2010-11 Season - Soiree Series Artists

Marlene Bateman has been lauded by critics as "superb" and "stunning" in a wide range of operatic and concert repertoire.  Garnering praise for her mellifluous tone, fetchingly nuanced singing, vocal agility, and animated characterizations, Ms. Bateman has enjoyed success in more than 20 operatic roles including the mezzo title roles in Carmen and Dido and Aeneas, Ottavia in The Coronation of Poppea, Maddalena in Rigoletto, Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro, and Siebel in Faust.   In addition to her operatic performances, Ms. Bateman has enjoyed critical acclaim in oratorio as mezzo soloist in Bach's St. Matthew Passion & St. John Passion, Handel's Messiah and Israel in Egypt,  Mozart's Grand Mass in c minor, Requiem and Coronation Mass, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, and Verdi’s Requiem.  Ms. Bateman has been featured as guest soloist with Anchorage Opera, Opera Fairbanks, Anchorage Symphony, the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, Fairbanks Symphony, Kenai Peninsula Orchestra, Anchorage Youth Symphony, the Austin Symphony, the Anchorage Opera Dark Night Series, Alaska Dance Theater, Anchorage Festival of Music, the Alaska Chamber Singers, and the Anchorage Concert Chorus. A gifted ensemble performer as well as soloist, in 2008 Bateman recorded a program of duets for soprano and mezzo-soprano, Nothing but Singing to do, with Kate Egan, soprano, and Juliana Osinchuk, pianist.  The ensemble has performed their duet recital in Anchorage, Homer, and at the Ukrainian Institute in New York City.  Upcoming engagements for Ms. Bateman include concerts in collaboration with Kate Egan & Juliana Osinchuk at the National Gallery in Washington D.C. and at the University of Maryland in November. Ms. Bateman lives in Anchorage, Alaska.  She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies from Indiana University, and the Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Texas at Austin. 

Kate Egan, soprano

A native of Appleton, Wisconsin, Ms Egan holds degrees in Vocal Performance from the University of Minnesota-Minneapolis and the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. Since her debut as Micaela in Carmen with Sarasota Opera, Kate has performed leading roles with opera companies including the New York City Opera, Chautauqua, Glimmerglass, Mobile, Sacramento, Skylight, Tampa Bay, Tulsa, and Utah Operas, the New England Lyric Operetta, the Rockford Symphony and the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players. She made her European debut with Opera North in England after being invited by director Jonathan Miller to join an all English cast of Cimarosa's The Secret Marriage.  She has toured with the Philip Glass Ensemble in La Belle et la Bȇte and Monsters of Grace to Barcelona, Mexico City, Toronto and Tokyo. Highlights of the past several seasons include Musetta in La Bohème with the Rockford Symphony, the title role in Semele with Anchorage Opera, Josephine in HMS Pinafore with Mobile Opera, Rose Maurrant in Street Scene with Chautauqua, and Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, a role she has sung for the Anchorage, Tulsa and Longview Operas.  Ms. Egan has performed Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra and is familiar to audiences in her adopted hometown of Anchorage for her many appearances with Anchorage Opera, the Anchorage Festival of Music, the Alaska Chamber Singers and the Anchorage Concert Chorus. Most recently, Ms. Egan sang Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia with Anchorage Opera, Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier, duet/trio) in concert with Opera Fairbanks, and was soprano soloist in Bach’s B Minor Mass (Anchorage Concert Chorus), Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass (Choir of the North) and Beethoven's 9th Symphony (Hudson Valley Philharmonic.)  A versatile actress, Ms. Egan looks forward to portraying the queen of out of tune singing, Florence Foster Jenkins, in Souvenir at Cyrano’s Theater Company in September of 2010, followed by a return to Anchorage Opera as Musetta in La Bohème.

Anastasia Jamieson, soprano

Alaska audiences have heard soprano,  Anastasia Jamieson sing with Anchorage Opera, Opera Fairbanks, Anchorage Festival of Music, Alaska Chamber Singers, Anchorage Concert Chorus, and Kenai Peninsula Orchestra. Her most recent operatic roles with Anchorage Opera include the title role in Suor Angelica and Frasquita (Carmen). She recently performed Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) and Clorinda (Cenerentola)with Opera Fairbanks. Ms. Jamieson has been featured in operatic concertswith both Opera Fairbanks and Anchorage Opera where she performed selections from Faust, Der Rosenkavalier, La Traviata, Don Giovanni, Le Nozze di Figaro, Rigoletto, and La Boheme. Other roles performed both inside and outside Alaska includeThe Countess, Susanna and Barbarina (Le Nozze di Figaro), Mimi (La Boheme), Adele and Rosalinda (Die Fledermaus), Iris (Semele) and Despina (Cosi fan tutte). Her recentconcert performances include soloist in Handel’s Messiah with Kenai Peninsula Orchestra and Haydn’s The Creation with Alaska Chamber Singers. Last year Ms. Jamieson shared a recital with Kate Egan in the Boston area, which featured arias, art songsand duets by Purcell, Mendelssohn, Chausson and Rossini. She is delighted to perform again with Juliana Osinchuk for the Festival of Music! An adjunct professor of voice atUAA, Ms. Jamieson also maintains a private voice studio in Anchorage where she has lived with her husband, Mark and two children since 1991. She isa graduate of the University of Michigan School of Music.

Laura Koenig, flute

Laura Koenig teaches flute and music history at UAA.  She received her D.M.A. from the University of Iowa as the first performer ever awarded the prestigious Iowa Fellowship. Her dissertation on the French baroque received both the Stanley Fellowship for Research Abroad and the Indiana University Press Award.  Dr. Koenig also holds music degrees from UCLA (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and UC San Diego.  Since moving to Anchorage in 1997, Dr. Koenig has performed in the Anchorage Festival of Music, the CrossSound New Music Festival, as guest soloist with the Kenai Peninsula Orchestra and the UAA Wind Ensemble, and as principal flute of the Anchorage Opera Orchestra and Anchorage Concert Chorus Orchestra.  She is a founding member of Jomala, an ensemble devoted to new jazz compositions.  Dr. Koenig also directs the Northwind Flute Choir and is a member of the flute quartet Flutissimo.

Dawn Lindsay, violin

Dawn Lindsay is one of Alaska’s leading violinists, enjoying a diverse career that includes orchestral, Broadway and chamber music. Dawn has a strong interest in Baroque music and has performed in the Alaska Chamber Singer's Bach Cantata series as well as the Anchorage Festival of Music Baroque Series recitals, both in their fifth season. In the summer of 2010, she traveled to Queens College in New York and the Early Music Vancouver Festival to study Baroque violin, an opportunity made possible by a grant from the Alaska State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Dawn studied at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN, and holds a degree in violin performance from the University of North Texas in Denton, TX. In 2009, Dawn appeared as an electric violin soloist with the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra at the Alaska Statehood 50th Anniversary Gala Concert. Other recent projects include performing in recital with Alaskan instrumentalists and vocalists in New York City and, locally, in the orchestras for touring Broadway musicals Spamalot, Chicago and The Lion King. She is currently concertmaster of the Anchorage Opera Orchestra, performs with the Anchorage Symphony, the Alaska Chamber Singers, Anchorage Concert Chorus, and is the founder of Bella Musica Strings. Dawn makes her home in Anchorage, Alaska and enjoys her private violin studio of talented young violinists.

Juliana Osinchuk, harpsichord and piano

Dr. Osinchuk has performed internationally to great critical acclaim. Her "superior technique, discipline and talent" Los Angeles Times have dazzled audiences and critics in solo and orchestral appearances.  Musical America selected her as a "Young Artist to Watch" after her solo debut recital at Lincoln Center, NY. The Washington Post called her recital “spectacular” and the New York Times called her a "skillful and scrupulous ensemble player". As a champion of American composers, Dr. Osinchuk has premiered numerous works including the European premiere of Lowell Liebermann’s 2nd Piano Concerto, and the world premiere performance of the Piano Concerto # 1 by Alaskan, Philip Munger, with the Anchorage Symphony. She was 1995 recipient of a solo recitalist grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Dr. Osinchuk received her formal education from the Conservatoire de Musique in Paris, and the Juilliard School where she graduated with a bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate in music. Her teachers included Nadia Boulanger, Rosina Lhevinne, Nadia Reisenberg & Alexander Eydelman. She is active as a music educator, developing and presenting music workshops for young students, adults and professional groups.  She was honored as a YWCA Woman of Achievement for her community service.  Osinchuk’s recordings include Tchaikovsky’s Piano Music, The Sorcerer’s Piano, Growing Babies Bright, Nothing but Singing to Do with singers Kate Egan & Marlene Bateman, and a new solo CD to benefit cancer projects Keys to Recovery. Her Happy Birthday, Wolfgang Variations were just published by Alfred. In 2010 she has been touring with an all Chopin program which she will also perform this fall at West Point & on Long island, NY. She is the artistic director of the Anchorage Festival of Music, and the Young Alaskan Artist Award program already in its 12th year.

Linda Ottum, cello

Linda Ottum received her performance degrees from the University of Washington. Her teachers include Seattle Symphony principal Raymond Davis, Professor Eva Heinitz, soloist Lynn Harrell and Michael Grebanier, principal cellist of the San Francisco Symphony. She was the assistant principal cellist and soloist with the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra under conductor Kent Nagano from 1982 to 1988 and was also a founding member of the Berkeley Trio. Since 1989 she has been the principal cellist of the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra, Anchorage Opera Orchestra, Anchorage Concert Chorus Orchestra and Alaska Chamber Singers. She is a member of the Arioso Chamber Ensemble, a frequent performer with the Anchorage Festival of Music, the cello coach for the Anchorage Youth Symphony and since 1992 an adjunct teacher for the University of Alaska, Anchorage. Performance highlights include chamber music world premiers for CrossSound in 2006, participation in a 2008 New York recital with Marlene Bateman, Kate Egan, Juliana Osinchuk and Dawn Lindsay and the 2009 Anchorage production of The Lion King.  She maintains an active private teaching studio.

Sharman Piper, oboe

Sharman Piper has played principal oboe with the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra for almost 30 years, and will be performing a concerto with the symphony this coming season. She also has performed regularly with many other local musical organizations including the Alaska Chamber Singers, the Anchorage Concert Chorus, the Anchorage Opera, Arioso chamber ensemble and the Anchorage Fine Arts Society. For many years she has taught private lessons and been a coach to the high school oboists in the Anchorage Youth Symphony, an organization she performed with while growing up. She studied oboe at the University of
British Columbia in Vancouver, and at Case Western Reserve University, where she studied with the late great principal oboist of the Cleveland Orchestra, John Mack. She has studied chamber music at the Sandpoint Chamber Music Festival and the Fairbanks Fine Arts Festival,
and furthered her oboe studies at the John Mack oboe seminars in Carmel, California and at last summer’s International Double Reed Society conference in Birmingham, England. Currently a teacher with the Anchorage School District, she is enjoying playing more chamber music now that her two sons are off to college.

 

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