and performing in musi-cals and later studied piano, french horn,and conducting. Since he moved to theSacramento area in 2011, Alexander hasbeen blessed to find in Camerata Californiaa welcoming musical community. He hasalso been an active member of variousmusic ensembles on the UC Davis campus,where he officially received his Ph.D. inmusicology this past Wednesday!

— BASSES —

ROY DOMOE is a passionate music stu-dent who grew up in Cottonwood, Califor-nia. He began to study music at ShastaCollege in Redding, and earned his AA in2016. He currently studies at CSU Sacra-mento, working for his BA of Music withan emphasis on vocal performance in operaunder Robin Fisher.

DON DITTMER has sung with CamerataCalifornia since 2005. He has a BA in Music from Immaculate Heart College, LosAngeles. His chorus experience includessinging with California State UniversitySacramento chorus and the Gregg SmithSingers. His ongoing musical endeavors in-clude song leader at church services for hiscongregation, guitar accompanist and cantor.

EDWARD F. GIBSON is an EmeritusProfessor of Physics at CSU Sacramentowhere he taught for 38 years. Musically,Edward performed his first singing solo inelementary school. However, in highschool, he played clarinet in the band, sodid not have time for choir. Ed returned tosinging in a church choir after graduateschool. He sang with the SacramentoChorale for 20 years, and currently singswith the CSUS University Choir, and theSacramento Choral Society and orchestra.

MARK KANE has been singing locally atSt. Paul’s Episcopal Church for the past 15years. He frequently fills the rotating rollof cantor in the choir and also plays hand-bells in the church’s handbell choir.Singing has always been a lifelong joy forMark and he relishes the opportunity tosing with Camerata California.

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Each season, Camerata Californiais proud to award its EMERG-ING YOUNG ARTISTSSCHOLARSHIP to young de-serving musicians to helpthem continue the legacy ofartistic expression throughmusic performance. This yearwe are pleased to sponsor twotalented young singers: Nicole James(soprano) and Roy Domoe (bass). Bothstudy voice at CSU, Sacramento withProfessor Robin Fisher.

EMERGING YOUNG ARTISTSSCHOLARSHIP FUND

You, too, can help a young deserv-ing music major continue thelegacy of artistic expressionthrough music by donating tothe CAMERATA CALIFOR-NIA EMERGING YOUNGARTISTS SCHOLARSHIPFUND for 2016-2017. Your tax

deductible donation to this fundhelps deserving students continue

their studies so they may share theirtalents with the world.



C A M E R A T A B E N E F A C T O R SCamerata California gratefully

acknowledges our sponsors

for their generous support

Jean AlfordRenee' AndersonPeter BrixieCamerata Board Of DirectorsKarla CaveMary ChapeauBetsy CollinsRona ComminsSadie Dillon & Tom ReeseRobert & Choco DresserDelores & David ForkeyLeah & Archer FreyEdward & Harriette GibsonMary HallMark Hirzy & Susan Gidley

Laurel JensenMark Kane & Douglas ClayMargo KaufmanPeggy & Bruce KennedyRoberta MarlowePete NowlenGerie & Neils PedersonAida SomkutiJan & Gary TruesdaleCeleste & Richard WeklychMary WesleyJulie & John WilliamsSally & Clark WitterAthol & Kristopher WongJacque & Fred Wright

Supported by the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission's

Cultural Art's Award program, fundedby the City and County of Sacramento

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Mary Wesley — PresidentRoberta Marlowe — Secretary

Judith LarsonMichael McCoyJack MootzElizabeth MoraSusan Rainier

Lee BrownMary ChapeauAva DeLaraDon DittmerLaurel Jensen

SPECIAL THANKS TO:

Stage Managers: Jack Mootz & Tom Smith

Program Design: Mary Chapeau

Stage Hand & Event Go-to-guy : Kurt Hirzy

Your Tax Deductible gift to CamerataCalifornia helps to offset the cost of our

musical scores, rehearsal accompanists,orchestra fees and other necessities we

need to bring you our concerts.

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