Yale Bulletin and Calendar

March 21, 2008|Volume 36, Number 22

Winners of Friends of Music Recital Competition to perform in concert

The winners of the annual Friends of Music Recital Competition for undergraduates will perform in a concert on Sunday, March 30.

The recital by pianist Daniel Schlosberg ’10 and the vocal duo Esteli Gomez ’08 and Annie Rosen ’08 will take place at 3 p.m. in Sudler Hall of William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. A reception will follow the free event, which is open to the public.

The students were selected winners of this year’s competition, held on Nov. 4, by judges David Clampitt, associate professor of music; violinist Wendy Sharpe, lecturer in the Department of Music and the School of Music; and singer Martha Oneppo ’77 MUS.

Schlosberg will present the first part of the program, which will feature works by J.S. Bach, Rachmaninoff, Mendelssohn and Dutilleux. During the second part, Gomez and Rosen will sing music by Bach, Capricomus, Handel, Saint-Saëns, Fauré, Brahms, Weill and Spoliansky, as well as a traditional Bulgarian song. The duo will be accompanied on piano by Bretton Brown ’08.

A resident of Branford College, Schlosberg is majoring in music at Yale. He won many solo and concerto competitions prior to coming to the University, where he also won the Yale Symphony Orchestra’s William Waite Competition. He has performed with symphony orchestras at the U.S. State Department and in two PBS documentaries. Also a composer, his works have been premiered by national organizations promoting 21st-century classical music. Premieres of his compositions this spring include commissions for the Ezra Stiles Wind Ensemble, the Lorelai Ensemble and a poetry reading honoring Elizabeth Bishop.

In 2006, Schlosberg was a finalist in the National Foundation for the Advancement in the Arts Competition, and in 2005 he was honored with an ASCAP Award. He is working on an opera based on a Garcia Lorca play to be performed at Yale in 2009. He is president of IGIGI, an organization of undergraduate composers. In addition to performing and composing, he has conducted the Opera Theater of Yale College, most recently Poulenc’s “Dialogues des Carmélites.” Schlosberg studies piano at Yale with Wei-Yi Yang and composition with Kathryn Alexander and Michael Klingbeil. In May, he will perform in a theater cabaret with the Yale College Musical Theater Society at Joe’s Pub in New York City.

Gomez, of Saybrook College, and Rosen, of Berkeley College, have been singing together since their freshmen year. Both women performed with the Collegium Musicum and with Schola Cantorum at Yale, as well as with the Yale Baroque Opera Project and the Opera Theater of Yale College. They are majoring in music and plan careers in vocal performance.

Gomez, a soprano, joined her first choir at the age of seven. After touring southern France in the summer of 2007 with Schola Cantorum, Gomez studied German art song in Bavaria and at the Early Music Festival in Vancouver. She recently sang the role of Belinda in Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas” in the Yale Baroque Opera Project’s staged Monteverdi madrigals, “Ardo, Ardo!” She has also sung with the Yale Dramat. Gomez has been an active member of the a cappella singing group Mixed Company. She studies with Lielle Berman at Yale. Her future projects include performances of “L’Orfeo” with the Yale Baroque Opera Project and a senior art song recital. Next year, she will work for the Baroque Opera Project.

Rosen, a mezzo-soprano, is a native of New Haven. Currently artistic director of the Opera Theater of Yale College, she has sung principal roles with the group. Last summer, in addition to participating in the Schola Cantorum tour of France, she sang the role of Claudio in the American premiere of Handel’s opera “Silla” with the Bay Area Summer Opera Theater Institute and performed with the Spoleto Vocal Arts Symposium in Italy. She performed in the role of Dido in Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas” at the Institute of Sacred Music last fall. She is the 2007 winner of Yale’s Joseph Lentilhorn Selden Memorial Award in Music. Rosen studies with Lili Chookasian at Yale. Her future projects include performances of “L’Orfeo” with the Yale Baroque Opera Project and a senior art song recital.

Piano accompanist Brown, of Timothy Dwight College, has performed with Gomez and Rosen and has collaborated with winners of both the William Waite Concerto Competition and the Yale School of Music Concerto Competition. He also studies with Yang, and he appeared in a master class with Yale pianist Boris Berman in Italy.

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