March 8, 2005
The all-star classical music duo Dawn Upshaw, soprano, and Richard Goode, piano, perform at UCSB Campbell Hall
Summary Facts:
- Dawn Upshaw, soprano and Richard Goode, piano
- Upshaw, a three-time Grammy winner, will make her Santa Barbara debut
- Goode is revered not only for his exceptional technical artistry, but also for the sheer vitality he brings to every performance
- Friday, April 15
- 8 pm / UCSB Campbell Hall
- General public: $50 / UCSB students: $18
- Both artists offer Corwin Master Classes free and open to public observation on Thursday, April 14
- Tickets & Information: UCSB Arts & Lectures at (805) 893-3535
Two classical music superstars—Dawn Upshaw, soprano and Richard Goode, piano—will join forces for a brilliant recital on Friday, April 15 at 8 pm at UCSB Campbell Hall. Admired for her rapturous intensity and for the unaffected beauty of her singing, soprano Dawn Upshaw will make her Santa Barbara recital debut. A three-time Grammy Award-winner, Upshaw has made over 300 appearances at the Metropolitan Opera. Richard Goode—the first American pianist to record the complete cycle of Beethoven Sonatas—is hailed for music-making of boldness, depth, tremendous emotional power and expressiveness. Their program will include works by Haydn, Schumann, Debussy and Mussorgsky. The New York Times writes, “Dawn Upshaw has a radiant lyric voice at the constant service of a poetic imagination.” The Times (London) asserts, “Richard Goode attacks the classical repertoire with the full force of his heart and mind.”
One of America’s greatest singers of the art song, Dawn Upshaw is admired across the globe for her uncommon musicality and distinctive vocal beauty. “Everything she sings is sacred,” hails the Boston Herald, while the New York Times says, “She has the gift to create each new thought as if it were coming to life within her.” Applauded for her portrayals of the great Mozart roles in opera houses from New York to Salzburg, Dawn Upshaw is also a consummate recitalist and recording soloist—partnering with the likes of Richard Goode, James Levine and John Harbison for dazzling performances of classic and contemporary works. The three-time Grammy winner brings her eclectic and exceptional musicianship to a wide range of music, including Debussy, Gershwin and Broadway show tunes.
A familiar performer on television, Upshaw hosted the Copland Centennial Celebration on PBS. A one-hour documentary portrait Dawn Upshaw: Intimate Collaborations, which features her work with Richard Goode, Peter Sellars and Eric Stern, premiered on European television and was broadcast on Bravo in 2001. Dawn at Dusk, a live BBC broadcast from the London Proms Festival, featured American music from Copland and Weill to Sondheim and Bernstein. She has also been a guest of President Clinton on the NBC special Christmas in Washington and a featured artist in the PBS productions Evening at Pops, Leonard Bernstein’s New York, I Hear America Singing and Some Enchanted Evening.
Upshaw holds a master’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music and an honorary doctorate from her alma mater Illinois Wesleyan University. She was a winner of the Young Concert Artists auditions and the Walter M Naumburg Competition, and was a member of the Metropolitan Opera Young Artists Development Program.
A native of New York, pianist Richard Goode has been hailed for his ability to enter and illuminate the different worlds of each composer he plays. One critic remarks, “You’d swear the composer himself was at the keyboard, expressing musical thoughts that had just come into his head.”
During the 2003-2004 season, Goode performed Bartók’s Third Piano Concerto with (among others) the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under Parvo Jarvi, the Cleveland Orchestra under David Zinman and the Budapest Festival Orchestra with Ivan Fisher. Goode also gave solo recitals in Amsterdam, London, Paris, Madrid, Munich, Vienna and numerous other European cities, as well as in North American cities such as New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Miami and Toronto. His recent recording of Bach Partitas was selected as “Record of the Month” by Gramophone magazine. The 2004-2005 season will see additions to his extensive discography with the release of his recording of Mozart sonatas and short works as well as a recital program recording with Dawn Upshaw.
Goode studied with Elvira Szigeti and Claude Frank, with Nadia Reisenberg at the Mannes College of Music and with Rudolf Serkin at the Curtis Institute. He has been serving with Mitsuko Uchida as co-Artistic Director of the Marlboro Music School and Festival since 2000.
The two artists will teach Corwin Master classes with UCSB students that are free and open to public observation. Upshaw’s class is on Thursday, April 14 at 5 pm at the Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara, 1535 Santa Barbara Street. It is co-presented with the Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara. Goode’s class is on Thursday, April 14 at 8 pm at Geiringer Hall, UCSB Music Building. Both classes are co-presented with the UCSB Department of Music and with support from the Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation’s Arts Education Outreach Program.
The recital by Dawn Upshaw and Richard Goode is presented by UCSB Arts & Lectures with generous support provided by Carla and Stephen Hahn. It is sponsored by KDB Classical Radio. Tickets are $50 for the general public and $18 for UCSB students.
For tickets or more information,
call UCSB Arts & Lectures at (805) 893-3535.
Editor: For photos, please call
Susan Gwynne at (805) 893-2098.